Technical Architect

Muthukumaran.K

Technical Architect/ 988-***-****

Delivery Lead *****.******@*****.***

Professional Summary

Technical Architect, Delivery Lead with 14.7 Years specializing in areas of Performance Tuning & Security.

Expert in transitioning teams from traditional Waterfall to Agile methodologies with focus on Continuous Delivery and Scaling Agile to multiple delivery teams.

Experienced in Project Planning, Project management, Estimation, Scheduling, coordination, Tracking & Delivering Quality work on time.

13.7 Years of Managing, Leading, Co-ordinating and Transitioning teams for 6 years into Agile and Scrum Mode of SDLC, QALC, DMLC delivery.

Experience Managing portfolio of strategic QA & Testing initiatives with multiple teams across different geographies across the US and India. Experience handling various onsite / offshore engagements.

An outstanding track record at various Fortune 500 companies across various domains. Responsible for Clients across the Banking, Finance service and Trading, eCommerce, Telecom, Retail, Media & Entertainment and Shipping.

Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Quality standards, process, guidelines & rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.

Seasoned in performing Baseline-ing, Average, Load, Peak, Stress, Endurance, Security Testing, Mobile Testing and E-2-E User Acceptance Testing.

Expert knowledge in using Micro focus tools like Load Runner, Blaze meter, Web Inspect and open-source tools Apache Jmeter, Burp suite, OWASP ZAP & Nmap.

Hands on experience on Monitoring and Profiling tools like Micro focus Diagnostics, Sitescope, JProfiler, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and New Relic.

Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Expert in using techniques in Test Estimation & Planning, Test Designing & Scheduling, Defect metrics, reporting & tracking, Test result analysis.

Test Data Management/Data Seeding for the Performance validations using custom developed script (Vugen/Jmeter Script), Microsoft Excel and VTS (Virtual Table Server).

Experience cultivating, eliciting consensus and building “win-win” outcomes.

Extensive experience with proposal management. Review RFPs and develop WIN strategies.

Responsible to develop a proposal schedule which considers not only solicitation compliance, but also resource demands and availability. Assume full ownership for the assigned proposal team successfully meeting all deliverables and milestones.

Responsible to analyze Requests for Proposal (RFPs), Statement of Work (SoW), Presentations (PoC) and check matrices, outlines, and schedules

Worked closely with team of subject matter experts, writers and support staff to a fully compliant and clearly articulated proposal, delivered within the required timeframe. Ensure designated proposal process is followed and every proposal meets/exceeds established quality and production standards.

Experience maintaining primary relationship with LoB, business accounts and managing the project portfolio.

Educational & Certifications

Master of Business Administrations [IT] From NIBM Global, Chennai, India

Bachelor of Engineering [CS] From Anna University, Chennai, India

AI Tools Mastery Program Certified

ChatGPT and AI Hacks with MS Office

AWS – Certified Solution Architect - Associate

SFDC – Certified Administrator

SFDC – Certified Developer

SFDC – Certified Identity and Access Management Designer

EXIN – Certified Agile Scrum Master

EXIN – ITIL V3 Certified

EC – Council CEH

ISTQB

Gremlin – GCCEP

Splunk – Fundamentals Part I Certified

Neotys Certified Professional for Neoload

SeeTest Certified

Applicare – APM Monitoring Certified

Learning Git and Github

Jmeter and Blazemeter Certified from abstracta academy

Gatling Certified

Core Competencies

Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid

Project Management Tools: IIB9 & 10(ESB), BPM, NMoN, Datapower, ReadyAPI, JIRA, ALM, MS Project

Performance Tuning Tools: Microfocus Loadrunner, Web Inspect, Apache Jmeter, Blazemeter,

Burp suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap

CRM & Technology: SFDC Admin, Dev, SFDC Identity & Access, AWS, C, JAVA

DBMS/ Database Tools: MS Access, SQL, Oracle

Data Management Tools: MS Excel, Vugen Script, Jmeter Script and VTS

Work Experience / Project Details

IT INDUSTRYs INDIA

Current: Eviden

Clients: FedEx

Duration: Dec - 2011 to Till Date

Role: Solution Architect / Practice Lead

Served and Serving as a Solution Architect charged with TCoE performance tuning and security testing, implementation, support and practice for multiple and Hybrid, Agile environments.

E2E Responsibilities till Date -

Scrum:

Coach to help Product and Engineering teams inspect and adapt their people, processes, and technology for improvements in scale and quality of planned deliverables.

Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives) and other related meetings.

Supporting teams to clarify goals and activities to be on-track.

Partner with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog provides clarity of direction and maximizes business value. Support the Product Owners, in grooming and maintaining the product and sprint backlogs.

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

Facilitated Daily Stand-ups during two-week Sprint cycles and post Sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Facilitated Continuous Integration / Deployment environments.

Coached, mentored and trained team members in the processes and procedures for the agile methodologies.

Maintained and administrated the Atlassian collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence) for the teams. Employed JIRA to document User Stories and produce burn down charts during Sprint execution for status reporting.

Ensure development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals.

