Himanshu Arora

USA - Senior .NET Developer - COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Indianapolis, IN - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Himanshu-Arora/25d51836504042f9
Over 7.5 years of experience in IT, Involved in requirement gathering, analysis, design and development,
testing, debugging, implementation and maintenance of N-Tier, Three-Tier application in Client/Server and
Web based applications with major focus on Microsoft.Net Applications for Banking and Financial sector.
Extensive experience in Visual Studio [] ASP.NET MVC, C#.NET, ADO.NET, Ajax, jQuery, LINQ, WCF,
Web Services, XML, XSL/XSLT, Java Script, jQuery, CSS, HTML, DHTML.
Experience in creating and consuming web services using C#.NET.
Expertise in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
Good experience in developing Stored Procedures and Functions in SQL []
Having good experience in Agile Methodology and Software Development Life Cycle.
Experience into lead and work with offshore team.
Experience in using Visual Source Safe and Harvest for version control.
Good understanding of Object Oriented methodologies.
Excellent team player with exceptional leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Possesses strong ability to strive for the best & achieve the best in undertaken task.

WORK EXPERIENCE

USA - Senior .NET Developer

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS - Indianapolis, IN - July 2013 to Present
Client: Sallie Mae
Project: APG Contingency Services
APG Asset Performance Group, a Division of Sallie Mae is a service related to Collection of debts; Debt
recovery and collection agencies. The contingency collection unit is anchored by acquired collection agencies
Pioneer Credit Recovery and General Revenue Corp.
Responsibilities:
Primary liaison with the client for requirement analysis using Iterative SDLC methodology.
Involved in design & development of Web application using .Net Framework 3.5, ASP.NET, AJAX,
JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, C#.Net, VB.Net, WCF, Web Services (asmx), XML
Involved in client side validation using JavaScript, JQuery.
Involved in writing stored procedures in SQL for fetching data after applying business rules.
Responsible for code reviews, standard performance and functional reviews, application performance
analysis and providing solutions for performance improvement.
Supported the applications as part of maintenance and responded to many adhoc user requests and bug
fixing.
ENVIRONMENT: C# .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, Java Script, XML, jQuery, DHTML, SQL Server 2008

USA - Senior .NET Developer

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS - Auburn Hills, MI - November 2010 to June 2013
Client: Comerica Incorporated
Project: Comerica_AVM

Responsibilities:
Worked on maintenance and developing applications on Microsoft Technologies.
Involved in supporting client team during production issues and system outages, and resolve the issues in
pre-production and production.
Analysis of requirements, working with Clients and address the gaps in requirements, formulating design
for the product/individual modules, and Tracking of tasks to the closure.
Co-ordination with offshore team for their daily development activities and Code reviews.
Client interaction to help understand business requirements and develop applications.
Onsite coordinator responsible for delivery of offshore and onsite tasks.
Ensure 100% compliance to quality assurance norms and guidelines.
Good working knowledge with designer tools such as Microsoft Visio.
ENVIRONMENT: C# .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, Java Script, XML, jQuery, SQL Server 2005

India - Senior .NET Developer

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - October 2009 to October
2010
Client: Sallie Mae & USA Funds
Project: USA Funds Life Skills
The application provides online, printable professional resources, quizzes, interactive exercises, real-life
scenarios and a glossary of terms that teach students to manage their time and money wisely while they are
on campus and after graduation.
Responsibilities:
Worked as a module lead for USA Funds Life Skills Project.
Analyzing the requirements as per the use case documents and business specification documents (BSD).
Worked on preparing the technical specification documents (TSD).
Participating in the discussions with onsite team in freezing the requirements and status updates.
Involved in coding, unit testing and production support.
Implemented quality standards/procedures in day-to-day project related activities and continuously
delivering high quality on time deliverables with minimum defects, meeting all specifications and standards.
ENVIRONMENT: C# .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, Java Script, XML, jQuery, DHTML, SQL Server 2005

India - .NET Developer

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - April 2006 to September
2009
Client: Sallie Mae & USA Funds
Involved in the developing and maintaining the following Projects:
Sallie Mae-USA Funds Loan Counselor: It's a suite of custom counseling products to help schools fulfill all
federal requirements for loan counseling and simplify entrance and exit counseling with one online program.
USA Funds Loan Counselor has five borrower-facing components, Stafford Loan Guide Entrance Counseling,
Student Loan Transition Guide Exit Counseling, Grad Guide Entrance Counseling, Grad Guide Exit Counseling
and Parent PLUS Guide Entrance Counseling.

 Sallie Mae-Web Portal for USAF: It's a web portal for USA Fund's customers and its internal users. It enables
to link users from various campuses and disseminate information on its programs as well as provide the
required resources. Portal acts as entry point for all other USA Funds applications.
Responsibilities:
Analyzing the requirements as per the use case documents and business specification documents (BSD).
Participating in the conference meetings with clients and onsite team
Participating in the discussions with onsite team in freezing the requirements and status updates.
Implementing the requirements as per the project standards and client standards.
Involved in updating the TSD for user management module in Web Portal project.
Involved in coding, unit testing and production support.
ENVIRONMENT: C# .NET, ASP.NET, Web services, Java Script, XML, HTML, SQL Server 2005

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering

RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY - Jaipur, Rajasthan
July 2001 to June 2005

SKILLS
.NET, ASP.NET, WCF, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, XML, SDLC, VSS, Microsoft SQL Server, jQuery, JSON,
IIS, CA Harvest, XSL, XSLT, C# 3.0, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, Web Services

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Technical Expertise
Programming Languages: C# .NET, ASP.NET
Microsoft Technologies: .NET Framework [] AJAX, ASP.NET MVC [] WCF, Web Services, LINQ and
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Operating Systems: WINDOWS [] SERVER. XP, VISTA and Windows 7
Internet Technologies: Java Script, jQuery, JSON, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL/XSLT and CSS
Databases: SQL Server 2005
Tools: HP Quality Center, CA Service Desk
Version Control: Visual Source Safe, CA Harvest