Shikhar Srivastava

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Designed a Jenkins library used by 100 projects.
  • Achieved 50% reduction in infrastructure deployment time.
  • Mentored teams to improve productivity by 80%.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and SRE expert in Fintech and Supply Chain industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsSite Reliability EngineerCloud EngineeringAutomation TestingQa AutomationTest AutomationTest Engineering

Other Skills

API TestingAWSAgile MethodologiesAnsibleAppiumApplication TestingArchitectureCI/CDData CenterDatabase TestingDockerETL TestingElasticsearchEngineering ManagementGitOps

About

As a seasoned DevOps/SRE and SDET professional with around a decade of experience, I am passionate about leveraging technology to drive continuous improvement, I have a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time and within budget. A few of my recent Achievements to showcase are: I • Designed and authored a pre-built Jenkins shared library that streamlined the implementation of CI/CD The library was used by around 100 projects, facilitating reusability, process improvement, and maturity. • Led a team of 10 DevOps engineers to design and implement scalable and reliable infrastructure and achieved a 50% reduction in infrastructure deployment time using Terraform to provision infrastructure from zero to end on AWS. • Built and maintained production-ready Kubernetes cluster set-up, hosting 50+ containers, and managing different environments on the same Kubernetes set-up. • Introduced a modular and hybrid automation framework from scratch that increased efficiency by 30%, enabled continuous integration and overnight execution of automated test cases, and mentored manual testers to develop automation scripts independently. • Super headed Teams to deploy projects based on multiple tech stacks, including Java, NPM, Maven, .Net, and test automation based on Java/Python or any application that can be containerized. Received awards such as the 'Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ v1.0,' 'Best Innovative Solution in APAC region by Credit Suisse,' and 'Quarterly Star Award by Credit Suisse by APAC Head.' Skills: • DevOps Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift, Helm, Salt Stack, YAML Templates • UI Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Intro to Cypress • API Automation: Rest Assured, Postman, Swagger • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, CloudFront, Beanstalk, CloudFormation, EKS, IAM, S3, VPC, Dynamo DB, SQS etc.), Intro to Azure/GCP • Provisioning Tools: Terraform, Ansible, AgroCD • Monitoring & Log Management: Splunk, CloudFront, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch • Release Management: Git, Bitbucket, Deployment Strategies like Blue/Green, Canary, etc. • Database: Oracle SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis • Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, Shell • Domain: BFSI, HRMS, Supply Chain • Roles: DevOps Lead, SDET Lead, JIRA Administrator, Agile Expert • Others: Tableau, Power BI, Control M, Informatica, UNIX / Linux Let's connect and collaborate to deliver efficient and reliable software solutions! Medium: https://shikhar-sri2.medium.com/ TopMate: https://topmate.io/shikhar_srivastava

Experience

Wayfair

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Credit suisse

Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer

Aug 2019Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Domain: Banking and Finance Domain
  • Project: <Confidential Project>
  • Area of Work: DevOps, Docker, Jenkins, K8s, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Openshift, Kubernetus, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana
  • <Confidential Project> is a pre-built Jenkins shared library which drastically reduces CI/CD implementation time for any project. It facilitates building code, running Code Quality Scans, Vulnerability scans, building Docker images, executing test automation suite, deploying to server etc
  • <Confidential Project> is set of frequent used libraries within UI/API/Data validation projects publish as Maven dependency
  • Key Focus Areas:
  • Leading a team of 10 DevOps eng to implement scalable and reliable infra.
  • Designed and authored a pre-built Jenkins shared library using Groovy, streamlining CI/CD implementation for 100s projects and improving reusability and process maturity.
  • Mentored and trained junior engineers on DevOps and SRE best practices, resulting in an 80% improvement in team productivity and a 70% reduction in onboarding time.
  • Provisioned Infrastructure from Zero to End on AWS, reducing deployment time by 50% using
  • IaC Terraform, AWS EKS, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, Route53, S3, EBS, Load Balancer, VPC, IAM, CloudFront etc.)
  • Improved system security by 40% by integrating security tools like SonarQube, NexusIQ, NetSparker and Contrast in the CI/CD pipeline as part of DevSecOps.
  • Worked On Private Cloud and deployed applications and configurations to production using jFrog Artifactory, OpenShift, Helm, SaltStack, Shell Scripts, and other in-house tools.
  • Proficient in automating infrastructure management using Ansible.
  • Expertise in Monitoring & Log Management: Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Set up Networking for multiple apps using AWS VPC, Subnets, RouteTables, Load Balancers, Cloud Front, Route53, etc, and got an understanding of TCP/IP Stack, Switches, Routers etc.
  • Implemented SLI/SLO/SLA for critical services, improving service reliability and uptime.
DevOpsDockerJenkinsKubernetesTerraformAnsible+4

