SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of experience in IT industry with major focus on Software Build/Release and Configuration Management.
• Detailed knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment using tools like Jenkins/Hudson.
• Performed integration of Code Quality Analysis Techniques like Check styles, Find Bugs with CI tools like Hudson/Jenkins.
• Extensive experience in using Version control systems like Subversion (SVN), GIT and Bitbucket.
• Experience in and demonstrated understanding of source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging, Tagging and Integration.
• Extensive experience in using Build Automation scripting like, Apache ANT, Maven.
• Good Knowledge in Shell scripting.
• Experience in working with Apache Tomcat, JBoss and WebLogic application servers.
• Experience in maintaining and executing build scripts to automate build and deployment process.
• Experience in building and deploying Java (web based and standard alone), Elastic Path applications and troubleshooting the build and deploy failures.
• Experience in AWS CloudWatch, APPDynamics, Splunk and Keynote Monitoring Tools.
• Expertise in build/release process & maintain the Archive of software releases (internal & external).
• Expertise in training on build/release management in onshore, offshore and multisite development environment.
• Expertise in all build/release engineering tasks associated with the component/production releases.
• Expertise in preparation of build scripts, build specs & applying label for the software builds.
• Expertise in troubleshoot build problems as they arise & work with engineering team to resolve issues.
• Expertise on best practices for feature branching, merge conflicts and common library management.
• Expertise in Defect management plan & root cause analysis.
• Strong knowledge in SDLC, QA Methodologies, Configuration & Change Management systems
• Strong knowledge in Software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum/Sprints, Iterative, Waterfall etc
• Identifies and implements process to strengthen, streamline the build process.
• Knowledge of databases like MySQL, and Oracle.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work as a team or individually, able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to coordinated job tasks and strong commitment.
• Efficient in working closely with teams to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases.
• Installing Cloud Services (SAAS) on all the nodes using Chef Server.
• Modifying and uploading latest cookbooks to Chef Server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Version Control Tools: SVN, Conexus, GIT, Bitbucket

Scripting Languages: Maven, ANT, Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting

Tracking Tools: Quality Center, JIRA

Languages: JAVA, JUNIT, C, HTML, XML

Server Technology: Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Web logic

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP.

Documentation Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Project And Adobe Acrobat

Databases: Oracle, SQL, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX and DOS

Software Methodologies: Agile Methodologies

Project Management: ITIL

Testing Tools: QuickTestPro, Quality Center.

Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, Ansible

Monitoring Tools: AppDynamic, Splunk, Keynote

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Lead Devops Engineer

Confidential, Collierville, TN.

Environment: Java, Linux, Shell Scripting, Maven, Jacoco, Junit, Hpfortify, Sonarqube, Conexus, gitlabs, Jenkins, AGM (HP Agile Manager), Oracle, Udeploy, Appd Monitoring tools, Splunk, Nexus Artifactory, Purple hub, Weblogic 12c.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the onsite and offshore team and taken care 28 Java application & Dot net Applications.
• Collect all requirements from Client and assign to offshore and onsite team.
• Attend Daily stand up offshore day and night calls.
• Attend Daily scrum call, Bi - Weekly Sprint demos and Sprint planning’s.
• Responsible for creating Jenkins Projects integrated with different tools for different applications.
• Setting up continuous integration and formal builds using Jenkins with Artifactory repository.
• Responsible for creation of war package for Java applications.
• Maintain Build and Release for Production and Non-Production environments.
• Responsible for Monthly Release and daily build monitoring and troubleshooting using the Error log.
• Responsible for Test levels and Production builds and deployments.
• Created Builds for various environment deployments (DEV, TEST, Perf and Prod).
• Experience in working with Agile Sprint methods.
• Report to developer if any issues found and further investigation.
• Responsible to send communications to project managers and team when a new build is delivered to production environment.
• Coordinate with all development teams to develop and implement new release processes.
• Managing Servers list and Maintaining issue tracker and documents in Purple Hub.
• Implemented a continuous delivery pipeline with Jenkins and Conexus.
• Responsible for creation WEBLOGIC domain.

Devops Engineer

Confidential, Bellevue, WA.

Environment: Java, EP, Linux, Shell Scripting, Maven, Bitbucket, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle, AWS, Puppet, Appd Monitoring tools, Splunk, Keynote, Jfrog Artifactory, Confluence

