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ASHOK KUMAR SARMAH

Technical Lead DevOps/Senior Cloud Engineer/Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
Kamrup

Summary

Senior DevOps/Senior Cloud/Senior Test Engineer with 11 years of successful experience in cloud,DevOps and testing technologies. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in past and current working organizations. Quest to work in a professional atmosphere that will enable widening spectrum of knowledge and to be an integral part of an organizations growth with technical and social impact.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
18
18
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Technical Lead DevOps

Xoriant
1 2023 - Current
  • Worked on Migrating Client environment which was On Premise to Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Worked on designing all the CI/CD pipeline for the client day to day activities using Jenkins
  • Worked on Terraform to automatically provision cloud infrastructure in Oracle Cloud
  • Interacted with Client to get the overall cloud architecture and implemented their use cases.
  • Worked on implementing different services using Terraform on GCP Cloud
  • Worked on Terraform cloud to maintain different infrastructure for different client projects

Senior Cloud Engineer

Teradata
02.2021 - 01.2023

Teradata Vantage as a Cloud service is provided by Teradata.There were three cloud services offer and we were part of Vantage DIY(Do it Yourself) team.

  • My Responsibilities were whenever Azure cloud new requirement came we need to develop the ARM template(Azure) based on the feature. Deploy it and test it to check the feature works fine.
  • Creation of new Offer(be it Virtual Machine offer or Template Offer) and publishing it in Microsoft Partner Center for Azure.Validating the offers after publishing them.
  • Automating the Integration Tests using Python and also reviewing the tests of peers.
  • Automating the test and running the the test using Jenkins job.
  • Worked on Ansible as it was used for orchestration related tasks after VM deployment.
  • Worked on Jenkins CI/CD as it was used for different tasks like creating of the images etc.
  • Worked on deploying chalice api on docker container and used the api in automation.
  • Deployed pingfederate on kubernetes cluster as we have used pingfederate as federating agent.
  • Worked on deploying AWS instance via terraform and did post configurations via ansible.

Senior Software Engineer in Test/DevOps Engineer

Zaloni
05.2017 - 02.2021
  • Zaloni Data Platform is a data lake management and governance platform that enables managed ingestion of data at scale, that inventories all metadata, builds workflows and provides appropriate governance requirements such as data lineage, data quality, data security and privacy and data lifecycle management.
  • Primary Responsibilities.
  • Manually test for any new feature coming and its related functionalities for the first time as part of Scrum.Integration,Regression,Release Regression through both the UI and Backend Automation testing.
  • Whenever a Defect being assigned.Tested it Manually,checked whether the functionality can be automated or not.If yes Automated the Test Bug or ER.
  • Worked as a Lead among the QA to distribute the tasks and resolve issues and successfully delivered the deliverable as a team.
  • Developed Automation Test framework using Java,Testng,Allure. Also used Jenkins for running continuous integration tests.
  • Giving report to the Manager on existing issues or any concerns on regular basis.
  • Before release making sure all the test suites are being run and there are no any regression issues.
  • Actively participating in all meetings regarding release discussions and bug discussions with developers.
  • Worked on Cloud AWS, provisioned instances via terraform and did post configurations via ansible

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle, Cloud Infrastructure
10.2015 - 04.2017

Oracle Cloud is the industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud. It offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your own data center. Oracle Cloud helps organizations drive innovation and business transformation by increasing business agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity.

Primary Responsibilities

· Manually test for any new services coming and its related functionalities for the first time.Integration,Regression,Release Regression through the Automation testing.

· Whenever a Defect being assigned.Test it Manually,check whether the functionality can be automated or not.If yes Automate the Test Bug or ER.

· Giving report to the Manager on existing issues for this release.

· Before release making sure all the test suites are being run and there are no any regression issues.

· Actively participating in all meetings regarding release discussions and bug discussions with developers.

Senior Test Engineer

Mindtree Limited
05.2013 - 10.2015

AIG –GES (Global Property insurance)(Project of Mindtree)

Team Size : 10

Duration : 24 months

Role : Senior Test Engineer

Environment : Windows, Oracle ,

Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver,

SAF, HP QC, TestNG,IBM cognos.

AIG is an American multinational insurance corporation that targets to be the industry leader in catastrophe risk management by building a globally deployed location-based exposure system for Cat Modeling and Risk analytics

GES application will capture accurate exposure data during the quotation process which will be cleaned and formatted through centralized service using PEGA tool. It is expected to augment the captured data with other third-party and AIG internal data and will run the data through various CAT modeling tools available as centralized service allowing AIG underwriters and risk managers to manage location-based risks in individually and in aggregate. GES will allow achieving better risk management; improve reinsurance negotiations, accurate rating/pricing and meet increasing regulatory and investor scrutiny along with streamlining the operational processes.

Primary Responsibilities

· Manual Integration, Regression, Release Regression testing.

· Supporting for pre-production, production and post-production activities related to testing.

· Assisting release manager for preparation of release notes for every release.

· Handling defect Triage and reproduce customer reported bugs.

· Helping UAT users for reproducing and resolving UAT issues, and testing fixes before it is released to the custom.

· Analyzing UAT raised defect to identify patterns of problem areas that need additional test coverage.

· Prepared and Executed Test-Cases and performed System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, Functional & Non-Functional Testing.

· Have done browser compatibility test with different browser.

· Creating Adhoc report test cases.

· Creating adhoc report through IBM cognos for test case execution.

· Reviewing Test cases of team members.

· Prepared UI Testing scenario.

· Writing Data base query for data comparison and data verification.

· Writing queries in Netezza for various calculation Logic.

· Record Requirement defect, System defects using Quality center.

· Experience in quality center of executing and adding test cases in test lab and adding defect in QC.

· Worked in agile testing process.

· On Time delivery of Analysis, Design Document and Test cases to Team Member.

Involved in the Test cases review meetings.

Education

B.E (COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG) - Computer Science And Engineering

B.L.D.E.A’S V.P Dr. P.G.H College Of ENGINEERING&TECHNOLOGY
BIJAPUR,Karnataka
06.2008 - 06.2012

High School Diploma -

UDALGURI COLLEGE
UDALGURI,ASSAM
05.2006 - 04.2008

High School Diploma -

SACRED HEART SCHOOL
UDALGURI,ASSAM
01.1994 - 04.2006

Skills

Java,Shell,Typescript,Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver,Allure,AWS,Azure,GCP,Ranger,Sentry,Maven,Jenkins,Git,SAF, TestNG,Protractor,Jasmine,ARM Template,PingFederate,IAM

Python, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube, BlackDuck,CloudSecurity

Test and Bug Tracking Tool: HP QC, TestRail, Continuum tools, Agile Process, MongoDB, BigData Technologies, Spark

Timeline

Senior Cloud Engineer

Teradata
02.2021 - 01.2023

Senior Software Engineer in Test/DevOps Engineer

Zaloni
05.2017 - 02.2021

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle, Cloud Infrastructure
10.2015 - 04.2017

Senior Test Engineer

Mindtree Limited
05.2013 - 10.2015

B.E (COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG) - Computer Science And Engineering

B.L.D.E.A’S V.P Dr. P.G.H College Of ENGINEERING&TECHNOLOGY
06.2008 - 06.2012

High School Diploma -

UDALGURI COLLEGE
05.2006 - 04.2008

High School Diploma -

SACRED HEART SCHOOL
01.1994 - 04.2006

Technical Lead DevOps

Xoriant
1 2023 - Current
ASHOK KUMAR SARMAHTechnical Lead DevOps/Senior Cloud Engineer/Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer