Raghavendra Oruganti
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Forward-thinking Delivery Lead equipped to handle large-scale delivery planning and execution. Proficient in driving sales and increasing customer engagement with a hands-on approach at each stage. Trains, mentors and motivates staff for maximum performance.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Application Delivery Lead
ITS, University of Auckland
04.2019 - Current
- Work with business leadership to identify and establish application requirements, develop and implement enterprise-wide development strategies, and utilize data and automation to enhance and manage business processes
- Develop enterprise-level applications and custom integration solutions, including significant enhancements, interfaces, functions, and features
- Utilizes a variety of platforms to provide automated systems and applications to extract, collect, and present information to customers
- Manage customer relationships by communicating architecture standards and frameworks; respond to and resolve customer concerns and issues
- Supports user community in using business intelligence tools to query data and display information
- Improve information functionality by tracking emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements
- Design the integration between systems and set global standards to ensure the interacting infrastructure elements and software work well
- Identify and remediate cyber vulnerabilities and control topics under all aspects of the project
- Analyse and translate business needs into long-term solution data models
- Reviewing modifications of existing systems for cross-compatibility
- Collaborate with the development team to design and build the database model
- Evaluating the data systems implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency
- Reviewing modifications of existing systems for cross-compatibility
- Partner with multiple vendors to create estimates and delivery plans for projects or programs across an application family
- Ensure quality of technology delivery of various vendors' technology solutions for multiple concurrent projects or programs for an application family
- Communicate with business team members and executives effectively to understand the business needs and context and explain the reference model and the concepts of migration path to get buy-in
- Influence decision-makers from diverse backgrounds on the value of the reference model, standardization, and other architectural decisions, and drive compliance with established standards across the organization
- In addition, the following characteristics are critical for success – accountability, confidence, enthusiasm, and emotional maturity
- Triage the internal and audit findings, identify the remediation owners and target dates, and ensure the remediation within the enterprise timelines.
Test Manager
Optum Tech (United Health Group)
03.2014 - 03.2019
- Manage, coach, and mentor the Quality Team
- Work with product managers, systems analysts, business analysts, designers, and programmers to ensure quality processes are incorporated within the Agile methodology
- Provide input to estimations and design
- Create guidelines for executing manual regression tests and automated testing
- Work closely with SMEs to ensure that test cases and strategies cover every aspect to catch defects in the earliest possible testing stage
- Bring business perspective in testing and focus on meeting business needs by coaching the team on performing data analysis
- Work with the team to create, update, and execute automated test scripts for product features based on requirements
- Evaluated all identified and entered defects encountered during testing
- Will be working with end users and SMEs to implement UAT Best Practices
- Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion
- Coordinate work activities with other supervisors
- Develops plans to meet short-term objectives and longer-term strategic objectives
- Identifies and resolves operational problems using defined processes, expertise, and judgment
- Responsible for Application Security Testing, planning the penetration tests, dynamic Web application scans, and Infrastructure scans
- Scheduling the Retina scanning to security baseline the application infrastructure and uncover the security vulnerabilities
- Triaging the security vulnerabilities with the Threat and Vulnerability Management and Attack Surface Management team to identify and document the Remediation and action plans, assign them to the technical owners, and track them until they are resolved within the remediation timelines dictated in the corporate guidelines
- Report the security vulnerabilities and remediation status to the Client regularly and help assess the application's security metrics.
