SUMMARY

• An Experienced Software Project Manager with 14+ years of diversified knowledge and experience in IT as Project manager,Lead and individual Contributor working across various domains and software environments with strong emphasis on Project processes and PMO standards.
• Currently working as a Project Manager at Confidential co, providing leadership by adhering to standard project management methodologies in ensuring quality deliverables as per schedule.
• Efficient in managing project budget, variances reporting, accruals and QCD reporting to the PMO for every month including year end reports
• Well versed with Vendor governance, SOW agreements and invoices management.
• Good knowledge of Agile - Scrum and Waterfall methodologies of software development
• Good knowledge of capacity-resource planning to cater to various resource needs of projects in different phases of SDLC.
• Verification of SOX, PII/GRC deliverables as needed for various projects and adhering to PMO standards.
• Project Status reporting to the executive management, business users and various stake holders to appraise them of the project progress
• Good understanding of risk escalation and timing to do so in the various phases of SDLC.
• Conducting the Reviews at various phases of project development and governing the metrics needed for efficient reporting
• Managing the direct resouces and collaborating with the Vendor resources in various phases of project.
• Sound knowledge of project pre- implementation tasks- implementation play book, on going support essentials and AMS management.
• Conducting lessons learned, slippage analysis post implementation and reporting the same.
• Worked as a technical test lead which entails both hands on testing and leading the onsite-offshore teams with day to day sprint activities - Agile stories analysis, scenarios review with product owner, defects triaging to name a few.
• Worked as a Test Delivery Lead with major responsibility being liaison between the SQA teams and the Business partners to facilitate UAT processes
• Driven Best Practices in the testing team in tandem with the TCOE where the duties included and were not limited to:project estimations, metrics, deliverables, release summary & maintaining quality standards
• Excellent presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: C,Sql,Sql server 2008 R2,DB2,mainframe

Platforms: WINDOWS 95/98/2000/XP/server2008 and NT environment, VMware with Vsphere client, Cloud,Salesforce,Pega

Tools: HP ALM,Visio, JIRA,Quality Center-10, QTP, IBM-Kintana, Rally, Control-M and Clear Quest

Domain Exposure: Automotive,Financial- Mortgage, Supply management, HR-Payroll- US payroll and Taxation, HRMS, workforce optimization for call centers,Media & Entertainment, Campaign systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project & Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for a particular project where responsibilities entailing tasks from initiation to cost plan, budget approval to milestone evaluations to implementation
• Project coordination,status reporting with the business and higher management
• Project schedule management &resources management.
• Vendor invoicing and resources management
• Project Portfolios like QCD reporting, budget forecast/Variance reporting, Accruals and PMO SOX PGD reporting
• Portfolio Liasion to PMO from Service technical Unit which comprises of 16 projects in various phases of SDLC

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Governance of all the projects QA activities and responsible for the QA deliverables
• Review the projects test plan, integration test strategy, test data plan
• Status reporting of the QA activities to the management by collating information from all the projects
• Aligning all the projects QA artifacts to comply with the PMO standards
• Involved in the Test estimation and planning sessions and responsible for estimating QA effort for every projects budgeting
• Responsible for reviews, traceability matrix verification, defects triaging, collaborating with the vendor resources for QA activities
• SOX document verification and adhering to compliance
• Involved in the test strategy sessions for performance testing

Confidential

Technical test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for a group of 6 onshore and 8 offshore team members .
• Responsible for the team activities which include information gathering and collaborating with the teams from the sprint planning, review sessions.
• Responsible for the sprint effort estimation from QA stand point,Metrics reporting for all the releases
• Point of contact for all the team activities and for co ordination with the Product owner in getting the acceptance criteria clarified for test efforts
• Filling in for the team effort during regression and system test cycles.

Confidential

Test Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between the Business Partners and entire sqa teams of various business units .
• Responsible for publishing the UAT readiness document and factsheet for every release cycle to provide guidelines to the business partners on UAT window.
• Preparation of Project plan specifying the code drop schedules,sqa testing window, UAT testing window, defects review,defects code drop in the build in MPP.
• Hold Data request review calls to aid SQA teams from Brazil,India and US in getting complex data sets created as per the project plan timelines
• Hold Daily defects call during the execution phase to involve the stake holders from various business units of sqa and the business partners to ensure the defects are assigned to the right group, whether the right severity is assigned and to progress the defects through the defect cycle with the aim of getting them resolved, closed or deferred after everyone agrees upon.
• Collating & Preparing a robust status report, Publishing it to entire SQA, all levels of management and the business partners during the SQA execution phase