Venkat Thatavarthi

About Venkat Thatavarthi

IT Professional offering career of 16+ years with notable success in leading development, testing & delivery of complex project and innovative solutions from Retail, Restaurants and Embedded Systems.• Managed end-end support for POS Migrations: SAP POS –> Oracle XStore POS, A1POS -> Oracle Simphony POS, JDA POS -> JumpMind Commerce POS and POS Version Upgrades• Experience with Payment Migration project from NCR to ACI and Gift Card Migration project to SVS• Knowledge of Payments, settlement process, Mobile Payments, Credit Card Offers System, Pricing System, Payment Tokens, EMV, NFC, QR code payments.• Managed from AOP Planning, requirement specs, planning, designing, testing, implementation, documentation, and closure with cross-cultural teams.• Experience in seeking the alignment of business & IT, operating across organizational and technology teams.• Experience in end-to-end support of mobile POS applications & In-Aisle Checkout systems from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, documentation, and implementation. • Excellent communication, leadership, analytical, planning, coordination, and relationship management skills with distinguished capabilities in directing cross-functional, geographically distributed teams that evolve solutions collaboratively.• Experience on migrating and managing the Point Of Sale application developed with 30+ integrations and generates ~7B revenue/year• Experience on JumpMind Commerce POS, Retail JDA POS, Oracle Simphony POS, A1POS, Micros POS, SAP Triversity Point Of Sale (POS), Oracle XStore POS, Mobile POS, Mobile App (Android & iOS), Dot Com(.com), device and Firmware testing.• Omnichannel experience with Promotions, Pricing, Loyalty Programs, Migration to New Loyalty Systems, Discounts, Gift Card Promotions, Paid Membership, Store credit card integrations • Experience on building & managing both Automation and Manual test teams (20+ members) across global.• Managing Business Demos, Production Deployment Planning, IT Pilot schedules and deployments• Participation of various phases of SDLC in various projects using TDD, Agile, Waterfall and V-Model execution.• Maintain and optimize the test suites with various tolls – Jira, Test rail, HP ALM, Quality Center Zephyr

Experience

1. Manager - Omnichannel & Store Systems

   Petco

   Nov 2021 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Gis Application
• Manhattan Lease Management
• Onsite-Offshore Model
• Kronos Wfc
• Manual Testing
• Test Planning
• Functional Testing
• Performance Testing
• Kronos Timekeeping
• Hp Quicktest Professional (Qtp)
• Embedded Firmware Domain
• Mobile Applications
• Customer Service
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Mobile Phone Apps
• End-to-End Testing
• Retail
• Oracle/Micros (Xstore) Pos
• Sdlc
• Oracle Pos (Xstore)
• Store Systems
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Agile Testing
• Hp Quality Center
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• User Acceptance Testing
• Testing
• System Testing
• Onsite Coordination
• Hp Qtp
• Point of Sale (Pos) Systems
• Microsoft Office