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AMITAVA
SAMADDER
Senior Project Manager
adis4p@r.postjobfree.com
I.T. Project Manager over 16.0 years of experience in providing Product Solutions and Project Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling till Closing, under Waterfall to Scaled Agile methodology.
Involve in PI Planning, Features Grooming, Program Backlog Refinement, Inspect & Adapt, ART Sync, EPIC Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Product/Project Scope, Schedule, Budget, Quality, Resource, Communication, Risks, Procurement, Estimation, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing & Support of systems running in Mainframe, Java and Distributed Technology.
Played major roles as Product Owner, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Test Manager, Project Lead, SR. COBOL Developer, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Specialist.
8.5 years of working experience for different Clients in USA. Experienced in executing large application development, support and testing projects in Onsite–Offshore model.
10.0 years of Banking & Capital Markets, 2.0 years of Health Care Insurance, 3.5 years of Retail and 1.0 year of Insurance (Life & Annuity) Domain experience.
6.0 years of Project Management experience, 9.0 years of Product Developments & Production Support experience in Mainframe & Open System technology and 7.0 years of Quality Assurance experience under various technologies.
Worked in every phase of SDLC & STLC processes (including Agile, RAD, DevOps, Waterfall, Method One and Continuous Delivery Pipeline) in large enterprise environment.
Proficient in automating the Value Stream journey to improve the performance.
Senior Project Manager, Phoenix, AZ
June 2020 – Till Date
Assess the Business Solutions for Quick Silver Programs.
Analyze the Value Stream journey for Accounts Pod, Transaction Pod, Integrations, Data Feed-Events Pod, Frontend and Backend.
Participate in PI planning discuss, share, and understand value propositions and roadmap for BCA alpha release.
Work with multiple ARTs to understand integration points.
Involve in Features Grooming, Design Review, Daily Standup, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective, Sprint Demo, Inspect and Adapt.
Evaluate and publish Test Strategy, Test Plan, Schedule Release Test Execution, Milestones and Contingencies.
Perform End to End Test Data Management and Environment Management.
Work on Risk mitigation strategies to avoid, eliminate, and reduce difficulties, knowledge gaps, inconsistencies or conflicts that occur unexpectedly.
Effectively track, manage issues, ensuring that they are investigated and resolved within the SLA.
Coordinate different Application Team for Environment setup and establish their Connectivity.
Work closely with the Tech Team and Application Team for the Test Data Setup.
Track project deliverables and Monitor quality assurance measures.
Conduct kick-off meetings, triage call for query, issue, defect resolution, next-step, action, mitigation plan for all stakeholders, Customer, Delivery/Channel area with Business Solution team.
Maintain Learning culture to encourage on best practices, constantly increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation.
Senior Project Manager, Phoenix, AZ
June 2018 – May 2020
Manage the overall Agile Portfolio and coordinate large Value Streams.
Optimizes the flow of the value across the programs.
Facilitates and coordinates major events like Program Increments and is tasked with establishing common duration of iterations.
Integrates the teams PI Objectives into common program level set, serving as a communication tool for other groups.
Understand Value Proposition and support the identification, planning and execution of ARTs.
Provide technical direction for software development team, including task assignments, system architecture design, and oversight of software development.
Tracks impediments on the program tier and if necessary, coordinates their escalation.
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
Assisting on internal/external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Supporting Product Owner on maintaining the product backlog, Scrum Master on sprint backlog.
Contribute to the development of the Software Development Plan and other documentation.
Assist in establishing, implementing, and maintaining the development schedule.
Identify the proper value-added metrics to track and report progress.
Interface directly with Customer stakeholders, Product Owners, and end-users.
Analysis and Assess requirements of Business Services for Loyalty Programs.
Perform Account, Partner, Loyalty Offer, Earn, Rewards Bank, Burn, Fulfillment, Support and Reporting Management for Loyalty Core Programs.
Prepare and Evaluate Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Schedule Functional Test Execution.
Perform End to End Test Data Management and Environment Management.
Coordinating with the Testing Team and Application Team for the Test Data Setup.
Coordinating with the Application Team for the Environment setup and their Connectivity.
Conducting kick-off meetings and query resolutions for Personalization/Customer, Delivery/Channel area with Application and QA team.
Developed best practices and procedures for functional team which spanned various projects.
Developed and maintained project schedules, tracked and forecasted project costs and resource hours, and managed project risks.
Negotiated test requirements and test strategies and served as a liaison with clients/customers and other vendors.
Manage vendor relationships including negotiating and controlling contracts.
Senior Project Manager, Pune, MH
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Define project scope, objectives, staffing, resources, and deliverables.
Develop project plans that identify key issues, risks, approaches and performance metrics.
Plan and schedule project timelines, milestones, and contingencies.
Assemble and coordinate multi-disciplinary project teams.
Manage vendor relationships including negotiating and controlling contracts.
Track project deliverables and Monitor quality assurance measures.
Control project variances through root cause analysis and corrections.
Implement and manage project changes and interventions.
Manage and control project budgets.
Develop and present reports on project progress.
Maintain communication with project stakeholders and manage expectations.
Evaluate projects and assess results.
Involved in technical tool design for automating migration from legacy platforms.
Created tools to reduce manual efforts involved in migration effort.
Creation of technical design documents and preparation of Business documents.
Analysis of existing mainframe application and it’s components like JCLs, Copybooks, COBOL programs and Databases (IMS, DB2) that are going to migrate.
Generation of outputs and results on existing mainframe application for Java and Exstream application for references.
Development of new JCLs and COBOL programs according to Java standards for migration.
Generation of outputs and results for newly developed JCLs and Cobol programs for comparison
Load and unload the Databases and providing test data support to Java team.
