PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Multi - Skilled IT professional having 16 years of IT experience including 8+ years in Project Management and 7+ years in application software design/development & testing
• Expert in managing large/small scale Development, Implementation & Customization, Integration, Infrastructure and Testing projects wif budget more than $25M
• Expertise in complete Application Life Cycle Management(ALM) and SDLC/STLC
• Proficient in Project Management Processes: Planning, Scheduling, Scope Management, Resource allocation & management, Stake holder management, communications and Reporting
• Expert on qualitative and quantitative analysis for risk management through the project life cycle
• Expertise using Project Management tools: MS office, MS project, Primavera, SharePoint, ALM, ITSM, Office 365, Jira, Version One, IceScrum and EPMO tools
• Expert in using Traditional, Agile/SAFe and Iterative project methodologies
• Good command on gathering requirements and handling business/operations stakeholders
• Experience in developing DevOps transformation across enterprise
• Trained in US Healthcare Domain (Payer and provider): Health Plans, Medicare, Medicaid, Market place, Health Connect, Care Management, Managed Care
• Experience in infrastructure projects, coordinating for Infrastructure builds, security controls and managing supplier relationships
• Experience in CI/CD implementation using latest DevOps tools like: GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Maven, JBehave, Eclipse, Chef, Jira, Junit, Selenium and Splunk
• Expert on identifying skilled resources and aligning them on roles using RACI charts
• Maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) tool to document and maintain uncertainties to prevent from project failures
• Experience in using third party tools like: DocuSign, Salesforce, Guidewire, and Perfecto Mobile
• Expert in project estimations, determining budget, forecasting and asset management
• Good command on coordinating wif Business teams, Product managers, Cross Functional teams/focus groups, Vendor teams, Solution design teams, and QA teams
• Highly involved in data conversions, migration and upgrading from legacy systems
• Experience on Implementing E2E Oracle Applications (Supply Chain/CRM/OBIEE)
• Implemented best practices on Scrum and Kanban processes to deliver quality products
• Experience on cloud computing and deployment on cloud platforms (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS)
• Expert on converting Epics/Features to stories and sizing/prioritizing of stories/tasks
• Managed cross functional teams across globe wif 40+ offshore/onsite and offsite resources
• Experience on coaching multiple teams on Agile/SAFe methodologies/practices
• Expert on dealing wif Sponsors, PMO and Executives on developing roadmap and vision
• Good command on managing virtual teams across multiple time zones
• Extensively worked wif EPMO for building tools, standards & processes, process improvements and establishing ITSM best practices
• Experience in Release Management process through all phases of SDLC and ADLC (Agile)
• Expert in Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Incident/Problem Management
• Experience on Continuous Testing (CT) by implementing TDD/BDD approaches
• Strong command on STLC/QALC to deliver defect free software products
• Involved in Business Reviews, GAP analysis, Application Integration Testing, Functional & Non-Functional Testing, Performance Testing, System Workflow/Process Maps Testing (SWT), Regression testing, Compatibility, Mobile testing, E2E testing and UAT
• Strong experience on transforming noledge(KCD/KI) to operations team on support activities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical: Mainframes, COBOL, JAVA/J2EE, JScript, DB2, CICS, JCL, PL/SQL, Groovy Scripting, Selenium, TDD/BDD, JBehave, SQL server, Salesforce, Oracle Apps, R12, Cognos, BI, OBIEE, Informatica, Service Virtualization

Tools: Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Puppet, Eclipse, Chef, Docker, MS Project, Primavera, Version One, IceScrum, Jira, Share Point, VIVIFY Scrum, Test Link, Trac, Informatica Power Center, PgAdmin, Spring Tools Suite, Win SCP, SoupUI, HP Service Manager, Quality Center, Load Runner, QTP, ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Sr. Project Manager

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java/J2EE, Lotus Notes, Version One, SharePoint, Pointing Poker

Responsibilities:

• Oversee multiple projects across all phases of application development
• Negotiated and maintained stakeholder’s agreements to achieve project goals
• Collaborate wif EPMO and Business to identify the processes
• Conduct workshops/brainstorming sessions to gather requirements
• Identified and documented risks/issues using RAID tool to avoid delays in project delivery
• Collaborating wif cross functional teams for suitable resources allocation
• Performed qualitative/quantitative analysis to measure the impact from identified risks
• Monitors/Maintains project budget against baselines and prepared forecasts
• Implemented Jenkins Pipeline for integration of E2E application
• Implemented and maintained best practices for each phase of the project life cycle
• Monitor and reports the project/team performance against the committed goals
• Working closely wif key stakeholders and business leadership to prioritize the scope

