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Jyothi Talpur

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

Proven Release Manager with a track record of spearheading successful Pega Releases at National Australian Bank. Expert in SAP Ariba and adept at mentoring, demonstrating both hard and soft skills essential for driving forward-thinking solutions and fostering professional growth. Seasoned product manager well-versed in Agile frameworks and leading daily scrum meetings. Excellent communication, planning and prioritization skills. Effective at building and deepening productive relationships with all product stakeholders. Skilled at guiding operations, supporting deployments and implementing quality control standards. Analytical problem-solver with excellent judgment and a detail-oriented nature.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Release Manager

Coforge DPA PVT LTD. [NAB (Client)]
Melbourne, Victoria
08.2022 - Current
  • Maintained version control systems meticulously, ensuring accurate tracking and easy rollback capabilities when necessary.
  • Mentored junior team members in release management best practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the organization.
  • Coordinated scheduled releases and updates.
  • Created presentations and infographic for platform release enhancement communications.
  • Planned and orchestrated end-to-end processes
  • Chaired daily project meetings using Agile methodologies and Scrum formats.
  • Identified risks and dependencies early in the process, enabling proactive mitigation strategies to protect project timelines.
  • Proactively managed stakeholder expectations throughout the release cycle by providing timely updates on progress and addressing concerns promptly.
  • Enhanced communication between development and operations teams for smooth releases, minimizing downtime and disruptions.
  • Managed release schedules effectively, ensuring timely delivery of multiple projects with tight deadlines.

SAP Ariba Consultant

SAP Ariba
02.2019 - 08.2022

⦁ Responsible for the end-to-end development, configuration, and adoption of SAP Ariba, SAP ERP solutions and Innovations for Private Demo realms of partners.
⦁ SAP Ariba tenant provisioning and configuring best- practice templates.
⦁ Good exposure to Ariba Upstream (sourcing, contracts & SLP) and downstream modules (Procurement to pay).
⦁ SAP Ariba Integration with ERP system. Master data load through SAP direct connectivity.
⦁ Catalog loading into the Ariba system through direct import load/ ASN load through ST.
⦁ SAP Ariba Guided buying customizations by creating
Landing pages, and tiles through JSON and extensively.

⦁ Working with other teams of the Partner Ecosystem to develop the partner system and its developmental effort to enable partners.
⦁ Proactively prepare and lead partners in solution adoption and innovation features.
⦁ Collaborates with internal SAP Product teams (Field Consulting, Ariba Network, Shared Services etc.) acting as a strategic liaison between the partner and SAP Product teams to build and adopt any new releases.
⦁ Bring in new ways/Ideas of configurations, standardizing configurations methods and helping to reduce the lead time to deliver realms.
⦁ Understands the partner’s basic demo structure and key drivers which influence their demo.
business cases and help to build them.
⦁ Investigate root cause of issues, suggest work arounds, and guide users on the appropriate application usage.
⦁ Documents partner’s best practice scenarios.
⦁ Diagnose and prescribes corrective action for system issues.
⦁ Work/Set up different demo scenarios as per partners’ sales/pre-sales activities.
⦁ Manage escalations related to test & demo tenant issues and expedite resolution of support incidents.

Senior Associate Consultant

Robert Bosch Engineering And Business Solutions
06.2014 - 01.2019

⦁ SAP Ariba on-cloud implementation with P2O processes.
⦁ SAP Ariba Integration with ERP system. Master data load through SAP direct connectivity.
⦁ Workflow customizations.
⦁ Catalog loading into Ariba system through direct import load/ ASN load through ST.
⦁ Ariba Guided buying customizations by creating Landing pages, tiles through JSON.
⦁ Ariba Guided Buying customization by creating customizing forms, Policies and Parameters.
⦁ Diverse experience in integrating ARIBA solutions to SAP (S/4 Hana & ECC) using mediated (SAP PI)/ direct connectivity and CIG.
⦁ knowledge in streamlining the process using lean, agile and scrum methodologies.
⦁ Worked on Guided buying sourcing/req line-item forms and landing pages using JSON file.
⦁ Modified the existing functionality of a legacy system (SRM) according to Ariba standard solution.

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
10.2010 - 05.2014

⦁ Worked on various modules of Ariba Buyer like Requisition, Order, Contracts, Receipt and Invoice in Ariba for testing the Business functionalities.
⦁ Involved in Unit Testing to ensure the functionalities working as expected in upgrade versions after version migration.
⦁ During System Integration Testing Phase, prepared test scripts for Downstream functionalities of Zurich and Involved in Testing the Entire Functionalities of Invoicing module in Quality instance
⦁ Prepared Test Scripts and Involved in Testing the Entire Functionalities of Invoicing module during the User Acceptance Testing Phase.
⦁ Involved in developing new CRQs.
⦁ Worked with the technical team to realize the solution.
⦁ Worked with technical team and involved in Fixing Functional Issues and Technical Issues.
⦁ Worked on the Data load process both master data & Transactional data.
⦁ Resolved Remedy Tickets in a timely manner.
⦁ Involved in Regression testing to ensure existing.
⦁ Worked on templates by creating task, questions and conditions for sourcing/contract templates.
⦁ Worked on rules, suppliers, content, grading and scoring, manual scenarios and awarding the supplier.
⦁ On boarded new suppliers with supplier profile questionnaire and helped them to participate in proposals and auctions.
⦁ Conducted workshops and user trainings for business users.
⦁ Driven Legacy Contracts and ESP load independently from Ariba 8.2 to Ariba 9r1.
⦁ Implemented Lean Methodology in 9r1 upgrade: Automated Legacy Contracts and ESP load post/pre validations.
⦁ Lead offshore team for resolving incidents, code enhancements and multiple CRQ’s.
⦁ Acted as People Champ: Conducted People engagement activities across accounts and won award for being enthusiastic.
⦁ Worked on Code enhancements which involve creating e-form, related workflows and approval flows.

Education

B.Tech -

Jawaharlal Technological University
Anantapur
04.2010

Skills

  • Release Manager
  • SAP Ariba Procurement
  • SQL
  • SLP
  • Ariba Guided Buying
  • Invoice Management
  • Deployment Strategies

Timeline

Release Manager

Coforge DPA PVT LTD. [NAB (Client)]
08.2022 - Current

SAP Ariba Consultant

SAP Ariba
02.2019 - 08.2022

Senior Associate Consultant

Robert Bosch Engineering And Business Solutions
06.2014 - 01.2019

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
10.2010 - 05.2014

B.Tech -

Jawaharlal Technological University
Jyothi Talpur