SUMMARY:

• Technical Project Manager for a team of engineers at Citibank, developing a mobile app
• Contributed as Scrum Master for the project offering excellent leadership
• Introduced a unique banking product idea which was highly appreciated
• Coordinated between the client, onsite team and offshore team
• Assisted the Scrum Master with sprint planning, defect report, burndown charts
• Presented demos to the client ending up selling a product
• Assisted the project manager with following activities while working at Confidential Global Services
• Coordinated with the client - side SME on the requirements clarification
• Nominated team members for different trainings
• Presented demos to the client
• Prepared work progress reports every 2 weeks
• Effective communication, coordination and facilitation skills
• Natural ability to observe and understand team dynamics
• Ability to negotiate and bargain successfully whenever required
• Being driven to get things done, self-motivated, fast pace of work
• Eager to learn latest trends, frameworks, industry standards to compliment my leadership role

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Confluence, JIRA
• IBM RTC
• MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Project(briefly)
• Java\J2EE, SOAP, RESTful web services, micro services
• Cucumber, Gherkin, SOAP UI, Postman
• MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL-MongoDB, ORM (JPA, Hibernate), Elastic Search

DETAILS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

AUTOMATION LEAD and SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, NEW YORK, NY

Responsibilities:

• Establish best practices used commonly in the IT industry w.r.t. Test Pyramid
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, daily standup meetings
• Encourage and coach the team to adapt to BDD and Agile way of project delivery
• Develop automation testing framework for the RESTful microservices using Cucumber, Gherkin
• Lead the scrum teams to frame user stories that follow the BDD structure

Tools: Used for project management: Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, MS-Office, Bitbucket

Technology\Frameworks used: Java, Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Karate, Postman, SOAP UI, GCP, Kubernetes, Elastic Search/Kibana

Assistant Consultant

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with platform team, UX\design team, product team to support consistent dev work.
• Encourage the team to follow Agile values and principles.
• As a Scrum Master following activities were performed by me: capacity planning, sprint planning, facilitating daily standups, scheduling demos with product team, calculating-analyzing sprint metrics, sprint closure (managing carry-overs)
• Work with the product owners to get the functionalities (functional stories) clearly defined including acceptance criteria.
• Co-design release plan for the friendly user testing: DEV, SIT, FUT
• Work with Citi’s InfoSec team to get the micro-services security-compliant for release.
• Identify risks based on existing scenarios observed in dev team. Also, I proposed solution.
• Take charge of Configuration and rollout of AppDynamics for the micro-services.
• Develop independently a direct-SQL-injection app using Java/j2ee. The app helped product owners to perform update and insert operations in the database to test certain scenarios.

SCRUM MASTER cum TECH LEAD

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of requirements with Client
• Frame user story, design Acceptance criteria
• Automation strategy for services testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Technical documentation - functional description, proposed code and database description
• Coding, code review
• Unit testing, integration testing
• Preparing the build, Deployment on Unix servers for different environments

Confidential

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, CALIFORNIA

Technologies: Java/, Spring (webmvc), Maven, MySQL, apache tomcat web server

Responsibilities:

• design the solution, test case design, coding/writing program, testing and documentation. technical design of the solution, test case design, coding/writing program, testing, documentation.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confidential

Technologies: Java, JPA, web services, SOAP UI, MySQL, Glassfish, Apache, Agile

Responsibilities:

• Proposed the database architecture, designed the database layer w.r.t. JPA
• Programmed algorithms for the Alerts module, proposed db design for the Alerts module
• Proposed and designed a framework to support SMPP optional parameters, Alert Notification feature to notify NTF about the phone on event
• Performed manual handset testing
• Designing and Configuring the Confidential
• Writing new web services APIs and mapping the Confidential accordingly
• Configuring and setting up the web server(Apache)
• Fixing the existing web services, Testing of web services using SOAP UI

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confidential

Technologies: GWT/Ajax, Hibernate, MySQL, css, Maven, Agile methodology

Responsibilities:

• Developed a web portal to be used by telecom partners to track billing operations and revenue generation.
• Telecom partner should be able to upload invoice, statement, credit notes etc. and raise disputes on the uploaded ones.
• Also, the portal supports detailed features like: viewing of bill breakdown, summary of Confidential supporting a bill, summary of all sorts of settlements done in a given duration.
• Prepared supporting documents for solution design, installation instructions.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confidential

Technologies: Java/, struts, Hibernate, web services, SOAP, SQL Server, design patterns, reporting system

Responsibilities:

• Developed a complete solution for WEB/WAP content browsing, content download, service subscription, billing; and centralized reporting database
• Creating the web services i.e. APIs to register new subscribers, update existing subscribers, deleting existing subscribers.
• Subscriber data was with a third-party software that was built in a different set of technologies. Hence, used Confidential (xml), web services to access it from Huawei’s SDP system (client).
• Database design for centralized SDP Report system. Completed the entire development single handedly. Also, gave training to the employees at client site.

TRAINEE ASSOCIATE

Confidential

Technologies: Java/, Struts 2.0, Jsp, Hibernate, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on training in Trade and Risk Management w.r.t. Equity markets and Java/ and related technologies, while working on live project.