Manager Project

Career Summary of Skills & Experience

Strong leader with around 11 years of experience across Project and Test Management in Insurance, Retail & Financial domain and an additional 7 years of experience in Business Analysis and Sales.

Worked as Associate Manager, with Accenture, successfully transitioned (Insource to Outsource) the projects from Aon to Accenture.

Worked as a Delivery Manager (PM cum Scrum Master), with Aon managing development and testing for PenProPlus project in Retirement and Investment space using Agile Methodology. Proficient in Project Management, Business Analysis, Testing, UAT and stakeholder management.

As the Test Manager with iGATE worked for the Openlink (US based client) managing testing services (both manual and automation) for Endur (Commodities Trading and Risk Management) / Findur (Financial Trading) products using Waterfall Methodology. Implemented best practices to ensure increase in productivity which resulted in highest level of customer satisfaction feedback (5 on 5 for 3 consecutive years) and several team awards at organization level.

At JK Technosoft worked for Specsavers client (Leading Optical Chain UK), lead multiple testing projects in retail domain. Worked hands-on in Data warehousing Reporting project (KPI) using Pentaho Business Intelligence suite of products to provide a variety of KPI reporting.

Lead the transition and setup of project teams in India working in onsite/offshore model for USA and UK based clients.

Experience in working in multi-cultural environment in different roles in varied countries/regions like – USA and UK and executing projects in an onsite-offshore model using agile and waterfall methodology.

Possess flexible and detailed oriented approach along with strong communication skills, excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills

Experience details

Accenture as Associate Manager for Aon Client (June 2018 till August 2018)

AON as Delivery Manager (July 2015 till June 2018)

Project : PenProPlus

Role : Project Manager cum Scrum Master

Platform : NET Framework using C#, Oracle 12c, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services

PenProPlus is a Global Defined Benefit (DB) Administration system which helps solve our client’s most complex pensions and benefits challenges. It’s live in 5 countries with around 400+ Customers. The responsibilities include:

Create and manage the overall Project Plan, including estimations using Work breakdown (WBS) methodology

Project governance – Scrum ceremonies (Daily stand-ups, retrospectives, Backlog refinement meetings etc), risks, quality metrics and status reporting against the Program/Project plan

Work closely with the stakeholders to set up and establish new teams and define/refine their operating model.

Working with business teams to customize the application for the largest home and auto group insurer in the Canadian market. The deal value is in the range of 50 Million USD.

Provide Performance Feedback and Coaching around Career Development

Collaborate with Talent Development team to refine the Talent Development model to enable colleague engagement

In the last 3 months, successfully Planned and Transitioned PenProPlus and Eagle Pace projects from Aon to Accenture with no business disruption and delivery of Desjardins on PenProPlus which is a 50 Million USD client for Aon.

iGATE as Manager V&V (April 2011 –June 15)

Project : OLF Automation Testing

Client : Openlink Financial

Role : Test Manager

Platform : Windows NT,QTP and Blast Framework.

Product under Test: Endur/Findur

OpenLink is an industry leader in trading and risk management solutions. OpenLink's products Endur for energy and Findur for finance - are part of an integrated, cross-market environment that delivers the scalability and flexibility needed to accurately navigate today's quickly changing markets. Endur is complete front to back office Commodities Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) product for commodities and derivatives markets. Findur is a transaction lifecycle management and advanced risk management for trading, investing, hedging & funding, including treasury management for financial trading. This project comprises of Manual Testing and automation using QTP and inhouse tool Blast. The execution methodology was initially waterfall and later moved to agile to improve speed to market. The responsibilities include:

Project Management and end to end delivery responsibility in an onsite-offshore model

Provide leadership to establish SQA standards, processes and procedures

Define and provide test metrics and communicate software quality measurements to Senior Management

Responsible for adherence to quality assurance processes, procedures, tools and standards

Plan and execute Knowledge Transition for the application domain

Responsible for career development/planning, Conduct performance appraisals and identify high potential contributors and groom them for higher assignments.

Responsible for business development activities by demonstrating QA competency presentation, Proposal Preparation for prospect clients.

Key Highlights: Increase in productivity year on year, continuous high CSS year-on-year, attrition well below organization standards.

J.K Technosoft Test Lead (Aug 2007 - March 2011)

Project : KPI

Client : Specsavers Optical Group

Role : Business Analyst &QA Lead

Environment : Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 5, Pentaho BI-Server, Kettle, MySQL 5.0.

This project uses the Pentaho Business Intelligence suite of products to provide a variety of KPI reporting, kettle was used as ETL tool which extracts data from different source systems and load data in data warehouse. Other Projects with Specsavers are Recall, Lenses by mail, Interim Solution 241, HDR and Plato. The responsibilities include:

Setup the onsite-offshore model for execution, project management including metrics reporting

Requirements gathering at onsite

Preparing Test plan/Strategy and Test Management

Defect management, Issue co-coordination and internal review meetings

Facilitate and resolve all the test environment setup and other issues at the India center

Project : MAP (Merchandise Assortment Plan)

Client : Group Soft

Team size : 6

Role : QA Lead

Environment : MS .NET Framework 1.1, SQL Server 2005, MS Window 2000/XP

MAP is an enterprise-wise merchandise assortment planning and analysis solution for large and mid-size retail organizations. It is based on distributed and centralized planning concept and is used for Strategic Planning (Yearly / Monthly Sales Budget including Mark-down Budget), Pre-Season Store Plan at Store level and Merchandise Plan at Store, Store Group or Company Level. MAP is developed using .Net Framework where it has both thick client and web based thin client interface. The responsibilities include:

Preparing Test plan/Strategy including Preparing and reviewing the Test Scenarios

Delegate the work to the team members including Defect management, Issue co-coordination

Weekly review with the customer & status reporting

India Bulls Credit Services Ltd & ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company as BA and Branch Manager (Feb 02 - July 2007)

Responsible for defining requirement for upgradation of PLMS (Personnel Loan Management System), a home-grown application of India Bulls to support the Lending Business. Part of the UAT team for the acceptance of the PLMS system

Understanding and management of the end to end life cycle of Life Insurance domain. This includes quotation, application, underwriting/operations, issuance of a policy, policy administration and claims,

Heading a branch, responsible for business planning, strategy and execution and managing third party vendor relationship for FCI, FCU and for other operations functions

Samtech Infonet, Solix Enterprise Limited and Astral Tele*Foundation Pvt Ltd in Sales and Account Management (Nov 99 - Jan 2002)

Business Plan preparation and implementing marketing/sales promotion plans for business generation.

Adept at analyzing market trends to provide critical inputs for business development initiatives and formulation of selling strategies.

Academic Background

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (MBA) from Maharishi Arvind Institute of Science and Management, Jaipur (1998)

Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Merrut University (1996)

Certificate course in E-commerce covering JAVA, ASP, HTML, DHTML, JAVA Script, VB Script, CGI and Perl from Pentasoft, NOIDA (1999)

Certificate course in SAP, Sales & Distribution module from DUCAT, NOIDA (2004)

Certified Scrum Manager in June 2018

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