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Charan Kumar Yerra

Sr Pega Developer
Charan Kumar Yerra

Summary

Customer-focused software professional with superior communication skills and expertise in various technical platforms. Understands and meets both client and employer needs and develops highly functional, robust and easy-to-use applications. Excels as hands-on developer and oversees work of software teams.

Overview

11
years of professional experience
8
years of post-secondary education
4
Certifications

Work History

Flysoft INC

Sr Pega Developer
2021.10 - Current (3 years & 7 months)

Job overview

  • Worked with the Business Leads, and Business Analysts to define business requirements for designing, testing, and analyzed those requirements.
  • Designed and implemented complex user interfaces using Harness, Section, and HTML stream rules.
  • Implemented various PRPC components like Decision tables, Decision Maps, Declarative expressions, Constraints, and Indexes, when rule etc.
  • Involved in designing the High Level Class structure and development of process flows, activities and UI.
  • Involved in creation of security elements for application like Access groups, User roles, privileges.
  • Involved in creating data model for the application, using Properties (Page Lists, embedded pages), analyzed the application and proposed the work page structure.
  • Creation of search reports using List view and Summary view rules of PRPC.
  • Worked on integrations using SOAP, HTTP and SQL to retrieve data from external data base as well as Pega database.
  • Used SLA's to assign and escalate tasks based on priority. Tasks are assigned to associates by considering various criteria like task type, availability, current assignment work load etc.
  • Involved in optimizing and refactoring the code for better performance and ease of maintainability.
  • Worked with Clipboard, Rules Inspector, DB trace and Tracer for troubleshooting the issues.
  • Data-Admin-DB-Name instance was created to connect the external database using the JDBC Connection URL or the JDBC Connection Pool.
  • Ran the Preflight tool at regular intervals to make sure the numbers of warnings are minimal.
  • Involved in Bug fixing, Production support.
  • Worked closely with quality assurance team and also performed unit testing.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institut

PEGA SYSTEMS ARCHITECT SENIOR
06.2021 - 10.2021

Job overview

  • Implemented various PRPC components like
    Decision tables, Decision Maps, Declarative
    expressions, Constraints, and Indexes, when rule etc.
  • Involved in creation of security elements for
    application like Access groups, User roles, privileges.
  • Used SLA's to assign and escalate tasks based on
    priority. Tasks are assigned to associates by
    considering various criteria like task type, availability,
    current assignment work load etc.
  • Worked with Clipboard, Rules Inspector, DB trace
    and Tracer for troubleshooting issues.
  • Involved in Bug fixing, Production support.
  • Worked closely with quality assurance team and
    also performed unit testing.
  • Implemented Agile methodology in design and rule
    development phases using Pega Rules Process
    Commander.

Orpine INC

Sr Pega Developer/Offshore Team Lead
11.2020 - 06.2021

Job overview

  • Handled offshore team of 6 developers. Making them understand the complete business requirement, helping them in impact analysis for the stories they are working on, helping them in design and doing code review once the stories are ready to be deployed.
  • Implemented the Agile methodology in design and the rule development phases using the Pega Rules Process Commander.
  • Participated in creation of application specific Class structure and Rule set structure.
  • Involved in technical discussions related to integration with external applications.
  • Created Agents which will run in the background to sending Correspondences, to generate daily, weekly and monthly reports.
  • Provide technical input for creation of Business Requirement Documents.
  • Responsible to create eForm file, eForm map rules to generate PDF.
  • Participated extensively in designing application security which involves setting up Access groups, Access Roles, Operators, Application ID, Work groups, Work basket and SLA rules.
  • Created Activities, steps and methods and calling other activities for implementing core business logic.
  • Involved in Creation of validation rules to implement business logic validation.
  • Involved in testing and troubleshooting the issues of application using PRPC tools like Rules Inspector, Clipboard, and Tracer.
  • Involved in Code migration form Dev to UAT and Prod.
  • Development is done in Pega Cloud Instances and used PDC for identifying the performance issues.

