Vijay Nag Ranga
Montreal,Canada
Summary
Hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in software development, team mentorship, and delivery governance. Proven track record in driving operational excellence, managing intake to deployment workflows, and aligning technical decisions with business goals
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Lead
CN
Montreal, QC
11.2019 - Current
- Acted as a hands-on technical leader, guiding and mentoring the development team to ensure continuous growth and alignment with best practices.
- Provided technical assistance to team leads and supported prototype development to address technical debt.
- Led architectural and process negotiations, maintaining a decision catalog to document key technical choices.
- Managed intake processes including resource onboarding and interviews, coordinating with cross-regional teams.
- Maintained and prioritized the technical debt backlog, ensuring timely delivery of prototypes.
- Added Epics and Features to the delivery pod backlog following intake triage sessions.
- Owned development standards and ensured high-quality deliverables through established practices.
- Served as a point of escalation for day-to-day delivery needs and technical challenges.
- Oversaw GenID and Service Principal management, facilitating a smooth transition process.
- Created and maintained templates to support test scenario execution for RTS.
- Facilitated implementation planning for UAT deployments, ensuring readiness and execution quality.
- Represented the team in UAT triages, managing defect governance and dashboard reporting.
- Acted as the primary technical contact for clients, supporting the Release Train Engineer (RTE) in senior management communications and status updates.
- Championed operational excellence, project plan optimization, and effective resource utilization.
- Provided end-to-end governance over data engineering practices and the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Promoted knowledge sharing and backup planning to ensure team resilience and continuity.
- Organized monthly onshore team huddles across pods to foster engagement and momentum.
- Supported technical and personal growth of team members through structured engagement and mentorship.
- Led change management initiatives by introducing process improvements organically and streamlining adoption.
Associate Software Engineer
Livingston International
Montreal, QC
01.2017 - 06.2018
- Involved in analyzing system specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for Manual and Automated testing.
- Used Firebug to do web based application testing with Selenium for the commands and locator application.
- Created test plan and built test cases for each of the modules in HP ALM
- Understanding Business Requirements for each sprint, analyzing the change request, preparing the design, getting the cases reviewed by business and execution of the test cases.
- Performed Functional, Regression, End-to-end, user acceptance testing using HP ALM and documented the application issues at different phases of the project.
- Setup the Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and platforms.
- Writing and executing Functional and Regression Test Cases using Black box testing technique in TFS test management tool.
- Creating and updating requirement documents in the TFS due to new enhancement in the application.
- Writing and executing test cases using the Test Plan and Test Lab modules of HP ALM, and recording and tracking defects using the Defects module.
- Performed Functional, Regression, End-to-end, user acceptance testing using HP ALM and documented the application issues at different phases of the project.
- Performed manual testing of each build and then regression testing on each builds using Selenium WebDriver.
Developer Analyst
Affiliated Customs Brokers Pvt Ltd.
Montreal, QC
11.2015 - 12.2016
- Performed Sanity, Functional, Re-testing, Regression, Integration, System, UAT testing.
- Performed Mobile and Web compatibility testing (Browser and OS) to ensure the application worked in multiple desktop environments and on various smart devices.
- Working experience of Agile(scrum) including daily Scrum meeting and sprint planning meeting.
- Participated in test procedures and test plans reviews.
- Performed backend testing by using SQL queries and checked if the reports generated actually suffice the search criteria submitted.
- Experience with writing and executing positive and negative test cases and executing them.
- Created test cases for data driven testing and executed them with multiple sets of data to verify the application functionality for various sets of data
- Extensively involved in using the UNIX to check the logs files.
- Testing and Reporting the Bugs in HP ALM.
- Involved in writing the Acceptance Criteria and Test Cases for the Stories assigned to in HP ALM.
- Executed Test Cases Manually, once the application is stable and updated HP ALM.
Education
Masters in Engineering - Software Engineering
Concordia University
Montreal, QC06-2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India04-2012
Skills
- Design thinking
- Software development
- Systems engineering
- Continuous integration
- Critical thinking
- Team collaboration
- Project management
- Data analysis
- Agile methodologies
- Project planning
- Engineering documentation
- Process improvement
- Cloud computing
- Programming languages
- Process automation
- Product development
- System design
- Big data analysis
Languages
English
Timeline
Engineering Lead
CN
11.2019 - Current
Associate Software Engineer
Livingston International
01.2017 - 06.2018
Developer Analyst
Affiliated Customs Brokers Pvt Ltd.
11.2015 - 12.2016
Masters in Engineering - Software Engineering
Concordia University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University