EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• A Dynamic, innovative and accomplished IT Professional wif over 12 years’ of experience including 8+ years of experience in Program/Project Management wif PMP Certification.Commenced my career as a developer and subsequently worked my way up to a Program / Project manager.
• Around 8 + years of experience in Project management of which 3 + years experience wif SCRUM agile and Kanban methodologies. About 5 + experience in managing projects in traditional execution models like Waterfall
• Possess exceptional experience in managing client relationships at an executive management level and extensive
• experience and knowledge in project life cycle (SDLC), cost reduction & process improvement, quality management, service level agreement and key performance indicators for program and project management.
• Capable of managing complex projects simultaneously ensuring quality delivery of the defined scope wifin budget and specified time constraints. Continuously promotes a clear concise, professional stakeholder and customer support, engagements. Successfully leading from the front on all projects together wif the ability to
• communicate at all levels.
• Experience in application development, testing and support in diverse range of industries including Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare and Banking
• Innovative, resourceful and adaptable wif strong communication skills, impeccable integrity and vision.
• Generates optimal results wif energy and a desire to continually build on success in delivery excellence.
• Iteration planning, retrospectives, iteration reviews and daily stand - ups
• Ability to collaborate wif Product/Business owner, Technical and Management team
• Confident, TEMPeffective professional who TEMPhas the ability to lead from the front and can make executive successful, accurate decisions
• Ability to work autonomously and as a team member
• Exceptional experience in planning, managing and presenting various meetings
• Experienced in recommending, proposing and executing new innovative strategies
• Experience in managing projects ensuring alignment to polices and process’ in PMI- PMBOK
• Experienced in managing projects / teams spread across geographical locations (Onsite - Offshore)
• Experienced in in executing projects adhering / implementing ISO and ITIL standards
• Proficient in interpreting customer specifications and needs
• Assertive, TEMPeffective negotiator
• Complex problem solving and analytical competencies
• Self-starter; highly motivated, target driven
• TEMPEffective interpersonal and communication skills
• Confident to take initiative and manage processes
• Outstanding prioritization and time management skills
• Ability to quickly understand, learn and apply ideas on functional and technical areas.
• TEMPEffective abilities to train and mentor internal and external personnel at all levels
• Excellent knowledge on estimation methodologies
• Flexible and adaptable in rapidly changing business priorities
• Experience in Waterfall, Agile, Iterative and Kanban PM methodologies
• Experienced in managing teams
• Experienced in implementing innovative solutions like Orthogonal arrays, Model based testing and continuous integration testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Procurement
• Risk / Issues / Forecasting
• Implementations
• Documentation / Communications
• Quality Assurance / Control
• ToolsMS Office Suite - Word / Outlook / Excel / PowerPoint
• MS Project Visio
• Requirements gathering specifications
• Project - Plans / Budgets / Issues Log / Checklists / Folder / Workbooks
• JIRA - Agile project management tool
• Meeting Facilitation Tools - Google Groups / WebEx / MS Lync
• Changepoint
• Department Collaboration
• Technology / Engineering
• Operations / HR / Finance
• Product Development
• Business Units / Sales / Marketing / Accounting
• Project Management Office
• Account Team
• HRTraining
• Quality Management
• Operating Systems / Programming Language
• Windows, Linux (Ubuntu & CentOS)
• Java, J2EE
• JSP, Servlets
• AJAX, HTML, JSTL, XML
• Hadoop MapReduce
• Pig, Hive
• RESTFul Webservices
• Spring Framework, Hibernate
• SOAP UI
• SQL, PL/SQL
• Oracle, SQL Server
• WebSphere and Weblogic app servers
• HP QTP, QC
• General Tools
• HP QTP, Compuware Test Partner
• Smart Testing
• BugZilla
• Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in managing delivery of large and complex projects / programs
• Work closely wif the senior management to understand the organizational policies / strategies, define and implement technical solutions, strategies in-line wif organizational direction
• Develop prototypes on new initiatives, document the best practices, showcase the outcome and benefits, discuss and finalize the solutions
• Responsible for building and mentoring the teams in terms of competency among the team members
• Work closely wif the team to review the progress and to Identify the priorities and drive the teams
• Coordinate between the teams spread across the regions (Onsite – Offshore) to track the status and complete the deliverables on time
• Participate in daily SCRUM meetings, product backlog review meetings, sprint planning meetings
• Participate in scrum of scrums meetings facilitated by Scrum master for the projects as there were multiple teams involved
• Responsible for tracking the daily burn-down, task completion tracking and sprint capacity planning
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress wif, and to all effected teams and management
• Overall responsibility for the management of Projects, overseeing Leads and Projects teams
• Determine and remove all obstacles dat may interfere wif the ability of the teams’ to deliver assigned goals
• Internal and external TEMPeffective Stakeholder Management ensuring service is maintained at all times, making sure all parties are kept conversant wif every step of the process
• Responsible for identifying program and project risks and creating risk management plan and ensuring all risks has suitable mitigation and contingency plans in place
• Define and Collect project metrics (Effort and Schedule variance, Defects, Cost, Productivity etc) to monitor and correct the project progress
• Responsible for managing, monitoring and ensuring the timely completion of deliverables and meet the KPI’s, SLA’s defined in the MSSA
• Discuss, track, monitor and document the changes, create CR document where required
• Responsible for studying as-is processes, identify the gaps and implement the suggestions to improve the overall TEMPeffectiveness and efficiency as per ITIL guidelines
• Contributed towards preparation of training material for internal training purposes
• Responsible for developing and reviewing overall Project Plan, Test Strategy and Test Plans for the projects
• Implemented Continuous Integration Testing (build test assets (Manual and Automation) from the beginning) to improve the overall test efficiency in terms of test coverage, effort, cost and product quality
• Experience in managing Fixed bid, Staff-Aug and T & M projects
• Responsible for working / coordinating wif various teams (operations / configuration / HR/ Finance etc)
• Experienced in various testing methodologies like system, regression, e2e, performance, validation etc
• Resonsible for executing the projects wifin the budgets, prepare and share the burn-down charts and revenue projections
• Participate in project review meetings wif the stakeholders to assess the progress and to identify and resolve issues if any
• Participate in daily and weekly status calls wif the customer to review the project status
• Work closely wif the customer to identify, resolve issues if any and to get the sign-offs on the deliverables
• Create, track and maintain the SOW (Statement of Work) for new and existing assignments
• Responsible for finalizing the monthly efforts, raise invoice and advice the finance team
• Responsible for preparing estimates, addressing new proposals and contributed to the pre-sales activities

