SUMMARY:

• Senior Project Manager (PMP/CSM certified) with 16 years of experience in IT industry with over 5 years as Project Manager and 5 years as Program manager/portfolio manager (ITQA)
• Managed the testing for entire Digital portfolio, with team size of 75+ members geographically distributed
• Experience and expertise in all stages of SDLC, including requirement analysis, design, development, unit testing, different stages of product testing life cycle
• Experience in Agile methodology & DevOps with emphasis on Test life cycle management, implementing business driven testing approach, shifting testing towards the left by using virtualization, In sprint & progressive automation, Continuous Integration
• Experience in reviewing and providing design inputs for creating single touch automation framework for digital channels using Selenium and UFT
• Experience in executing critical, complex, multi - speed projects within time and budget
• Experience in transitioning waterfall projects/applications into Agile
• Coaching & mentoring new Agile Testing teams
• Strong knowledge and experience working with System Software Architecture Design.
• Project Experience in working with CMM Level 5 company’s processes and methodologies.
• Experience in following domains: Communication and Banking
• Experience in Global Delivery Model with Offshore centric software project development.
• Experience on a wide variety of projects for multiple Fortune 500 clients spanning development and testing areas.
• Experience in both waterfall and in agile methodologies
• Strong Project management, resource management and efficient in Time Management.
• Ordering/Billing System in Communications
• Digital Channels comprising of Online Account opening process, Online Banking system, Mobile banking System & Content Management System(websites)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Development Environments: include C#, XML, HTML, JavaScript, COBOL and JCL

Tools: (Modeling, Quality Assurance and Management tools) Mercury Quality Center (ALM 12 now and Test Director earlier), UFT, Selenium, Business process tool, Sauce Labs, Cucumber, CA Lisa, Cognos ReportingEndevor,Teamsite (Content Management System), Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Rally, SprinterAgile Tool Version One, CA Rally, HP Agile manager, Microsoft TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handling a Globally distributed team of over 65+ at offshore & 10+ at onshore
• Liaison with Client business users to understand the business requirements and prioritize the business needs
• Partner with Delivery Lead to determine the project requirements, budget and staffing needs
• Participate in release assessment and determine the Agile release schedule for each project
• Engage the appropriate teams as needed and participate in solution design discussions
• Determining the project/Agile release schedule, dependencies, risks and issues and track them to a closure
• Provide Test strategy, recommend tools & techniques and testing approach for each project
• Performing the implementation activities, reviewing the implementation check list and working with implementation release lead for the installation.
• Reviewing and ensuring the project costs are within the budget across the portfolio
• Providing Release level metrics to the clients and stakeholders for all the portfolios
• Aligning resources from other teams that are matrixed in and aligning their work with the sprint schedule
• Participate and provide inputs in Release management & Program management meetings.
• Assessing impacts & engaging the appropriate teams
• Provide status reporting at portfolio level including task accomplishments and issues to all the stakeholders and calling out critical projects & key issues
• Provide test sign off and participate in production release calls.
• Setting up performance goals & performing appraisals for reportees
• Approving vacation plans & plan for back up as needed
• Hiring people as per project needs
• Ensuring that all SLA’s are being met, including automation SLA
• Coaching & mentoring new Agile testing teams

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and liaison with the client business users.
• Define Test Strategy and Test Plan.
• Staffing Estimation and Resource planning.
• Aligning resources from other teams that are matrixed in
• Conducting test entry and text exit reviews for System Integration testing and Client Acceptance testing.
• Representing QA in important project strategy meeting and review meetings in all phases of Software life cycle.
• Day to Day test management including decision making and addressing issues and escalations as required
• Working with third party vendors for vendor related issues/escalations
• Provide status reporting including task accomplishments and issues against the plan/schedule (Daily and Weekly) to all the stakeholders
• Attending Daily Scrum calls and providing status.
• Attending Planning meetings for each Sprint and finalizing on the Sprint tasks.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Traceability Matrix and test scripts
• Day to day test management, including black box testing, Integration testing, browser testing, regression and co-ordination of Performance testing.
• Coordinating with third party vendors for vendor related defects and issues
• Scheduling and managing defect review meetings to track defects to closure
• Coordinating User Acceptance Testing with Business users.
• Defining Data Strategy.
• Understanding the requirements and liaison with the client business users
• Coordinating with vendors for various data needs
• Catering to the data needs of the entire team, including the data for load testing team.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the Requirements
• Leading the Offshore team
• Coding and bug fixing
• Version Controller
• Providing Testing Support
• Maintaining proper documentation
• Migration of the code into production

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Change Requirement analysis
• Impact Analysis Document
• Bill Loading
• Coding and debugging
• Reconciliation of the code
• Maintaining proper documentation
• Migration of the code into production.