Vasanth Kumar Rayavarapu

Highly experienced IT professional with a track record of over 14 years in application development, enhancement, and support. Adept at leading teams and delivering successful projects, ensuring timely delivery while meeting business requirements. Deep expertise in handling application enhancement, support, and maintenance projects. Extensive knowledge of payment settlement mechanisms, including CHAPS, Target 2, EBA, and SEPA. Proficient in incident management, change management, recovery management, risk management, and problem management. Solid understanding of software development life cycle methodologies, change control processes, and testing phases. Actively involved in audits for applications and Sox compliance. Skilled in Mainframe Technology (JCL, COBOL, REXX) and proficient in Databases (DB2, VSAM). Experienced in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies. Demonstrates a strong desire to learn and adapt to emerging technologies and industry trends. Proven ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize system performance, enhance customer experience, and boost team productivity. Capable of assuming leadership responsibilities and effectively deputizing for managers, ensuring smooth operations and fostering effective team collaboration.

• Certifications:
• ITIL Foundation
• Six Sigma White Belt Certified
• DB2 UDB Family Fundamentals 4) AHM 250(Academy of Health care Management).

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and analyze enhancement work requests.
• Provide high-level solutions and outline delivery schedules for business requests.
• Conduct impact analysis and estimation for proposed changes.
• Implement changes in UAT and Production environments, ensuring thorough testing in the UAT environment prior to production deployment.
• Set up and manage functional and non-functional testing environments, including creating unit and system test cases.
• Support SIT/UAT teams during testing phases, ensuring smooth testing and issue resolution.
• Liaise with vendors like IBM, Tieto, SWIFT to track and close defects.
• Develop comprehensive Application Support Guides and Knowlix documents.
• Prepare implementation plans (SoE) and coordinate walkthroughs with product management, group operations, business, and technical resources.
• Initiate change records in the change management system and present them in Change Board meetings.
• Provide support during implementation activities, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
• Lead the team in onboarding new applications, leveraging off-host technologies and ensuring successful system support.
• Participate in application audits and Sox compliance audits.
• Lead the team in yearly disaster recovery events, clock changes, and other critical activities.
• Perform thorough reviews of changes and deliverables before implementing them in production.
• Act as the main point of contact for PUMA Applications.
• Regularly provide feedback to teams and management on deliverables and performance.
• Conduct daily/weekly Scrum calls to drive collaboration and progress.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize customer experience, enhance system performance, and improve team efficiency.
• Assume leadership responsibilities and deputize for the manager as needed.