Nafissur Rahman
Senior Program Management
Summary
About 20 years of extensive experience in Software Applications Development responsibility and Project Management with 10+ years of experience in Annuities domain. Experience in building and leading large functional teams through all phases of product life cycle both in waterfall and agile methodology. Experience in handling end to end project execution of large migrations and server upgrade projects. Experience in .NET technology, Web Based Applications Development Programming, SQL Server, Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline. Release Manager for all Release and deployment activities for Retails Annuities distributed area. Scrum master and experience in managing scrum ceremonies and Azure boards. Worked with team of specialize QA professionals to develop testing procedures, create test cases and performing quality assurance audits. Establish and manage test automation infrastructure using MS Test Case, Selenium and HP Quality Center tool. Worked with Performance testing team for Capacity, Endurance and Scalability Testing. Experience of working with client and vendor to fix the security vulnerabilities and ethical hack flaws. Experience in forecast, accrual & billing, clarity and SOW.
Experienced with leading technical teams and managing full project lifecycles. Utilizes strategic planning and advanced problem-solving skills to ensure project success and alignment with business objectives. Track record of fostering collaborative environments and delivering consistent results in dynamic settings.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Lead Product Consultant/ Senior Manager
Cognizant Technology Solution
11.2013 - Current
- Worked as Production Support Tech Lead for FAST(Verisk) Annuity platform.
- Worked on creating a integrated production support team for client.
- Work on Dashboard using Power BI.
- Support business by running multiple reports in Oracle and SQL Server.
- Involved in project planning with business, budgeting for the project, accruals, billing, milestone and submitting it in Clarity.
- Conducted multiple interviews, hired and onboarded resources and trained them in Project.
- Performed Performance review of an associate, manage personal development plan, established a clear goal and making a promotion recommendation.
- Involved in RFP for various proposal.
Product Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solution
11.2013 - Current
- Worked as Production Support Tech Lead for FAST(Verisk) Annuity platform.
- Technical Program Manager for SQL Server upgrade working with multiple teams across Cognizant, Client and Vendors.
- Comprehensive experience of working with Enterprise Infrastructure, DBA, IT Risk & Security Team.
- Delivery Manager responsible for end-to-end project execution for Migration of Retail Annuities policies to different platform as part of company split.
- Reviewing results of tests to ensure that they meet established standards for quality deliverables.
- Working with software engineers to develop test plans and scripts to automate testing.
- Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing.
- Remediated Security Flaws, Tech Currency and Ethical Hack items for Retail Annuities Distributed applications. Worked with Veracode Consultant and Application Security team to remediate all the High and Critical flaws.
- Upgraded window server from 2003 to 2012 as part of client technical currency debt. This also include consolidating cross -domain servers to resolve latency issue. Introducing PowerShell for batch server Jobs and scheduling in Maestro Scheduler.
- As a Technical Project Manager upgraded Insurance Accounting Solution Product to new version along with that upgrade of Window Server and Database Server and moving from one domain to another.
- Migrated Version Control from StarTeam to TFS, setup TFS build definition and deployment through Urban Code deploy.
- Conducted spring planning, user stories grooming session, stand up and retrospective meeting.
- Setup build pipeline for continuous scanning of code through Veracode and SonarQube.
- Created Kanban board in Azure DevOps and conducted stand up meeting.
- Created and manages build definition, build policy in Azure DevOps and TFS for 65+ web, batch and database applications.
- Created a DACPAC and build it using Jenkins.
- Worked as offshore lead handling team size of 70+ resource and ensuring successful delivery of multiple projects.
- Involved in RFP submission for migrating Closed book of business from current customer to new platform and client.
- Involved in multiple initiative on Optimization which saved client to an approximately 2 million saving last year.
- Identified Continuous Innovation and Improvement and Optimization items vetted ROI and benefits with clients.
- Created multiple value add and automated tools for cost optimization and reusable asset – Database Compare Tool, APV automation etc.
- Worked with multiple vendors for project forecast, L0 and L1 estimation. Experience in Change Management control process.
- Involved in project planning with business, budgeting for the project, accruals, billing, milestone and submitting it in Clarity.
- Conducted multiple interviews, hired and onboarded resources and trained them in Project.
- Performed Performance review of an associate, manage personal development plan, established a clear goal and making a promotion recommendation.
Technical Lead
CenturyLink
10.2011 - 10.2013
- As a Technical lead involved in requirement gathering, Design, Analysis, Estimation, Coding & Code review.
- Played a key role in migrating the application from Window Server 2003/IIS 6.1 to Window Server 2008/IIS 7.5.
- Involved in UI redesigning of Intranet application with extensive use of jQuery, WCF & Silverlight and Oracle as database.
Cognizant Technology Solution
08.2005 - 10.2011
- Worked as onsite coordinator and coordinated with the client for the entire project cycle from conception to final submission with the necessary technical support.
- Monitoring project progress as per scheduled deadlines for various tasks and taking necessary steps to ensure completion within time, cost and effort parameters.
- Worked as a Technical Lead for Web UI development and enhancement using C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Webservice and SQL Server Database.
- Worked as a developer to creating SSIS packages and Crystal Reports.
- Involved in creating the PERL Scripts which was invoked by the SSIS package as part of the Batch Job. The job was setup in the Maestro Scheduler to run on demand as well on schedule.
- Worked in creating WCF services to be consumed by external system to get Policy Information and perform transactions.
- Worked as Technical Lead in Analysis and setting up automated testing using Microsoft Test Cases.
- Conducting requirement study, handling design, development, testing, integration, troubleshooting and debugging of the software application.
- Involved in project planning, estimation, resource planning of the project.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
MTech - Data Science Engineer
BITS Pilani
05.2001 -
Skills
C#
Educations And Certifications
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4 Certified
- DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
- AZ –900 Microsoft Azure Fundamental Certification
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Microsoft Certified Application Developer
- SRI 111
- FLMI Level 1 Certificate
- AAPA 273, 283, 303, 313 and 323
- LOMA 280 and 290
- Generative AI Overview for Project Managers
Certification
Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) 4 Certified
Timeline
DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
07-2023
AZ –900 Microsoft Azure Fundamental Certification
02-2023
Lead Product Consultant/ Senior Manager
Cognizant Technology Solution
11.2013 - Current
Product Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solution
11.2013 - Current
Technical Lead
CenturyLink
10.2011 - 10.2013
Cognizant Technology Solution
08.2005 - 10.2011
MTech - Data Science Engineer
BITS Pilani
05.2001 -
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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