OBJECTIVE:

Seeking Project Manager position in a challenging and dynamic environment where my skills and experience can add value.

PROFILE:

• Detail oriented and extensive knowledge of software development lifecycle and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience managing Projects with more than 100 Cross Functional team members.
• Efficiently and effectively mentoring, building, leading and managing teams across the globe.
• Leading and managing high profile, high - risk projects with Onshore/Off shore delivery model.
• Certified Scrum Master.
• Strong interpersonal relationship and confident in communication.
• Proactive in resolving issues/concerns and handling conflicts.
• Managed as large as a 22 direct reports.
• Managed Financial Budgeting and Forecasting for my projects.

SOFTWARE SKILLS AND TESTING TOOLS:

Microsoft Project: Microsoft Visio

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 Professional, and XP Professional, Unix/Linux

Programming Languages: HTML, XML, and JAVA

Database Systems: MS Access, SQL/PLSQL, File Net, PD Ware.

Testing Tools: Win Runner, QTP, Rational Clear Quest, SharePoint, Pure Coverage, Mercury Test Director.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager Leader

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager accountable for project delivery in a large, complex, matrixes environment utilizing the /PMBOK-based methodology for commercial retail customers.
• Planning, tracking and controlling the Project schedule and Project plan to ensure that deliverables are on time and in budget.
• Weekly status and monthly governance meetings with business and Program level management.
• Organizing and conducting weekly meeting with Consultants, Vendors, Contractors and Clients to evaluateprogress.
• Coordination of group of consulting team performing billable product implementation, enhancement or integration projects.
• Facilitate project teams through identifying scope, business unit goals, risks, assumptions, success criteria, development of management plans. Facilitate the WBS process and translate WBS into an MS Project work schedule. Development of staffing plans and assigning tasks to staff; ensuring all tasks are executed as defined in work schedule.
• Manage change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, milestone dates, and budget; through proper monitoring budgets, and costs for project
• Actively involved in risk management, prioritizing the risks and close monitoring. Prepares the mitigations and contingency plan and informs the stakeholders.
• Coordinates with different applications leads and onsite/ offshore project team and with various business groups and SMEs.
• Process improvement to increase the delivery quality and efficiency.

QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hire, manage, train and mentor team members for the globally diverse teams in Onshore (US), Near-shore (Mexico) and Offshore (India) locations.
• Responsible for forecasting resource needs for Quarterly Integrated Release.
• Responsible for reviewing test cases and execution on different interfaces, Test Case Requirement Traceability Matrix, the bug matrix (in QA and UAT environments for better analysis).
• Represent QA team in numerous meetings with stakeholders, Risk and compliance, client meetings and with senior management.
• Provide directions to the QA team for both SIT Functional testing and UAT Testing.
• Introduced Automation for functional SIT Testing.
• Reduced QA test cycle, improved test effectiveness, and delivered high quality products.
• Lead and managed 22-member onshore and offshore QA team for Credit Card testing for Banking center and Online banking systems

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Translated business requirements into functional documents and create test plans Use cases to consolidate into a single interface for d Confidential maintenance and vendor exchange.
• Coordinated with senior management on project headcount allocation, policies and application improvements.
• Work closely with QA and Development team and give suggestions on Design, Impact and QA scope.
• Participate in Change Request Meetings to document corresponding changes and plan to get those changes implemented within time and budget.
• Analyze test results, create discrepancy and defect documentation and report testing results/progress Confidential appropriate intervals to business users.
• Review Business requirements, Design documents and come up with detailed planning for testing end to end for the whole functionality.
• Defined overall test strategy/approach/test plan multiple times/for multiple projects.
• Worked as a consultant (SME) to many projects to define the test design techniques.

Business Analyst / Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering sessions and design documents to develop test plans and testing strategies based on the functional requirements for Big Picture
• Involved in requirement gathering, design discussions for numerous projects.
• Review Business requirements, Design documents and come up with detailed planning for testing end to end for the whole functionality.
• Responsible for assisting development and test teams in system test and defect triage.
• Defined overall test strategy/approach/test plan multiple times/for multiple projects.
• Responsible for unit testing, creating bugs, and verifying that the issues are fixed.
• Ensure that the application meets all the requirements.
• Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with Master test plan.
• Responsible for functional, regression and performance testing.
• Responsible for interacting with the clients for clarifications/concerns on the functionality of the applications after each release.