Blue yonder

Senior Cloud Engineer

Jan 2019Aug 2019 · 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Domain: Supply Chain
  • Project: Luminate Control Tower
  • Area of Work: Automation Testing, Manual Testing, API Testing
  • Luminate Control Tower (LCT) is a next generation Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that delivers a centralized workspace with rich information to watch and track your supply chain resources
  • Key Focus Areas:
  • Implemented End to End deployment on AWS for applications running on Kubernetes.
  • Wrote Python and Shell/Bash scripts for the automation of redundant tasks, increasing efficiency by
  • 70%.
  • Designed and implemented disaster recovery plans for critical systems using AWS services such as
  • Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and AWS Backup, resulting in a 100% recovery rate and a 90% reduction in
  • recovery time.
  • Worked on implementing EKS on AWS for applications and integrated with ArgoCD to implement
  • GitOps methodology to manage and automate application deployments.
  • Wrote Python and Shell/Bash scripts for the automation of redundant tasks, increasing efficiency by 70%.
  • Used Python to formulate server-side Test Automation.
AWSKubernetesPythonShell/BashAPI TestingCloud Engineering+1

Darwinbox

DevOps/QA Automation Engineer

Oct 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Domain: HRMS
  • Area of Work: Automation Testing, Manual Testing
  • The project Darwinbox HR application caters to the entire employee lifecycle from hire to retire.
  • Key Focus Areas:
  • ● Managing the different environments in the same Kubernetes set-up using the namespaces.
  • ● Prepared Gradle build scripts to deploy any changed files to Linux Servers.
  • ● Enabled Static and Dynamic Code Analysis Tools which improved the deployment process and reduce
  • bugs in code by 30%.
  • ● Built and maintained production-ready Kubernetes cluster set-up, hosting
  • 50 containers, and managing different environments on the same Kubernetes set-up.
  • ● Enabled Static and Dynamic Code Analysis Tools which improved the deployment process and
  • reduced bugs in code by 30 percent.
  • ● Developed and maintained monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, CloudWatch, and ELK
  • Stack, reducing downtime by 40%.,
  • ● Developed Modular + Hybrid Automation Framework from scratch for GUI and Rest Services Automation.
  • ● Worked on Mobile Testing of both Android and IOS on different versions and platforms.
  • ● Mentored manual testers to run, maintain, and develop automation scripts independently. Reduced manual testing efforts by 50%.
  • ● Tools Used: Eclipse, GitHub, Postman
  • ● Technology Used: Java, GUI Automation, Rest Services Automation, MongoDB, DevOps, Agile Methodology
KubernetesJavaAutomation TestingMongoDBDevOpsQA Automation

Wipro limited

2 roles

DevOps Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • ● Developed SpringBoot Project to expose RestAPIs.
  • ● Onboarded multiple Test Automation frameworks to run on the Selenium grid which I setup in the AWS cloud, which improved efficiency of Automation suite by 60%.
  • ● Created Python Test Automation Framework for automating application UI.
  • ● Provisioned Jenkins on AWS to enable CI CD Pipeline execution for multiple projects and made it scalable.
  • ● Enabled Automated Horizontal and Vertical Scaling on AWS for multiple applications which increased the Reliability and Availability of applications by 40%.
  • ● Helped team reduce Infrastructure cost on Cloud by 30% by right-sizing around 30+ apps.
SpringBootPythonSeleniumAWSDevOpsTest Automation

Software Test Engineer

Jan 2015Feb 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Domain: Banking and Finance
  • Role: Test Engineer
  • Project:<Confidential Project>
  • Area of Work: ETL Testing, Manual Testing, Automation Testing
  • Key Focus Areas:
  • ● Automated 400 Regression Test Cases in Selenium using Bounty Framework used across Credit Suisse accounts.
  • ● Preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, handling Defect Triage Call, proactively involvement in call with Clients and Senior Management across the organization on daily basis.
  • ● Active participant in Agile Sprint and Estimation calls with IT Team and Business.
  • ● Prepares and reviews trace-ability matrix, Selection of regression Test cases, Identify reusable Test cases.
  • ● Also performed Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing and Regression testing.
  • ● Performed BO Report Testing by validating data and count check by writing SQL queries as per Report Business Logic and comparing the result set with Report.
  • ● Successfully handled the entire STLC cycle project as the sole QA contributor.
  • ● Developed complex SQL queries for validating ETL logic and ensured data completeness, accuracy, and validation. Reduced ETL testing time by 50%.
  • ● Manually ran jobs on UNIX/Control-M to populate data in staging and target tables.
  • ● Prepared and reviewed test plan, test strategy, test cases, and traceability matrix.
  • ● Tools Used: HP-ALM, Oracle SQL Dev., Eclipse, JIRA/Odyssey
  • ● Technology Used: Java, Automation Scripting, SQL query, Agile Methodology (Scrum Framework)
SeleniumJavaSQLETL TestingTest EngineeringAutomation Testing

Education

Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Kalchuri Nagar, Raisen Road, Post Klua, Bhopal-462021

Engineer’s Degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

St. Michael's Convent School, Mankapur

12 th — PCM

Jan 1999Jan 2010

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