Project Manager Management

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Brief profile

Seasoned Technology Professional with vast experience on the Agile scrum as well as Waterfall methodology of SDLC and who has worked in both Client-Server and Web-Based application for large financial Institutions.

Proficient in preparing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Use Cases, for water fall and User stories /Tasks/burn down chart for Agile scrum

Extensive experience in using Project Management tools like MPP, Visio, Power Point and Excel

Excellent Experience in JIRA for managing Agile methodology using scrum.

Experienced in managing project dashboards, change requests, issue escalations, resolutions and mitigations.

Strong ability to coordinate and collaborate with personnel across large organizations. Ability to manage and complete task on time to budget without incident

In depth knowledge of all phases of Project Life Cycle (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closure) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and worked on almost all the stages of waterfall model, starting from Project initiation, Estimation, budgeting as PM then Requirement gathering as BA later verification and validation as QA and liaison between business and technology teams.

Hands on experience in investment and custody banking applications.

Rich experience on the application manual testing.

Expert in creating Visio diagrams (Use case diagrams, flow charts, activity diagrams, ER Diagram).

Working as Onsite coordinator and Team lead involved in all requirement gathering, Test Design, Framework Design, framework implementations

Involved in Conducting Testing tool Analysis, Tool strategies and end to end test automation

Expertise in Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Interface Testing, Product Testing, Installation Testing, Compatibility Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black Box, Sanity/Smoke Testing, Database testing, Cross browser Testing and knowledge of Automated Testing.

Expertise in Process Analysis, System Analysis, documentation, Requirement Analysis, Use case analysis and designing test scenario / test strategy/ test case in mapping Traceability Matrix against aggressive deadlines.

Exposed to all stages of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Quality process and Software Testing Life Cycle

(STLC).

Excellent communication skills and takes active participation in knowledge distribution and guidance.

Constantly learning and upgrading skills with the advances in the field and excellent team member. Educational Qualifications

Skills

Bachelor in Engineering – 2006

Business Management Tools MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Excel and Word Agile Management Tool Jira and Quality Center (QC) Software languages Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Java

Database knowledge Oracle, DB2

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Mobile: 630-***-****

E-Mail : akshata.kv @gmail.com

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Projects

This section of document contains the information that is relevant Project, Organization, Client, Technologies worked on and roles & responsibilities.

Organization

Northern Trust Bank (Duration: 09/10/2014 to 1/15/2016) Project Client

Northern Trust Bank Chicago USA

Technologies /

Environment

.NET, PB and Oracle

Type of Role Business Analyst ( QA)/Project Manager. Project Duration Sep 2014- Jan 2016

Project Scope:

Northern Trust is a Chicago based financial institution with focused business in asset management, custody and wealth Management. Investment performance as per GIP standard is achieved using the home grown application called PACE. IRAS PACE application provides comprehensive view of worldwide portfolio performance relative to portfolio manager’s objectives. PACE also provides analytical reporting in standard and custom, summary level overview and detailed formats. A fully customized, interactive dashboard allows viewing the data that is important to clients. Responsibilities & Challenges include:

Involving in requirement analysis, raising Business queries and requirements gap analysis activity.

Involved in plan, estimation and assignment of task to the offshore team.

Involved in tracking the task against the plan and coordinating with offshore team.

Involved in regular interaction with client for changes in the application, status updates and Demo

Involved in reviewing the business scripts.

Responsible for setting up Testing environment for the automation

Responsible in Conducting automation framework POC’s for various applications

Used TFS for managing Test cases and Defect logging

Excellent Leader experienced in building and managing offshore teams.

Involved in implementation of Agile (Scrum), sprint methodologies and quality Assurance Testing Methodologies 2

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Organization

Northern Trust Bank

Project Client

Quite Storm - Oracle Security Enhancement Northern Trust Technologies /

Environment

OAM 11g

Type of Testing/Role BA/Project Manager/Scrum Master Project Duration Dec 2015- Till date

Project Scope:

Northern Trust is performing security enforcement for as many as 35 application with in the organization for valuenerability. These application are external facing application and should adhere to northern security frame work standard,. Project would involve co- ordination among all 35 applications and making sure that security frame work in implemented. This is a high visible critical project with direct reporting into CTO.

Responsibilities & Challenges include:

Preparing list of application and Managers, Tech leads for entire projects.

Understanding the complexity involved and obtaining the estimates from each application

Preparing the user stories and tasks for each team for each sprint in JIRA.

Following up with each team on tasks assigned to them and ensuring and acceptance criteria is attained.

