Archana Ravindran IT Project Manager Certified Scrum Master
Irving TX 75063 USA Phone: 814-***-**** E-mail: *********@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile Certified Scrum Master
Authorized to work in the US for any employer.
Professional Summary
Project Manager and Certified Scrum Master with 10 years of professional experience in IT industry, working in various projects in health care, telecommunication and real estate domains.
Currently leading a team of testers and managing a project handling CVS Pharmacies’ Benefits program for various clients of CVS Health.
Possess concrete understanding of Agile processes and demonstrated ability to create and implement IT solutions, manage, and deploy large-scale development projects.
Have experience in defining the vision, strategy and roadmap of the product and getting the internal stakeholders in alignment.
Possess strong expertise in analyzing business processes, eliciting requirements, defining business needs and translating it to Business Requirement Document (BRD).
Proficient in creating use case diagrams, business flow diagrams of complex systems using UML model.
Experience in project planning, reporting & tracking milestones, deliverables, financials, resource allocation and client business relationship management.
Manage solution teams and project budgets, driving increased client satisfaction and revenue.
Proficient in prioritizing product backlog based on business value points, product features and definition of success of the product.
Experience in performing Risk Analysis and Impact Analysis.
Strong experience in working with business user community in business process reengineering, best practice negotiation, business case building, and ROI validation.
Excellent communication, presentation and project management skills.
Good people skills, commitment, result oriented and smart working.
Technical Skills
Business Domains
Healthcare, Telecommunication, Real Estate
Agile Project Management
JIRA
CRM Tool
Salesforce
Data Visualization Tool
Tableau
Website & Content Management
Wix
Modeling & Designing
UML 2.0
Primary Technologies
Java, HTML, XML
Messaging Platform
IBM MQ
Backend
PL/SQL, Oracle 10g
Application Servers
JBoss, BEA WebLogic
Tools
Eclipse IDE, Oracle SQL Developer
Configuration Tools
Rational ClearCase, GitHub
Operating System
Unix, Windows
Work Experience
Quant Systems Inc / CVS Health, Dallas TX USA
Project Manager
November 2022 - Present
CVS Health Pharmacy Services, the pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) and Specialty pharmacy division of CVS health provides full range of PBM services, Medicare Part D services, retail pharmacy network management services, prescription management systems, clinical services and disease management services. CVS will implement Clients on Rx claim platform. As part of implementation, benefits plan designs eligibility load and multiple IT projects are developed and implemented.
Responsibilities:
Experience in CVS health Care Manual testing. Started as tester and currently in the role of test manager for CVS in PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management)
Manage cases for 31 clients across all line of businesses (MEDD, COMMERICAL, EXCHANGE, MEDICAID)
Strong understanding of the plan benefits
Firsthand experience on Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Test planning based on the project schedule and timelines
Firsthand knowledge in RxClaim, EZQuery, NDC Lookup, EZTest
Experience in claim and query testing, PC diagnosis, Root cause analysis and corrective plan measures
Ownership for TCP (Test Check Point) for cases
Responsible for system and regression testing before project going live
Actively participate in client meetings to understand the requirements for new business implementation
Responsible for benefits and clinical testing that involves understanding the requirements, collecting test data from Rx claim and used NDC lookup tool
Introduced best practices for effective case management which helped to efficiently increased the volume of case management and thus improving the client cases from 5 into 30 by showing consistent growth in case handling / management
Single handedly managed one welcome season in CVS Health to validate new plan benefits for CVS clients including end to end formulary testing of health plans and error fixing
Co-ordinate between onshore and offshore for Queue management and case planning
Responsible for capacity planning, metrics projection, resource management vs forecasted work
Involved in resource planning, daily task allocation to Onshore & Offshore team based on client priority request
Document project status reports as required by internal guidelines and work on RCA as per client guidelines and standards on production corrections reported
Provide periodic update on the SFDC (Salesforce) metrics to the client via daily status updates.
Reporting metrics (KPI) - Using Tableau and defect analysis for all the cases that would be moved from the queue
Leading mentoring & providing guidance to team members
Jupiter Real Estate Investments, Dallas TX USA
Project Manager
March 2022 - October 2022
Jupiter Real Estate Investments acquire properties after performing due diligence (with a 1 in 200 acceptance ratio) finding many pre-market deals and working with trusted and competent professionals in our network.
