SUMMARY

• Successfully managed complex programs and projects with global implementation (Offshore/Onsite), and rapidly evolving requirements involving multiple vendors
• Expert in Agile, Waterfall and Program/Project Implementation
• Manages the strategic and tactical relationship with program stakeholders
• Excellent in preparing and presenting strategic metrics to client stakeholders.
• Identifying and implementing best practices across different LOBs / Programs / Projects.
• Excellent resource management skills of in terms of identifying the correct talent and grooming them.
• Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
• Effective communication skills and coordination between globally located teams (Onshore/offshore model)
• Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking, Implementation and Team Management.
• Responsible for revenue, invoicing, profitability and pipeline projection of all projects

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

• Program Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Strategic planning & Execution
• Delivery Manager - Onsite/Offshore
• Test Architect /
• Project Management
• SAFe 4.5 framework
• Manual/Automation QA Test Manager
• TCoE Setup and Management
• Test Program Manager

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile - Tools / QA related tools: Agile Craft, JIRA, Confluence, Selenium(Java), TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Log4j2, Page object Pattern and Page factory framework, TestNG reports, Cucumber, Tidy Gherkin, Test Runner

Test Management /Automation Tools: Test Director 8.2,Fmas, JIRA, TCS Smart Test Manager, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla - Testopia, Rational tool - RQM, Reqpro, RDNG, RTC, JIRA, Confluence, Selenium, Load Runner

Product Testing: FINEOS(Claim Management), WebTop (Documentum), Facets (E2E), Sales force

Database/Technologies Exposure in Testing: ASP.NET, VB, Java, Mainframe AS400, DB2, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager Sr

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects with high ethical standard to deliver product as per schedule timeline in Agile methodologies
• Managed multiple projects worth 10M+ involving multiple vendors/releases/Phases as prioritized
• Mentors project team members; mentors other project managers during the journey
• Determines project scope, develops resource, risk, quality, cost, scope management plans and training plans.
• Develops requirements documents; develops project approval matrix.
• Identifies project team training and tool needs.
• Defines, recommends and secures contractual agreements for services and products.
• Coordinates requirements, schedules implementation and post-implement plans, and develops service-level agreements for vendor partners and global resources firms.
• Defines quality gates for each project methodology phase; defines critical success factors; and establishes and manages the project warranty period. As assigned.
• Outlined work plan, Determined resource, wrote timeline and generated initial budget as part of project scope
• Delivered Weekly status report, Monthly billing & forecast reports to management
• Conduct Stakeholder meeting with Senior Leadership team for the project assigned

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manages the strategic and tactical testing relationship with program stakeholders
• As Test Architect, developed the overall testing strategy for the portfolio/ program and sets the direction and tone for quality delivery to ensure all aspects of quality are considered
• Managed automation team in Agile methodology involving open source tools like, Selenium(Java), TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Log4j2, Page object Pattern and Page factory framework, TestNG reports, Cucumber, Tidy Gherkin, Test Runner.
• Own/drive/coordinate testing and test artifacts across multiple testing phases, including SIT, UAT, End-to-End, performance, etc across the program for successful delivery of the product
• Partner with the Performance Test Team to ensure appropriate performance testing is occurring for the project
• Managed testing risks and issues, develop contingency plan as appropriate across the program
• Ensures all applicable SDLC and testing processes are followed; provides mentoring as appropriate
• Owns QA aspects of Traceability for the program
• Owns defect management process for the program, ensuring test defects are remediated and risks communicated
• Align with Configuration Management and Release Management
• Ensured test data provisioning, test environment and test automation aligns with the proposed test strategy
• Delivered program level testing status report to enterprise management

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Key contributor in setting up the offshore team with all foundation activity like Staffing, Knowledge transfer and managing multiple team with 30+ team size
• Preparation of User manual/Reverse KT with rating feedback from clients
• Effective offshore knowledge transfer to offshore associate
• Managing Baseline team deliverables with complete internal review
• Preparing Weekly reports for entire baseline team.
• Planning Project Strategies through discussions with the different business user teams of the Client
• Preparation of Test Strategies, Development of the Regression test bed.
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables
• Resource loading preparation and review.
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables
• Overall Quality center POC for respective work streams
• DSR/WSR preparation/review for respective work streams
• Managing multiple QA teams for all the individual applications(20+ Application)
• Managing 30+ resources both Onsite and offshore for multiple assignments in eT and RTB
• Risk and Issue Management