Sudhir Vallentyne
Brisbane,QLD
Summary
Sudhir Vallentyne has 16 years of rich experience in IT industry. Currently performing as CI/CD Release Manager at Suncorp Systems thru wipro technologies. Key strengths include in driving Automation Strategic Solutions, Project and Release Management, Test Management, DevOps-CI/CD & CT implementations, Web and API automation services on digital platforms.
Detail-oriented Release Manager focused on providing defect-free products to clients. Working closely with development, QA and business teams to accomplish goals and exceed customer expectations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Release Manager
Wipro Technologies
Brisbane, QLD
10.2019 - Current
- Coordinating scheduled releases for Monthly, Fast Track and Ad-hoc, Emergency Bug fix releases.
- Monthly Sizing forum with API squads, Consumers and testing teams
- Maintaining release artifacts for pre-prod and Prod regions
- Outline, confirm release components with development squads
- Set release management lifecycles according to internal business goals and ongoing development realities.
- Managing deployments of operating system patches, security improvements and hardware compatibility updates for API servers.
- Managed release validations through development, testing and production phases.
- Change Management for the Scheduled Production releases
- Produced reports and updated consumers, business stakeholders and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments for the releases.
- Release deployments are managed for both on-prem and cloud(OpenShift)
- Post release planning- Post Implementation reviews, retrospectives, Continuous improvements(Process or Automation)
- Managing existing and New API's migration/onboarding to Cloud environment(OpenShift)
- Managing Platform releases- Software Patching, Ansible, Jenkins, F5, Redis Cache, Certificate changes etc.,
DevOps Consultant
Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
11.2018 - 09.2019
- Developed Automated solution for Application Packaging team using using DevOps CI/CD model
- E2E Automation for Application Packaging delivery
- Gathering customized requirements from various clients to understand Application Packaging needs for their respective environments
- Show cased prototype automated solution to pre-sales, Customers
- Test Management using Jira on a sprint based model
Automation Test Manager
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2017 - 10.2018
- Test Automation engagements for Web Applications and API services
- Continuous Automation show cases with Customer in Sprint retrospective sessions for API, Web and Mainframe applications
- POSTGRES DB configurations on Linux systems
- Developing automation scripts for build deployments and continuous testing using Windows PowerShell
- Enhancements for existing automation frame works, Handling Customer escalations and expectations
Project Manager
Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad, Telangana
02.2016 - 04.2017
- Coordinating with various stakeholders including the BU requester, key users, IT PMO, Onboarding Program Manager and Global Process Owners
- Consultation on the in-scope Remedy on Demand modules
- Upload of in-scope Onboarding Kits / data sheets onto Remedy on Demand and validation of uploaded data in Remedy on Demand
- Validation of the Onboarding kits and advise of required data corrections
- Upload of in-scope Onboarding Kits / data sheets onto Remedy on Demand and validation of uploaded data in Remedy on Demand
- BMC Remedy process trainings for Application owners and Business Information Managers
- BMC Remedy process trainings for Application owners and Business Information Managers
UAT Test Lead
Wipro Technologies
San Jose, California, USA
10.2014 - 01.2016
- Managing User Acceptance timelines and deliverables in accordance with agreed project plans
- Change requests status updates in RMO and ERMO calls
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Agile releases UAT co-ordination
- Post Project assessment thru SWOT
- Interacting and auditing with Business leads to govern the CCB and BRD process
Process Governance and UAT Lead
Sriven Technologies
Sanjose, California, USA
06.2013 - 09.2014
- Managing project timelines and deliverables in accordance with agreed project plans
- Interacting with Customer partner enablement Team, Internal Agents and Theater/Sales on Production Supporting Cases analysis
- Running Business Objects reports for Production data analysis
- Identify the Solution Gap between initiatives by Internal BRD reviews
- Process improvement in User Acceptance Testing phase
- Interacting with Customer partner enablement Team, Internal Agents and Theater/Sales to engage testing activities
- Post Project assessment thru SWOT
QA Manager
Tech Mahindra
San Jose, California, USA
01.2011 - 06.2013
- Responsible for resource estimation, effort calculation, budget estimations, QA planning for multiple assignments
- Coordinating QA activities in offshore-onsite model
- Stakeholder Management- in Senior Management meetings, Concept Commit, Execute Commit, Test Strategy/planning meetings, Readiness review meetings, PMO and ERMO meetings
- Stakeholder Management- Technical review meetings, Business/functional requirements review, and effort estimations review on the scope commitments
- Planning and tracking the test preparation/execution and closure activities
- QA test scenario/cases review with IT solution, Biz and DEV leads
- QACC governance activities for QA process enhancements
- Conversant with onsite offshore work model
Test Analyst
Tech Mahindra
Sanjose, California, USA
10.2009 - 12.2010
- Responsible for Test planning at a project level in SDLC cycle
- Coordinating Testing activities in offshore-onsite model across all the application tracks
- Stakeholder reviews- Concept Commit, Execute Commit, Test Strategy/planning meetings
- Business/functional requirements review, and effort estimations review on the scope commitments
- Defect Status report calls with various stake holders
- Production Normalization phase - Test activities like Incident testing, QA analysis, testing impacts etc.,
- Fast and rapid paced model of having releases every month, quarter and Ad-hoc EBF requests.
Test Lead
Satyam Computer Services
SanJose, California, USA
04.2006 - 09.2009
- QA planning at a Applications track level
- Coordinating with Business, IT solution teams in various stages of SDLC phases
- Internal peer reviews on functional requirements within the track leads
- Authoring and planning the test scenarios, test cases
- Test scenario, test case reviews with Business, solution and Development leads
- Coordinating the track level QA test scenario/cases review with IT solution, Biz and DEV leads
Test Engineer
Satyam Computer Services
Belgium, Europe
05.2005 - 03.2006
- Analysis and design of VINCI and developed the test scripts for the business module FTO(OLAP & OLTP)
- Design and execution of test scripts for the mobile/remote client(PDA)
- FTO-OLAP Reports testing
- Regression and UAT testing
- Test Director defect tracking, responsible for interacting with Dev and Biz teams on the defects
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Osmania University
Hyderabad, India03.2001
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam, India03.1999
Skills
- Managing releases
- Documentation Management
- Quality assurance
- Scheduling releases
- Working with vendors
- CI/CD Automation frame work
- OpenShift Deployments
Certification
Certified ITIL V3.0 Foundation
Certified Scrum Master
Certified TOSCA AS1
Certified IBM Blue mix Cloud
Azure AZ-104 Trained
AWS DevOps Trained
Timeline
Release Manager
Wipro Technologies
10.2019 - Current
DevOps Consultant
Wipro Technologies
11.2018 - 09.2019
Automation Test Manager
Wipro Technologies
06.2017 - 10.2018
Project Manager
Wipro Technologies
02.2016 - 04.2017
UAT Test Lead
Wipro Technologies
10.2014 - 01.2016
Process Governance and UAT Lead
Sriven Technologies
06.2013 - 09.2014
QA Manager
Tech Mahindra
01.2011 - 06.2013
Test Analyst
Tech Mahindra
10.2009 - 12.2010
Test Lead
Satyam Computer Services
04.2006 - 09.2009
Test Engineer
Satyam Computer Services
05.2005 - 03.2006
Master of Science - Computer Science
Osmania University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Andhra University