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Gourish Chanda

Gourish Chanda

Rachappa
Johannesburg

Summary

Accomplished Snr .Technical Project Manager offering 17 years of experience in IT Industry in BFSI and Mining domain majorly in Data and BI, I led a team of professionals to develop and implement data-driven solutions for business intelligence. I utilized my expertise in data management, data analysis, and data visualization to deliver actionable insights and drive business growth. Additionally, I collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the alignment of data initiatives with the overall organizational strategy

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior Technical Project Manager

HCL Technologies LTD
Johannesburg
01.2023 - Current

Client : SERITI COAL LTD. Johannesburg SA

  • Communicated Technical project implementation plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
  • Managing full lifecycle of data projects, from requirements gathering to implementation and maintenance
  • Ensuring data accuracy, governance and security, while also maintaining data quality and integrity
  • Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, procurement, sales and marketing, quality assurance and supply base.
  • Leading team of data analysts, engineers and developers to design, develop, and maintain data warehousing and business intelligence solutions
  • Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.

Technical Project Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd
Johannesburg
07.2017 - 12.2022

Client : SERITI COAL LTD. Johannesburg SA

Project : SORD Data warehouse Optimization

  • Requirement Gathering of Descriptive and Diagnostics Analytic Reports.
  • Implementing Data strategies and developing physical data models.
  • Engaged in building and developing a reporting application with data pipelines on Azure
  • Efficiently managed cross-functional teams across countries both onsite and offshore models
  • Delegated design, development, and implementation of BI reporting
  • Analyzing and translating business needs in to long-term solution data models.
  • Determined reporting application with ADF pipelines on Azure and integrated the data from sources SAP HANA, & SQL Server and Blob storage and delimited files
  • Leverage on Data Integration and store side using Azure cloud including Data Factory, Data Lake Storage
  • Experienced in executing data warehouse modernization programs

Associate Project Manager

HCL Technologies LTD
Johannesburg
10.2012 - 07.2017

Client : STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFIRCA. Johannesburg SA

Project : Mobile Banking App- Payments

  • Requirement gathering and elicitation by Conducting workshops and interviews Writing and reviewing User Stories, FS, TDD and BRDs.
  • Established UI/ UX Website Design and Quality process implementation of Payment Process.
  • Implemented Automation of Mobile app enabling CI and CD pipeline in JIRA and bamboo
  • Automated manual functional tests using Cucumber and Ruby scripting
  • Written Technical proposal for RFP's

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies LTD
Bangalore
10.2008 - 12.2011

Client : DEUTSCHE BANK . London UK

Project : Market Risk- Var

  • Leading team of automation testers to design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for software applications
  • Defining automation testing strategies, processes, and frameworks that align with business requirements and industry best practices
  • Developing and maintaining automation testing environments, tools, and technologies, and evaluating new tools and technologies for potential use
  • Automation of regression pack using QTP 9.2
  • Web service automation using Soap UI and POST man
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and business analysts, to ensure test automation aligns with development processes.

QA Lead

Financial Object Ltd ( Temnos IT)
Bangalore
05.2005 - 09.2008
  • Managed and archived quality documentation and participated in internal and external quality audits.
  • Followed quality standards and procedures to minimize errors and maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Mentored and encouraged employees to strive for excellence while fostering professional growth.
  • Developed and deployed production control plans and created work instructions and procedures.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

Gulbarga University Gulbaraga
India
06.1997 - 10.2000

Skills

Agile project management

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Accomplishments

  • Achieved a 50% increase in coal production after starting to report our CFO dashboard, which uses key KPIs such as productivity and equipment availability
  • Implemented the Agile Scrum methodology in the Seriti ASM project, with key metrics to track progress
  • Successfully transitioned 105 applications from a larger organization to Seriti Coal Ltd, including data, application, and server migrations .
  • Successfully migrated 200GB of data from SharePoint on-premises to the online version using ShareGate .
  • I collaborated with a team of 30 members in the development and support of Seriti Coal Ltd, managing a portfolio of 150 applications.
  • By implementing a CI/CD pipeline in our mobile app automation using BDD, Cucumber, and Ruby scripting, we were able to reduce our release cycle time by up to 60% .

Certification

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals -AZ900

Timeline

Senior Technical Project Manager

HCL Technologies LTD
01.2023 - Current

Technical Project Manager

HCL Technologies Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2022

Associate Project Manager

HCL Technologies LTD
10.2012 - 07.2017

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies LTD
10.2008 - 12.2011

QA Lead

Financial Object Ltd ( Temnos IT)
05.2005 - 09.2008

Bachelor of Engineering -

Gulbarga University Gulbaraga
06.1997 - 10.2000

Achievements

Successful 105 Application transition from divestment of bigger organization to Seriti Coal Ltd

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