Safiuz K.

Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of diverse IT experience
  • Expertise in automation testing and project management
  • Proven track record in leading engineering teams
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong capabilities in automation and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsTeam ManagementAutomationCloudQuality AssuranceAgile Project ManagementJavaPayment GatewayAviation SafetyInsuranceWeb ServicesTelecommunicationsRevenue AssuranceOrder Management

Other Skills

AWSAgile TestingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApplication Programming InterfacesArtificial Intelligence (AI)Charismatic LeadershipContinuous Delivery (CD)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipData ScienceDecision-MakingDockerEnd-to-end Testing

About

16+ years of IT experience in Design/Development of Web/Enterprise based applications and Automation and functional Testing with rich experience on functionally vast domains like Telecom, Payment Domain, Billing, SAAS Marketplace, Revenue assurance , Financial Services & Insurance, Aviation and Safety, Airline and Airport Operations. Extensive experience in Project Planning and Estimation, Strategy Designing, Automation Framework designing, Metrics analysis with adroit Team Management, Cost and Timeline Management skills. Strong communication and client-facing skills. Expertise in mapping client’s requirements and translating them into functional specifications. Hands-on Experience in Automation Testing with Selenium 2.0, Web driver, Cucumber, TestNG, RestApi Automation, MicroServices Testing with pact.io (contract testing) and Continuous integration tool Jenkins. Hands-on Experience in developing and implementing web and enterprise applications using JAVA,J2EE REST Web services, SoapUI, HTML and XML, JSON. Experience in deploying applications on Application servers such as BEA WebLogic 8.1, JBoss 5,6,7, tcServer and on Tomcat 5.0 Web server, Kubernetes and Docker. Experienced in Agile-Scrums, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Iterative and Waterfall Software development methodologies. Certified Scrum master(CSM) and Sun Certified Java Programmer 5.0.

Experience

17 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Align technology

Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Build an engineering team of 30+ in Hyderabad in less than 6+ months and organize and lead them to produce quality engineering working with global distributed team in Israel and Germany. Collaborated with Sr Director of Cloud and Quality in Israel and created quality roadmaps to be executed from India working in global teams. Setting up the GCC team
  • Build the new SFA framework in Python(pytest) for e2e System integration which will reduce the
  • System flow development and run time significantly by 60%.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsTeam ManagementEnd-to-end TestingTeam BuildingAgile Project Management+6

Freshworks

Lead Software Engineer in Test

Apr 2019Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • SDET Lead for Freshworks Identity /Authentication Platform (PaaS/SaaS) supporting Freshworks’ suite of products.Lead the quality division of Identity, Authentication, Access Management, Billing areas of Freshworks platform.
  • Seamless SSO with any IdP via SAML / OAuth2.0 / OIDC / JWT
  • Platform service defined to act like internal IdP for Freshworks Products / Solutions - Configurable Password Policies for customers
  • Unify the billing and subscription management across Freshworks portfolio of products
  • Identity Platform service used by >2 million DAU with >200K active connections/day supporting >50,000 large customers' varied identity needs.
  • Tech stack:
  • Backend languages/frameworks: Python, Java, Spring
  • UI: Angular, React, Redis,
  • Deployment/containers: Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, AWS, GCP.
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD/DevOps: GitLab, Github, ECR, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA, SonarQube
  • Security: Okta, OneLogin, Google, Azure, Conjur, AWS WAF,
  • QA, performance, observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Selenium, JMeter, OpenTelemetry.
dockerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsCross-functional Team LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Performance Testing+5

Appdirect

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Dec 2016Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

  • About: AppDirect is the cloud service commerce leader making software and products accessible globally. The AppDirect cloud service commerce platform unites providers, developers and consumers of cloud services into a single ecosystem. This makes it easy for businesses to find, buy and manage cloud services from a central location and delivers new opportunities for providers to distribute, sell, and market cloud services.
  • Job and responsibility:
  • Worked with business to gather all functional requirements and create Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test scenarios.
  • Working with Product owner (PO) in backlog and story grooming, setting up priority and maintaining Jira Scrum board.
  • Development of new test cases and maintaining the existing test suites and Jenkins jobs. Monitor Regression suite and maintaining it periodically.
  • Defect Triage and defect management.
  • End to End(E2E) User story analysis and Test Design.
  • E2E Test data creation and test scripts execution.
Quality AssuranceTeam ManagementPeople ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)REST APIAgile Testing+2

