Manager Project

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

PMP and CSM certified Business Project Manager and Sr UAT Test Manager with over 17 years of experience in managing complex software projects/programs in several banking areas like Commercial Banking (LVTS / LYNX and Cross boarder Wire Payments), Core Retail Banking (Online and Mobile banking, Loans, Mortgages and Cards and Loyalty programs), Wealth management (Private banking and Trust business), Investment banking and Insurance-P&C.

Strong experience in SDLC methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and User Acceptance testing Methodology.

Excellent involvement in all phases of project including System Integration Testing (GUI, Functional, Web services (SOA) testing and E2E), UAT, Pilot testing, BAT, PAT/PIV, Release level regression Testing, Warranty support.

Solid experience in cost/resource estimates and revisions, track financials, provide forecasts, preparing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test data management (TDM), Test coverage, Test execution schedule, Resource management, Risk management, Test metrics and status reporting, Audit.

In depth experience in Manual and Automated testing, Mainframes, SAP, ETL, Web, Mobile (iOS, and Android) and GUI based enhancements / Migration projects (DSM).

Extensive experience in HP test management tool ALM and BPT transformation and Defect management tool JIRA.

Strong working experience in ETL/Data warehouse backend testing, BI (Cognos) reports testing and Proficient in writing complex SQL queries (Data bases: SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access)

Sound working knowledge and understanding of AML/KYC regulations and regulatory systems such as FINTRAC and FATCA.

Experience in E2E test co-ordination of in-house /3rd party vendor teams like, Softek, Symcor, Intelead, TSYS, TRIAD, Intria, G&D, AIMIA, Suncor, and AEGON. Strong hands-on experience in POS and ABM testing.

Excellent knowledge in testing data Ingestion, Extraction using Bigdata / Hadoop Ecosystem like Hive, Pig, HDFS, Map Reduce (MRV2 and YARN), Sqoop, Oozie (Hue) and HBase.

Ability to work in a team oriented, collaborative environment, customer oriented, highly versatile, innovative, with excellent interpersonal, problem solving, trouble shooting and communication skills.

Expertise in testing Web Services, XML, RESTful using SoapUI tool and proficient in compliance testing/AODA.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Awarded as ‘Outstanding Contributor’ during Mortgage Systems Migration program for my quality leadership, commitment, and timely delivery.

“Pat on the Back”, and “On the spot” awards received from Business Delivery for outstanding contribution in initiatives/small steps in reducing test effort/cost with best quality.

CREDENTIALS

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), from Scrum Alliance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Project Manager / UAT Manager Sr Nov 2016 – To Date Bank of Montreal

Projects / Applications (Payment Modernization Program/Wealth Management/Investment Banking/Platinum banking and Trust business): Payments Modernization: BESS/EWP Migration Program (LVTS / LYNX and Cross boarder Wire Payments, FX and CLS Payments), BMO Wealth Portal, FIS (Investment Management system), GP/RIS, MECH/NCCS, Customer connect, Bloomberg, Sales force, Executor Assistance Software (EAS) tool, Digital Library, Smartcore Alerts, eStatements and Daily Security Margining (DSM),

Roles & Responsibilities:

Reporting to a Project Delivery Head in Wire Operations group and accountable for planning and execution of Projects and Overall User Acceptance Testing of BESS/EWP Migration Program.

Responsible for needs analysis, project scoping, budgeting, cost and risk analysis and change management.

Developed, managed plan & budget to ensure funds are used appropriately, comply with budget targets.

Performed risk assessment to ensure project risks are identified and mitigated appropriately.

Provided coaching, development, succession, recruitment, resource management, team leadership, input into performance and development plans. Coordinate and manage progress of projects.

Responsible to Identify, monitor and communicate project-related issues, scope changes, budgets variances and contingencies that may arise during the implementation of projects.

Developing UAT roadmap for financial year and work towards achieving goals without compromising quality.

