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Nageswara Rao Goparaju

Athlone

Summary

Successful at collecting and defining feedback from stakeholders to plan effective stories that bring products to life. Exceptional skills in organizing workloads, building relationships, and managing product development steps. Dedicated to addressing technical challenges head-on. A highly motivated employee with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
09.2019 - Current
  • Successfully created product backlog items for Cloud Native Ericsson network management applications and delivered MVP solution to customer labs as per the release plan using 3 scrum teams
  • Successfully created product backlog and delivered lifecycle management of Cloud native Ericsson network management applications
  • Successfully created product backlog for Dimensioning and tuning of different size deployments
  • Created more than 20 plus customer requirements product backlog Items and delivered
  • Continuously communicating with internal and external stakeholders to understand the customer requirements and converting into Main requirements
  • Created product backlog item epics for each Main requirement and further break down into user stories, tasks and acceptance criteria
  • Continuously communicating with stakeholders and prioritizing the product backlog items and provide the development status information
  • Continuously Participating into the design team demos to review the design work and provide the feedback until acceptance criteria met
  • Acting as product owner for 5 scrum teams to manage backlog items and collaboration between the teams to deliver the content in stipulated timelines
  • Participating in all scrum activities to guide the teams to achieve the sprint goals
  • Collaborate with cross functional design areas for any dependencies work and align the teams to deliver the product smoothly
  • Acting as subject matter expert and providing direction, support for development teams to remove any impediments
  • Participate and provide system demos to internal and external stakeholders to get the early feedback on the development of the product and prioritize the backlog or change the backlog items accordingly
  • Expertise in creating and managing the backlog items using Jira
  • Expertise in creating and managing Confluence pages
  • Participate in product documentation reviews to deliver the quality product
  • Have good interpersonal skills and communication

PRODUCT OWNER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD, ERICSSON ODC
03.2012 - 08.2019
  • Worked on more than 30 plus customer requirements and delivered
  • Regular sessions with stakeholders where backlog items discussed, reviewed and prioritized
  • Collaborate with agile teams to build and manage new features and capabilities while delivering desired business impact
  • Maintaining 3 scrum team boards
  • Sprint plannings in collaboration with the scrum teams
  • Defining user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Translated user stories into technical requirements and viable product features
  • Maintained and prioritized each product's backlog of feature requests and bug fixes
  • Supervising product development stages
  • Implemented and delivered GEO redundancy site creation and auto replication
  • Implemented and delivered common infrastructure services (DNS,NTP,OpenDJ) for network management system
  • Implemented and delivered health check of the Cloud ENM deployment
  • Migrated SUN Directory server to Open DJ
  • Communicating with the development team, internal stakeholders, etc
  • To ensure clarity of business goals
  • Involved in designing of many implementation proposals using agile methodology
  • Reviewing the design impacts specification and doing the code reviews
  • Design and implementation of the new functionality to existing system
  • Automation of the test strategy and implementation
  • Preparation of user guides and functional descriptions, conducting the periodic reviews of the existing documents
  • Involved in technical solution proposal workshops
  • Involved in technical POC's
  • Excellent knowledge on transformation of application from Solaris to linux and cloud platforms
  • Involved in Ericsson cloud transformation projects
  • Good in Agile way of working

SOFTWARE DESIGNER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD, ERICSSON SOFTWARE CAMPUS
10.2009 - 02.2012
  • Created Software Management repository system for Network work management elements using shell scripts
  • Reviewed developers code, verifying development standards are adhered to and code is reused where appropriate
  • Investigated technical issues and faults relating to software and test systems, delivering swift and comprehensive bug fixes
  • Wrote and quality-assured tested sections of code to check for errors and suggest improvements for team

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD, ERICSSON
10.2005 - 09.2009

Education

Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) Certified SAFe 4 Agilist ITIL Foundation certificate in IT Service Management ClearCase administration for UNIX Azure DevOps Fundamentals AWS certified solution Architect Associate -

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (B.E) - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

AMA COLLAGE OF ENGINEERING, MADRAS UNIVERSITY

Skills

  • Expertise in Scrum and agile software development methodologies
  • Good at Product development architecture
  • Expertise in Product backlog understanding and management
  • Expertise in creating and defining User stories and acceptance criteria
  • Good analytical and communication skills in communicating ideas both verbally and in written form in a Clear, concise and professional manner
  • Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management in an organized, professional manner
  • Extensive experience on agile way of working
  • Docker, Kubernetes, helm
  • Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Spinnaker
  • Experience with configuration management tools - Ansible, Terraform
  • AWS, Azure, openstack, vmware,
  • Shell scripting, Python
  • XML, JSON, YAML
  • Elasticsearch, grafana
  • Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, Centos, SUSE

Timeline

TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
09.2019 - Current

PRODUCT OWNER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD, ERICSSON ODC
03.2012 - 08.2019

SOFTWARE DESIGNER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD, ERICSSON SOFTWARE CAMPUS
10.2009 - 02.2012

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD, ERICSSON
10.2005 - 09.2009

Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) Certified SAFe 4 Agilist ITIL Foundation certificate in IT Service Management ClearCase administration for UNIX Azure DevOps Fundamentals AWS certified solution Architect Associate -

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (B.E) - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

AMA COLLAGE OF ENGINEERING, MADRAS UNIVERSITY
Nageswara Rao Goparaju