Kiran Duggudurty
Ashburn,VA
Summary
Seasoned Delivery Lead and Release Manager with 20 years of versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions across various domains. Certified expertise in Agile/SAFe delivery, CI/CD integration, Risk analysis, and Process optimization.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Senior Delivery Lead and Release Manager
Freddie Mac
06.2024 - Current
- Responsible for Software release management which involves managing, planning, scheduling, and controlling software builds through different stages and environments. It actively includes testing and deploying software releases, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery for business-critical securitization applications centered to mortgage-backed securities issuances.
- Responsible for Problem management which involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues by collaborating with product teams, developers, and business stakeholders to align delivery with Freddie Mac's securitization strategy and regulatory requirements.
- Chaired daily stand-up meetings and Defect triage calls with multiple Agile teams using modern methodologies and Scrum formats. Created and implemented contingency plans to reduce potential risks by 20%.
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Maven streamlining deployments and reducing release cycle time by 25%
- Drive adoption of modern delivery practices (Agile, TDD, ATDD, Microservices, Containerization) to improve scalability and resiliency for legacy systems by 28%
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects by Monitoring and tracking project progress to support timely completion.
- Provide production support and issue resolution to ensure zero disruption to securitization operations.
- Coordinated with external vendors like JP Morgan and USFINTECH and Managed various IT projects to meet Release deadlines and customer requirements.
- Coordinated with external vendors and scripted combined Run books to deliver IT project components.
- Mentored junior engineers and contribute towards standardization of best practices through best IT tools and applications.
- Responsible for preparing Weekly status reports and communicate project progress to Business stakeholders and External vendors at all levels.
Manager – Finance BTO
Cognizant – Client: Freddie Mac
07.2014 - 05.2024
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Phoenix Reference Data Services (PRDS) which acts as a centralized reference data for multiple Phoenix accounting engines and houses Single Family Loan-Pool reference data.
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Loan Amortization (SF LOAM) which is an accounting and amortization engine that amortize fee basis associated with loans. LOAM processes 14 different types of fees such as Credit Fee, Buy Up, Buy down, Cash purchase premium/discount, Hedge, LOCOM, Charge-off, etc.
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Single Family Transaction Accounting (SFTA) which is an accounting engine that processes loan level servicer reported activities such as monthly principal and interest payments, payoffs, delinquencies, interest adjustments, reinstatements for Single family loans.
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Operations Sub ledger (SF OSL) which creates double book keeping Sub ledger/Journal entries at general ledger account level based on the accounting entries generated by SFTA, LOAM and ACA applications.
- Implemented robotic process automation (RPA) solutions across Finance, HR, Legal, and Enterprise functions.
- Built and optimized automation frameworks using Robot Framework and CI/CD tools, significantly improving regression coverage.
- Chaired triage meetings with vendors, development, and business teams; managed issue resolution and risk communication to leadership.
- Delivered system demos and PI demos within SAFe Agile framework; collaborated on requirement reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Maintained SLA metrics, monthly KPI's, resource planning, and capacity utilization for large cross-functional QA teams.
- Supported post-production validation, ensuring smooth business operations after releases.
- Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Team Lead – Trade Communications
Cognizant – Client: BNY Mellon
12.2011 - 07.2014
- Led QA for Trade Flow upgrades and Oasys Direct Trade Flow applications.
- Coordinated functional delivery with downstream teams (SAP/ESB) and managed automation efforts.
- Conducted regression and acceptance testing with business teams, presenting quality metrics to leadership.
- Identified and communicated customer needs to supply chain capacity and quality teams.
Technical Test Lead
Infosys – Client: Ameriprise Financial
02.2009 - 12.2011
- Directed testing for BlackRock Sub-Advised Fund Accounting & Columbia Integration.
- Validated accounting feeds, fund migrations, and data conversions across Oracle and mainframe systems.
- Coordinated multi-stream QA (functional, integration, migration, performance) with external vendors.
- Collaborated with QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing.
- Developed efficient technical solutions to resolve wide range of business problems.
Functional Lead – Collections & Recoveries
Infosys – Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
09.2007 - 01.2009
- Served as release coordinator for web applications, managing functional and regression testing.
- Performed Web Services testing (SOAP UI) and validated credit scoring (CRA) integrations.
- Reviewed project specification documentation to create appropriate testing methodologies.
Software Engineering Analyst
Infosys – Client: General Motors/ AON Inc
07.2005 - 08.2007
- Developed prototypes and conducted testing for Electro Magnetic Compatibility systems.
- Designed data models and supported integration testing for automotive applications.
- Led QA activities for legacy AON system migration projects.
- Executed full-cycle testing (functional, regression, UAT) and managed audit/compliance activities.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Pondicherry University
India06-2005
Skills
- Cross-functional Team leadership
- Release Management
- Project Management
- Dependency Management
- Dependency Injection
- Requirement analysis
- Collaborating with stakeholders
- Continuous integration CI/CD
- Scaled Agile Framework-AI Empowered
- RPA (Robotics Process Automation)
- KPI Metric Reporting
- Databases : SQL /DB2/Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- API Testing
- AI Literacy
- AWS
- Test Strategy & Planning
- Defect Management & Triage
- JIRA
- HP ALM
Certification
- AI-Empowered SAFe 6.0 Release Train Engineer (CERTIFICATE ID:42853834-5839)
- AI-Empowered SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager (CERTIFICATE ID: 81413308-5060) POPM
- Certified SAFe Agilist 6.0 (CERTIFICATE ID: 60525440-2052)
- Foundation Artificial Intelligence and AI Literacy
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certified
Timeline
Senior Delivery Lead and Release Manager
Freddie Mac
06.2024 - Current
Manager – Finance BTO
Cognizant – Client: Freddie Mac
07.2014 - 05.2024
Team Lead – Trade Communications
Cognizant – Client: BNY Mellon
12.2011 - 07.2014
Technical Test Lead
Infosys – Client: Ameriprise Financial
02.2009 - 12.2011
Functional Lead – Collections & Recoveries
Infosys – Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
09.2007 - 01.2009
Software Engineering Analyst
Infosys – Client: General Motors/ AON Inc
07.2005 - 08.2007
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Pondicherry University
Work Authorization
Green card (EAD -AP) No Sponsorship required
Domain Expertise
- Mortgage & Securities Banking : Freddie Mac
- Retail & Financial Banking : Ameriprise Financials, Bank of New York Mellon and Royal Bank of Scotland
- Automotive & Aerospace : General Motors
- Healthcare & Insurance : AON Inc.
Work Authorization
Green card EAD/AP - No Sponsorship required