Preeti Padhy

Experience

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  CA Technologies

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2003

  Software Engineer

  • Designed and implemented Collections application for Finance business unit.• Designed and implemented CA-Update enterprise software delivery system • Implemented 1Sea administration system (Logistic administration application for Merchant Navy)Skills: Software design and development, collaboration with offshore team, Functional Specification, ASP, Java, JNI, Java Swing.

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  Dell Technologies

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2011

  Application group lead

  • Led a team of 2 onshore engineers and 6 offshore engineers to support and enhance the EMC’s Partner Portal (Channel Express) application.• Led the Analysis for migration of Sales and PRM modules from oracle to Salesforce CRM.• Worked with stakeholders to propose and devise change/ impact strategies. Enforced the said strategies during the release cycle.• Managed and mentored offshore developers by doing code reviews and advocating best practices. • Led and Implemented the Sales Assistance queue feature in the Channel Express application resulting in 20% reduction in number sales assistance cases with customer support.• Investigated, and implemented the enhancements to Sales Assistance report generation and achieved 60x speedup. Skills: Leadership, Release Management, Business Analysis, Coordinating conflicts, SOX compliance in release cycle, Oracle CRM, Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud), Oracle DBMS and PLSQL, Java, JSP, JSON, XML, HP Quality Center, MS Project. Show less

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  Boston Software, Corp

  Oct 2015 - Sept 2016

  Business System Analyst

  Boston Software provides comparative and custom rating software to independent insurance agents and carriers for the state of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. WinRater is the flagship product used by insurance agents for creating quotes for Auto and Homeowners insurance.• Led the analysis and implementation of the RMV lookup feature for the WinRater, increasing adoption of the product by small agencies, and increasing revenue from existing medium and large agencies.• Accelerated the transformation of WinRater, a desktop based product to a cloud based web application, by changing the approach from a component based to a feature based implementation.• Acquired subject matter expertise in subject matter expertise in Personal Property and Casualty Insurance industry.• Achieved accelerated velocity for the team, starting from no concrete velocity to a uniform upward trend.• Led the transformation of organization from waterfall to Agile by coaching the product owner, stakeholders and the development team in SCRUM.• Spearheaded process improvement in the organization by separating the methodology for customer and product support to follow KANBAN and the project team to follow SCRUM.• Advocated and supported automated testing methodologies, code reviews, and good coding practices.Skills: Project Management, Requirement Analysis, Agile Methodologies, SCRUM, KANBAN, User Stories, Data Modeling, Risk Analysis, Agile Estimation, Agile Roadmap, Formulate Test Plans, User Acceptance testing, Vendor Performance Management, Cross functional communication, Moderating Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinement, and Sprint Retrospectives, JIRA Agile, TestComplete, Selenium, Smartsheet, Mind Map, MySQL. Show less

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  Amadeus

  Oct 2016 - now

  Senior Technical Business Analyst (Systems Integration)

  ● Led the integration activities to migrate customer to new version of software and API for Amadeus Hospitality Cloud Platform● Formalized the integration solution with partner which included creation of business workflow activity diagrams, sequence diagrams depicting integration units.Collaborated with the Scrum delivery organization to plan and prioritize Interfaces documentation/API and code drop team commitments. Captured the deliveries, deviations and worked on mitigation plans.● Participated in review of interface documentation to ensure the customer facing interface specifications follows the recommendation by Amadeus API committee● Automated activities such as generation interface mapping documents from a API specification, generation of sequence diagrams based on known Enterprise integration patterns, increasing efficiency by 80%● Automated the packaging of integration kits from SharePoint documents for delivery to customer● Developed integration/connectivity tests using Postman and SoapUI to automate the promotion of APIs to higher environments without manual intervention Show less