Project Manager Management

DETAILED PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE

Jun ’** – Till Date Deloitte Consulting Boston, MA

Client: Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Department of Workforce Development)

QA Test / Business Lead

Project: Quest Web UI Application

• Lead the testing of the payments/collection module as part of the iterative software development methodology.

• Interacted with the client to understand the business requirement and created use cases for the development team.

• Reported the testing progress to the project manager on a weekly basis.

• Escalated the issues about project requirements and testing gaps to the Project Manager

• Facilitate the client meetings and lead the meetings to completion regarding business requirements and testing status.

• Developed and executed test cases for the payments/collections module.

• Administered the Quality Center 11 for defect tracking purposes on the project.

• Generated various test reports on the QC11 for the purposes of project tracking.

• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.

• Interacted with the other modules of the project to bridge any requirement gaps and to assist in integration testing between the modules.

Jan ’12 – Jun ‘12 Deloitte Consulting Boston, MA

Client: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta/Florida/NYS/Alaska)

Quality Lead / Technology Consultant

Project: 2D Bar Code Pilot

• Unit/Integration Tested the IMS (Inventory Management System) Tool, built in house for the client.

• Defect reporting and advising improvements to the tool.

• Administrator & Trainer for the JIRA (instance on cloud) issue tracking tool, used to track issues on the project.

• Consulted the client for the vaccine supply chain management specific to the 2D Bar code implementation for the selected vaccines.

• Training the sites across the nation on the usage of 2D Bar Codes and how it’s going to make the entire supply chain smoother.

• Configuring and Integrating the Scanners with the EMR or all the sites based upon their operating mode.

• Training the EMR (Electronic Medical Record Applications) vendors on the 2D Bar Codes and how it’s going to change the processes of the vaccine supply chain in the coming years.

Jan ’11 – Dec’11 Deloitte Consulting Boston, MA

Client: Thomson Reuters (Minneapolis, MA)

Quality Test Lead

Project: SPM Solution (Sales Performance Management)

• Business Development and Proposal submission for the various ROP (Requests for Proposals) issued by the clients, specifically in the technology space.

• Worked with Business Users, Sponsors and Development to author test strategy & test plan to ensure quality of the end-to-end solution, including system, performance, regression, UAT and parallel testing, and the scope, approach, timing and sign-off criteria for these efforts

• Re-created the overall system architecture and breakup to conduct the system testing rigorously. Participated and influenced solution design in order to ensure early quality checks and overall testability of solution

• Effectively implemented testing best practices which created efficiencies throughout the software development life cycle. The best practice recommendations included updating templates for the following deliverables: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Report, Test Hierarchy, and Traceability Matrix.

• Conducted weekly team meetings with business users, developers and testers to get updates on the status and raise any issues.

• Maintained clear understanding of Quality goals among stakeholders by conducting walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from BA, Development and QA

• Trained the Quality team at the client location with the various Quality standards set by TR Quality group and other tools/processes including the Quality Center usage.

• Trained the testers on the SPM Solution both at onsite and offshore.

• Initiated requirement reconciliation by analyzing and evaluating application requirements due to the requirements gap, also conducted regular meetings with stake holders to fill all the gaps and maintain the level of quality in the product.

• Communicated overall status of testing and managed risks related to testing

• Generated various reports for the senior management and sponsors for assessing overall quality of the product at various check points of the product life cycle.

Sep’09 – Jan’11 Fidelity Investments Boston, MA

Employer: Infosys Technologies Ltd

QA Test Lead Analyst

Project: Strategic Advisor-QA (For Unified Managed Accounts)

• Administered the role of a QA analyst in the PC batch module of the UMA product by way of running functional test cases & automating them.

• Exhibited domain proficiency in Investment Management/Asset Allocation and counseled the team with various business inputs, as required.

• Pioneered the preparation of test strategies, test plans, status test reports and metrics analysis for QA reporting and status tracking in the agile environment.

• Conducted cost based analysis of the various functional test cases to recognize the need of automating various functionalities via QTP and using BPT (Business Process Testing) Framework in order to reuse business components developed.

• Accomplished successful UAT at every stage of the product development with minimal defects and maximum accuracy.

• Engineered the QA processes to align the testing with the FAM (Fidelity Agile Methodology) model of Software Development

• Contributed the Portfolio Construction knowledge for the End to End QA testing as a QA Engineer/Analyst for the overall UMA product across Fidelity.