Running the scrum meeting and preparing the daily meeting minutes.

Preparing KPI dash board and presenting to the senior management.

Preparing the burn down chart with funds consumed by each application and alerting management on RED situation.

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Organization

Northern Trust Bank (Duration:11/10/2014 to 12/19/2014) Project Client

Modernisations - Life Cycle Projects Chicago USA Technologies /

Environment

PB and Oracle

Type of Role Project Manager

Project Duration Nov 2014-Dec 2014

Project Scope:

Northern Trust is a Chicago based financial institution with focused business in asset management, custody and wealth Management. Investment performance as per GIP standard is performed using the home grown application called PACE. IRAS PACE application provides comprehensive view of worldwide portfolio performance relative to portfolio manager’s objectives. The project focused on adding new category to the schema, new extract work from Daily valuation and GIO to calculate NAV and also new return calculation type for NAV returns Organization

Northern Trust Bank

Project Client

Northern Trust Bank USA

Organization Northern Trust Bank

Project Client Northern Trust Bank USA

Technologies /

Environment

Java API, Oracle,XML

Type of Testing/Role Project Manager

Project Duration Dec 2015- Till date

Project Scope:

Northern Trust’s financial information tracking for most of its customer accounts is outsourced by few third party vendors like FIS, FiServ, Yodlee etc. And there are several Northern Trust applications as on today, each establish connectivity to these vendor systems on a regular basis individually. Designing a centralized solution for the connectivity to FIS and password management for it, at least the initial phases.

Responsibilities & Challenges include:

Gathered requirement analysis, raised Business queries and requirements gap analysis activity.

Involved in Planning, estimation and assignment of task to the team.

Responsible for reporting the status to the project manager on weekly basis.

Involved in regular interaction with client for changes in the application, status updates and Demo at the end of each sprint.

Used SharePoint for managing task and logging defects Organization

Northern Trust Bank

Project Client

Northern Trust Bank USA

Technologies /

Environment

Oracle 11g

Type of Testing/Role Project Manager

Project Duration Dec 2015- Till date

Project Scope:

Shared Desktop - Allow external clients to share their desktop with internal partners Responsibilities & Challenges include:

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Gathered requirement analysis, raised Business queries and requirements gap analysis activity.

Involved in Planning, estimation and assignment of task to the team.

Responsible for reporting the status to the project manager on weekly basis.

Involved in regular interaction with client for changes in the application, status updates and Demo at the end of each sprint.

Used SharePoint for managing task and logging defects Organization

E K Garments

Project Client

Tommy Hilfiger

Technologies /

Environment

ABAP, Java, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL SQL*Loader, Windows, UNIX, ERWIN, .NET Type of Testing/Role Project Manager

Project Duration May 06/May 07

Project Scope:

E K garments is large apparel business with client base mainly in United states like Tommy Hilfiger, GAP, Levis. E K Garments has primarily privately owned and uses SAP SCM module for automating merchandising activity. SAP SCM/SRM module is setup to automate internal buyers, advance licenses, Performa invoice and shipping details. SAP module also helps seamlessly integrate various stages of product development. Responsibilities & Challenges include:

Has been involved with the feasibility study, requirement, detailed business requirements, architecture, design and development.

Functional designer for many different projects over the period of 1.5 years.

Hands on in Technical and good directions for developers.

In depth analysis of business and detailed documentation of the business scenarios.

Multiple technologies and interface with much different application enterprise wide.

Involved in Unit Testing, Integration and User Acceptance Testing of mappings Organization

E K Garments

Project Client

Tommy Hilfiger

Technologies /

Environment

ABAP, .NET, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL SQL*Loader, Windows, UNIX, ERWIN, JAVA Type of Testing/Role Project Manager

Project Duration May 05/May 06

Project Scope:

E K garments is large apparel business with client base mainly in United states like Tommy Hillfiger, GAP, Levis. E K Garments has primarily privately owned and used SAP SCM module for automating merchandising activity. SAP SCM/SRM module is setup to automate work order generation,manage production units details, vendor management, design management and costing.

Responsibilities & Challenges include:

Has been involved with the feasibility study, requirement, detailed business requirements, architecture, design and development.

Functional designer for many different projects over the period of 1.5 years.

Hands on in Technical and good directions for developers.

In depth analysis of business and detailed documentation of the business scenarios.

Multiple technologies and interface with much different application enterprise wide.

Involved in Unit Testing, Integration and User Acceptance Testing of mappings. 4

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