End-to-end UAT accountability for Resource and Cost estimation, Tracking Actuals, UAT Strategy, Planning, defining scope, Developing UAT test cases, Execution of UAT plan, Test data management (TDM), Maintain traceability, Defect management (HP ALM), Defect Prioritization, Daily Triage calls, UAT status reporting, UAT exit approvals and Production/Pilot testing (PAT).

Using HP ALM and JIRA test management tools to develop and maintain UAT test cases, report/triage defects.

Working closely with technology PMs, development Management, Business consultant and/or vendors to schedule and facilitate code release into UAT environments, Defect tracking till closure.

Prepare and present project status to the appropriate level of Governance.

Effectively interacting with business executives for presenting and obtaining approval on project deliverables

Excelled in following the BMO Enterprise UAT Operating Guideline and Process to reduce risk by finding and fixing problems in advance of production.

Developed and maintain in-depth knowledge of end-to-end business processes and project requirements through close partnership with key business stakeholders.

Ensured test artifacts adhere to standards and audit requirements.

Involved in BAU activities and track all live issues reports and co-ordinate/resolve with technology and vendor teams.

Participate in Post Implementation Reviews of previous releases and provide feedback on behalf of the UAT team.

Test Manager – QA and UAT Apr 2014 to Nov 2016 Canadian Imperial Bank

Projects: Several maintenance projects in CPCT applications that process/adjudicate/fulfill end to end credit card applications (like COINS, Mainframe, Intria, TSYS, Capstone, CAM, AS400, DMDS, eCIF, Compass, TRIAD, IVR, Mobile, OLB and Contact manager).

Roles & Responsibilities:

Acted as single point of contact for creation of Risk & Scalability Assessment document, High Level Estimates, Test Strategy, Test plan, Resource Planning, Mitigation planning and Test cases for the enhancement projects, intakes and coordinating all testing activities of project.

Managed large-scale projects with a team of 20 staff consisting of offshore and onshore resources.

Participated in requirement documents review meetings, conducted gap analysis documents, chaired SIT, E2E and UAT QA artifacts internal/External walk-through meetings and ensured necessary approvals are acquired.

Led all QA activities of System Integration testing (SIT), E2E, and UAT phases of projects and Intakes in the group.

Accountable to test high volume data pipelines, ETL transformations, and other data integration workflows across multiple sources while applying best practices regarding data validation including data integrity, data quality, and distributed data processing.

Chaired daily variance/defect meetings to review and prioritize issues and managed all active issues till closure. Ensured proper workarounds are in place for all deferred defects.

Trained QA team with prerequisite QA process, testing technical or business knowledge, developed strong working relationships.

Reported daily/weekly program level QA status and metrics to all stake holders including LOB level CIBC Sr Management/VP/Executives.

Created and secured approvals on SIT/UAT Exit reports prior to implementation for all the projects within the line of business.

Adhered to processes, timely issue notification, escalated risks and issue reviews, contingency plan development, risk resolution, facilitates overall escalation process.

Provided overall support to assigned value streams ensuring prover testing coverage to mitigate risk; manage regression suite and maintain high availability; reusability and frequency of automation execution. Provide overall governance of testing practices to assigned value streams or applications.

Program QA Lead Sep 2006 to Apr 2014 Royal Bank of Canada

Projects/Applications: RBC Sales platform, RBC Online banking, Mobile Banking, OLMS, OLBB, RBIS, ERP applications-Casper, Payments technology enhancements (SWIFT), Direct Investing (DI/DS), Broadridge. Tools / DB: HPQC, Free Plane, SharePoint, QTP, Load Runner, BPT, Oracle, SQL Server, TOAD, TS2, Sharepoint,

Roles & Responsibilities:

Led various projects/ programs like, Sales session migration program, Credit card Limit change Ph1, Ph2, Datacenter Migration, OLMS/OLBB migration (SAP application), RTI, DDA, Payments application enhancements (SWIFT/RTGS), CDIC, Investments projects (Place Trade order, execute and Settlement, SWIFT messages), TFSA/RRSP.

