Nilesh Madhukar Gatkal
Cary
Summary
Dynamic Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services with expertise in Azure Cloud and Agile methodologies. Proven track record in enhancing project management processes and client satisfaction. Skilled in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, while fostering strong team collaboration and communication. Committed to delivering high-quality project outcomes and driving continuous improvement.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2023 - Current
- Working with Agile team as Consultant in Azure Cloud platform with Kanban board, Scrum approach (PI planning, Sprints, backlogs, iterations etc.)
- Participating in daily scrum meetings, Pl planning, backlog grooming, retrospect & any agile ceremonies.
- Proactively setting and managing client and project team expectations and continually seeking opportunities to increase satisfaction and strengthen relationships.
- Helping to gather and analyze data, assist with project management tasks & make recommendations to improve the project management process.
- Working on support and enablement of the team in the different phases of the project including problem definition, effort estimation, diagnosis, solution generation, design and deployment.
- Assisting client product strategy, backlog refinement and prioritization, development and subsequent delivery and operationalization.
- Leading the team to set the project goals, objectives and ensuring successful quality project deliverables through entire agile process.
- Implementing project improvements identified with direct discussions with client stakeholders.
- Onboarding of the applications in AppDynamics for the better site reliability experience & monitoring.
Application Development - Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
04.2019 - 01.2023
- Performed Story analysis, sizing for the various sprints in the PI planning.
- Designed and implemented microservices which use the Spring boot framework.
- Connected microservices to interact with databases.
- Assisted team to understand requirements and architectural solution to fit in the business need.
- Created artifacts such as Context Diagrams (Business Integration Model), Use Cases, Swim-lane Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Business Rules, Non-Functional Requirements, ServiceAPI Documents, business and functional requirements documents, architectural design documents and system specification documents, impact analysis documents etc.
- Acted as onshore lead to perform code reviews on the development.
- Reported project status and progress to stakeholders and customers daily.
- Utilized splunk for prod incident analysis, building dashboards and alerts to monitor system health.
- Collaborated with product owners to define and refine user stories for sprint planning.
- Experience in designing and analyzing relational database schemas for complex systems.
- Applied behavior driven development (bdd) practices using gherkin and cucumber to define and automate acceptance criteria.
- Coordinated release schedules and managed deployment activities to ensure smooth system updates.
Application Maintenance & Support - Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
02.2017 - 04.2019
- Production support responsibility included task management, requirement analysis, analysis of existing architecture, implementation, unit testing, integration testing, deployment, technical assistance to the team, DEV support to QA and code review.
- Performed regression analysis of the changes and provided inputs to QA and BA for testing.
- DEV tested the code changes before releasing to QA and BA.
- DEV tested the APIs using Postman tool.
- Provided postman collections to QA and BA for further testing.
- Prepared and executed test plan for functional, integration and user acceptance testing using both manual as well as automated techniques.
- Effectively coordinating with team members to assist with Quality Control, Release Management, Production Support initiatives by directly or indirectly fulfilling tasks.
- Worked on root cause analysis of defects and change requests to improve overall system performance and created effort and cost estimation.
- Did Test Driven Development for various enhancement and maintenance tasks focusing more on unit testing and code coverage and quality.
- Coordinated release to production.
- Tracking task and bugs in JIRA associated to release.
- Creating and maintaining projects in Bit bucket.
- Maintaining versions and release notes.
- Reported project status and progress to stakeholders and customers daily.
Application Maintenance & Support - Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
10.2012 - 02.2017
- Acted as an IT associate between stakeholders, technical and support teams; Coordinated with the teams across US, India.
- Worked closely with manager to analyze & document business requirements; Conducted and attended JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions.
- Performed User, Functional and Non-Functional requirements gathering and translated in Data/Process Flow Models (DFDs, decision trees, ERDs); Generated Business Requirement documents, Functional Specification documents and SRS documents.
- Analyzed current state, performed gap analysis to provide insights and recommendations with tangible business impact.
- Analyzed root cause and impact of production incidents and bugs and suggested fix.
- Implemented and coded the solution for enhancements and/or bug fixes.
- Wrote method level unit tests for sufficient code coverage and functional integration tests.
- Developed Test Cases and Use Case diagrams; Performed Functionality & Regression testing.
- Created and consolidated the project status report for Project Management Office for weekly status meetings.
- Designed and modified database by creating class diagrams and ER diagrams table scripts, views, triggers, sequences, constraints, stored procedures, queries, functions, cursors and packages using SQL.
Systems Engineer
Infosys Limited
02.2012 - 10.2012
- Gathered business requirements & Designed system architecture.
- Developed web forms for the website.
- Wrote unit tests (NUNIT) for code coverage and quality.
- Developed SQL Stored Procedures & did System Integration with TFS.
- Performed unit testing, integration, and functional testing.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication
Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College
Aurangabad, MH, India08.2011
Skills
- Java and Java 8
- Spring Boot and Microservices
- JavaScript and HTML
- CSS and JSP
- RESTful API and Web Services
- Swagger and Postman
- Hibernate and SQL Server
- PL/SQL and DB2
- Azure and App Dynamics
- IBM Bitbucket and UC Deploy
- WIN SCP and Putty
- Eclipse and IntelliJ
- SOAP UI and Jenkins
- JIRA and SharePoint
- GIT and HP QC
- ServiceNow and IBM Data Studio
- DBeaver
Certification
- Certified SAFe 6 Practitioner
- Certified in 480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
- Certified in DBA Fundamentals
- Certified in Essentials of Cloud Computing
- Certified in Various HMM Topics
- Certified in Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Certified in Google Data Analytics - Coursera
Timeline
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2023 - Current
Application Development - Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
04.2019 - 01.2023
Application Maintenance & Support - Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
02.2017 - 04.2019
Application Maintenance & Support - Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
10.2012 - 02.2017
Systems Engineer
Infosys Limited
02.2012 - 10.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication
Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College