Vidhyasree Manoharan
Sydney,Australia
Summary
Release coordinator with expertise in managing IT projects from inception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Proficient in Software Development lifecycle management, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication. Proven track record of leading teams to successful project outcomes, enhancing efficiency and client satisfaction while maintaining budgetary compliance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Release Coordinator
AEMO
04.2021 - Current
- Profound experience in planning and scheduling the release, gathering release scope.
- Drafted detailed implementation plan and run books ensuring all aspects of release scope and dependencies fulfilled to meet release standards.
- Ensured efficient release orchestration with all key stakeholders, and accurately communicated release status.
- Ensured all sign-offs and approvals are met for Go-Live.
- Managed and coordinated the Go-Live activities, including regular updates, GO/NO-GO decisions, and communication to all key stakeholders and project teams.
- Handled releases for emergency changes and incidents.
- Conveyed the risks and issues associated with releases to stakeholders to ensure group knowledge and understanding of release decisions and outcomes.
- Responsible for maintaining a release risk, issues, and dependencies log associated with each release to ensure group knowledge, understanding of release decisions and outcomes, minimizing conflict, and delivery issues.
- Represent changes in TCAB and CAB, and understand any dependencies or conflicts that hinder the release.
- Evaluated the risk and impact of all changes, incidents, and problems.
- I learned and improved the release management process wherever possible.
- Ensured resources are aligned for implementation, captured learnings, and conducted post-implementation review.
- Coordinate site transfer/bay transfer activities.
- Create/manage the test environment.
QA Analyst
Hivetec
Australia
03.2020 - 04.2021
- Company Overview: Hivetec’s Bridge is a third party employment system accredited by Australian Government, Department of Education, Skills and Employment for many government programs including Jobactive, Disability Employment Services (DES), NDIS Care etc.
- Defect management, conducting bug triage and liaising with developers for defect fixes and updates.
- Co-ordinate and work with business and technical teams to support project delivery into the test environments and production.
- End to end validation of workflows.
- Testing application and its integration with other systems.
- Hivetec’s Bridge is a third party employment system accredited by Australian Government, Department of Education, Skills and Employment for many government programs including Jobactive, Disability Employment Services (DES), NDIS Care etc.
Test Analyst
NSW Department of Education
Australia
04.2019 - 02.2020
- Translate business and functional requirements into SIT test artefacts for assigned projects ensuring full coverage of the solution.
- Create and execute SIT test plans, test scripts, document test results.
- Conduct end-to-end user acceptance and business validation and regression tests, defect retests.
- Defect management, conducting bug triage and liaising with developers for defect fixes and updates.
- Co-ordinate and work with business and technical teams to support project delivery into the test environments and production.
- Performed Functional validation with device like Android and IOS.
Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Chennai
03.2010 - 12.2018
- Understanding the user requirement document such as (BRD, HLD, FRD).
- Developed test cases and test scenarios for ETL logic.
- Executing the User acceptance testing scripts in Mastercraft devplus.
- Attending the defect / Project status client call.
- Source to target mapping testing, Null check.
- Validated the transformation logic as per the requirement.
- Worked on BIG Data and tested using Hadoop hive cluster.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology -
B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College
Chennai05-2009
Skills
- Release management and planning
- Project coordination and scheduling
- Stakeholder communication
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Team collaboration and problem-solving
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Configuration management
- Test environment management
- Incident management and issue resolution
- Software development lifecycle expertise
- DevOps
- HP ALM - Quality Center proficiency
- JIRA and Redmine usage
- Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Oracle databases
- SQL Server and MySQL
Certification
- Certified ISTQB foundation level tester.
- HP Quality center 10.0.
Personal Information
- Notice period :4 weeks
- Date of Birth: 01/02/1988
- Visa Status: Australian Permanent Resident
Accomplishments
- Shoutout for the character - Be Our Best by Karin R
- Shout out received in many digital town halls for successful releases
- Star Team Player Award winner for performing well in Test Execution Phase.
- Won the SPOT Award for successfully handling the project.
Timeline
Release Coordinator
AEMO
04.2021 - Current
QA Analyst
Hivetec
03.2020 - 04.2021
Test Analyst
NSW Department of Education
04.2019 - 02.2020
Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
03.2010 - 12.2018
Bachelor of Engineering Technology -
B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College