Emirates

Software Consultant

Nov 2013Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Duba,i UAE · On-site

  • Project 1. Corporate Payment Gateway(CPG), Emirates(Nov’13-July’14)
  • Domain: Payment Gateway
  • Technology: Java/J2ee, Spring, Webservices, JSF, Maven
  • Role: Worked as Developer/Business Analyst
  • Description:
  • Corporate Payment Gateway (CPG) which funnels all application web-payment needs to the Group’s preferred Payment Gateway Service Provider(s) (PGSP). Any application that requires payment processing online would need to integrate with the CPG and thus avoid the duplication of effort in multiple applications integrating with PGSP. CPG, in turn, will perform the integration between the Emirates Group Storefronts (Web applications, as well as others) and the Group’s preferred PGSP. The PGSP, in turn, will communicate with the Acquirer(s) to process the payment (Authentication, Authorization and Auto capture/Billing).
  • Project 2. Safety Information Data System (SiD), Emirate (July’14 – Dec’14)
  • Domain: Safely, Aviation
  • Technology: Java/J2ee, Spring, Rest Web services , JSF, Maven
  • Description:
  • SiD is a web-based safety reporting system where users can report safety related events using different type of reports or forms like Air Safety Reports, Engineering Safety Reports, Dangerous Goods Report, Ground Safety Reports, Workplace Hazard/Injury Reports, etc. This information is managed by SiD and presented in such a manner so as to make it easy for Safety Analysts to analyse it and take appropriate actions to prevent recurrences of such events that endanger safety. SiD’s Audit module ensures compliance of the safety guidelines in the Aviation industry.
  • Project 3: Airport Service UI (ASUI) , Dubai Airport (Dec’14 – Nov’16)
  • Technology: Java, Selenium WebDriver and cucumber with Java
  • Role. : Worked as Software Test Developer/Business Analyst
  • Description:
  • ASUI is Emirates brand new project to have a single stop for all airport services. All lounges of emirates airline across the world will be newly developed on PSS and Mars/Macs system.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)PCI DSSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Java Enterprise EditionApache KafkaAgile Project Management+2

Csc

Consultant Application Developer

Mar 2012Nov 2016 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • Client1 : StateFarm Insurance (USA): Nov’12- Nov’13
  • Domain: Insurance
  • Project Description: eSignature Process Management.
  • Statefarm is USA well known Insurance company.
  • The webservice will manage the eSignature process for STATE FARM business process with other 3rd party(docuSign) who are eSignature vendor.
  • Technology: Spring, Hibernate, Webservices(Apache cxf)
  • Client 2: VISA- Credit Card (March’12- November’12)
  • Project: CCDRi- Credit Card Data Repository Information
Technology: Core Java, Quartz scheduler, Apache Velocity
  • Environment: RAD and DB2 with CC for version control.
  • Description:
  • Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects cardholders, merchants, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.
  • Worked on FY12 Data Services Platform Enhancement Phase-3.
  • The project was to do the notifications enhancements in CCDRi applications.
TomcatPCI DSSMavenInsuranceCore JavaJava

Subex ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2011Mar 2012 · 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • Platform: Java/J2EE,Hibernate, Oracle 9i
  • Domain: Telecom (OSS/BSS) & Revenue Assurance.
  • Project: Moneta 2.6 (Revenue Assurance Product)
Moneta 2.6 is a revenue assurance product. It is installed at more than 40+ telecoms operators worldwide.
  • The Product assures that operators don’t lose any money due to leakage in revenue system. It takes care of in dispensaries across revenue system.
  • Worked on CR for Vodafone Romania for Local Number Portability.
MavenCore JavaTelecommunicationsRevenue Assurance

Cgi

Software Engineer

Apr 2009Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • Worked as a Java Developer for Wireline Application for Bell Canada(CGI Client).
  • Bell is largest service provider of Canada and EBCCS is its Electronic bell customer contact system. It a Order Management System.
  • Project: Electronic Bell Customer Contact System, Bell Canada
  • Successful completion and delivery of more than 6 releases in CGI.
  • (Release: 8.1, 8.2, 9, 12, 14, 15)
  • The application handles all kind of Orders like New Connect, Modify,Move,Cancel & Change etc.
  • Along with successfully performed role of a build master.
Sun Certified Java ProgrammerCore JavaTelecommunicationsJava Enterprise EditionWeb ServicesJava

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Motivational Pathway

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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