Abhishek Vankit Email & Phone Number

Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Orchestrated complex software releases and data refresh activities across a vast landscape of 15+ environments with 5 application components.
• Managed a demanding release cadence, executing major releases almost weekly and minor releases multiple times a week.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive release plans and runbooks to streamline deployment processes.
• Fostered collaboration with diverse cross-functional teams across Europe, Americas and Asia, to ensure seamless release execution.
• Leveraged deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and Microsoft LCS to improve deployment efficiency.
• Safeguarded environment integrity through robust version control and access management practices.

Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Responsible for analysing and approving IT infra change requests, and coordinating harmony between these and other kinds of deliverables like application releases and mobile or fixed network changes.
• Acting as a gatekeeper to production environment and ensuring minimal occurrence of outages, while at the same time not compromising on change priorities.
• Chairing Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and facilitating approval discussions for changes.
• Ensuring strict process adherence and guiding stakeholders in understanding change policies, as well as driving improvements in process.
• Catering to last minute criticalities like Emergency changes, or modifying existing change schedules to accommodate sudden events like outages.
• Using artefacts like CMDB and varied sources of documentation, as well as interacting with a wide audience of stakeholders to gain required amount of information for change analysis.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• Understanding requirements for quality assurance testing of wholesale telecom projects, involving leading MVNOs in the Belgian telecom market, and working in sync with the test team to meet the acceptance standards.
• Interacting with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to chalk out an effective testing strategy, and with developers to iron out issues. Reporting test progress effectively.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• Scrum Master for a team developing RPA (robotic process automation) solutions (using Pega RPA suite).
• Removing impediments and enabling team to provide automations for repetitive and time-consuming manual processes within Telenet Group.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• Managing release deliverables and establishing communication with all the involved stakeholders – development, testing, change management, operations and business representative teams.
• Aiding in removing impediments during testing phase, thereby ensuring the planned release deliverables go live successfully.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Responsible for quality assurance / UAT testing of wholesale domain projects, involving the leading MVNO players in the Belgian telecom market

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Responsible for managing integration test environments, along with working on initiatives like automation of existing processes; and development of an environment dashboard

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Trained in C, Core Java, web development, Unix, PL/SQL. Developed in-house Java based web portals for KPI monitoring; and shell scripts for automating environment refresh processes.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electronics Engineering

Mumbai University

Higher Secondary School Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Head Social Representative

Secondary School Certificate