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- 1. Pragya Rathore MCA/CSM/PMP Phone: 9970590169 Email: r.pragya@gmail.com 1535 Sadashiv Peth Pune M.H SCRUM MASTER/Manager-QA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 11.1 years’ experience in Information Technology industries Manual and Automated Testing. Results focused, customer service oriented, well-organized individual with proven results in project management, process design and improvement, team leadership and client support. Strong mentoring skills, capable of leading and motivating individuals to maximize productivity while fostering cohesive teams in a virtual environment. Exceptional communicator focused on building strong relationships with peers and clients. Expertise in Asset Management, Transfer Agency domain, as well as, sound knowledge of Capital Market Domain (Future, Forward, Options), OTC market and Commodity market. Currently placed at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting as a scrum master/project lead with prior experience at SunGard Technology Services as a Team Lead. Additional areas of expertise include: Onsite-Offshore Query Resolution • Project Estimation • Requirements Analysis • Traceability Matrices • Test Design • Test Execution • Defect Reporting • Test Management • V model, waterfall, Agile methodology • Managing 3 teams consisting of 7 team members located in India & US • 3 Months On-site (Kansas City, Missouri, USA) holding B1 Visa QUALIFICATIONS / CORE COMPETENCIES Certifications: Certificate Area PMP Project management ISTQB- Advanced Test Manager Leadership Certified Scrum Master Leadership CSTE Certified Quality Control ISTQB Quality Control AFMC- Association of Mutual Funds in India by NSE. Financial Domain - Mutual Funds Financial Market Beginner Module Financial Domain First Time Manager Leadership Educational Qualification: Degree University Percentage Class M.C.A(2004) Amravati University 70.53 First Class B.C.A Barkatulla University Bhopal 71.11 First Class H.S.C M.P Board 74.33 First Class S.S.C M.P Board 73.33 First Class Previous Company Information: Organization Designation From – To Wolters Kluwer Scrum master/Manager- Testing 19 May 2014 - Present SunGard Technology Services, India Team Lead 05 Feb 2006 - 16 May 2014 SumaSoft Pvt. Ltd QA Engineer 17 May 2005 - 02 Feb 2006 Cognizant Technology Solution Trainee 01 Jan 2004 - 01 OCT 2004
- 2. Skills: Languages Known Core Java, VBScript, C++, Unix, SQL, Basic Shell Scripting Tools Rally, Green Hopper, QTP, Quality Center, SOAP, Win runner, Test Director, Team Track, TNhost3270, SQL Developer, Putty, Visual Studio, MTM, basic C#. Databases Oracle PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Company: Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting CCH Axcess-Tax product 19th May 2014 – Present Tax product to manage tax returns and templates for all installed tax years and return types using ribbon and grid controls. Workflow tools and automatic calculations support federal and all state returns. Comprehensive state programs for all entities, as well as full-featured Depreciation and Depletion capabilities exist for both individual and business returns. An integrated workflow with other CCH Axcess products and a centralized client database produce a streamlined and intuitive tax preparation experience. Methodology Used: Agile Frame work: Scrum Tools used: Rally Role: Scrum Master/Project Lead. Number of Teams: 3 (FND product, Automation framework, Axcess Product) Key Responsibilities: • Adherence to Agile methodology using Scrum and Kanban process. • Direct and Manage project work. • Acquire/Develop/Manage project team including resource projection. • Aide in planning, managing, assessing & controlling scope, time, Cost, Quality, Risk, Resource and Customer Satisfaction. • Follow organization policies, including project management methodologies, risk and quality procedure. • Work within existing company culture/environment and giving suggestions for improvements. • Keep Stakeholder involved throughout project and insure his/her needs are met while planning project/release/sprint. Also create communication and stakeholder management plan. • Monitor, control project and measuring performance by comparing performance baseline. • Determine metrics to be used to measure quality & create plan for continuous process improvement. • Prepare Performance appraisals and compensation calculations. • Control stakeholder engagement & communication. • Focus extensively on risk identification/Qualitative risk assessment and create risk response plan. • Spending time in team building exercise and ensuring high team performance. • Proactively find issues in early stages rather than focus on solving problems. • Ensure change management procedure is followed. • Obtain formal sign off or final acceptance of interim and final product from PO/Customer. • Create forecast using earned value calculation. • Identify work dependencies and monitor schedule by applying schedule compression technique. • Manage resource with work activity utilizing resource optimization techniques. • Lead and facilitate enhancement scrum teams. • Schedule scrum ceremonies. • Capacity calculation and Utilization tracking. • Initiate planning and scoping release/sprint. • Acquire continuous feedback from client/product owner. • Interact with product owner for product backlog. • Plan to get in line with Operational excellence goal. • Approve team Timesheets in Helios and PLM. • Act as an Auditor for teams. • Responsible for Sanity check & signoff for production builds.
