Ajay Kulkarni

Work History

Project Manager

EPAM Systems

Pune

04.2023 - Current

Implemented processes and procedures to ensure compliance with Agile/Scrum
Principles
• Mentored and coached team members to improve their understanding of
Agile/Scrum Principles and best practices
• Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and
Other agile ceremonies
• Ensured sprint deliverables and objectives were met on time and within
Budget
• Collaborated with product owners to prioritize tasks and ensure product
Requirements were met
• Resolved conflicts and challenges within the team in a timely and effective
Manner
• Facilitated retrospectives to identify areas of improvement and ensure
Continuous improvement
• Responsible for release planning and execution. Defining release timelines
And deadlines together with the customer and the team to make sure that
What's planned and expected can be delivered on time
Governing the delivery of applications across stakeholders, handling
Complicated engineering issues, and making sure the design, code and overall
Solutions are of top-notch quality
People management. Working closely with Resource Management Organization

Development Manager

Capita India PVT LTD

Pune

08.2020 - 04.2023

Flui Technologies is the leading provider of critical utilities and infrastructure software in the UK and Ireland
Responsibilities:
Co-ordinate with product owner to groom and decide priorities of backlog items
Work with people outside of the team to resolve external dependencies and roadblocks that are blocking the team
Creating different agile metrics like Sprint Burndown Report, Velocity
Epic and Release Burndown, Defects management metrics
Created dashboards on ADO to track progress of scrums
Co-ordinate with deployment teams to deploy releases on different environments
Built relationships across the firm with supporting functions, including
Operations, R&D, Finance, HR, Infosec and Compliance
Leveraging these relationships to resolve project risks and issues as they arise to ensure a seamless delivery of each transition
Designed and monitored project schedule and project manager assignments
Responsible for Team and People management (professional and personal care aspects)
Leading unit level initiatives to build technical competency to meet the needs of the team or unit
Responsible the team for meeting the best software engineering practices, quality processes and methodologies
Promoting and instill a culture of continuous improvement and efficiency to the software/business processes through out-of-the-box thinking on product and processes by utilizing or creating new software engineering tools and different innovation techniques
Create Project plans, Risk Register and all project artefacts required as per
Internal Change Management Framework
Monitor and report Project health on Schedule, Quality parameters and using
Internal tools
Produce effective progress reports for assigned projects to keep Stakeholders apprised of Status, Issues and Risks, Scope changes, Resource changes
Milestones achieved
Working with recruitment team to recruit new people in the team
Carrying out annual appraisals of team members

Technical Architect

NetCracker Technology, Solutions (I) Pvt Ltd

Pune

04.2016 - 07.2020

Client: TELUS Communications, Shaw Communications, Cogeco Inc, Canada
T-Mobile, Netherlands (Deutsche Telekom)
Project Description: Worked on Customizing NetCracker Products for different
Telecom providers
Responsibilities:
• Onsite work experience on client side
• Involved in development of Rest API for integration with other systems
• Customization and development of UI screens in NC framework
• Involved in development of SOAP API, TBAPI for integration with other systems
• NC report development
• Involved in coding and testing of application
• Performing Code reviews within the team
• Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing
And Integration testing
• Creating Unit test cases and mocking of the code
• Creating high level and low-level design documents
• Following agile principles of software development
• Following continuous integration and continuous development process
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins, Sonar etc

Senior Software Engineer

TomTom India Pvt. Ltd

Pune

11.2014 - 04.2016

Client: Inhouse development of TomTom GPS navigation devices
Project Description: Project Name : QA-Rules
Business Unit : Content Production Platform
Project Description: Developing business rules for the inhouse product cartopia
Responsibilities:
Involved in coding and testing of application
Performing Code reviews within the team
Preparing builds, deploying on the environments
Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing and Integration testing
Creating Unit test cases and mocking of the code
Involved in discussion with business analyst to understand the requirement

Senior Java Developer

SunGard Solutions(I) Pvt. Ltd

Pune

04.2011 - 11.2014

Domain: Capital Markets, US based Institutional Broker-Dealers
Product Name : Phase 3 UI
Responsibilities:
Involved in detailed design, coding, testing and creation of technical specs of enhancement application
Performing Code reviews with the team, design reviews with the Architects
Preparing builds, deploy and Co-ordinate with the release management team to ensure that the proper process is followed during the release
Creating Low Level System Design documents
Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing and UAT
Developed the phase3 screens using Java, Applets, JSP, Servlets, Jquery, XML
XSL and HTML
Creating Unit test cases
Preparing Build Script using ANT and Maven
Preparing various documents like Release notes, Technical Specifications
Product Installation documents
SSO implementation of Phase3 Web UI
SSL implementation of Phase3 Web UI
Signing of Jar’s for SSL implementation
Responsible for using AJAX framework with Jquery for developing new screens in Phase3 Product
Worked on IPP business process manager tool for Mutual Fund networking project
Working on IPP business process manager tool for Exception Management project
Working on Oasys application which is Trade Allocation tool based on the
Spring MVC framework
Solely responsible for entire Phase3 Web UI

Senior Java Developer( Senior SME)

Amdocs India Pvt. Ltd

Pune

12.2009 - 03.2011

Astro DTH service Provider in Malaysia
Project Description: Amdocs have products for Telecom Domain
I was working on customization of Amdocs Order Management System product for client Astro
It involved development of different modules in Java and SQL
Responsibilities:
3 Months of onsite work experience with the client Astro, Malaysia
Worked extensively on design and development of Revenue assurance reports and critical reports which involved writing Sql scripts on oracle database
Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing
Integration testing and UAT
Responsible for closing the backlog of production related issues
Involved in development and customization of Amdocs Order Management
System for Client Astro

Java Developer

Oracle Financial Software Services

Mumbai

03.2006 - 11.2009

Citibank
Domain: Retail Banking
Project Description: Worked extensively on design and development of project web-refresh for client Citibank based on Java Technologies
Responsibilities:
Worked extensively on design and development of project web-refresh for client Citibank which involved technologies like Core Java 1.4, JSP, Servlets
JavaScript, Jquery, Struts 1.2
Performing Code reviews with the team, design reviews with the Tech Leads
Preparing builds, deploy and Co-ordinate with the release management team to ensure that the proper process is followed during the release
Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing
Integration testing and UAT
Maintain source code using IBM Rational Clear case
Responsible for closing the application related issues
Coordinating with the integration and testing teams
Design and execution of test scenarios, test cases and experience in
Functionality Testing
Good exposure in Design Patterns for Web
Responsible for closing the backlog of production related issues
Involved in Documentation of technical specs and other project related documents in all phases of application development

Summary

Overview

Work History

Project Manager

Development Manager

Technical Architect

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer( Senior SME)

Java Developer

Education

MBA - Executive MBA(GENERAL MANAGEMENT)

Skills

Timeline

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