Lokesh Kumar

Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience in retail banking application development and maintenance in Higher Education, Core Banking and Insurance Domain with Boomi, Mulesoft, Anypoint Platform, Advanced Rest client, postman, Core Java, Microservices, AWS, Javascript, SPRING, Spring boot, AJAX, Junit, Chrodiant, Webservices, JPA technologies, SQL, spring JDBC technologies, Maven, Cucumber, BDD, hibernate, rabbitMQ, MongoDB, AWS, Docker.

Possess

Good experience in various stages of the software life cycle including Requirement Analysis, Impact Assessment, Estimate, code build and supported Link Test, System Integration Test and User Acceptance test till live of the project.

Received Four

Spot recognition award and leadership award for the Healthcare Domain to my credit from Syntel. Capable of Leading a Team, Good at communication, ability to maintain good rhythm with clients and team mates. Lead & Mentored development projects in Lloyds banking group, Anthem Insurance. Involved extensively in Requirement and change set Analysis, preparation of Mid level Project design document, DPAD, Technical Design Document, Code build.

Substantial

Knowledge in HP ALM & Quality Centre tool, AXIS, ALM, JIRA, Generating Traceability Matrix, Producing Reports, Test strategy analysis. Ability to understand functional requirements and design documents. Having good functional knowledge in Credit modules such as Loans, savings account, current account, credit card and Core modules such as Securities, Funds transfer, Internet banking.

Strongly

Self-motivated, Quick Bounce back Credibility and willing to take responsibilities. Ability to tackle critical circumstances and a good team player efficiently succeeded in Timelines of deliverable – Good at planning & forecasting. Felicitated with good rating and rewarded ‘Gem of the Project’ for performing well as junior in Lloyds Bank Project.

Senior Integration Analyst Developer - University of Glasgow - Glasgow

(2025-10)

Integration team is newly formed and responsible for creating architecture/platform for the Boomi processes and develop API as part of the integration framework.

• Designed, developed, and supported enterprise integration solutions to enable reliable data exchange between University systems and third-party applications.
• Maintained and enhanced system integrations, ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with organisational standards and business requirements.
• Analysed business and technical requirements and translated them into scalable integration designs and implementation plans.
• Investigated and resolved integration-related incidents and issues, providing timely support to stakeholders and minimising service disruption.
• Collaborated with application owners, vendors, and project teams to deliver integration projects, system upgrades, and continuous service improvements.

Senior MuleSoft Developer - Student Loan Company - Glasgow

(2021-10 - 2025-10)

Centre for Enablement team is responsible for creating a architecture/platform for the MuleSoft API and develop API as part of the integration framework.

• Provide an operating model that enable SLC to build reusable assets, leverage best practice and knowledge.
• Provide support, governance, and oversight to delivery projects throughout the software delivery cycle ensuring best practices are adopted, projects are delivered according to API SDLC.
• Develop Mulesoft API to establish API led connectivity between various applications in SLC. Involved in Technical hurdle support and all phases of testing till live implementation.
• Establish connectivity to various on-prem database, services, Services hosted on AWS, rabbit MQ.
• Maintain the Anypoint platform with regular health check for any errors, critical alerts, vCore usage, Assess Management, visualizer monitoring.
• Fix any live issues occurring after warranty support of the project delivered in LIVE and maintain GITLAB secrets, GITLAB projects, Client application of an api, Jenkins pipeline.
• Handled deployment of API in higher environments like UAT, LIVE and fix any issues/errors related to jenkins pipeline.
• Lead the C4E sessions for any query from the developer for any platform issues faces during the development.
• Maintain self-signed certificate, ca certificate. Nexus certificate associated with the security for the API.

Senior Mulesoft Developer - Student Loan Company - Glasgow

(2018-01 - 2021-10)

Customer portal project handles the details of the student and MuleSoft was chosen as an integration platform. New Mule API were developed as part of Integration with other systems in student loan company.

• Interacting with stakeholders to get requirements by attending business meetings as part of this project.
• Using various components to develop API in Anypoint studio.
• Designing RESTful API in RAML using Design Center and publishing exchange.
• Designing and deploying API using Anypoint studio.
• Design and implement Rest API contract using Swagger and JSON.
• Applying policies on API and monitoring error logs.
• Designed API template with all configurations which is can use across the team for new API designs.
• Using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy in various environments.
• Created confluence pages with design standards and technical specifications.

