Kiran Duggudurty
McLean
Summary
Senior Quality Assurance and Agile Delivery professional with 19+ years of experience in testing leadership, release management, and automation across mortgage banking, finance, healthcare, and automotive domains. Over 10 years in Freddie Mac applications, specializing in Single-Family Finance and Securitization. Proven expertise in Agile/SAFe delivery, CI/CD integration, risk analysis, and process optimization. Recognized for driving business-critical releases, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing automation frameworks to improve quality and efficiency.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Agile Developer - Single-Family Securitization
Freddie Mac
McLean
06.2024 - Current
- Manage end-to-end release cycles for business-critical securitization applications central to mortgage-backed securities issuance.
- Collaborate with product teams, developers, and business stakeholders to align delivery with Freddie Mac's securitization strategy and regulatory requirements.
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Maven, and Ansible, streamlining deployments and reducing release cycle time.
- Drive adoption of modern delivery practices (Agile, TDD, ATDD, Microservices, Containerization) to improve scalability and resiliency.
- Provide production support and issue resolution to ensure zero disruption to securitization operations.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to standardization of coding and automation practices.
Manager - Finance BTO / Phoenix Applications
Cognizant
McLean
07.2014 - 05.2024
- Company Overview: Client: Freddie Mac
- Led QA delivery for Finance and Phoenix applications, ensuring compliance, scalability, and performance.
- 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, resource planning, and capacity utilization for large cross-functional QA teams.
- Supported post-production validation, ensuring smooth business operations after releases.
- Client: Freddie Mac
QA Lead - Trade Communications
Cognizant
Pittsburgh
12.2011 - 07.2014
- Company Overview: Client: BNY Mellon
- 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.
- Client: BNY Mellon
Technical Test Lead
Infosys
Minneapolis
02.2009 - 12.2011
- Company Overview: Client: Ameriprise Financial
- 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.
- Client: Ameriprise Financial
Functional Test Lead - Collections & Recoveries
Infosys
Edinburgh
09.2007 - 01.2009
- Company Overview: Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
- Served as release coordinator for web applications, managing functional and regression testing.
- Performed Web Services testing (SOAP UI) and validated credit scoring (CRA) integrations.
- Client: Royal Bank of Scotland
Test Analyst - AON XP Migration
Infosys
Chennai
04.2006 - 08.2007
- Company Overview: Client: AON Inc.
- Led QA activities for legacy system migration projects.
- Executed full-cycle testing (functional, regression, UAT) and managed audit/compliance activities.
- Client: AON Inc.
Software Engineer - Automotive Applications
Infosys
Chennai
07.2005 - 03.2006
- Company Overview: Client: General Motors
- Developed prototypes and conducted testing for Electro Magnetic Compatibility systems.
- Designed data models and supported integration testing for automotive applications.
- Client: General Motors
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
Pondicherry University
IndiaSkills
- Scrum Master
- SAFe Agile Delivery
- Sprint Planning
- PI Demos
- Release Management
- Test Strategy & Planning
- Regression Coverage
- Automation Frameworks
- API Testing
- Defect Management & Triage
- Robot Framework
- Selenium
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- Git
- Maven
- Ansible
- KPI metric reporting
- SQL Server
- DB2
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- SQL
- Mainframe Testing
- Jira
- HP ALM
- Confluence
- Program Management
- Resource Management
Education And Certifications
- B.Tech in Computer Science, Pondicherry University, India
- Certified SAFe Agilist
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certified
Timeline
Senior Agile Developer - Single-Family Securitization
Freddie Mac
06.2024 - Current
Manager - Finance BTO / Phoenix Applications
Cognizant
07.2014 - 05.2024
QA Lead - Trade Communications
Cognizant
12.2011 - 07.2014
Technical Test Lead
Infosys
02.2009 - 12.2011
Functional Test Lead - Collections & Recoveries
Infosys
09.2007 - 01.2009
Test Analyst - AON XP Migration
Infosys
04.2006 - 08.2007
Software Engineer - Automotive Applications
Infosys
07.2005 - 03.2006
B.Tech - Computer Science
Pondicherry University
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