Smita S Karwade
Solution Designer/ Senior Integration Consultant
Calgary, AB - *****.*******@*****.*** - +1-403-***-**** An accomplished IT Professional with 16+ years of Information Services experience, focused on delivering IT Solutions & Services (EAI) across global business environments. Proven abilities in project planning, tracking, resource management, project on-time delivery, designing complex application integration.
Having exposure to the entire Project Life Cycle adhering to the CMM Level 5 quality standards, Experience in Energy and Utility & Manufacturing Domain, Experience of handling and leading multiple assignments efficiently, Self-Starter, a Good Team Player and Motivator with excellent Communication and Client Interfacing Skills. Mulesoft Certified Developer.
webMethods Integration Platform 6.0.1 certified and webMethods 6.5 EAI certified developer. Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certified
Scrum Fundamentals Certified
API Designer and API Security Architect Certified by API Academy ITIL 4 Certified
Have good experience on EAI and ESB tools like webMethods, Oracle Fusion, Dell Bhoomi basic, MuleSoft and Tibco Business Works. Have experience on Global Delivery Model along with Agile Methodology. Have worked under various roles ranging from DevOps, Developer, Team Lead, Project Lead, EAI Consultant,, System Analyst, Solution designer and Application Specialist to Subject Matter Expert. Have experience of all phases of Integration testing along with regression and smoke testing. Also involved in SOA web services testing using SOAP UI and Rational Service Automation tool. Expertise in Defect Tracking and Reporting with tools like JIRA, Rational Quality Manager, HP Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest. Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology. CORE COMPETENCIES
EAI/ API Management
Software Integration
Product implementation
Client Consultation
Scrum and Agile
Cloud Computing
Excellent Verbal & Written
Communication
Data Integrity Maintenance
Team Collaboration
Data & Flow Analysis
Data Integration
SOA Principles
Integration Architecture
Test Cases & Documents
Defect Triage
Framework Design
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Integration Consultant/Solution Designer
Suncor Energy - Calgary, AB - May 2016 to July 2020
• Design, Develop, test and migrate webMethods interface as per the interface design document.
• Design, develop Flows for integrating the components like connectors, transformers and scopes written on top of different internal platforms using webMethods for XML to CSV, JSON
• Design and Develop interfaces to extract data and Meta data from SAP Hana and store it in Azure Data lakes. Develop digital hub connector in webMethods to consume Azure storage REST API in a secure manner.
• Design and Develop and test web services created for client to connect to secure gateway and exchange confidential data with Suncor in-house applications.
• Develop Data dictionaries, Canonicals to support Data Analytics project for sites.
• Helped in design review and taking part in design discussions with stakeholders.
• Code Review and deployment of interfaces to different environment. Complete Release management.
• Update/modify the interface design document if requirement changes while development
• Work with various business teams to understand the business requirements and build the test script for interface testing and End to End testing.
• Supporting Projects through their life cycle.
• Help vendors team to understand and familiarize Suncor development standards and get them up to speed.
• Provide technical assistance to the team as required for resolving issues.
• Have experience to work on multiple projects at same time.
• Explore Mulesoft tool by working on a POC to create system, process and experience API using Anypoint Studio. Integrating project includes webMethods with SAP, SAP Hana, Commodity XL (CXL is the commodity trading risk management system), Lenel, myHR, Enablon, LVHV, Success factor, Azure data lake, Mobileview, Primavera, IPrism, Point Of Sale, SQL, MySQL Oracle, Share point, and Service Now etc.
Other Skills - GitHub, Confluence, JIRA, Agile Methodology. Integration Consultant (Oracle Fusion 11g)
Shaw Communications Inc.- Calgary, AB -Jun 2015 to Apr 2016 Responsibilities
Contracted Oracle Fusion 11g developer with ESI Team
- Design, develop and testing of OSB services ESI project.
- Perform deployments from DEV to QA using deployment scripts and tools like Team City and Artifactory.
- Develop, design and test new integration interface in accordance to project documentation, maintaining careful observation for necessary amendment of test plans, strategy, schedule.
- Assist testing team for integration testing.
- Warranty support, production defect analysis and code fix.
- Self-learned and handled successfully Release management process for OSB project. Contributed with lot of new processes and introduce a standard procedure.
