Pranav Kumar Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

- Carrying out execution & delivery of complex core banking systems technically aligned with Salesforce based on nCino banking platform.- Working with cross functional teams to deliver high quality technical products in alignment with customer requirements.- Leading status updates for steering committees and stakeholder communication employing cross functional partnership.- Facilitating robust and comprehensive documentation of technical specifications.- Achieving 99% of milestones on time and contributing to strategy creation for ongoing and future projects.

Redmond, Washington, United States

- Deep dived into problem solving and technical communication in collaboration with cross functional teams to drive successful products & services in 5G.- Resolved technical, business, operational and legal/compliance queries surrounding the buildout of the 5G core.- Partnered with cross functional teams, program managers, architects, legal and vendor program managers to create 5G offerings.- Prepared all project specific documents pertaining to requirements, risks, issues, project schedule, and meeting agendas/notes.- Escalated and managed issues in partnership with cross functional teams for prompt resolution and on time delivery.- Estimated resource needs according to project schedules and expected throughput.

- Gathered asset management client use cases and proposed potential solution as part of business development exercise. - Performed product-market fit analysis and competitor analysis by preparing and conducting customer interviews, contextual inquiries, focus groups and design workshop to understand customer needs. - Mapped end to end customer journey for banks to identify user pain points and developed system requirements for engineering team.

Greater Boston Area

Major Project(s):State of Massachusetts' Department of Revenue Child Support Enforcement Division. Roles and Responsibilities: - Manage Team Leads, Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers across continents. - Worked with other Team Leaders to oversee day-to-day operations on projects, set group goals, milestones and objectives and clearly communicated targets to field promotion teams and offshore teams.- Lead company meetings and client presentations to outline goals and expectations to Team Leads and Engineers. - Identified roadblocks to team success, prioritized projects and assigned resources in a fast paced, constantly changing business and tech climate. - Built a high performance team through daily coaching and feedback in a fair and respectful manner. Developed a formal and informal training and development plans to build capabilities by giving team members the chance to grow and learn

Greater Boston Area

Major Project(s):State of Massachusetts' Department of Revenue Child Support Enforcement Division.Roles and Responsibilities: - Served as a link between Accenture's technology teams and business managers.- Managed a team of Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers and worked with other Team Leaders to set group goals, milestones and objectives and clearly communicated targets to the field promotion teams. - Built strong working relationships with Business Analysts at Accenture and worked directly with clients on expected goals and standards. - Developed and implement team standards of performance to build a culture of accountability in all areas including deadlines, reports, time sheets.

Sacramento, California/Boston, Massachusetts

Major Project(s):- The California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System (CalHEERS) is an automated system that serves as the consolidated system support for eligibility, enrollment, and retention for the California Health Benefit Exchange (also known as Covered California).Roles and Responsibilities:- Served as the major point of contact and Functional Head for the CalHEERS project.- Conducted and maintained test collateral including test plans, scripts and defect reports when executing GUI, regression, functional and system integration testing. - Represented the Quality Assurance team during technical meetings, collaborated on root-cause analysis and problem diagnosis.- Served as the primary lead in manual penetration testing for projects. - Liaisioned with on/offshore development teams, provided expert feedback on systematic improvements and reviewed acceptance criteria and developed formal test plans/scenarios. - Reduced the web test cycle duration by creating an automation framework using Selenium web-driver and QTP (Quality Test Professional).- Completed 50% of testing processes in the first release and established credibility with stakeholders at multiple levels.- Single-handedly carried out manual testing of applications, mentored staff on manual testing tools and business flow. - Documented and tracked defects/bugs using ALM during development & testing cycles.- Handled web services between different API's using SOAP UI and XML messaging.Highlights: - Saved millions of dollars in corporate costs by discovering several high-priority defects and re-defining security mechanisms for the client’s web application feature.

Bengaluru, India/Sacramento, California

Promoted as the Software Engineer within one year of employment at Accenture. Major Project(s):- (CalPERS) The California Public Employees' Retirement System is an agency in the California executive branch that "manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.6 million California public employees, retirees, and their families".- The California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System (CalHEERS) is an automated system that serves as the consolidated system support for eligibility, enrollment, and retention for the California Health Benefit Exchange (also known as Covered California).Roles and Responsibilities: - Collaborated with product owners and engineers to analyze, debug and resolve design issues for United States' largest public pension fund systems, The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). - Developed and directed software system validation and testing methods.- Delegated roles and responsibilities to engineers working on the project. - Analyzed data to effectively coordinate the installation of new systems or the modification of existing systems.- Determined operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. - Improved operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.- Performed major penetration testings on system application that identified and fixed potential security breaches. Awards: - Received the prestigious ACE Excellence Award 2012 by Accenture as part of the Technology Quality Assurance Team that worked on United States' largest public pension fund (CalPERS). - Received multiple "Star of the Month" award by the company.

Bengaluru Area, India

Major Project(s): Collaborated with product owners and engineers to analyze, debug and resolve design issues for United States' largest public pension fund systems, The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). Roles and Responsibilities: - Generated detailed test plans and cases for functionality- Served as a module lead for testing an employee benefit feature in The California Public Employees Retirement System- Reviewed requirements for executing & establishing functions associated under Compliance 508 (American Disability Act) using JAWS- Created a tracking log of defects that needed immediate resolution and retest- Worked on automating software test case design while re-evaluating test strategy and carried out test documentation delivery- Provided regular updates on milestones to business stakeholders- Leveraged quality control in order to monitor and report system errors and inefficiencies.Awards:Received multiple "Star of the Month" award by the company.

Engineering Management, Engineering

Awarded the Albert H. Rubenstein Memorial Fund Scholarship Concentration: Product Management Courses (Electives): Operations Excellence.

Computer Programming

Successfully completed a semester-long course in Python at Harvard University's Extension School.

Master'S In Computer Applications, Computer Science

Among the top 25% of students who received academic distinction in five out of six semesters at Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Bachelor'S In Information Technology, Computer Science

Completed a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (IT) at one of India's most academically rigorous universities.