Professional Background

• 9+ years of IT experience with 4+ years of experience in Project Management of complex cross - platform projects in Financial Services Sector with multi-geographical team
• 5+ years of experience as Senior test practitioner and lead developer leading large project teams across multiple geographies
• Part of the organization's IT PMO responsible for reporting, program/project management, portfolio strategy, financial and resource planning, risk mitigation and remediation, process and methodology and continuous improvement/best practice champion
• Extensive domain knowledge in Group and Individual Life, Disability and Health Insurance
• Extensive domain knowledge in Wholesale and Commercial Banking
• Extensive exposure in Mortgage Loans and Trade Finance products - Documentary Credits, Collections, Guarantees and related Loan products
• Experienced in working with different SDLC models and different Requirement models. Currently managing projects in iterative environment based on Rational Unified Process (RUP) model
• Experienced in managing projects on Service Oriented Archetecture, Globalization/Localization Projects on multiple technologies
• Expertise in Microsoft Project and CA Clarity Project Management tools
• Expertise in Defect Tracking and Management using HP Quality Center
• Experienced in collaborating and partnering with Implementation Owners, other program managers, IT and Business Manager, devlopment leads, test leads, production support teams
• Worked in projects on Mainframe, .NET, J2EE, C# Technologies
• Track record of successful projects demonstrating strong planning, organizing and leadership skills
• Hands on commercials including forecasting, budgeting, account reporting and drafting SOW
• Hands on testing, automation tools and .net development

• Project Management Professional (PMP ) Certified from Project Management Institute
• Certified in LOMA Level I, LOMA 280 - Principles of Life and Health Insurance and LOMA 291 - Insurance Company Operations
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified Professional (CSSGB)
• Certified in Software Process Awareness and Readiness (SPARC) from TQM, Covansys
• Completed Covansys Project Management Training - ASSET
• Certified Software Tester (CSTE) - Ceritified by QAI Global - Certification No. 20585
• Other certifications and trainings include Accenture Certification in Banking Fundamentals, Training on Basics of Trade Finance, Training on Consumer and Small Banking Technologies
• Served as SPOC for CSC Insurance vertical outside India and worked on Business Analyst Training materials and Trained resources on BA Competency for the Insurance - Non-Intellectual Products vertical of CSC
• Practiced and Trained resources on project management process and practices of Confidential

Project #1: Growth Platform - Globalization

Client: Confidential, Duration:

Location: Chattanooga, TN, USA

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager responsible for managing each phase and iteration of the Growth Platform - Globalization project on Iterative methodology
• Liaise with Implementation owner, Business owner, technical and business architects, analysts, developers and testers and ensure that the project objectives are understood and ensure that the deliverables meet the business need
• Work with the stakeholders to understand the business objectives and translate it into tactical and strategic IT initiatives
• Adhere to the Iterative methodology and work on Phase and Iteration planning
• Exposure to Rational Unified Process based Iterative Methodology process and assets, including velocity planning, planning poker estimation, feature point estimation, Gate review planning
• Responsible for setting up the project in Inception phase, Managing the Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition phases and iterations within each phase and closing out the project during transition phase
• Responsible for all risk and issue management for activities within the project including identification, prevention, monitoring and resolution
• Plan, facilitate and communicate gate review at end of each phase and implement corrective actions
• Work on Project Management using MPP and CA Clarity tools

Project #2: Unum Select

Client: Confidential

Location: Chattanooga, TN, USA

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager responsible for managing the Unum Select project on waterfall model
• Responsible for project management discipline and key process areas for all phases of SDLC
• Track and measure project status and provide updates on project's health to program management
• Drive triages with IT and Business management and report status with progress, risks and quality metrics
• Ensuring process compliance of all the activities within the project
• Managing the project budget including planning, monitoring, and utilization of the final results toward improving future budget planning - evaluating, BAC, ETC, PV, EV, CPI etc
• Reviewing customer feedback of the release/project. Leading customer reported defects root-cause analysis, lessons learned and follow up on their implementation
• Analyzing and monitoring defect metrics within the release and among releases per product line, identify trends and recommend effectiveness measures and quality conclusions
• Work on Project Management using MPP and CA Clarity tools

