RAVI SANKAR AMMAIAPPAN
Summary
Creative Scrum Master with 18+years of track record guiding enterprise-wide technological wellbeing. Skilled at aligning human and technical resources to enhance return on investment and accelerate business progress. Dedicated to wringing optimal performance from available resources while charting cost-efficient upgrade paths. Proficient in the entire Software Development Life Cycle, adept at designing, developing, and executing processes, along with documenting test plans and cases. Demonstrated expertise in stakeholder management with a strong track record of leading diverse teams across global locations including Switzerland, Singapore, UK, and India. Proven ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and facilitate seamless collaboration between onshore and offshore teams.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master/Chapter Lead
UBS AG
10.2018 - Current
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Assessed and analyzed customer requirements to develop effective IT project plans.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
- Reduced time-to-market with efficient backlog management and prioritization of tasks based on business objectives.
- Led successful migration of 500+ Business objects reports to MicroStrategy, Tableau and JEDI (Inhouse ETL Tool)
- Co-ordinated with various business Stakeholders, Vendor Testing team, In-house Development team and completed migration successfully.
Test Manager/Test Co-Ordinator
NTT Data (Switzerland) [Dell Services]
10.2015 - 08.2018
- Improved customer satisfaction scores through application of superior conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.
- Resolved issues through active listening and open-ended questioning, escalating major problems to manager.
- Analyzed requirements, prepared test cases, and executed reporting test cases
- Co-ordination with offshore team for validating test scenarios for end-to-end flows of Equities, Structured Products, Funds
- Responsible for knowledge transfer while managing teams, scheduling testing activities and reporting status.
- Project: Topaz helps regulators evaluate bank operations and overall health from raw/summary data to determine compliance with applicable regulatory provisions for FINFRAG, MIFID, EMIR
- Deployed JEDI GUI to execute feeds, verified and segregated data to store them in respective databases using SQL queries
Test Lead, Senior Automation Specialist
NTT Data (Singapore) [Dell Services]
10.2010 - 10.2015
- Provided expert insight into system requirements, collaborating with stakeholders to establish clear expectations for project outcomes.
- Created satisfied customers by providing attentive customer service and quick problem solving.
- Led a team of 15 to build automated/manual regression testing scenarios for Topaz and facilitated and supported preparations
- Project: Topaz deals with testing of the trading application and the order management system prevalent in UBS. Front to Back Testing and pre-production support of trade flows, front-office applications, and order management systems
- Testing the inward/outward flow of the orders/trades done from the internal/external tools/applications
- Responsible for functionality testing of order management, booking management and settlement management applications
- Testing of Structure Products flow implementation and on-boarding using FIX 4.4 while verifying FIX 4.4/SWIFT message flow.
Module Lead, Automation Specialist
Isoft R&D
01.2007 - 09.2010
- Led a team of 10 for the development and analysis of test cases and automation scripts using descriptive programming
- Created and reported release metrics to the client with details analysis of the defects logged during release
- Project: LORENZO CDC/Lorenzo Regional Care 3.5 is an integrated product comprising of various products like Lorenzo, iPM, iCM, Synergy etc to integrate the health management system throughout the country UK by dividing it into 5 clusters
- Client: NHS, UK | Technical Environment: .Net, QC 10, QTP 10, Doors /Change Synergy
- Led the team for creation of Automation Testing scripts to collect clinical content forms designed in CDC and imported to database
- Involved in one of the biggest go-live activities for biggest international Civilian Information Technology program.
Test Engineer
YSE (Yalamanchili Software Exports)
06.2005 - 12.2006
- Project: Citi Bank Payment Gateway is an online middleware between the merchant and Citibank switch for online transactions
- Client: CITI Bank, Indian Bank | Technical Environment: Java, C, C++, ProC
- Spearheaded end-to-end testing lifecycle spanning Test Planning/Test Cases, RTM, functional, regression testing and UAT
- Integration testing with VISA, MasterCard; preparation of test execution status report; and analysis of test results.
Education
Master of Science - Statistics with Computer Applications
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Tirunelveli, TamilnaduMaster of Computer Applications -
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Tirunelveli, TamilnaduSkills
- Certified Scrum Master
- Stake-Holder Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Database Development
- MicroStrategy, Tableau, Business Objects
- Test Strategy & Planning
- Business Intelligence & Analytics
- Data Analysis
Certification
- ICP-ACC Certified Agile Coach
- Safe 5.1 Agilist
- Tableau Desktop Certified Professional Certification
- Certified Engineer (UBS Internal Certification)
Awards
Dell Gold Award for excellent delivery and account mining for Dell's BFSI Customer
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master/Chapter Lead
UBS AG
10.2018 - Current
Test Manager/Test Co-Ordinator
NTT Data (Switzerland) [Dell Services]
10.2015 - 08.2018
Test Lead, Senior Automation Specialist
NTT Data (Singapore) [Dell Services]
10.2010 - 10.2015
Module Lead, Automation Specialist
Isoft R&D
01.2007 - 09.2010
Test Engineer
YSE (Yalamanchili Software Exports)
06.2005 - 12.2006
Master of Science - Statistics with Computer Applications
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Master of Computer Applications -
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
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