Maantic INC

Sr Pega Developer
12.2017 - 11.2020

Job overview

  • Involved in designing high level Class structures and involved in rule set management, access group management.
  • Implemented workflows part of day-to-day business operations, the workflows is crucial to success of the system, especially considering the PEGA guardrails.
  • Developed optimized activities for agents, worked on SLA processing and extensively worked on file listener process to interact with external systems to automate business process.
  • Identifying reusable functionality and implementing it as a reusable component.
  • Created, Customized Flows and Actions forms as per the Requirements. Creating Declarative Expressions, Trees and Tables for automate business process.
  • Worked on DB mapping, remote DB connection, and other DB related operations along with the connectivity to SQL.
  • Converting complex business rules in to PRPC decision tables, decision trees and Map Value pairs.
  • Reviewing of the existing decision rules and identifying key defects and fixed the issues.
  • Administration activities like creation of Access Groups, applications, operator IDs, rule set versioning and locking.
  • Checking code for compliance of standards and Pega Guardrails.
  • Developed Connect REST rules for getting the data from Gemini and DD systems.
  • Effectively used the debugging tools including Clipboard, RULE Inspector, Tracer and Log Analyzer.
  • Monitoring Job logs as well as schedule jobs
  • Efficiently handled core production fixes
  • Testing, debugging and fixing the defects raised by the QA.
  • Implementing any critical Change Requests raised.
  • Enhancing the performance.
  • Code skimming, query tuning, preflight warning check.
  • Coordinating between the offshore and onsite to handle the resolution of tasks within the timeline
  • Monitoring Log files, SMA, Performance Profiler and ran Guardrail reports to tune the application and improve the overall performance.
  • Provided technical insight and direction on project initiatives from Pega expertise perspective.
  • Developed Use Cases based on detailed requirements as defined Business Analysts.
  • Involved in Change Management aspects including defining and implementing procedures / technologies to deal with changes in business environment.
  • Involved in the implementation of Correspondence
  • Worked on Skill based routing and SLA’s

Virtusa Corporation

Software Engineer
04.2016 - 12.2017

Job overview

  • Involved in entire SDLC phases of the project.
  • Interaction with Business Analysts to understand the business needs and requirements
  • Participated in creation of application specific Class structure and Rule set structure.
  • Taking care of Business Ad Hoc Requests to update the Production Data.
  • Designed and configured rules and flows. Perform UI and flow development. Lead demonstrations of created functionality.
  • Involved in Bug fixing, Unit testing and Performance testing using PAL
  • Coordinated implementation, Integration, UAT and also for bug fix and enhancement activities.
  • Automated various operational tasks based on the client SLA’s
  • Primary point of contact in support of production issues during on-call
  • Managed a team of system analyst’s off-shore to re-design and implement Error management system
  • Created Draft Flows, mockup screens in PEGA for business demo
  • Involved in technical discussions related to integration with external applications.
  • Extensively used PEGA Clipboard and Tracer for debugging of processes developed.
  • Participated extensively in designing application security which involves setting up Access groups, Access Roles, ARO’s, privileges, Access When, Access Deny, Operators, Application ID, Work groups, Work basket and SLA rules.
  • Designed and implemented User Interfaces using Sections, Harness and Portals.
  • Created Agents which will run in the background to sending Correspondences, to generate daily, weekly and monthly reports.
  • Created Activities, steps and methods and calling other activities for implementing core business logic.
  • Designing of database, schema, tables partitioning, and indexes on tables.

Syntel Limited
Chennai, TamilNadu

Software Engineer
04.2012 - 07.2014

Job overview

  • Logical, Analytical and Effective communication and interpersonal skills scratch which results in minimum manual work for Production Support team to deliver quality work.
  • Logging, tracking and investigating various issues related to application.
  • Working on IMR’s (Incident Management Request) which were raised by end users.
  • Creating and executing CMR’s (Change Management Record) to fix issues.
  • Actively Monitoring the SLA JOBS of GREG application and backend database. Following ITIL process (Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management).
  • Preparing RCA for high severity issues.
  • Interacting with various external teams (Client, Infra, Upstream, DownStream) and engaging right resources at right time for resolution of issues.
  • Regular interactions and live meeting sessions with clients to analyze the requirements, gaps in documents and provide solutions which will help in improving the process.

Education

Ottawa University
Overland Park, KS

MBA from Information Technology
01.2019 - 07.2021

University Overview

University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO

Master of Science from Computer Science
08.2014 - 12.2015

University Overview

JNTU Kakinada
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science And Engineering
06.2007 - 04.2011

University Overview

Skills

    Pega 8 (till 85, working on 87 PE)

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Certification

Lead System Architect Pega Architecture Exam 85V1

Timeline

Lead System Architect Pega Architecture Exam 85V1

11-2021
Sr Pega Developer
Flysoft INC
2021.10 - Current (3 years & 7 months)
PEGA SYSTEMS ARCHITECT SENIOR
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institut
06.2021 - 10.2021
Sr Pega Developer/Offshore Team Lead
Orpine INC
11.2020 - 06.2021
Ottawa University
MBA from Information Technology
01.2019 - 07.2021

Certified Pega Senior System Architect

03-2018
Sr Pega Developer
Maantic INC
12.2017 - 11.2020

Certified Pega System Architect

06-2016
Software Engineer
Virtusa Corporation
04.2016 - 12.2017
University of Central Missouri
Master of Science from Computer Science
08.2014 - 12.2015

Oracle Certified Professional, JAVA SE 6 Programmer

06-2013
Software Engineer
Syntel Limited
04.2012 - 07.2014
JNTU Kakinada
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science And Engineering
06.2007 - 04.2011
Charan Kumar YerraSr Pega Developer