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Vikas Thakur

Vikas Thakur

Toronto

Summary

Having an overall 13 years of experience in building data intensive applications, tackling challenging architectural and scalability
problems, collecting and sorting data in the Banking field using Microsoft & Azure Cloud services and platforms.


Having prior experience of Software Automation Testing and currently working in CIBC, Toronto as Sr. Consultant (Equivalent to Sr. Manager in organization, Level 8). Worked in Atlanta, US for more than 3 years on specialized visa (H1B) status. Current status in Canada is Canadian citizen and is eligible to work in US on both H1B and TN1 visa.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Consultant

CIBC
11.2020 - Current

• Designed data models for complex analysis needs.
• Developed and delivered business information solutions.
• Managed identification, protection and use of data assets.
• Established and secured enterprise-wide data analytics structures.
• Migrated numerous legacy systems to newer technologies, reducing costs and enhancing efficiency of computing tasks.
• Co-ordinate with multiple teams like Application Development, Application Support, Networking Team, Database Administrators.

Consultant

CIBC
02.2019 - 11.2020
  • RBSS Tools and Automation team owns a different set of tools including certain automation tools like Selenium, different frameworks and other simulator software
  • My job is to develop automation solutions for different teams using the existing tools and customize the framework as per their need
  • I also manage a team of 10 resources
  • ABM project involves virtualization of ATM using Paragon tools suite and automation of end-to-end system
  • I have also developed in house Java based web applications (ATM Management Portal, Card Management Portal) for internal teams.

Project Lead (Manual and Automation)

Capgemini, USA
10.2015 - 01.2019
  • Coca-Cola Freestyle NMS project deals with testing all the integrations within freestyle ecosystem wherever dispenser is involved
  • This includes Airwatch-dispenser integration, Dispenser-Splunk, FET-Airwatch integration etc
  • I was responsible for managing end to end testing of the applications.

Automation Test lead

Capgemini, India
09.2013 - 09.2015
  • SAP Release Management project deals with creating automation scripts, executing after each major/minor release
  • Modules worked on: P2P, RAR, OTC, FICO, SD, MM, HR
  • I played a role of Automation test lead
  • I was responsible for delivery of new scripts as well as test case automation via automation as part of minor and major SAP releases.

Senior Test Engineer

Capgemini, India
12.2010 - 08.2013
  • Life New business project deals the life insurance business of the company
  • ENB and CAS are the front-end applications used by the Agents and Underwriters respectively for entering the policy details and issuing the policy
  • I played a role of Test Engineer and later Senior Test Engineer in the project and acquired knowledge of Life insurance domain and testing methodologies
  • I mastered myself in various tools like HP QC, VSS etc.

Education

Master of Science (MS) in software engineering -

BITS Pilani
08.2013

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Communications Engineering -

Maharishi Dayanand University
07.2010

Skills

    Azure Cloud services
    Data Bricks
    Azure Synapse
    Azure Data Factory
    MS SQL

    Selenium Webdriver

    Microfocus UFT

    Appium

    Jboss

    Oracle Weblogic

    Apache server

Languages

English
Full Professional

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
  • SeeTest Automation(from Experitest)
  • ISTQB Foundation Level

Timeline

Sr. Consultant

CIBC
11.2020 - Current

Consultant

CIBC
02.2019 - 11.2020

Project Lead (Manual and Automation)

Capgemini, USA
10.2015 - 01.2019

Automation Test lead

Capgemini, India
09.2013 - 09.2015

Senior Test Engineer

Capgemini, India
12.2010 - 08.2013

Master of Science (MS) in software engineering -

BITS Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Communications Engineering -

Maharishi Dayanand University
Vikas Thakur