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Rajeev Ranjan

Director of Engineering

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore14 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led initiatives reducing release time by 40%.
  • Implemented 0-Click maintenance for virtual machines.
  • Advocated for high-performance engineering culture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Engineering Management professional in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipDevopsContinuous IntegrationTest Automation

Other Skills

AI Software DevelopmentAWSAgile MethodologiesAgile TestingAutomationCertified Scrum Master CSMConsumer LendingContinuous DeliveryCore JavaDockerEclipseGenerative AIGitGroovyInfrastructure as Code

About

With over 13 years of experience in the software industry, Rajeev Ranjan is an Engineering Manager at Autodesk, where he leads the Desktop Licensing team in Singapore. He holds a Certified ScrumMaster credential and has expertise in DevOps, automation, and CI/CD. Rajeev is passionate about building, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure for development and testing environments for Autodesk products, such as AutoCAD, Inventor, Maya, and Revit. He has implemented and maintained Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems that improved the time to release by 40%. He has also developed tools to achieve 0-Click maintenance for virtual machines and automated setup configuration of build and test infrastructure, reducing the time to get new infrastructure by 80%. He is a strong advocate for accountability, commitment, and quality in his leadership style.

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Autodesk

5 roles

Senior Manager, Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementLeadership TechniqueManagement EngineeringSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2022Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Team Leadership: Recruiting, managing, and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
  • Product Development: Defining and executing the product roadmap for desktop licensing platform, used by Autodesk desktop products (such as AutoCAD), that have approximately 15 million monthly active users.
  • Technical Leadership: Ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of licensing systems, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Strategic Planning: Owning the team’s technical strategy and roadmap in alignment with product managers and business stakeholders.
  • Technical Guidance: Providing technical guidance and decision-making support to the team.
  • Cultural Development: Fostering a high-performance culture, and promoting good engineering practices like frequent releases through Continuous Integration & Deployment.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with other teams, architects, and product managers to achieve organizational goals.
  • Security Initiatives: Leading the Trust Airbender Initiative for Identity and Licensing group, resulting in an 80% reduction in Trust & Privacy issues.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Organizing quarterly Lunch & Learn sessions for Autodesk Singapore employees.
  • Mentorship: Actively participating in the Autodesk INSPIRE Mentorship Program, engaging Year 2-4 fulltime female students in local universities, with an aim to reduce the gender gap in engineering field.
  • Customer Focus: Understanding customer needs, prioritizing customer satisfaction, and collaborating with customer support to resolve licensing issues.
  • Security Compliance: Ensuring compliance with Autodesk’s security standards and industry regulations.
  • Security Measures: Implementing strategies to safeguard against unauthorized access and use of Autodesk software.
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipManagement Engineering

Senior Devops Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2020Jul 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Building, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure for development and testing
  • environments for Autodesk Desktop Licensing component that is used by all Autodesk products like AutoCAD, Inventor, Maya, Revit etc
  • Optimizing 200 virtual & physical machines that is needed for day to day development
  • and operations.
  • Implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems
  • leading to an improvement in the time to release by 40% through the use of tooling or
  • scripting
  • Automating setup configuration of build & test infrastructure which reduces time to get
  • new infrastructure by 80%
  • Developing tools to achieve 0-Click maintenance for virtual machines
  • Infrastructure administration of all industry wide recognised system
  • Working closely with leadership team to setup up roadmap for Desktop Licensing
  • DevOps for coming 2 years
  • Promoting DevOps culture to ensure fast delivery of software to the customers while
  • ensuring stability of the infrastructure behind it.
  • Playing a significant role in establishing operational processes for a onboarding to
  • new cloud technologies.
  • Leading & grooming team members to promote DevOps culture in the organization
  • Implementing operational concepts and practices with the help of tools like:
  • Programming Language – Java, Python
  • Containers: Docker
  • CI/CD: Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins
  • Infrastructure as a Code
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Monitoring: ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana
  • Cloud and Infrastructure - AWS
  • Security - Vault by Hashicorp
DevOpsContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeliveryAutomationInfrastructure as CodeAWS+4

Senior Software Engineer Test II

Apr 2020Nov 2020 · 7 mos

  • Creation & maintenance of automation framework
  • Implemented automation for usage tracking and meta deprecation feature from scratch
  • Setting up automation support for new features
  • Handling external and internal releases for desktop licensing
  • Automated release task using Jira api for day to day activities
  • Managed Test plan and release plan for release cycles

Senior Software Engineer Test

May 2018Apr 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

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Senior Software Development Engineer Test

