Sr. Project Manager
eDev Technologies
Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months
Responsible to lead, evaluate and manage project managers and entire offshore staff.
• Managing, monitoring and controlling multiple projects simultaneously and executing multiple projects (via
Agile & Conventional project plan) in collaboration with the team members to meet changing needs and
requirements.
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and
reviews, preparing and completing action plans, implementing production, productivity, quality, and
customer-service standards.
• Resolving problems, identifying trends, determining system improvements.
• Coordinate cross-project activities.
• Develop and control deadlines and activities.
• Apply change, risk and resource management.
• Prepare reports for program directors and executives.
• Helping the QA group to set specific goals in-line with the company goals.
• Accomplishes human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling,
coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions.
• Enforcing policies and procedures.
Managing multiple projects in a very fast pace work environment in diversified technologies of PHP, iOS,
Android, HTML5 and Unity framework.
• Involved in all phases of the project life cycle starting from Sales pitch to UAT and Support & Maintenance.
• Continuously engaging all the clients in requirement gathering, scope freezing, prototyping, development
and post development support period.
• Prepare project plan, execute, monitor & control.
• Create WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), task allocation, track and control.
• Successfully delivered various mobile applications, websites and games for our customers in US, Australia
and Europe.
Off shore and on shore client communication.
• Understand customer's business, extract requirements, and propose customized solutions.
• Create project proposals and statements of work.
• Define the scope of work, business requirements and project deliverables Identify work required to
achieve project deliverables.
• Create WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), task allocation, track and control.
• Develop requirements document based on business or use cases by using tools like Balsamiq / Axure to
Mockup various workflows.
• Prepare Project Plan, execute and monitor activities.
• Implemented different software life cycle methodologies in various projects, like Waterfall and Agile
• Managing customer expectations and communicating them to team members and other stakeholders in a
timely manner.
• Manage multiple teams, prioritize and delegate tasks.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
Quality Assurance Team Lead
• Works with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related
projects
• Ensuring delivery against QA defined goals and objectives, i.e. Meeting commitments and coordinating
overall quality assurance schedule
• Providing necessary definition, development and deployment of product quality assurance strategy,
addressing all phases of product development
• Maintains product consistency throughout product cycle, to include the design, define and build phases
through quality checkpoints and testing
• Developing and managing quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams
• Assuring the viability, functionality and effectiveness of essential tools
• Responsible of creating task and checklists for software deployment
• Managing the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet
committed delivery dates
• Responsible and accountable of flagging the timing of interdepartmental deliverables and the quality of
their output
PixSense
Decide approaches, provides estimations for schedules, technical scope & required project resources
• Managing off shore QA teams of China and US
• Training and mentoring the junior resources
• Deployment of builds released at servers
• Test Case writing and review of the other team members
• Test Planning as per scope and available resources
• Test Plan Execution and tracking
• Analyzing end user behavior and suggest ways to PMs to improve the user experience
• Task Assignments for team as per test plan.
• Project status reporting, highlighting the problem faced during testing, unstable features etc
• Bugs Scrubs and prioritization of bugs with PM and PJM.
• Briefing product/project requirements to QA team.
• Review, testing and verification of client bugs during UAT
Perform functional, user acceptance and regression testing on all central system, subsystems, modules
and applications.
• Create, maintain and update test cases, based on business requirements.
• Assist SQA Manager in development of test plan and Test Reports.
• Reporting and managing software issues.
• Understanding of activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Do testing of assigned modules.
• Prepare Test Cases and Submit Bug Reports/Software Change Requests for developers
• Discussion with development team regarding issues found out during testing activity.
• Perform research work related to project or SQA activities
• Documentation as per requirement as asked by Project Manager or SQA Manager
• Perform Black box testing.
• Verify bug tickets as software development team fixes bugs on local testing and production servers
Academic Credentials
• Planning to attempt PMP and ACP certifications in very near future.
Involved in Requirement Analysis phase
• Involved in Documents, Development and Post Development reviews
• Review Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications and give feedback
• Preparation, communication, execution & monitoring of Test Plan & Test cases.
• Preparation & execution of functional, GUI, and database test cases & system scenarios.
• Responsible for defining Application Acceptance Criteria for the product
• Working closely with QA Lead and assisting him in his tasks
• Coordinating with developers for feature implementation and bug fixing.
• Perform Validation and Verification
• Testing of various Mobile platforms including Java S40, Symbian 7, 8, 9, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and
Motorola
• Verification and submission of Mobile builds to 3rd party signing sources like VeriSign and Windows
Mobile2Market
• Training and mentoring other mates in PK, US and China offices
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