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Jenkins Projects for different applications.
• Setting up continuous integration and formal builds using Jenkins with Artifactory repository.
• Managed all the bugs and changes in a production environment using the Jira tracking tool.
• Responsible for creation of war package for Java applications.
• Maintain Build and Release for Production and Non-Production environments.
• Responsible for daily build monitoring and troubleshooting using the Error log Appd monitor.
• Responsible for QA, Staging and Production builds and deployments.
• Created Builds for various environment deployments (DEV, TEST, and PERF).
• Experience in working with Agile Sprint methods.
• Experience in Jira tool as a defect tracking system.
• Report to developer if any issues found and further investigation.
• Responsible to send communications to project managers and team when a new build is delivered to production environment.
• Coordinate with all teams to develop and implement new release processes.
• Responsible for implementing and managing release processes for the progression of the code in the development, test, and production environments.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Repositories and the access control strategies.
• Managing Servers and Writing Tasks in Confluence.
• Monitoring logs in Splunk.
• Implemented a continuous delivery pipeline with Jenkins and Bitbucket and AWS AMI’s.
• Puppet scripts are called by AWS Cloud Formation. It’s Puppet scripts automate the provisioning and configuration of servers on the EC2 instances.
• Create the Cloud watch, Appd Graphs for monitoring the Applications.

Build Engineer

Confidential, Alameda, CA.

Environment: C#.net, C++, Windows 2012, Shell Scripting, Doxygen, MSBuild, Bitbucket, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle, VMware

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Jenkins Projects for different applications.
• Setting up continuous integration and formal builds using Jenkins with Artifactory repository.
• Managed all the bugs and changes in a production environment using the Jira tracking tool.
• Responsible for creation of .msi package for dot net applications.
• Maintain Build and Release tools.
• Responsible for daily build monitoring and troubleshooting using the Error log monitor.
• Responsible for QA, Staging and Production builds and deployments.
• Created Builds for various environment deployments (DEV, TEST, and PERF).
• Experience in working with Agile Sprint methods.
• Experience in Jira tool as a defect tracking system.
• Report to developer if any issues found and further investigation.
• Responsible to send communications to project managers and team when a new build is delivered to production environment.
• Coordinate with all teams to develop and implement new release processes.
• Responsible for implementing and managing release processes for the progression of the code in the development, test, and production environments.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Repositories and the access control strategies.

Build Engineer

Confidential, Walnut Creek, CA.

Environment: Java, Linux, Shell Scripting, Docker, Maven, GitHub, Rally, WAS Liberty, Oracle, and VMware, Jenkins, Nexus, Chef

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for granting access to teams for different environments of the website (QA team, Developers).
• Responsible for creation of branches and merging code changes into different environments (QA & Staging).
• Responsible for daily build monitoring and troubleshooting using the Error log monitor.
• Responsible for creation of packages (Jar, War) for applications
• Responsible for QA, Staging and Production builds and deployments.
• Experience in working with Agile Sprint methods.
• Experience in Rally tool.
• Report if any issues found and further investigation.
• Prepare Release schedules prior to release and communicating with concerned development and QA teams.
• Responsible to send communications (release notes) to project managers and team when a new build is delivered to production environment.
• Coordinate with all teams to develop and implement new release processes.
• Responsible for implementing and managing release processes for the progression of the code in the development, test, and production environments.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the GitHub Repositories and the access control strategies.
• Modifying the recipes in the cookbook and uploading those into Chef Server.
• Installing Cloud Services SAAS on all the nodes of Chef Server.
• Resolving the issue if any run’s get fails.
• Uploading cook books from chef work station to chef server using knife command.

Build and Release Engineer

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI.

Environment: Java, Linux, Shell Scripting, ANT, Maven, SVN, JIRA, Jfrog, Web sphere, Oracle, VMware, Jenkins

Responsibilities:

• Experienced on Build and Release Automation.
• Experience in defining various branching, Labeling and Merging strategies.
• Experienced in performing merges and branch management.
• Maintain the code base across several versions.
• Maintain Build and Release tools.
• Design and documenting project release processes.
• Build verification activity description.
• Developed build scripts using maven as the build tool for the creation of war files build artifacts.
• Report if any issues found and further investigation.
• Coordinate with all teams to develop and implement new release processes.
• Release process in order to become more dynamic, include clustered environments and multiple server and services restarts.
• Responsible for implementing and managing release processes for the progression of the code in the development, test, and production environments.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion Repositories and the access control strategies.
• Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing Subversion.
• Experience in working with agile methods.
• Experience in JIRA Administration tool.
• Worked with development, testing, deployment and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.
• Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.
• Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams.

Build and Release Engineer

Confidential, Sacramento, CA.

Environment: Java, Jenkins, Linux, Jfrog, Shell Scripting, ANT, Maven, SVN, JIRA, Web logic, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Maintain business facing production infrastructures and environments being accessed by internal and external business units.
• Coordinate with the DBA team to develop and implement new release processes.
• Release process inorder to become more dynamic, include clustered environments and multiple server and services restarts.
• Responsible for implementing and managing release processes for the progression of the code in the development, test, and production environments.
• Ensures coordination of build and test environment teams and release teams.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion Repositories and the access control strategies.
• Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing Subversion.
• Responsible for Software builds and releases.
• Developed general releases, web products.
• Established processes and tools to maintain code base integrity, including check-in validation rules and Branch/merge processes.
• Experience in working with Agile/SCRUM methods which involves a 2week sprint.
• Used JIRA as defect tracking tool.
• Worked with development, testing, deployment and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.
• Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.
• Deployment of the Business processes by creating JAR, WAR and EAR files to Web sphere and Web logic application servers.
• Targeted and migrated complete builds to multiple Servers and platforms.
• Updated and automated Release reports for Change Management.
• Documented project’s software release management procedures with input decisions.
• Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
• Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams.

