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Sangeetha Ramasamy

Summary

  • A proactive, self & value driven, analytical IT professional with over 17 yrs of experience in managing full end to end product/software development and maintenance for global clients across Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Telecom.
  • Strong experience as Technical Project Manager managing Product Development, Non-Functional Testing of Products leveraging traditional Waterfall & Agile methodologies and leading distributed product engineering teams.
  • Have a good Experience as a Scrum Master hosting the scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Daily scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective using Jira / Confluence to maintain the Product backlog, Sprint backlog and related documents.
  • Have a good experience playing the role of a Product Owner in creating the roadmap map for the product, prioritizing the features, integrating the feedback into the product roadmap.
  • Strong knowledge in Static Code Analysis and Reverse Engineering legacy applications, Extracting Business Rules from applications written in COBOL, PL1, VB, PowerBuilder, Java,C,etc..
  • Strong Experience in implementing Usability best practices, Security and Performance best practices and co-ordinating the non-functional product testing gained as part of several Product releases.
  • Extensive Hands-on Experience in C, Unix shell scripts, Oracle PL/SQL, Java, JSP, JavaScript, XML, JSON, YAML,Actuate,Python,JIRA, Confluence, SVN, Hue, Jenkins,.. Expertise
  • Functional Skills : Requirement Gathering and Analysis, GAP Analysis, Technical Delivery Management, Product Development, Non Functional Testing, Open source compliance
  • Transformation Space : Reverse Engineering, Data Migration, Business Rules Extraction, Source code Parsing, Static code analysis, Language Conversion
  • Roles Played : Technical Delivery Lead, Scrum Master, Product Owner
  • Scripting : Java Script, Ext JS, Shell Script, Python, XML , JSON. Lex, YACC, Antlr
  • Reporting Tool : Actuate
  • Database : Oracle, Sybase,Postgres, HIVE
  • Application Server : JBOSS
  • Big Data Technologies : Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Sqoop, HDFS, Hue, Sentry, YAML, Collibra, Oozie
  • Data : Data Ingestion, Data Catalog, Data Governance
  • Operating System : Windows, AIX, Unix
  • Technologies : C, Java/JSP/JS , COBOL, Powerbuilder, VB, PL/SQL
  • Methodologies : Agile, SDLC
  • Configuration Management : SVN, Bit Bucket
  • Continuous Integration : Jenkins, SONAR, Kubernetes
  • Project Tracking : JIRA, Confluence,TCS MasterCraft - Product Lifecycle Management Product

Work History

Scrum Master

BA Continuum Limited, Bank of America
Chennai
  • Project Name Client Duration Technologies
  • Data Ingestion into Big Data
  • Analytic Platform (Cloudera
  • Hadoop) Bank of America 1 year
  • Cloudera Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Impala
  • Python, Shell Script, Oozie,Autosys
  • Sentry, Sqoop, Hue,YAML,Collibra
  • Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket
  • Key Contributions
  • Conducted all the Scrum ceremonies such as Spring Planning, Daily scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint
  • Retrospective promoting collaboration
  • Worked closely with the Product Owner to manage the Product backlog, prioritize user stories and ensure clear understanding of requirements
  • Coached/mentored the team on agile process and resolved impediments by collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Used Jira/Confluence to track Sprint Progress, maintain Product/Sprint backlog, validate the Capacity report start of every sprint to ensure no over/under utilization and analyzed the velocity report to check on the improvement in sprint velocity
  • Successfully planned, coordinated and completed the annual Resilience Test to enable failover to Disaster
  • Recovery servers and fallback to Production Server for 50+ workflows
  • On the job, learned a wide variety of big data technologies under Cloudera Distributed Hadoop(CDH) –
  • Python, Hadoop, Hive, Impala, HDFS, Hue, Sentry, Oozie, Sqoop, Collibra, Jira, Confluence, Autosys,.
  • Such as in a short span of time
  • Streamlined L3 support for Data Ingestion via ingestion pipeline discovery process to improve the issue resolution and to better understand the usage and purpose of the ingestion pipeline
  • And this consolidation covers various pipelines receiving data from varied data sources(External/Internal) using different methods such as SFTP, direct DB connect,Message queues, external vendor api connect, internal data transmission services etc
  • Utilized strong analytical skills and problem solving ability to identify and guide the team to resolve L3 issues within SLA
  • Performed root cause analysis to prevent the issues occuring again
  • Coordinated with the 3rd party data vendors to set up new data pipelines and as well as to resolve the issues occurring with the existing data pipelines.

