Project Manager

parul todai

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic professional with 14+ years experience in financial services & IT

industries spanning QA, Project Management, Business Analysis, Technical

Writing & Pre-Sales. Exceptional communicator with problem-solving

abilities and a keen client needs assessment aptitude. Extensive experience

in SDLC process development & implementation. Strong Leadership skills,

managing 30+ team members in a Rightshore Model.

Core professional competencies include:

Project Planning & Management Automated & Manual Testing

Business Analysis Excellent Communication & People Skills

Technical Writing / Documentation Executive / C-Level Presentation &

Negotiations

PROFESSIONAL CAREER & KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Oracle Financial Software Services Inc., (OFSS, USA)

Feb 2006 - Present

(World's leading provider of Financial Software)

Client: Citigroup, NY - Private Banking (Oct 2008 - Present)

QA Project /Engagement Manager

. Make sales presentations to key decision makers effectively selling

the capabilities, credentials & project methodologies of OFSS.

Presenting & negotiating business proposals to/with the client

. Responsible for Client delivery assurance and driving the delivery

process by working collaboratively with the delivery managers in the

business unit.

. Developed Testing Strategies; designed and executed test plans;

involved in project planning, regression testing, performance testing,

publishing test results, creation and delivery of concise metrics,

release notes and ensuring the resolution of defects.

. Signed-off on test strategy, test development, and test results prior

to implementation into UAT / Production

. Responsible for resource planning, processes and environment;

identifying issues and risks; and overseeing the design and

introduction of tools, processes and best practices across testing

life cycle to optimize results, communication and on-time delivery of

projects

. Accountable for the quality, schedule, scope and effort of all the

deliveries & providing technical leadership and mentoring to team

members across multiple teams

. Responsible for performance management of the team- hire and retain

best talent, provide guidance for career & succession planning,

keeping the attrition rate of the team to the minimum.

Selected Accomplishments:

. Maintained a 97% defect tracking benchmark for IST over multiple

releases and across applications.

. No production issues seen after release roll outs, which is highly

commended by the client management

. Successfully built & sustained executive level relationships &

leveraged them as a source of competitive differentiation to close

existing business opportunities & creating new ones

Client: Citigroup, NY - Consumer Banking (Apr 2008 - Sep 2008)

Business Project Manager

. Executed full project development life cycle from initiation through

post-implementation and/or project closure for multiple projects

. Lead cross-functional project teams & conducted JAD sessions with

vendors and the business SME's to develop both high-level and detailed

application documents to meet the business needs which includes the

creation of Activity Diagrams, Functional Specifications using Visio &

finalizing time and cost estimates

. Ensured accurate budget projections, risk and issue identification,

project change control, tracking & reporting to Senior management

Client: Citigroup, NY - Retail Banking (Feb 2006 - Mar 2008)

Senior QA Lead

. Designed, scripted & executed performance tests for Citibank Online

Portal using Load Runner technology for load, volume, performance &

fail-over testing & analysis of test results

. Designed & rolled out test reporting standards based on best

practices.

. Published QA timelines with milestones based on the test plan

. Identified & analyzed defects, issues, risks, action items, statistics

of key metrics captured during testing

. Signed-off on test strategy, test development, & test results prior to

implementation into production.

. Managed a team of QA specialists & mentored junior members, providing

technical advice & direction

Oracle Financial Software Services Ltd., India

June 2004 - Feb 2006

(World's leading provider of Financial Software)

Clients: Citi Australia & Fifth Third Bancorp USA

Business Analyst

. Responsible for understanding business process management & requirement

of the customers & translating them to functional requirement

documentation

. Acted as a liaison between business units, technology teams & support

teams

. Assessed project & business risk, developed mitigation strategies &

documented findings

. Designed & Rolled-Out project implementation metrics / dashboard to serve

as MIS; estimation of test effort & coordination of test schedule with

overall Project plan.

. Reviewed test Cases & test Scripts, manual testing & providing support to

the client team during the UAT phase

VAMAN Technologies Ltd., Mumbai, India

Oct 1999 - May 2004

(A startup software company specializing in new competitive RDBMS

development)

Pre-Sales (June 2003 - May 2004)

. Determining Solutions based on customer requirements, Gap Analysis

Studies

. RFI/RFP Responses, product presentations & demonstrations, proof of

concept Initiatives

. Developed end-to-end proposals including technical solution, pricing

estimation for various international clients

. Attended tradeshows & exhibitions to create market for product launch.

Project Lead Testing (Feb 2002 - May 2003)

. Conducted data migration testing of applications for full functional

equivalence

. Facilitated business requirements gathering, application analysis & data

mapping to legacy systems

. Performed functional, load & Concurrent users testing, developed test

plans, test scripts

. Coordinated SIT, UAT & reusable regression testing. Analyzed test

results, identified & reported issues

Project Lead Technical Writing (Nov 2000 - Jan 2002)

. Developed product documentation -user manuals, installation guides &

programmer's guide to the database

. Used RoboHelp tool to design & write classical Windows help.

Team Lead GUI Development & Installation Wizard (Oct 1999 - Oct 2000)

. Core member of the application design team responsible for developing the

GUI using Visual Basic 6.0.

. Implemented the speech functionality in the Vaman GUI using SAPI 5.0.

. Created installation scripts & packages using Wise Installer for Windows

for application packaging

. Tested the Install/ Uninstall Setup scripts on all Windows platforms

X-PERT COMPUTER CONSULTANTS, Mumbai, India Feb 1997 - Sep 1999

(Subsidiary of HiMedia Laboratories)

Applications Engineer

. Designed & developed a database using Oracle & Visual Basic on Quality

System Requirements for HiMedia Laboratories who were in the process of

procuring an ISO 9000 certification.

. Involved in the development & manual testing of the financial accounting

software.

Education

. Boston's Institute, India

1999

Oracle Intensive Database Management & Developer 2000

. National Institute of Information Technology, India

1998

Honors Diploma in Network Centered Computing (HNC)

. University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India BBA

1996

Major: Business Management & Economics

Awards & Certifications

. "I-Appreciate" Spot award 2007 for outstanding performance on the

CitiBank Online Project.

. Certifications in Equity Finance & Debt Finance Modules of Citicorp

Finance Professional Program, Asia

Pacific Banking Institute, Singapore with 96%.

. Certification in Finance foundation program, PrimeSourcing

University, Oracle Financial Software Services, India

White Papers for i-flex Solutions (Now Oracle Financial Software Services)

. "Data Migration"

. "Website Designing"

Visa Status: Valid H1-B Visa.

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