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Experienced Project Manager specializing in the mortgage industry, adept at overseeing and delivering successful projects from initiation to completion. Proven track record of driving efficiency, optimizing processes, and ensuring project goals align with organizational objectives. Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and delivering results within budget and timeline constraints.Key Skills:Project Management: Expertise in leading end-to-end project… Show more Experienced Project Manager specializing in the mortgage industry, adept at overseeing and delivering successful projects from initiation to completion. Proven track record of driving efficiency, optimizing processes, and ensuring project goals align with organizational objectives. Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and delivering results within budget and timeline constraints.Key Skills:Project Management: Expertise in leading end-to-end project lifecycles, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closure. Proficient in project scoping, resource allocation, risk management, and quality assurance.Mortgage Industry Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of the mortgage industry landscape, including loan origination, AUS systems, and Pricing Engines. Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including clients, senior executives, team members, and external partners. Skilled at managing expectations, facilitating productive meetings, and building strong relationships.Team Leadership: Experienced in leading and motivating cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives. Ability to foster a collaborative work environment, delegate tasks, provide guidance, and resolve conflicts to ensure high-performance delivery.Risk Mitigation: Proficient in identifying and mitigating project risks and issues through proactive planning and timely action. Skilled at conducting risk assessments, implementing contingency plans, and maintaining project momentum in dynamic environments.Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile project management frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to drive iterative and incremental project delivery. Skilled in using project management tools and software to enhance productivity and collaboration. Show less

Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

India

Managing agile testing teams, collaborating with product managers/architects and other stake holders for creating the product backlog, release planning, iteration planning and closely working with development & documentation teams for successful completion of user stories.Analyzing Business Requirements, User Stories (for Agile) and preparing Test Concept, Estimate Efforts, Test Case Design, Test Traceability Matrix, Reviews, Test Execution and publish Status Reports & Metrics.Managing… Show more Managing agile testing teams, collaborating with product managers/architects and other stake holders for creating the product backlog, release planning, iteration planning and closely working with development & documentation teams for successful completion of user stories.Analyzing Business Requirements, User Stories (for Agile) and preparing Test Concept, Estimate Efforts, Test Case Design, Test Traceability Matrix, Reviews, Test Execution and publish Status Reports & Metrics.Managing testing of complete UI - solutions for the Multi Enterprise Gateway product with a modular, highly available, extreme scale grid-based architecture. Performing UI automation using selenium framework & non-UI automation using SOAP UI tool and API Tester tool.Receiving acceptance for Test Concept, Effort Estimates, Test Cases and Sign-off for Test Execution; Provide UAT Handover document as part of Entry Criteria for Acceptance Tests.Monitoring test activities and its schedules and ensure on-time quality deliverables of associated work products. Implementing Root Cause Analysis for UAT issues and sharing the report.Tracking the progress and publishing dashboards to Manager via RTC and excel worksheets. Responsible for functional and non-functional such as Globalization Verification Test & Accessibility Verification Test, Upgrade, Regression testing & Automation.Providing guidance to the team while setting performance parameters, deadlines & work delegation for them & providing them various accolades to motivate them on regular basis. Show less

Following the agile methodologyParticipating in requirement analysis, sprint planning and estimating requirement for testingPerforming test case writing and review for the requirement.Performed Smoke & Sanity Testing, Functional, Regression, Database.Identifying, analysing defects, errors, and inconsistencies in software program outputs, screen and contentsCreating and finalizing build acceptance criteria, defect severity criteria and build release criteria.Performing a… Show more Following the agile methodologyParticipating in requirement analysis, sprint planning and estimating requirement for testingPerforming test case writing and review for the requirement.Performed Smoke & Sanity Testing, Functional, Regression, Database.Identifying, analysing defects, errors, and inconsistencies in software program outputs, screen and contentsCreating and finalizing build acceptance criteria, defect severity criteria and build release criteria.Performing a test coverage traceability analysis to ensure that all requirements and supporting and reviewing test cases for correctness and comprehensiveness for test engineersWorking with test plans, test results, analysis as well as unresolved problems using tools like JIRA, Bugzilla Remarkable experience in Agile environmentDeveloped tests and ensured its accordance with business specifications.Managed development of test plans according to requirement.API testing for json parsers.Running the Sanity , web service API test cases, performance test cases and funcational test cases from JMeter. Show less

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science, A++

Msc computer science

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

MSC Computer science and Information technology