Candidates About

Subha Srikumar, PMP, CSM

·         Experienced, efficient and enthusiastic project manager offering a proven record of success, leading traditional and agile based projects starting from initiation through completion successfully implementing software or web development projects in competitive environments and technologies.

·         Plan and manage revenue producing projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.

·         Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

·         Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

·         Exposure to various industries and departments such as healthcare, finance, insurance, re-insurance and manufacturing domains.

·         Waterfall/Agile Scrum/Kanban Project Management

·         Planning                                               

·         Requirements Analysis

·         Process improvement

·         Skilled negotiator

·         Confident decision maker

·         Proficient communicator

·         Collaborative leader

·         Knowledge of design and development

·         Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

·         Cross-functional supervision

·         Team building & mentoring

Cotiviti (formerly Connolly)                                                                                                                                          Sep 2014 – Till date

Senior Analyst / Agile Project Manager

Project Description: Multiple projects that were developed using traditional and agile methodologies- includes projects under the digital organization, process improvement for enterprise data services and application development teams/processes, migration of revenue generating internal applications into pilot enterprise platform, software development for strategic medical chart review product, migration of financial reporting system.

• Lead and coach agile teams as Scrum master to achieve goals and high level of performance.
• Design, implement and manage complex integration and software development projects.
• Lead project communications for internal client management teams. Key communications include regular status meetings, requirements gathering sessions, product design proposals and prototype reviews.
• Management of all agile project team activities including facilitating agile ceremonies as scrum master for release planning, daily stand-ups and project retrospectives.
• Provide business systems analysis services including requirements gathering and analysis, user interface design specifications and integrating business process with technology.
• Evaluate existing processes and make effective recommendations for process improvement.
• Maintain product documentation including requirements, use case and functional specifications.
• Initiate and manage project governance to ensure effective operations.
• Oversee development of project metrics.
• Research to forecast and prepare future agile projects.
• Management of risks, issues, timelines and budgets.
• Develop and manage detailed project plan (incorporating IT milestones; process change deliverables; project dependencies; quality /sign off gateways; cut over points; handover to UAT; project closure).
• Work with client, stakeholders, senior executives, the project team, functional and IT SMEs to ensure that project deliverables are achieved on schedule and within budget with a high level of quality and customer satisfaction.
• Correct deviations from project plans.

Endurance                                                                                                                                                                           Jan 2014 – Aug 2014

QA Lead

Project Description: Insurance and Reinsurance based projects that involved Web Services, UI, Functional, Integration and Report testing. These are Property and Casualty Insurance/Reinsurance/Claim products developed by Accenture Duck Creek that Underwriters and Agents would use for different lines of businesses-General liability, Property and Inland Marine.

• Worked in an Agile Testing Environment starting with creation of QA estimates, Test Data, reviewing User stories and reviewing test cases/scripts for UI and Functional test execution.
• Reviewed Source->target mapping documents to ensure coverage of test data.
• Identified and recommended alternatives in the existing software and potential problems.
• Managed and led defect triage calls with both onshore and offshore teams.
• Prepared metrics and reports and tracked them throughout the project to ensure proper usage of resources and test coverage.
• Managed onshore and offshore resources.
• Mentor Software QA Analysts and promote Quality Assurance best practices.

Telvent DTN                                                                                                                                                                        Sep 2012 – Aug 2013

Lead Analyst                                                                                                                                                                       

Project Description: AgHost system provides Agricultural News, Agricultural Weather and Live Future quotes provided by DTN which will help customer to farm smarter. AgHost Online provides powerful tools to customers to sell their produce.

·         Worked in an Agile Testing Environment.

·         Reviewed User stories and transformed into test cases and test scripts for manual and automated testing for cash bids for different locations and stored them in ALM 11.0.

• Developed test plans, test scenarios and data, test suites for regression testing using reusable actions and functions
• Managed team for GUI and Functionality testing using test scripts.
• Worked on creating a SOAP UI script using WSDL to enter cash bids and see that is reflecting in the site at few areas.
• Developed SQL queries and performed Backend Testing for data verification and validation.
• Participate in review meetings to resolve defect related issues with developers.
• Ensure that all test planning, execution and reporting are completed and complete project coverage is achieved.

Thomson Reuters                                                                                                                                                               Jan 2012 – Jun 2012

Senior QA Lead                                                                                                                  

Project Description: Thomson Reuters Westlaw was created for legal professionals. It is an online legal research system a one stop research repository. This project was an enhancement and maintenance project to test the functionalities for different Westlaw (Gulf Law, CPW – Check Point World, Hong Kong, UK and India) Projects.

·         Directed and executed software testing tasks requiring analysis, planning, and scheduling.

• Participated in requirements and design reviews.
• Decomposed requirements to create effective test plans; Facilitated test plan reviews.
• Managed GUI testing and Cross Browser testing, functional, compatibility and regression testing, sanity testing.
• Executed and maintained manual test cases.
• Performed Regression testing with Automation Scripts.
• Reported test results using Quality Center.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech                                                                                                                                              Aug 2005 – Oct 2007

Project Lead

Project Description:  Performance improvement project to increase the number of events received and processed by the Product that centrally manages jobs, servers and applications on various platforms at different locations to serve the purpose of a system administrator. This requirement was targeted for different functional areas of the same product. The product JP1 is a suite of products for integrated management of system operations, aimed to centrally manage operations of an enterprise system that consists of many different environments. JP1 meets the various operational needs of enterprise systems in a multi-platform environment.

• Reviewed business requirement documents and technical specifications.
• Reviewed the proposed model with the subject matter experts from business, Quality Assurance (QA) and IT departments.
• Core responsibility involved management of team in completing manual testing of the application under test.
• Reviewed manual Test cases in Quality Center and associated with the Test Lab.
• Created Traceability for Business rules from Test Manager Test Inputs to handle Business Rule changes.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Worked with Development team to understand system functionality to improve testing quality.
• Reviewed and managed black box testing including regression, integration and functional testing.
• Involved in testing client/server application.
• Tested scenarios that involve socket communication.
• Involved in testing command APIs developed in C++.
• Involved in using command line interfaces for testing functionality of the product.
• Conducted regular project status meetings related to testing.
• Conducted readiness review meeting and project review meeting.

Iris Soft (For L&T Infotech)                                                                                                                                                             2004 - 2005

QA Lead (Dec ‘04- Aug ‘05)

Emerald Software                                                                                                                                                                             2002 - 2004

Software Developer (Mar ‘02- Dec ‘04)

EDUCATION

Masters - MSc. Information Technology, Alagappa University, India

Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications, IGNOU, India

Bachelor of Science – JBAS Women’s College, Madras University, India

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (from PMI)

Certified Scrum Master (from Scrum Alliance)