Kiran Sekar

Experience

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  Cognizant

  Jul 2015 - Apr 2019

  Programmer Analyst

  • Executed logical evaluation of the requirements of clients/customers & incorporated the same into functional specifications• Assessed & deciphered the modifications for assessing their impact on Business and IT services• Worked upon change building, testing, and implementation activities as per the defined schedules• Assured the attainment of the defined objectives through the incorporated modifications• Partook in the various stages of application development life cycle like accumulating requirements from clients and evaluating them, design, development, testing, implementation, and support• Deciphering the requirements document/project request acquired & creating relevant design for the project• Created applications as per the functional requirements & testing the same to ensure the accuracy• Evaluated unit test cases• Migrate the solution to higher environments• Participated in enhancing design of existing applications.• Drafted test scripts to authenticate the application with the defined specifications/requirements• Offered demonstration to clients via meetings prior the deployment of the application to server• Supported the project team onsite & offsite to ensure smooth transition during critical project.• Designed internal training and various team-bonding activities• Incorporated the project in Production & offered post implementation assistance Show less

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  Hexaware Technologies

  May 2019 - Aug 2021

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Arranged & partook in Sprint Planning for discussing the backlog stories and syncing them to bucket as per the intricacy and amount of work• Partook in regular Scrum meeting for delivering on-time updates related to the progress of the user story being worked upon• Performed the requirement technical analysis and developed documents for solution specification and solution design• Employing SSIS, SSAS, Power BI, SQL Server and other MS applications for developing codes as per the defined project coding standards• Prepared unit test scripts and requirement traceability matrix for assessing the code as per user requirement.• Worked together with Project members for code review and suggestions/insights on code developed.• Published the code to higher environment in SDLC using TFS GIT while delivering quality assistance in performing System Integration Testing and Business testing. • Designed change request using Service Now for transferring the application to Live environment.• Offering Post-Live support to cover arise in any data quality issues.• Partook in Sprint retro for discussing the major key metrics including “what went well”, “Things that could’ve been better”, and “Things that went bad” for understanding & rectifying them accordingly• Coordinated with team members to find improvement areas and devise smooth customer experience. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Sept 2021 - Sept 2024

  Senior Associate

  • Executing sprint planning for having discussions on the backlog stories and arranging them in accordance to the priority & intricacy• Partaking in daily Scrum meeting for delivering on-time updates related to the user story progress• Performing requirement technical evaluation & drafting documents for solution specification and solution design• Employing SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, SQL Server and other MS applications for developing codes as per the defined project coding standards• Developing unit test scripts for assessing the requirements as per the acceptance criteria• Working together with assigned project members for evaluating the codes & recommending modifications/rectifications on code developed• Developing change request via Service Now for transferring the application to Live environment• Upgrading the code in alignment to the higher environments in the SDLC through TFS GIT while delivering assistance for System Integration Testing and business testing• Offering Post-Live support to ensure knowledge transition of the solution usage to business.• Partaking in Sprint retro for discussing the major key metrics including “what went well”, “Things that could’ve been better”, and “Things that went bad” for understanding & rectifying them accordingly• Coordinating with management & departments of the project to devise various innovations or value additions to the customer Show less

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  Marel

  Jun 2024 - now

  Data Engineer