Vikraman Narasimhan

Senior Engineer (Search Specialist)

Search Engineer for Global Search Product

• Developed applications for Data Ingestion using Dotnet and AWS Services.
• Feature led and Architected event driven systems using AWS services like SQS/Lambda
• Setup Event driven application scaling using KEDA scaler
• DevOps using Kotlin, Teamcity and CDK Terraform for infrastructure and CI/CD
• Responsible for Technical devlieries including maintaining the code metrics, Unit tests, and Test Automation
• Architected solution for Recent Searches using AWS services and dotnet

• Improved Data-Tiering. SAML Integration and Fine grained Access Control. Maintaining the Cluster including OnCall fixes.
• Contributed for Cluster Topology and providing feedback and liasing with Product.
• Setup best practices for the search cluster including improving monitoring using Lambda and New Relic
• Optimized search results by changing sharding strategies and fine tuning the search queries

Technology Architect/Engineer

As an Engineer building backend services using Spring Boot. Developed Search Service using Spring boot for one of their Banking group. Setting up On-Prem infrastructure for ELK for multiple environments. DevOps using Bamboo and OpenShift.Responsible for Performance tuning of Search Service and Elastic Cluster. As a Technology Architect liased with different verticals of the team (BA/PO/Testers) and helped the Organization by developing the Quality Product

Project Lead (Senior/Associate Project Manager)

• Authored and developed “Self-healing” tool based on Data analytics for test automation(Patent US 10,871,977 B2)
• Mentoring individuals and teams to understand the project scope and receive necessary domain knowledge. Training the new hires and fresh graduates on the software methodologies, practices and continuous delivery tools
• Responsible for coordinating with multiple other scrum teams for defect triages, identify blockers and issues which helps to readjust the project timelines and to understand the larger issues at earlier stages.
• Setup coding standards and measured it using sonarqube, firebugs and checkstyle.
• Collaborated with other teams to design a distributed platform and environment for test execution using Remote selenium WebDriver.
• As a team lead and associate manager, developed backend services using spring boot for a resource management system, and created the CI/CD process using Azure DevOps and Azure cloud.

• Responsible for technical deliverables including maintaining the code metrics, offshore coordination, team management and project execution.
• Provided solutions and tooling for integrating test automation frameworks to integrate with Test management tools like Jira, ALM.
• Support practice development to interview and recruit highly skilled people into the teams along with building out innovative tools like centralized log processors.
• Traveled between the USA and India for multiple engagements for consulting and working closely with the clients.
• As a Project Lead, designed and built solution based on ELK stack to collect and analyze the logs. Engineer and deliver technology solutions for testing Payments domain. Project Lead and a Senior Test developer for a Data Insights Platform. Achieved faster release by implementing the Unit and Test Automation solutions for Data Insights platform using Scala Spark, Scala Test, Mockito and Maven.

Test Automation Developer

Designed and developed the test automation framework using QTP v11. Created the framework for automating the soap web services calls. As a part of a 15-member team, involved in test planning and execution. Supported the Onshore team by changing the work hours and coordinated with the team. LDAP Integration testing with the application. Database testing and API testing using TOAD and SOAP services.

Junior Associate

As a junior member, part of the Peoplesoft transformation engagement from the legacy system. Worked with senior developers to perform the configuration of PeopleSoft application. As a part of a 20-member team, worked with QA team to develop the test automation framework, and performed load testing using LoadRunner.

Anna University - KSR College of Engineering