Experience

Green Dot Corporation

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Manager

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  United States

• QA Manager

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2023

  Greater Los Angeles Area



Hitachi Vantara

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, IT Services - Development

  • Nov 2011 - Apr 2019

  Portland, Oregon



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager/ Transition Analyst

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2011

  Hyderabad Area, India Project Management: Managing operations involving scoping, design, resource mobilization, execution within cost and time. Ensuring compliance to Organizational guidelines, Quality and effective handling of Change Requests . Monitoring / tracking projects with for budgeted cost, demand forecasts, time over-runs to ensure timely execution of projects. My Contributions as a Program Manger include - Translating business requirements to Functional requirements - Resource… Show more Project Management: Managing operations involving scoping, design, resource mobilization, execution within cost and time. Ensuring compliance to Organizational guidelines, Quality and effective handling of Change Requests . Monitoring / tracking projects with for budgeted cost, demand forecasts, time over-runs to ensure timely execution of projects. My Contributions as a Program Manger include - Translating business requirements to Functional requirements - Resource planning - Track the schedule and budgets - Drive the adoption of VSTF and migration from Product Studio To VSTF - Own and drive the PM community initiatives - Drive Business Triage Calls - Set up Application Review Process with the business stakeholders - Put up a plan to improve the Domain Knowledge in the team - Identify value add features by collaborating with the business team - Identify the internal IT/Support requirement and prepare a functional spec - Ensure that all the organizational compliance are met - Own PMO SharePoint Portal and define the user processes to increase the productivity of team - Conduct project closure meetings and address all the important issues - Collaborate with the external teams for security review of the application As a Transition Analyst, I assisted the PMO to transition a project from Microsoft headquarters to their Offshore. It included a lot of coordination and supervising the plans and on-demand tasks from the PMO apart some defined tasks through the process. My Contributions as a Transition Analyst included - Executed a Communication Framework for the team - Developed and implemented On boarding toolkit and ramp up plan for new hires - Developed a dashboard for the tracking the progress of the transition and execution - Manage the artifacts of the project team and own the SharePoint portal maintenance - Ensure a smooth transition of the project

• QA Lead

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2011

  Hyderabad Area, India My responsibilities in the Testing domain include - Creating test plans and test cases for carrying out tests of the products at various stages. - Preparing various matrices required for analyzing progress of testing and quality of the product. - Maintaining bug reports, triage bugs and reviewing user documentation. - Verifying change requests, defects management, documenting, tracking issues, communicating test plans / test results, unresolved problems and preparing bug… Show more My responsibilities in the Testing domain include - Creating test plans and test cases for carrying out tests of the products at various stages. - Preparing various matrices required for analyzing progress of testing and quality of the product. - Maintaining bug reports, triage bugs and reviewing user documentation. - Verifying change requests, defects management, documenting, tracking issues, communicating test plans / test results, unresolved problems and preparing bug reports. - Conduct post mortem meetings post releases. - Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) & UAT review meetings. - Implementing Code Coverage and Web Service Testing as needed. - Identifying risks and dependencies; develop work around for the risks and dependencies identified - Applying different test methodologies and strategies for testing - Coordinating with the project team and external teams to ensure quality release of the software with the agreed scope and in the agreed timelines.

• Software Developer

  • Aug 2005 - Jun 2006

  My Development Experience includes POC development, Post Production bug fixings and general project development Key Contributions: Developing a POC on LOC counter for C# code Built the first version of Microsoft IT India Dashboard for PSP/TSP projects Owned the responsibility of requirement gathering, designing, coding, testing for the dashboard Implementation of TSP in my work Presented the dashboard to the then CIO of Microsoft Develop SQL scripts for the PA Admin… Show more My Development Experience includes POC development, Post Production bug fixings and general project development Key Contributions: Developing a POC on LOC counter for C# code Built the first version of Microsoft IT India Dashboard for PSP/TSP projects Owned the responsibility of requirement gathering, designing, coding, testing for the dashboard Implementation of TSP in my work Presented the dashboard to the then CIO of Microsoft Develop SQL scripts for the PA Admin tool Coordinated effectively with vendors in delivering the quality output for PA Admin tool