Rajendra Sharma Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

As an Enterprise Release and Environment Manager, I oversee the strategic management of environment setups and the release process across the organization, ensuring the smooth delivery and operation of enterprise-level applications and services.Key Responsibilities:* Strategic Oversight: Develop and execute environment management strategies that align with organizational goals and technical needs.* Release Management: Manage the complete release lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, deployment, and post-release support, ensuring timely and successful software delivery.* Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with development, operations, and business teams to coordinate release activities and resolve environment-related issues.* Environment Optimization: Implement best practices for environment configuration and maintenance to enhance performance and reliability.* Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement and automation in release and environment management to increase efficiency and reduce errors.* Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to environment stability and release processes.* Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear updates to stakeholders on release schedules, environment changes, and any related issues.In this role, I leverage my IT expertise and leadership skills to ensure robust, reliable, and efficient enterprise systems that meet business objectives.

Greater Melbourne Area

Managed dev, test, and production environments within a large Transformation Program and other technology projects. Provided guidance on best practices and processes for Continuous Integration and Infrastructure management to developers, testers, and operations teams. Estimated and managed cloud infrastructure costs for the program, focusing on continuous optimization.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:- Managed AKS containers for major applications in non-production and production zones.- Developed, trained, and deployed a generative AI chatbot for the environment management self-service function using Azure AI.- Assisted with disaster recovery (DR) test planning and design.- Developed custom tasks for Azure DevOps (ADO).- Migrated thousands of APIs for Azure API Management (APIM) within a week.- Designed an enterprise Environment Dashboard to manage a vast array of environments and dependencies, including cloud, on-premises, and legacy systems.- Implemented Delphix database virtualization on an enterprise scale, handling hundreds of virtual databases.- Managed all production deployments and releases.- Set up enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines on Azure infrastructure for multiple environments.- Configured and managed database virtualization using Delphix Engine capabilities and in-house developed automation.- Oversaw Dynamics CRM instances, CI/CD pipelines, licenses, and provided platform-level support.- Debugged, identified, and triaged issues in collaboration with internal teams and vendors, including Microsoft.- Implemented monitoring and alerting systems for dev, test, and production environments.- Designed and architected dashboards for environment management, monitoring, alerting, and self-service.- Led a team of skilled engineers in building, operating, and managing infrastructure using modern platforms and technologies.

Summary: Working as an Automation Expert at client site in a major transformation program I manage a team of automation testers working on various initiatives. Role is a mix of Testing and DevOps activities. Testing side covers test setup of projects including managing workflows and processes through VSTS. Primarily responsible for managing CRM automation and API automation initiatives with focus on improvements and innovations.DevOps side covers code promotion, managing test environments like Sit, UAT, Performance,etc., setting up test automation in CI/CD pipeline and troubleshooting azure setup. I have gained extensive experience of Azure and VSTS while working in this role utilizing which was successful in bringing down Azure Dev test lab cost significantly without impacting test stability, In fact with much improved test stability.As a self initiative, devised and implemented org level solutions for alerting/monitoring of APIs and creating custom vsts dashboards for project/program level reporting.

Pune Area, India

Role: LeadWork Summary: As a Lead I was responsible for the QA efforts of the project. Preparing dashboard for higher management. Showcasing new initiatives and innovations to client. Pitching new ideas and setting up roadmap for the approved ones. Was actively involved in grooming juniors and peers at organizational & team level.Functional testing: Responsible for development of MsTest Based Hybrid Automation Test Framework using C#.net-VS2013, implementation of the designed framework for one of the major US based construction data company. Framework:A micro Framework which can be used for unit testing of application code or can be integrated with any MsTest or Nunit supported automation tools like Selenium WebdriverKey Features:1. Supports multiple types of Parameterization - xls, tfs, sql, oracle2. HTML based intuitive execution reports3. Custom OR for ease of maintenance with webdriver integration4. Parallel Multiple browser execution support5. Complete integration with Visual Studio and MTM6. Integration with open source CI tools like Jenkins for Test Validation7. Integration with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy for CI Build ValidationResponsibilities: • Research• Design & Development • Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy• Manage deliverables• Review product development design for conformance• Develop complex Reusable Components • Assist team with Agile Implementation• Automation test creation and execution of test suitesPerformance Testing: Created performance test suite for web based application. JMeter tool was used for test creation and execution along with PAL and Blazemeter recorder.Highlights: • Handled Single sign-on scenarios• Created JMeter scripts for Parallel Ajax Calls• Variable load with In-Phase and Out-Phase rampingResponsibilities: • Gathering performance requirements and NFR values• Creating test scripts• Result reporting and Analysis• Creating Demos and Presentations• Customer relationship management

Mumbai Area, India

As test automation project lead and framework architect, I was responsible for design, development, Implementation and documentation of custom automated testing solutions for clients at various geographic locations. • • Key Projects • Digital Automation: Automation testing of client's web portal using selenium -Project Type: Testing • Legacy Automation: Automation testing of Cobol and Delphi based client Applications -Project Type: Testing • Mobile Automation: Automation testing of client's mobile portal using Selenium -Project Type: Testing • Survey Engine Regression: Automation testing of Client's web based survey engine portal using Webdriver -Project Type: Testing • DARTENIUM:- Hybrid automation testing framework which performs build validation, functional testing and regression testing of web based applications using Selenium(Webdriver) and Java technology. -Project Type: Testing Framework Development • DARTENIUM Portal:- Sales portal for DARTENIUM -Project Type: Web Development • DARTS:- Hybrid automation testing framework which is based on HP QTP, IBM RFT and is developed in VB.net -Project Type: Testing Framework Development • Web Crawler: Crawls web contents on specific sites for KPO operations -Project Type: Product Development • Performance Testing:- Web Portal & Survey Engines. -Project Type: Testing • In-house Frameworks:- Eclipse RCP based framework with relational identifiers. -Project Type: Testing Framework DevelopmentKey Areas:1. Automation Test Frameworks2. Performance Testing3. Test Design Techniques4. Pre-salesAwards1. Merit Award - Development and R&D2. Employee of the Month - Java Swing and Web Development3. Employee of the Month - R&D and Pre-Sales4. Spot Award - Customer Relationship

Mumbai Area, India

Coded UI Based Hybrid Automation Test Framework development & Implementation using C#.net-VS2012Responsibilities: • Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy• Manage deliverables of UAT release • Review product development design for conformance• Develop complex Business Components for webservices layer testing• Assist team with Agile Implementation.

Sydney, Australia

Project Description: Automated testing of Microsoft XRM based Managed Solution(Agile).Responsibilities: • Create automation test framework which is robust enough to work as plug and play with continuous integration tool or Auto deployment tool. • Create automated test scripts • Configure automation test pack execution in the auto deployment solution selected by the project• Assist project to define test plan and test strategy• Periodic reporting of testing activities to Business and Senior Management