Girdhar Kothari

About Girdhar Kothari

Program Manager / Release Train Manager / Technical Program Manager / Senior Test Manager…

Experience

1. Associate Consultant

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Jun 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   I am responsible for overseeing the planning and execution of projects while ensuring they align with business goals. This role involves close collaboration with teams to facilitate project delivery and achieve desired outcomes. Regular engagement with stakeholders to define project scopes and objectives is crucial, alongside continuous evaluation of project performance to ensure success.Working in regulatory and strategic platform setup to support ISO 20022 payment messages as required payments schemes compliance. Platform comprised of three applications - Core (Routing of Payments messages), Translator (Support translation MT to MX and MX to MT formats) and User Interface (Monitoring and Controls).Platform provide capability to route all Payments and non-payments messages (ISO & Non-ISO) for CBPR, Target2, SEPA, CHAPS & SEPA Instant schemes. Additionally, support sanctions and translation (MT to MX and MX to MT formats) based on the defined routing rules set for the BIC\'s. Technical Stack: Kafka, MQ, PostgreSQL, TYK, IAM, Splunk, DxAPM, Vault, Gitlab Key Achievements:• Successfully managed multiple regulatory (ISO) and mandatory projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget constraints. • Delivered CHAPS, SEPA payment and multiple ISO 20022 strategic migration event projects to migrate from MT to MX message format successfully. • Managing all governance, processes, implementations, disaster recovery proving, change presentation and support various releases to keep various payments schemes complaint since any slippage attract financial penalty to bank. • Successfully planned, designed and delivered two User Interface (UI) applications within a year. • Led initiatives that resulted in improved project efficiency and effectiveness such as automation and zero downtime deployments (ZDT)

Education

• Yashwantrao chavan college of engineering nagpur

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  2002 — 2006

• Govt Polytechnic Washim

  Diploma

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Management
• Defect Tracking
• Wma Testing
• Manual Testing
• Hp Quality Center
• Hp Qtp
• Test Planning
• QA Lead
• Sql Db2
• Software Project Management
• Sdlc
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Mainframe Testing
• Web Services
• Testing
• Stlc
• Test Cases
• Sql
• Quality Center
• User Acceptance Testing
• System Testing