Pankaj Verma

Pankaj Verma

$50/hr
DevOps, Containerization, Software Architecture, Test Automation, Performance & Benchmarking
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Age:
46 years old
Location:
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Experience:
14 years
- Pankaj Verma Date of Birth –June 05, 1979 Having 14+ years of rich experience in OSS/ NMS & Casino Gaming domain and looking for a challenging position where I could hone my skills and strength in conjunction with the Company’s goals and objectives. Domains: OSS | NMS |Network Analytics | Service Assurance | Telecommunications|Casino Gaming Professional Synopsis ➢ Currently working in CrossOver as Chief Architect for CICDOps team ➢ 7+ years of experience in testing OSS/ NMS, Fault/ Performance, Service Management/ Assurance, ETL & other telecom applications. ➢ 4+ years of experience in developing Java based applications ➢ 3 years of experience in Systems Engineering where I contributed my skills in performance tuning of applications. ➢ Good hands on over Ansible, Docker & Kubernetes. Used Ansible with Docker to completely automate software deployment processes in virtual environment. ➢ Good experience in designing Test Automation Frameworks in Fluentlenium/ Selenium, Protractor, Java, Rest Assured and JMeter ➢ Good hands on over Perforce (P4V) and Git. ➢ Proposed a white paper to tune JBoss Application Server for its efficient use in Service Assurance applications. ➢ A good understanding of SDLC and Agile Software methodology. ➢ Proposed a strategy to migrate Service Modeler & NetExpert for Internationalization (i18n) ➢ Worked over Service Assurance, SLA, IPTV & QoSM Solutions. ➢ Worked over Performance, Fault & Configuration Management solutions. ➢ Worked over SNMP, SONET, IP, Auto Discovery, Protocol Agents & CORBA Access applications. ➢ Simulated Routers, Switches, Hosts and other SNMP devices using Network Simulation Toolkit ➢ Good hands on over Java, UNIX Shell scripting, PL/ SQL, Network Simulation Tools. ➢ Explored Rational Performance Tester, JMeter, Squish, BadBoy, MIMIC, HP Load Runner, Silk Performer and AppLoader for their use in different components of the application. ➢ Developed Java applications using CORBA Access & RMI for use in NetExpert & Service Modeler ➢ Developed multiple small Java clients to generate load & stress on various applications using SQL Loader & UNIX shell scripts ➢ Excellent communication & presentation skills. Corporate Exposure Organization CrossOver Duration May 2018 - Till Now WDTS India Pvt. Ltd. Mar 2017 – May 2018 Domain Operations & Support Casino Gaming OSS, Performance Management, Network Analytics, Wireless OSS, NMS, Fault & Performance Management, Service/ Customer Assurance MYCOM OSI Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. July 2015 – Mar 2017 OSI Incorporation (A Mycom Group of company) July 2007 – June 2015 Agilent Technologies International (P) Ltd. Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. Nov 2005 – July 2007 NMS, Telecommunications Mar 2004 – Nov 2005 Retail/ Corporate Banking Solutions Projects/ Components Undertaken CrossOver Project Storage Importer Migration CICDOps Client Duration MessageOne May 2018 - July 2018 All Product Teams Aug 2018 - Oct 2018 CrossOver (May 2018 – Till Now) Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects: ➢ Worked as Chief Architect to support the MSCentralization Factory Operations for CI/ CD involving resolving day to day support issues and providing support to all product teams ➢ Support to different teams involved issues faced in Jenkins, Jervis, TeamCity & ElectricFlow build issues running over AWS EC2, CDH and VMWare platforms ➢ Created and configured EC2 instances running as build agents for TeamCity, Jenkins & Jervis ➢ Collated performance data and compared results obtained on running builds over k8s, CDH & VMWare ➢ Tested first VMWare and TeamCity integration to analyze the feasibility of VMWare VMs acting as build agents in TeamCity and Jenkins ➢ Recently did a migration of EC2 Linux based agent to VMWare using RSync ➢ Worked over deployment of sample application on k8s, CDH & VMWare using central Jervis Ansible framework ➢ Worked as Chief Architect on docker compose based products to migrate them to kubernetes ➢ Migrated docker compose based artefacts to k8s by converting docker compose and ansible scripts to Stateful Sets, PVCs, Services & Ingresses ➢ Deploying and running the k8s artefacts to ascertain the accessibility of the application running inside k8s pods ➢ Created Pipeline scripts and jobs as per TeamCity build configuration for CI, IB & RC builds for Ignite SBE & SBStd products WDTS India Pvt. Ltd. Project Client Table MI MGM Duration Mar 2017 – May 2018 WDTS India Pvt. Ltd. (Mar 