Prashanth Rao Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area & Bangalore

Greater New York City Area

• As Program Director, was responsible for setting up & managing the PMO Process, Development Process in India and USA.Roles and Responsibilities
• Managed development & testing team in across Geo locations
• Key contributor to defining Quality and Development Process and measures to ascertain adherence to these processes
• Spearheaded implementation & rollout of System Testing Teams, Exploratory Testing Teams
• Involved in development and implementaion of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Estimation, Risk Management plan and Configuration Management Plan
• Closely worked with Product managers, Development & QA Teams, Tech support teams across Geo locations

Bangalore, India

• As QA Manager, responsible for Setting-up & Mnaging the Testing Team, Testing Process & Practice and Support Teams in India and USA.Roles and Responsibilities
• Defined and implemented QA Processes
• Provide tactical and strategic guidance to the team
• Responsible for hiring, people management & individual development, Team Building activities and implemented Appraisals & Retention schemes
• Built in-house a very efficient and effective Automation and Performance Teams in India and USA
• Design and maintain Project Metrics to monitor and report performance and initiate improvements plans.

Bangalore, India

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area, USA

• As a Program Test Lead, involved in:
• Developing and executing project work plan (define scope, schedule, deliverables and priorities).
• Manage Estimation, Project Schedule, Scope, Work allocation and Training needs.
• Develop and execute test strategies and test plans that coordinate activities across multiple work streams and organizations.
• Establish and maintain Enterprise Metrics, Test/ Release Readiness, Scorecard, Summary Reports and other Release Management Documentations
• Managed team of size ranging from 50 to 60 (Onsite/ Offshore model) - includes Delegate and Monitor work allocation, Training needs, Mentoring and Feedback process.

Bloomington, IL, USA

• As a Delivery Project Manager involved in:
• Involved in developing Project Proposals, Estimations, Work Delivery Management and Process Improvements.
• Managed medium size team (with Onsite/ Offsite model – Developers & Testers) - includes Work Delivery Management, Training needs, Mentoring and HR review/ feedback process
• Developing and executing project work plan (define scope, schedule, deliverables and priorities).
• Manage Estimation, Project Schedule, Scope, Work allocation and Training needs.
• Develop and execute test strategies and test plans that coordinate activities across multiple work streams and organizations.

Houston, USA

• As a Release Manager, at Service driven Client’s location involved in
• Design and implementation of Product Release Plan, Test Plan/ Schedule, Test Coverage Matrix, Test Design Specification and Test Cases
• Release control, coordination, and adherence to standards for multiple products and for complete product and system testing.
• Perform and manage software builds and releases to QA and Production
• Establish and implement configuration management program, policies and procedures
• Requirement gathering, client/ vendor communications

Singapore

• As a Team Lead of a Product based company, involved in
• Software Configuration Management using Visual Source Safe and SourceOffSite for Quark Products
• Design and implementation including automation of daily builds of the Quark products
• Localization of the Quark Products
• Design and implementation of Software Test Plans for the Quark Products
• Defect analysis and managing defect reporting process

Bangalore, India

Bangalore, India

• As a Project Lead of a Product based company, involved in
• Design and implementation of installation Scripts and using InstallShield suite of products)
• Configuration and build release management of Guru products, using Visual Source Safe
• Test case design and test environment for testing the Guru products
• Project management and Client communication
• Defect analysis and managing defect reporting process

Bangalore, India

• As a Consultant–Systems, Involved in
• designing, scripting, testing and implementation of MANAS, Management Administrative System
• designing, scripting, testing and implementation of computer based training packages
• software design, deployment and trouble shooting (assisting in resolution of critical systems problems)

Mangalore, India

• As a System Developer, involved in
• designing, scripting, testing and implementation of Environmental Information System (EIS)
• software design, deployment and trouble shooting (assisting in resolution of critical systems problems)

Cspm, Software Project Management

Csm

Pmp, Project Management

Mba, Information Technology

Pgdca, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science