Involved in planning, executing various investment projects (place trace orders, execute in Broadridge, trade settlement transactions, SWIFT settlement messaging (stock settlement, Cash settlement)

Responsible to deliver the testing estimates, test strategy, resource schedule and test schedule, test plan artifacts for multiple projects simultaneously for customer/stakeholder review and approval.

Providing charter level estimates based on SOW, participated in SRS/BRD reviews, identifying the gaps in requirements, organized internal / external reviews of test artifacts like MTP, Test cases, Test exit report.

Review release notes regularly and identify necessary regression test bed for re-execution due to defect fixes and ensure the build is meeting FST entry criteria to start with QA testing.

Accountable for execution of system tests (i.e., GUI, functional, integration, usability (JAWS), E2E, Cross browser/cross platform, Bilingual, Roll-back and regression tests) in SDF and IST environments & responsible to support UAT, OAT and PIV.

Lead defect triage meetings and optimized defect management process. Defect management including tracking as per SLA, prioritizing as per the requirements, reporting and collaboration with developers for problem resolution and verification.

Accountable to implement new test design approach, i.e., BPT test design approach in Retail QA group and transforming the existing traditional test cases into BPTs, Automated regression packages in QTP.

Responsible for generating daily QA status report and QA metrics.

Accountable to develop testing sign off document / test coverage report and obtain approvals from all stake holders (BU, IT development and IT project management, QA management) on Testing performed.

Program automated test scripts and modify existing scripts to support testing activities.

Test Automation Specialist April 2006 to Sep 2006 3M, USA, Vmoksha Technologies

Project:3M Charge Master Online is a Web-based charge master analysis and validation tool that enables hospitals to ensure that their Charge Description Master (CDM) is accurate and current. Testing Tools used in the project as HPQC, Load Runner, Winrunner, TSL

Roles & Responsibilities:

Implemented and executed an automation test framework for functional and nonfunctional testing.

Program automated test scripts and modify existing scripts to support testing activities.

Understanding the functional specifications (FRS) and analyzing performance requirements. Review and provide inputs to performance test plan and developing Test Cases required for performance testing.

Prepare LR Vuser actions on Vugen and prepared and executed scenarios on Controller and prepared analysis report. Good exposure of performance scripting concepts like parameterization, correlation, etc...

Analyze and provide bottlenecks to project management with the help of performance lead.

Initially develop automation scripts for all core scenarios using TSL in WinRunner to perform regression testing.

Business/UAT Analyst Feb 2005 to April 2006 Capital Stream, USA, ANMSoft tech

Project: Finance Center

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in requirements gathering and its documentation and development of related artifact by conducting meetings, brainstorming sessions and/or workshops with various stake holders. Understand user’s requirement and provide tech-functional document (SRS)

Involved in stakeholder management; conducting requirement workshops.

Strong experience and proficiency in creation of Requirement artifacts such as Use Case, Use Case Diagrams, Business Rules, Data Catalog, User Interface Specifications.

Involved in Identifying and documenting all assumptions / dependencies / risks and ensure that these are effectively managed with appropriate mitigation or contingency plans.

Involved in UAT and Business acceptance testing to validate the application against BRD. Involve in production testing and logging defects in Defect tracking system.

Business Analyst April 2003 to Jan 2005 M&M Software

Project: Workflow System – Enhancements and Several intakes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Interacted with subject matter experts, application development, implementation support and production support staff to define functional specifications that meet users’ requirements and are technically appropriate.

Communicated and reviewed business requirements with IT; supporting the creation of functional and technical requirements.

Worked closely with business and IT to prioritizing technical work based on business needs and level of effort.

Developed and executed system test plans to ensure business systems, workflow and processes meet stakeholder requirements.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science and Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad, India

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