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Kareem Bute

@kareembute

Software Developer at Citi Bank building Spring Boot services and REST APIs for core financial workflows.

At Citi Bank, I design, build, and maintain Spring Boot services and REST APIs that power core financial workflows. I also write SQL queries and investigate production issues in a regulated enterprise environment.

I write JUnit tests, use Maven for builds, and validate API behavior with Postman. I contribute to Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and manage feature branches and pull requests in Git and GitHub.

Before moving into software development, I worked as a Software Development Engineer in Test at Cognizant (Client: Citi Bank). I designed automated UI test suites and tested APIs, bringing a testability-first perspective to my development work.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Developer

Current

Citi Bank

Jul 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Design, build, and maintain Spring Boot backend services and REST APIs for core financial workflows. Write and optimize complex SQL queries, author JUnit tests, and lead code reviews in an Agile environment.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs SQL Maven Junit Git Jenkins Docker AWS Jira Agile Scrum

Software Development Engineer in Test

Cognizant

Nov 2022 - Jul 2024 (1 year 8 months)

Designed and maintained automated UI test suites in Java, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG, and Cucumber for a large enterprise banking platform. Performed API testing with Postman and REST Assured and integrated test execution into Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.