Rajani Palavala
Bengaluru
Summary
Talented Team Leader experienced and dedicated to enhancing employee satisfaction and business success. Diplomatic and friendly with proven commitment to employee training. Hardworking team player bringing necessary experience and knowledge to tackle any operational demand.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Team Lead
Sapiens Software
02.2022 - Current
- Directed and supervised team of approx. 35 members engaged in day-to-day activity conducting scrum call with Agile development methodologies. Assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, BI, Data Migration, BA and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
- Mentored and guided junior team members to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
- Enhanced system performance with thorough code reviews, debugging, and optimization techniques by using Yourkit, Dynatrace and lightrun.
- Hired, trained and mentored staff to maximize effectiveness.
- Developed custom applications tailored to client needs using IDIT Framework which includes technologies such as Java, Struts, Hibernate, EJB etc.
- Collaborated with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to define project requirements, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Instituted code review practices that fostered an environment of constructive feedback exchange among team members leading to better overall code quality and maintainability.
- Improved software development processes by introducing Agile methodologies and promoting cross-functional collaboration, fostering a cohesive working environment for seamless product development.
- Maintained close communication with clients throughout project life cycles for accurate progress reporting and prompt issue resolution.
- Led a team of developers to successfully deliver high-quality software projects on time and within budget constraints.
- Managed leave requests and absences and arranged covers to facilitate smooth flow of operations.
- Implemented batch jobs based on the requirements.
- Handled deployments and release merges, product upgrades using CI/CD process.
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies
01.2019 - 02.2022
- Directed and supervised team of 6 engaged in day-to-day activity and Agile development.
- Developed and implemented bug fixes and patch sets for Tidal Automation and Supplier Electronic Data Systems 2.0 for The Boeing company .
- Audited project/team performance and compliance with PQA and DPA as per HCL Technologies standards.
- Demonstrated strong leadership qualities by taking ownership of challenging projects, leading teams through adversity, and successfully navigating complex situations.
- Improved customer satisfaction rates through proactive communication of project updates and addressing concerns promptly.
- Reduced project delivery times by effectively prioritizing tasks and delegating responsibilities among the team.
- Boosted employee engagement levels with regular one-on-one meetings, open forums for discussion, and clear career progression pathways for team members.
- Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
- Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures and quality requirements.
- Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
- Performed technical POCs on the provided requirements.
- Integrating application with CDG, S1000D platforms and Documentem workflows.
- Developed of packages, functions, procedures, cursor as per the requirements.
- Worked on building new adapters for Tidal Automation that connects to respective Azure Cloud Services.
- Active member and hosted meetings for WSR with SRM's.
- Reduced costs $100K by delivering value additions on providing technical solution screen on fail to upload documents to Documentum server due to network glitch or any other reason, which helped Admins/Business Admins to resubmit/review without reaching The Boeing company suppliers.
Lead Engineer
HCL America
04.2016 - 12.2018
- Developed and implemented bug fixes and patch sets for Supplier Electronic Data Systems 2.0 for The Boeing company.
- Performed migration of T-file legacy system to Supplier Electronic Data Systems 2.0 for The Boeing company.
- Demonstrated strong leadership qualities by taking ownership of challenging projects, leading teams through adversity, and successfully navigating complex situations.
- Improved customer satisfaction rates through proactive communication of project updates and addressing concerns promptly.
- Reduced project delivery times by effectively prioritizing tasks and delegating responsibilities among the team.
- Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
- Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures and quality requirements.
- Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
- Performed technical POCs on the provided requirements.
- Integrated application with CDG, S1000D platforms and Documentum workflows.
- Reduced costs $150K by delivering value additions by Implemented bridge job to perform S1000D document validation as per the given guidelines.
- Developed of packages, functions, procedures, cursor as per the requirements
Lead Engineer
HCL Technologies
03.2011 - 04.2016
- Involved in code review, Peer review UTC review.
- Coding, Testing and bug fixing.
- Supported team in development activities.
- Client interaction for requirement gathering/CR's and understandings
- Module estimation.
- Supporting team in development task completion technically and functionally.
- Development of server-side components involving server-side business logic and interactions with the database layer.
- Development of client-side components involving screen design and minimal validations.
- Development of packages, functions, procedures, cursor as per the requirement of the application.
- Performance tuning
- Performed as a PQA to improve Quality in deliverables
Education
Master of Science -
Sikkim Manipal University
Bengaluru, KABachelor of Science -
Sri Venkateshwara University
Tirupati, APSKILLS
- Project Leadership
- Software development life cycle
- Performance Optimization
- Software Development
- Scrum Master
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Java, JS, J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, EJB, Oracle ADF, Rest API, Web Application Development
- Databases: SQL Server, Oracle
- Jira issue tracking and Confluence management
- Agile Practices
- Configuration Management: SVN, clear-case, TFS and GIT
- Other Tools: Jasper Report, YourKit, Talend, Dynatrace
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- HCL Infinity -League of outstanding HCLites.
- Livewire, R&R Awards.
- Six Sigma • Yellow Belt Award.
- Star of Excellence Awards.
- ERS Knowledge Champion -1 Award.
- Awarded by customer on multiple categories as "Productivity Champion", "Process Champion" and "Knowledge Champion(Ninja)"
LANGUAGES
- English
- Telugu
- Tamil
- Hindi
- Kannada
Timeline
Tech Team Lead
Sapiens Software
02.2022 - Current
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies
01.2019 - 02.2022
Lead Engineer
HCL America
04.2016 - 12.2018
Lead Engineer
HCL Technologies
03.2011 - 04.2016
Master of Science -
Sikkim Manipal University
Bachelor of Science -
Sri Venkateshwara University
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