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Overview
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Education
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Certification
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Training
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Ravi Kanuri

Temple Terrace,FL

Summary

Over 20+ years of experience in Software Design, Development, Analysis and Quality Assurance Testing. Collaborate across multiple lines of business to set strategy, objectives, priorities and define business needs. Lead the Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for critical strategic customer facing web application. Working closely with clients and cross-functional departments to communicate project statuses and proposals to Senior Executive teams. Ability to determine operational feasibility by maintaining current technology options, studying business needs, conferring with users, and having a deep understanding systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Understand the corporate strategies and goals and the ability to develop and execute on highly technical complex solutions to meet those goals.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Dist Engr-Full Stack

Verizon Communications
05.2020 - Current
  • Practicing Agile methodology since 2021
  • I have been successfully acting as a “Product Teach Lead” (PTL) for multiple Agile Collaborative Teams (ACTs)
  • My responsibilities includes: Define a Product Area’s technical vision
  • Create, measure and refine roadmap for aligning a product to the foundational North star architecture
  • Partner with the architecture to explore alternatives
  • Champion modern software development practices
  • Be the technical product owner
  • Collaborate with the Scrum leads, Product Owners and Release Train Engineers
  • Be a role model and technical mentor for all the Team members
  • Ensure smooth delivery of release to production
  • Resolve impediments
  • Drive technical quality by managing and resolving defects within the product area
  • Responsible for resource skill development within the product area
  • Support professional growth and development.

Life On Fios – Registration, Activations

Verizon Communications
09.2012 - 05.2020
  • Designed the overall system architecture of the Registration application and implemented the core framework with Spring and Hibernate
  • Prepared technical document, architecture diagram and presentations for the executives
  • Designed and developed secure web applications
  • Enforce sound development practices, Code Review and ensure the quality of code
  • Understanding various aspects and provide a solution to optimize performance and scalability
  • Contribute towards excellence in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment
  • Guide, Motivate and Mentor the team members
  • Keep the project manager informed of task accomplishment, issues and status
  • Coordinate meetings with the team to discuss project requirement and issues
  • Unit testing, Maintenance and Production Support

Fios Self Install

Verizon Communications
03.2004 - 01.2012
  • Worked on Key Performance Metrics and lead the testing effort for FiOS Self-Install and Registration applications
  • Key contributor to Directship to Self-Install program
  • Lead the QA team and validated different applications like My Verizon, Registration, What’s Next, SSO, My Business, and Webmail
  • Actively participated on all JAD sessions, High level design reviews and responsible for reviewing Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents for various new projects and provide Level of Efforts
  • Worked as a liaison between consulting company and Verizon India management to ensure that the resources are transferred as scheduled and without impacting the project delivery
  • This included bringing in offshore resources and training them within a very short time period
  • Administered PVCS server & Mercury Quality Center, which provides the daily status, Key Performance metrics, and Account Management
  • Actively involved in reviewing and providing sign off for test plans and test cases
  • Manage the setup and maintenance of various test environments (front-end, back-end) for every test cycle
  • Performed Stress (Major releases), Performance (Every release), Brake-fix (Major releases), and Denial of Service (Major releases) tests using Load Runner automation Tool for Single Sign On, Verizon Central, Newsroom, Webmail, and Small Business portals
  • Analyzed and identified root causes of any performance bottlenecks and giving solutions on need basis
  • Involved in testing APIs using Soap, Actional Diagnostics
  • Conducted periodic status meetings with clients and developers on trouble ticket status
  • Act as subject matter expert and technical advisor to other Verizon organizations such as Product Management, Network Architecture, Network Planning, Engineering, Operations, and Corporate Sourcing
  • Deployed disk imaging for lab PCs to facilitate a more standard testing environment and to allow installations on clean machines with significantly shorter preparation time
  • Handled all Firewall requests to provide access/support to offshore and external partners.

Education

MS in Computer Science -

Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering -

Skills

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • JavaScript
  • Oracle
  • AWS
  • GIT
  • Jenkins
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Friendly, Positive Attitude
  • Problem-Solving
  • Time Management
  • Leadership
  • Decision Making
  • Adaptability

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Awards

  • Best performer award from CIO - October 2015
  • Spotlight Awards – 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021

Training

Pega platform - System Architect

Verizon Training

ISOP (Information Systems Orientation Program) 2011 graduate

Timeline

Dist Engr-Full Stack

Verizon Communications
05.2020 - Current

Life On Fios – Registration, Activations

Verizon Communications
09.2012 - 05.2020

Fios Self Install

Verizon Communications
03.2004 - 01.2012

MS in Computer Science -

Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering -

Ravi Kanuri