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Varada Shaligram

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Assistant Consultant at TCS Ltd

Pune, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/varada-shaligram-8063365b/

TCS LtdBITS Pilani

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

Full-time•Sep 2022 - Present•Pune, India

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

Full-time•Oct 2020 - Sep 2022•Bangalore, India

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

Full-time•Oct 2017 - Sep 2020•Pune, India

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

Full-time•Sep 2013 - Oct 2017•Pune, India

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

Jan 2017•Grade: 7.96

Work Integrated Learning Programme

Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering

Information Technology

Jan 2013•Grade: 67.73%

Licenses & Certifications

Project Management in GenAI

• No expiration

UiPath Advanced Certification

UiPath

• No expiration

SAFe Agile

• No expiration

Skills

UiPath
Robotic Process Automation
Shell Scripting
Jenkins
IBM Filenet
XLRelease
XLDeploy
Business Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Vendor Management
Weblogic
Oracle
SQL Server
Windows
UNIX
Linux
ITIL
Agile
CI/CD
Kibana