Varada Shaligram
@user.2398433
Assistant Consultant at TCS Ltd
Pune, India
Varada Shaligram is an IT Professional with 11+ years of experience in various domains including RPA, automation, project management, and operations. She holds an MTech in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and a B.E. in IT from Pune University. She has held roles at TCS, Merck Group, Infosys, and Tech Mahindra, with expertise in UiPath RPA, stakeholder management, and ITIL processes.
Experience
Assistant Consultant
TCS Ltd
Working as project/ops manager for a Canadian Manufacturing client and leading a team of 15 people. Responsible for timely delivery of RPA/automation projects and handling escalations. The yearly projects developed and deployed by the team increased by 40% during my tenure. Effective collaboration between stakeholders. Incident count reduced by 80% after implementing ITIL processes. Implementation of Kibana dashboard for reporting. Awarded as Contextual Master for contributions to the project.
Senior Specialist
Merck Group
Spearheaded RPA, deployment and script automation areas as a lead RPA Consultant in Automation COE Team. Achieved around 25% cost reduction in Lifecycle Management and clinical trial areas due to automation. Led onboarding of multiple Automation tools like Automation Hub, UiPath Process Mining and XLRelease. Awarded as Star of the Month for driving Automation Hub and XLRelease platforms.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd
Worked as an offshore team lead for ECM team for US based banking client. Involved in transitioning of project from another organization to Infosys. Worked onsite coordinating between client and offshore team. Developed various RPA usecases in Marketing, social media and finance domain. Awarded as Automation Champion of the Quarter and Spot Award.
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra Ltd
Worked as a L2 support team member for provisioning applications for a US Telecom giant. Handled outages and client calls and worked on incident management, problem management, service management and change management. Awarded ACE award twice (2016 and 2017) for getting highest rating consecutively thrice.
Education
BITS Pilani
Master of Technology
Software Systems
Work Integrated Learning Programme
Pune University
Bachelor of Engineering
Information Technology
Licenses & Certifications
Project Management in GenAI
UiPath Advanced Certification
UiPath
SAFe Agile