Skills Used
- Oracle Fusion 11g, SOAP UI, Jira, Team City, Stash, Git, Artifactory, Share Point Integration Consultant (webMethods)
Suncor Energy - Calgary, AB - February 2014 to April 2015 Contracted webMethods Developer with the PMO
• Develop, test and migrate the webMethods interface as per the interface design document.
• Update/modify the interface design document if requirement changes while development
• Work with various business teams to understand the business requirements and build the test script for interface testing and End to End testing.
• Supporting Projects through their life cycle.
• Provide technical assistance to the team as required for resolving issues.
• Developed integration for systems which includes SAP, Live Link, and custom applications with web services. Integration Consultant (Tibco)
Groundswell Group - Calgary, AB - November 2013 to February 2014 Project - Cenovus Energy
Worked as an Integration Consultant (Tibco) in a team of 5 people for a big corporation Cenovus Energy, a Canadian Oil Company.
• Self-trained in brand new TIBCO integration platform to serve as subject matter expert in application support team; developed integration piece for project designer to integrate Cenovus’ financial applications with Open Invoice and Live Link systems.
• Collaborated with project designer to clarify details of integration, identify unstated or requirement gaps in plans, and to perform development, enhancement, testing and design of financial integration. Developed and tested web services integrating different business applications.
• Went through software development life cycle from translating business requirements from functional specification to implementation, to design and testing.
• Supported Finance related interfaces which were complicated and critical for business. Advisory IT Specialist (Oracle Fusion 11g)
IBM Canada - Calgary, AB - April 2012 to October 2013 Client - Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
• Capturing service requirements and user stories through frequent meetings with business stakeholders and domain experts.
• Discuss with service/business consumers how to achieve their requirements using existing service framework patterns.
• Analyze service requirements, and if necessary provide alternate technical solutions to requirements which cannot be achieved using existing service framework patterns.
• Prepare service design documents and service contracts (WSDL).
• Obtain sign-off of design artifacts from service consumers.
• Communicate service design documents and service contracts to the offshore implementation team leads.
• Experience in integration testing using SOAP UI. Also support business to perform regression testing. Integration Specialist - Oracle Fusion 11g
IBM India - March 2011 to April 2012
• Help team to understand the new architectural design patterns and framework changes happen at business level.
• Handled a Team of 12 members.
• Set the coding standing and guidelines for development.
• Develop data services and test cases using SOAP UI.
• Provide technical assistance to the team as required resolving service implementation and unit testing issues.
• Ensure project goals are met and delivery is with high quality along with the check on team utilization target.
• Investigate problems and analyze with an impact of change, help team with acquired skills and knowledge for effective delivery of business.
• Work with the testing team to clarify, triage, and resolve defects in a timely manner.
• Perform unit testing of ESB component.
Integration Lead (webMethods)
IBM India - August 2008 to March 2012
Project - Scotia Gas Networks (UK) - TMA3 Development
• Acquire skills and knowledge for effective delivery of business
• Handled a Team of 10 members Team.
• Understand and satisfy underlying and future needs of customers.
• Analyze the requirement and design the new framework.
• Created and reviewed Technical System requirement document and System design document.
• Helped the senior architect to decide on communication model (Publish/Subscribe or Client /Server)
• Helped the team to solve the technical issue.
• Leading development efforts.
• Provide leadership and guidance to strengthen the current program management structure as well as support the work streams. Technical Team Lead (webMethods)
IBM - Contracted from Synova Innovative Technologies Pvt Ltd - April 2007 to July 2008 Project - Scotia Gas Networks (UK) - Front Office Migration
• Validate and verify the current state of Application Support Services.
• Develop the strategies and plans to transition both the short and long term initiatives
• Setup structures and process to transition and support Application Support Services.
• Enhanced, Approved and supported webMethods workflows.
• Diagnosis and provide solutions to resolve critical infrastructure problems, functionality problems and issues directly affecting the April 2007 'go live' date.
• Provide solutions, strategies and 'roadmap' guidance to support SGN's infrastructure environments for Application Maintenance and Support as well as Development
• Building L2 and L3 Team
• Leading L3 team in development effort.
Team Leader/Associate (webMethods)
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune - April 2006 to March 2007 Project - Molson Coors (USA) - webMethods Production Support
• Analyze and understand the business flow of technical services operations.
• Analyze the existing OMS, HR FIN, MD, CRC, WMS, SAP, Oracle integrations.
• Analyze and monitor the error messages and perform the required action to solve these errors.