Build and Release Engineer

Confidential, Sun Prairie, WI

Environment: Java, Maven, Hudson, Jira, Linux, Git, Shell scripting, Nexus.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of the end to end release process.
• Ensures coordination of build and test environments teams and release teams.
• Provides management reports on release progress.
• Service release and deployment policy and planning.
• Service roll out planning including method of deployment.
• Signs off the release package for implementation.
• Integrated Maven with Git to manage and deploy project related tags.
• Installed and administered Tomcat repository to deploy the artifacts generated by Maven and to store the dependent jars which are used during the build.
• Responsible for the design and development of builds, scripts and installation procedures including source code control and issue tracking.
• Used Maven as a build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Resolved update, merge and password authentication issues in Hudson and Jira.
• Involved in implementing Tool Suite (Jira, Hudson).
• Setting up continuous integration and formal builds using Hudson with Maven repository.
• Involved partially in deploying WARs/EARs through Web logic Application Server console.
• Used Shell script to configure the Web logic application server in all the environments
• Worked for Creating the Software Configuration Management Plan.
• All the bugs and changes into a production environment using the Jira tracking tool
• Involved in estimating the resources required for the project based on the requirements.

Build and Release Engineer

Confidential, Madison, WI

Environment: Java, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, SVN, WebSphere, JVM, Shell scripting

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of the end to end software build and release process.
• Provides management reports on release progress.
• Created release package design and build.
• Signs off the release package for implementation.
• Experience in various branching and merging methodologies and release procedures.
• Manage release process, upload software to required locations.
• Provide notification of release availability.
• Worked with development, testing, deployment and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.
• Supported and developed tools for integration, automated testing and release management.
• Deployment of the Business processes by creating JAR, WAR and EAR files to Web sphere and Web logic application servers.
• Integrated Maven with SVN to manage and deploy project related tags.
• Targeted and migrated complete builds to multiple Servers and platforms.
• Managed the entire release communication and Release co-ordination during the Project roll-out.
• Managed all the bugs and changes into a production environment using the Jira tracking tool.
• Responsible for identify, analyze, coordinate and resolve environment and system infrastructure needs to ensure product release on time.

Configuration Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment: Java, Maven, Jenkins, Linux, Web logic, Subversion, Shell scripting

Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up JIRA as defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customizations and plugins for the JIRA bug/issue tracker.
• Integrated Maven with SVN to manage and deploy project related tags.
• Installed and administered Artifactory repository to deploy the artifacts generated by Maven and to store the dependent jars which are used during the build.
• Setting up continuous integration and formal builds using Jenkins.
• Implemented Configuration Management, Change Management policies and procedures.
• Build, configured and support Application team environments.
• Resolved update, merge and password authentication issues in Jenkins and JIRA.
• Involved partially in deploying WARs/EARs (backend) through Web logic Application Server console.
• Performed setup of Clustered environment with Web logic Application Server.
• Configured Jenkins for appropriate release builds.
• Used tracking tool JIRA and also triaged the issues and maintained bugs using JIRA tool.
• Improved logging and created log reporting system.
• Creation of Maven scripts and integrates them into common deployment.
• Deployed JAVA/J2EE applications through Web Logic Application servers.
• Support Lead developers with Configuration Management issues.
• Worked for Creating the Software Configuration Management Plan.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Denver, CO

Environment: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, HTML, JSP, Servlets, Beans, JavaScript, XML Web Services, IIS, Oracle, Visual Source Safe, Windows, MS Excel, MS Word.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project from the requirements phase onwards till defect analyzation phase.
• Involved in writing the Test Cases from the Business requirements and Test Plan.
• Tested Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, System testing, End to end testing and Regression testing.
• Created & Executed the Test cases according to the test plan.
• Tested Web based application by accessing the database using SQL queries.
• Performed in GUI Testing, Regression Testing.
• Tested the application on different web browsers IE, Chrome and Firefox.
• Executed Functional and Regression tests during the various phases of the application.
• Created Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Documented test cases and conducted manual testing using Quality Center.
• Involved in the process of defect analyzation, defect management and defect review processing Quality Center.

QA Engineer

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

• Performed System testing, Regression testing, Functional testing
• Performed Black Box Testing.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Written the Test Cases for all the modules and stored in Quality Center.
• Involved in testing GUI applications in web based application.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in Credit Card Testing.
• Developed SQL queries to extract data from the target tables.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Tested the application on IE, Firefox as part of Portability Testing to maintain cross-browser functionality.