Vikram Choudhary Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Johns Creek

Delivered Enterprise level programs following Agile methodology for funding over $ 10 Million and over 10 Agile teams concurrently working on them.Managed multiple projects through full life cycle including design, development, testing, deployment & warranty phases. Collaborated with business, product, delivery and support teams to understand the business needs and aligning it with solution delivery. Built organizations and team’s culture/ mindset consistent with the agile values & principles.Managed programs and collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve coordination & provide scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for initiatives.Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines to successfully deliver within budget and on time.Strong technical understanding & knowledge of environments, Interfaces, multi-tier architecture, Databases and digital channels. Capability to understand customer requirements & prioritize it as MVP before execution.Excellent understanding of cloud-based solutions using SaaS & PaaS.Planned requirements, roadmaps & milestones with the business, customers & product teams to move mission critical applications from on-premises to Google cloud platform.Created KPI’s for measuring team performances and tracking progress of outcome-based delivery.Ability to identify and eliminate waste to improve the process & efficiency.Ability to work in highly dynamic environment with continuously changing business and customer needs.Mentored, coached and trained resources across the teams including Business, Product owners, Scrum masters, developers & testers.Strong presentation, decision making & communications skills at all level of organizations.Experience with Agile and product management tools like Jira, MS project, Version One, Rally & TFSActive member of Agile community and have volunteered in various Agile events.

Alpharetta, Ga

 Facilitates program events, including PI Planning, Retrospectives, Scrum of Scrums Coached and trained multiple agile teams with different sizes, globally distributed, built with multiple ethnicity and working on various products. Drive continuous improvement through the “inspect and adapt” process Facilitates processes and program execution, escalates impediments, manages risk, captures recurring metrics, drives program-level continuous improvement Reviewed team performances against the established KPIs and conducted weekly scrum of scrums with Scrum masters in the group. Worked with the program/portfolio management teams to establish annual road maps for Sprints & PI’s. Created and promoted an environment of servant/ master relations between the scrum masters and the teams.  Reviewed and analyzed Burn down rates and team Velocity and helped scrum masters improve on team velocity & team health. Coached, trained and mentored members across the ART to ensure that agile practices are followed across the ART Coordinated cross ART dependencies

Alpharetta

 Organized and Facilitated feature exploration & release planning for large projects. Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility, ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise. Conducted weekly scrum of scrums with Scrum masters in the group. Reviewed and analyzed Burn down rates and team Velocity and helped scrum masters improve on team velocity & team health. Coached Scrum masters to work on improving team performance and team Velocity. Partnered with Product management teams to understand vision & roadmap. Negotiated definition of “Done” with the product management & Delivery teams. Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings & ceremonies. Conducted Scrum of Scrums and CoP meetings on regular basis  Create White papers, training materials and organized coaching retreats for Scrum masters, team members and executive management Using SAFe & Agile best practices. Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings Established Continuous Integration processes, effectively managed and incorporated changing customer needs during the life cycle of the project.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

 Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks. Worked on planning, estimating, resource allocation and management, risk/issue management, change request management, and financial management. Ensured projects adhere to company’s project management methodologies and standards, including appropriate documentation and controls, e.g. project plan, budget, risk management and change control. Ensured on time delivery, team performance with qualitative results and teams adherence to company standards related to the quality and processes followed within the company. Worked with multiple IT teams/ Portfolios to develop estimates of the work effort required to deliver enhancements and new functionality. Collaborated with the stakeholders to identify, recommend, and implement improvements to the current systems and processes and ensures compliance with existing processes and standards, Established continuous deployment processes, effectively managed and incorporated changing customer needs during the life cycle of the project. Worked with team members to achieve an even higher level of performance, meeting project deadlines and delivering qualitative results.

Alpharetta

 Worked and designed various applications in Customs brokerage domain. Worked on planning, estimating, resource allocation and management,   Guided teams to design and analyze financial reports and Financial Control reports Closely monitored defect filing, defect status, fixation and participated in defect review meetings with project teams & higher management. Created implementation plan with teams for go live and delivery. Analyzed existing business processes in order to make recommendations that seek to improve business systems and processes.

Critical Path provided the software and services behind modern communications. From Messaging solutions, such as highly scalable email, hosted messaging and advanced, multimedia services, to Identity Management solutions, such as directory integration, password management and user provisioning, we provide solutions today's businesses depend on.Lead a team of 8 QA Engineers including 5 performing testing offshore in Chennai, India, reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification, analyzed & documented the System specifications, Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the client specifications, analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes, closely Monitored the bug filling, assignments, bugs status, bug fixation and Email notifications to the developers using the Team Track.

Turbo ListerEBay is one of the leading Auction web site provider on the internet, was involved with three projects in the company, checking the functionality of Sell your Item with extensively testing Pictures and Details page. Turbo Lister is a tool developed by EBay developers’ team which helps sellers to list their items in bulk and then upload it on the eBay site, was involved in end to end testing of this tool including the site support for many international countries.Successfully performed end to End testing manually for Sell Your Item and Turbo Lister, reviewed Business Requirement documents and the technical specifications , testing test cases and test scripts for Functional testing, Field validations of the data entry screens, Performance testing, Multi browser and multi-platform testing. Reporting the Bugs and sending Email notifications to the developers using Clear Quest.

Applications (Agile Buyer, Himalaya):Agile Buyer was a complex B2B 3 Tier web application, Where User as a buyer could import a part list from Oracle Apps and Agile Anywhere, which was imported in to the application in the form of XML packages, after importing in to Agile Buyer he could create RFQ for that part list to the Suppliers selected by him. Suppliers could respond back to the Quotes through web, and then buyer had options to select the supplier on the basis of best price, best time leg and best schedule. After selecting the supplier user could create Contract or Order to the selected supplier .As a Team lead for Quality assurance team, Managed a team of 7 QA engineers, was involved in the functional spec, design of the project in addition to having a leading role in the areas of test planning, scheduling, implementing and reporting, Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes and Monitored Clear Quest / Track to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fix the bugs.

Cash Flow ApplicationThis project was to provide Citi Bank with effective management of the end-to-end collection process for maximum cash flow. Electronic Receivable matching and Accounts Receivable Matching form the core function of process involving matching of received remittances against outstanding entries on the client A/R file.As a Senior quality assurance Analyst involved in writing Test Cases and Testing B2B modules for data checkpoints for server databases affected by each and every communication processes , Worked closely with QA and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down the bugs, Performed trouble shooting of the problems originating in the production that involves taking a complex scenario that fails in the production and reduce the scenario to a less complex test that demonstrates the same failure.

Team Member – BA and QA for stock trading application with primary responsibilities of creating the test cases and business scenarios, involved in creating test cases, executing test cases and working with developers to resolve the defects found during testing. Was also involved in testing new features of the periodic releases and providing customer support.

Drafting Internal Audit systems.Drafting internal control systems.M.I.S Reporting like Cash Flow, Cash Budget, Sales Analysis, Inventory analysis and monthly Profit/Loss Account.Cost Sheet, Profitability Analysis.

Mba, It Management

Bachelor Of Commerce, Finance & Accounting