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Banu Sreekar Alavala

Chennai,TN

Summary

Experienced TPF Developer having a strong domain knowledge in the area of Airline Schedules - SSM and SSIM, Inventory, Reservations and Search. Proven track record of leadership and teamwork at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. An enthusiastic and forward-thinking professional with a Bachelor of Engineering, seeking to leverage expertise and drive success to help achieve self and organization's goals.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
05.2021 - Current

Client: Travelport

Project: Schedules, Availability and Sell

Environment: Assembler, TPF, TPF-C/Cpp, TPFDF, zTPFGI

Cores: Galileo, Apollo, Worldspan

Description: Schedules & Availability application within Travelport is responsible for maintaining the up-to-date Flight schedules in the system using SSM messaging or via OAG SSIM file, updating and maintaining Inventory using various Availability mechanisms and also responsible for Sell/Cancel and Rebook functions.

Responsibilities:

  • Interaction with the Client, Business Analysts, Business Users for gathering the requirements
  • Requirement / Problem Analysis
  • Triage and prioritize requirements and production issues
  • Code Development
  • Unit and Integration Testing
  • Documentation of analysis of the problem, steps to recreate the problem, proposed solution and test results
  • Providing Load Coverage and Support
  • Perform Code Reviews
  • Providing on-call support for production issues paged by Monitoring team / Crisis Escalation Team and such teams
  • Participate in Weekly Status Meetings with Client Directors/Managers, SMEs and TCS teams
  • Guide and mentor junior team members and trainees
  • Ensure the overall quality of project

Onsite Coordinator and Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
05.2018 - 05.2021

Client: Travelport

Project: Schedules, Availability and Sell

Environment: Assembler, TPF, TPF-C/Cpp, TPFDF, zTPFGI

Cores: Galileo, Apollo, Worldspan

Description: Schedules & Availability application within Travelport is responsible for maintaining the up-to-date Flight schedules in the system using SSM messaging or via OAG SSIM file, updating and maintaining Inventory using various Availability mechanisms and also responsible for Sell/Cancel and Rebook functions.

Responsibilities:

  • Interaction with the Client, Business Analysts, Business Users for gathering the requirements
  • Requirement / Problem Analysis
  • Triage and prioritize requirements and production issues
  • Code Development
  • Unit and Integration Testing
  • Documentation of analysis of the problem, steps to recreate the problem, proposed solution and test results
  • Providing Load Coverage and Support
  • Providing on-call support for production issues paged by Monitoring team / Crisis Escalation Team and such teams
  • Participate in Weekly Status Meetings with Client Directors/Managers, SMEs and TCS teams
  • Co-ordination with offshore team and interaction with client SMEs on issues worked upon by offshore team
  • Ensure the overall quality of project

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
03.2013 - 04.2018

Client: Travelport


Project: Split Ticket Search

Environment: Assembler, TPF, TPF-C/Cpp, TPFDF, TPF Toolkit

Cores: Galileo

Description: This project provides split ticket pricing options for Round Trip Shopping when requested via GUI interface. For a regular Shop query only Round-Trip responses will be returned, whereas for a Split Ticket Search a list of responses returned will be containing:

  • Outbound Pricing responses
  • Inbound Pricing responses
  • Round-Trip Pricing responses

Responsibilities:

  • Verifying business and user requirements
  • Analysing system functionality
  • Responsbile for investigation, coding and testing
  • Participate in project status calls
  • Preparing unit test cases and doing unit testing
  • Documenting test results
  • Resolving version contentions, if any
  • Loading changes to pre-production and production systems
  • Providing Load Coverage and Support


Project: Sponsored Flights in Shopping

Environment: Assembler, TPF, TPF-C/Cpp, TPFDF, TPF Toolkit

Cores: Galileo. Apollo, Worldspan

Description: This project is about displaying Sponsored Flights in Shopping screens. Sponsored Flights are displayed on top above all the other shopping results. This increases the visibility of the carrier to sell their tickets to customers, thereby increasing their revenue.

Responsibilities:

  • Verifying business and user requirements
  • Analysing system functionality
  • Responsbile for investigation, coding and testing
  • Participate in project status calls
  • Preparing unit test cases and doing unit testing
  • Documenting test results
  • Resolving version contentions, if any
  • Loading changes to pre-production and production systems
  • Providing Load Coverage and Support

Education

B.E. - Electronics And Communication Engineering

R.M.D. Engineering College
Chennai, India
06-2012

H.S.C. -

Maharishi Vidya Mandir
Chennai, India
04-2008

SSC -

St. Mary's A.I. Hr. Sec. School
Chennai, India
04-2006

Skills

  • Assembler
  • TPF
  • TPF-C/Cpp
  • TPFDF
  • zTPFGI
  • SSM and SSIM
  • Edifacts and PADIS
  • Working with OAG files
  • Analytical Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication Skills
  • Mentorship
  • Leadership and Teamwork

Languages

English
Telugu
Tamil

Timeline

Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
05.2021 - Current

Onsite Coordinator and Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
05.2018 - 05.2021

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
03.2013 - 04.2018

B.E. - Electronics And Communication Engineering

R.M.D. Engineering College

H.S.C. -

Maharishi Vidya Mandir

SSC -

St. Mary's A.I. Hr. Sec. School
Banu Sreekar Alavala