Software Consultant, Software Developer, SoftwareDeveloper

Project: CASPER

CASPER is a generic data collection platform, capable of meeting the increasing data needs of various business areas by establishing standard interfaces for data providers and by offering generic services like automation, validation, and transfer for data consumers. CASPER consolidates the efforts for data collection and provides a harmonised and generic submission platform.

My role has been covering many technology responsibilities while making use of my technology expertise. While in CASPER, I have contributed to Design and Development of Features like Flat file processing, XML file processing, Character Encoding supports, Compressed (GZ, ZIP) files Support, Support for Floating point numbers with more that 19 digits after Decimal, CASPER @ Internet, Darwin Export, etc and Defect’s support. These helps the end-user to process flat files, XML file processing along with compressed as well as uncompressed ways via CASPER. Also, with the support of Darwin Export feature, the submission files as well as Failed Validation results can be exported to the Darwin with automated way and manual ways. Support for various character encoding is must in the applications which is being used widely. I worked in this area as well in CASPER to validate the characters in the submission files to check if those are compliant with the configured character encoding or not. If any suspicious characters are found then the file will get rejected.

My roles and responsibilities include following:

• Understand the requirements document and translate them into good technical specification, design, develop and deliver the features with the excellence
• Ensure that the defects are promptly addressed, resolved in timely and pass them to the correct channel
• Test the code changes on local or staging environment and push them to the appropriate branches
• Write JUnit testcases for unit testing and code coverage of the application code using Junit / Mockito framework
• Work on the performance aspects of the application
• Attend the daily stand-up call and ensure that the assigned tasks is in progress and any blocker issues reported
• Development of the Restful web services
• Involve in the technical design discussions of the new features

CASPER doesn’t support to receive the files in chunks. To overcome this limitation, EXDI Adapter comes into picture. The NCBs will upload the files to EXDI to get them provided via Casper. EXDI will transport them in chunks to EXDI Adapter, waits till all chunks are received and after that consolidate them and performs validations some validations. Upon successful validation, the files will be uploaded to Casper otherwise file is rejected in EXDI Adapter itself and outbound message is sent back. After Casper has finished validating the file, the result will be read and given back to EXDI, which will transport it to the affected NCB.

This project was developed from the scratch and I was involved in this project from the start to provide technological as well as architectural solutions and code development. With this project being implemented, we now support to receive the files in chunks and ultimately process them in CASPER.:

• Day wise task break up and ensure that the task is completed on time
• Design and Development of the EXDI Adapter
• Code coverage using Junit and Mockito framework
• To work on the performance aspects and ensure that application is performing well
• Attend the design discussion meetings and Create / Update the technical specification document accordingly
• Deploy and test the deployable on the local / higher environments