Jaya Sekhara Rao Pakalapati

Leading development of the Price Engine on SAP BTP, building a scalable, enterprise-wide pricing platform. Driving stakeholder alignment and demand-prioritization governance across country rollout readiness, and embedding value-driven acceptance and deployment frameworks for pricing transformation initiatives.

Led the enterprise Procurement Digitalization portfolio aligned to the S/4HANA transformation roadmap. Designed a lifecycle and demand governance model balancing investment, risk, and business value realization, and orchestrated cross-functional SAP S/4HANA migration while ensuring operational continuity and strategic alignment.

Structured product governance and lifecycle frameworks across 26 products within the Supply Chain solution line. Established scalable operating and quality governance models enabling predictable cross-system deployments, and implemented Agile/DevOps-aligned testing and acceptance practices.

Owned end-to-end service delivery, demand management (ITIL), SLAs, and incident/problem management with executive-level communications. Drove root-cause analysis, improved incident communications and recovery times, and coordinated onshore/offshore teams for continuity. Elevated stakeholder confidence through governance, metrics, and delivery discipline.

Led a multi-vendor digital transformation program involving 6+ implementation partners, delivering an integrated B2B & B2C e-commerce ecosystem (Spryker) connected with MSHOP, FSD, PIM/MDM, merchandising, store, and POS systems — scaling to 100,000+ articles and 3,000+ monthly orders across 18 distributed teams for METRO Belgium. Partnered with C-suite leadership (CFO/COO) and METRO.digital to define program roadmap, risk mitigation, and enterprise governance structure.

Owned product strategy and delivery across article master data, GDSN integration, and PIM modules, embedding data quality and governance. Ran OKR-driven roadmaps, backlog prioritization, and discovery (hypotheses, experiments) to maximize customer value. Improved team throughput and product maturity through agile rituals, clearer acceptance criteria, and value-centric sprint goals — with a consistent focus on data-driven decision-making and customer feedback loops.

-I led testing teams and product groups, defining testing strategies and ensuring the right amount of testing execution for all programs - I have conducted workshops with User Acceptance Test (UAT) representatives in order to align new testing processes according to company strategic initiatives - I inspired engineering teams and internal and external companies to improve their ways of working and include quality in their teams' objectives - Strong at UAT and Release Management - Cover 30+ countries

- During this time, I am responsible for building the end-to-end test management activities and accountable for release deployment to countries. - Responsible for coaching, and knowledge transfer in moving to the testing services to nearshore teams - Development of IT test roadmap for business critical process to distribute the testing services between central testing team and nearshore teams

During this time, I started empowering the team to create the automation processes, RFP with different tools. Identifying the right tools for different products . creating the automation framework and cover the regression flows with highest priority . Migrating the processes to HPQC, QTP and started using the JIRA in few projects

-During this time, Preparation of test cases which focus on functional and non functional requirements, works on requirement traceability. Preparation of test reports and coordinating with development team to improve the quality

Mathematics, Composer science, organizational development and Finance

Mathematics, Physics and composer science