• Conducted Database testing, wrote SQL Queries for Data validation and Backend Testing.

• Suggested functionality improvements for the requirement analysis to the BA’s while simultaneously structuring the RTM to align itself to the Business requirements.

Nov’08 – Sep ’09 Fidelity Investments Marlborough, MA

Employer: Infosys Technologies Ltd

QA Lead

Project: CA-QA (For Corporate Actions QA)

• Anchored the role of a QA Lead for a team of 5-10 People based out of India in compliance with the Global Delivery Model (GDM)

• Participated in periodic Risk Analysis meetings with the project manager, developers, Stake Holders, Product Owner and the QA team.

• Exhibited domain proficiency in Defined Benefits/Retirement Plan

• Championed project management activities including the estimation model and represented QA in the SDLC.

• Led the entire QA team in creating test strategies, requirement analysis with the BC (Benefit Consultant) & shadowing the team in Test scenario/case creation.

• Initiated various QA processes within the QA team in line with the CMMi, with concentrated focus on delivering business solutions.

Nov ’06 – Nov ’08 Infosys Technologies Bangalore, India

Client: Fidelity Investments

QA Engineer / Analyst

Project: PPA-QA (For Pension Protection Act)

• Researched the PPA for its implication to the finance industry and the direct impact to the 105 clients to fidelity portfolio.

• Instituted a platform for knowledge management in the team for the pension protection act.

• Standardized and created the Automation suite for one of the sections within the PPA for writing automated test cases.

• Established the first ‘Offshore Model’ as part of the GDM for QA services to the PBG client within fidelity portfolio

• Audited, managed and led the configuration management wing of the Compliance activity.

• Formulated and documented the testing process for the pension protection act to act as a benchmark for other teams to follow suit.

• Successfully created and executed the test scenarios and test cases for the various sections within PPA.

Sep ’05 – Nov ’06 IFFCO Group Exports, Seville Products Sharjah, UAE

Role: Operations (Planning & Logistics) Executive

• Redesigned the operations structure for the Exports of Chocolate & Confectioneries to the middle eastern countries

• Improvised the MIS (Management Information System) Reporting by successfully redesigning the BO to better envisage the market forecast for chocolates.

• Successfully recommended the redesign of the Al Ain Warehouse to optimize the capacity utilization and minimize the immobile stocks.

• Studied the Ergonomics of the Employees at the Juice Factory and proposed the new design of the final assembly work station for minimum worker fatigue and at the same time enhancing productivity.

• Programmed a new process for the Hershey’s contract to better align the delivery cycle for enhanced time to market.

CERTIFICATIONS

Harvard Business School Boston, MA

1) Harvard Management Essentials

2) Harvard Leadership Essentials

3) Stepping Up To Management

4) Leadership Transitions

5) Harvard Micro-Certification Program:

a. Finance Essentials

b. Foundations of Business Communications

c. Managing Time and Priorities

d. Managing Virtual Cross-Cultural Teams

e. The Power of Influence

TRAININGS

Deloitte University Dallas, TX

1) Introduction to IT Project Management

2) Software Test Quality Process & Methodologies

3) Managing and Executing Projects

4) Foundation of Business Case Development

5) Introduction to Six Sigma

6) Effective Business Communication

7) Investment Management Business Architecture

8) Hypothesis Based Consulting & Core Consulting Skills

9) Advanced Financial Modeling

Infosys Learning Center of Excellence Bangalore, India

1) Testing Processes and Methodologies & Test Management

2) CMMi & Configuration Management

3) Automation Testing & Quick Test Professional

4) Mercury Quality Center/Test Director

5) RDBMS

6) Knowledge Management

7) Defect Prevention

8) Business Presentation skills

9) Behavioural courses like Assertiveness skills, Active Listening skills, Interpersonal effectiveness, Interviewing skills and Cross Cultural sensitivity

EXTRA CULRRICULARS

Voluntary Service Active member of the Impact Day team of Deloitte and making difference in families and societies of Massachusetts every year by contributing a day of work to assist/help the deserving in professional and/or personal capacity

Academics Secured First Rank in the College Academics (Final year of Engineering studies) and consecutively exhibited Third rank in the entire University of Mumbai, writing a benchmark in academics.

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