Preethi Ashok Kumar Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

CLIENT NAME - TIAA (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association)Domain - Insurance (Financial Services - Retirement Plan administration and Annuity Products)Certification - CSM (Certified Scrum Master)Testing Concepts/Agile Concepts/Lean Six SigmaAgile Coach - Trained 100+ associates in Agile concepts and transitioned the team from Waterfall to Agile Methodology

CLIENT NAME - TIAA Insurance – Financial ServicesRetirement plan administration and annuity productsJob Duties:Expertise in System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Risk Based Testing, Browser compatibility testing, Shift Left -Web services testing for service-oriented architectures (SOA) using Agile/Waterfall methodologyProduct Testing – OMNI, SiebelExpertise in Agile ScrumAgile Trainer - Conduct training sessions and mentor the team members in Agile concepts. Trained 100+ associates.Mentored the 60 member team to transition the projects from Waterfall to Agile MethodologyRisk Analysis and Management – Forecast critical risk and update Business team. Prepare contingent and mitigation plan.PMO – Revenue Cycle Management, Customer Profit (CP%) improvement analysis, Utilization impact analysis.Trained Six Sigma – Green Belt and Implemented Lean Six Sigma in project.Analyze, design, develop, and otherwise deliver customized systems applications for assigned projects.Understand the business process/requirementsInvolve in technical grooming sessionAnalysis of Product Backlog and Sprint BacklogAnalysis and prioritization of User StoriesTask creation for each User story and track effort spentAnalysis and reporting of Burndown chartsConduct Sprint and Release retrospectionEstimation, planning, design and execution, defect management and reporting, status reporting of project with specific focus on automation and optimization.Involved in the business process flows and identifies the areas of optimization. Develop tools & process to minimize the efforts and bring cost reduction / early time to market solutions to the deliverables.Expertise in QC/ALM for 9+ yearsExpertise in RTC (Rational Team Concert) tool for Agile projects - track work items, source control, reporting across the software life cycle

CLIENT NAME - Verizon (Telecommunication)Analyse , design and develop and otherwise deliver customized systems applications for assigned projectsCreate TINs and process online requestsCLIENT NAME - France Telecom (Networking)Analyze, design, develop, and otherwise deliver customized systems applications for assigned projects.Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS, RIP), MPLS, Multicast, POS, Ethernet, OIR, Network Management.Configure and certify products Juniper T640 in JunOS 9.0, Juniper MX 960, Juniper T1600, CISCO IOS XR-CRS, CISCO IOS (12.0.33(s)), Huawei, Alcatel 7750.Upgradation of different OS version on devices and execution of test cases on all versions.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General, Masters Degree

Master of Business Administration (MBA)