Nov 2017May 2018 · 6 mos · Singapore

  • Client Location: Autodesk Singapore Pte Ltd
  • Project Name: Licensing (Clic V2)
  • Autodesk offers two types of subscription access, each with its own licensing technology. Stand-alone licenses (included in subscriptions with single-user access) Network licenses (included in subscriptions with multi-user access). Autodesk are now moving towards cloud licensing which will be User based licensing.
  • Created and managed automation scripts in Pythons
  • Managed automation pipeline for Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, RHEL 6.3 , RHEL 7, Mac 10.11 & 10.12
  • Integrated Slack notification with Jenkins & GitHub using groovy.
  • Configured Jenkins configuration using groovy scripts and setup around 11 jobs in pipeline
  • Created & Managed fast automation tests for team
  • Created & Managed Nightly automation jobs.
  • Handling release related activities for the team.

Appdirect

Senior Automation Engineer

Oct 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr · Pune

  • Design, build and maintain a robust automation test suite. Have end to end ownership of feature quality.
  • Setting up test automation projects for server side testing using Java, Selenium Webdriver and TestNG.
  • Owned Team Automation regression end to end.
  • Developed around 150 automation script using Selenium WebDriver & Java.
  • Fixed Automation regression and raised pass percentage from 30% to 98%.
  • Working in agile environments (2 week sprints, daily standups, TDD) with weekly release cycles.
  • Regularly done peer code reviews for automation scripts.
  • Automated rest based api using Rest-assured.
  • Worked on XML & Page object based tests.
  • Utilise & helped improve software development life cycle process.
  • Provide support & training to other team members for using automation framework
  • Trained 9 Interns on automation track.
  • Regularly worked with Framework team and suggested refactoring to increase quality of framework.
  • Help, guide releases through the entire process from planning, analysis, testing activities and QA release to production
  • Build automation & functional team from scratch and involved in hiring process.
PythonJenkinsGroovy

Barclays

Test Specialist

Sep 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Assisted in ensuring requirements coverage for Consumer Lending.
  • Involved in maintaining unit, integration and functional test using JUnit framework and Java
  • Involved in Exploratory and End to End Testing of the product.
  • Involved in manual/automated testing of Rest-Based API using Postman.
  • Extensively worked on First Data Report processor.
  • Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
  • Responsible for entering bugs into an automated bug management system and performing regression tests after the bugs were fixed.
  • Created, Documented & Executed Test Scenarios, Test Cases.
  • Extensively worked on CQRS based architecture.
  • Involved in Testing in Agile Development Env. Using TDD.
  • Involved in Database Testing.
  • Performed black box, module, integration and system testing
  • Involved in analysis of stories before each iteration.
  • Involved in debugging & fixing defects.
  • Worked closely with business experts and developers in order to performing duties
  • Close Interaction with Product Owner/Development Manager/Business Analyst for requirements.
  • Planning and scheduling own tasks to meet the project schedule.
  • Facilitated scrum team meetings.
SeleniumJavaTestNGTest Automation

L& t infotech india pvt ltd

Senior Automation Tester

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Pune

  • Developed test automation framework using Page Object Pattern framework.
  • Estimated effort required to automate the sanity test case using Selenium Web driver.
  • Documented and presented strategy for the testing to the client.
  • Implemented automation using Selenium Web Driver, JAVA and Maven.
  • Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Scenarios and Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members and track the bugs till closure.
  • Assisted Manager by providing automation strategies, Selenium Automation and JIRA reports.
  • Worked effectively with Developers, AGILE Team, Project Management to achieve Selenium automation, high quality, release deadlines and QA processes improvements.
  • Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed Test Cases also involved in weekly status and task review meeting.
  • Took ownership of automation and led the automation team by mentoring the team as required.
  • Increased productivity by 20% by effectively training, leading and managing the team

Adp india

2 roles

Senior Member Technical

Promoted

Aug 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Conducted Automation/Manual testing using standards guidelines in testing the applications.
  • Implemented automation using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Javascript and Maven.
  • Developed, executed and maintained over 150 Selenium automation scripts for web application.
  • Developed automation framework in Java by using Page Objects framework.
  • Automated running smoke tests for daily builds.
  • Worked effectively with Developers, AGILE Team, Project Management to achieve Selenium
  • automation, high quality, release deadlines and QA processes improvements.
  • Modified existing software to correct errors, upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
  • Managed release related activities which include regression testing, mock and production testing.
  • Well versed with project functionality since worked from scratch and created SEO Tool for
  • product.
  • Documented & Executed Test Scenarios, Test cases and Regression Pack.
  • Facilitated scrum team meetings.
SeleniumJavaMavenTest Automation

Member Technical

Jul 2011Jul 2013 · 2 yrs

Education

Amravati University

B.E — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Military School Belgaum

6th to 12th — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2007

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