Varun Kumar
Project Lead(Technical)
Delhi,DL
Summary
Experienced Project Lead (Technical) with demonstrated history of working in IT industry for over 12+ years in various roles ranging from technical to managerial.
Strong engineering professional skilled in Java Enterprise Edition, Core Java, Spring, Hibernate, Web-Services with knowledge of SpringBoot, Mircroservices, AWS
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Language
Work History
Project Lead (Technical), Scrum Master
Sopra Steria Pvt. Ltd
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
01.2019 - Current
- Handled resource management, planning, scheduling, negotiations with client on various aspects of the delivery including estimates & execution of the project for multiple projects/web applications at the same time.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Reviewed estimates, design & solution proposal
- Resolved technical queries of the team & supported team in areas requiring technical assistance
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received & implemented across the organization.
- Executed post delivery activities of retrospective sprint & RCA for continuous improvement.
- Did POC’s on new technical proposals and handled implementations of same for project.
- Worked in close association with current technical architect & client architects on solution proposals, technical process changes and implementation.
Technical Lead
Sopra Steria Pvt. Ltd
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
05.2017 - 12.2018
- Oversaw variety of projects, including budgets, milestones and team performance.
- Investigated and addressed system issues to enhance usability and improve functionality.
- Held final responsibility for architecture, design and implementation of multiple applications (WARMS, Wipper, SmartYield) assigned.
- Held responsibility for adhering to all processes during various phases such as solution proposal, development(CUT), qualification, delivery, UAT.
- Worked actively in development tasks along with other developers.
- Mentored junior team members, providing educational expertise on technical concepts and functional knowledge of application.
- Proactively managed client correspondence and recorded all tracking and communications.
Senior Software Developer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
04.2015 - 04.2017
- Monitored ongoing operation of assigned programs and responded to problems by diagnosing and correcting logic and coding errors.
- Orchestrated efficient software deployments, including testing features and correcting code.
- Performing feasibility analysis and estimation for CR's.
- Understanding & Analyzing user requirements, estimation, design, implement, unit test, qualify & deliver changes required for requirements.
- Fixing defects/issues reported during various phases.
- Migration of part of application on Maven based build from eclipse build.
- Handling incidents and responding with solution with in SLA.
- Trained new developers and programmers on company standards for design, review & development.
Software Developer, Onsite Project Coordinator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Aarhus, Denmark
03.2013 - 03.2015
- Handled coordination between the team in Denmark & team in India.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Analysis, design and development of new functionality/CR in file submission solution (Sterling B2B integrator/Sterling File Gateway and Sterling Secure Proxy) for project eIncome.
- Maintenance of file submission solution (Sterling B2B Integrator/Sterling File Gateway/Sterling Secure Proxy).
- Performed performance analysis & optimization for various components of the project i.e. java application, web interface, Sterling B2B integrator/Sterling File Gateway.
- Measuring Performance indicator metrics using tools like NMON,RPT.
- Handled application based on Ruby on rails for automated testing of webservices (regression test, loadtest, loadtest, webapp) and any new development/change request for application based on Ruby on rails.
- Supported end users for accessing sterling solution.
- Handled deployment in various environments(including production) during release.
- Handled Merge & Release management.
Software Developer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
11.2011 - 02.2013
- Requirement analysis and gap analysis
- Analysis of Design Document and finding gaps, if any.
- Providing suggestion to fill gaps or changes in design.
- Coding functionality across middle layer to persistence.
- Unit testing of coded modules.
- Peer code review
- Fixing defects during various phases of testing.
- Giving knowledge transfer to new team members.
Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
Chandigarh, Punjab
03.2009 - 10.2011
- Requirement analysis and gap analysis.
- Developing various modules by coding across all tiers.
- Unit Testing and Peer Code reviews
- Attending status calls on daily basis and escalating any unresolved issue.
- Support to Production support team and UAT Team.
- Fixing defects during various phases of testing.
- Giving knowledge transfer to new team members.
- Filling and maintaining process related trackers and quality related documents.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication
Academy of Business & Engineering Sciences, Uttar Pradesh Technological University (U.P.T.U
Ghaziabad 08.2004 - 07.2008
Senior Secondary Education -
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Gole Market 04.2003 - 03.2004
Higher Secondary Education -
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Gole Market, New Delhi 04.2001 - 03.2002
Skills
Programming Skills: Java 7/8, Servlets, JSP, JSTL & EL, JSF, JavaScript, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, Web Services (SOAP, REST)
Architectures & Frameworks : Spring 3,Hibernate 3,Struts 12, iBatis, MVC
Servers : WebSphere 70, WebLogic 11g,Jboss 711,WildFly14
Version Control Systems : VSS, SVN, RTC, Clear Case, GIT
DevOps(CI/CD): Jenkins, Build Engine, Artifactory, Nexus, Collaborator, Maven 304, ant 171
DevOps(Code Analysis) : Jacoco, JProfiler , RSA, CodePro, RTC, RPT, SonarQube, Sonarlint, jMeter, Soap UI
Software Methodology : Waterfall, Agile
Ruby on rails,Business Process Modeling (SI & SFG), Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling File Gateway, Sterling Secure Proxy, Shell Scripting
SpringBoot, Microservices
AWS(Amazon Web Services)
Database : Oracle 10g, 11c (Basic SQL & PL/SQL),12c
Project Management
Customer interaction
Leadership
Accomplishments
- Winner of DIT Award 2019, Q3 2019 from Client for pro-activeness in Wipper application management, delivery & issue resolution for delivery of Wipper 4.02 release.
- Winner of DIT Award 2019, Q2, 2019 from Client for quick & proactive support enabling smooth go live of application Wipper for their new plant in Singapore.
- Won “Value Champ” award for the Wipper application for Q4, 2018 at Sopra Steria.
- Special Recognition from client for providing quick solutions & taking ownership of application for WARMS at Sopra Steria
- Won “On the Spot” award for the Citit CWS, project at Infosys.
Additional Information
- Written a ‘Book of Knowledge’ stored in the Infosys repository for use of other developers.
- Cleared the internal certifications at Infosys which includes ‘Banking’ and ‘Capital Markets’ in domain and ‘Basic JAVA’ and ‘Advanced JAVA’ in technical.
- Trained in Java, Advanced Java, PL/SQL, Portal, Unix, SAP ABAP at Infosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd. India.
- Trained in Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling File Gateway at IBM India Pvt Ltd.
Strengths
Good people & Project management skills, Diligent, Dedicated, Adaptable, Quick Learner, Good analytical skills, Team player
Timeline
Project Lead (Technical), Scrum Master
Sopra Steria Pvt. Ltd
01.2019 - Current
Technical Lead
Sopra Steria Pvt. Ltd
05.2017 - 12.2018
Senior Software Developer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
04.2015 - 04.2017
Software Developer, Onsite Project Coordinator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
03.2013 - 03.2015
Software Developer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
11.2011 - 02.2013
Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
03.2009 - 10.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication
Academy of Business & Engineering Sciences, Uttar Pradesh Technological University (U.P.T.U
08.2004 - 07.2008
Senior Secondary Education -
Kendriya Vidyalaya
04.2003 - 03.2004
Higher Secondary Education -
Kendriya Vidyalaya
04.2001 - 03.2002