Responsibilities:
Configure and manage AppFolio – a cloud-based real estate property management tool
Setup master data related to real estate properties, investors and workflow management in AppFolio
Design and develop Website using Wix (Reference: https://www.jupitertexas.com/)
Collaborate with the engineering team for development, testing, reviews and deployment of web modules
Coordinate with management on the properties, business operations and investors involved
Collaborate with licensed financial accountant on the backend transactions
Worked on active deals to be acquired in operations with the third parties and collaborated with multiple stake holders for approvals
Collaborate with cross-functional teams for design approval, configuration and setup reviews
Setup and Integration of business in social media platform
Verizon Wireless, Chennai India
Project Manager
Oct 2006 - Sep 2013
Voice portal is a customer facing application. The portal enables us to provide self-service to the customers. Understanding the customer needs, improving customer satisfaction, primary business drive-in factors, interfacing with the different backend systems which provide the store house of information of the customer.
Responsibilities:
Collaborated with cross-functional teams such as business owners and IT stakeholders to prepare Business Requirement Specification document
Analyzed requirements and prepared use cases and FRD documentation pertaining to the requirements
Responsible for project plans, milestones, deliverables, status, financial tracking, resource allocation, reporting, and vendor / business relationship management
Created Object-oriented design using design patterns and UML methodology
Analyzed and improved call flows for better customer experience
Proposed change requests based on calls listening, call flow analysis and deflection metrics
Reviewed technical stack, architecture and frameworks that meets client’s standards and expectations
Conducted self and peer review to improve the quality of the deliverable artifacts
Developed data quality reports and presented to business on regular basis
Prepared and executed test cases for system, integration and regression testing in QA environment
Coordinated with various technical groups for deployment in various environments
Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), sign-off test phase before production release
Successfully implemented and achieved the migration of Verizon business to Frontier Communications
Successfully lead the complete delivery lifecycle for the launch of “FiOS Digital Voice”
Applied SDLC processes to achieve software quality through early testing and well adhered documentation and sign-off practices
Coordinated and managed onshore & offshore development and testing teams for meeting milestones and deliverable quality standards
Analyzed application and system health post-production
Provided strategic directions for application and team to achieve long term goals
Lead, mentored & provided guidance to IT development and QA teams
Torry Harris Business Solutions, Bengaluru India
Software Engineer
Sep 2005 – Aug 2006
The project is about synchronization of messages between a legacy system and a modern system. It required conversion of messages from one format to another.
Responsibilities:
Requirement analysis, preparation of use cases and functional specification document
Prepare application design using UML adhering to the requirements
Interacting with the clients every week for requirements, project status & issues
Implementing message processor module using messaging platform
Following stringent QA processes (set through guidelines and checklist) and handling peer reviews, cross team reviews, SQA reviews
Reviews and signoffs for the project deliverables
Coordinate with development and QA teams for integration & deployment in various environments
Preparing Weekly Status Report (WSR), Monthly Status Report (MSR), Root Cause Analysis Report (RCA)
Industry Based Project Experience
X Semester Project
Role
Software Intern
Title
Project workflow management
Company
Sundaram Infotech Solutions, Chennai
Duration
6 months (Nov ’04 - May ’05)
Environment
ASP.NET
Description
Developed a project management system that deals with the resources involved in building an entire project and that monitors the performance of the resources and estimates the project completion.
VII Semester Project
Role
Software Intern
Title
Network Process Monitoring system
Company
HCL Technologies, CISCO, Chennai
Duration
6 months (Jun ’03 - Nov ’03)
Environment
UNIX, C Language
Description
Developed a centralized process monitoring system that monitors and tracks all the processes running in the system. Remote procedure call and file transfer has also been used.
Achievements
Awarded in 2013 for untiring contribution in a critical project
Awarded “Certificate of Excellence” in recognition and appreciation of extraordinary effort and contributions for “FiOS Digital Voice” in 2010
Awarded “Spot Award” in 2010 for exemplary contribution in Voice Portal project
Awarded “Pat on the back Award” in 2010 for exemplary contribution in Voice Portal project
Awarded “Spot Award” in 2007 for exemplary contribution in Voice Portal project
Academic Qualification
M.Sc. Software Engineering in Coimbatore Institute of Technology (Coimbatore, INDIA) - April 2005