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Sohini Datta

Naperville,IL

Summary

Software engineer and leader with extensive experience in leading teams for software development for over 13 years. Keen to wrangle multiple simultaneous projects into streamlined, cohesive and profitable efforts. Firm believer in holistic and collaborative management strategies. Thrives on providing exceptional oversight and hands-on guidance guaranteed to improve throughput figures and quality metrics. Experienced Cloud platform developer and manager with DevOps and SRE experience. Relentless problem solver, applying analytical, design, and technical skills to develop and supervise software development lifecycle in SaaS/SOA. Well recognized for strong leadership and project management abilities for cross-functional teams in fast-paced, competitive work environments .

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Manager

Prisidio Inc
04.2021 - Current
  • This is a startup company which was founded in 2020
  • The startup offers a cloud-based vault for organizing your life, to digitally store your life in the form of different inbuilt assets so you can share, store and digitally connect your life.
  • This software solution is available in web, ios and android. We have SOA where each service is decoupled and deployed individually using different Amazon Web Services.
  • I am a Lead Engineer/ Software(Quality)Manager here.
  • I am leading a team of 4 people as engineers who have been continuously working on multi-platform testing that includes web, mobile (ios and android), end to end, acceptance, integration,performance, chaos, penetration, manual etc.
  • Hired and developed a team of highly skilled SDETs and automation engineers with diverse qualifications to spear head test solutions.
  • Architected and built Test Frameworks, CI/CD pipelines for Web and Mobile using Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, DynamoDB, Gradle, Appium, JMeter, Java, Github, Docker, AWS Codepipeline, Code build, Step Functions, ECS Tasks, AWS Fargate, AWS Copilot,Cloud Watch to integrate software testing right from the onset of architecting any service.
  • Helped build the Alerting framework to monitor real time data and upstream changes using Cloud Monitoring, Open Search
  • My team was responsible to build test plans, test cases, create and model test solutions, build data models for cross platform testing and provide production and customer support.
  • Assured consistent quality of production by implementing and enforcing automated practice systems.
  • Along with providing test and deployment solutions I have the worked on system design, system architecture, service integrations built testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
  • I have worked with DevOps and SRE using AWS solutions to provide 100 % system availability, reliability and monitoring.
  • I am hands-on in developing application code by writing “End-to-end” tests, acceptance tests, improving the code coverage, performance improvement.
  • Conducted process and system audits to identify areas of improvement and enforce compliance with industry standards using program and project management skills.

Software Engineering Manager

HERE TECHNOLOGIES
02.2015 - 04.2021
  • I began working as an Developer/SDET in 2015 and then went to manage the R&D Testing team of Here’s Automotive Products
  • I led teams of 8-10 people including contractors across multiple time zones
  • I worked with 10+ development teams to develop automated solutions to standardize test processes, build unified test platforms, provide solutions by building different tools which aid CI/CD across multiple environments and Testing using Java, Python, Spring, J2EE, Jquery, Node.js, Hibernate, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Containerization, Cucumber, TestNg, BDD approaches, Jmock, Wiremock, AWS services like Cloudformation, EC2s,ECS, SQS, S3, ECR,AutoScaling, SQS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Apache Flink, Storm, Datadog, DataLakes, Postgres, DynamoDB, Oracle, Redis
  • Experience in app migration to cloud and maintaining cloud based system using Puppets and Jenkins, Unix/Linux Scripts, Python,from on prem systems to writing scripts and managing AWS services like EC2s, ECS, S3, SQS, ECR,AutoScaling, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes,
  • While building services as a Platform I have collaborated and worked with over 20 teams in an onshore/ off shore model to help build map as a service where there are over 100 services aligned in the SOA of the platform.
  • Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
  • Provided regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
  • Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
  • In terms of maintaining quality, my teams were responsible for requirement gathering, build test plans, test cases, create and model test solutions, monitoring systems, perform analysis on logs and for solving business problems and product issues
  • We have done a lot of data mining work to establish traceability in SOA
  • We have built automated acceptance tests, contract tests, integration tests, smoke, performance, regression, chaos tests for individual products and across platforms etc
  • I was hands on with development with the team to promote equality of work and help out with technical solutions
  • We had set up and configured testing tools to generate, gather and report test results in Jira using Splunk, ELK stack and I had built a platform on Jira called Zapi which ensures all automated and continuous reporting of all software test cycles.


System Engineer Developer

EMPOWER PROFESSIONALS, INC
11.2013 - 02.2015
  • I was involved in developing software services with Java, Sql.
  • I was involved in development and software application testing, test automation, using java, cucumber, sql, jenkins, docker, aws components, python, puppet for deployment management etc.I have been involved in deploying them, managing servers and their scripts, setting up the whole environment.
  • Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
  • Environments: Java 7, Spring, Apache, Tomcat, GlassFish, Linux, Oracle 11g, Postgres, AWS, HTML
  • Junit, Java Script, Jquery, Hibernate, Restful webservices, Puppet, Thor, SVN, Mercurial, Jenkins
  • Electric Commander, Jira, Zephyr etc.

Assistant System Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
11.2009 - 05.2012
  • I was a java developer working on different projects for using java, sql
  • I was also into web development and building different web portals and java platforms of different in house and client projects
  • I had developed websites using JSP, JSF, Flex
  • I also participated in triage and support work.

Education

B. TECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Netaji Subhash Engineering College (WBUT)
Kolkata, India
07.2009

Skills

  • Data Analysis
  • Cross platform test & deployment framework building
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Platform Modernization & Cloud Strategy
  • Team Building
  • Mentor
  • Project Management
  • Agile Methodology
  • Automation
  • Technology: Java , J2EE, Java Script, HTML, JQuery, NodeJs,PL/SQL, Hibernate, Amazon Web Services, Spring, Python, Restful Webservices, Puppet, Unix/Linux scripting, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes,Scala, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, Flink, UNIX, Splunk, Open Search,
  • Databases: Oracle 10g, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, Redis
  • Techniques: Agile, Waterfall
  • Test Framewroks: Cucumber, Selenium, JBehave, Pytest, REST Assured, TestNG, JMock, Appium, Wiremock, JMeter BDD, TDD approaches

Timeline

QA Manager

Prisidio Inc
04.2021 - Current

Software Engineering Manager

HERE TECHNOLOGIES
02.2015 - 04.2021

System Engineer Developer

EMPOWER PROFESSIONALS, INC
11.2013 - 02.2015

Assistant System Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
11.2009 - 05.2012

B. TECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Netaji Subhash Engineering College (WBUT)
Sohini Datta