Vijay Sundaram Venkatramani Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible to Lead, manage and execute releases for an agile team with a major banking client’s mortgage application.• Accountable to ensure the releases are deployed on time and with minimal impact on production platform availability/performance.• Creation of RFC request for the change to adhere to approvals, policies & procedures from various teams and also approval from CAB (change approval board) before the implementation date.• Coordinate with project teams, Environment team, testing team and other external/vendor teams.• Review all Change request to determine the impact to applications and environments and approve / communicate to stakeholders and building business relationships.• Construction and execution of implementation checklist and coordination with support teams for SIT, UAT and production.• Build developed source package using IBM Rational Build Forge and Jenkins applications and deploy the code for both Java and PEGA based applications to the test environments and communicate to the appropriate teams.• Manage adherence to defined SDLC process between Project and Production releases.• Supporting the execution of key improvement initiatives using data-driven insights to deliver positive financial and customer outcomes.• Participate in War room & defect management discussions on issue escalations post implementation to sort out any outstanding issues.• Facilitated key agile practices, such as stand-ups, product demos, retrospectives and sprint planning ensuring adherence to agile practices.• Facilitated Sprint planning and grooming sessions as a platform for the team to discuss sprint goal and product backlog items.• Creating/Managing stories on JIRA based on the understanding with business to specify areas of improvement and stability on the application and work towards closure for the same.

Malaysia

Responsible for analyzing the business needs and provide solutions to business problems. Involved in managing both large and small scale projects for various core banking applications. Managing the work from initial request through estimation, approval, requirements, build and implementation.• Write functional specification documents that successfully delivered necessary change in a manageable and non-intrusive way.• Implementation of new designs within the Business Operating Model. Conducted workshops, training and presentations for large and small scale projects.• Proposed continuous improvement areas for Business/Application stability on timely basis which led to more than 30% reduction in budget for large and medium scale projects.• Assist in the preparation of user and system test plans towards user testing.• Mediated between the business, development team and any third-party regarding software functionality throughout the development and test cycles.• Managed relationships with software vendors, consultants to define, document, configure, test, train, deploy and support software customization and configuration changes.• Analyze impact of functional & technical changes and propose defect fixes during project mode and whilst post production

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Responsible for development and delivery for major budget core banking system implementation for countries Malaysia and Singapore. • Managed a team of developers for various core functionalities for the implementation of the banking system with successful roll-outs. Also accomplished various medium and small scale enhancements for countries across Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa for the bank.• Development and delivery of new functionalities for core banking system for two major country milestone implementations delivered in a span of two years which were multi-million dollar projects in budget.• Troubleshooting for the above mentioned modules during the SIT/UAT/Production cycles.• Accountable for updating the status of development status and delivery on daily calls.• Handled the tasks of identifying system deficiencies and implementing effective solutions.• Enhancement of existing capabilities for Channels with dependencies to electronic branch banking system (eBBS). Handled the responsibilities of managing technical risks throughout the project.• Suggested improvement zones and pain points which improved end customer experience.• Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation support for both major and minor releases involving complex deployments and release management procedures.

Chennai Area, India

Responsible for design and development of core banking application for internet banking system for an U.K based banking client.• Managed requirement gathering, design, development and delivery for medium and minor enhancements with a high success-rate.• Deputed at the clients place carried out various roles as an SME towards core banking application development for Internet banking.• Responsible for maintaining a small team of four to support and deliver the interface related activities for supporting internet banking application.• Managed stakeholders (Country business) from requirement gathering until implementation to production.• Handled the tasks of reviewing technical projects during various stages of development life cycle.• Accountable for integration of modules and coordination with testing of systems.• Assigned the tasks of implementation as well as deployment of software tools and equipment.• Managed pre and post implementation support for all the country implementations and delivered successfully. • Responsible for coordinating with stake holders and resolving production issues.

Chennai Area, India

Responsible as a Java developer in gathering requirements, design, development and implementation for a multi-million dollar sport and music client.• Gathering requirements from the clients and discuss on the design with the project lead. • Develop and deliver codes post Code Review, Unit testing of the respective modules.• Generating struts Action classes, Form Beans, tile definitions, custom validation rules and Jsp files in presentation layer.• Construction of DAO objects in persistence layer, Hibernate mapping files and POJO classes.• Creating service layer objects in spring and defining bean references in xml configuration files.• Participating on System and User testing to ensure defects are fixed and delivered exceeding client expectations.