SUMMARY:

• 6+ years’ experience working as Project Manager in handling projects in the field of Media Engineering, Security systems & Insurance. Strong in Traditional and Agile Project Management.
• 1 - year experience working as a Product Owner, led the delivery of multiple scrum teams.
• 7 months experience working as a Delivery Lead managing the delivery of 2 scrum teams.
• 10 years’ experience in Auditing different types of projects in the organization
• 5 years’ experience in mentoring Six Sigma Green Belt Projects.
• 2 years’ experience in training & coaching the project teams on agile processes and methodologies, Scrum, KANBAN
• Total 11.5 years’ experience in handling projects in the field of Telecom, Embedded Software, Industrial, Consumer Electronics, Media Engineering, Security Systems in Confidential .
• Coached & guided the project teams on Test Automation.
• Committed to ensuring quality assurance and control.
• Strength in analyzing requirements and removing ambiguities.
• Self-driven, Self-motivated, Strong team player with good communication & negotiation skills
• Trained in Traditional project management, Agile Processes and methodologies, KANBAN, Lean, XP, Scrum
• Worked with clients from US & UK geographies and received many appreciations from them for the on-time delivery, ensuring quality of multiple product releases and for driving continuous process improvements & automation which resulted in good amount of savings in time.
• Received appreciations from “Audit Compliance Group” for being an Internal auditor & conducting more audits in the organization. Conducted around 33+ audits in the organization
• Mentored around 12+ Six Sigma Green belt projects
• Trained and coached the project teams on traditional project management & agile processes & methodologies.
• Responsible for Managing both traditional & agile projects and leading multiple scrum teams, planning the product roadmap and project releases.
• Received Star of the Month award for the best performance in handling the project delivery of multiple product releases. Received Service Commitment awards in the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SW Languages: C, C++, JAVA, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, J2EE, SQL, XML, UML (Enterprise Architect), E mbedded C, Perl, Shell Scripting, UNIX.

Database: PL/SQL, SQL (on Sybase, Microsoft SQL Servers)

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, Sun Solaris, Red hat / Fedora Linux

Tools: & Utilities: Rational Test Real Time, Message Harness, MPLAB, HP Quality Center ALM, REST console, WinSCP, Cool Edit, YUV App tool, Microsoft Outlook, MS Lync/Skype meetings, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (for managing releases and iterations), Rapid SQL, DB Visualizer, Confluence, SharePoint.

Project Management tools: IPMS, JIRA, Microsoft Project Professional, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services.

Configuration Management: SVN, VSS, Bit Bucket, GitHub

Domain Knowledge: Embedded systems, Telecom, Industrial & Consumer Electronics, Media Engineering, Security Systems, Insurance

Processes & Methodologies: Project Management (PMBOK), LEAN, Six Sigma, Agile Processes & Methodologies - Scrum, KANBAN, XP, ITIL Processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Consultant

Confidential

• Worked as ‘Delivery Lead’ for development & testing of Guidewire Policy center/ Claim center & led 2 scrum teams (with team size as ‘8’ in each scrum team)
• Responsible for tracking the day-to-day operations, facilitating the Scrum of scrum meetings, participating in all scrum ceremonies, preparing product roadmap with project releases, status reporting in terms of burn up charts and risks/challenges. Facilitated elaboration meetings for progressive elaboration of user stories.
• Worked as ‘Project Manager’ for development & testing of product ‘Unified Evidence Monitoring system’
• Project Estimation & Scheduling the project releases. Tracked the schedule, costs, risks & ensured quality by having reviews & audits and on-time delivery. Involved in Project Audits and Project Management Reviews, Coached the teams on Agile & Scrum.
• Worked as ‘Product Owner’ for the development & testing of product ‘Media Monitoring System Collection facility -SMART Sync’ & Delivery Lead for 5 scrum teams (with 30 people - team size as ‘6’ in each scrum team)
• Responsible for Product Envisioning (Developed Vision Statement, Mission statement and Success criteria), working with customers to get their requirements and development team to clarify all user stories and its acceptance criteria, developing the list of all prioritized Product Backlog items / user stories, planning releases and iterations, defined sprint goal and facilitated the team to work towards the sprint goal, Reviewed the working software and accepted / rejected the completed work based on the Definition of Done.
• Participated in Sprint retrospective meeting and given inputs for process improvements to be worked in the future. Facilitated the Product Backlog grooming meeting, Sprint planning meeting and daily stand-up meetings. Responsible for risk management, status reporting, ensuring quality assurance and control, effective stakeholder engagement.
• Responsible for installation & deployment & making configuration changes on UNIX servers, driving test automation and promoting continuous process improvement.

Assistant Consultant

Confidential

• Worked as Test Project Manager for multiple project releases & products (Media Monitoring system, Video Library, Monitor Plus, Ad Relevance, Internet Integration)
• Responsible for preparing delivery plans, test plans & strategy, Effort estimation, planning & scheduling the project releases.
• Facilitated in ensuring the test & agile processes and methodologies.
• Facilitated the teams in preparing the test cases & review of the tests in HP Quality center.
• Weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting of status & metrics. Conducted defect review board meetings.
• Set up the MMS Remote Site lab: Connecting AAU/DAU with Collection Units, Communication among AAU/DAU (Analog/Digital Acquisition Unit, CU (Collection Unit), CF (Collection Facility), tuning to the channel/subchannel to capture Audio / Video signal, observation of generation of reference data and performing audio code density analysis, installation of project releases onto servers.
• Guided the teams on test automation using Perl, Selenium, JAVA, Shell scripting.

I.T Analyst

Confidential

• Worked as Test Project Manager for multiple project releases & products (Media Monitoring system, Video Library, Monitor Plus, Ad Relevance, Internet Integration) from April 2012 onwards.
• Worked as Test Lead for Media Engineering products from March 2010 till March 2012 and performed test automation using Perl & Shell scripting. Responsible for defect prevention activity by preparing many checklists for test strategy, test cases, test results & defects. Defect reporting in HP Quality center. Resolution of issues and risk identification & mitigation. Preparation of daily status reports.

Assistant Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Worked as ‘Test Analyst & Test Lead’ to test the water quality instruments HQ40d/HQ30d/HQ14d/HQ11d meters with various probes like pH, LDO, LBOD, ISE, ORP, CDC. Responsible for verification & validation of product using simulators and meters & reporting the issues in Bugzilla
• Worked as ‘Designer’ to design the communication module for interfaces (USB, SDI-12) using the controller PIC24FGB110, Serial Peripheral Interface document for Handheld device (using the LP3250 controller).
• Worked as ‘Quality Reviewer’ for 20 projects. Responsible for implementing Integrated Quality Management Systems (IQMS), assurance of quality in software products and services, ensuring the Deployment of improved processes in projects, recommending & Implementing process changes in collaboration with Software Engineering Process Group.
• Worked as ‘Test Analyst’ to test the HUB system based on the functional requirements and design for TELECOM service provider. Provided testing support for Next Box Testing, Integration Verification and Validation Testing and Performance Testing by interacting with end systems. Conducted training on C & C++.
• Worked as ‘Developer’ for the development of web based application for Pharmacy using J2EE. Responsible for Preparation of Software Requirement Specification, Preparation of Database Design using Normalization, Preparation of Design document, Development of the user interface using HTML, Java Script and Java Server Pages (JSP), Development of Servlets and application using Java to interface with the user and the database, Review of the developed code, Performed Unit and System Testing of developed application