SUMMARY:

• 14+ years of Strategic IT Senior Project Management and Test Management helping clients design, develop, deploy large and Global scale IT implementations
• Proven track record of exceeding client expectations, commitments, delivering projects on time and budget
• Overall experience in the following:
• Define Project Charter, Forecasting, Scope Management, Capacity Planning and Budget plans, Develop Project dashboards, Metrics and Project status. Manage onshore/offshore teams.
• Create Test Strategy plans, Test execution plan, Test reporting, Defect Management, Develop Unit, Integration test scripts, UAT scripts and Manage execution of validated projects.
• Define Data Governance Strategy, understand AS - IS and define To-Be processes, Define data taxonomy and hierarchical structures for web sites, content management systems, create system data flow diagrams and use CASE model diagrams.
• Elicit User and Technical Requirements, develop User and Functional specifications, Design specifications, develop prototypes and wire frames.
• Coordinate and trouble shoot production support tickets, debugged databases by writing SQL and PL SQL queries, Liaison between customer and IT developers in finding solutions.
• Develop Global training rollouts and plans, Manage execution of training effectiveness.

SKILL:

Hardware: Confidential PC, MAC, Unix Terminals

Applications: Microsoft Office Suite of Applications, Microsoft Project, Documentum, SAP, Oracle, HP Mercury, Selenium, Dreamweaver, Workspace, Documentum DQL, Plumtree, Java, J2EE, Documentum Administrator,, Infopath, Toad, Samson. Sharepoint, Livelink, POS.

Domains and Business/IT Theme: Data Analytics, Big Data, Retail, Drug Discovery, Drug Safety, Product Labeling, Mobile Systems, Business Process Redesign, Visioning and Requirements Gathering, Vendor Evaluation, Migration, Systems Installation & Integration, Performance Improvement.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and Lead various complex program deliverables and implementations from inception to completion including maintenance support in varying platforms (Documentum, SAP, Web, POS, SharePoint and other technologies domains).
• Develop key business relationships with project stakeholders and act as a primary contact for all project Delivery and status.
• Mentor for teams in project methodology, consulting excellence and encourage best practices in project management, project planning, and execution including release/deployment management.

Confidential

Agile Strategy Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test manager leading a team of agile testers including offshore testers ensuring all user stories were reviewed for completeness from a definition, design, development and were testable.
• Plan Testing and manage all test deliverables for Web UI, iPad, IPhone solution testing for release.
• Led Test Driven Development (continuous delivery) model for product quality testing, feature development, and maintenance releases in order to provide faster Agile deployment cycles.
• Manage priorities for Agile testing, which includes Web UI, Ipad, Iphone testing, scripts.
• Develop key defects reports and Conduct daily severity defect resolution calls on defects with developers.
• Create Test automations scripts using Selenium to ensure product was compatible with all browsers.
• Participate in product roadmap, decide on Sprint Planning, brainstorm for new feature offerings and simplify Usability and improve capability of the product.
• Identify test strategy to ensure agile release testing includes feature based testing along with regression testing of prior features and releases to verify functionality was not broken.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Set direction and QA testing priorities by managing deliverables to gather all QA testing requirements and create project test plan for system, integration, end to end tests cycles to meet testing schedule for go-live.
• Reviewed Global Testing requirements including regional requirements of language, currency, date formats and others and in conjunction developed Test Scenarios based on Global requirements.
• Coach QA testers and resources in testing methodologies, test processes and strategies.
• Managed a team to develop forty plus Use cases and supporting wireframes along with integrating test scenarios that outlined business processes and provided a traceability matrix that showed requirements tested.
• Created and Validated End to End test scripts based on the test scenarios that tested all data variations, use cases, business processes required to validate data from point of entry to all the subsequent processing systems.
• Coordinated the Execution of over 500 test cases and managed full bug resolution encountered in testing.
• Developed testing plan to account for Global UAT test schedule and test execution to obtain user signoff.
• Managed full release deployment deliverables including planning, post production hyper-care support.
• Completed resource evaluations for QA testers and provide feedback on performance.

Confidential

QA Defects Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the Defect Management processes for over 1500 defects generated from all test cycles and global deployments using HPQC test suite. Develop re-test schedule and test planning for resolved defects.
• Triaged all defects by verifying the defect, analyzing severity, assessing impacts to downstream tests and including interfaces testing and defects.
• Communicated and partnered with corresponding Functional, Technical Leads and Business SMEs and testers for timely resolution of testing defects and increased defects resolution cycle by over 70%.
• Designed customized Defect reports for PMO group to reflect most current Project test metrics.

Confidential

Business/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Team player in designing and building business architecture framework required for data warehouse
• Interacted with HR and IT leadership team to procure data and user requirements for Data Warehouse.
• Developed detailed User and functional specifications for Data Warehouse that will send data with Workday.
• Defined Proof of Concept (POC) success factors and conducted POC to test the prototype.

Confidential

Project Manager/Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the project implementation, project schedules for migrating of over 4 TB of legacy Wyeth content data that ensured proper decommissioning of Wyeth legacy systems and resulted in realized $5 million in cost savings.
• Managed migration team and all concurrent project deliverables responsible for migration of over 10 large global Wyeth systems comprised of over 4 million business documents.
• Led the technical content analysis and metadata field level mapping exercise of source systems that included Sharepoint, Livelink, Documentum, Databases to Target systems.
• Led the analysis of technical issues during migrations of various sources systems to target system.

Confidential

SAP Test Deployment

Responsibilities:

• Validation of SAP test scripts during development provided key updates where necessary in order to gain pre-execution approval from QA.
• Reviewed FI/CO, MM, SD SAP test scripts to ensure their completeness, accuracy and thoroughness for testing requirements of the SAP upgrade.
• Interacted closely with Client QA group to review the executed test scripts and ensure any feedback/comments were properly addressed to gain test scripts execution approvals from them.

Confidential

Global Project/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage test implementation of HR, FICO, MM, PD, IFRS and other integration applications with SAP.
• Developed detailed test project plan, schedule including estimation of over 5000 test cases and planning for test execution each of the integration test cycles that tested end
• Build key status reports, matrices in HP Mercury test center and test trending reports to key management including the CIO of the company.
• Key team member in developing cutover and release management strategy for PMO group.

Confidential

Lead Migration System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led System analysis and requirements in system meta-data mapping migration of 40 disparate R&D, pre-clinical, clinical systems to centralized Documentum repository.
• Developed Mapping data and content specifications for technical migration tool.
• Trained users to use the new system for business functions and processes.
• Coordinated Change Management initiatives to help the organization manage change in platform.

Confidential, Bethlehem, PA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Life Science Vertical and delivered several key projects that dealt with varying project requirements, ranging from Structured product labeling to Documentum upgrades and validation.
• Structured Product Labeling project: Business/System Analyst: Part of the team that led the first implementation of the Structure Product Labeling mandated by FDA in the Pharma Industry.
• Co-Led the business and system requirements phase for the custom product labeling software.
• Assisted in running business workshops that led to additional business and functional requirements.
• Conceptualized user and technical data flow diagrams using USE CASE tools, UML diagrams and designed prototypes using Wireframes to demo solution to the clients and get their buy-in.
• Accountable for developing and documenting Test Validation Plan, IQ, OQ, PQ protocols, Test scripts.
• Responsible for managing validation contractors who were executing the test cases to ensure test cases are successfully executed.
• Interacted with QA auditor responsible for approving executed test cases and validation protocols.