- 3. Company: SunGard Technology Services - India AATA (Asset Arena Transfer Agency Product) Feb 2006 – May 2014 Equity Adjustment Enhancement project Mar 2012 – May 2014 Enhancement introduced to automate the equity dividend, long term and short term capital gain adjustments on Mutual Fund accounts when as-of activity is processed that crosses one or multiple dividend periods. Client: Internal Methodology Used: Agile Frame work: Scrum Tool used: Green Hopper (Plan, work, Report tab) Role: Team Lead Key Responsibilities: • Module tests and Automation script execution includes Pre and Post enhancement/change testing. • Write business test case scenarios. • Write Performance evaluations for team. • Lead and facilitate enhancement scrum teams including daily Scrum meeting. • Arrange all Sprint meetings (grooming, planning, and estimating using Scrum poker). • Calculate capacity of each team resource. • Aide in resolution of impediments related to work or team building issues and handle escalation. • Track project progress with burn down chart. • Send task status and other metrics to upper management. • Participate in deciding Sprint velocity and tracking velocity in each sprint. • Receive continuous feedback from project client/product owner. • Interact with product owner for product backlog. • Schedule Sprint review, retrospective meeting and record meeting result for implementation in next sprint. Return of Capital and Undistributed Capital Gain enhancement project Aug 2012 – Dec 2012 Mandatory Cost Basis project change required to apply return of capital and undistributed capital gains corporate actions to cost basis activity for purposes of determining the cost of shares which impacts the gain/loss calculation. All outstanding lots, as of the record date, receive the adjustment to the basis, however, gain/loss for debit activity from the current tax reporting year must be re-calculated. Includes reallocations that are applied, generally in January, for the previous tax year. Calendaring enhancement project Jan 2011 – Mar 2012 Asset Arena Transfer Agency (AATA) uses Fund level processing calendars to designate days of the week a Fund is “open for business”. A share (or unit) NAV price was required for each current and past processing day when the Fund is “open for business”. The price closes out the business day and advances the Fund calendar. Fund Pricing in AATA was enhanced for Products with periodic pricing or delayed daily pricing due to product characteristics or global processing timings. A Fund may be “open” on a calendar day but not be priced for that calendar day. Weekly, monthly, and quarterly priced products, as well as daily products with delayed NAV availability, are now supported in AATA. Cost Basis enhancement project Feb 2010 – Dec 2011 Cost basis is an enhancement to AATA product to meet US government mandated Cost Basis Reporting requirement to expand calculation methodologies as well as shareholder and tax reporting. Role: Team Lead
- 4. Key Responsibilities: • Analyze business requirements to facilitate SDLC process. • Estimate, prepare and execute test plan/scripts. • Functional and backend testing for UNIX jobs/batch cycles. • Execute SQL queries to compare results, DB table fields. • Peer to Peer Reviews, walkthroughs with product development team/BU units. • Update documentation: Domain repository, white papers and processing guides. • Functional presentations and discussion forums with development and QA teams. • Testing web services using Soap tool. Investor* One Web project Feb 2006 – Dec 2009 Investar*ONE system supports Web-based client access to investor information and features multi-currency options for processing global investments. Investar* ONE product was based on Mainframe Cobol and IMS Database with C++ standalone application as frontend. Midrange migration moved the application to Micro Focus Cobol, on UNIX- AIX box using Oracle database. Web Base frontend converted to Nexaweb-Java. Role: Tester Key Responsibilities: • Requirement analysis for product modules & enhancement projects. • Manual tests for frontend & backend Mutual Fund application. • Execute 3270 Mainframe screen commands to compare with web based product tests. • Execute Queries in SQL Developer to compare results with frontend functionality. • Use Putty for backend testing (Execute Unix commands). Company: SumaSoft Key Vision Management System (Sumasoft PVT. Ltd. Pune) KVMS – KFD - Document Based Order Processing work flow management system. This system developed for EDS - Des Moines. EDS has various Clients (publication houses, manufacturers and others) who are selling their products via various agencies (schools, banks and others) by distributing Order Forms and Product Brochures. Involved agency later distributes these forms to End Customers for order placement. Filled Order forms are then collected from end customers and mailed to EDS. At EDS, the order forms are batched and allocated to an operator to capture order information electronically, then, upload to Client System. Client: EDS Role: Tester Key Responsibilities: • Testing & Documenting screen & report related bugs. Reports generated through Jasper Reports and the screens are JSP page with JavaScript as scripting language. Personal Details Date of Birth: 18th Dec 1981 Passport No. : A7764544 Marital Status: Married VISA type: B1