Technical Project Program Manager

• May 2020 - Present

• As Program Manager of application delivery I am responsible for managing the Program consisting of 7 agile project teams distributed across multiple locations.• I collaborate with cross-functional multilocation teams to define and schedule work to develop key features of Insurance Product.• Create and execute project plan and communicate with internal teams and stakeholders across the organization, ensuring clarity and visibility of project decisions, expectations, milestones, and deliverables.• Oversee project deliverables, ensuring deliverables are compliant with customer requirement.• Create project status reports and communicate to key business and IT stakeholders• Identify & mitigate risks and manage issues with a clear grasp of the challenges/options until resolved.• Evolve platform maturity in automation, operations, stability, and support.• Create and manage project budgets and onboard resources.• Mentor other Project Managers for best practices and certifications. Show less

Project Manager for Hudson Insurance

• Nov 2015 - May 2020

Roles and Responsibilities• As Program manager was responsible of managing 3 agile project teams distributed across multiple locations.• Partnered with the Product Management team to define Product backlog and execute that backlog.• Evolved platform maturity in automation, operations, stability, and support.• Defined low to medium risk project plans and align it to project deliverables• Identified, evaluated, prevented and mitigated risk to a project so that it had least impact on desired outcome.• Assisted the Product Owner in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burn-down tracking, and other Scrum Ceremonies• Analysed, designed and executed SQL scripts, make Guidewire configuration (Underwriter management studio) changes, and create java scripts to fix production issues.• Developed data migration strategies to move data & documents from shared drive to Microsoft Azure. • Performed release scope planning and validating that the release documentation aligns with the intended scope (release notes). Show less

Test Lead for HomeDepot

• May 2014 - Nov 2015

Roles and Responsibilities• Manage Day to day activities of manual and Automation QA team members, coordinate offshore activities, understand test processes and implement it.• Analyse user requirement documents (URD), business requirement documents (BRD) and come up with high level scenarios which help in estimation of effort.• Update master test plan template and take approval from all stakeholders.• Creating test strategy document which contains business flows and presenting it to project team.• Execute test cases and log defects daily. Discuss defects in daily defect calls with project team and assign it to appropriate team member.• Preparing Status reports (Daily, weekly, and monthly) for project and attend Monthly status calls with Client management.• Create final test status report and prepare for Implementation review Board (IRB) meeting.• Provide input on technical staff hiring decision. Show less

Test Lead for Allstate Insurance

• Apr 2010 - Apr 2014

#Projects•Lead Automation and Manual testing efforts for Encompass- Interlink Policy Administration system.#Roles and Responsibilities•Analyse and estimate new project/module and identify resources for new project based on their skill set. •Manage Day to day activities of QA team members, Coordinate offshore activities, Understand test processes and implement it.•Assign tasks to offshore team members after coordinating with client manager as well as keeping track of overall resource capacity.•Attend weekly project status calls in all phases from Analysis to release.•Analyse customer requirement documents, Rate and Rule Manuals, Forms Metrics, Dec requirements and Point of Sale requirements.•Design, execute test plan and analyse to ensure that business requirements and all End to End scenarios are tested.•Execution of test scripts and signoff after production deployment. •Identify test cases for regression testing and help regression team to incorporate them in QTP scripts so that it can be executed for all modules before final release signoff.•Monthly tracking of Software Quality metrics like Defect containment, Test coverage, Quality of testing and testing effectiveness for entire team.•Prepare status reports (Weekly and monthly) of team and attend weekly calls with Client management.•Provide assessment questions and maintain Certification tool which is a KM(Knowledge management) tool for the team. Show less

V & V Engineer and C++/Unix developer

• Jul 2006 - Apr 2010