Ramesh Rangachari

Experience

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  Energy Solutions International

  Mar 2001 - Apr 2004

  Project Engineer

  Customizing Energy solution product including Leak detection, Batch Tracking and Scraper Tracking modules as per customer requirments , writing Unit test cases and conducting functional testing.Conducting user acceptance testing at the client site.

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  Wipro Technologies

  May 2004 - May 2007

  Project Lead

  As a Project/Test Lead in TrendMicro Account, • Involved in Project Estimation and identifying the resources for onboarding team members• Preparing Test Plan, Reviewing Test Cases & Perl Test automation scripts and defects logged by team members. • Implemented Lean Process to optimize testing effort and improve quality in the delivery.• Customer co-ordination to review all deliverables and discussing issues/clarifications raised by team members • Conducting Bug Review meeting with customer including team members and weekly status meeting with the client.As a Project Engineer/Software test Engineer for WinSE , Microsoft Account , • Running manual & automated cases for all regression testing across all flavors of Windows operation systems.• Private testing and bugs regression Show less

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  Aditi Technologies

  Jun 2007 - Mar 2014

  Implementing Caradigm owned CIP health Care solutions product for their Customers , Managing Offshore - Onsite team and supporting customer upgrade.Analyzing Use Cases , HL7/XML data , reviewing clinical workflow and providing technical guidance to the customer. Driving System Integrated test & UAT to make the product live by addressing all clinical use cases requirements and addressing feedback from the customer.Working with Engineering team to investigate and provide solutions for all product issues identified from the implementationManaging offshore deliverables and reviewingTechnologies used: C#, ,Net, VSTS, Confluence, JIRA, GIT Show less  Providing Quality Assurance (QA)/Testing knowledge to the project team and driving test execution of new application releases as part of agile methodologies. Reviewing and analyzing business requirement documents/technical specifications to ensure they are precise and accurate for testing, and to implement test plans and test cases. Developing test related artificates including plans, processes, reports and guidelines. Developing test schedule and Work Breakdown structure (WBS), and assigning resources to the project tasks as a part of project planning through MS Project. Collaborating with Program Managers, Business Analysts, SME's, Development teams, and organized early sync-up meetings with QA team as a part of test preparedness and defect prevention process. Reviewing all test cases and scenarios to ensure they adequately cover the system requirements and business process flows by creating Requirement Traceability Matrix. To ensure test complete by following test schedules and tracking testing progress throughout by conducting team status meetings regularly and facilitate test issue resolutions.  Providing defect and test status reports to the project management team periodically  Driving test automation framework development, identifying reusable components, drafting command methods and providing support to maintain them for regression testing. Communicating to management regularly on project health index, status, risk , etc.. And sharing process optimization and deliverables. Show less

  • SDET lead - Onsite coordinator

    Feb 2011 - Mar 2014

  • Test Manager

    Jun 2007 - Jan 2011
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  HARMAN Connected Services

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2016

  Technical Project Manager

  • Collecting functional requirements from end customer, discuss abilities to implement, conduct sprint planning, identify user stores / backlogs and manage all work items.• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.• Driving scrum meeting with offshore team & vendors, track the progress, identify risk involved and provide daily status to LT. • Publishing metrics like task burn down chart, productivity, defects, Risk register, etc. • Managing CR’s, prioritizing backlogs and defects considering customer criticality & impact to the schedule. • Customizing platform using C# .NET, SQL, JS Scripts, XAML components, MDX and windows PowerShell to implement all use cases defined from end customer. • Collaborating with engineering team to review customer feedback, troubleshoot issues and providing recommendation to improve product features.• Performing SIT , Regression and UAT Show less

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  Harman Connected Services

  May 2017 - Jan 2019

  Project Manager - Cloud practice

  • Understanding existing on-premise infrastructure, hardware sizing & software requirements, database sizing and application requirement for migrating into AWS.• Providing technical guidance to design, configure and automate the infrastructure to create dev, QA, stage and prod environments. • Design and implement POC for cloud adoption and solutions for infra-automation • Recommend best practices to optimize cloud spending and automate solutions to monitor • Leading offshore & onsite team to design CI/CD model and automate end-end application deployment.• Designing the solution to handle OS upgrade, application patches & upgrade and handling security & access management.• Guidelines on CI/CD implementation, deployment strategies, upgrade process and quality checks Show less

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  Harman Connected Services Corp India Private Ltd

  Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

  Project Manager/Cloud Architect

  • Built centralized environment to collect and consolidate logs and metrics with lightweight Kubernetes (K3S).• Developed helm charts to create all required tools such as promtail, loki, kibana, Prometheus and Grafana• Implemented security solutions to manage all pods under K3S framework. • Implemented single node & multi-node (HA) K3S setup to deploy EDS application along with Elastic search, Prometheus and Grafana tools.• Developed CLI interface to install/uninstall K3S setup and to create all targeted containers. Show less

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  Synamedia

  Jan 2021 - Feb 2023

  Senior Manager - Media Cloud services

  • SaaS enablement of all security solutions product with utilizing native cloud services, evaluating automation tools and deployment strategies per application fitment.• Design and implementing IaC to provision infra & app deployment along with all supported cloud services• Building monitoring tools , logs aggregator & dashboard utilizing AWS native cloud services such as Cloud watch metrics, alarms, X-ray and canary services• Optimize cloud spending and enable automation to manage cloud services• Built custom cost calculator for monitoring all services utilization for every campaign/sessions.• Built hybrid cloud environment to validate security SaaS products of Synamedia Setting new team to implement stage 4 deployment, build CI pipeline and to validate end-end Show less

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  Light & Wonder

  Mar 2023 - now

  Senior Manager - Software Engineering

  Embrace cloud & devops culture shift by influencing agility, devops process , automation & modernization