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java/J2EE, Lotus Notes, Jira, Version One, SharePoint, Pointing Poker

Responsibilities:

• Interface wif PMT, PO, and Stakeholders to define the backlog items
• Prepare for and facilitate daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings, and planning sessions for release/deployments
• Provide input to release planning using team capacity and velocity metrics
• Assist the team on agile principals and improve team performance
• Remove impediments of the team to achieve sprint goals and meet acceptance from PO

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Project Manager/Agile Coach

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java/J2EE, Lotus Notes, MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, IceScrum

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Program on creating product road map and release planning
• Coach the team on Agile/SAFe methodologies for CI/CD (continuous delivery)
• Acted as liaison between Business, IT systems, Finance and Operations/Support teams
• Collaborating wif cross functional teams for suitable resources allocation
• Coaching/Mentoring the team to transform from waterfall to SAFe/DevOps environments
• Performed qualitative/quantitative analysis to measure the impact from identified risks
• Implemented Jenkins Pipeline for integration of E2E application
• Participated in Release planning/Sprint planning/Reviews/Retrospectives
• Monitor and reports the project/team performance against the committed goals
• Guided/Planned selenium/SoapUI scripting for E2E acceptance testing

Confidential, Norristown, PA

Project Manager/Release Manager

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, Java/J2EE, Quality Center, BMC Remedy, MS Project

Responsibilities:

• Followed traditional(waterfall) project management methodologies
• Involved from creating project charter to close the project
• Understand the business strategy and develop implementation plans for each release
• Coordinated wif customer to gather requirements and manage expectations
• Performed estimations using functional point techniques(PERT)
• Understand the scope and identify the success criteria
• Identify and coordinate wif stakeholders to build successful release plan
• Responsible for creating deployment process and environment readiness
• Document and monitor risks and issues across all phases of the project
• Identify the environment needs and halp building multiple environments
• Responsible for Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Established communication channels to engage stakeholders
• Monitored performance of the project and adjusted milestones/baselines
• Conduct performance reviews on team performance and individual resource performances
• Involved in creating business decision/ architectural decision diagrams

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Project Lead/Release Coordinator

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, MS Project, Quality Center, OBIEE, BMC Remedy, Lotus Notes

Responsibilities:

• Led the team(onsite/offshore) to understand requirements and expectations
• Develop and Implement resource plans and project budgets
• Created detailed level business documents, communication strategies
• Developed RTM and identified gaps in requirements
• Constructed the data using OBIEE for easy access to business users and producing/delivering enterprise reports, scorecards, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, and OLAP analysis
• Proactively identified and documented risks/issues
• Responsible for creating deployment process and procedures
• Monitor project timelines and track project milestones for reports
• Provided optimize solutions on resource management and process improvements
• Created test coverage/traceability to again customer acceptance on test deliverables
• Liaison between business, development, quality and support teams
• Managed customer communications, escalation support and status updates
• Provided service transition to operation to sustain the application wifout any impediments
• Created KCD/KIs to provide documentation assistance to support team on transition activities

Confidential, Austin, TX

Offshore PoC

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, MS Project, Quality Center, OBIEE, BMC Remedy, Lotus Notes 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Trained on Oracle Application modules (SCM, CRM, PO, PIM...)
• Coordinated/collaborated wif onsite and offshore resources
• Assisted onsite team on performance BVMs
• Designed/Implemented e2e order management cycle
• Documented risks/issues based on the performance BVMs
• Executed performance scripts on various environments and reported metrics
• Supported production incidents and documented noledge items wif operations team

Confidential

Application Tester/QA Lead

Environment: AS400, DB2, Lotus Notes 6.0, Test Director/Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA team on developing strategies/scenarios to validate application functionality
• Followed SDLC/STLC stages to adhere customer expectations towards quality
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Coverage Matrix
• Execute test cases under various test environments against the quality goals
• Conducted various tests like Smoke, System, Integration, Regression and UAT
• Documented/Tracked test cases and defects using quality center
• Assigned priority/severity to defects based on business delivery objectives

Confidential

Application Developer

Environment: ASP.Net, Oracle, PL/SQL

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird and Documented requirements from business and systems stakeholders
• Conducted requirement gap analysis to identify missed requirements
• Translate business requirements to detailed level specifications(SRS/FRS)
• Created functional flow diagram and application distribution diagrams
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Developed high availability stored procedures using PL/SQL
• Designed/Created data base tables using Oracle DBMS
• Created internal/external schemas for user views
• Performed DDL/DML activities to make data stable enough in specified tables
• Conducted data mining and data fabrication activities to provide QA support