Rajanikanth ANNEM REDDY

• Define and lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap specifically for HR technology solutions, aligning with business and user needs.
• Translate customer and HR stakeholder requirements into actionable product features and priorities.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and HR teams to ensure smooth product development and delivery.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis focused on HR industry trends, compliance, and technology innovations.
• Oversee the entire product development lifecycle including design, development, testing, launch, and ongoing enhancements.
• Prioritize the product backlog to optimize resource use and maximize impact on HR processes and user experience.
• Ensure product quality, usability, and compliance with HR regulations and standards.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to HR system adoption, user engagement, and business impact of HR tech features.
• Facilitate regular communication and status updates to internal stakeholders including HR leadership, executives, and external partners.
• Foster a customer-centric approach by gathering user feedback from HR teams and employees to continuously improve product usability and value.
• Manage budgets, resources, and timelines to keep HR tech projects on track and aligned with company goals.
• Promote a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the product team and across HR technology initiatives.
• Navigate cross-functional challenges and negotiate priorities among HR, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide product team members involved in HR tech projects.

• Involve in requirements gathering discussions.
• Risk analysis of the new requirements and identify gaps.
• Manage Software Testing Team.
• Review of Test Cases for Manual & Automation Testing.
• Review test reports and advise corrective actions as required to the team.
• Involved extensively in Functional Testing, Regression Testing & User Acceptance testing.
• Closely monitor issues raised by Clients during UAT. Liaise with Client and development team as required.
• Involved in RCA of any production environment issues and take necessary steps to avoid such occurrences.
• PeopleCart is a Rewards and Recognition SAAS product which has multiple modules within to engage, recognize and reward employees. There are modules such as Peer to Peer Recognition, Nomination Driven Awards - Individual, Teams with approval process, Milestone Awards, Contests, PeopleBuzz & Happiness Culture, Pulse Polls, Quizzes, Employee Referrals, Credits, Wallet & Redemption. This product has been implementing continuous enhancements that are driven by our Client feedbacks, internal team discussions and change in technologies. New modules have also evolved over a period in-line with PMS and Feedback360.
• Environment: MS SQL, .NET, Web Services, JIRA, Excel, Beyond Compare, SnagIT, Zephyr

• Worked with the project managers and development team in reviewing Requirements and Functional specifications for testability and usability in regard to system functionality and provided feedback for projects and minor tasks/enhancements.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional requirements and Design Specifications to identify scope of testing to provide test estimates and translated system requirements into the Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Detailed Test Cases, and collaborating with development engineering to co-ordinate specific testing requirements based on white box techniques.
• Performed all phases of testing including Bash Testing, System testing, End-to-End testing, System Integration testing, UAT and Regression testing ensuring that the quality of the applications developed were of the highest standard.
• Worked independently in testing majority of the projects and worked with other team members in few projects where multiple resources were required in completion of testing.
• Responsible in understanding the customer requirements and tracking the requirement changes in the test cases to make sure that each of the requirements gets mapped to a test case.
• Used Mercury Test Director/HP Quality Centre to enter Requirements, Prepare Test Cases, and TFS to Raise Defects, ensured Requirements Traceability Matrix is maintained and created Test Status Reports.
• Extensively involved in Process Improvement and updating the Department's Test Methodology
• Involved in Updating and maintaining Test Cases, Test data and procedures and develop Regression Testing Suite for re-usability
• Worked with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.
• Performed regression testing to validate the resolved defects on every build.
• Conducted variance management by analyzing and verifying test results, providing weekly status and progress reports

· Mentor and guide Junior Test Analysts within the team.

• Made use of multiple test tools to identify/create/edit test data preparation. Performed Security testing of the basic security levels in the application security mechanism.
• Assisted business analysts in preparing and reviewing the Technical and Business Release Notes and user manuals for clients and production support team.

Responsible for providing feedback during Post Implementation Reviews for process improvements.

• Performed End to End Testing of the Application.
• Developed Test Cases for Manual Testing.
• Tested User Interface inconsistency and application functionality.
• Involved extensively in the Functional Testing, Regression Testing & User Acceptance testing.
• Responsible for Black Box Testing of the Application.
• Executed Test cases and Posted Defects.
• Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of Testing.

• Complete Day Books as per store procedures.
• Verify cash variances of the previous day shifts and post explanation to head office.
• Attend to any maintenance issue in the store site.
• Stock ordering as per the schedule and verify on hand randomly before submitting.
• Reconcile on hand coin change and place an order if required.
• Perform stock take as per the weekly schedule assigned to the store.
• Make on hand stock adjustments in the back office system to reflect actual on hand stock.
• Report to Retail Area Manager about any major variances between actual on hand stock values to the back office on hand stock values.
• Attend to any customer complaints and try to resolve them or direct them appropriately if needed.
• Ongoing training to be provided for the Team Members as and when any new training sessions are implemented.
• Verify and fax payroll forms to head office on weekly basis.
• Assign duties to the evening and night staff as required.
• Liaise with Retail Area Manager on a weekly basis to explain any issues or concerns regarding store maintenance and staff needs.

• Serve customers by operating the console (cash register).
• Help with customer queries.
• Stock shelves and perform stock rotation.
• Cleaning duties as per roaster schedule.
• Perform weekend system updates.
• Complete Weekend Day Books as per store procedures.
• Verify cash variances of the previous day shifts and explain them to the Store Manager.
• Perform Month End procedure and initialise console systems.
• Maintain store in the absence of store manager.

• Serve customers by operating the console (cash register).
• Help with customer queries.
• Follow cleaning roaster.
• Stock shelves and front face all the shelves.
• Explain any variances at the end of the shift.
• Reconcile change machine from start of shift to end of shift.