Sharing various reports to leadership in Confluence & SharePoint i.e., Committed Vs Delivered, Quality Metrics-Defects Count per sprint, Environment Downtimes, Blockers, Dependencies, Release Status, Upcoming Releases

With excellent soft skills, drove teams to deliver with a solid knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Cloud & DevOps:

Closely coordinated with Business Teams to gather the Application Stake & System Configuration information.

Coordinated and ensured Test Environment is configured as similar to Production replica

Recommended the required Sand Box and Test Bed/Environments Setup

Performed Smoke Test to ensure configured system is properly functioning.

Ensure whenever a new build is deployed with changes. Performance KPI comparison of previous build with latest

once is shared with all the key stakeholders through email client

Reviewing the Release Notes and approving for respective environments.

Driving bridge for deployed code for the release, monitoring developers while validating the code

Performance & Security:

Involved in preparation of Performance/Security Test Strategy/Plan

Co-ordinated with cross functional (FedEx) application teams to baseline performance/security testing requirements.

Involved in JAD discussions with cross functional team to understand application’s complexity, architecture.

Preparing Unit Test Scripts/Modify existing scripts using Jmeter for E2E applications scoped for performance testing.

Adding Synchronization, Verification, checkpoints, business rules/logics & Transaction Points to the Jmeter Scripts.

Baselined performance test scenarios for each application based upon the application team’s expectation.

Executed performance tests and analyzed performance test results.

Monitored the Application Server performance to find the memory leakage (bottlenecks) during the Load Test Runs.

Analyzed and reported logs to identify the time consumed by each component.

Modified and updated existing TCs & Prepared Unit TCs to execute them using the tools (Burp suite, ZAP, Nmap)

Adding OWASP Standard Security Policy to verify the application is free from top 10 attacks, to check flaws with the

business rules/logics using the Burp Suite Pentest tool.

Executed security tests for the application using OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities techniques and analyzed the pen test.

results for False Positives, threats & vulnerabilities

Monitored the Application Server to find any User’s confidential information is leaked during the application.

access/error handling and ensuring properly configured as designed during the Security Test Runs

TDM/Test Data seeding is done using Microsoft Excel & Jmeter Script

Others:

Documented and presented Request for Proposal

Presented Proof of Concept to the Management and Clients walk through.

Documented detailed SoW and Man effort - per person day.

Evaluated the performance of tool on Return on Investment to the Management

Evaluated resources from Internal pool.

Recruited competent skilled resources for proposed road map projects and new initiatives.

Responsible for conducting KT sessions and scheduled walkthroughs with teams.

Designing Project Strategy Documentation

Updated with statuses at various levels of project to PMO Team

Administered Sand Box & all Test Environments

Provided expert Analysis on Tool Feasibility Study

Training provided to the team members on Performance & Security concepts.

Responsible for resolving a crisis and bringing issues to a logical conclusion.

Setting up of Defect Management Tool and process to handle defects hand offs between teams

Sharing DSR and WSR with the Offshore/Onshore

Proving various defect metrics at all levels

Driving critical project meetings and issue resolutions.

Conducted quality assurance of reports to ensure accuracy.

Recommended operational improvements based on tracking and analysis.

End to End implementation of features onto the existing system and integrating it with 3rd party systems.

Managing & Delivering activities and documentations through the project end, closure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Highly motivated Solution Architect with 14.7 years of Software Industry, worked on Web applications, Desktop and Mobile applications. Planned, Designed, Executed & Reported Performance & Security software testing projects developed on Shipping, Telecom, Media & Education, Retail, e-Commerce, Banking, Finance & Trading and industry business practice. Delivered projects in multiple capacities as Solution Architect, Delivery Lead, SME, Team lead, Senior System Engineer & Technology Specialist roles. Upgrading skills with new technologies supported in handling multiple teams and coordinated cross functional efforts along with strong written & oral communication with an ability to work with any senior levels, third party and vendors.

Have strong hands-on Requirements gathering & documenting for (Performance & Security), Test Design, Test Execution, Test Results as well as Reporting & Tracking. Expertise in performing Performance Testing, Security Testing, Mobile Application testing, User Acceptance testing, and supported in production.

Worked At

As

From

To

Eviden/Atos

Solution Architect

04-04-2022

09-05-2025

Apptium

Solution Architect

05-10-2020

11-03-2022

Cathyos Labs Pvt Ltd

Team Lead

06-01-2020

25-09-2020

IBM Pvt Ltd

SME

07-02-2019

29-11-2019

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd

Team Lead

18-09-2015

30-01-2019

SQS India BFSI Ltd

Senior System Engineer

25-01-2014

04-09-2015

POLARIS Financial Technology Pvt Ltd

Technology Specialist

15-02-2012

10-01-2014

SYMANTEC Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

Systems Engineer

03-01-2011

30-01-2012

Worked: For clients globally located in US, Canadian, UK, Australian, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia & Zimbabwe clients for FedEx, GE, Toronto Dominion, Pearson, Nationwide Building and Society, Monsanto, Academy Sports and Outdoor, Hiscox, Macquarie, ENBD, Singtel, Axiata & Econet and TNT.

Note: Further required details to be provided on demand.

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