Landing a .NET Core Job

Interpret HTTP methods, status codes, headers, and JSON bodies in a REST API exchange.

Organize the restaurant solution into Domain, Application, Infrastructure, and API layers with valid dependency directions.

Implement an asynchronous ASP.NET Core controller endpoint with attribute routing.

Define request and response DTOs and map them to domain objects without exposing persistence entities.

Validate API input and return clear field-level validation responses.

Register application services with ASP.NET Core dependency injection and consume them through interfaces.

Convert unhandled failures into consistent Problem Details responses with exception-handling middleware.

Inspect and verify API requests and responses with OpenAPI documentation and an API client.

Design a normalized restaurant database schema with primary-key and foreign-key relationships.

Apply SQL Server constraints and indexes to protect data integrity and support common queries.

Write SQL statements to insert, select, update, and delete restaurant records.

Retrieve related restaurant data with SQL joins.

Produce order summaries with SQL aggregate functions and grouping.

Map domain data to EF Core entities and configure relationships with the Fluent API.

Create and apply EF Core migrations and seed development data.

Implement asynchronous EF Core queries with LINQ projection, filtering, sorting, and pagination.

Implement menu-category and menu-item CRUD use cases through the application and API layers.

Implement customer-profile creation and update use cases.

Model an order aggregate that owns order lines and preserves item-price snapshots.

Persist a new order and its order lines atomically with a database transaction.

Implement a billing calculator for subtotal, tax, discount, and final total.

Enforce valid transitions between pending, confirmed, preparing, completed, and cancelled order states.

Implement paginated order-history and order-detail queries.

Generate an invoice response containing customer, line-item, total, and payment-status data.

Configure ASP.NET Core Identity users and restaurant-specific roles with EF Core.

Implement user registration while relying on Identity for password hashing and validation.

Authenticate a user and issue a signed, expiring JWT containing identity and role claims.

Restrict administrative and customer API endpoints with role-based authorization.

Enforce resource ownership so customers can access only their own profiles and orders.

Configure CORS, HTTPS enforcement, secrets, and safe production error responses for the API.

Model payment attempts and statuses without accepting or storing raw card details.

Implement an idempotent mock payment confirmation workflow that safely updates an order.

Fetch the public menu API from the existing React application and render its loading, success, and failure states.

Create a reusable React API client configured from environment variables.

Implement a React login flow that stores and exposes the authenticated session to the application.

Attach JWTs to protected API requests and handle 401 and 403 responses consistently.

Protect React routes and conditionally render controls according to the current user's role.

Build an administrative React workflow for creating and editing menu items.

Build a customer React workflow for composing and submitting an order.

Display invoice and payment status from the API without exposing sensitive payment data.

Distinguish unit, integration, and end-to-end tests and assign restaurant behaviours to the appropriate level.

Write xUnit unit tests for billing calculations.

Write parameterized xUnit tests for validation rules and order-state transitions.

Isolate an application service in a unit test by substituting its external dependencies.

Configure ASP.NET Core integration tests with WebApplicationFactory and an isolated test database.

Write integration tests for authenticated, unauthorized, and role-restricted API requests.

Write an integration test that verifies the complete order-creation API flow.

Test a React component that consumes an API by mocking network responses with React Testing Library.

Separate development and production configuration with environment variables and managed secrets.

Add structured application logging and a production health-check endpoint.

Containerize the ASP.NET Core API with a multi-stage Docker build.

Provision an Azure SQL database and apply production migrations without embedding credentials in source code.

Deploy the ASP.NET Core API and verify its health and OpenAPI endpoints in production.

Deploy the React application and connect it to the production API over HTTPS with correct CORS settings.

Create a GitHub Actions workflow that builds the backend and runs its automated tests on each push.

Write a portfolio README containing setup instructions, architecture and database diagrams, feature evidence, and a live demo link.

Write an ATS-friendly résumé that presents the restaurant project and 13 months of software-engineering experience with evidence-based bullet points.

Configure GitHub, LinkedIn, and Naukri profiles to consistently target junior ASP.NET Core and React roles in India.

Deliver a concise project walkthrough covering architecture, database design, security, testing, and deployment decisions.

Solve junior C# interview exercises involving collections, LINQ, nullability, exceptions, and asynchronous code.

Solve SQL interview exercises involving joins, grouping, subqueries, and query debugging.

Answer common junior interview questions about ASP.NET Core, EF Core, JWT authorization, and dependency injection.

Use the STAR structure to explain client work, technical problems, mistakes, and collaboration experiences.

Run a tracked four-week application routine covering suitable job searches, tailored applications, referrals, follow-ups, and mock interviews.