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LAKSHMI V

Hyderabad,Telangana

Summary

• Total around 14 years of IT experience, exposure in End to End Project management, Delivery, Release Management
• Act as a primary point of contact between Cognizant and the client.
• Understand the client requirement and ensure alignment with business goals
• Create complete documents like SOW, SOS and pricing for new opportunities
• Estimate Costs: Based on vendor quotes and requirements. work on budgeting details, monthly Invoicing and billing
• Monitoring projects completion on time within scope, within budget with good quality of data.
• Minimize financial risks and cost overruns
• Improve project planning and forecasting
• Address issues promptly to minimize project delays
• Keep stakeholders informed through regular updates and reports
• Handle conflicts and negotiations effectively
• Works closely with client management/ teams to identify and specify complex business requirements and processes and documents and provides solutions. Recommends the development methodologies and frameworks for the project. Maintain project documentation including reports and meeting notes
• Conduct post project evaluation to assess success and lessons learned
• Present all the internal Quality/Process audits
• Acting as a scrum master and facilitating scrum events, helping the team on clear, detailed and actionable user stories.
• Participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and Retrospectives. motivating the team on innovations and Bright Ideas for soft and hard dollar savings.
• Acting as a Leader, planner, good communicator and problem solver
• Responsible for Overseeing project delivery, ensuring client satisfaction, managing teams and maintaining financial and operational efficiency.
• Playing a role which involves a mix of project management, client management and leadership responsibilities

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
Hyd, Telangana
04.2022 - Current

Role: Project Manager

  • Successfully managed multiple simultaneous projects through effective time management skills and prioritization techniques.
  • Identified opportunities for process improvements, implementing changes that increased efficiency across all projects.
  • Mentored and coached team members, promoting professional growth and skill development.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment of goals and expectations.
  • Client/Stakeholder engagement
  • Handling monthly governance meetings
  • Invoicing, Project Budgeting, and estimations.
  • SOW and SOS creation and complete process till all relevant parties and closed.
  • Coordination with BTS Leads and service line leads
  • Effective audit handling, and successful project closings.
  • Budget and resource handling by connecting with customers.
  • Risk Management, Change and Release Management
  • Business needs addressing and Time boxing.
  • Team Management and workflow capture.
  • Severity and Priority base delivery handling.
  • Ontime delivery with good quality by meeting client expectations.

Manager – Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2021 - 03.2022

Role: Project manager, Test Delivery Lead

  • Client / Stakeholder engagement
  • Risk management, Change and Release Management
  • Project handling END to END
  • Business needs addressing and Time boxing
  • Team management& Workflow capture
  • Severity & Priority base delivery handling
  • Initiate& handle client calls
  • Capacity and Velocity planning
  • Handling co-located / Hybrid scrum teams
  • Ontime delivery with good quality by meeting client expectations

Senior Test Engineer / Technical Lead / Team Manager

Optum Global Solution(UHG)
01.2015 - 01.2021

Role: Project Manager, Teach Lead, SM

  • Involved in various projects eSB decommission, Ness login, Galaxy GRID and Oxford migrations
  • As part of cross skill training, involved in BA and Developers roles across multiple projects
  • Good understanding on software development/test/bug life cycles
  • Thoroughly involved in different types of testing like ETL/Database/Report/Functional testing
  • Good experience in test plan preparations, Requirement analysis, Test case design, Test execution, bug tracking and reporting
  • Good experience in WRSP creation and BA checkouts
  • Data Quality checks, production check-outs and signing off the data
  • Involved in sprint planning, daily scrum calls, Test cases execution in Rally
  • Conversion of Manual run jobs to production standards jobs using TWS schedular
  • Operations support
  • Production environment maintenance

Software Engineer

Optum Global Solutions(UHG)
01.2011 - 01.2014

Roles: SAS Developer

  • Understand specifications and req proposed by requestor in NQ Request
  • TWS Production batch support and management
  • Extensive knowledge in working ne report requests
  • Extracting data from various source transforming data and generate th XLS, CSV, MS Access, and Delimited
  • Algorithm development & Enhancements per business requirements
  • Extensive knowledge in using Advanced SQL and Macros
  • Ad-hoc request development for sa before going for an algoirthms dev to estimate the recovery opportunity
  • ARO Self Service Reports Operation
  • Check out the final version of code Subversion

Education

Post-Graduate - Master of Science, Applied Mathematics

Acharya Nagarjuna University
Guntur, A.P.
01.2003

Skills

  • Lifecycle Management
  • Agile/Metrics
  • SAFe
  • END to END project management
  • Tableau
  • SQL/Oracle/DB2/Snowflake
  • SAS/Base, SAS/SQL, SAS/Macros
  • UNIX/Shell Script
  • Data Management
  • Analysis and Visualization
  • ETL
  • Database Testing
  • Basics of Data Stage
  • Service-now
  • TWS/Github/Airflow

Certification

  • SAFe 5 Program Consultant
  • AHM 250 (American Health Management)
  • Base SAS Certified from SAS institute, NC, USA
  • ETL Testing Certification

Accomplishments

  • Galaxy GRID migration, Framework on full volume of data comparison between the tables to reduce the testing efforts of the 250+ tables for 3 cycles - $567,875
  • TWS Cleanup of 11,554 Galaxy jobs have been identified which are no longer needed for project, infra cost Savings - $496,360
  • SAS Macro created to validate multiple tables at a time irrespective of volume-cost savings $349,560
  • Manager Excellence Award in 2021
  • Live Award in 2020
  • Delivery Excellence Award 2021
  • Drona Award for cross functional trainings

Timeline

Manager - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
04.2022 - Current

Manager – Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2021 - 03.2022

Senior Test Engineer / Technical Lead / Team Manager

Optum Global Solution(UHG)
01.2015 - 01.2021

Software Engineer

Optum Global Solutions(UHG)
01.2011 - 01.2014
  • SAFe 5 Program Consultant
  • AHM 250 (American Health Management)
  • Base SAS Certified from SAS institute, NC, USA
  • ETL Testing Certification

Post-Graduate - Master of Science, Applied Mathematics

Acharya Nagarjuna University
LAKSHMI V