Experienced and hardworking IT Consultant with over 15 years of expertise as Business Analyst, Cloud Migration & Data Centre Migration Analyst, Testing, Test Environment Coordinator, Project coordinator & change management Coordinator and System Support Analyst.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Snr Technical Business Analyst
Woolworths Group
09.2022 - Current
At Woolworths new applications are being built directly in the cloud and a recent Unify program has migrated applications from number of infrastructure platforms in dedicated data centres to cloud by moving all on-prem workloads to Microsoft Azure
Unify Program has been pursuing the reduction of datacentre hosting environments through the migration of workloads from on-prem hosting environments to public cloud
Applications have been migrated to Azure Cloud (AVS or Azure Native) from Dell Private Cloud (DPC) and legacy platforms residing on infrastructure hosted in Eastern Creek, Equinix Data Centre and Norwest Data Centres
Applications and related Databases (DB’s) are migrated from DPC and legacy hosting to Azure VMware Solution (AVS) on the Azure platform supported by Dell via HCX - replication & RAV model/vMotion model.
Snr Technical Business Analyst
AMP
03.2021 - 08.2022
AMP was an early adopter of cloud technologies, seizing on its potential with over half of its environments hosted in Cloud which enables on-demand delivery of technology services without the need to buy, own or maintain physical servers or Data Centre's
AMP is accelerating its move to 100% cloud through its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The program is called Cloud X
Cloud X program –Massive program and bold initiative from AMP to drive 100% Cloud adoption for all AMP groups
The program is aimed at accelerating transformation at AMP to their strategic partners AWS Cloud
I am from CloudX team for AMP-Capital stream for migrating applications from DXC managed BizCloud to AWS
The approach used is 3R (Re-Install, Reshape and Rehost) spanned across all business-critical applications along with APRA risk rating approvals
Technical Business Analyst
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
11.2018 - 10.2019
Project1: Migration of Data Centre from Olympic Park to Burwood (BDCM Program)
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in Datacenter Migration ensuring seamless exit of the datacenter and test LAB in Sydney Olympic Park
Achievements: Audit of facilities; Identification of all devices, services, and service owners
Determining treatment required for each service and device
Relocation of over 200 physical devices and 100 virtual servers
Relocation of Witness Server functionality for over 500 clusters
Hands on experience in telnet testing on F5 Load Balancer GTM, LTM, firewall burns
Organize telnet testing for external groups like PEGA, CDS & Team city
Updating config files and maintained Server inventor
Tracking managed service accounts requested, incidents & change request along with follow ups and escalations
Uploaded server inventory files of all non-prod & Prod environments, CI bulk uploads in CMDB
Maintained, updated & opened accounts, monitored progress of new customer accounts
Contributed to the Huddles, Sprint meetings and BACoE meetings by coordinating with technical teams, architects, engineers, test teams & different business units, operation teams and other sprint teams to meet business goals & go-live
Involved in updating Service Management Plans (SMP), Change Run Sheets, tracking JIRA tasks, Service account Request, Change request and CMDB updates
Request DNS entry creation, PEN testing entry criteria for PCE
Responded to network related queries related to access & various systems
Configuring Access Control Lists to grant, restrict network access to authorized users, systems, groups, and processes.
System Analysis and Design Coordinator
University of Western Sydney
01.2018 - 08.2018
Conducting workshops for university students (System Analysis & Testing Methods)
Organize quizzes, class material, assignments assessments, trainings & teaching
Prepare workshop material & assignments & IT support coordination.
Test & Business Support Analyst (Data & Test Environment Coordination)
Optus
01.2016 - 07.2017
Project: Spring (Amdocs CRM Project)
Represented as point of contact for coordinating with all teams involved for supporting test execution for different Code Drops of ESM Systems
Knowledge on CRM System & test Execution
Worked on various projects to enhance our team’s workflow & performed UAT testing on system improvements
Test data requirement gathering, configuring, coordination and maintaining the repository
Raise Test data request, configure data in downstream systems
Prepare report to the business on Open/closed defects, resolution & Severity
Execute the test cases and highlight defects & send Daily Status Report to business
Experience on planning Migration Testing Scenarios in Integrated Environment for Legacy data for BCC
Data Validation & reports generation using COGNOS
Analysis, Requirements gathering, scoping, documentation & Validate data
Validate data accuracy, completeness, inconsistencies, log defects & prioritize them with stakeholders for resolution
Develop Test Matrix to report status on daily basis
Performed Data Mapping & data creation in legacy system for Migration scenarios
Prepare test cases and Test matrix based on the business requirements and upload to Test lab in Quality Centre & evaluate Exit Criteria
Coordination with Amdocs with queries on environment issues and defect analysis.
