Project Manager Quality Assurance

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Sekhar Vajjhala

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SENIOR LEVEL BUSINESSS & IT EXECUTIVE

14+ years of experience managing complex application systems, software development challenges, building cross

product / cross-functional relationships, and lead global technical teams to achieve exceptional results.

• Managed and successfully transition and integrated global software development & engineering teams

on-site, offshore, and outsource vendors

• Planned and delivered strategic initiatives by teaming up with Executive Management and business

leaders

• Management experience in all functional areas of software development, that includes Requirements,

Analysis, Design & Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Release Management, and

Level 2 / Level 3 production support

• Strong assessment, risk/mitigation and execution skills

o Turned around several low performing projects to meet corporate standards and customer

satisfaction.

o Drove process improvements, teamwork and metrics to show progress and overall success.

• Delivered multiple complex projects with the ability to understand and resolve architecture and design

challenges, coached and guided technical teams

• Established and retooled Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process based on project needs and

drove improvements, teamwork and metrics to show progress and overall success

• Created development procedures for checks and balances on functional requirements,

architecture/design reviews, code reviews and QA certification coverage.

CAREER OVERVIEW

INTTRA Inc. August 2001 –

Present

Leading Ocean Logistics eCommerce (SaaS)

Responsible for managing and delivering to create scalable and high available applications to support large

volume transactions. Managed global Software Development teams with multiple technology stack that include

JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, .NET, Perl, SOA, database (Oracle - PL/SQL, SQL, data modeling), Operating systems

(AIX UNIX/Windows), data management (ETL, OLAP) and Customer Support/Sales integrations tools (Salesforce)

Director, Software Development & Engineering August 2011 - October 2013

• Partnered closely with Business Leaders to provide technology envisioning, leadership consultation,

direction and financial viability in application development of new and existing technologies to meet the

tactical and strategic needs of the business

• Implemented SDLC process and governance from Business Requirement, Analysis, Design, Development,

Defect resolution cycle, and Release Management.

• Excellent track record of managing and leading architecture, design and development for highly complex

systems that spanned across multiple functional groups and vendors

• Managed direct reports and matrix teams both onsite and offshore that constitute System Analysts,

Development Managers, Application Database Engineers, Technical Leads, and QA Leads.

• Implemented multiple SDLC methodologies based on business needs to manage multiple projects in a

highly dynamic environment.

• Gained Senior Management confidence through fact based presentation and communicating technical

issues in business terms.

• Created KPIs and managed vendors on their statement of works, SLA, and deliverables.

• Initiated and coordinated with various committees and governance processes including project approval

committee, steering committee, and business leadership teams.

• Experienced in global people management including hiring, coaching, implementing best practices,

promotions, goal settings, performance reviews and staff changes.

• Managed Release Engineers on source code management, release management, automated deployments,

and minimizing production deployment downtime

Sr. Development Manager, Software Development & Engineering January 2009 – August 2011

• As a subject matter expert (SME) and with good delivery record, always asked to be responsible for

delivery of company critical/priority projects

• Responsible for Design and Development by on-site and offshore resources

• Coordinated System Analysts and Product Managers to gather requirements and deliver specifications.

• Responsible for Architecture approach and design reviews on development projects

• Prepared project plans, tracking tasks and produced reports on project status.

• Provided data analysis and hands-on development work, coding and data modeling, when needed

• Responsible for Release and Configuration management.

QA Manager, Quality Assurance January 2007 – December

2008

• Recipient of INTTRA Presidential award (2008)

o Improved automation of customer registration workflow by self-service tools and CRM integration which

reduced manual intervention by 80%.

o Delivered this with a fixed price/fixed time bid using an outsource vendor. This saved financial &

opportunity cost to the company.

• Defined and communicated standards and procedures for the overall QA architecture and methodology

o Includes Manual, Automated, White Box Testing and Performance/Scalability Testing.

• Defined Metrics for consistent reporting throughout development cycle and release readiness

• Increased automation of regression testing suite from 20% to 90%.

• Provided leadership, mentoring and career growth for direct reports

Technical Project Manager, PMO July 2005 – December

2006

• Pioneer of initiating a Project Management Office by showing the need to Senior Management

• Created project plan templates for standard form of status reporting

• Implemented formal SDLC process with a cross-functional governance group.

• Tracked multiple projects, risks, budget calculations and forecasting the spend for projects

• Brought down the costs of multiple projects on developer’s over-estimated tasks using the tools in my

technical knowledge

• Hands on development & QA testing

• TECHNICAL SKILLS:

o Languages: JAVA, HTML, JavaScript, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT

o Database: Oracle 8i, 9i

o Frameworks: J2EE

o Application Server: Weblogic, Tomcat

o Operating System: Windows, Unix

Sr. Developer/Technical Team Lead, Software Development August 2001 – June 2005

• Lead a team of 5 on-site developers

• Designed and Developed new products from ground-up using open source frameworks and JAVA

• Worked closely with System Analysts on Functional Specifications

• Designated as the single point of contact for all development projects

• TECHNICAL SKILLS:

o Languages: JAVA, HTML, JavaScript, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT

o Database: Oracle 8i, 9i

o Frameworks: J2EE, In-house built based on core Java

o Application Server: Weblogic, Tomcat

o Operating System: Windows, Unix

Cambridge Technology Partners May 1999 – August

2001

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Consulting Services

Application Developer

• Actively involved in the iterative process of design phase of the project

• Designed and Developed front end web applications using HTML, JavaScript, JSP and Java Servlets

• Implemented backend layer in EJB using J2EE framework

• TECHNICAL SKILLS:

o Languages: JAVA, HTML, JavaScript, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT

o Database: Oracle 8

o Frameworks: J2EE

o Application Server: Weblogic, Tomcat

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, & TRAININGS

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Osmania University, India

MS in Engineering BS in Engineering

ITIL Foundation Certification

Leadership Trainings:

- Project Management

- Influencing skills

- Leadership skills

- Conflict management skills

- Listening skills

COMPUTER SKILLS

Applications/Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project, MS

Outlook

Operating System: Windows (8, 7, XP, NT), UNIX

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