• Understand the complete process of migration of code, tracking, logging and resolving customer issues.
• Actively involved in conducting various forms of testing of the middle ware with the various applications and perform bug fixing.
• Implement new processes like Error Handling, Version Control etc.
• Analyze the requirement and design the new framework, along with helping team to solve technical issues.
• Preparation of test cases and migration documents for testing and deployment. Team Lead/Associate (webMethods)
Satyam Computer Services Ltd - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - January 2004 to March 2006 Project 1 - GE Energy (USA) - PartsERP Upgrade as Integration Team Lead
-- Project is to update/migrate EAI/B2B components to webMethods 6.1 platforms. Current versions of these components were running on webMethods Enterprise Server 5.0 and webMethods B2B 4.6 platform. Project 2 - GE Energy (USA) - NRPS - Oracle 9i Integration as Integration Team Lead
-- NRPS - Oracle 9i is designed for about 21 integration of GE Electric using webMethods 6.1 & JDBC Adapter. Project 3 - GE Energy (USA) - Siebel 7.7 Integrations Migration as Integration Lead
- The webMethods 6.1 is the media for integrating to/from CMS (in Siebel version 7.7) to/from other downstream Applications. There were 4 Publish Integrations and 11 Subscribe Integrations involved in this application. Project 4 - GE Energy (USA) - CMS & Risk Reporting as Team member
-- This interface is designed to replace the existing data transfer system from three source site CMS, PPB, eRisk to target site RiskEDM, which was being performed by running Stored Procedures in every 8 hours. Developed three integrations, which have made the data transfer online using webMethods Broker and Enterprise Integrator. Project 5 - GE Energy (USA) - CID - GSDW PO Request Reply Integration as Team member
-- This project was migration from webMethods 5.x to 6.x of the Integration that allows the CID (Custom Import Database) system to receive the PO details from GSDW (Global Sourcing Data Warehouse) system. Roles and Responsibilities:
• Coding, Testing & Configuration of the application.
• Handled a Team of 8 members Team.
• To understand and get oriented on the full project life cycle for the integration.
• To communicate different aspects required for the source side which deals with Oracle Application as well as target side which deals with Mainframe flat files with the client side.
• Product implementation and configuration (Performance tuning, Clustering, Deployment Strategies, Maintenance, Life cycle management etc.)
• Designed Canonical and utility tools like error handling, audit logging etc.
• Played an active role in testing the integrations in local and Development Instances.
• Migrated the code from wM4.x environment to wM6.1 and involved in completion of code development in wM6.1 which includes development of flow services, Siebel Services.
• Worked on adapters like Siebel, JDBC and JSM
• Played an active role in testing the integration in local and Development Instances.
• Preparation of test cases and migration documents for testing and deployment
• Liaise with business to understand functional requirements, provide estimates, and provide high level and low level solution design.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology (B'Tech) in Information Technology All India Council of Technical Education - Pune, Maharashtra 1999 to 2003 Diploma in Computer Engg.
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Engineering - Pune, Maharashtra 1996 to 1999 SKILLS
Application Software – Mulesoft (Mule 4), webMethods 9.8, 8.x, 6.x and 4.x, Designer, Integration Server, Developer, Designer, Trading Network, Broker, Modeler, Integration Monitor 5.0, Document Tracker, Web Services, JMS Adapter, Siebel Adapter, JDBC Adapter, SAP Adapter, SOAP UI, Oracle Jdeveloper, ESB (DB Adapter, JMS Adapter), ETL, BPEL, Oracle Fusion Middleware (OSB) and SOA Suite (11g), IBM Process Server and Tibco Business Works 5.2, and Dell Bhoomi (basic), Azure Scripting - Shell Script, VB script, Java Script.
Languages - Java, VB.NET, ASP, V.B. 5.0/6.0, SQL, XML, HTML, DHTML. Tools & Utilities - Maximo, Infoman, Peregrine, Rational Rose professional, Crystal Report, Project Visio, Rational Portfolio Manager, Defect Tracker, Rational Team Concert, Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0, SVN (Subversion), Clear Case, HP Quality Center, Service Now, Enterprise Architect, Livelink, Successfactor, Jira, TeamCity, Artifactory, GitHub, Stash, Confluence.
Others – Protocols, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, SOAP, FILE, FTP/SFTP, JMS, API, PL-SQL. JSON, EDI,