ETL Test Lead (Data Engineer-Expert)
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
01.2009 - 02.2014
- Designed Test plan and strategy by calling all the details like Objective, Features In-scope and out-scope, Test Approach, Estimations, Entry and exit criteria, Risks, Issues and Dependencies, Environment Details, Test Cycles, and timelines
- Scheduled Test Plan review meeting with the Business Team, Program Manager, and Technical Manager to evaluate and gather specific client expectations, Updated review comments, and got Sign-off
- Analyzed Risks, Issues, and dependencies with the team and derived mitigation plans
- Conducted Interviews and identified resources for the testing team
- Trained and mentored team members on the agile model's functionality, test scope, and QA processes
- Involved in Sprint Planning & Review meetings and aligned QA activities accordingly
- Worked with business users, subject matter experts, and technical staff to identify and articulate requirements, evaluate data architecture and technical environment, and align the software tools with business-user needs for effective information delivery
- Participated in designing the overall architecture for the reporting layer from various data warehouses and source systems; supported strategic, tactical, and operational reporting strategy in real-time, near real-time, and batch environments
- Responsible for testing Universes, WebI, and Crystal Reports based on the requirements given by business users
- Also, regular maintenance activities enhance existing reports and fix daily tickets
- Have done administration of Crystal Reports Enterprise 9 and Business Objects Enterprise XIR3.1/4.0
- QA environment setup and testing coordination
- Managed the transition from development to testing to production deployment of reports
- Conducted Integration and regression testing with the teams related to downstream systems
- Captured error logs, analyzed the issues, and performed the root cause analysis
- Analyzed Project-related test script files, both SQL and QTP, to identify recent file changes
- Reviewed the Defects logged by the team and assigned them to appropriate resources
- Conducted Defect Triage meetings and followed up with the Dev team till resolution.
Business/Data Analyst – Data Integration
Seasia Consulting
11.2006 - 01.2009
- Analyzed BRD, FS, and TS Documents
- Identified all the Risks, Issues, and dependencies
- Prepared test plan estimates for the total number of test scenarios, test cases, and resources required based on the test schedule
- Scheduled calls with the client to review the Test Plan and get Signoff
- Conducted training sessions for the team and guided them in the Preparation of Test Scenarios and test Cases
- Conducted review sessions with clients and other vendors and got Signoff
- Extensively involved in driving System Integration and Regression testing
- Created and maintained the Build verification Test suite
- Conducted collaborative integration testing between various Projects.
Education
Skills
IT Project Management Budgeting and Forecast Product Management Agile Delivery Dev Ops Dev Sec Ops Data Governance and Information Governance Master and Reference Data Management Control by Design Privacy by Design Test/QA Management Security testing Test Automation Tooling Information Risk Management Information Systems Audit Remote Process Automation Data Integration Business Analysis User training Technical Documentation Presales Delivery Management Incident Management Issue Resolution User Acceptance Testing Cost Estimation
Profile Description
IT professional with experience in large and medium-sized projects overviewing the management and delivery of software applications and its support infrastructure by leading the application development, test, and delivery efforts with oversight responsibility for technical decision-making and product quality assurance, data privacy, and security. Includes relevant experience of 5+ years as a technical project manager and delivery lead in all system development life cycle phases, including requirements analysis, test planning, scheduling, test execution, defect tracking, delivery, support, and service operations. Strong architecture knowledge with experience in providing technical solutions for projects. Ability to quickly understand issues and think through solutions. Design and lead the implementation of consumable, cloud-enabled APIs to exchange data between source and downstream systems. Expertise in data modeling principles/methods, including conceptual, logical, and physical Data Models. Ability to communicate complex technical ideas, regardless of the technical capacity of the audience. Ability to quickly learn and adapt modeling methods from case studies or other proven approaches. Ability to quickly generate proof of concept (working code) and prototype to prove architecture. Good analytical, conceptual, and critical thinking skills to evaluate business problems and apply knowledge to identify appropriate solutions. Initiative-taking, meticulous, and excellent organizational and time management skills.
Online profile
LinkedIn
Certification
- AWS Security Engineering
- Certified Information Systems Auditor
- Product Owners Training
Timeline
Application Delivery Lead
ITS, University of Auckland
04.2019 - Current
Test Manager
Optum Tech (United Health Group)
03.2014 - 03.2019
ETL Test Lead (Data Engineer-Expert)
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
01.2009 - 02.2014
Business/Data Analyst – Data Integration
Seasia Consulting
11.2006 - 01.2009
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