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PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE, EMAIL AVAILABLEhttps://LINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLE Virginia, USAPROGRAM MANAGER/RTE
Highly accomplished program management professional with 20+ years of extensive experience in program/project planning, execution, evaluation, and testing across diverse industries.EXPERIENCENTT Data, Mclean, VA (NIH)(Public Trust) June 2023 June 2024Project Program Mgmt. Specialist Advisor/RTE Led and coordinated a portfolio of software projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and strategic vision. Developed and executed comprehensive project plans, including resource allocation, timelines, and milestones, resulting in on-time and within-budget project deliveries. Conducted risk assessments and implemented mitigation strategies, minimizing project disruptions, and ensuring successful outcomes using RAID categorization and with ROAM framework. Facilitated Program Increment (PI) planning sessions to ensure alignment of teams and stakeholders on objectives and priorities. Facilitated cross-functional collaboration, encouraging effective communication among development, testing, and stakeholder teams during PI planning and throughout the PI. Tracked the progress of the Agile Release Train (ART) and provided status reports to stakeholders. Promoted a culture of continuous improvement within the ART by facilitating retrospectives and implementing improvement actions. Defined program objectives, KPIs, and success criteria, contributing to the Change Management and overall success of the organization's software initiatives. Managed and coordinated change requests, ensuring that changes were documented, approved, and implemented effectively. Facilitated change advisory board (CAB) meetings to review and approve change requests. Developed and maintained change management plans, policies, and procedures. Coordinated the planning, scheduling, and execution of software releases, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Managed release calendars and communicated release schedules to stakeholders. Monitored and reported on project progress, providing regular updates to senior management and stakeholders. Coaching, training, and educating the program on principles and practices of Agile in collaboration with Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches Handled various projects with different technologies, including Java, AWS Salesforce and SailPoint, SQL Server etcCapital One, Mclean, VA (private sector) Mar 2020 Mar 2023APL/RTE Provided the program level support for Cordiant Decom (Fraud AWS Migration) Project. Lead delivery of multiple workflows.
Supported Product Owners in backlog refinement and prioritization to align with PI objectives. Monitored and reported the progress of the Agile Release Train (ART) to stakeholders, highlighting achievements and potential risks. Championed a culture of continuous improvement within the ART by conducting regular retrospectives and implementing actionable insights. Provided coaching and guidance to teams and individuals on Agile principles and best practices. Ensured that the Agile Release Train remained aligned with the organization's strategic goals and objectives. Facilitated change advisory board (CAB) meetings to review and approve change requests. Developed and maintained change management plans, policies, and procedures. Communicated change-related information to stakeholders and provided training as needed. Monitored and reviewed the implementation of changes to ensure they met the desired outcomes and minimized disruption. Introduced process enhancements like TDD, Automation. Created Agile training materials, for example Team Norms, Agile 101, Agile advanced/SAFe training materials for teams, presented at agile conferences at Capital One. Generating various reports for higher management. Jira/Jira Align Support - L2 Support. Managed the Incident Management via Kanban Board.Binary Fountain, VA (private sector) Sep 2018 Feb 2020Sr Program Manager
Lead multiple/large scale projects for end-to-end delivery. Ensure that consistencies are maintained across the development and test teams. Organized and facilitated the collaboration to manage the dependencies and ensure alignment across the onshore and offshore Agile Release Train teams
Managed Manual, E2E and Automation Test. Worked closely with other RTEs, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners to identify opportunities for process improvement and optimize Agile practices across the organization.Accenture, Arlington, VA (Held Census Secret Clearance/Public Trust) (Federal Contractor) Sep 2015 - Sep 2018Sr Test Manager/Scrum Master
Client: Census Bureau Lead multiple projects for end-to-end delivery. Lead a team of 35-40 testers. Managed Sprint Manual, E2E and Automation test teams. Involved in automation using selenium & Java and functional testing. Leading 508 testing Document the standards and procedures for the large QA teams. Defined and implemented the manual test strategy and approach. Implemented automation strategies. Business threads/requirements analysis Conducted the defect triage meeting. Conducted cross work stream training. Involved with Documentation and project artifact management. Proprietary Information Internal use only. Managed the budget & Resources. Implemented quality assurance processes for the CBP Application like separating testing from the SIT environments, access to logs etc.Deloitte, Rosslyn (Held DOD, ACS and State of Delaware Secret Clearance/Public Trust) (Federal Contractor) Jun 2013 - Sep 2015Test Manager Trained other consultants for Sprinter and UFT (New Version of QTP) UAT Manager for Delaware State Project (Microsoft Visual Studio, MTM, TFS) UI Leader for Integrity III FDA Worked on the MHS as Automation Test Lead using Selenium and Java
Proposed a new Automation Framework (Including Sprinter, ALM, UFT, Innovative approach)Verisign, VA (private sector) September 2010 June 2013Test Lead/Agile Manager Domain Registration
Implemented the QA Process, mentored team members, managed offshore teams, and led the automation and requirements team. Involved in QA Tools Analysis (e.g.: Selenium, SOA, QTP etc.)
Involved in test planning and test designing for salesforce applications. Determined the Strategy and LOE for testing. Involved in unit integration system, functional regression performance, and user acceptance testing (how so?) Reported defects in Jira and managed user stories. Environment: Salesforce, Java, Oracle, Jira, Agile, HP ALMFannie Mae via TekSystems, VA(private sector) June 2010 September 2010Senior QA Automation Lead Financial Services
Analyzed Functional Specifications, Application System Requirements and determined strategy and LOE for testing.
Responsible for the Test Planning Created and maintained test cases, test sets, and results in Quality Center for Property Inspections Developed and executed automated test scripts using Mercury Interactive s Quick Test Pro Responsible for Performance testing using Load Runner
Supported the UATPRIOR RELEVANT EXPERIENCESenior QA Automation Lead Financial Services EMC, VASoftware QA/Automation Test Lead -- Fannie Mae, VA
Software QA Test Lead -- Capital One Financial Corporation, VA
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Programmer & QA Engineer Computec, Hyderabad
EDUCATION Master of Science in Information technology (Brandeis University) Bachelor of Technology (Osmania University)CERTIFICATIONS AWS Practitioner Certification
ICAgile Certified Professional Certified Agility Health Facilitator Scrum Master Certification
SAFe Scrum Master 6.0 Certification Certified Safe Release Train Engineer 6.0 (RTE) Expert in Kanban
ISTQB Certified QA Engineer |
