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Bhanu Priya

Leander,Texas

Summary

Professional Project Management Specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Dell Technologies
01.2022 - Current
  • Leading and Managing deliveries to develop and enhance Insights, Remediation & Dell Experience Management products
  • Effective & result oriented collaboration between executive leadership, Product teams and Engineering teams
  • Leading three Engineering teams to drive successful execution and launch
  • Ensure 100% Launch time and RTO for releases
  • Successfully launched on-time Dell Experience Management product with Apex offer
  • Successful in planning and executing of Remediation product as per planned launch timeline
  • Collaborate with Product offer and Marketing teams to align with project implementation schedule
  • Responsible for building Project Plan and schedule for multiple offers and releases
  • Responsible for building product metrics and communicate product status across teams and leaderships
  • Effective cross collaboration across teams involved with launch or release
  • Managing multiple projects simultaneously using organizational and analytical skills by following Agile framework guidelines
  • Identify plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives
  • Develop and implement strategic project plans to meet business objectives
  • Provide detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management
  • Prepare and submit project invoices for review and approval
  • Provide detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines
  • Monitor project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks
  • Schedule and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts
  • Analyze project performance data to identify areas of improvement
  • Manage product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases
  • Lead sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
  • Plan Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity
  • Collaborate with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
  • Coach teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
  • Act as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes
  • Streamline and optimize workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks
  • Implement best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.

Lead Systems Analyst Advisor

Anthem Inc
11.2014 - 01.2022
  • Electronic Premium Analysis System is internal application in Anthem that supports Financial Accounting department Medicaid/Medicare business and designed to perform monthly premium analysis
  • Monthly analysis process identifies discrepancies between Billing record and state payment record for every member for all markets in which Anthem conducts business
  • Facilitates the team’s progress toward team goals
  • Formulating techniques for effective Product Backlog Management
  • Ensuring that the Stakeholder has clarity on arranging the product backlog to yield maximized value
  • Removing project impediments that stand in the way of team productivity and performance
  • Creating transparency in processes and resolving conflicts
  • Leading and guiding the team in successful Scrum adoption, by streamlining processes and ensuring that every member on the team follows the Scrum framework
  • Working within an Agile framework to deliver Product in 2 week sprints, prioritizing development team's work with Scrum or Kanban
  • Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Stand up, Refinements, Reviews and Retrospective)
  • Own, maintain and prioritize product backlog to align with Product Vision and Delivery strategy
  • Proficient in creating, own and maintain Product release roadmap to align with Business needs and timelines
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously using organizational and analytical skills by following Agile framework guidelines
  • Subject Matter Expert to responsible domain areas and consistently improving customer processes
  • Building effective relationships with key stakeholders and Development team
  • Assist leadership to identify and implement best practices and improvements to the product development process
  • Experience training customers/users and conduct Sprint Demos
  • Effectively translate/communicate functional and technical requirements so both IT and Business teams can understand
  • Facilitate UAT (User Acceptance Test) environment review and test case preparations
  • Responsible for UAT through Go-Live/release
  • Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets
  • Expertise translating business requirements in technical writing (Functional and Non-Functional requirements) as User stories, BDD (Gherkin), BRD, FRD, Use case documents and Software Requirements Specifications
  • Elicit requirements from users by utilizing methods like Interviews, Requirement workshops, Joint Application Design (JAD) Best Practices and Participatory Designs, Mockups, Prototyping, Brainstorming, Process Flows, User stories with BDD(Gherkin), Data analysis, Interface analysis, lesson learns as per BABOK
  • Develop and work with UML modeling, Flowcharts, Sequence and Activity Diagrams, BPMN using Microsoft Visio and Office and other Organizational approved tools
  • Enhanced and reconstructed brand new application, which increased efficiency for premium reconciliation business end-users by 85%
  • Created new File store system for EDI and Proprietary file using Mongo which saved by 65% of time takes to load all Incoming state Payment files to Anthem
  • Assisting migrating application to AWS by 2022
  • Work with Architects and design leads to effectively trace requirements by ensuring design standards are met
  • Conduct technical debt/innovation reviews with team to include in backlog and periodically provide improved solutions to customers.

Senior Business Analyst

Solution4 Software
01.2012 - 02.2014
  • SENRO is client & Business management system and most popular software being developed by Solution4
  • Software is web-based & also had offline version which is used for Home Loans, Superannuation, Credit Cards, Personal Loans, and General Insurance sales
  • Software contains CRM, Office Manager, POS system, Business builder & Electronics Application Lodgment etc
  • Gathered requirements from client & prepared project proposal with estimates, both functional and technical (with help of technical lead) and get approval on project from client
  • Organize facilitation and led requirements elicitation workshops groups
  • Utilized Iterative SDLC methodology to deliver solutions to customers
  • Assist with negotiation of priorities and resolution of conflicts among project stakeholders
  • Create Business Use cases and context diagrams and created of 'future state' business processes
  • Created business requirement document using Requirements software packages (Req Pro)
  • Designed and implemented SQL queries using joins, unions, outer joins, group by and aggregate functions to extract data from different databases (SQL Server) for timely reporting and Validation
  • Created data files and XML mapping
  • Involved in writing SQL queries and stored procedures using Query Analyzer and matched results retrieved from batch log files
  • Created Use case, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and collaboration diagram's using Visio
  • Experience with structured analysis and design methodologies and processes
  • Involved in GUI testing & Functional testing
  • Responsible for gathering and managing Change Requests received from client
  • Document Impact Analysis (Where and how will this Change Request impact system) with developers
  • Performed system testing and production environment testing
  • Coordinating with Client regarding requirements and timelines for releases to client
  • Initiated meetings with Client and create Minutes of Meeting (MOM) for same
  • Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies
  • Verified release items, Functional testing and Acceptance testing
  • Involved in bug tracking & reporting
  • Actively Participating in Team meetings and Review meetings.

