Seema Jha Prakash

                  Phone:  +91- 8867917644

Seema Jha Prakash  (CSM)                                               mailto:[email protected]

Summary: A versatile, result oriented professional, having more than 9 years of experience in Software industry, delivering Enterprise Software, Multi-disciplinary programs in multi-cultural multi-national environment. Good levels of experience derived from testing & delivering products for highly regulated industries like Banking, Telecom, Retail, and Healthcare domains.

Qualifications / Certifications:

·        MCA in 2005 , from IGNOU

·        M.Sc in 2001 from Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh

Skillsets:

Program Management:

• Primarily responsible for defining, planning, tracking and managing the project.
• Identifying key resources and providing the direction required for meeting the project objectives and assure that all team members understand their roles and accept their responsibilities
• Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
• Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
• Monitoring project progress and performance.
• Providing status reports and updates to the project sponsor, board/senior management.
• Managing project training within the defined budget
• Develop WBS, understand the work flow, prepare plans and dependencies
• Present consolidated project reports to higher management and program partners overseas, about the resource allocations, project expenditures/costs, risks, schedule and major milestones
• Review Business Scenarios, functionality against  all business requirements.
•  All documentation (Release note, demo script, WSR, design document changes, requirements document changes).

·        Have extensive experience in sprint planning, day to day scrum, scrum meetings backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition, user stories, MOM's etc.

• Well versed with software development life cycle

People Management:

·        Led teams of varying sizes directing them towards achieving business and organization goals

·        Identification of training needs, competency profiling & development, appraisal, compensation & benefits, recruitment of junior and senior engineers

·        Resource forecast and allocation of resources to various programs based on the business priority

·        Recruit, Build, retain and motivate teams to attain respective targets

·        Performance tracking, development and management of the team

·        Define career plans for the team and mentor them individually towards their career goals

·        Helping on Business Process Improvement.

·        People Management/performance appraisal.

Quality Assurance:

• Prepare, present and justify effort estimates for Testing projects to internal project team / customer representatives.
• Proficient in conducting process audits and compiling program status and capabilities
• Drive Company defined quality initiatives in a global program environment to ensure continuous improvement
• Proficient in Test Life Cycle (STLC) from Test Planning to Defect Tracking and Managing Defect Life Cycle

Tools:

• Adept in usage of  MS Project, MS Office, etc,
• Configuration management tools like Subversion and VSS

Summary of Experience:

Organization: TCS

2011 Oct – 2013 Aug

Title(s): Assistant Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Drive the life cycle of healthcare software products from Concept stage to final deliveries
• Schedule, cost and risk management
• Setting up Scrum team from scratch and following end to end lifecycle of Agile project
• People performance appraisals, management, tracking and reporting
• Identifying career roadmaps, development and training needs for the team
• Annual operation planning and resource allocation
• Functional manager for software development
• Facilitating innovation activities among the team and guidance for patenting

Organization: Societe Generale

2008 Aug - 2011 Oct

Title(s): Sr Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing design, development, and execution of the entire test process; track     and report progress of test execution; document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing.
• Coordinating the Training & Recruitment processes
• Communicated business requirements, goals, and directives to the technical team and served as client interface for managing user expectations and achieved client satisfaction
• Provided Knowledge transition to the Team
• Formulated Quality assurance plan. Measured and monitored actual test results.
• Coordinated with different user groups to get the requirements and train them before the release.

 

Organization: Sapient Corporation

2006 Sep – 2008 June

Title(s): Associate QA

Responsibilities:

·        Software quality assurance activities as per Quality norms of the Company and Agile process.

·        Daily SCRUM and Sprint Planning

·        Analyzing and understanding the Requirement Specification.

·        Creating QA Reports for client

·        Participated in Test Planning and Test Strategy

·        Executing Test Scripts, Defect tracking in MQC.

·        Functional Testing.

·        Providing Trainings to new Hires

 

 

Organization: Sollics

2004 May – Sept 2006

Title(s): Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

·        Requirement Gathering and clarification

·        Test Case creation and execution

·        Preparing QA reports as per client’s need

·        Training to new Hires

·        Weekly built Verification tests on freshly deployed product build

·        Testing activities involved in Functional Testing & Regression testing.

·        Found Bugs and reported them in Bug tracking tool TFS.

·        Performed Requirement Analysis.

Trainings undergone:

• Various organizational management trainings
• Agile training
• Project management training at TCS
• White belt training at TCS
• Domain training on Healthcare and Pharma

·        Agile - ScrumAlliance certification

Soft skill trainings undergone:                    

• Six Thinking Hats

Certification :

• CSM (Certified Scrum Master) – 000305613