Poorva J. Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Spearheaded the AA Payroll ratification for TWU/IAM workgroups of 30,000 employees; and effectively converted workgroups to a new pay methodology and frequency, meeting evolving timelines.• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective meetings and managed project execution in Rally reducing product delivery time by 15%.• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis to allow the team to deliver… Show more • Spearheaded the AA Payroll ratification for TWU/IAM workgroups of 30,000 employees; and effectively converted workgroups to a new pay methodology and frequency, meeting evolving timelines.• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective meetings and managed project execution in Rally reducing product delivery time by 15%.• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased business satisfaction and team performance.• Met development and product timeline, collaborating with the key stakeholders and team leads by successfully prioritizing requirements and schedule for team resources. • Communicated the progress to senior management and stakeholders with 'Burndown Charts', and presenting the sprint summary at the end of each iteration.• Keeping in compliance with the change control process, tracked and maintained change requests, coordinated approvals and communicated the changes to the impacted teams.• Worked with SMEs to develop FRDs for the new SAP Payroll system used across the organization.• Utilized SAP test payroll system to capture screen prints for UAT test validations.• Involved in developing a Microsoft Azure cloud application to provide efficient accessibility to employee payroll data.• Monitor project budgets, schedules and performance against KPI’s.• Performed test data validations using VLOOKUP’s in Excel to verify pay calculations.• Analyzed existing system work-flows to identify and implement operational improvements.• Documented Disaster Recovery procedures for existing and new applications.• Managed cross-functional team and stakeholder communication, and led the product development from inception to implementation. Show less

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Enhanced business processes throughout the project life cycle, by implementing Enterprise-wise system solutions.• Simplified two payroll systems, SHARP and Cyborg, into one unified process to align with the conversion to a new SAP based payroll system. • Used Rally to manage project schedule by conducting requirement sessions, identifying business needs, creating and maintaining user stories.• Successfully scheduled and managed daily project status for 6 cross-functional teams… Show more • Enhanced business processes throughout the project life cycle, by implementing Enterprise-wise system solutions.• Simplified two payroll systems, SHARP and Cyborg, into one unified process to align with the conversion to a new SAP based payroll system. • Used Rally to manage project schedule by conducting requirement sessions, identifying business needs, creating and maintaining user stories.• Successfully scheduled and managed daily project status for 6 cross-functional teams using MS Project.• Developed a SharePoint portal to log action items and track defects/issues.• Created Business Flow Diagram using MS Visio for process modeling and data mapping.• Developed process flows for as-is and to-be state of the legacy systems to facilitate data migration and alignment. Show less

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Utilized Sabre reservation systems (SaaS) to test existing process and document changes in the new process as per the business requirements.• Facilitated JAD sessions with SMEs, Product owner, and Development managers to understand the business process, gather Business Requirements and identify enhancements for the application.• Created User stories, re-factored Epics to smaller User Stories and maintain the prioritized Sprint backlogs using Jira tool.• Designed prototypes and… Show more • Utilized Sabre reservation systems (SaaS) to test existing process and document changes in the new process as per the business requirements.• Facilitated JAD sessions with SMEs, Product owner, and Development managers to understand the business process, gather Business Requirements and identify enhancements for the application.• Created User stories, re-factored Epics to smaller User Stories and maintain the prioritized Sprint backlogs using Jira tool.• Designed prototypes and webpage mockups for the admin tool application.• Performed system, unit, acceptance, regression and functional/performance testing using manual testing methods. • Utilized SQL queries on the mainframe servers to retrieve test data.• Used TFS for updating the status of all the Test Cases & Test Scripts executed during test process. Show less

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Master'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology