SUMMARY

• 16 + years of experience in IT industry with 10 years of technical and 6+ years of leadership and Project management.
• Led and focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Successful Offshore team building, training and coordination.
• Experienced in transitioning projects from waterfall to Agile Model and setting up process and guidelines along with training and coaching the teams.
• Worked with Online retail, Telecom, Auction, E - commerce(Order Management, Supply Chain Management, PIM, BI etc), Client/Server, CRM/ERP Applications, Cloud, Finance and product based industries.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment, work on any project.
• Excellent in oral and written communication skills.

Project Management: E-Commerce site development, Cloud Platform development (SaaS, PaaS), Infrastructure, Mobile and digital programs, Finance products, System and application Migration/Integration projects. Scope, Schedule, Budget, HR, Risk, Communication and Stakeholder management.

IT Project LifeCycle: Discovery and Planning, Requirements Analysis, ROI Analysis, Cost & Resource estimates and Budgeting, Design and development Review, Project Scheduling, Execution & Control, QA/Release and Support

Leadership: Cross functional teams interaction, Handle multiple projects, team building, Client Relations, Vendor Management, Offshore Management, Gain domain noledge expertise

Methodologies: Expert in Agile, waterfall and custom fit

Operating System: Windows NT4.0, Windows 95/98/2000 XP, Unix, Solaris, MAC

Tools/Technologies: Test Director/HP QC, Confluence Wiki, MS Project, JIRA, JIRA Agile, Compuware Changepoint Project Tracking System, Myshare, MS Office, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Jenkins/Hudson, Git, Stash

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• SCRUM master and Project Manager Role handling multiple projects at the same time under Mobile, Trading and RIS programs. (Currently handling Apple Pay, HTML5 Overlay Modification, Mutual Fund Mobile - Tablet Experience, Mutual Fund Mobile - Smart Phone Experience, Trade through Restrictions, Universal App POC, Touch id on Tablet projects)
• Help mobile team transition from waterfall to Agile model and setup process and guidelines and delivered projects faster by few weeks saving over $200k
• Coach Mobile Scrum team about agile practice and be self organized.
• Design workflow for Agile JIRA, coordinate with Tech team to implement, Test and launch successfully and train the Scum teams.
• Program management for digital mobile team that involved IOS, Android/Kindle Tablet applications rollouts.
• Manage projects (ranging $100k to $3M) from inception to deployment in mobile, RIS and trading programs.
• Responsible for creating project plans using MS project, Scrum boards in JIRA agile, Project schedules, maintaining project artifacts in confluence wiki and changepoint PTS(project tracking system), sizing, Scope, budget, creating CRs(Change Control Management)
• Conduct Scrum meetings( sprint Planning, daily scrum, product backlog refinement, Sprint review and sprint retrospective) for all the agile projects
• Facilitate weekly project status update meetings and communicate the status to stakeholders for Mobile programs and work with Product owners and TMs (Transformation Management) to prioritize the projects based on Resource availability, current trend and ROI

Confidential, Santa Clara

Project Manager/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Manage CMD (Container monitoring Device) and IOT (Internet of things) projects using Agile model
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving IOT project milestones.
• Task assignment and conduct daily status SCRUM meetings with Offshore (St. Petersburg, Russia and Bangalore, India) and onshore teams.
• Project Manager/Scrum Master Role for IOT project and ensure Development/QA tasks and miles stones are on track.
• Communicate the project Status with stakeholders.
• Run Sprint Planning, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective meetings as scrum master for CMD project
• Conduct Daily SCRUM meetings with both onshore and offshore teams.
• Resolved numerous IOT project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs
• Create Dev and Project Management processes for IOT project(budget over 5M) and maintain all documentation on wiki page
• Responsible and drive IOT organization goals like Release high quality products, Transparency and Measurability, Definition of key metrics and adherence to them and infrastructure building projects
• Install Oracle Middleware Weblogic Sever, configure IOT messaging server, gateway(IMX6 device), Oracle Cloud setup and maintain Machines/devices in IOT lab
• Manage testing aspects of CMD, Portal, gateway and Messaging Server and responsible for the successful delivery of CMD project
• Responsible to Automate test development using IntelliJ IDEA, JAVA, Oracle DB, Oracle cloud, JMS, REST API, TestNG, Gradle, Stash, Hudson, JIRA along with health monitoring devices(pulse oximeter, BP monitor etc..)

