Komali Guthikonda

Cell: 510-***-**** Email: adxt5b@r.postjobfree.com

Over several years of experience working as Release & Deployment Manager across multiple companies, with good understanding of SDLC (Software Development Live Cycle) and implementation of innovative business process and system solutions.

Technical Skills:

• CSPO Certified (2020 certification # 201909721)

• 5+ Years of experience in Pac2000

• 3+ Years of experience in Service Now (SNOW)

• 7+ Years of SDLC practice.

• 7+ Years of experience in ITIL Foundations.

• 7+ Years of experience Release Game Plan Development, change management process.

• 7+ Years of experience in Agile/Scrum process.

• 4+ Years of experience in Jira, Service Now

• 5+ Years of experience in agile frameworks (Scrum). Employment Experience:

Blue Shield California, California July’ 22 - Present Release Manager

• Responsible for managing Releases to Production and Pre-Production environment, developing High Level timeline estimation for scheduled releases and coordinating with various teams involved in the release process.

• Create JIRA dashboards to align projects to Releases.

• Conduct meetings with support teams to align a scope to future releases.

• Coordinate with squad teams on release status.

• Follow-up with squads for performance status and regional testing.

• Keep track of the releases through Milestones and guid the teams towards achieving them.

• Create/update release dashboard to track release status in JIRA.

• Creating Release level Change Tickets and taking them to CAB meetings.

• Work with CAB team to review CR for production and get approval.

• Review QA Test results and certify release is ready for production.

• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.

• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.

• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities.

• Work with software configuration release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.

• Approve deployments to different environments.

• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.

• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

• Perform Environment Management responsibilities.

• Coordinate Release weekend and lead the activities.

• Conduct Release Retrospective meetings to discuss on identified issues and plan on how to overcome in future.

• Continuously improve the Release process and communicate and educate participating project teams. Bank of America, California Feb’ 18 – April’ 22

Release Manager

• Responsible for managing Releases to Production and Pre-Production environment, developing High Level Timeline estimation for scheduled releases and coordinating with various teams involved in the release process.

• Conducted and attended Scrum meetings, produced status reports, worked with the release partners, worked with the QA and Development Teams and managed issues that can arise between these teams. Komali Guthikonda

Cell: 510-***-**** Email: adxt5b@r.postjobfree.com

• Manage change management activities for Releases (Game plan development, host walk trough’s).

• Prepared & Managed Problem tickets, Work Orders and Change Requests using ServiceNow

• Coordinate Production environments for special assignments on nights and weekends.

• Key contributor for quarterly releases, BCP activities, and test initiatives.

• Update SharePoint, write procedures and train team members.

• Work with Dev team to resolve any build & Deploy issues encounter during deployments.

• Manage internal communication regarding release status and when the release/feature has been successfully deployed into production.

• Coordinate environment readiness for release testing activities.

• Create change requests / review change requests in ServiceNow for releases.

• Major duties include project planning, meeting coordination, risk analysis and mitigation, resource planning and executive presentation.

• Facilitate morning stand-up meeting with onshore and offshore teams ensuring proper hand-off of work in the pipeline.

• Ensure process is aligned with schedule, process follow company policy, communicate with surrounding groups and partners, hold meetings, provide and collect updates.

• Manage Change management activities for Release.

• Provide daily status in daily release review meeting on issues, code check-in’s, deployments, release artifacts, property file updates.

• Created release postmortem report with all the issues, code & Property check-in’s, deployments during each release phase and review this report with high level management to create a better plan for next release. Kotak Mahindra Bank May’ 11 – May’ 14

Release Manager

India

• Manage relationships and coordinate with multiple teams to ensure smooth and timely deployments (multiple per day)

• Manage and mitigate risks and resolve issues regarding release quality and schedule

• Own the release management lifecycle and processes. Drive initiatives through data to improve how we deploy

• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required

• Define and regularly report on deployment metrics

• Actively collaborate with other teams to identify pain points in the deployment process

• Participate in Agile working practices such as daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, reviews and retrospectives.

• Work efficiently in a multi-project environment.

• Responsibilities include – Setting up and opening Release for Development, monitor the projects in the Release and Report Release and Project health, Set up Release for QA, establish build and merge schedule for the Release, triage, review for validity of defects during Regression, review Security code reports and produce metrics for the release.

• Create Jira tickets to provision QA, Pre prod environments and keep track of the environments of expire dates and extending them upon need.

• Maintain visibility on all production changes, their impact and the interdependencies between changes.

• Create Change request for release to go live in Production and try to get approvals in place. Education ( June 2009 - May 2011)

MBA

Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade, Hyderabad, India

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