Abhilash Sivadas

Experience

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  IGATE

  Aug 2007 - Oct 2010

  Developer
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  Cognizant

  Oct 2010 - May 2023

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to manage the release scope and SDLC deliverables for the bi-weekly release activities for multiple delivery teams.• Introduced a platform for the close collaboration of stakeholders, including product owners, system owners, customer IT leads, and Project Managers, to facilitate release sign-offs and reduce timeline misses close to 0%.• Streamlined and documented the IT release process for the Biweekly release activity• Collaborated with infrastructure, security, and development teams to bring down post-launch critical/high vulnerabilities close to 0%.• Conducted regular meetings with the project team and product owners for Defect Triaging, Process training, and Release retrospective, thereby reducing post-release challenges.• Documented and managed best practices and internal process documentation, achieving 80% documentation coverage for SOP-based activities.• Automated the Release approval request flow to handle frequent emergency release requests.• Coached the Project Managers on the release process and client specific SDLC deliverables Show less • Delivered multiple projects by leading teams and ensuring timely project completion adhering to the project KPIs and keeping track of timelines, budgets, and risks metrics using different management tools and techniques.• Lead the team in Completing the discovery, Scope definition, and estimation for multiple complex applications• Coordinated with internal and external stakeholders for requirement gathering, backlog grooming, design discussion, Sprint planning, Scheduling, process documentation, and on-time delivery• Automated JIRA ticket extraction and reporting using MS Excel and Python to eliminate the analysis time spent on JIRA risk analysis.• Trained and coached the team to achieve their tasks by adhering to the processes and procedures that aligned with the organizational values.• Expert in project plan and schedule development, Statement of Work (SOWs), vendor contract management (SLAs), and report creation. Show less • Managed a team of automation experts for the development, maintenance, and support of business processes, Robotic Process Automation, and IT process automation.• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to extract potential automation use cases and submitted proposals. Delivered 50+ IT process automation (Java/.Net/Python/Shell Script/Ant Scripts) and 150+ health check automation (Java/Selenium).• Coordinated with the business team to identify potential business process use cases and submitted proposals. Delivered 20+ Business process automation using Automation Anywhere and Selenium after aligning on the ROI.• Collaborated with the Client Automation COE team for Service Level Agreement, cost estimation, risk assessments, Operation Cost reduction, and Automation KPI Assessment.• Followed the waterfall model for automation development and release.• Trained and coached the development team on the Automation IT process laid down by the Automation COE team and the organization. Show less • Manage a cross functional team for providing production support to multiple digital applications in client radar • Prepared SOWs for enhancements and delivered multiple enhancement requests on time by adhering to the quality standard laid down by the organization • Managed application onboarding and decommissioning processes and maintained the application inventory of close to 200+ applications.• Analysed weekly defect trends to identify problem areas and reduce defect slippage to improve client satisfaction.• Collaborated with various end users and business teams for assessing application performance, critical defects, improvement areas, etc. Show less

  • Scrum Master | Release Manager

    Jan 2023 - May 2023

  • Scrum Master

    Mar 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Project Manager

    Jul 2019 - Mar 2021

  • Team Lead

    Apr 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Developer | Support Engineer

    Oct 2010 - Apr 2016
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  Scotiabank

  Nov 2023 - now

  Release Manager