Quality Assurance Manager

Kiran Kavati

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** * **** **

City: Minneapolis

State: MN

Zip: 55417

Country: USA

Phone: 612-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $110,000

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3915 E. 52nd St.

Minneapolis, MN 55417 Phone 612-***-****

E-mail ***********@*****.***

Kiran Kavati, MBA

Specialties

High-performing individual with expertise in building and optimizing team performance, organizational processes, measurement systems, and infrastructure to maximize business results in development, quality assurance and support for global clients.

Summary of qualifications

Program management, project management, release management, escalations and SDLC Enterprise software development, including JAVA and ATG

Onshore and offshore resource management Team leadership, mentoring and communication

Quality assurance and process improvement Critical, innovative and strategic thinking

Professional experience Feb 2008 to Present Oracle Minneapolis, MN

IT Program Manager / Release Manager

Manage the release process for $300M in revenue generating 20+ products end-to-end, from the initial planning to post-launch implementation. This includes overseeing onsite and offshore technical resources and working with strategy, customer support, executive management and customer relations.

Deliver 125+ retail product patches and integrated releases annually.

Facilitate the collaboration of global development teams and matrix support organizations throughout the release process to ensure an on-time and quality release.

Collaborate with 170 global product developers and quality engineers to insure client satisfaction.

Lead projects to successful budget and deliverable outcomes.

Manage technology upgrade programs.

Managed high profile National Retail Federation project for Oracle.

Jan 07 to Jan 08 Best Buy Corporation Richfield, MN

Build, Deployment and Release Manager

Primary ownership of the release and deployment activities for the workforce management tool.

Managed oversight of deployment activities including team leadership, tracking and confirming steps executed, making rollback calls and communicating the success/failure to all stakeholders.

Maintained servers and archived releases/patches.

Mentored new team members.

Involved in infrastructure management.

Feb 05 to Jan 07 Target Corporation Minneapolis, MN

Sr. ATG Java Consultant

Worked with technical architects, senior software engineers, business analysts, product managers and quality assurance teams.

Worked on project promotions, partners online and business partners management

Designed and developed applications and prepared project specs.

Coordinated multiple, complex application releases across different software platforms.

Sept 04 to Jan 05 Network Solutions Herndon, VA

Senior J2EE Developer

Designed the portal that allowed partners to manage custom accounts and domain names.

Created wire frames, demonstrated to business users and modified wire frames per business team suggestions.

Implemented advance search capabilities.

July 03 to Aug 04 Right Works, Inc. San Jose, CA

Lead Developer

Developed the People Finder Portal, an on-line company directory and organizational navigator.

Developed automated e-procurement portal to facilitate easy shopping for companies

Skilled in utilizing coding to optimize website functionality.

Worked in agile environment.

Mar 02 to Jun 03 Cingular Wireless Chicago, IL

Senior Software Developer

Designed and developed mobile wireless application to check customer information by an agent.

Customized various pages to suit the user requirements and implemented session tracking and user authentication.

Prepared test plans, test cases, test scripts according to SDF (software development framework) format.

Oct 01 to Feb 02 Ranklin Solutions, Inc. Chennai, India

Project Lead

Developed Hospital Management System application to automate the admission and discharge process of patients.

Managed team of developers to optimize code, fix defects, test, document and resolve technical issues in agile environment.

Jun 00 to Sept 01 HardServ Technologies Chennai, India

Software Engineer

Developed code and designed reports for a financial accounting system.

Education [ 1998-2000 ] University of Madras India

M.B.A.

Master of Business Administration in Marketing

[ 1998-1999 ] Softech Institute of Technology India

P.G.D.C.A.

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

[ 1994 - 1998 ] University of Madras India

B.E.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications

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