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Rizvana Subramanian

Chicago,IL

Summary

Dynamic Vice President at Bank of America with a proven track record in Agile coaching and project management. Expert in driving continuous improvement and enhancing team performance through effective backlog grooming and metrics tracking. Adept at fostering relationships and leading cross-functional teams to achieve high-quality deliverables. Certified Scrum Master consistently improving team velocity Sprint over Sprint

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President

Bank of America
11.2022 - Current
  • Facilitation: Leads Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective) and ensures productive discussions.
  • Impediment Removal: Identifies and removes blockers that hinder the team's progress.
  • Coaching & Mentoring: Teaches the team and organization Scrum values, principles, and practices, guiding them towards self-organization.
  • Protecting the Team: Shields the team from external distractions and scope creep during sprints.
  • Supporting the Product Owner: Helps the Product Owner with backlog management and understanding empirical product planning.
  • Promoting Continuous Improvement: Drives the team to reflect and enhance their processes and product quality
  • Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles and practices for improved efficiency.
  • Implemented process improvements that increased delivery speed and quality of work products.
  • Collaborated with product owners to define clear user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams.
  • Monitored team performance metrics to drive accountability and enhance Agile adoption across the organization.
  • Developed and executed project plans, ensuring alignment with stakeholder objectives.
  • Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
  • Tools - JIRA for Sprint Management | Confluence - Collaboration and Knowledge Management | SQL -Querying | Autosys - Schedule Monitoring

Senior Lead Analyst

Cognizant Technologies
04.2021 - 11.2022
  • Involved with business team and done grooming sessions for all sprints
  • Facilitated Requirement meetings, walkthroughs with the System Owners and SME’s to gather critical information required to archive and decommission the System
  • Executed functional Automation test scripts and test scenarios in multi-environments
  • Conducting all Scrum Ceremonies – Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Retrospective & Backlog Refinement with PO
  • Interacting with the Product Owner and driving holistic efforts for multiple projects and software releases, including system design, testing & deploy as a part of Agile/ Scrum teams
  • Managed team in offshore and coordinated multi team deliverables on weekly basis
  • Matched test cases to Requirement (Traceability Matrix).
  • Tested data with Black box testing techniques by giving different pairs of input and error guessing
  • Performed End-to-End testing of database to check data validity using SQL queries.
  • Assisted in validating XML responses generated for different Web Services using PostMan

SR QA Analyst

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
03.2018 - 04.2021
  • Working on analyzing the requirements and identifying impacted objects/components of the project/module and an estimate
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies to provide status updates, raise ambiguities or alarm any blockers
  • Interact with cross functional teams and provide knowledge on the work flow of the system and also identify & resolve dependencies
  • Functional testing, System Integration testing, Negative testing, BVA Testing & Regression testing (Manual & Automation testing)
  • As a value add, performed In Cycle Automation using Cucumber BDD Framework
  • Involved in verification of Data transfer between various ports using TIBCO FTL
  • Performed Continuous Integration testing (CI) using Jenkins
  • Managed Source control systems (GitHub) and automation files in repository for cross team updates of the source code
  • Worked on JIRA to track the Defects, Application enhancements as User stories and Project/Task Management activities
  • Experienced in troubleshooting test failure to identify the root cause of the issues and ensure the same to capture it in Test scenarios
  • Worked on IntelliJ IDE, Casandra, Bootstrap, AWS, Confluence, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven

SR QA Engineer

D&B TransUnion ADSL
07.2009 - 01.2015

· Analyzing Requirements & participating in the meetings with Onsite & offshore team

· Acted as On-site coordinator with TransUnion (in US) and supported/guided offshore team for various critical project deliverables

· Creation of test plan, test cases, test data & Execution of test cases with the stipulated timeline

· Functional testing, System Integration testing, Negative testing, BVA Testing & Regression testing (Manual & Automation testing)

· Performed Data analytics testing on the HEDIS Application

· Performed Web Services testing using SOAP UI Pro for the Healthcare Web services (PFS, AVQI etc)

· Used SQL Scripting for verifying and updating the data base values to produce different set of results.

· Conducted RCA Meeting with the entire Domain team to identify root causes of the Production defects and to discuss further steps on handling the same

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2005 - 12.2008

· Analyzing BRS and HLSD

· Creation of test plan, test cases and test data - Functional, System Integration and Regression testing

· Creation of customer accounts, Add/removal of Price plans, Add-ons, Campaigns using PeopleSoft CRM

· Creation of usage for various events using event files and rating the files using Singl.eView

· Assigning bill schedules and performing bill runs using Singl.eView.

· Invoice generation, Verifying the bill format and Verifying the monthly charges and usage charges for various events

· Testing the Interactive Voice Response(IVR) system to check account status and performing top- ups

· Creation of Product, Category codes and Voucher stocks for Prepay customers using VCS online systems

· Performing top ups using decrypted pins of vouchers, verifying new balances, purchase of add-ons, consuming the Free Units and verifying the remaining balance units using VMS online systems

· Using Test Director for raising Defects and follow-up and closure of defects

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

SASTRA University
Thanjavur, India
08-2005

Skills

    Soft Skills

  • Team leadership, Mentoring
  • Relationship building, Problem Solving
  • Decision-making & Critical thinking

    Technical Skills

  • Scrum Framework & Agile Metrics
  • SQL/Unix Scripting, Data Analytics, Autosys & API/Web Services
  • Essential Tools

Timeline

Vice President

Bank of America
11.2022 - Current

Senior Lead Analyst

Cognizant Technologies
04.2021 - 11.2022

SR QA Analyst

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
03.2018 - 04.2021

SR QA Engineer

D&B TransUnion ADSL
07.2009 - 01.2015

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2005 - 12.2008

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

SASTRA University
Rizvana Subramanian