Senior JAva Developer - Student Loan Company - Glasgow

(2017-08 - 2018-01)

Student Information System is a HEI Service that allows Higher Education providers to confirm student's registration, attendance and to submit Change of Circumstances to SLC.

• Developed a RabbitMQ from scratch to handle the Registration requests of Student Information System.
• Had been part of Microservice development and made changes to existing services as per business needs.
• Code build with JSF screen components, for viewing reports and generating dynamic HTML as per business requirements.
• Been a part of technology upgrade to AWS in management of the user roles of Student Information System.
• Involved in testing with Behaviour Driven Development using cucumber.
• Supported SIT phase of testing.

Team Lead (Team Member in the initial GUI phase) - Anthem Insurance - Chennai

(2015-12 - 2017-08)

Worked on a set of related applications for Anthem Insurance. The GUI project migrated mainframe insurance code data, along with audit data in DB2, to user-friendly JSF screens. ERL – Professional was a new module for creating and analysing fee schedule rates, codes, and pricing product rates and codes for Anthem’s products.

ERL – Modeler produced detailed reports on processed claims, analysed allowed amounts and other strategic data, and estimated allowed amounts for future claims over the next 5 years.

• Gathered requirements, did impact analysis, and prepared Technical Design Documents. Created and reviewed requirement and BA use case documents, and coordinated with the onshore team and other interfacing teams.
• Led the team in building the ERL modules for fee schedule, pricing, and hierarchy analysis, and for cumulative, year-over-year, and detailed claims reports.
• Built JSF screens for viewing and working with insurance fee schedule, pricing, and hierarchy data, based on business requirements.
• Developed a module to add and retrieve data in DB2 using Spring JDBC, and pulled data from the IMS mainframe database through JMS.
• Introduced multithreading and mass data upload/download in the new application.
• Handled code builds and deployments to the server and DEV environment, and created release notes for SIT and UAT.
• Prepared unit test cases and reviewed the test strategy and unit test documents. Supported SIT and UAT, fixed reported defects, and took part in the live implementation.
• Managed code, code review sheets, unit test results, and defect and quality records in the version control repository and JIRA. Handled defect analysis, classification, assignment, and tracking through to delivery.

Team Lead (Team Member in the earlier projects) - Lloyds Banking Group - Chennai

(2012-12 - 2015-12)

Worked on a series of projects for Lloyds Banking Group, one of the UK’s leading banks, which builds and maintains its retail and commercial banking applications on the Chordiant framework. The work started with New Product Proposition, which displayed existing loans, refinance options, and new loans on a single screen for customers going through loan pre-disbursement. Metadata and Audit Information Storage followed, storing audit data in a new table for business analysis.

Savings

Re-engineering rewrote the savings account swimlane in retail banking to reduce average handling time, including a screen showing historic interest rates. Club Lloyds shortened current account conversion by merging or skipping screens based on the customer’s choice. P3 Fixes raised the success rate of account opening interviews by analysing live errors and fixing them through design and code changes.

• Gathered requirements and analysed existing application flows and functionality, including the root cause of errors and issues in live.
• Designed new screens and screen flows, including merging and skipping screens, and assessed their impact on existing behaviour.
• Prepared high-level and technical design documents, impact assessments, and estimates (including effort in person days) based on the impacted files.
• Prepared test strategy analysis documents, traceability matrices, and link test strategies and plans, and designed and ran link test scenarios and test cases.
• Built code using core Java, JSF, JavaScript, JUnit, Chordiant, web services, and JPA, including displaying data from external host systems and generating SMI and CMI for inserting data into the database.
• Carried out unit testing and link testing, and deployed code for System Integration Testing and all later test phases. Supported every phase through to live implementation.
• Took the lead in fixing and closing problem records in live, and resolved coding, design, debugging, and deployment issues as Team Lead on P3 Fixes.
• Took part in client calls during the study phase to provide detailed impact assessments and dealt directly with the onsite coordinator and business clients, including status reporting.
• Documented the project and presented it to the team, and mentored freshers on the application’s functionality.

Master of Technology - Biotechnology - SASTRA University