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled about 6-8 projects across 2 Accounts (Schering Plough, Thomson Scientific)
• Responsible for identifying and defining the scope of work, cost and effort estimations for various projects wifin the engagement
• Successfully developed high-level views of potential project delivery, approach of how projects will deploy deliverables – projects wif numerous upstream and downstream integration dependencies
• Accountable for the management of a group of Business Analysts, Software Developers, SME’s and testers, TEMPeffectively delegate tasks in order to initiate, implement, maintain and enhance proactive quality improvement activities in order to continuously improve quality deliverables
• Actively assisted in the development and delivery of technology projects, end to end use of SDLC
• Planned and arranged setup meetings wif Service Definition, Business Analysts and the testing team to gather estimates for enhancements / upgrades to applications
• Ongoing TEMPeffective management of detailed implementation plans
• Accountable for various activities including but not limited to creating project plans, leading technical discussions and business analysis meetings, status reporting and conducting code reviews
• Coordination of onsite and offshore teams in relation to design, development, testing ensuring successful on time and wifin budget deployment
• Responsible for monitoring, managing and timely completion of projects
• Responsible for identifying the right resources for the project requirements
• Responsible for training, mentoring and guiding the team members
• Conduct Review meetings wif the team to assess the progress and to identify and resolve issues
• Participate in weekly status calls wif the customer to review the project status, understand and identify customer expectations and concerns
• TEMPEffective requirements gathering from end users and managers in order to understand business logics
• Responsibility for presenting various results of conducted analysis to management
• TEMPEffectively involved in Team Building, Budget Analysis, Cost Estimating, Organization & Time Management and Quality Control management
• Prepare, manage and maintain contingency plans
• Successful Procurement planning for all hardware, software and IT resources, actively involved in preparing Statement of Works (SOW)
• Implemented HP QC across the projects to improve the overall productivity
• Work closely wif the internal quality teams to identify and implement the quality processes and ensure dat the processes are adhered
• Progress reporting to senior management and customer
• Participate in weekly status meetings wif the customer, bi-monthly program review wif account program managers, Quarterly management review wif senior management and Quality circles
• Work closely wif the onsite teams to get the customer sign-off on the deliverables
• Responsible for timely completion of invoicing for all the projects / resources

Service Offering Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualized, demonstrated and built new service offering called CIT (Continuous Integration Testing)
• Interfacing wif internal and external customers in promoting, implementing the Service Offering
• Promoting the concept of CIT through presentations, mailers, hand-outs etc
• Completed Proof-of-concept for the new services and presented to customers

Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review SOW’s to understand the scope of work; initiate and get approval of change requests
• Redesigned the entire test cases to improve the re-usability, traceability and test coverage
• Completed the automation of identified scenarios using QTP
• Conducting review meetings wif the team members to ensure dat relevant issues are captured, actioned where necessary and resolved
• Manage and maintain all various essential documentation and deliverables
• Liaising wif both onsite and offshore teams in relation to the analysis of functionality ensuring complete understanding of the business
• Prepare and distribute status reports periodically to relevant stakeholders
• Interact regularly wif the client to review status of work, identify and resolve issues
• Participate in Quarterly management review wif Senior management and Quality circles
• Contributed to the Delivery Center by
• Received appreciation from the customer for improving the testing efficiency, effort reduction and cost savings by implementing Orthogonal Arrays for Policy Link application
• Received POB (Pat on back) award for delivering the Solar Migration application wif ZERO defects and appreciations from the customer
• Executed a POC for Thomson Reuters (Re-designing and Re-Writing the existing test cases) resulting in getting more business to the organization
• Defined and implemented Service Level Agreement and Key Performance Indicators for Thomson Scientific
• Generate Invoices and coordinating wif finance
• Recruitment along wif HR Team

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and study.
• Preparation of project plan (SPP), Test plan and test strategy, Configuration management and other project related activities (ex: Conducting review meetings, Bug review meetings etc).
• Preparation of specification (SRS) document.
• Work allocation to the team members and status reporting to the customer and to the PM.
• Responsible for delivering the deliverables in-time
• Preparation of System, integration, E2E Test Cases and Execution.
• Develop and executed Performance test scripts using IBM rational tools, capture and report performance metrics
• Collect project metrics and use them to improve the application / product quality

ICC Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acted as ICC admin (Single point contact for all business units)
• Assessing the technical solutions received from the different BU’s and approving the same for execution.
• Reviewing the status reports of all the projects and tracking the development of the projects wif the halp of different ICC reps
• Getting the reports from BU heads regarding resource utilization and sending the status to corporate about % utilization for a given month.
• Conducting the acceptance testing for the projects completed successfully and approving the efforts
• These projects are showcased to the external customers for developing new business