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager responsible for managing the EDO project on a waterfall model
• Responsible for building and leading a core team to successfully deliver the IT projects and business objectives of the program on time and within budget - Adhering to the CSC Catalyst Methodology
• Development and sign off of the Master Release Plans and the Project Plans - Rolling up into multiple releases
• Demonstrate project objectives to the project team and ensure that the requirements clearly articulate the business needs
• Ensure that all the requirements are complete and the project deliverables meet the business need
• Work on Project Management using MPP tool

Project #4: Fast Forward

Client: Confidential, Duration:

Location: Portland, ME, USA

Role: Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Lead responsible for execution of system construction and oversight of design and coding activities
• Part of the process analysis group developing the High-level Business Process Model and Cross functional Business Process Model using Visio and Tibco business Studio
• As part of business modeling also responsible for deriving roles, activities matrix, data and information assessment
• Work with business architect and analyst on deriving high level business requirements and rules
• Worked on Tibco business studio on providing workflow solution to enable Service Oriented Architecture
• Responsible for developing high level technical design, core foundations, prototype classes and base class objects
• Responsible and ensured that all the project artifacts and deliverables adhere to enterprise architecture and facilitated JAD review sessions
• Lead the development of proof of concept for demonstration of Service Oriented Architecture with role based application on .net technology interfaced with legacy mainframe system
• Worked on Use Case design realization, use case mapping with service Contracts, Rules, UI design elements, Report design elements, External interface design elements, Security design elements etc

Project #5: Consumer Real Estate

Client: Confidential, Duration:

Location: Charlotte, NC, USA

Role: Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing transition activities and ensuring smooth knowledge transition phase for an acquisition project
• Establish boot camp session and manage rapid transition process on a high delivery environment
• Establish shadowing process and delivered a proof of concept testing project
• Ensuring proper and timely delivery of Test Scenario and Conditions
• Participating and Conducting Scenario and Condition Reviews
• Reviewing and delivering the Test Scripts and updated Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Supporting Test Execution, providing appropriate status reports
• Providing Test Metrics, SIT updates and attending defect management meetings and calls.

Project #6: Apollo

Client: Confidential, Duration:

Location: Bangalore, India

Last Played Role: Senior Analyst - Automation Testing

Responsibilities:

• Assisting test lead in forming the automation framework
• Recording and debugging the functions assigned using quick test pro
• Integrating the functions as per the assigned manual test scripts
• Storing and managing the scripts using Mercury Quality Center
• Ensuring proper delivery of automated scripts.
• Providing maintenance for the automated test scripts

Project #7: Global Trade Platform

Client: Confidential, Duration: 24 Months

Location: Chennai, India

Last Played Role: Team Lead - Testing

Responsibilities:

• .net development, COBOL coding and Unit Testing
• Hands on experience with SQL Server and TFS
• Worked on Banktrade product and the corresponding rule engine
• Defect Management using Test Director
• Involved in SWIFT alliance testing and regression testing
• Preparation of KPI reports for Management.
• Execution of Win Runner scripts and analyzing the automation results with actual Business Scenario and manual test results.

• Implemented and owned Enterprise wide Release Regression Strategy for a Insurance Customer
• Presented Regression Testing Best Practices in Chattanooga QA chapter
• Presented a revised Data Management approach for the Insurance Customer and contributed to CSC Data Management presentation in Iowa insurance chapter
• Instrumental in Implementing the Quality Center of Excellence in the customer's organization
• Co-documented the Automation Strategy for the customer on behalf of CSC
• Attended Bid-Room Meetings and worked on responses to RFPs on behalf of CSC
• Authored various process documents and productivity trackers as part of the engagement responsibilities
• Implemented Content Management system for Managing BankTradeTM Templates using CS - RCS Pro for Confidential, a leap on quality and process improvement.