• Project Manager to oversee Operations and Maintenance of Production Systems within the DOS-R Bureau.• Currently leading a team of 5 ranging from developers, business analysts, Security Analyst to make sure Project Schedule and Project Deliverables are on track.• Develop and track all project planning components, including resource tracking, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and project progress status.• Led Sprint Planning sessions to identify Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog items. Also, led working sessions to prioritize the backlog items based on the strategic road map of DOS-R Bureau.• Led Sprint milestone demos and Retrospective meetings with the team and documented lessons learned. Utilized project management tools (MS Project) to identify project deliveries and created reports on project progress and deliverables.• Conducted daily scrum meeting with the team to monitor daily progress and impediments. • Identified risks and mitigation strategies and pro-actively identified risk to delivery schedule and communicated to internal and external stake holders. • Mentored the functional team in creating robust Test cases using Visual Studio Test Suite.• Established Configuration Management Process to ensure successful migration of developed software to Staging and Production.• Successfully led the team to upgrade Oracle database from Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g, Business Object from BO R3 to BO R4 version, and MAT application to latest version. • Implemented Test Driven Development during Business Objects upgrade.• Ensured that internal review and client meetings were effectively facilitated to assess design requirements and decision for software patch release.• Support multiple Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) initiatives, as lead writer for Project Management and Operations and Maintenance sections.

• Transitioned as a full time employee to Deloitte to support Non Citizenship Services (NCS) project.• Continued to execute same responsibilities under new leadership.• Provided training to new team members and supported smooth transition of multiple systems to the new team.• Successfully supported major and minor releases of NCS applications under new leadership.• Leading and coordinating releases of multiple legacy visa applications that support Department of State.• Actively work with Project Manager/Program Manager in planning a project, come up with project schedules for releases based on Agile and Rational Unified processes spanning across all the phases of SDLC.• Responsible for creating and managing the Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and design documents like Software Design Specification (SDS) and Interface Control Documents (ICDs).• Participate in regular discussions and update Government Task Monitors (GTM) on priorities and status of various milestones/gates like Test Readiness Review (TRRs) and Deployment Readiness Review (DRRs) for all the on-going projects.• Responsible for maintaining action items/ meeting minutes from various stakeholders and to track those using action item check list.• Responsible for collecting metrics based on different application releases to arrive at the lessons learned, analyze and to identify the areas of improvement.• Create weekly reports and measurement reports for ongoing projects to discuss the status with project manager and the team members. • Regularly involved in presentations and demos of various visa applications to stakeholders to make sure that the changes are being implemented as per their requirements. Accomplishments.

• Responsible for setting up Enterprise Development Environment (EDE) Sandboxes, EDE2/Integrated Development Environment for multiple applications.• Setup a Unit Test Server to test all the Scripts before releasing them to Quality Assurance (QA), Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) and Production.• Implemented the standard process and templates (Standard Email, Table representation) to coordinate Deployment Sequence of Scripts and also identify all the key information like replication tables, look up tables to ease the replication setup at IV&V as well as at Production Environments• Worked with Consular Systems and Technology (CST)’s ISSO team on preparation and review of contingency plans, security plans, and Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&M) findings.• Responsible for Impact Analysis of different database objects that are in a script prior to releasing them to QA; in support maintained a schema vs. release database objects Matrix.• Led efforts to consolidate mission critical Oracle database scripts of Non-Citizen Services Applications (NCS) for successful deployment to QA, IV&V and Production environments. • Provided Production Support and resolved numerous Post Database Issues.• Played a pivotal role in configuration management (CM) process to enable Database Script release through the CM process with the use of Subversion (SVN) and Rational Clear Case tools.• Created/updated database design, data mapping, and data replication documentation.

• Led and supervised a QA offshore staff of eight members and an onsite team of five members. Imparted business, functional, and technical knowledge to offshore QA Team members. Also, trained the team to create HL7 test data and validate HL7 messages.• Provided leadership throughout the requirements, design, development, and implementation phases of multiple projects.• Led estimating and sizing efforts.• Tracked Automation QA team status/velocity during sprints and addressed impediments team members encountered.• Scrum Master for QA Automation offshore team and participated in scrum of Scrums on-site.• Led team with task estimation, test automation and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution and product quality.

Oversaw and mentored team members in QA testing of corporate and internal applications. Led efforts in identifying resources for system, integration, and migration testing from both In-House and Offshore Testing Team(s).

Managed the design, development, and execution of black-box testing. Created numerous test plans/cases in accordance with the requirements. Documented test plans/use cases using DOORS software by Telelogic.

Provided expert leadership and direction in executing system test strategy to detect bottle necks in the system architecture. Conducted black-box and white-box testing, manual QA testing, functional testing, integration testing, and regression testing for multiple new releases.

Executed quality analysis of clinical research data. Contributed in conducting user acceptance testing of the software tool used for data gathering.

Managed the design, development of the website, unit tested, demoed the system to the stakeholders.