Project: MY OPTUS APP (Mobile App Testing)
Responsible for UAT & BRT phase execution for MOA UAT covering all the scenarios and functionalities from UAT & BRT testing
Captured business design requirements and product backlog for Mobile Testing
Prepared high-level business requirements to align with overall business strategy
Raise JIRA tickets for issues observed during testing for both Android and iOS on different devices and different bills and builds
Upload defects with screenshot for Android & iOS in ALM on regularly for review
Responsible for sending Defect Summary report, execution count for business.
Snr System Support & Business Support Analyst
Optus
11.2011 - 12.2015
Demonstrated extensive experience in configuring day to day data for all testing activities for all the Projects scheduled in Non-Prod & Prod Environments
Maintained and monitored periodically the process for data preparation work with stakeholders to provide more agile delivery & faster turnaround
Involved in raising RFC (Request for change) and getting necessary approvals
Coordinated & supported deployment activities, BAU Configurations, automation testing, regression testing, SIT, UAT and Performance testing
Responsible for booking test environments and coordinating with environments leads project managers and skill groups with agreed requirements & availability
Plan, prepare & analyze test data requirements for all testing activities related to data configuration in different systems, environments, projects, and upgrades
Verification of batch extracts files to confirm orders have flown through to systems
Execution of Test cases, data validation and report defects in Quality Centre
Participate in Test status & configuration meetings & report to respective stakeholders
Perform ETL jobs, scheduling, monitoring, and fixing discrepancies
Review test cases, manage & support Testing teams to execute Test Plans in SIT/UAT/BRT (onshore and offshore) during Project Cycle
Implement Change Request & prepare documentation on existing functionality
Data analysis, data mappings & writing SQL statements, stored procedures to extract data from SQL Server & Oracle databases.
Test Engineer
Nokia Siemens Network (VHA)
08.2011 - 10.2011
Performed Billing Verification, Cutover Verification & stability testing for Vodafone MSS & HLR and supported downstream testing teams with data flow
Worked closely with Integration & Billing Team on Vodafone side to verify CDRs
Engaged in MSS Functional Testing for the GCD 10 upgrade of Nokia MSS
Execute the call tracing on MSS nodes using MML Commands
Verify the cause analysis of test failure and prepared daily & weekly defect report
Root Cause Analysis for Test Failure and Abnormal behavior and regression testing.
System & Business Support Analyst
Optus
06.2007 - 06.2010
Prepare documents for support task performing for new projects & implementation
Experience on Analyzing the functionalities and perform complete Regression Test for Upgrades, Pre-Implementations in different test environments & in DR testing
Responsible for test data preparation and manage test environment requirements to support development and testing activities and ensure integrity of data and Provide Security Admin approval
Prepare Test cases, Test Scenarios based on Functional and Technical specifications
Prepare test data and manage the test environment requirements to support development and testing activities and ensure integrity of data
Worked on shell scripts to run batch jobs, monitored application based on business requirements
Developed SQL queries to execute backend testing
System Test ownership to build activities on resolved issues & support UAT, SIT Test
Monitor and update Clarify incident identifying the Root Cause and report
Maintain current applications & database systems and provide adequate support for systems & establish credible relationships with key members of the projects
Assess, Approve & Implement change requests to track all application related changes on Production & all other impacting environments; Resolve escalated incidents from IT Service desk & Change Management; Ownership of defects until the closure by co-ordination within and the extended team
Provide Security Admin approval for SARs request & create accounts through iSecure.
Education
Masters in Telecommunication Networks -
UTS
Sydney
Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering -
INDIA
Skills
Infrastructure
Transformation Programs
Application Migration
AWS Cloud
Azure
Business Analysis
Data Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Change Management
Cloud Migration
Datacenter Migration
Network Migrations
SQL
Change Managemnet
Test Management
JIRA
Confluence
MS Office
Google Suit
Agile
Waterfall
Problem-solving
Personal Information
Visa Status: Australian Citizen
Volunteer Experience
Volunteering for community gardens
Council events
NSW Multicultural Health service supported projects
Timeline
Snr Technical Business Analyst
Woolworths Group
09.2022 - Current
Snr Technical Business Analyst
AMP
03.2021 - 08.2022
Technical Business Analyst
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
11.2018 - 10.2019
System Analysis and Design Coordinator
University of Western Sydney
01.2018 - 08.2018
Test & Business Support Analyst (Data & Test Environment Coordination)
Optus
01.2016 - 07.2017
Snr System Support & Business Support Analyst
Optus
11.2011 - 12.2015
Test Engineer
Nokia Siemens Network (VHA)
08.2011 - 10.2011
System & Business Support Analyst
Optus
06.2007 - 06.2010
Masters in Telecommunication Networks -
UTS
Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering -