MD ABDULLAH AL FARUK

IBM Sales Cloud (ISC) provides CRM Solution tool to IBM Clients through real time data and advanced analytics powered by Salesforce and IBM Watson. This CRM tools is currently serving almost over 36K IBM Sellers and Business Partners with 99.99 percent of availability across various geographic locations.

• As a DevOps Lead Engineer working on continuous improvement initiatives within ISC DevOps engineering department by fostering culture of innovation and collaboration. Documented and developed engineering procedures and processes by following best practices from Agile software development methodologies.
• Established and maintained robust software architecture and design practices, enhancing squad's technical direction and contributing to 40% increase in project delivery efficiency.
• Architected and worked with ISC DevOps Team on establishing automated deployment framework using homegrown Python-based Solution for CI/CD tools for automated package versioning and package promotion for unlocked packages and org-dependent packages and streamlining code promotion from one environment to another environment which significantly reducing manual efforts by 50% and improving software quality and reliability.
• Re-architecting our Continuous Delivery Pipeline and Continuous Delivery process using Semantic versioning and Artifactory by automating whole package release workflow including: determining next version number, generating release notes, and publishing package.
• Architected Inner-source tool based on Shell, Python which streamlining deployment processes and shortening release cycles by 30%.
• Extensive work experience in microservices architecture on cloud-hosted solutions using Hybrid Cloud
• Acted as a mentor and coach, significantly improving team skills and performance, resulting in 20% uplift in team satisfaction and productivity metrics.
• Woking on designing open-source tool to validate Post-deployment build and debugging application using various monitoring tools like LogDNA and Dynatrace and IBM Analytics applications
• Helped team Migrated various internal apps from legacy systems into IBM Internal Hybrid Cloud Solution
• Developed various Middleware Monitoring solution using Homegrown solution and SaaS solution.

• Worked on designing and developed robust, reusable and stable CICD process which helped developers and testers by delivering multiple enterprise-level projects on time and within budget and focusing on business process automation and content management solutions.
• Developed mechanism to run Digital Commerce infrastructure with Terraform and IBM Cloud Kubernetes to automate manual deployment process which increased speed of software delivery
• Architected and Developed with Developers and Testers for E2E Automated Testing solution which reduced manual testing by 70 percent.
• Developed monitoring and alerting mechanism for application outages using Pagerduty, Papertrail logs and slack api.
• Documented findings and turn into repeatable actions and eventually into automation.
• Worked on improving applications' availability by adopting and deploying applications into hybrid cloud solution which increased applications' availability by 100 percent.
• Provided technical leadership and hands-on assistance in building robust CI/CD processes, debugging, and architectural design, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Cross tribe collaboration with DSW and DGC as DevOps SME to help launch several key projects
• Worked on implementing Carbon Design language for Angular app as part of user-centric design
• Worked on various Static and Dynamic Security issues using various DAST and IAST tools

• Worked on designing, developing automated tests framework using home-grown automated testing framework-Selenium Webdriver Cucumber and Java. Coordinated with Manual QA, Dev and BA to get requirements for acceptance testing and automated almost over 75 percent of use cases for various application under CI based automated testing.
• Developed a culture of continuous automated testing for E2E quality assurance processes for various applications using Protractor, Cucumber and Jenkins (CI tools and Browserstak for cross browser and cross platform testing)
• Built robust internal and external API monitoring operational tools and dashboard for various application as well as built alert mechanism for continuous monitoring of various web-services.
• Built Synthetic Monitors for various application and also alerts mechanism when any synthetic transaction failed using New Relic Synthetic, Slack and Pagerduty alert mechanism.
• Worked on migrating various applications to IBM Cloud (Bluemix), Jenkins and built Dockerized containers for quicker deployment of various internal apps into IBM Cloud environment
• Worked on Kubernetes for Containerized internal applications as an SME to optimize team performance and project outcomes.
• Developed E2E Testing framework using Protractor, Typescripts and Cucumber to quickly tests almost over 150 scenarios for apps which covers 100 percent automation tests coverage

• Worked on Hybrid and Customized Selenium WebDriver based Automation Framework and used Maven and Java
• Involved in building and developing various Micro-Services using Scala Functional Programming Language and Play-Framework
• Implemented various Mocked Unit Tests with assistance of Mockito and Scala-Based Test
• Built robust framework for Service-level Integration Test and isolation tests for Restful Web-services using Java and Scala
• Implemented Behavioral Driven Testing by using Scala based Test for Micro-Services.
• Developed Distributed Performance Testing and Monitoring solution on Gatling using Scala Functional Programming, Fiddler, InfluxDB, Grafana, Jenkins, mongoDB and Redis.

• Created test strategy and test plan based on the Business requirement documents, functional and technical requirements that described the features, functions and scenarios to be tested for the two weeks sprints
• Participated in sprint meetings (daily scrum meeting, sprint planning meeting) to develop test cases and perform test execution as needed
• Proactively troubleshoot with product manager, Development and QA peers to replicate/identify, and resolve issues in JIRA
  Introduced and implemented open source web testing framework Selenium WebDriver for cross browser testing
• Implemented keyword driven and data driven automation testing framework based on Page object model for code reusability and code maintainability
• Developed and implemented Behavior driven testing framework with Cucumber JVM to execute test cases
• Developed Restful Web Service testing framework with Rest-assured to build robust and scalable web service testing