Ajay Kumar Patel
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Mr.
AJAY KUMAR PATEL
DevOps And QA Engineer

8+ years in software engineering: 6+ years building and optimizing QA automation frameworks, 2+ years specializing in DevOps — monitoring CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation.

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Core Competencies

Technical Expertise & Solutions

CI/CD Pipelines
Designing and enhancing automated build-test-deploy pipelines using Jenkins to cut deployment time, reduce manual errors, and accelerate release cycles.
Cloud Infrastructure
Managing and scaling AWS infrastructure with EC2, CloudFormation, and optimizing deployments across multiple environments for reliability and efficiency.
Infrastructure as Code
Creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks for reproducible deployments, tool installations across multiple OS platforms, version upgrades, and automated configuration management.
Pipeline Monitoring & Notifications
Implementing webhook-based real-time notifications for CI/CD pipelines to Google Spaces, enabling team visibility into deployment status and quick failure alerts.
Test Automation & Framework Enhancement
Building and enhancing test automation frameworks with Selenium, creating comprehensive test cases for BVT suites, and optimizing execution across distributed environments.
Deployment Automation & Troubleshooting
Resolving deployment failures, handling tool version upgrades, implementing new tool installations via Ansible, and writing Bash/Python scripts to streamline operations.
Professional Highlights

Key Contributions & Achievements

Test Automation · BVT
HCL Connections Test Framework Enhancement

Enhanced automation test suite, added test cases for multiple components, improved execution duration and increased pass rate on various deployed environments.

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Ansible · DevOps
Infrastructure Automation & Deployment Enhancement

Enhanced Ansible playbooks for features and fixes, upgraded tool versions, validated across environments, implemented new tool installations for multiple OS platforms.

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Pipeline Monitoring · Webhooks
Pipeline Notification System

Implemented Google Space notifications for multiple CI/CD pipelines using webhooks, enabling real-time team visibility into deployment status and failures.

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Toolbox

Skills & Tools

Cloud Platforms
AWSEC2CloudFormation
CI/CD
Jenkins
Automation & Orchestration
DockerKubernetesAnsible
IaC
TerraformCloudFormation
Monitoring & Observability
PrometheusGrafana
Scripting
BashPythonYAML
Version Control
GitGitHub
Infrastructure & DevOps
GitLinux
Testing & QA
SeleniumJavaGradleTestNG
Career

Work Experience

DevOps EngineerMarch 2024 — Present
HCL Software · Pune, Maharastra / Hybrid
  • Designed and enhanced CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 20% and minimizing manual errors.
  • Managed and scaled AWS infrastructure (EC2, CloudFormation) across multiple environments with high availability and cost optimization.
  • Implemented real-time monitoring and alerting systems, reducing incident response time by 50% and improving team visibility.
QA EngineerNov 2019 — Feb 2024
HCL Software · Pune, Maharastra
  • Enhanced and maintained comprehensive automation test frameworks with Selenium, improving test coverage and code quality.
  • Created and optimized test cases for BVT suites across multiple product components, increasing pass rates and reliability.
  • Integrated distributed Selenium Grid infrastructure for parallel test execution, reducing overall testing time by 35%.
  • Collaborated with development teams to identify and resolve automation gaps, ensuring robust validation before production releases.
Software TesterJun 2017 — Oct 2019
Advent Software · Pune, Maharastra
  • Executed comprehensive manual testing across web applications, identifying and documenting critical defects and edge cases.
  • Designed and implemented test cases for new feature releases, ensuring complete functional coverage and quality assurance.
  • Validated features across multiple browsers and devices, maintaining consistency and user experience standards.
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Ready to work together

Seeking DevOps Engineer opportunities - remote, hybrid or on-sire. I respond promptly to inquiries.

✉ ajaykmpatel47@gmail.com 📞 +91 797-209-7803
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