SUMMARY

• Project Manager and Certified Scrum Master with 15 years of SDLC and STLC experience including more than 10 yrs. as Project lead and last 5 yrs. exclusive in Project management, Agile methodologies and Scrum, Lean Six Sigma and Enterprise delivery management.
• More than 11 years of US onsite experience working with major clients like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential, Confidential & Confidential Inc.
• PM academy certified project Manager from Wipro, Lean certified, six Sigma Green belt certified, Certified Business analyst, certified level 9 for Global English Step +, LOMA 280(Life Insurance) certified and ISTQB certified.
• Certified Scrum Master & Certified Scrum Product Owner from Scrum Institute TM
• Master of Business administration in Leadership.
• Experience in managing enterprise web application development and enterpriseE2E Test activities.
• Experience analyzing business requirements, functional, and technical specifications for adequacy and thoroughness.
• Extensive experience in Project Planning, test planning & Estimation, Resourcing & building team from scratch
• Have extensive experience leading teams of enterprise applications in Amex Billing systems, Healthcare Insurance domain(claims processing, Enrollments and providers, Medicare & Medicaid, Hospital Labor management), FACETS, Banking domain, Credit card domain, student Loans domain, 401K, Life insurance and Annuities and Retail domain (Merchandizing, Warehouse Management System (WMS), Transportation Management System (TMS), Inventory Planning & SCM(Teradata)
• Been involved in agile testing and UAT testing & having extensive exposure to scrum and Feature Driven Development (FDD) methodology.
• Experience in Supply chain management & Merchandising - Item Data management in Retail.
• Extensive experience testing web applications and mobile applications in multiple projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: MVS, Mainframe, Flex UI, Java, Mobile apps, VBScript, HTML5, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, UML, Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP, AS/400

Database: DB2, IMS DB Languages SQL queries

Design tools: Data Modeler, Toad and Visio Test Tools

Defect Tracking Tools: Clear Quest, Quality Center, ALM 11, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Agile Project Manager

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Prioritized the backlog to meet the expectations of stake holders.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Coordinate the Tablet development and the mobile development
• Review the test cases, test execution by Scrum team testers in JIRA and maintain test logs, test reports, test issues and defect tracking
• Managing activities in JIRA and Confluence for Sprint tasks.
• Anticipate problems and analyze ways to mitigate the risk, articulate the business value and impact of advanced technical and non-technical information and understands when to escalate issues.

Sr. QA Manager

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Define the testing strategy and Organize the testing kick-off meeting
• Review the ATM/EBK Test Plan and review with QA team and management before the release begins.
• Work closely with QA team on test execution/defects and update the status to management.
• Review test scenarios and test cases based on functional documents and User stories.
• Review Test Sets in Test Lab in the ALM for the multiple Release projects & for both functional & Regression testing.
• Develop Traceability matrix & review mapping Test cases to the Requirements.
• Work on Confidential ProClassic Enterprise application that runs on multiple vendor machines such as NCR, Diebold, Wincor & Hyosung.
• Lead the Tablet testing team and the mobile testing team for their integration testing with EBK/ATM.
• Oversee the Digital(chase) team’s Mobile OTP interface testing collaboration with EBK/ATM
• Work with Base24 team to setup the QA machines in correct environment before the release begins.
• Empowered teams to self organize and protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects.
• Review the test cases, test execution by team in ALM and maintain test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using ALM/Quality Center.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project and maintain CR.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Program Manager.
• Managing QA activities in JIRA and Confluence for test and defect management
• Prioritize, scope, estimate, and manage the team(s) responsible for the development and implementation of engineering solutions.
• Anticipate problems and analyze ways to mitigate the risk, articulate the business value and impact of advanced technical and non-technical information and understands when to escalate issues

Agile Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated 4 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months
• Implemented core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the engineering team to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Facilitated Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%
• Test data management using Microsoft SQL server 2008.
• Verify and monitor the preparation of POC (proof of concept) before start of Automation in project and then subsequent selection of Automation Framework.
• Actively involved in monitoring Delivery timelines, Manage Escalations, Manage Risks, Defect and changes within all Project deliverables.
• Provide project health reports to the senior VP & Business stake holders.