Srinivas Yandava

Delivery Head with full ownership of managing and transforming Three UK's IT stack.

• Leading 600+ strong team of Architecture, Applications Delivery, Quality Assurance, DevOps, Infrastructure and Security solutions to deliver value to customer
• Worked closely with different scrum teams across BUs (Business Unit) and Guide/Coach those teams on PI (Program Increment) Planning, Product Planning, Sprint Planning, EOS Demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and Daily Scrum meetings.
• Delivering consistent customer satisfaction index of greater than 97% in last five years
• Overseeing portfolio valued at $35 million per annum and with growing revenue by 20% consistently
• Reporting to CIO and regular interaction with other department heads.
• Championing strategic sales initiatives by showcasing and recommending best industry practices
• Managing the program ensuring all outcomes are delivered on time and to budget for Complex Transformation stack
• Leading Cloud optimization and IT Stability initiatives
• Driving strategic resource management to ensure cross skilling and up-skilling of resources to deliver outcomes in complex and multi-vendor matrix environment
• Handling Agile Sprint roadmap with Domain System Integrators - Covering Enterprise-wide Integration, Back-office systems, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Environment & Deployment and QA
• Engaging customers to discuss current and future business needs and explore opportunities to increase sales.

Reporting to BT Program Director and accountable for overseeing E2E Delivery planning & execution.

• Worked with Client and collaborate with other vendors teams to prioritize the requirements and execute ethe delivery,working with Programsponsor and Business delivery teams across delivery life cycle.
• Building/Setting up new agile teams and implementing agile development process continuously and educate business stakeholders across the organization.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced environment.
• Handling release roadmap, release dependencies, build, environment and E2E delivery scheduling
• Produce Release checklists/E2E deployment plan and Implementation notes and review
• Proactively managed all Program Risks, including ownership and control of contingency and recovery plans
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Gating checkpoint reviews, Technology and Business Go/No-Go reviews

• Managing portfolio of programs with oversight of planning, pre-RPM management, release delivery management, E2E testing/deployment for BT UK business tech stack.
• Working closely with Project CIOs to ensure Release scope is defined & agreed with clear milestones along with roadmaps.
• Work with individual delivery managers within programs and drive the delivery effectively ensuring agile methods and best practices are adopted
• Manage all stakeholders (onshore and offshore) including direct interactions with business.
• Led by example and built effective self-organized teams, distributed project agile Squads
• Manage SOX compliance for Enterprise UKB.
• Manage resource planning & finance control for Release Team.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with Customers.
• Established governance for UKB releases, defining project objectives with roles & responsibilities across teams.
• Facilitated release events [RPM, Daily standup, sprint planning, Product demos and retrospective] and ensure business requirements are captured, prioritized, communicated and properly sized by the team.
• Identify and remove impediments to team success, and ensure teams have everything needed to build and deliver value to the customer.
• Providing regular project reports to senior management on progress and issues affecting Major/Minor releases.
• Enabled multiple teams to identify areas for improvement, then adapt and change as needed to support continuous improvement & deployments.

As Delivery Manager, I have full responsibility for the delivery and execution of Openreach/WLR Siebel components using agile delivery.

• Work with scrum masters for various projects within UK business and collaborate with product owners to manage the product backlog and plan the sprints.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams including architects, Tech Delivery, POD, e2e solution design, E2E Test, Process design, interface component technical leads, and business users to ensure timely delivery of project.
• Identified and mitigated risks communicated key issues to project sponsors and key stakeholders with necessary action plan.
• Ensure appropriate escalations in case of delivery schedule slippages to bring delivery back on track.
• Innovated and implemented best practices and delivered the standards expected for BT
• Worked collaboratively with all Siebel internal teams to develop working relationships with customer and supplier stakeholders to achieve the business objectives within the timeliness and cost

Responsible for QA delivery for Netbackup Realtime product

• Understanding the Business Requirements.
• Involved in the preparation Test Strategy and Test planning.
• Review of Automation framework and test scripts (GUI/CLI automation).
• Involved in Resource planning.
• Interaction with various customers to understand the issues in order to prioritize the test plan.
• Involved in the review and planning of the Regression Test cases.
• Developed Test Reports and Bug Reports as part of Test Status reporting.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of Real-time on different platforms and conducted Environment readiness testing.
• Performed Compatibility and integration testing with Siebel applications
• Performed Functional and Regression testing to uncover any unexpected breakages in the product.
• Helped/mentored the team members in understanding the Product
• Actively participated and interacted with dev and other stakeholders during test scope and scrum meetings

I was responsible for teaching a range of fundamental and advanced computer science courses, guiding students through both theoretical concepts and practical applications. I also supervised multiple student projects, providing mentorship, technical guidance, and fostering a collaborative learning environment that encouraged innovation and critical thinking.

I worked as an Academic Assistant, handling a variety of computer science subjects.