Manager Quality Assurance

Deekshit Addepalli

Woodbury, MN 651-***-**** **************@*******.***

SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT / QA MANAGER

Customer-Centric Solutions Architect

Automation & Quality Assurance Leadership

Solutions-focused IT professional with extensive experience defining and delivering innovative solutions, driving system/process automation and optimizing quality assurance. Experience encompasses managing complex projects for organizations across multiple industries including Banking & Finance, Wholesale, Automotive and Healthcare sectors and Fortune 500 companies. Recognized for capacity to provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership, supporting clients and internal partners, as well as sales and marketing teams. Excels in identifying and applying best practices, along with steering strategy and methodology in the design and implementation of projects. Demonstrates skilled leadership in QA management, driving continuous quality improvement through the design of automated testing. Acknowledged by peers for proactively contributing to product management, business development and sales, playing a critical role in product development and testing focused on delivering a customer experience that exceeds expectations.

Core Competencies

Technical Design

Thought Leadership

Cloud Computing

Security

Project Management

Technical Documentation

Requirements Analysis

Quality Assurance Management

Test Strategy Development

Process Automation

Customer Relations

Team Leadership

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Workload Automation OS/Databases Programming/Scripting AWS Technologies

CA Workload Automation AE Microsoft Windows C# EC2

CA Workload Automation WCC RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux Java IAM

CA Workload Automation DE AIX, Sybase 15 Python S3

CA Unicenter JMO MS SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016 Version Control Glacier, VPC

BMC Control-M 10g, 11gR2, 12c Git CloudFront

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ROBERT MARK TECHNOLOGIES, Woodbury, MN Jan 2011 – Present

Solutions Architect – CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys) & BMC Control-M

Technical Product Manager/Program Manager – ACCE (Automated Change Control Expert)

Deliver technical expertise to provide solution architecture for clients, performing detailed analysis of existing business, system, and product technical architecture combined with insight into strategy for future workload automation. Foster close productive relationships with clients to enable accurate articulation of their needs and expectations. Held responsibility of WCC and EEM (IAM) design and architecture, primarily focusing on AutoSys/WAAE Server Integration, gaining recognition as SME on development of EEM Security Policies for WCC and AutoSys/WA AE. Clients included Citi Group, JP Morgan Chase, General Motors, PIMCO, and United Healthcare.

Gather detailed business and system requirements and pertinent data, such as job threshold impact, performance issues, and security concerns to create strategies and designs to address them.

Perform gap analysis and technical strength analysis of multiple vendor products to assist clients in selecting best fit solutions.

Define and design upgrade methodologies and implementation strategies, such as AutoSys environments (4.5/r11) to AutoSys r11.3.6 while ensuring minimal downtime.

Design and implement upgrade methodologies for BMC Control-M Workload Automation v6.x, 7.x to Control-M v8 and v9.

Prepare and deliver technical presentation to customers on new features, and provide proof of concepts on web services to secure additional service contracts.

Collaborate with senior management and Product Managers to ensure full understanding of product vision.

Work closely with sales and pre-sales teams at CA and BMC, assisting with technical demos, evaluations and competitive analysis on multiple Workload Automation products.

Built and developed 18 different application teams, resulting in a 17% reduction in cost of ownership, and a 79% increase in automation and reliability across application teams.

Successfully created software deployment package for a large financial organization that included shell scripting and integration with 3rd party products such as BMC’s Bladelogic.

Managed the design and development of an Integration Module to work with AutoSys and Service Now that automatically opened Service Now incidents when job failures are detected.

CA, Hyderabad, India Aug 2003 – Jan 2011

Lead/Principle Software Engineer

Applied astute technical expertise to manage and lead QA functions and teams. Steered AutoSys team, defining and reviewing methodology, and monitoring critical releases of the Workload Automation Release cycle. Drove performance excellence and delivered effective project management to ensure on time and quality delivery. Cultivated strong and productive relationships with Asia Pac customers, and fostered close collaboration with Product Management group, as well as Sales and Marketing teams, contributing significantly to revenue growth and business success.

Successfully steered on time delivery of AutoSys r11.3, ensuring all quality and perf4omance targets were met.

Liaised with Product Management group, supporting accurate articulation and prioritization of new client requirements.

Effectively acted as QA Manager/Principle QA in ITC (India Technology Center) for CA Technology, playing a significant role supporting a 120% increase in automation of QA cycle.

Prepared and presented detailed Proof of Concepts, successfully securing buy in from customers’ management teams.

Efficiently defined strategy and led module level/delivery schedules, configuration and integration testing with other CA products, quality assurance.

Engaged with Beta and Alpha customers to effectively document customer reports and recommendations prior to submitting recommendations to VP Workload Automation.

EDUCATION & PROFSSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Science, Computer Science, 2003

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

BMC Certified Professional – Control-M

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