Praveen Kumar K

Experience

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  Accenture

  Jun 2010 - now

  • Leading a team of 34 members in enhancing and support of client’s operational reporting with tools like JIRA and ServiceNow for managing the deliverables and governance around change processes.• Bring out efficiency in change mgmt. process for critical financial regulatory applications. Continual improved relationship with vendors to ensure their roadmap doesn’t affect client’s BAU processes.• Publish resource planning and forecast for releases ensuring timely delivery without resourcing constraint, utilizing spare capacity towards continuous improvement and automation initiatives.• Worked with financial systems and regulatory reporting team, in a client facing role – to transform the processes from project to BAU phase.• Managed / led multiple projects – mentored the team and worked with key stakeholders, in a client facing role to ensure the need of business is met• Identification of organizational goals and developing strategies for achieving those goals/business values• Conceptualize and lead large strategic programs to address complex and ambiguous problems• Drive improvements to delivery metrics, methods and processes• Interaction with stakeholders to ensure clarity on scope and engagement expectations• Understanding work demand and ensuring appropriate staffing• Collaborate with other vendors for staffing and knowledge requirements• Management of co-sourcing components to ensure timely and effective delivery• Ensuring compliance with established budget• Ensuring adherence to best practices• Transparent and meaningful reporting to key stakeholders by established governance mechanisms, timely reviews with clients and co-vendors• Management of engagement level scope changes• Management of vendor staffing and knowledge transfer. Show less • Reduction in licensing and support cost, resulting in run cost by 250k GBP per annum.• Reduction in number of reports to maintained. Additional of new fields for reporting which provides business more granular level of details in datawarehouse. • Data load process was vastly improved. Earlier it was taking 16 hrs to load the data, this was optimized to complete with in 2 hrs. This has resulted in schelduign the batch job daily so that data was available to business on daily basis. • Data accuracy was improved by addressing 12 historic data issues uncovered, this has been corrected as part of this project Show less • Install Informatica 8.1 and Oracle 9 on an AIX 5.2 WPAR, Upgrade in a 7.1 LPAR. Restore Informatica 6.2.2 repository backup to DB. Upgrade repository using Informatica 8.1 service. Sanity test all Informatica mappings/workflows. Create DB instances for applications and test application. Backup Informatica 8.1 repository and all DB instances• Install Informatica 9.1 and Oracle 11 on a AIX 6.1 LPAR. Restore Informatica 8.1 repository backup to DB. Upgrade repository using Informatica 9.1 service. Sanity test all Informatica mappings/workflows. Create DB instances for apps and test apps. Backup Informatica 9.1 repository and all DB instances• Install Informatica 9.6 and Oracle 11 in separate AIX 7.1 LPARs. Restore Informatica 9.1 repository backup to DB. Upgrade repository using Informatica 9.6 service. Sanity test all Informatica mappings/workflows. Create DB instances for MIS and GIS apps and test apps.• Configuration of informatica batch jobs on new server and testing all the batch jobs. Remediating the failures where required. • Creating required non prod and prod environments. Show less • Effectively handling client change requests by proposing and supporting the design, development and testing of solutions (includes a combination of reports in SSRS and Business Objects and ETL components in Informatica).• Verifying that change requests (CRs) from the client meet entrance criteria.• Analyzing impact of changes across modules/functional areas and on end users.• Designing modifications necessary to solve issues and submitting options with estimates for approval.• Ensuring design documentation for programmers is accurate, complete and meets all appropriate standards.• Identifying opportunities for CR consolidation and/or code reusability.• Performing thorough unit and regression test on all changes.• Reviewing programming and unit test deliverables thoroughly and according to standards.• Communicating status to onshore Management on a regular basis.• Acting as SME on multiple projects/service requests and priorities.• Providing support for others involved in the development and testing of solutions:• Providing programming, technical, and functional assistance to Developers who implement changes.• Reviewing changes for thoroughness, testing strategies, and documentation of results.• Reviewing code (both technically and functionally), and directing Developers to other resources when needed. Show less • Transitioned myself across insurance domain. Started analyzing business need – and implemented number of change requests and BAU / data fixes.• Helped supervisor with metrics data out of ServiceNow and IBM Maximo to understand the tickets trend and come up with a plan to reduce the inflow of repetitive tasks / issues.• Performed daily routine tasks of batch monitoring and was proactive to come up with fixes (if need be) to have minimal / no impact to business.• Developed and enhanced multiple Informatica mapping and workflow and BO report to support the business requirement. Managed end to end testing lifecycle, governance processes around getting these to production. Show less

  • Technical Delivery Lead

    Apr 2018 - now

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

  • Technical Lead

    Jul 2015 - May 2016

  • Technical Lead

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  • Senior Software Developer

    Aug 2012 - Dec 2014

  • Software Engineer

    Jun 2010 - Jul 2012