Conducted product details kick-off meeting and query resolutions with Java and Extreme team.
Preparation of test data to activate various scenarios.
Managed status, Effort tracking and monthly metrics reporting at the department level including daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
Senior Project Manager, Pune, MH
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Involved in technical tool design for automating migration from legacy platforms.
Created tools to reduce manual efforts involved in migration effort.
Creation of technical design documents and preparation of Business documents.
Analysis of existing mainframe application and it’s components like JCLs, Copybooks, COBOL programs and Databases (IMS, DB2) that are going to migrate.
Generation of outputs and results on existing mainframe application for Java and Exstream application for references.
Development of new JCLs and COBOL programs according to Java standards for migration.
Generation of outputs and results for newly developed JCLs and Cobol programs for comparison
Load and unload the Databases and providing test data support to Java team.
Conducting product details kick-off meeting and query resolutions with Java and Extreme team.
Preparation of test data to activate various scenarios.
Manage status, Effort tracking and monthly metrics reporting at the department level including daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
Technical Project Manager, Pune, MH
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
Handed and worked on Project related issues communicated via Problem/Incident Management.
Consolidate, distribute tasks for Problem /Incident Management related to Merchant Payments.
Conducted Production assurance, Project warranty transition and Project Orientation calls of all Development Projects.
Proactively helping team members in resolving critical issues within SLA.
Published various project related reports (on Management of all SLAs, Controlling Ageing issues, Metrics Driven Maintenance, Change Management, etc.) to Client, Senior Leadership.
Conducted Bi-weekly meetings with Clients CRM for open discussions on support status/issues/concerns/ deliverables.
Developed technical strategy for the project live.
Designed, maintained the system, application programs, performed code and design reviews.
Worked on the Process Improvements on different components.
Submitted and proactively worked on LEAN Ideas.
Worked on demand management and automation of manual processes in system.
Resource allocation and monthly projection.
Managed status, Effort tracking and monthly metrics reporting at the department level including daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
Technical Project Manager/Test Lead, Atlanta, GA
Jan 2012 - Jul 2015
Worked as Technical Project Manager, Test Lead for Merchandising and Supply Chain Management Process.
Define project scope, objectives, staffing, resources and deliverables.
Resource allocation and monthly projection.
Monthly Metrics, Effort tracking, Team status updates, Allocation of tasks to resources, Project Status Reports for Management ensuring the project is on track.
Test Planning Estimation Quality Assurance (QA) effort.
Prepared Project Plan, Scopes and Objectives, Assumptions/Limitations, Schedules.
Design, Review & Execute Test scripts and Test results.
Worked with the Automation team on Regression and Functional Test Scripts.
Worked on the Process Improvements on different components.
Submitted and proactively worked on LEAN Ideas.
Provided Change Request, System & Regression Testing Sign off.
Compiled Test Evaluation Summary, Improving Test Coverage.
Storing all test management activities in Quality Center (QC).
Review the requirement traceability for all test scripts.
Extensively used HP QC and HP ALM Dashboard tab to generate the execution summary graphs and End of SIT test execution summary and defects summary graphs.
Coordinating with offshore team.
Programmer Analyst
Mar 2004 – Dec 2011
Worked as a Project Lead, Business Analyst, Tech Lead, QA Lead, and Mainframe Developer for different US based clients, on various products and applications.
Payment Gateway for Allstate Insurance Company, Chicago, IL
IVR and ACD for Capital Group of Companies, Irvine, CA
Billing, Claims, Service Codes, Capitation, Pay for Performance etc. for Aetna Inc. Hartford, CT
Credit Card Statement for Capital One Financial Corporation, Richmond, VA
Teller Payments and Statement for Bank of America, Dallas, TX
Market Risks for Goldman Sachs & Co. New York, NY
Traveler’s Cheque, Card Authorization for American Express, Chennai, TN
Production Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, WB
August 1999 - May 2003
Computer Programming I - UNIX Architecture, Shell Scripting.
Computer Programming II - C, C++ programming techniques.
Object Oriented Programming - Core concepts of Java programming techniques.
Computer Projects - Databases, their architecture, commands and execution.
Control System - Logic to build and develop to achieve desired functionality.
Quality Control, Assurance & Reliability - Quality Control techniques, industry standards, Audits, Inspections etc.
Optimization & Operation Research - Techniques of optimized method of conducting work to ensure the desired results.
Robotics Technology – Basics of AI at entry level.
Product & System Graphics – Methods for digitally synthesizing, manipulating visual content.
Financial Management & Cost Control – Gain Market responsiveness and drive through performance.
Project Planning & Appraisal – Project planning and its evaluation.
Agile Project Management, IT Project Management, Product Owner, Scrum Master, ITIL, Agile Scrum, Mainframe, Core Java, Agile Development, DevOps, Functional Testing, Quality Assurance Specialist.
PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
SAFe 4.6 Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe 4.6 Agilist (SA), SAFe 4.6 Practitioner (SP)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
PRINCE2 Foundation, PRINCE2 Practitioner
ITIL v3 Foundation
ITIL Intermediate Service Operation, Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Continual Service Improvement, Service Offerings and Agreements/Managing Across the Lifecycle
ITIL Expert Certificate in IT Service Management
Successfully went through the Generic and Mainframe training in Infosys Limited for 3.5 Months (Mar 2004 – June 2004).
CHSSI (Computer Hardware and System Software Interface), UNIX, C.
Mainframe - MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage), JCL (Job Control Language), COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), CICS (Customer Information and Control System) and DB2.
Core Java, Servlets & JSP, Angular JS, PLI, PL/SQL, Oracle, ERM, Sybase, IMS DB, XML, HTML, SQL, Golang, Selenium, Mongo DB, Azure Fundamentals etc.
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