Rahul Balakrishnan

Experience

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  Cognizant

  Dec 2007 - May 2010

  Software Developer

  • Impact Analysis, Design, Coding, Unit/Regression Testing• Implementation and production support

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  Wipro Limited

  Jun 2010 - Jan 2011

  Senior Software Developer

  • Requirement Analysis & Design• Coding, Unit and Integration Testing • Implementation support

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  Dell

  Feb 2011 - Apr 2015

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Performing different cross functional roles based on the requirement• Responsible for design, coding, testing and implementation. • Involved in preparing the functional specification, application design and component design.• Provide Training or Knowledge Transfer sessions for the New Joiners

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  Royal Bank of Scotland

  Apr 2015 - Nov 2019

  Lead Engineer | Scrum Master

  • Responsible for ensuring the quality and timelines of all delivery activities including design, build and implementation• Involved in end-to-end application development• Worked as Scrum Master with focus on guiding the development team towards improving the way they work and achieve the sprint goal. • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.• Collaborating closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring clear and concise backlog items before every sprint, ensuring acceptance criteria were understood and agreed. • Coached team members on agile principles, directed and led development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.• Evaluated and adopted new tools to address changing work culture and promoting new ways of working. Worked as a tool champion for the team, trained team members on newer tools and processes. Show less

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  LzLabs

  Mar 2020 - Aug 2020

  Quality Assurance Engineer

  ● Part of QA team responsible for ensuring the functional and non-functional performance of Software Defined Mainframe –an x86 based mainframe migration platform. ● Responsible for test planning, test cases and test execution● Produce test scripts in BASH, Python or Rexx● Execution and verification of test cases, also enabling the automated test case execution (jenkins)

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  Citi

  Sept 2020 - Jun 2021

  Applications Development Sr. Progammer Analyst

  Part of Custody services team, responsible for developing and delivering application enhancements and regulatory changes of SECORE application.● Conducting tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, analyzingproblems/issues, providing evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards● Involved in applications development, implementing new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs.● Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users Show less

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Jul 2021 - now

  Associate