2017 – May 2018) Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects: ➢ Worked as a Solutions Architect to design new Solutions to be integrated with current software framework and help Test & Development teams to simulate Casino Gaming Table operations ➢ Designed a solution using Sparkjava REST framework to simulate the Gaming Table operations. Integrated already developed C++ application with Sparkjava based REST framework to call C++ APIs using REST java calls and initiate the gaming functionalities for e.g. PlaceBet, TakeBet, PayBet etc. ➢ Followed Agile Kanban process to develop the application ➢ Used Salt deployment tool to configure large number of VMs to host product microservices MYCOMOSI (Mar 2014 - Mar 2017) Project Client ProAssure ProInsight DTAG Telefonica Duration May 2016 – Mar 2017 Mar 2014 – May 2016 MYCOMOSI (Mar 2014 – Mar 2017) Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects: ➢ Currently working on Docker to automate the software deployment process inside docker containers using Ansible along with Jenkins in a Continuous Integration environment. ➢ Working on a framework where several docker containers are linked to each other and software deployment and test process is fully automated and virtualized. ➢ Used VMWare vSphere to create VMs and then perform testing of various products over the created VMs ➢ Following Agile process and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) ➢ Using Gherkins, Cucumber, Java & JUnit to cover User Stories of ProInsight (A Service Network Analytics application). ➢ Using REST Assured & Fluentlenium to automate APIs & UI of ProInsight. Objective Systems Integrators Inc. (Jul 2007 – Feb 2014) Project Corba Access Server DataManager Client Sprint, AT&T AT&T Duration Feb 2012 - Feb 2014 Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Protocol Agents Internet Protocol Manager Service Modeler Auto Discovery Network CommandCenter Advance Performance Management Advance Fault Management Gateway Agents T-Mobile, AT&T, VzW, TeliaSonera etc. SureWest Vodafone Netherlands SureWest T-Mobile, AT&T, VzW, TeliaSonera etc. Sprint Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 AT&T AT&T Aug 2008 - Oct 2008 July 2007 - July 2008 Jan 2011 – July 2011 Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 Aug 2009 - Dec 2009 Apr 2009 – Aug 2009 Nov 2008 - Mar 2009 Objective Systems Integrators Inc. (Jul 2007 – Feb 2014) Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects: ➢ Development of System Engineering plan and send it for review to various teams. ➢ Worked as a System Engineer to find out the core performance bottlenecks and various OS, Network, Database & Application parameters to propose a plan to further tune the application. ➢ Developed a proposal to use the DataManager for gathering LTE KPIs. ➢ Simulated LTE KPIs, UMTS network to send performance KPIs to the application. ➢ Development of Java programs, UNIX Shell scripts, SQL Loader scripts to populate the Database with the LTE KPIs ➢ Analyzed and tested the functional and performance testing of the application. ➢ Extensively used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for capturing database snapshots to find bottlenecks in the database. ➢ Proposed tuning areas of the application as a whole. ➢ Used JConsole, UNIX Shell scripting to gather and monitor various statistics of the resources under utilization. ➢ Used AdventNet Network Simulation Toolkit 6.0 to simulate Cisco 3600/ 7600 Routers, Solaris based Servers, Windows 2000 devices, Printers, Switches & Multiplexers. ➢ Used SNMP and Cisco IOS for the simulated devices to perform Stress and performance testing. ➢ Tested Telnet, Shell, SNMP, TCP-IP, X.25, Serial, XML, Database based protocol agents for performance and functional testing. ➢ Development of Java programs, UNIX Shell scripts, SQL Loader scripts to test mentioned protocol agents. ➢ Created Java based utilities to test applications. ➢ Proposed the deployment architecture for an IP Management application to manage an SNMP ➢ Based network. ➢ Used JMeter to automate the performance testing of Portal. ➢ Provided a plan for the scalability of the Service Modeler by tuning in the areas including JBoss Clustering, Thread Pooling, Logging, Caching, JVM Tuning. ➢ Evaluated Apache Tomcat tuning area with Load balancing using mod_jk and mod_proxy, mod_rewrite ➢ Used 3G KPIs in the system to actually simulate a part of 3G Network. ➢ Faced issues while discovering simulated networks and coordinated with Rocket Software to resolve the issues. ➢ Sniffed SNMP packets using Wireshark (Ethereal) to find out the issues in the discovery applications. ➢ Generated reports on comparative analysis of two discoveries to synchronize the network inventory with the physical network