Technical Delivery Lead/Product Owner

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Chennai
  • Products Handled:
  • Product Name Client Duration Technologies
  • TCS MasterCraft Transform Suite TCS 9 yrs
  • ExtJs, Java,Postgres,JBoss,C,Lex, YACC
  • Antlr, XML, JSON, Jenkins, SVN, TCS
  • R&D Components; Learnt COBOL, JCL
  • VB, Powerbuilder semantically
  • Application Quality Analyzer TCSyrs
  • ExtJs, Java,Postgres,JBoss,C,Lex, YACC
  • JSON, Jenkins, SVN,SONAR,TCS R&D
  • Components
  • Key Contributions
  • Primary responsibilities included creating Product RoadMap, Release Planning, Requirements Gathering
  • Design Review, Test Programs and Test cases Review, Product validation
  • Finalized the product roadmap in collaboration with the product manager, pre-sales team, deployment team and prioritized several features / requirements for a release
  • Managed the product development lifecycle from Requirements through impact analysis, design, development,testing and packaging and have released several major, minor and patch releases
  • Conducted Risk analysis and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize risks
  • Ensured adherence to quality standards and procedures and monitored the same through Continuous
  • Integration (CI) practices
  • Utilized project management software to create user stories and manage the product development and track progress
  • Communicated regular status updates and monthly reporting to the management
  • Tested the product at regular intervals to ensure that the product meets requirements and encouraged automated testing
  • Reviewed the usage and creation of reusable assets and monitored the size of the code base every release to deliver reliable and well-tested products and improve team productivity
  • Collaborated with shared non-Functional Testing teams such as Security, Performance, Usability
  • Open-source Compliance to explain the product, schedule and plan the review to achieve on-time delivery for all major product releases
  • Gained experience and knowledge with product usability practices, Security guidelines and practices and performance best practices
  • Coordinated with the deployment team to discuss the defects identified and any enhancements done - to merge with the main product if required
  • On the job, learnt a wide variety of programming languages such as COBOL, PL1, DB2, VB, PowerBuilder to understand the syntax and semantics of the languages and created specification documents
  • Component to the Product
  • Mentored and guided the team to achieve their goals through people management skills.

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Chennai
  • Roles Handled and Key Contributions:
  • Role Name Client Duration Technologies, Large US Insurance Customer 3 yrs Java, JSP, Actuate, Oracle PL/SQL
  • Got the transition of the Billing and Account Receivable Reconciliation system from existing vendor and obtained complete knowledge of the system
  • Maintained the Billing and Account Receivable Reconciliation system for a large Insurance Company
  • Provided Production support during month end when receiving feeds from downstream systems where core logic predominantly written in Oracle PL/SQLs
  • Acted as a primary liaison between client and offshore team and ensured the team delivered as per the committed scope without missing the deadline - supported Testing and Deployment of changes
  • Enhance the system with change request from Customer - hands on experience in modifying the pl/sql packages/procedures, Java/JSP programs for the enhancements, creating/modifying Actuate Reports

Solution designer

  • Large UK Telecom Customer 1.3 yr UML,Solution Design, Scrum
  • Worked as a solution Designer, part of the Agile development team attending all scrum ceremonies for one of the largest telecom providers.

Developer

Sybase
  • Large US Telecom Customer 2 yrs C, VC, +, Oracle PL/SQL
  • Fix the bug in the Customer Interface Module and the billing module - Hands on experience in fixing the issue in VC++ code, oracle and sybase stored procedures
  • Modified the third part code written in C to support the Customer Interface module for Arabic(the heading have to come in reverse order) with minimal amount of code change in the application, TCS 2.2 yrs Lex,Yacc,C,JCL,shell script,awk
  • Develop parsers for required languages - hands on experience in lex, yacc , C, shell script, awk and
  • Enhance the language conversion tools (like ADSO to CICS,..)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

PSG College of Technology
1998

Interests

  • Awards and Recognition
  • Co-inventor for the patent - A system and method for extracting a business rule embedded in an application source code - https://patentsgooglecom/patent/US9875098B2/en

Timeline

Scrum Master

BA Continuum Limited, Bank of America

Technical Delivery Lead/Product Owner

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Solution designer

Developer

Sybase

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

PSG College of Technology
Sangeetha Ramasamy