
Timeline
About me
15+ Years experience in Retail IT
Education

Town higher secondary school, kumbakonam
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Anna university chennai
2001 - 2005Bachelor of technology (b.tech.) information technology
Experience

Tesco bengaluru
Jun 2007 - May 2009Software engineer Understand Functional Specification documents and prepare test case/test script. Raise defects with right details & Manage defects, so that all Priority defects are addressed on time. Improve regression suite and Automate toolset to reduce manual testing efforts.

Lotus's
Jun 2009 - May 2010Senior software engineer Work with Thailand Store operation Business team & E2E IT team and understand the Gap in OM Storeline system compared to legacy system. Work with BA to get the Gaps built into a development so that the Pilot cutover from Legacy store system (GOLD store) to OM Storeline system is smooth without any Store operation impact. Support testing team and Business team during UAT. Successfully cutover first store in Thailand with OM Storeline system in Thailand. Smooth Transition of support operations to Offshore -Tesco India IT center. Show less

Tesco bengaluru
Mar 2010 - Jan 2013Principal software engineerGrocery Home Shopping (GHS), Label Work Load Management(WLM), ESEL Understand GHS process E2E and work with NCR to get the POS solution so that any order placed in Tesco Webesite will go through as sales in POS automatically. Work with BA and provide insight/details around the current Store SEL printing mechanism and part of the design and deliver the Label Work Load Management application in Handheld ( Symbol MC75 & MC70) development by working a new Client along with NCR. WLM deployment & support during Pilot to all Tesco International countries. Price Integrity application in Handheld Testing and deployment to all Tesco International countries. Part of ESEL design workshop along with NCR & UK Stakeholders and deployed ESEL solution in Hungary. Involve in testing of Store Colleague WorkLoad scheduler application. Show less

Tesco czech republic
Feb 2013 - Aug 2018 Designed simplified Shelf Edge label (SEL) feature by working with CE Marketing & Store operation and deployed across all 1000 CE Stores. Led the deployment of Tesco Store systems(Back Office, POS, Handhelds) across whole of Czech, Slovakia, Poland & Hungary estate which constitutes about 1000 stores of varying Store formats. Prepared and led the Store Cutover Plan from Legacy to Tesco Operating Model systems. Essential knowledge of cross functional systems to gauge the Store Impacts (Commercial systems(ORMS and Space, Range and Display),Supply Chain(Group Ordering),Marketing(Club card systems),Distribution Systems(ORWMS),Petrol Filling Stations and Dot Com(E-commerce)). Monitor the operations post go-live and provide assistance whenever necessary. Exposed Key gaps in the Current Legacy process which provided beneficial to business. Show less Study the as-is business processes in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland & Hungary and understand country specific requirements from the POS & Back office operations perspective. Build Store servers & POS application for Group countries Thailand, China, Czech & Turkey. Map new requirements including legal & fiscal changes to best practices in consultation with Tesco International Operations & Development Group (IODG) and in-country business representatives. Obtain sign off from business users and IODG for the documents and work with the application vendors during development phase to answers their queries and doubts. Assist the business users during user acceptance testing and act as the single point of contact during implementation phase of the application in respective group countries. Analyze POS behavior and provide details to Self Check Out(SCO) team to build SCO solution. Show less
Deployment Analyst
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018Technical Consultant
Feb 2013 - Mar 2017

Tesco bengaluru
Sept 2018 - now• Led the CE EveryDayLowPrice (EDLP) E2E program and successfully did the Pilot & rollout across CE stores, this significantly lower operational costs across multiple areas of business (reduces commercial promotion creation work by 30%)• Managed the overall CE GDPR program with Business, Bengaluru AD, NCR(Israel) & Access Manager teams and successfully implemented the GDPR migration across all CE stores. • Delivered the ‘Storeline server security Compliance’ program, by collaborating with Engineering, Security, Infra & NCR teams. Show less • Identified product gap in Store label/SEL Print order and led the building of new solution by working with E2E engineering, product team leading to a benefit of 50K Euro/month.• Worked with E2E engineering, product team in building the SEL Dotcom line indicator Feature which helps the dotcom pickers to identify GHS products faster and so improved the availability of online GHS lines from 60% to 75%. • Built the BOL receive by Container ID feature for Asia which improved Store productivity and reduced the payroll cost by 0.5 million GBP/month. • Led the Food donation Tesco API solution so that Food donation data captured in-store manually are sent to the FoodCloud central system in electronic form. Show less
Technical Program Manager
Jun 2021 - nowAsscociate Product Manager
Sept 2018 - May 2021
Licenses & Certifications

Az-900: microsoft azure fundamentals
Microsoft- View certificate

Becoming a product manager
LinkedinJan 2021 - View certificate

Google project management certificate
CourseraJun 2023 
Certified scrum product owner (cspo)
Scrum alliance
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