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for BankAmericard Spend Advisor project based on agile methodology.
• Communicate with Client BOA and involved during requirements gathering and coordinate with Product managers, Dev and QA teams.
• Communicate the project status with stakeholders and upper management.
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data.
• Anticipate and manage change Requests (after PRD freeze) TEMPeffectively and complete the project successfully on time.
• Involve in QA activities like web services testing and DB verification across multiple environments to ensure the data integrity.
• Facilitated and Performed 3rd party integration testing with BOA, VISAs Spend Advisor SOA, VISAs RTM(Real Time Messaging) and Rules Engine using SOAP UI

Confidential

Engineering/QA Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate with Offshore team for VSX project
• Streamlined the QA process and testing Strategy to adapt to agile model and align with business and organization goals
• Introduced the layered QA concept to test the MiddleWare WebServices(SOA request and response) and back end earlier in the testing cycle using SOAP UI
• Install and deploy builds on environments through UNIX servers and halp with infrastructure maintenance.(Portal, Application, JMS, Cordys, Oracle VM and Equinix servers, all built on VMware virtualization software).
• Lead NextGen VM project based on cloud computing technology (PaaS) and responsible for the successful release.
• Created Test Plan/Test Strategy, Test Cases using TIMS(Cisco’s internal Test Management System).

Confidential

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• me played the Scrum Master role with in engineering organization to track the PIM project and unblock people to continue their work and communicate, escalate and mitigate the project status as and when needed. Responsible for Product Backlog review, Sprint Planning, Daily SCRUM, Sprint Review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• me took the ownership of building the championship team and worked closely with HR and Vendors to form the PIM QA team to setup items on Confidential E-commerce site
• me gave the training on Tool functionalities and QA processes and halped china offshore resources for a smooth transition.
• Built Offshore QA team (5) in India and trained the QA team on PACMAN and brought them up to speed using global web crossing, chat, email and phone.
• me was involved in PIM user support and PIMTech support to halp users to setup items and resolved Data integration tickets related to PACMAN.
• Relationship with cross functional teams:
• Worked and created very good relationship with Product Management, Project Management, Business, Support, ISD, business partners and other cross functional teams to resolve Requirement, design, resource and any project related issues.
• me worked with vendor partners like Bluem China, Cognizant and WIPRO India to deliver US projects.
• Contribution and involvement in QA community:
• Actively involved in bi-weekly Embedded QA meetings and contributed my suggestions to define process and share best practices.
• me was one of the members of QA task force to define QA milestones and developed QA dashboard
• Write test plan and test cases for DSV certification project
• Validated the Order request and Shipping confirmation files from DSVs
• Communicated with Drop ship vendors regarding the EDI file transaction and completed the certification for 3 vendors.

Confidential, San Jose

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the following Billing projects. ( Subscription Bundling, Picture Manager Repricing, Data Platform, GBR R&R AMA rewrite, ODR- Adjustment double credit fix, Misc Adj Constraints, Boulevard Billing, Picture Manager Enhancements for CN site and Confidential India launch)
• Involved in preparing test plans, creating and maintaining test-cases in Test Director.
• Worked with onsite Accenture folks to deliver Global Billing project on time.
• Attributes testing for Metadata publish.
• Deploy and maintain AMA builds on QA envt
• Generate Invoice using Shell scripts for QA users using UNIX batch application.
• Verification of data on site, Payment gateway and Kenan DB tables through backend testing using Toad.(e.g. Credit card info, listing fees and subscription fees)
• Training new comers about Billing Architecture and DB table relations.
• Setting up new envts for billing application projects and ensure messaging reach the destination kenan DB.
• Performed Markdown testing for the Multi-tiered Ecommerce Confidential ’s Global billing application (KEM domains, Accounts domain etc).
• Worked closely with Product management, Project Management, Development and Operation teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Used Clear Quest bug tracking system to file and track bugs.
• Created Perl scripts to verify the data in multiple tables(Kenan Schema, Payment gateway Schema etc)