Kiran Duggudurty
McLean
Summary
Seasoned Delivery Lead and Release Manager with 19 years of versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions across various domains. Certified expertise in Agile/SAFe delivery, CI/CD integration, Risk analysis, and Process optimization.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Delivery Lead and Release Manager
Freddie Mac
06.2024 - Current
- Responsible for Software release management which involves managing, planning, scheduling, and controlling software builds through different stages and environments. It actively includes testing and deploying software releases, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery for business-critical securitization applications centered to mortgage-backed securities issuances.
- Responsible for Problem management which involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues by collaborating with product teams, developers, and business stakeholders to align delivery with Freddie Mac's securitization strategy and regulatory requirements.
- Chaired daily stand-up meetings and Defect triage calls with multiple Agile teams using modern methodologies and Scrum formats.Created and implemented contingency plans to reduce potential risks by 20%.
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Maven streamlining deployments and reducing release cycle time by 25%
- Drive adoption of modern delivery practices (Agile, TDD, ATDD, Microservices, Containerization) to improve scalability and resiliency for legacy systems by 28%
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects by Monitoring and tracking project progress to support timely completion.
- Provide production support and issue resolution to ensure zero disruption to securitization operations.
- Coordinated with external vendors like JP Morgan and USFINTECH and Managed various IT projects to meet Release deadlines and customer requirements.
- Coordinated with external vendors and scripted combined Run books to deliver IT project components.
- Direct role
- Mentored junior engineers and contributed to standardization of best practices by use of IT tools and applications.
- Responsible for preparing Weekly status reports and communicate project progress to Business stakeholders and External vendors at all levels.
Manager – Finance BTO
Cognizant – Client: Freddie Mac
07.2014 - 05.2024
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Phoenix Reference Data Services (PRDS) which acts as a centralized reference data for multiple Phoenix accounting engines and houses Single Family Loan and Pool reference data such as static attributes for each loan and pool, loan-to-pool associations, loan and pool financial product codes, pool payment details, ARM conversions, Balloon resets and loans in acceleration.
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Loan Amortization (SF LOAM) which is an accounting and amortization engine that amortize fee basis associated with loans using prospective effective yield method and applies subsequent accounting treatments on run rate, catch-up and unamortized balances at fee and loan level. LOAM processes 14 different types of fees such as Credit Fee, Buy Up, Buy down, Cash purchase premium/discount, Hedge, LOCOM, Charge-off, etc.
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Single Family Transaction Accounting (SFTA) which is an accounting engine that processes loan level servicer reported activities such as monthly principal and interest payments, payoffs, delinquencies, interest adjustments, reinstatements in addition to purchases, financial product code reclassifications, loans in acceleration for Single family loans. SFTA generates accounting entries which will eventually be posted for GAAP (risk) and Segment level reporting (economic outlook).
- Managed and Led End to End QA delivery for Operations Sub ledger (SF OSL) which creates double book keeping Sub ledger/Journal entries at general ledger account level based on the accounting entries generated by SFTA, LOAM and ACA applications. OSL then rolls up Sub ledger/Journal entries for each Loan/Pool at various levels such as Journal Entry ID, General Ledger Account and create a file that would be delivered to PeopleSoft for making necessary entries in the General Ledger.
- Implemented robotic process automation (RPA) solutions across Finance, HR, Legal, and Enterprise functions.
- Built and optimized automation frameworks using Robot Framework and CI/CD tools, significantly improving regression coverage.
- Chaired triage meetings with vendors, development, and business teams; managed issue resolution and risk communication to leadership.
- Delivered system demos and PI demos within SAFe Agile framework; collaborated on requirement reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Maintained SLA metrics, monthly KPI's, resource planning, and capacity utilization for large cross-functional QA teams.
- Supported post-production validation, ensuring smooth business operations after releases.
- Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
QA Lead – Trade Communications
Cognizant – Client: BNY Mellon
12.2011 - 07.2014
- Led QA for Trade Flow upgrades and Oasys Direct Trade Flow applications.
- Coordinated functional delivery with downstream teams (SAP/ESB) and managed automation efforts.
- Conducted regression and acceptance testing with business teams, presenting quality metrics to leadership.
Technical Test Lead
Infosys – Client: Ameriprise Financial
02.2009 - 12.2011
- Directed testing for BlackRock Sub-Advised Fund Accounting & Columbia Integration.
- Validated accounting feeds, fund migrations, and data conversions across Oracle and mainframe systems.
- Coordinated multi-stream QA (functional, integration, migration, performance) with external vendors.
Functional Test Lead – Collections & Recoveries
Infosys – Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
09.2007 - 01.2009
- Served as release coordinator for web applications, managing functional and regression testing.
- Performed Web Services testing (SOAP UI) and validated credit scoring (CRA) integrations.
Test Analyst – AON XP Migration
Infosys – Client: AON Inc.
04.2006 - 08.2007
- Led QA activities for legacy AON system migration projects.
- Executed full-cycle testing (functional, regression, UAT) and managed audit/compliance activities.
Software Engineer – Automotive Applications
Infosys – Client: General Motors
07.2005 - 03.2006
- Developed prototypes and conducted testing for Electro Magnetic Compatibility systems.
- Designed data models and supported integration testing for automotive applications.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Pondicherry University
India06-2005
Skills
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Release Management
- Project Management
- Dependency Management
- Dependency Injection
- Requirements analysis
- Collaborating with stakeholders
- Continuous integration CI/CD
- Agile methodology
- Scaled Agile Framework-AI Empowered
- RPA (Robotics Process Automation)
- KPI Metric Reporting
- Databases : SQL /DB2/Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- API Testing
- AI
- AWS
- Quality Assurance & Testing: Test Strategy & Planning
- Quality Assurance & Testing: Defect Management & Triage
- JIRA
- HP ALM
- RADAR
Certification
- AI-Empowered SAFe Release Train Engineer (CERTIFICATE ID:42853834-5839) RTE SAFe 6.0
- AI-Empowered SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (CERTIFICATE ID: 81413308-5060) POPM SAFe 6.0
- Certified SAFe Agilist 6.0 (CERTIFICATE ID: 60525440-2052)
- Foundation Artificial Intelligence and AI Literacy
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certified
Domain Experience
- Mortgage & Securities Banking: Freddie Mac
- Retail & Financial Banking: Ameriprise Financials, Bank of New York Mellon and Royal Bank of Scotland,
- Automotive & Aerospace: General Motors
- Healthcare & Insurance: AON Inc.
Work Authorization
Green card (EAD -AP) No Sponsorship required
Timeline
Senior Delivery Lead and Release Manager
Freddie Mac
06.2024 - Current
Manager – Finance BTO
Cognizant – Client: Freddie Mac
07.2014 - 05.2024
QA Lead – Trade Communications
Cognizant – Client: BNY Mellon
12.2011 - 07.2014
Technical Test Lead
Infosys – Client: Ameriprise Financial
02.2009 - 12.2011
Functional Test Lead – Collections & Recoveries
Infosys – Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
09.2007 - 01.2009
Test Analyst – AON XP Migration
Infosys – Client: AON Inc.
04.2006 - 08.2007
Software Engineer – Automotive Applications
Infosys – Client: General Motors
07.2005 - 03.2006
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Pondicherry University