ANJANEYULU M
Project Lead | Scrum Master | Agile Practitioner
Chennai, IN.About
Dynamic and results-driven Project Lead with over 12 years of experience driving end-to-end SDLC activities within Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) domains. Proven expertise in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe frameworks, coupled with strong test management and automation skills. Adept at leading cross-functional teams to optimize project delivery, ensure high-quality product outcomes, and achieve critical business objectives.
Work
UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Summary
Led transactional testing processes, ensuring compliance and quality for trade flows across various applications and products.
Highlights
Executed test cases for diverse scenarios, ensuring successful trade flow from upstream to downstream systems across various applications and products.
Managed defect tracking and resolution in ALM, ensuring valid defects were re-tested post-fix and invalid defects were efficiently closed.
Ensured compliance with FCA regulations by thoroughly testing trades reported to the Financial Conduct Authority.
Provided daily and weekly status updates on testing progress and open issues, facilitating timely resolution and project sign-off.
Optimized production quality and turnaround time by proactively identifying errors and implementing corrective and preventive action plans.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Summary
Currently leading project delivery across SDLC phases and ensuring adherence to quality processes for high-quality deliverables within a 22-member team.
Highlights
Coordinated and led a 22-member cross-functional team, ensuring timely project delivery and adherence to all SDLC phases and quality processes for high-quality deliverables.
Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives) for multiple offshore and onshore multi-Scrum teams, effectively removing impediments and driving progress to meet Product Owner expectations.
Managed end-to-end project lifecycle as a Project Leader, including requirements capture, objective setting, SLA mapping, gap analysis, and resource training, ensuring on-time billing and maintaining WON activities.
Monitored and reported on key Agile metrics such as predictability, volatility, throughput, density, story points, and capacity, providing actionable insights to optimize team performance and delivery.
Acted as a Tech Lead, contributing to PI planning, feature analysis, user story splitting, QA input, test case review, and defect management, ensuring high-quality application flows across Auto Insurance, Member, and Mobile applications.
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Summary
Led a 7-member team focused on Master Data System (MDS), Prepaid cards, and PEGA_Resolve, ensuring quality assurance and defect resolution.
Highlights
Automated MDS Application modules using TOSCA, significantly improving efficiency in issue resolution and test data management.
Performed comprehensive Functional and Regression testing for Prepaid application card load, unload, and card limiting functionality, enhancing system reliability.
Synchronized Selenium classes into TOSCA test cases, streamlining testing processes and improving test coverage for PEGA disputes.
Prepared and executed test cases using HP Quality Center, overseeing defect tracking and ensuring timely closure of issues.
Coordinated with onsite teams to gather client requirements and facilitate delivery components, ensuring alignment and successful project outcomes.
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Summary
Contributed to consumer banking operations for Singapore/Hong Kong divisions, focusing on KYC compliance and loan processing.
Highlights
Received a Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions to the PICS program, successfully rolling out key client requirements.
Spearheaded the transformation from legacy systems to PICs, successfully deploying across 21 domestic and international locations.
Earned the 'Best Team Award' for exceptional performance in PI, receiving direct customer recognition and a 'Shout Out Award' during the PI Kickoff.
Received client commendation for automating Prepaid application modules using TOSCA, significantly improving error validation efficiency.
Languages
English
Hindi
Telugu
Tamil
Skills
Agile Methodologies
Agile, Scrum, SAFe Frameworks, PI Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Impediment Removal, Agile Metrics (Predictability, Volatility, Throughput, Density, Story Points, Capacity).
Project Management
Project Leadership, SDLC, Requirements Gathering, Scope Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Planning, Resource Training, Project Reporting, Quality Assurance, Project Audit, Delivery Coordination.
Software Testing & QA
Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Test Plan Design, Test Execution, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Automation Testing, Defect Reporting & Tracking, Traceability Matrix, Test Data Management, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing.
Automation Tools & Technologies
Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Page Object Model, TOSCA, HP-ALM, JIRA, QTest, Kibana, Postman, Splunk, Mainframe Session, SQL, Rally, Tableau.
Domain Expertise
Banking, Financial Services, Insurance (BFSI), Consumer Banking, Debit/Credit Card Processing, Loan Processing, KYC Compliance, Transactional Testing.
Problem Solving & Collaboration
Problem-Solving, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Onsite-Offshore Coordination, Client Interaction, Solution Definition, Process Optimization, Quality Standards Adherence.