Kanthi kiran Karanam
Point cook,VICTORIA
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Iteration Manager
Coles Store Support
12.2022 - Current
- Perform the Agile ceremonies for every sprint
- Backlog refinement
- Sprint Planning
- Develop the user stories with appropriate estimation of story points
- Daily stand ups
- Retrospective sessions are conducted and understand what went well/not well
- Implement the learnings in the next sprints
- At crew level, conducted the monthly showcase sessions
- Conducted the agile trainings to the team and onboarded the team to Agile from waterfall
- Motivated the teams to get into delivery mindset from the BAU mindset
- Working closely with Release & change lead, Support lead and Operations team manager on understanding the impacts, risks, new initiatives, delivery outputs, team performances, prioritization of user stories
- Submit the iteration reports to the Domain sync team
- Motivate team to explore and take up the new opportunities and trainings to develop their career
- Helped the team by resolving the blockers and coordinated with Vendors / other squads for any dependencies or blockers
- Interacted with other squads Delivery Managers, Iteration Managers and enhanced the way of workings with more knowledge from these interactions
- Also involved in all the Brand meetings and interacted with all Brands regarding the Operations risks/issues
- Provided my technical assistance and support to Project Dora as and when required
Automation Specialist / Senior Technical Analyst
Coles Store Support
04.2020 - 11.2022
- Data Navigator production and non-production servers sizing and implementation
- Worked in High Availability and Disaster Recovery implementation
- Solve the server, environment, database and browser issues raised by various teams
- Understand and gained the complete knowledge of Data Navigator application
- Built and deployed ST/SIT/UAT/Perf/Staging and Production Data Navigator environments
- Coordinating with Release Management, Change Management and Configuration Management to keep track the changes and its reasons of every fixes
- Ensuring the timely delivery of the project builds and determines the scope of a Release
- Deciding on deliverable components and controlling the inclusion of components in the Release
- Controlling environments in various OS platforms across many projects
- Deciding on Source Control Management process
- Leading the team for Integration and Release activities for multiple projects
- Perform the deployments into multiple environments and ensure the appropriate version is deployed in correct environment
- Called out the risks and issues upfront to the project lead and mitigated the risk at the earlier stage of the project
- Documented/Reviewed the process of Environment Build & Deployments for DN/EMS/IST products
- Conducted the knowledge sharing sessions with in and outside to project team on DN applications, Environment Builds, deployments and known issues
- Migrated the Payments related Artefacts from Artifactory On premises to cloud (Saas)
- Also developed/updated the scripts so the CI workflows in GoCD are working as expected post migration
- Developed the automated solution for GoCD workflow get the automatic version numbering
- Creation of release packages along with MD5 generation and validation
- Remote Desktop Services install/uninstall licenses
- Comparison for two realtime/office environments (System info)
- Notification to the stakeholders upon merges in Bitbucket
Project Manager
Capgemini Australia PTY LTD
Melbourne, Victoria
08.2017 - 03.2020
- Company Overview: Client: Members Equity Bank (ME Bank)
- Developed the Statement of Work (SOW) and present it to the clients for approval, ensuring that the scope, timelines, cost, dependencies, assumptions, and high-level implementation plans are clearly communicated to the client
- Upon signing the SOW, planned the project, allocate resources, track deliverables, identify and address risks, and ensure timely deployment of deliverables as agreed upon
- Influenced in getting the new business by proactively proposing the business needs and managing the customer requirements from DevOps perspective; Manage and track the project timelines, scope, resources and financials
- Implemented CI/CD’s and DevOps methodologies for the applications (T24, Pega, Bankfast, Java Components) using CA Tools, Jenkins, Bitbucket
- Developed the policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers
- Coordinate with various project teams (Infrastructure, developer, integration) team for the environment builds and establish connectivity as per the architecture
- Negotiated with various technology vendors and 3rd parties for software/hardware contracts
- Automated the Environment Refresh process for the applications and VM provisioning using CA Tools
- Created documentation and Manage transitions to Operations for infrastructure support
- Mentor team members on software development best practices, including automated build and test, CI/CD for programs
- Client: Members Equity Bank (ME Bank)
Manager
Capgemini India
Bangalore
10.2012 - 07.2017
- Company Overview: Client: ANZ Bank
- Manage and monitor the project scope, delivery, cost and quality levels for institutional LoB
- Implement the strategy for communication plan for Environment outages, SCM Process and procedures
- Implement automation process to reduce the manual effort by implementing CI/CD’s strategy
- Implement and Automate the Environment health check process, release deployment
- Mentor the team for technical queries, enable cross skilling and maintain the knowledge repositories for all the applications
- Discuss and agree the SLAs with the client and ensured the SLA’s agreed are met
- Propose the Test Environment approach before the project is kicked off
- Coordinate for smooth implementation of the project at client location and extended post implementation, application maintenance and technical support to the client
- Oversee client/customer/vendor relationship to ensure that we met or exceed service expectations
- Constantly assess the customer feedback and accommodated the necessary improvements and achieved the customer satisfaction score as 5 for the applications under institutional LoB
- Client: ANZ Bank
Technical Analyst
ANZ Bank
Bangalore
10.2008 - 09.2012
- CM tool Implementation for ACE Project and SCM Tool administration
- Automate the process of Release builds and Environment builds
- Develop the scripts for baselining, code promotions and release package creation
- Upgrade the Finacle version from 10.1.05 to 10.1.09
- Provide support for Finacle EOD’s, production implementations and troubleshooting the issues
- Developed the PL/SQL programming and wrapper scripts for the report generation in AML KYC project(Customer statements, Account statements , Transaction daily and accounts daily modules)
Developer
Infosys
Bangalore
10.2006 - 10.2008
- Work as the Developer in different modules in Trade Finance like Export Bills and Import Bills
- Work as the Developer in customizing the RTGS Messages sent to the bank and received from the bank
- Conduct the meetings with the ASPIS Bank team and prepared the requirement specifications as discussed in the meeting
- Conduct KT sessions to the team members about the functionality of the modules and communicating the enhancements made in the new modules and their relative impact on the existing functionality
- Perform the unit testing of the Customization of different modules of Finacle Product
Timeline
Iteration Manager
Coles Store Support
12.2022 - Current
Automation Specialist / Senior Technical Analyst
Coles Store Support
04.2020 - 11.2022
Project Manager
Capgemini Australia PTY LTD
08.2017 - 03.2020
Manager
Capgemini India
10.2012 - 07.2017
Technical Analyst
ANZ Bank
10.2008 - 09.2012
Developer
Infosys
10.2006 - 10.2008
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