SUMMARY

• Certified SPC/CSM professional with 15+ years of experience in Project/ Program Management, Project Delivery and Scrum Master
• Acumen in catapulting bottom - lines and delighting the stakeholders; strong experience in project analysis, design, cost control, capacity planning, performance measurement and quality
• Experience in JIRA, Rally, Microsoft TFS for project management activities and Remedy.
• Work closely with Product owner and Scrum team from the requirement analysis until implementation.
• Currently working on an Innovation projects in agile methodologies with strong experience in Agile and SCRUM.
• Significant experience in working with customers, project managers and technical teams for executing multiple projects of insurance & banking applications
• Executed end-to-end testing of insurance products from inception, requirement specification, planning, implementation, documentation till closure with cross-functional teams
• Recognized as a savvy leader with strengths in reducing the number of ABEND jobs and error counts.
• Actively involved in driving the overall growth, profitability, staffing, management and delivery of most complex & highly visible engagements across multiple geographic location.
• Proven abilities in leading larger teams during the project phase, guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed $8+ million budget for CXT group. Significantly reduced capital expenditure and operating expenses by negotiating with Vendors, effectively managing resources, moving to Open Source and reducing licensing cost
• Recently delivered xNet, a distributed information graph store, serving 49 consumers, handling 16M consumer queries/day with 20-100 ms response times, 5 billion real-time messages/day. xNet infrastructure consists of 500+ Physical & VMs and 300+ Cloud instances.
• Delivered Analytics and Repair Platform
• Delivered mission-critical, very high performance and secure xNet Microservices on Cloud Foundry for xNet Consumers and data Producers.
• Provided Big Data Lake for xNet bulk consumers. Transformed, transferred and loaded Confidential data into xNet Oracle DBaaS for bulk consumers. Used Sqoop to transfer data from Oracle to Hadoop HDFS. xNet platform collects real-time events for Xfinity Residential and Business Subscriber Devices and Phone details from various network sources and stores it for high-performance data retrieval and distribution.
• The platform gets nightly dump from each source and runs self-healing jobs to correct any anomalies.
• Acted as a subject matter expert/PM on the policies and processes in place in order to assist with troubleshooting, identification and implementation of solutions.
• Worked closely with business users to prioritize and scope out the Product Backlog Items (PBI) based on priority and bandwidth, did continuous backlog grooming and developed and tested acceptance criteria maintaining and observing burn down charts and velocity, removing impediments etc.
• Empower the agile teams to take responsibility and engage the team to better communicate among the team and to the PO and worked on continuous improvement of sprints with the team.
• Formulating effective partner and customer communication strategies throughout the project
• Delivering updates and progress reports to Directors and VP

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Lead Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile methodology from problem definition to solution delivery
• Managed the scope of the project across the software development lifecycle
• Gathered and documented business requirement and translated them into functional and non-functional requirements
• Developed and documented use case models leveraging UML and Business Process Modelling Notation for converting the As-Is System to To-Be System with thorough Gap Analysis
• Maintained continuous communication with stakeholders and developers throughout the development and testing cycle to ensure requirements are met
• Highly involved in discussions about new methodologies to implement the web services

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led BA for several major and minor releases of proprietary software applications.
• Used variety of techniques for effective retrospective to improve out sprints.
• Served as servant leader to development team and delivered the product on time.
• Work on the estimates / capacity / Cost benefit analysis with IT team and propose the same to Business.
• Developed excellent relationships with peers and business partners.
• Conducted unit testing and integration testing with development teams and logged defects in defect tracking system.
• Helped resolve impediments, Address the impediments and risks and ensured smooth development and delivery.
• Assessed and ensured everyone is doing their part and owing up responsibilities towards the release/project goals.
• Captured empirical data to adjust forecasts.
• Prepared burn down charts, reported status and kept a close eye on on-time product delivery
• Facilitated the development team and tackle the roadblock and other issues and helped them in smooth development.
• Performed financial and statistical analysis.
• App Level Testing Lead to work with QA teams to build test cases and test plans, run test scripts and log defect in HP-Quality center.
• Worked with all stakeholders to create a shared understanding of what a system is supposed to do, worked with BAs and
• SAs to groom user stories and document Process Flow Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, and Interaction Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Answered developers and quality analyst’s questions and clarifications about requirements on behalf of analysis team.
• Participated in test strategy meeting and partnered in writing testing plans
• Conducted unit testing and monitored development defects and logged into defect tracking system
• Coordinated user acceptance testing on behalf of technology team with business users
• Create and manage test data. Provided application support for escalated trouble tickets.
• Closely work with project stakeholders to identify, model, and then document the requirements understandable in technical aspects. the team.
• Coordinate the weekly status call with all the Stakeholders to discuss on any roadblocks

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Testing: Agile & Automation, Manual Testing Concepts.

Languages: .net, Scala and Java

Testing: HP tools (Quality Centre (ALM)Database Systems: DB2, SQL Server & MS Access

Other Tools: MS Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Outlook, NetMeeting and Visio

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Clear Quest, MTM, HP Quality Centre

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP and RESTful web services

Browsers: IE 6/7/8, Firefox, Chrome & Safari

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT, MS-DOS & UNIX

Process Models: CMM/CMMI, Business Analysis, QA & Documentation