Nizar Velapuram

Conducted product planning to ensure alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations Acted as liaison between IT, Business, Developers, Delivery team to plan user stories and tasks according to the business need Worked on performance optimization in Hadoop/Unix environment Designed Re-rating solutions for postpaid events Successfully completed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with a 98% approval rate, delivering the project on schedule Led a team of 6 members

Worked as System Analyst in a project dealing with Intel’s Quarterly Revenue close process that reports $12-15B quarterly Tracking of posting of data for Business process like Billing, Returns, Rebates/Discounts, General Ledger from various system Publish Final values of key figures of various processes for the Quarter Performed exploratory data analysis to incorporate business change requests and adapt existing tools or techniques Elicit requirements & Document for any technical changes As L3 team, Support any issues arises during Quarterly Rev Close process

Worked on Philips O2C and M2O Supply chain projects Managed BAU operations and enhancements in Agile oriented project Developed Tableau dashboards with historical and predictive data for various meetings per country or country groups Share Insights to Business users to support Business decisions Worked on SalesForce.com, SSIS, SQL, Macros & Knime for ETL processes PO for KPIs like Forecast Accuracy, Bias, W-MAPE, Contracts, Warranty Worked on predictive analytics to derive forecast data Developed Excel macros for automated PowerPoint generation Administered user access control on Tableau Server and SharePoint

• Successfully performed deployment of end-to-end RA solution implementation at various customer sites • Conducted User Acceptance testing at customer location like Nextel Chile, Nextel Brazil, Celcom Malaysia • Successfully completed migration project from RocRA v2.6 to RocRA v5.0 at Celcom Malaysia • Travel to client places for various engagements like Requirement gathering, UAT and production support • Coordinate Requirement gathering by conducting Workshops, Surveys, Brainstorming, Observations & feedbacks • Liaise among customer, co-vendors of customer, development, testing team & IT/DB team during implementation • Draft FSD/LLD by translating the business requirements from RFP/HLD to design solution using Subex ROCRA • Support infrastructure team for Hardware/Database specifications for production environment • Perform site readiness in production to ensure Servers/Databases are configured as per proposed specifications • Created solution design for Prepaid and Post-paid Re-Rating of CDRs in ROC RA system • Advise clients in identifying new opportunities by preparing proposals, reports & mockups • Execute Proof of Concepts effectively to assist Sales/Pre-sales team in project bidding process • Worked as part of Configuration team and Testing team for the development projects • Developed parsers/decoders from file formats (ASCII/Binary/ASN/CSV) • Developed Reconciliation reports in Subex ROCRA tool, Developed QlikView dashboards as per customer needs

I was trained and outsourced to Wipro from Vimarshana. Below were my roles while working as Testing engineer for Wipro's "HP Retail Photo Solution" project Worked at Wipro premises as a contract Testing staff for HP RPS project Creating customized Test environment for Retailers [Tesco/Walmart] Deployment of Release patches like Theme, Bug fixes & New feature Write Test Cases, Execute Test cases, Report bugs in HP QC