Project Manager It Specialist

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Rohini Nagaraj

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QA Project manager with over 16+ years of experience as o Test consultant and as a Project Manager

o Core Banking Project Manager

o Senior test manager

o Agile testing project manager

o Release Management

o Jenkins, DevOps CI/CD testing

o Cloud based Oracle application testing

Worked in domains like Banking, Retail, Telecom, Media & Entertainment and Mining Industry

Modules worked include

o Flexcube

o Retail Banking

o Payments

o Regulatory Reporting

o Letter of Credit and General ledger

Conducted Testing sessions for knowledge upliftment of client teams (using Ignite tool)

Expertise in Business Requirement Gathering, Gap Analysis and Designing testing Process

Deriving Capabilities, Epics, User stories from the Business requirements

Conducting Proof of Concepts to various applications, Planning, Review, Execution & Defect Triages

Asset creation and Tools worked include JIRA, Confluence, HP-QC, HP-ALM & SharePoint

Requirement Gathering

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cross-Functional Team Management

Gap Analysis

Functional Testing UAT testing Resource

management

Project Manager – Banking

2-Jan-2022 – To Present

Handling Data Anonymization script development team

Responsible for having direct line of communication with internal leadership team and customers to define project plan, sprints, track deliverables and map resources to meet timelines.

Manage requirements / Scope for the migration to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery

Resolve issues/dependencies between Customer, Implementation team and other groups of the Migration Factory

Partners with delivery staff and solutions architects to ensure Quality deliverables as per milestones committed

Provides Program status reporting

Identifies and mitigates risk within the engagement.

Proactively acts to prevent / address project/milestone overruns.

Mentors team members

Works with delivery Leadership and account management to understand the business requirements of the customer.

Oct’15-Jan’22 Various roles as Test lead, Test Manager and Project Manager Previous Role: IGNITE – Test Consultant

working in 2 different projects as PM in Internal project and as Test consultant in Dubai based project: Below are the responsibilities

Test Consultant:

Identifying and prioritizing critical functionalities for testing

Estimate the number of hours and resources required for implementation

Creation of test plan and project delivery plans

Identify resources and train to adopt the tool for testing developed by IBM team

Daily and weekly review and status calls with all stakeholders including clients

Accountable for complete testing project deliverables

Train the team (client team) as and when required to adopt Ignite platform tools and techniques

Using OTFA (Optimized test flow automation) created automation test scripts (Cucumber)

Test management tools – Jira and ALM

Defect management and triage calls

POC or Implementation of tools and techniques client presentation PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Responsibility as Project Manager:

Identified and Managing development team of 6 and 4 testing team members

Prioritize and Plan Releases – major and patch

Ensured minimum 90% on-time deliveries meeting technical specifications.

Driving kick-off, Daily and weekly status meetings with project teams to ensure alignment on project deliverables

Track project against deadlines and discuss and mitigate risks

Provide technical reviews which includes development and testing team

Forecast and tracking actual work effort

Other Roles and Responsibilities: Sep 2005 till Sep 2015 Technical Team Activities performed:

Working with Organisation goals to obtain TMMi certification to the project

Attending Kick-off Meetings with Project Managers and Technical Leads.

Participating in Workshops with Business teams

Working Knowledge HP Quality Centre, Proficiency in Preparing Traceability Matrix (TM), Test Case Design document and Test Reports.

Team Knowledge transfer plan, teamwork allocation and follow up using WBS

Excellent in documentation and training resources. QA Manager:

Responsibility:

Test Requirement Analysis

Preparing test strategy and Test estimation

Manage the testing effort and work end-to end, right from understanding the business requirement to project closure.

Identifying UAT test cases.

Defect Management and Defect Triage calls Organize the status meetings and review/share the

Testing and Defect Status Report (Daily, weekly etc.) with the Client. Test Execution and prepare Test Summary Report. Mentoring and coaching Team for reusable assets Team Management

Awarded twice Employee of the Month during 2014 and 2015 for excellent performance in BMO and DirecTV project

IBM Spark Award for contribution towards BMO Client’s Success

Cash award received for the exceptional contribution for asset creation in DirecTV account ACADEMIA

2010 Executive MBA from IIM Calcutta

2000 Bachelor of Engineering from Bangalore University Other Certifications:

Banking Industry – Silver Badge

PMI Certified PMP Practitioner

Information technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL 4 Foundation) from PeopleCert

“TMMi Professional” from TMMI Foundation - International Software Quality Institute (ISQI USA

Certified IT Specialist – Level 1

IBM Certified Interviewer, IBM Design Thinking Practitioner, and IBM Mentor

Certified Professional of ISTQB – Foundation level, Functional Tester and Managerial Level

STQC Certifications - Certified Software test Manager (CSTM)

Certified Oracle 9i (First level)

Certified Six Sigma White Belt

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