Project Manager

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Saravanan Nagarajan Certified Scrum Master

Phone: 502-***-****

Mail to: **********@*****.***

Objective

Seeking challenging assignments where my Leadership, Technical, and

Creative skills could be effectively utilized.

Experience Summary

> Total of 8 plus years of Comprehensive 'IT' experience in Agile based

Software Development which includes

* 4 plus years of Scrum Master, Project Manager and Test

Manager experience,

* 4 years of Automation Test Lead and Functional

Test lead experience,

Under various business domains like

Health-Care, Insurance, Retail and Banking..

> Expertise in implementing the defined Scrum Process as a Scrum master

within the organizational structure.

> Hands on Experience on facilitating Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint

planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective. Handling 2 Scrum

teams with a total size of 21 team members.

> Effective Coordination with Product owner and Program Manager on

Artifacts Such as Release Planning, Product Backlog, Spring Backlog,

Sprint Burn down, & Release Burn down.

> Defining the Scope of each Sprint to Scrum team upon discussion with

Product Owner and Program manager there by delivering the work within

the context of each Sprint & Release respectively.

> Effective in Tracking and Communicating Team Velocity, Sprint and

Release progress with the Management team during Scrum Of Scrum calls

(SOS)

> Publicizing the team's progress and success to make sure they are

highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.

> Delivering and managing the Sprint priorities and goals based on the

Release schedule.

> Actively involved in defect Triaging calls to prioritize defect and

its resolution based on the release timelines during the SIT and UAT

phase.

> Working as Active coordinator along with Program Management team and

with various Project teams, UAT team and Service provider teams during

Production turns thereby making sure our team has delivered a

successful release. So far delivered 8 successful releases in the

ongoing project since April 2013.

> Implementing and evolving appropriate measurements and metrics.

*To be applied against the Product under development.

*To be applied against the Scrum Team developing the product.

> Immense knowledge in all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) from analysis, design, development and testing.

> Test Planning, deploying, and managing the testing effort for any

given engagement / release.

> Managing and growing Testing assets required for meeting the testing

mandate:

* Team Members

* Testing Tools

* Testing Process & Documents.

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services VISA Eligibility: H1B Current

Location: Louisville, Kentucky

Preferred Employment Type: Full time

Business Domain Exposure & Certifications

Domain Experience Health Care

Involved in Development of Secured Web

Application which supports various types

of user login viz. Medicare, Individual,

Commercial & Mocha for various Medical

plans.(Migration project)

Insurance

Personal Lines - Home and Auto Line of

Business (Migration Project)

Banking

Testing of International Funds Transfer

Applications involving Banking SWIFT Codes

Certifications Scrum Master Certification

Certificate in Insurance Concepts

ISTQB Certified Tester

Languages Exposure on VB Script, Dot Net

Tools Version 1, Quality Center 10, Clearquest,

IBM RTC, Test Partner 6.2, Test Partner

6.2, Ranorex

Education Summary:

Qualification Category B.E, Mechanical Engineering Certified

by Anna University.

Project Experience Summary

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed

underneath,

Project Title 1 Integrated Digital Experience (Employer - Tata

Consultancy Services)

Period From April 2013 - Till Date

Client Name Humana Inc

Position Scrum Master & Project Manager, Louisville,

Kentucky.

The Integrated Digital Experience initiative aims to

integrate Humana's disconnected digital properties

including web, mobile and social, into a best in

Project Description class, consistent online customer experience and

leverage a flexible enterprise technology platform.

Streams which we are currently going on My Humana,

Humana.com, Tools, One Web etc. which involves

migrating Legacy Application features to Integrated

Digital Experience application.

Facilitating Scrum ceremonies like Stand Up meeting,

Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint

retrospective thereby managing the Sprint priorities

and goals.

Responsibilities As a Scrum Master Working closely with the Onsite

and Offshore Development team thereby removing the

Impediments such as Story Maturity level, Dependency

on Service teams, Clarification of Requirements from

Product Owner and Test Data issues for testing team.

Handling parallel releases effectively, Working with

Management team w.r.t Deliverable dates like SIT,

UAT and Production turns dates thereby making sure

codes are available on the respective region for

testing and on time.

Delivering the Scope of each Sprint Committed to the

Management team, also making sure to explain the

risk if any with respect to commitment.

Share the team progress and Impediments if any

during the Scrum Of Scrum calls (SOS)

Tracing and tracking Artifacts in Version1 tool,

Such as Release Planning, Product Backlog, Spring

Backlog, Sprint Burn down, & Release Burn down.

Actively involved in defect Triaging calls to

prioritize defect resolution based on the release

during SIT and UAT window.

Peer review of Test plan & Scope Documents, Hand

Shake document between SIT and UAT teams.

Coordinating with load testing team to understand

the performance of application, thereby making sure

we are delivering effective and optimized. Code.

Special Software's Version 1- Sprint Tracking and Story Backlog

Management tool.

Squids- Defect management tool.

Project Title 2 Renewal Conversion (Employer - Tata Consultancy

Services)

Period From Aug 2010 - Till Mar 2013

Client Name Liberty Mutual Agency Market

Position Scrum Coordinator & Teat Lead -- Offshore Team

Liberty Mutual Agency Markets (LMAM), a business

unit of Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is a

national organization that consists of property and

Project Description casualty, and specialty insurance carriers that

distribute products and services primarily through

independent agents and brokers.

