Project Quality Assurance

SESHA GADIYARAM

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Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

(H) 908-***-**** *********@*******.*** (C) 551-***-****

PROGRAM COORDINATOR/ PMO/ANALYST

Project Management Professional (PMP Certified - 1999) with extensive experience in

Project Management, Business Systems Analysis and Application Risk Analysis

Collaborated with project teams and external stakeholders to implement multiple cross-

organizational initiatives and projects

Managed Application Development teams and proficient with outsourcing/Offshore

coordination skills

Skill set Profile

Waterfall SDLC, Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies

PROJECT

Function Point Analysis

MANAGEMENT, QA,

Requirements Management Process, Tools

TESTING

Software deliverables Inspection Training

METHODOLOGIES

Application Risk Review Analysis and Management

Application Defect Root Cause Analysis and Management

MS Project, MS Office, Visio, JIRA, Planview, Systems Development

PROJECT

LifeCycle Workspace, Software Quality Assurance Workspace (SQAW),

MANAGEMENT

Citigroup Systems Inventory, Architecture Workspace, HP Quality Center

TOOLS

Microsoft SharePoint, Wiki

GUI

Insurance, Banking and Finance

DOMAIN

KNOWLEDGE

IBM Mainframe technologies (CICS, DB2/SQL, IMS/DB, JCL, Natural,

TECHNOLOGIES

Adabase); Web technologies (HTML, Java)

Training: Informatica, ITIL

Citigroup Capital Markets & Banking (CMB) Division, NJ 2004 –2008

Process Manager

Project Management

Managed project plans, tracked actual progress, resolved cost, time variance root causes and

handled Program, Initiative level Program Management Office (PMO) reporting

Coordinated Waterfall/SDLC and Agile project development methodology based project

development activities for CMB Finance Products Profit & Loss (P&L) Reporting

applications’s major, minor functionality enhancements

Collaborated with Project resources, Business users on Business Requirements and functional

Specifications inspection to reduce defects during project design phase

Collaborated with Project resources, Business users on User validation phase (UAT) status

reviews, deliverables inspection

Coached and mentored Project resources on SDLC and Agile project development

methodologies and documented deliverables

Project Process Improvement

Managed planning and reporting of CMB Testing process improvement program

Implemented Post. Project deployment review knowledge repository to share lessons

learned, best practices of project delivery across Finance P&L Reporting applications

Led Software Quality Assurance Workspace (SQAW) user forum to identify, document,

coordinate development, UAT, deployment of SQAW enhancements requests

Led Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) to improvise software development

processes

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SESHA GADIYARAM

108 Elmwood CT

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

(H) 908-***-**** *********@*******.*** (C) 551-***-****

Performed compliance reviews of project development activities in view of defined

methodology

Application Risk Analysis

Managed most frequent application failures root cause analysis, preventive actions

implementation and assessed effectiveness

Collaborated with Application support team, Infrastructure support teams to identify and

mitigate application risks associated with reliability, stability and changeability factors

Collaborated with Shared Technology Environments’s (STEs) support teams to implement

STE usage exception review and resolution process

Implemented application Release Management reporting and governance process

Northern Trust, IL 2003 –2004

Systems Analyst (Consultant)

Coordinated with client users on Scope, effort estimates of Limited Transaction Processing

System functionality enhancements

Delivered application functionality enhancements and provided processing support

SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES

Project Leader (Client: Reuters) 2001 – 2003

Managed Offshore based Application Support team and provided processing support

Coordinated with client on application support Service Level Agreements monitoring

Documented application user guide(s), Operational support guide(s), functionality guide(s)

Program Quality Assurance Analyst (Client: Statefarm Insurance) 2000 – 2001

Coached and mentored Project Managers on defined Project development methodology

Analyzed, documented and tracked project Issues, Risks, Scope Change requests

Reviewed Project development methodology compliance

Systems Analyst (Client: BAX Global ) 1997 –1999

Analyzed IBM Mainframe based Financial Reporting applications to assess YR 2000 date

processing compliance

Coordinated with Client to prioritize the YR 2000 date compliance effort

Project Leader (Client: Westfield Insurance) 1995 –1997

Coordinated with client on Scope, effort estimates - Policy Information System enhancements

Education

Certified Quality Analyst – American Society

Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Comp.

Science), University of Madras, India for Quality, USA

Certified Software Test Engineer – Quality

Assurance Institute, USA

Professional Affiliations

American Society for Quality

Project Management Institute

Toastmasters International

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