Ankush Agrawal

Director of Engineering

Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India18 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led DevSecOps transformation achieving 30% productivity increase.
Won multiple awards for engineering innovations and test automation.
Expert in optimizing engineering processes and team productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with strong expertise in automation and DevSecOps.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevsecopsEngineering ProductivityQuality EngineeringAutomationTest AutomationSoftware DevelopmentQuality Assurance

Other Skills

CollaborationInnovationTeam alignmentProject deliveryTeam buildingEfficiency improvementAgile DevelopmentServiceNow APIsJavaSeleniumPrompt EngineeringChatGPTServiceNow AdministrationBusiness StrategyData Warehousing

About

I am an automation enthusiast and love to work to optimize and improve efficiency. I have led the transformation of Engineering activities including DevSecOps transformation. Various tools and culture/process transformation resulted in 30% productivity increase. I also have rich experience in Test Automation using Selenium, Jasmine, ATF, QTP, OATS, Project Management Shell Scripting, Python. Winner of All India College Level Optimization Problem - 2011 in Technical Festival of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Specialities: ServiceNow, DevSecOps, Java Spring, Optimization Techniques, Modelling and Simulation, Groovy, ATF, Jasmine, Java, Javascript, Selenium, OATS, QTP, Arena, Microsoft Project, MATLAB, WindChill, Factory CAD, C++, VBS, HTML, MySQL, Oracle SQL, Adobe Photoshop

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

11 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Servicenow

6 roles

Director, Developer Productivity Engineering and Operations

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Leading newly formed engineering productivity team for the dCX. We incubate solutions and delivered E2E various innovations e.g.: Personal Developer Instance etc and drive the DevSecOps program resulting in 20% productivity increase. We actively collaborate with various cross-functional teams both in the same and different BUs. The team has won various awards, e.g.: quarterly BU awards, capture the flag (security competition) etc.

DevSecOpsEngineering productivityCollaborationInnovation

Manager, Quality Engineering

Mar 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

We reformed the team alignments and take the team size from 10 to 20 in 6 months. The growth over the last 2 years has no impact on project deliveries and we maintain a DIB and open team culture. Our key innovations are tools for automatic clean code movement within ServiceNow platform, Automation test analysis, intelligent test repository, and User Behaviour based testing. The team won the CIO award for Customer Focus.

Team alignmentProject deliveryInnovationAutomationQuality Engineering

Supervisor, Quality Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

We built the team from scratch and built the team size to 10. We met the annual target by Q3. The newly formed team won VP award for stupendous test automation achievements. We have also delivered many innovations to improve the team's efficiency. The tools were developed on ServiceNow platform with Angular JS.

Team buildingTest automationEfficiency improvementQuality EngineeringTest Automation

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs

Use Agile Development while following Scrum. Effective use of ServiceNow APIs along with Javascript and database knowledge is key for development projects. Designed and developed solutions across integrations, user administrations and tools for internal usage.
Lead Quality Assurance team while individual contributor for both Development and Quality Assurance. QA assignments are achieved via automation and technologies used are Java, Maven, Junit, Selenium.

Agile DevelopmentServiceNow APIsJavaSeleniumSoftware DevelopmentQuality Assurance

Applications Developer

Apr 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Use Agile Development while following Scrum. Lead Quality Assurance team while individual contributor for both Development and Quality Assurance.
Effective use of ServiceNow APIs along with Javascript and database knowledge is key for development projects. QA assignments are achieved via automation and technologies used are Java, Maven, Junit, Selenium.

Agile DevelopmentServiceNow APIsJavaSeleniumSoftware DevelopmentQuality Assurance

Oracle india pvt. ltd.

Applications Engineer

Jun 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Application Engineer in Fusion Human Capital Management QA team.

Infosys technologies ltd

Summer Internee

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos

Worked on project titled Digital Signature in Document Approval Process. Researched application of Digital Signature in Document Approval Process of Product Lifecycle Management world. Developed Java codes to automate the signing and verification process. Recommended an API to incorporate different requirements of various clients & different types of documents and also the modifications on PLM tool and on commercially available digital signer.

Youthanasia - thomso, iit roorkee

Coordinator

Aug 2009 – Oct 2009 · 2 mos

Coordinated Youthanasia - War of the DJs. It is the only all 3 days event of Thomso - Annual Youth Festival of Uttrakhand. Revamped format of the event and recorded maximum crowd.

Audio section, iit roorkee

Additional Secretary

Sep 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Lead the technical and design team. Performed lead role in all the activities (Server maintenance, Sound Engineering, DJ Parties, Designing) of the section & in making them successful and in launching Campus Beats, online campus radio.

Bhilai steel plant - steel authority of india limited

Summer Internee

Jun 1990 – Jun 1990 · 0 mo

Worked on project titled Application of PERT/CPM on Capital Repair of Blast Furnace. Analysed the case study of category II capital repair of blast furnace carried out during 2007. Remodeled the repair process with PERT methodology using MS-Project which resulted in improved understanding of the case. Validated the application of PERT/CPM for easy scheduling and controlling of complex projects and demonstrated the working of MS Project.