PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

More than **+ years of overall work experience in Assurance, managing various IT projects and programs in various capacities like Project Manager, Test Manager. Test Lead.

Currently playing the role of Project Test Manager. Played Project Test Manager Role for 12+ years both at offshore/onsite.

I have worked primarily in the domain of Healthcare, Life Science.

Strong knowledge of Software Test Life Cycle and worked in Waterfall and Agile models (scrum, SAFe).

Experience working in large, multi-million projects involving multiple (cross-functional) applications and Offshore/Onsite model.

Project Planning, Managing, coordinating, and executing the project, Tracking and Mitigating the Risks, ensuring causal analysis has been done and corrective action has been implemented for risk identified areas.

Managed Projects efficiently by mentoring, guiding and motivating multiple teams and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

Applied subject matter expertise to identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve engagement productivity, increase efficiencies, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and optimize cost savings and efficiencies for the products.

Developed best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which spanned various internal projects

Excelled in playing middle management & leadership roles in Lead Activities, Customer relationship management, Vendor relationship

Professional Project Management Specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs.

Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure the position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.

SKILLS TOOLS:

Test Management, Project Management

Domain: Life Science, Healthcare

Agile Testing, Scrum Processes

Test Plan Development Expertise

Status Updates, Status Meetings

Project Requirements Analysis

Natural Leadership

System Integration Testing, Release testing

Customer Satisfaction

JIRA,CA Agile Central(Rally), Product studio 2.1

ALM 11.0, Testtrack Pro,

Tableau

CA PPM

TOAD for ORACLE 11.6

STAR TEAM Client 2006 R2

WinRunner 7.0

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe 4 Agilist

ISTQB Foundation level certificate

HP Winrunner 9.2 Product Specialist

PMP E0 and E1 in iEVOLVE

TRAININGS

Project Management Professional (PMP)® - E0 and E1 level

Concur to Conquer –Leadership program

Agile Project Management Essentials

Internal Auditors Training

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering

Kalinga Institute of Technology & Science - Bhubaneswar ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Successfully delivered multiple major integrated and off releases while working as Project Test Manager.

Achieved good Customer Satisfaction by delivering multiple releases with almost ZERO production defects.

Worked as a Release Manager in the team using STAR TEAM Cross platform Client 2005 R2 for delivering the components from FT to VV&T team.

Got the Feathers of Cap award, multiple times On the SPOT, Star of the month award from management and customer.

Supervised team of 30+ staff members.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Status: Permanent Resident (GC)

SURYAKANTA PANDA

Project Manager

Ph: +1-860-***-**** Email: ad44r6@r.postjobfree.com WORK HISTORY

PROJECT MANAGER - 09/2005 to Current

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Raleigh, NC

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here, in chronological order Client Name: Health Care Service Corporation, Richmond, TX (September 2023 – April 2024)

Project: Non-Production Environment Data Deidentification

Role: Project Test Manager

Team Size: 8

Responsibilities

Preparation of Project Test Strategy, High level scenarios and review with stakeholders to get sign off

Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.

Co-ordination with Client, Project sponsors and all stakeholders for all the project related activities, participating in regular meetings with upper management and customer to communicate accomplishments, plans and issues as well as any risks to the project's progress.

Preparing necessary documents to comply with standard process.

Reported regularly to managers on project progress and technical problems. Client Name: Cigna Corporate Services LLC, Raleigh, NC (September 2017 – August 2023)

Project: Core Operations Quality Engineering program

Role: Integration Solution Manager

Team Size: 15

Responsibilities

Preparation of Project Test Strategy, High level scenarios and review with stakeholders to get sign off

Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.

Estimating efforts for the new requirement and Service Requests and understanding of Functional requirements

Co-ordination with Client, Project sponsors and all stakeholders for all the project related activities, participating in regular meetings with upper management and customer to communicate accomplishments, plans and issues as well as any risks to the project's progress.

Preparing necessary documents to comply with standard process.

Administering and maintaining HP ALM/Zephyr including creating projects and users, guiding the team to follow the process

Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.

Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.

Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.

Conducting Risk assessments and CA for production issues Client Name: Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, USA (April 2015 - Jul 2017)

Project: Test Management Office (TMO) program

Role: QA Manager

Team Size: 8

Responsibilities

Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.

Trained new test employees on equipment and company guidelines to promote productive and high-quality work.

Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.

Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage testing of certain products and features. Client Name: Cigna Corporate Services LLC, Bloomfield, CT, USA (April 2014 - Mar 2015)

Project: AccelRX QA

Role: Test Manager

Team Size: 8

Responsibilities

Performed compatibility testing, verifying absence of conflicts.

Defined testing and acceptance strategies and determined quality assurance benchmarks.

Coordinated with on-site staff to verify correct use of test procedures and confirm accurate reporting.

Maintained bug reporting system for logged faults, delegating issues to development personnel for remediation.

Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints. Client Name: Nuance Communications, Massachusetts, USA (January 2008 - March 2014)

Project: Nuance Quantim QA

Role: Test Manager/ Test Lead

Team Size: 28

Responsibilities

Played the role of SME for modules related to Coding, Compliance, CAC (Computer Assisted Coding).

Co-ordination with Client, Project sponsors and all stakeholders for all the project related activities, Participating in regular meetings with upper management to communicate accomplishments, plans and issues as well as any risks to the project’s progress

Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.

Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.

Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules. Client Name: British Telecommunication, UK (October 2005 - January 2008)

Project: British Telecommunication Global Services for CLARITY

Role: Tester/ Test Lead

Team Size: 8

Responsibilities

Evaluated data sets from multiple test implementations to determine and account for standard variance in test results.

Identified bugs and issues within system and applied troubleshooting techniques for mitigation purposes.

Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge.

Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.

Planned and devised cohesive test plans for projects using advanced testing technologies.

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