Manoj Kumar Gadikota

• Spearheaded multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic initiatives across internal divisions and third-party organizations, driving critical business outcomes aligned with corporate goals
• Designed and implemented project management best practices, ensuring consistent delivery on time and within budget for large-scale projects exceeding 12 months in duration
• Defined and tracked key performance indicators (KPIs) such as project delivery timelines, cost efficiency, and stakeholder satisfaction, achieving a 20% improvement in project success rates
• Developed comprehensive business cases and project plans, including work breakdown structures, schedules, resource allocation, and budgets, securing management buy-in and stakeholder approval
• Collected, analyzed, and summarized project data, including task progress, resource utilization, and cost metrics, to ensure transparency and effective decision-making
• Acted as the primary liaison among internal teams, external stakeholders, and project development groups, fostering seamless coordination and collaboration
• Facilitated communication across project participants, expediting resolution of issues and optimizing workflow efficiency
• Led RACI-driven stakeholder alignment sessions, ensuring executive sponsors, product teams, and vendors were properly engaged, improving project transparency and buy-in
• Scheduled and led project status meetings, issue resolution discussions, and stakeholder briefings to ensure alignment and progress visibility
• Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets
• Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams
• Orchestrated Go/No-Go meetings after each phase to prevents last-minute failures and enhance stakeholders confidence

• Managed multiple concurrent enterprise releases and technology initiatives across healthcare platforms using structured SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Led end-to-end release planning, including requirements alignment, environment readiness, testing coordination, defect management, deployment planning, and post-release validation.
• Conducted detailed analysis of release processes, identifying operational gaps, dependencies, and inefficiencies; recommended and implemented improvements that reduced cycle time and improved release stability.
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Business SMEs, and architecture teams to evaluate new project requests by performing initial scope assessments, drafting RACIs, reviewing business cases, and completing high-level SWOT-style feasibility checks.
• Developed and maintained critical project management documentation such as project charters, release plans, test plans, risk assessments, traceability matrices, change control documentation, and go/no-go criteria.
• Created and maintained project schedules, RAID logs, and contingency plans to ensure timely resolution of risks and issues and remove delivery barriers across multiple teams.
• Oversaw release governance by planning and facilitating cross-functional meetings, including release readiness reviews, defect triage sessions, daily stand-ups, and stakeholder alignment meetings.
• Facilitated the intake and initiation process by obtaining formal approvals from Project Owners and Sponsors, aligning expectations on objectives, timelines, and governance checkpoints before execution began.
• Built and maintained detailed project schedules using Microsoft Project and tracked financials and resource allocations using SmartSheets, ensuring visibility into cost, scope, and timeline impacts.
• Conducted recurring stakeholder meetings to review progress against scope, budget, and risks; provided concise, executive-ready written and verbal updates to leadership across Digital Health and QA organizations.
• Supported procurement processes by coordinating vendor onboarding, reviewing SOW timelines, and ensuring contract deliverables aligned with resource needs, testing windows, and operating model constraints.
• Delivered weekly and monthly status reports to senior leadership highlighting progress, risks, dependencies, budget impacts, and operational KPIs.
• Managed resource planning and operational budgets by tracking resource utilization, travel needs, vendor hours, and testing support costs; worked with leadership to identify variances and support accurate forecasting.
• Provided recommendations to optimize operational processes, improve testing efficiency, enhance release quality, and strengthen coordination between development, QA, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Partnered with architects, product owners, QA leads, engineering managers, and business SMEs to ensure alignment on release scope, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Developed project dashboards and metrics in Excel, JIRA, and Confluence, ensuring accurate data for critical and major releases and enabling data-driven executive decisions.
• Supported staff by providing guidance on project management best practices, documentation standards, quality gates, and release governance procedures.
• Worked extensively with insurance data, membership, eligibility, provider workflows, and compliance-driven processes.
• Led project closeout activities including delivery validation, stakeholder satisfaction confirmation, lessons learned sessions, and transition to operations, documented insights and shared recommendations with leadership for continuous improvement.

• • Managed sprint deliverables across 3 enterprise apps with developers and analysts using
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  • Collaborated with SMEs to define test scenarios and UAT acceptance criteria.
  • Led daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint demos across QA and product stakeholders.
  • Improved test coverage by 30% through risk-based planning and prioritization.
  • Maintained detailed documentation including traceability matrices and defect reports.

• • Created release timelines and test case tracking templates to improve defect visibility.
  • Participated in requirement workshops and created test scenarios aligned to sprint goals.
  • Flagged high-priority UI/UX issues through impact analysis and parallel testing.
  • Prepared go/no-go test reports and weekly status dashboards for QA leadership.
  • Conducted browser compatibility testing to reduce production defects by 15%.