ALM
Kanagarla Rama Kishore
Lead
Visakhapatnam
Summary
Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
3k Softech Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
02.2019 - Current
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
- Modified and directed project plans to meet organizational needs.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Provide leadership to the team members as needed to ensure successful project delivery
- Updated operational methods and oversaw accounting procedures for improved efficiency.
- Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
- Lead the resolution of escalated technical issues/ challenges/ and escalate appropriately
- Troubleshoot project issues with Account Management and engage appropriate resources as needed
- Maintained clear communication with precise technical writing to document and inform critical processes.
- Planned, designed and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
Application Manager
Akzonobel
Bengaluru
08.2014 - 02.2019
- Single point of contact (SPOC) for all the queries related to the product.
- Worked with the Support team (during IST & EST) to ensure Service level agreements are executed
- Provides status updates and communicates frequently with/to end-users as well as with local, regional, and global support and management teams
- Analyzed data and create quality reports based on internal quality parameters, the performance of tools, market demands
- Localize the problem set by slicing and dicing data by different dimensions
- Participate in all phases of development starting with a conceptual model through functional and detailed design to implementation, debugging, and deployment of the software solution
- Direct and participate with team members in the analysis, development, and delivery of all support and project work for assigned application(s)
- Supported customer queries over the phone and through e-mail
- Developing visual reports, and dashboards using Power BI desktop.
- Connecting to data sources, importing data, and transforming data for Business Intelligence.
- Adept in developing, publishing, and scheduling Power BI reports as per the business requirements
- Partner with multiple stakeholders from different geographies to negotiate and agree on an 'acceptable' solution for all to meet business strategy and customer needs.
- Develop User Stories with Acceptance criteria along with stakeholders of R&D and Marketing applications.
- Perform resource planning, deployment, tracking, and reporting for all assigned team members
- Consult with clients and team members to develop technical solutions to complex business/information problems
- Initiate and execute mid-and long-term improvement projects
- Prepared weekly and monthly reports for the Management team and Service management
- Responsible for maintaining all the Software documentation
- Created data set using advanced level calculations
- Track the KPIs, identify the gaps and opportunities
- Develop a detailed testing approach and plans for specific test areas or overall plans for small to medium size projects
- Participate in peer reviews of Test Cases, SQL structure, and Test Plans
- Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g., functional, integration, end-to-end) on a variety of platforms (e.g. Desktop, Web Applications)
Test Engineer
Datamatics Vista Info Systems Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
02.2014 - 07.2014
- Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability.
- Secured and allocated resources to manage planning and operations in testing cycle.
- Tested hardware and software within sandbox environment prior to release to production.
- Tracked test reports and failures determined by root cause data trends.
- Test execution, tracking, and defect management processes and guidelines consistently across the enterprise
- Regression and Automation test execution in each test phase with set targets and governance guidelines
- Create and execute API Test scripts in SOAPUI
- Automated Build Acceptance Test Protocol and Functional Level Test Cases using Selenium with Java
- Maintained Test cases via POM Framework using Test NG
- Hands-on experience with Postgres SQL
- Performing Testing on AWS cloud and monitoring activities via Cloud Watch
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins
- Formal requirements traceability process across all application groups and all phases of testing
Test Engineer
Aplomb Software Technologies
Visakhapatnam
03.2012 - 01.2014
- Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability.
- Secured and allocated resources to manage planning and operations in testing cycle.
- Tracked test reports and failures determined by root cause data trends.
- Developed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.
Test Engineer
First Man Software Solutions
Visakhapatnam
09.2010 - 02.2012
- Write and execute test cases to ensure a system or application meets its requirements as outlined in functional specifications and as defined in the test/validation plan.
- Developed comprehensive test conditions and test cases for highly complex information systems and/or software programs.
- Work closely with validation lead, project manager, business analyst technical team and business users to ensure the test scripts written meet the business requirements.
- Document discrepancies and work with other technical resources on a resolution.
- Log the defects through Excel.
- Initiating and Participate in project meetings throughout project life cycle.
Education
MCA - Computer Application
University of Mysore
Visakhapatnam 08.2007 - 08.2010
Skills
Business process re-engineering
Project planning and development
Strategic planning
Testing and Conversion Plans
Advanced understanding of Jira
Performance Evaluations
Project Management
Technical Support
Staff Management
Systems Installation, Configuration and Upgrading
Functional & Business Requirements
Mergers and acquisitions knowledge
Software Development Lifecycle
Systems Design Documentation
Programming Languages
Team Bonding
Software
Selenium
PostMan
TFS
Test Project
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Certified Scrum Master
03-2021
Project Manager
3k Softech Pvt Ltd
02.2019 - Current
Application Manager
Akzonobel
08.2014 - 02.2019
Test Engineer
Datamatics Vista Info Systems Pvt. Ltd
02.2014 - 07.2014
Test Engineer
Aplomb Software Technologies
03.2012 - 01.2014
Test Engineer
First Man Software Solutions
09.2010 - 02.2012
MCA - Computer Application
University of Mysore
08.2007 - 08.2010