for future uses. ➢ Proposed the deployment architecture for an Auto Discovery application to manage an SNMP based network. ➢ Incorporated the actual VzW (Verizon Wireless) and Sprint environment for using the Network Command Center to monitor their different zonal networks for alarm processing. ➢ Sent bulk alarms by simulating Switches having Line Cards & Ports and filtered alarms on the basis of no. of Switches, Line Cards & Ports. ➢ Created deployment architecture to use multiple operators within a zone using LDAP mechanism for authentication. ➢ Used Load Balancing mechanism in a master/ slave fashion to distribute the alarm processing. ➢ Performed Stress and Performance testing to find out the Variability, Scalability and finally the bottlenecks in the application. ➢ Studied Gauges/ Graphs/ Tabular data being reported to the application for functional and regression testing. ➢ Integrated IP Management application with the Advance Performance Management application to process performance data gathered from SNMP devices. ➢ Developed Java scripts to be used with the AdventNet Simulation Toolkit 6.0 to send fault data to the application. ➢ Tested Fault, Delay, Threshold, Correlation & Throttling mechanisms of the application. ➢ Tested Shell, Telnet, BCN, TCP-IP, SNMP & File based Gateway Agents. ➢ Used Rational XDE Tester to functionally test the application. Developed generic methods in XDE to be used across the whole application. Agilent Technologies International Pvt. Ltd. (Nov 2005 – Jul 2007) Project Internet Protocol Assurance Client Sprint, AT&T Duration Nov 2005 - Jul 2007 Agilent Technologies International Pvt. Ltd. (Nov 2005 – Jul 2007) Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects: ➢ Automated testing of Internet Protocol Assurance application using XDE Tester ➢ Generated generic libraries of tests to be used in different tests of the application Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. (Mar 2004 – Nov ’05) Project Client Duration Lending, Cash Management Mar 2004 – Nov 2005 Shinsei Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. (Nov 2005 – Jul 2007) Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects: ➢ Had been contributing to the testing process by manual as well as with automated tools. like QA Load and QA Run. ➢ I was responsible for building test plans, formulating test strategies, creating test scripts and executing them. ➢ Involved with the performance testing of banking products using Rational Performance Tester & Rational Robot Technical Exposure Domain Skills Areas of Interest Programming Languages RDBMS Operating Systems Continuous Integration Automation Tools Performance Monitoring Tools Authentication Mechanisms Application Server(s) Web Server(s) Network Simulation Tools Build Tools Virtualization Tools Containerization Tools/ Frameworks NoSQL Configuration Management Tools REST Development Frameworks Cloud Platforms Computer Networks, Wireless Systems, Networking Protocols, OSS, NMS C, C++, Java, XML, CORBA, JavaScript, Shell Scripting, Cucumber, Gherkins, Groovy Oracle 9i/ 10g/ 11g, 12c, MS SQL Server, MySql UNIX, Windows 7/ XP, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX Jenkins, TeamCity, ElectricFlow, Jervis JMeter, Bad Boy, Rational Performance Tester, QA Load & QA Run, Selenium, Fluentlenium, REST Assured JConsole, Oracle Enterprise Manager, VisualVM PAM, LDAP, OAuth, SAML JBoss 6.0, WildFly, Jetty Apache Tomcat, JBoss WS AdventNet Simulation Toolkit, MIMIC, net-SNMP Maven, Ant, Gradle VMWare vSphere, VirtualBox, Vagrant Docker, Kubernetes Elastic Ansible, Salt Sparkjava AWS Educational Details Year Qualification Institution 2006-09 MS (Software Systems) BITS, Pilani (Distance Learning Programme) 2001-04 MCA Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad 1997-‘00 B.Sc. 1997 XII (CBSE) Air Force School, Kanpur 1995 X (CBSE) Air Force School, Kanpur B. Nd. Degree College, Kanpur Co-Curricular Activities ➢ Attended a corporate professional training on Agile software methodologies ➢ Attended comprehensive professional training on Elastic NoSQL alongwith Logstash & Kibana ➢ Got consistent outstanding performer recognition for successive quarters. ➢ Active member of TM Forum and TechRepublic. ➢ Spend leisure time on creating beautiful web sites using Drupal framework. ➢ Active member of the Placement Committee, Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad. ➢ Active member of the Alumni Committee, Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad. ➢ Organized and was awarded with a participation certificate for MELANGE 2003, an event that took place at Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad. *******************************************
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