The main objective of this project was to capture

the synergies of two organizations (Safeco and

Liberty Mutual), and integrate Liberty Mutual

personal lines into Safeco Personal Lines systems

and to make available a single platform. It deals

with the insurance for Auto, Umbrella, Fire and Home

Line of business.

Coordinating and managing all scrum ceremonies from

offshore perspective and reporting the same to

Onsite Scrum master.

Discussing with team members on the assigned tasks

Responsibilities and huddling on the same to understand the

requirement and to sort the impediments if any.

Prioritizing the work based on Sprint goal and

commitment.

Coordinating with Product Owner for Sprint review

and delivering the same.

Working with Onsite team during production turn

thereby enabling smooth release from offshore

perspective.

Working on the Requirement analysis and walkthrough

with testing team.

Peer review of the test case design and verifying

the test results.

Involved in defects review in RTC / Clear quest and

tracking it till its closure.

Effort estimation and work allocation, Orient team

on requirements and business concepts.

Status Monitoring and reporting, Conduct quality

reviews of test plans

Coordinating with Automation team to identify and

develop the Automation test scenarios and cases.

Special Software's Rally, QC, Clearquest

Skills Applications: Q&I and Mainframe systems

Test Management Tool: Quality Center, IBM RTC,

Hands on Experience on SAFECO Applications Viz.

(Agency Markets, Ohio Casualty, Liberty Northwest

applications)

Project Titles 3 Aurora - Server Restart, Ambient - IRiBoard, ISO9000

- Space Lift, Six Sigma - SSSE, Floodlight - PDSi

Board (Employer - Aspire Systems)

Period From May 2008- Till August 2010

Client Name Client M/S. ChemPoint

Position Automation Test Lead

ChemPoint.com is an e-distributor of Fine, Specialty

and Semi-Commodity chemicals, especially those with

unique molecules that add differentiable value to

Project Description its customers.

The company is focused on delivering a personalized

e-distribution service. Using proven

Internet-enabled technologies, ChemPoint.com

provides a faster, easier and more personalized

service than traditional distributors.

The scope of the QA team is to automate the

SharePoint and Silver Light Applications involved in

Chempoint order management processes.

Configure test environment and create strategy for

script development. Assure test data; schedule

automated tests & Tracking systems updates.

Development/Review of SQL-queries for database and

Responsibilities backend validations and

Verifications across multiple DB schemas.

Enhanced KT to the client over User Interface to

schedule test script execution indifferent

environments and placing test scripts according to

the specifications.

Review / Modify / Optimize test scripts

Prepare Object Repository and Test Data (Dynamic /

Static).

Attending/Participating UAT for various applications

conducted by development &maintenance team as and

when required.

Managing developed scripts for regression testing

using Test Partner and Ranorex tools.

Special Software's Test Partner 6.2, Ranorex 2.2.2

Skills Delivered POC over Automating Silver Light

Applications after reviewing various test tools in

very quick session by understanding client

requirements. This made a way to extend/increase

scope for current project since most of the

applications are migrated to Silver Light web

applications by the client.

Understanding tool nature and proposing testing

framework with which the team is comfortable to

start scripting.

Deploy test scripts in different environments for

execution in different timings as per the client

requirements. Generated reports were attached and

mailed to respective business and maintenance team.

Created performance test scripts using VBA to

capture the response time between the web

applications.

Debugged the existing framework of bug handling

functions and made it lucrative.(Once the

application is moved to maintenance)

Aggressive in Sharing hands for Preparing Re-usable

components for Aspire Automation Team

Project Titles 4 Global Electronic Funds transfer (EFT)

Outwards/Inwards payments

Period From November 2006 to May 2008

Client Name Client M/S. CitiBank:

Position Test Lead

Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer

banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup.

Citibank has retail banking operations in more than

Project Description 100 countries and territories around the world. More

than half of its 1,400 offices are in the United

States, mostly in New York City, Chicago, Los

Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, D.C.

and Miami. More recently, Citibank has expanded its

operations in the Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, and

Dallas metropolitan areas.

Configure test environment and create strategy for

script development. Assure

Analyze business and system requirements, manage

development of specifications to create and execute

Responsibilities detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes. Tracking

systems updates.

Organized meetings with developers & system engineers

for providing them an

Enhanced KT w.r.t business knowledge of the

applications.

Conducting regressive testing status meetings, test

cases corrections and weekly defect report meetings

and follow ups.

Understanding application nature and proposing

testing framework with which the team is comfortable

to start initiating test cases.

Review / Modify / Optimize test cases.

Use Clear Quest reporting and tracking bugs and

providing updates on resolved bugs. Preparation of

Testing Check-List and Test Cases according to the

requirements specified in Software Requirement

Specification (SRS) document.

Adaptive/ Corrective Maintenance of the Software

Quality through intensive Black-Box testing.

Analyzing applications and Suggesting Client for

enhancing new features in the

Application which reduce work around time to a

considerable amount.

Provide technical leadership to the other members of

the development team,

participating in code and document reviews, and

coaching other developers on

Technical/business issues as when required.

Bringing the New Testers/Programmers on Board:

Conducting training sessions for new hires to go

through a process of familiarization with the

product, the operating guidelines and parameters.

Taking steps to reduce learning curves will quickly

optimize performance.

Special Software's QC, Clearquest

Skills Testing Mainframe application Systems, hands on

Experience on Banking SWIFT management tools.

Personal Information:

Date OF Birth: 21.10.1983

Marital Status: Married

Skype ID: *************@*******.***

Dated: 02\07\2015

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