Business Analyst

Saras India Systems
02.2010 - 08.2011

SARAS India Systems is global technology services company delivering technology-driven business solutions that meet strategic objectives of clients

SARAS provides unmatched business value to customers through combination of business analysis process excellence and unmatched service delivery to maximize their returns on IT investments

  • Developed and delivered SharePoint application designed to support Ecommerce business to store their employee information and metrics
  • Requirement gathering and technical analysis
  • Support FULL SDLC and Waterfall methodology
  • Identified and validated business rules and data elements
  • Developed stakeholder list and created stakeholder assessment matrix to prioritize them
  • Performed UAT of requirements
  • Testing for checking data flow of application using SQL
  • By ensure right requirements technique helped build the requirements repository in less time and which helped reduced project timeline to about 32%.
  • Developed and maintained requirements work plan and assessed performance metrics of team members
  • Modeled 'as-is' process flow and 'to-be' process flow and analyzed gap and developed action steps to fill gaps
  • Conducted Risk analysis and developed mitigation plans
  • Conducted Impact analysis when there is any change in requirements and updated Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS)
  • By ensuring consistent and continues feedback channel with the customers, defects leaked to UAT & Production were way less than in QA cycle
  • Developed User Interface (UI) prototypes to capture and validate requirements and spike solutions to current problem
  • Designed Functional Specifications for target physical database
  • Wrote various SQL queries and statements for data validation in Oracle database
  • Analyze different data cross-walks, complicated logic & look ups required by different fields for source to target transformations
  • Participated in developing test plan, test scripts, and test scenarios and designed user documentation
  • Worked with legacy team in developing BRD for multiple system change requests and participated in system testing
  • Used Microsoft SharePoint as version tracking tool for managing requirements documentation
  • Create monthly/weekly status reports to update project schedules & deliverable plan
  • Examine system design deliverables & validating it against Request for Proposal (RFP).

Business Analyst

Prithvi Information Solutions Ltd
06.2007 - 09.2009
  • PRITHVI is Information Technology (IT) Consulting and Solutions Company that is focused on providing state-of-art technology solutions to challenges in today's rapidly changing business environment
  • Project desktop application was to support T-Mobile services to create Business rules engine and task based workflow
  • Delivered automations to customers by increasing process time by 75%
  • Requirement gathering and technical analysis and support full SDLC
  • Document requirements in BRD and SRS
  • Used Waterfall and Iterative Methodology
  • Assists in Systems solutions that support overall business strategies
  • Create and review Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test cases
  • Executing Unit testing and support for SIT and User acceptance testing
  • Provide support for critical business applications
  • Triage issues reported by system users and drive solution
  • Write SQL queries including complex queries and joins to do data analysis and reporting
  • Defines functional, usability, reliability, performance and support requirements of system
  • Creates and performs feature testing and determines environmental needs
  • Provides link between technical and business views of system by ensuring that technical solutions being developed will satisfy needs of business
  • Partners with business, architecture and infrastructure and oversees all service levels to ensure business area satisfaction
  • Coordinates integration activities to ensure successful implementation
  • Developed Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM) using MS excel to trace each software design requirement to test case
  • Analyzed and translated business requirements into system specifications utilizing UML and RUP methodology
  • Participated in development of data modeling methodology to be used in project.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU)
Hyderabad, India
05.2006

Skills

  • Project management/planning, Estimations/sizing, Budgeting and scheduling, Process Improvement
  • Agile Frameworks, Scrum Methodology, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Verbal, Written communication, Coordination and Collaboration
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Demos and trainings
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Change Management
  • Business & Requirements Analysis
  • Elicitation and documentation
  • User Stories, User Acceptance criteria, BDD (Gherkin), TDD (Test Driven Development)
  • JIRA, Confluence, Service Now, SharePoint, Tidal, FACETS
  • SQL Server Management Studio, TOAD, Teradata
  • UML Diagrams, MS Office, MS Visio, Tableau, Power BI
  • POSTMAN, Web API, Bit bucket, Dev Extreme, Angular JS
  • SSRS, SSIS, Informatica, ETL, MONGODB, AWS RDS, AWS S3

Certification

  • 03/01/21, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • 03/01/21, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • 01/01/13, ISTQB-ISEB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)

Timeline

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Dell Technologies
01.2022 - Current

Lead Systems Analyst Advisor

Anthem Inc
11.2014 - 01.2022

Senior Business Analyst

Solution4 Software
01.2012 - 02.2014

Business Analyst

Saras India Systems
02.2010 - 08.2011

Business Analyst

Prithvi Information Solutions Ltd
06.2007 - 09.2009

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU)
Bhanu Priya