Vikas Kumar — Director of Engineering
With 18 years of software engineering experience, including three years in the USA and eight years in the UAE. I am a passionate and results-driven engineering leader who specializes in engineering deliveries, quality assurance, engineering productivity tools, performance engineering, product test and automation management. As a Senior Manager - Engineering IT at Alshaya Group, I lead the delivery of global complex technology implementations with a focus on digital transformation, leveraging open source software and agile and DevOps methodologies defining the automation and performance roadmap and strategies. Responsible for the the product quality across various domains, such as Oracle Retail Fusion, Order Management System, BY SCPO Application, and Warehouse Management System, using cutting-edge tools and frameworks for web, mobile, API, and microservices testing. I also manage the performance engineering, commissioning test of warehouse, automation, data lineage, and test data manufacturing for the supply chain and retail solutions. In addition, I oversee the engineering leadership, team and vendor management, and hiring, mentoring, and training of talent. My mission is to enable and empower the business and the customers with reliable, scalable, and efficient solutions that meet their needs and expectations. I am always eager to learn new skills, technologies, best practices, to share my knowledge and expertise with others. I hold certifications in Scrum Master, Product Owner,Operations Management and Cloud Computing. I also a published author of research papers and white papers on various topics related to testing. Hands-on technical expertise on, • Python, Java Script, Java and Unix Bash Shell Scripting languages • Data, DevOps Infra and CI/CD Pipelines - Clickhouse, Pyspark, Apache Druid, Apache Kafka, Azure Devops Jenkins, dbt, Apache Druid, Pandas with Pytest • Cloud Operations, Alerting, Monitoring, Logging - Pager Duty, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana • Design & Development of Test Automation frameworks using Selenium, playwright, Cypress, Maestro, Robot Framework with Docker, TOSCA, Lambda Test, Report Portal • Building & Integration of various DevOps and Test Automation tools - Retail Test data manufacturing using Python like Item, PO, ASN, Invoice, GRN, Pick/PCO • Performance Engineering and Security Testing - LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, K6,Flashlight, Charles Proxy, ZAP, Burp suite • ProdOps - Incident Management, Release and Change Management • Full Stack Development -Web development Django with HTML/CSS bootstrap
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Quality Assurance and Automation within the Retail and Healthcare sectors.
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Experience: 18 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
- Automation
- Test Automation
- Performance Engineering
Career Highlights
- 18 years of software engineering experience.
- Expert in automation and performance engineering.
- Proven leadership in engineering and team management.
Work Experience
Core42
Senior Manager - Engineering (1 yr 3 mos)
Alshaya Group
Senior Manager - Engineering IT (2 yrs 10 mos)
Saal.ai
Senior Architect - Test Engineering & Automation (1 yr 2 mos)
Quality Assurance Architect (2 yrs 11 mos)
Lithium Technologies
Lead Engineer (11 mos)
Visa
Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering (2 yrs 9 mos)
AGNITY
Senior Member Of Technical Staff (5 mos)
HCLTech
Lead Engineer (4 yrs)
Member of Technical Staff (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
Postgraduate Degree at Texas McCombs School of Business
B.E at Visvesvaraya Technological University
PGPM at Sunstone
High School at Government Higher Secondary School - Yazali, Arunachal Pradesh
Secondary School at Government Higher Secondary School - Seijosa, Arunachal Pradesh
