Profile
• Close to 9 years of experience in the IT Industry.
• Close to 4 years of experience in Project Management covering the areas of expertise such as Project Planning and Reporting, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Staff Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Budget Management, Product Development, Managing Clients, Contract Administration, Supervising and Managing project quality.
• Involved in creating and maintaining realistic and achievable project plans.
• Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.
• Determine appropriate revenue recognition, ensure accurate invoicing, and monitor receivables for all projects under my direction.
• Organising and facilitating Project Steering meetings.
• Attending client meetings & guiding them through processes.
• Reviewed and approved all project documentation.
• Experience in Matrix Management.
• Demonstrate commitment to safety throughout a projects lifespan.
• Fully aware of the commercial & contractual aspects of any project.
• Good working knowledge of PM methodologies and tools such as MS Project.
• Managing a diverse team of professionals.
• Resolving/escalating issues in a timely fashion.
• Ability to lead and develop a team.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Close to 5 years of experience in Performance Engineering and Testing and Test Management.
• Also familiar with the contractual terms of a project.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills and strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills
• Consistently recognized for delivering quality deliverables on time while meeting the business requirements and quality standards set by the organization.
Key Skills
Project Management/ Professional/ Personal
Project Planning and Reporting Leadership skills Possessing a responsible attitude, tact, patience, and courtesy.
Motivating Staff Budgetary control Comfortable working on numerous, smaller size pieces of work.
Managing a diverse team Identifying key issues Ability to operate under pressure and deliver to demanding deadlines
Change Management Coaching staff Good team player.
Experience of working with sponsors, stakeholders, and solution providers. Excellent experience in a range of software tools Capable of working under limited supervision
Comprehensive understanding of project management methodologies Full systems development lifecycle experience from requirements gathering through design, testing and deployment. Motivating Project or Program teams to own and complete tasks assigned to them.
Superb customer facing skills. Excellent Presentation Skills Conflict management and prioritization skills.
Academia & Personal Dossier
B.E in Computer Science Engineering from Visweswariah Technological University, India (2006)
Nationality: Indian
Languages Known: English, Hindi
Date of Birth: 23rd December 1983
Experience Summary
Organization/ Duration
1. Hewlett-Packard 9th Nov 2011- Till date
2. Wipro Technologies 27th Dec 2010 – 14th Oct 2011
3. Keane India Pvt. Ltd. (now NTT Data) 16th Jan 2007 – 10th Nov 2010
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
Client: Ford Motor Company, Nationwide, Polycom, GE Healthcare, Bank of America
Duration: November 2011 – Till Date
Role: Project Manager
Responsible for ensuring the safe delivery of all projects and in accordance with the company policy & procedures and adhering to all statutory and regulatory legislation.
• Preparing Project Initiation documentation.
• Producing & maintaining project management plans.
• Writing detailed and summarized project progress reports.
• Tracking activities against the detailed project plans.
• Updating project plans to include agreed changes.
• Producing accurate financial reports including
• Monitoring actual expenditure figures against project budgets.
• Attending client meetings & guiding them through processes.
• Organising and facilitating Project Steering meetings.
• Identifying, costing and processing any contract variations.
• Managed the project team including any subcontractors.
• Ensuring Projects and Programmes are executed using agreed standards & processes.
• Reviewed and approved all project documentation.
• Resolved any problems and issues that arose.
• Preparing status reports for use in communication to stakeholders.
• Ensured staff and sub-contractors timesheets were accurately completed.
• Working closely with Clients/Customers to understand their needs.
• Managing the day-to-day operational aspects of the project.
• Establishing the overall success criteria for a project, including; time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Writing progress reports & presenting them to directors.
• Monitoring all work in accordance with schedules.
• Monitoring and managing all contractors, consultants and third party suppliers within each project
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Client: Shell, U.S
Duration: December 2010 – October 2011
Project: PROM
Role: Test Lead
Project Description: PROM (Prompt Reconciliation of Movements) is a cargo reconciliation system, which is used at Shell manufacturing complexes, crude terminals and distribution sites. The system provides cost savings through timely reconciliation of measurement and loss control information for marine custody transfers.
Besides doing real time cargo reconciliations, PROM allows for calculations of stop gauges so that specific ordered volumes are transferred. It generates the Marine Bill of Lading and goods in transportation document.
Responsibilities
• Responsible to plan, monitor and control the testing activities and tasks.
• Assess the scope of the project based on the requirement
• Gather performance requirements like business critical transactions, goal of the test, Peak concurrent users etc.,
• Analyze the scope of the project
• Study the architectural design of the given system
• Create test plan
• Design the test strategy
• Implement and configure the tools.
• Create Scripts using Load Runner
• Create test data with the given details
• Create Scenario using Controller
Organization: NTT Data
Client: ACUS-Australia, McKesson, Standard and Poor’s, Orange
Duration: Jan 2007 – November 2010
Projects: Agile Business Suite – J2EE and Healthcare, Finance and Telecommunication domain projects
Roles: Performance Engineer and Tester, Test Lead
Tools: Load Runner, QC, NetBeans Profiler
Responsibilities
• Performed Load, Benchmark, Performance and White Box testing of the various applications in the product
• Involved in analysis and fine tuning of code, database, app server, Ant and the network as a whole.
• Involved in obtaining benchmarks of each release of the product
• Identifying and fixing degradations/bottlenecks observed in the source code, the database or the environment as a whole.
• Deployment and building of various applications.
• Prepared the Test Cases & Test Data.
• Used the Netbeans Profiler for code tuning.
• Performance testing was done using project specific tools and Load Runner.
• Protocols Known in Loadrunner
• HTTP/HTML
• Involved in reviews of code, TUCs, STCs, IADs, UTPs, Designs [UMLs, Use Cases, Class and Sequence Diagrams], Design documents.
• Work also required a thorough understanding of the architecture of each of the projects along with their complete functional flows.
• Involved in Analysis of User Requirements with the Development Team.
• Involved in to planning, monitoring and controlling the testing activities and tasks.
• Provide the daily, weekly and monthly status reports to the clients and report the same through a call to the clients every week.
• Has experience in using Quality Center Tool.
• Lead and guide the team through the entire performance cycle.
• Mentor new joiners into the team.
Achievements & Hobbies
• Recognized by HP for successfully managing Customer projects.
• Awarded certificate of appreciation for the contribution towards performance engineering and testing.
• Astronomy, Travelling, Music, Reading fiction novels, Gourmet cooking.
