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Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

- Managing cloud platform and delivering infrastructure to 8 Walmart domains, encompassing 350+ SAP systems, supporting 11 international markets and 25 Tier 1 applications- Managing Cloud architecture and building highly available, distributed, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized SAP infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment- Saved $2M by building a proprietary cloud infrastructure platform using Terraform, Ansible, Power shell and Azure DevOps to be consumed by all Walmart domains- Leading the Azure cloud migration program and cloud architecture for IAAS Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Disaster Recovery, Automation, Monitoring, OS configurations along with Capacity Planning and designing BOM- Hiring cloud engineers; assigning and prioritizing tasks; doing code reviews; vendor contracts, timesheets, budget, and mentoring associates- Overseeing vendor support teams in the onsite-offshore model and the functions of incident management and Change Management- Building relationships with external vendors such as (Microsoft, Netapp, SUSE, SAP, HashiCorp) and working closely with several cross-functional Walmart teams for Program dependencies- Coordinating with executive leadership to embark on new initiatives and provide time relevant information and escalations by tracking SLA’s, Risks, and KPI’s

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

- Led several SAP Tech modernization initiatives- 22 system upgrades, 15 HANA migrations, 5 major projects, 13 minor projects across Walmart domains such as Retail, Finance, Supply chain, HR, Manufacturing, and fuel- Develop Change and Release Management Practices for ERP domain at Global Business Services. Work with teams in US, CHINA, UK, INDIA, mexico & other geographies. - Responsible for enterprise wide strategic initiatives in SAP solutions Manager; designing Product Roadmap, Delivery Planning, Support Planning, Communication Planning, Technical Architecture, Stakeholder Reviews and Feedback Implementation. Product Owner and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SAP Solution Manager.- Responsible for Risk mitigation, Release Schedules, System integration, Operational efficiency improvements, System downtime, Freeze Calendar, Infrastructure upgrades and deployment etc. - Implemented and Designed different modules inside SAP SOLMAN 7.2 such as Change Request Management (SAP-ChaRM), Business Process Monitoring (SAP-BPMON), Solution Documentation (SAP-SOLDOC), Focused Build and Focused Insights.- Performed technical Upgrade of Solution Manager from 7.1 to 7.2 Support Pack 4 and SP7.- Designed and implemented CHARM from scratch. ChaRM tool integrates more than 30 production systems, 150+ other SAP ERP systems, used by 1500+ Walmart associates across various regions such as China, India, UK, Brazil, Costa Rica, Baja, Chile and USA.- Process Improvement: Helped improve several of Walmart ERP domain processes such as: Change Council meeting Process, Change Advisory Board(CAB) Rotation process, CRQ Removal Process, Monthly Change Report, Change Release tracking with Dashboard Creation

Syracuse, New York, Us

- Analyzing graduate programs structure, industry trend, job outlook, market needs, marketing strategies & other university’s offerings - Comparing Syracuse University’s graduate programs with results of market research and recommending scope of program improvement

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Developed WBS-Work Breakdown Structure for UAT automation project by identifying tasks, dependencies and efforts using MS Project - Associate Release lead: Coordinated DEV, SIT & UAT teams, conducted release readiness reviews, status reporting and Go/No-Go reviews- Streamlined weekly status reports containing status updates from 160 technology projects of Global Wealth Management domain- Assisted 5 PMO managers in Time, Budget, Documentation, Quality and Risk Management processes of 5 technology projects- Reduced manual testing efforts of UAT teams up to 80% in post-production validation and up to 100% in pipeline validation- Automated 400+ test scripts within 2 months using QTP and reduced release execution time by 33% thus Won Global Recognition Card

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Client - Capital Group CGC (Investment Management)- Automated more than 1400 test scripts covering 9 web applications using QTP and Selenium; Created Testing Data for regression testing - Used object identification techniques such as XPath, CSS Selector, DOM object, Data Driven Technique and Parameterization techniques; - Used Selenium libraries as wrapper classes around Selenium web driver to write GUI verification test scripts in QTP as VB Scripts- Ensured Issue Remediation, Risk Mitigation, Project Tracking, Budget Estimation, Process Improvisation, and Requirement Elaboration- Developed RFP’s using Feasibility Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis to accommodate new functionality in Financial Advisers application- Developed BRD and Design Documents by analyzing business requirements and collaborating with Client, Dev, and other stakeholders - Involved in entire agile SDLC Life-cycle encompassing Planning, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Documentation, and Roll-out- Process Improvement - Led the client to shut down one application which was using redundant data/technology in trading domain; Designed a more stabilized system architecture & data integration design; Reduced cost by $145000; Received several client appreciations- Won INSTA award for creating a tool which automated batch executions; Generated status reports and provided briefs on job failure points; Saved 60 man hours/week; Decreased cost by $ 66,200/year; Audit and regulatory compliance personnel for the project- Assigned everyday tasks to QA testers, Conducted agile scrum meetings as scrum master, Reported offshore testing reports to onsite; Performed cross browser testing, Developed agile sprints testing plan, Followed up on change requests(CR’s), Resolved data issues - Release Manager- Led a team of 13 testers for unit, system, and integration testing; Conducted CMMI Level 5 internal audits for project.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Client - AT&T, Capital Group- Developed 4 real time data portlets for CRM dashboard, using java servlets, DOJO, and Portlet factory builders by IBM.- Involved in entire Software Development Lifecycle: Analysis, development, testing, deployment and post-implementation support- Conducted agile scrum meetings as Scrum Master, Reported offshore testing reports to onsite- Performed Test requirements gathering, Test case generation, POC of the application, Detailed planning for Quality Analysis for different short term releases, Time & Resource allocation for the releases, Unit testing, Creating UI screens, & Resources Management- Initiated defect prevention activities by tracking defect reports in shared excel and led procedures to reduce duplicate defect rate by 9%- Gathered requirements to create BRD & HLD; Developed CRM dashboard in Java portlet factory & oracle 11g using SDLC approach- Won Most Valuable Player Award for session duration Portlet; Received highest performance Band-A and a 23% salary raise

Master'S Degree, Information Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer Science