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Shyam Krishna Kumar

Richmond,VA

Summary

Around 11 years of experience in IT industry encompassing a strong expertise around Technology consulting, Business strategies and planning, Program and Project Management, functional and System Testing. Proficient in developing Business strategy, Pricing and Margin, Managing large scale IT Implementation. Work experience in business technology modernization and transformation of Legacy business application to Digital and cloud-based technologies. Proficient in Business & Technical Requirements gathering and reverse engineering aspects across the SDLC phases of large-scale IT initiatives. Work Experience in RFP (Request for Proposal) and Vendor Management. Has worked as a Business system Analyst, IT Delivery manager and Functional Testing in Health Plan core Admin Application such as Membership, billing, Products, and claims. Hands on experience using IBM rational tools - Rational clear quest (Defect tracking and Change Requests), Requisite Pro (Requirements Database), and Rational Quality Manager (Repository for Test Cases and Test Results). Hands on experience in Agile SDLC model and tools JIRA Xray and Zephyr. Worked as Execution lead and Program manager on large-scale programs. Worked as health care exchange testing lead consultant roles to facilitate state and Federal exchange mandates and initiatives. Knowledge of Tableau and service now reporting tools. Knowledge of Postgres SQL, Microsoft SQL, and IBM DB2.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting LLP
05.2023 - Current
  • Owner of Application Development and Enhancement Change Requests
  • Business and system requirement elicitation by working with State Agencies
  • Impact Assessment and Estimation
  • Prepare Functional designs
  • Collaborate with Architects to prepare technical designs
  • Lead Analysts, Developers and Testers throughout delivery phase
  • Manage SDLC life cycle of Change requests release schedule
  • Execution lead and Manage Multi release initiatives
  • Perform Gap assessment of current IT operations
  • Perform Audit and controls as part of PMO activities
  • Reporting and delivery status with higher management.

Manger Technology

Elevance Health (Formerly Anthem Inc)
12.2019 - 05.2023
  • Program Management and Planning
  • Cost estimation and Vendor Management
  • Staffing and Recruitment
  • Portfolio Management and forecast
  • Functional and system Analysis of core business system
  • Collaborate with Architects on data migration and re-engineering
  • Execution lead for CA Exchange testing initiatives
  • Prepare design documents
  • Lead Large scale Business & IT initiatives
  • Execution lead and Manage Multi release initiatives
  • Identify Integration components
  • Perform Gap assessment of current IT operations
  • Work with Vendor team and vendor Management
  • End to end Test strategy preparation
  • Estimating the effort for Change requests
  • Manage Test release schedule
  • Audit and control for SDLC
  • Migrate reporting system to Tableau and service now.

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting LLP
11.2015 - 12.2019


  • Project Management
  • Prepare road map for design Implementation
  • Preparation of use cases for test strategy
  • Preparation of staffing estimate for offshore team
  • Project execution coordination
  • Business System Analyst: Perform Gap analysis on existing system and create reports based on Production defect logs and System behavior
  • Prepare tech aid document by analyzing current mainframe system based on online screen and COBOL program frame work
  • Functional Lead Analyst: Legacy system Analysis and build mapping document to re-engineer Mainframe IMS online screen and IMS database to Java bases GUI application and Oracle Data modeling
  • Business functional walkthrough on the proposed prototypes and wireframes
  • Preparation of functional design document which includes business USE cases, Business rules, transaction triggers
  • Prepare road map (Agile sprint plan on design Implementation)
  • Perform End to End Functional integration Testing
  • Facilitate business user acceptance testing
  • Delivery lead QE: Application Functional SME, Functional Analyst, Project Management
  • Facilitate Test design workshop with Client stake holders
  • Estimations, Staffing, Planning and Reporting
  • 834 Enrollments and Exchange initiatives Testing Management
  • Perform Functional analysis and define acceptance criteria
  • Handling team size of 16 across locations
  • Prepare schedule for Agile release
  • KPIs and Metrics Reporting
  • Project execution coordination with stake holder and implementation team.

Lead Test Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
02.2012 - 10.2015
  • Lead and Manage team size of 7 to 12
  • Quality Advisor/ Functional Analyst: Associated with Telecommunication, Finance and Health care client’s Large-scale QA initiatives
  • Functional Analysis of Test components
  • Requirement Management
  • Agile Transformation
  • Automation discovery
  • Alpha business user for CMS Exchange testing
  • End to end Test strategy preparation
  • Estimating the effort for Change requests
  • Business User Acceptance testing
  • Perform all activities of System Testing that includes: Create Test Plans for the Change requests
  • Define various test conditions to test the requirements
  • Build test cases based on test conditions
  • Execute test cases in the specified test region with the specified inputs
  • Verify the test results
  • Prepare the test matrix which has all the required details to be sent to client
  • Perform Peer review of test plans and test matrices based on the review checklist to ensure the quality of deliverables.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Anna University
India
05.2011

Skills

  • IT Program Management
  • Startegic Planning and Design
  • Business Analysis and Consulting
  • Operations Management
  • Agile Release management
  • Product Management

Professional Affiliations Certifications

  • FAHM (Fellow, Academy for health care management)
  • SAFE Agile (SAFe5.0 Practitioner)

Personal Information

Visa Status: H1B(I-140)

Timeline

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting LLP
05.2023 - Current

Manger Technology

Elevance Health (Formerly Anthem Inc)
12.2019 - 05.2023

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting LLP
11.2015 - 12.2019

Lead Test Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
02.2012 - 10.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Anna University
Shyam Krishna Kumar