Narendar Ramakrishnan

• Designed and implemented scalable software architecture to enhance application performance and reliability.
• Led cross-functional teams in Agile development processes, fostering collaboration and timely project delivery.
• Lead for cross-region resiliency strategy (no in-built cross-replication)
• Co-lead for Model Progression; targeting 50% runtime reduction
• Designed Global EDA: SageMaker Pipeline/Registry with DynamoDB and Lambda/SQS.Enabled unrestricted AWS exploratory design, coordinated approval from senior management.
• Lead for Snowflake Compliance Platform Migration
• Lead Software/Quality Engineer; designed architecture of Fargate, Aurora Global PostgreSQL DB, Event Bridge, Lambda for batch synchronisation.
• AWS Graviton Migration for average 40% Cost Savings with 10% Performance Gain
• Designed Snowflake testing strategy for entire Data Outcome Team (6 Teams)
• Designated Mentor/Tutor for new hires and Graduate getting into Automation and Quality Engineering
• Designed reusable test modules that interacts with S3, Lambda, Cloud Watch, SQS, Step Functions that expedited testing process for subsequent projects without sacrificing stability or performance.
• Lead key migrations for ETL Batch systems from OnPrem to AWS cloud which uses Abinitio, ControlM, and Control Center.

Client: VISA Inc

• Working with Github enterprise to manage source code repositories and performed branching, merging, and tagging depending on the requirements.
• Created basic Jenkins pipelines using groovy.• Implementing AWS solutions using EC2, Auto scaling group, EBS, EFS, Elastic Load Balancing, VPC, RDS and Lambda.
• Setting up Disaster recovery solution leveraging AWS Route53 service and involved in recovery exercises.
• Setting up and maintain EFS data using AWS Backup service. Automated EFS data governance using Python.
• Setting up and managing python environments using pipenv and conda
• Migrated application load balancing from Classic to ALB.
  troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Understanding data science requirements and building docker images
  based on R, Rstudio, Anaconda, JupyterLab and DotNet.
• Maintaining docker images – scanning and fixing vulnerabilities. Managing docker containers using Elastic container service.

Client: Capital One UK

• Implemented test frameworks for RESTful API developed using Spring boot framework. Developed automation tests using Cucumber-JAVA to test GET, POST, PUT and DELETE operations.
• Created Testing stages in CICD pipeline using Jenkins and Groovy to perform automated test stages(i.e Unit test, Functional/Acceptance test, Integration test, Application Resilience test) for commits to master branch.
• Used GitHub Webhooks to handle merge conflicts, code owner review, automated Jenkins Pipeline trigger and enable Automated Notification service.
• Create Cloud Formation scripts to deploy code on AWS infrastructure including EC2 and ELB, Manage traffic through R53 and store data in Postgres DB.
• Monitored emerging test automation frameworks, technologies and best practices for useful developments.

Client : Capital One UK

• Joined as a Quality engineer to analyze requirements from business and transform to technical requirements.
• Collaborate with team members and gather information to create Testing Strategies, pin down key variables like Dependencies, Risk, Test Data management, Integration Environments and Deliverable Dates.
• Using BDD designed Test Scenarios, Identify edge cases and Create Cucumber feature files using Gherkin get them reviewed with Product Owners and other Stakeholders.
• Implemented test frameworks like Cucumber-Cypress and Cucumber-Protractor for React UI application served from express node.js server.
• Configuring application monitoring using AppDynamics and DataDog.
• Implemented testing frameworks that streamlined QA processes and reduced turnaround time.
• Facilitated improvements in overall software quality through active participation in process improvement initiatives within the organization.
• Minimized risk of production issues by proactively monitoring system logs and performing root cause analysis on reported incidents.

Client: Capital One U.S.A

• Analyse and mapped end-to-end user journeys of complex banking web applications, including account management, fund transfers, and loan modules.
• Designed and executed happy path test scenarios to validate core functionalities under ideal user conditions, ensuring smooth and error-free transactions.
• Collaborated with UI/UX designers and business analysts to identify pain points and recommend improvements that enhanced user experience and workflow efficiency.
• Created and maintained test cases, checklists, and test data and Defect Life Cycle using tools such as Quality Center and template driven Excel.
• Performed functional, regression, and smoke testing on multiple web banking platforms.
• Participated in requirement analysis sessions to ensure test coverage for critical business processes.
• Reported, tracked, and validated defects using Jira / Azure DevOps, ensuring timely resolution by the development team.
• Supported UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and worked closely with stakeholders to align testing outcomes with business expectations.
• I had an opportunity to lead a 12 member team analyzing customer data, determining end-to-end application journeys using tools like TeraData and SQL.My responsibility includes Analyzing data, Generate reports, Generate Gap analysis documents, host Brainstorm sessions with team to achieve goals that help stakeholders.