SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Project Manager with Cognizant with an overall experience of 14 years and 3 months in the Information Technology industry that comprises of Project Management and Technology roles.
• She is currently playing the role of a Project Manager comprising of multiple interfacing applications consisting of different technologies. S he has worked in multiple projects under Retail, Insurance and Banking and Financial Services domains. She has been involved in various phases of projects including Planning, Resourcing, Costing, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation for end - to-end IT solution offerings.
• She has also actively coordinated the Brainwave initiatives for Treasury division for 2012 and 2013
• She is currently working as a Project Manager and managing execution of two projects following AGILE methodology.
• Successfully managed complex projects in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills. Able to successfully build strong working relationships with coworkers and clientele, while ensuring cooperation among company departments
• Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
• Define Business Process; identify the risk, doing risk analysis, and providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of statistical data. Anticipate and manage change effectively in rapidly evolving environments.
• Adept in providing Analytical Support to key business Applications /solutions
• Motivate team to perform effectively in critical scenarios
• Client Expectation Management and delivery
• Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Acted as liaison between management and development team for Requirements and QA.
• Managing reports, analysis and decision-making for a change request.
• Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management
• Rich experience in translating Business requirements to understandable IT systems requirements and Implementing CMM Methods & Procedures across the organization.

Technical Skills:

Project Mgmt.: Custom Software development, Systems integration/ migrations, Systems Engineering, Implementations

SDLC: Requirements Analysis, Resource planning, Costing, Scheduling, Testing Support, Rollout activities

PM tools: Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft OFFICE

Data Base: DB2,VSAM

Operating System: DOS, Windows NT/95, Windows 2000, OS/400

Languages: Cobol, JCL, SQL

Misc. Tools: Changeman, Librarian, Endevor, File-Master, File-Aid, StarTool, Intertest, TSO, OPC, Control-M, Beta-92, Revolve, IDCAMS, QMFSPUFI, Client Reporting, Tracemaster, INSYNC, ESP, Xpeditor, WTX, MQ Series

Testing Tools: Test Director 8.0, Win runner, HP ALM 11.0

Utilities: VSAM, IBM Utilities

Domain Insurance: BFS, Retail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines
• Help the team focus on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time and with the desired results
• Work allocation, tracking and status reporting
• Collaborated with testing team to chart test plan and manage test executions
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving environments.
• Depending on project specifics and client goals, created Sprint plans with schedule and task breakdown details and as a Scrum Master tracked the same during Scrum meetings.
• Owned Project planning, Estimation and Co-ordination with Clients, Capacity planning and Resource Management using Project and Portfolio Management Center
• Handled Escalation and Project issues
• Co-ordinated with the team and reviewed their project activities
• Ensured project artifacts necessary for the Agile Methodology were created and maintained
• Managed client expectations and Reported project status to clients on a regular basis

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each projects. Depending on project specifics and client goals, created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures which were followed during project execution
• Was actively involved in Project planning, Estimation and Co-ordination with Clients, Capacity planning and Resource Management
• Handled Escalation and Project issues
• Co-ordinated with the offshore team and reviewed their project activities
• Ensured project artifacts necessary for the SDLC life cycle were created and maintained
• Managed client expectations and Reported project status to clients on a regular basis.

Offshore Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Project lead, was responsible for planning and executing the project in a timely manner and at the same time ensuring the quality of product is meeting the clients and the organization expectations.
• This was ensured by doing reviews of the design documents, code and Test reviews. She also provided technical assistance to the team members as and when required
• As a programmer analyst did analysis, coding, unit testing, created test plans and performed system testing.
• As a team member did initial requirement analysis, creation of estimates, and resolution of issues allocated by onsite and reviewing other team member’s work for uniformity.
• And was also involved in preparing all Quality Process documents as related to tasks as per the given standards
• As a Module lead was responsible for review activities and allocation of tasks. Also was responsible for guiding team members and providing necessary technical and business expertise.
• As an Onsite Coordinator for Production support, was responsible for all the production support related activities at Onsite and coordinating the same with offshore

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• As a team member, the work involved understanding the program specifications, coding & unit testing of the programs, preparing unit test plans, creating test data, conducting satisfactory testing.
• Created data flow diagrams using VISIO for the Confidential Inventory handling module.