Umesh Krishnan Perumbala

Managed all aspects of Loan Closing Advisor Program delivery, from planning to execution

• Prioritized product backlog by assessing business value with stakeholders
• Defined product requirements through cross-functional collaboration
• Owned and maintained the product roadmap
• Aligned Engineering, Integration, and Data teams on product priorities
• Led KTLO operations and drove ongoing modernization initiatives
• Set goals, coach and perform annual reviews for the team
• Conducted gap analysis and designed targeted optimization initiatives

Responsible for Delivery objectives across multiple work streams

• Define engagement model with Business and external stakeholders
• Identify value streams and work with teams to prioritize and deliver on identified areas
• Promote Cross team collaboration, identify and track dependencies
• Ensure adherence to SAFe construct
• Define implementation strategy, capture risks and present the same in Program Status huddles to VPs
• Measure process maturity through metrics and build road map to optimize delivery
• Identify operational bottle necks and facilitate Problem solve sessions
• Forecast demand & Identify training requirements and design & implement training plan
• Coach and set objectives for direct reports and conduct annual appraisal for the team
• Promote CI/CD adoption

Responsible for Defining and optimizing process and in promoting innovation to achieve the defined objectives

• Managed CCMS development & enhancement initiative for FDA
• Drive execution across multiple workstreams
• Defined and managed processes to align business and technology functions
• Facilitated SAFe adoption
• Managed Product Roadmap
• Led CMMI audit for the organization

Managed Data engineering, Integration, QE and Infrastructure validation portfolio at Freddie Mac

• Define OPMs & KPI to measure maturity
• Collaborated with offshore and near shore teams on tool design
• Responsible for tracking & communicating KPIs, Productivity and Maturity status to Hexaware and Freddie Mac executive management
• Guide teams to align goals with organization objectives
• Collaborate on design of maturity levers for DevOps projects and facilitated DevOps adoption
• Manage portfolio budgets and ensure adherence
• Forecast demand & Identify training requirements and design & implement training plan
• Collaborate on approach and strategy for enterprise Cloud Migration
• Arrived at CI/CD adoption plan for multiple teams

Managed application modernization across multiple large scale programs

• Designed Integration roadmap and facilitated dependency mapping across multiple services
• Stakeholder management and communication
• Lead 40+ consultants for CSP, Single security & IRCI program
• Collaborated with multiple teams to design unified representation of expected workflow
• Worked with key stakeholders to prioritize delivery
• Functioned as primary liaison between Business, tech and E2E execution teams
• Chaired triparty calls with Fannie mae, CSS and internal teams
• Built a common body of knowledge to manage large programs
• Initiated Domain training for team members
• Governance enforcement & KPI Adherence
• Conduct Joint reviews with stakeholders

• Architected Automation framework and managed automation delivery for Freddie Mac
• Developed enterprise level test automation strategy
• Responsible for estimation, work allocation, monitoring of automation activities
• Identify automation candidate, perform assessment and track ROI

• Performed test management consulting for IBO at Cardiff
• Analyzed existing quality processes and identified and recommended areas of improvements
• Defined testing maturity goals and road map
• Recommended tool sets for automation, performance and test management and helped set-up team to run test factory
• Managed team until steady state
• Manged Test Automation practice in Chennai for Hexaware
• Responsible for responding to automation RFPs
• Architected and patented a script less automation tool (HTA)
• Responsible for framework design reviews across projects
• Designed automation frameworks in UFT, Selenium, Sahi and Watij

• Responsible for design and development of test automation framework
• Analyzed Requirements document and prepared Test Plan
• Leading the Test design and test execution activity from London
• Identified Test Automation scenarios, developed & executed automation scripts for regression and smoke Testing
• Developed the library Functions
• Identified script ownership and conducted end user training
• Responsible for maintenance of the developed regression suite
• Responsible for Build compilation and deployment
• Responsible for version control of CI’s
• Responsible for preparation of SIT plan and exit report.
• Involved in sanity testing, re-testing of UAT defects and SIT testing
• Test Plan and Test case Preparation