Arunkumar Natarajan
Senior Consultant
- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- arunkumar.natarajan@gmail.com
- +91 98405-24011
Accomplished Professional having 20+ years of experience in IT Software management with extensive experience in HealthCare /Insurance /Banking /Retail. Well versed in Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, and Program/Project Implementation.
Experience
Senior Consultant
- Managing Mainframe to Azure Cloud
Migration team of 30+ for US Healthcare clients
- Managed Agile Framework (SAFe) portfolio by
collaboration with other key roles such as Product Managers, Product
Owners, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), and Scrum Masters
- Assembled and led project team,
identifies appropriate resources needed, and develops schedules to ensure
timely completion of project
- Managed programs, oversees the
interdependencies and integration of interrelated projects, and sets
strategies and lead program execution to deliver longer term business
value
- Made Decision on moderately complex to
complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and
work is performed without direction
- Exercised considerable latitude in
determining objectives and approaches to assignments
- Organized interview for Project
coordinators role , Project Manager Role , IT Project Manager aligned to
Client requirements
- Monthly Billing validation related
activity for Provider LOB with Client partner
- Training New on boarded associate to get familiarized with vendor ,Client
partner and internal process
- Managing Project level Metrics and
internal process aligned to Organization policy’s
Senior Project Manager
- Led Specialty Agile Train to ensure the
project features implemented as per
approved roadmap
- Managed project with high ethical
standard to deliver product before the schedule timeline
- Played key role as Scrum Master (SM) and
Release Train Engineer (RTE) during transition from water fall model to
Agile and implemented many best practice and groomed the team.
- Successfully organized and coordinated 7+
PI planning events and took additional responsibility for Operational
Readiness activity corresponding to each PI release.
- Mentors project team members; mentors
other project managers.
- Determines project scope, develops
resource, risk, quality, cost, scope management plans and training plans.
- Develops requirements documents; develops
project approval matrix.
- Identifies project team training and tool
needs.
- Defines, recommends and secures
contractual agreements for services and products.
- Coordinates requirements, schedules
implementation and post-implement plans, and develops service-level
agreements for vendor partners and global resources firms.
- Defines quality gates for each project
methodology phase; defines critical success factors; and establishes and
manages the project warranty period. As assigned.
- Outlined work plan, Determined resource,
wrote timeline and generated initial budget as part of project scope
- Delivered Weekly status report , Monthly
billing & forecast reports to management
Project Manager
- Manages the strategic and tactical
testing relationship with program stakeholders
- As Test Architect, developed the overall
testing strategy for the program; sets the direction and tone for quality
delivery to ensure all aspects of quality are considered
- Own/drive/coordinate testing and test
artifacts across multiple testing phases, including SIT, UAT, End-to-End,
performance, etc across the program for successful delivery of the product
- Partner with the Performance Test Team to
ensure appropriate performance testing is occurring for the project
- Managed testing risks and issues, develop
contingency plan as appropriate across the program
- Ensures all applicable SDLC and testing
processes are followed; provides mentoring as appropriate
- Owns QA aspects of Traceability for the
program
- Owns defect management process for the
program, ensuring test defects are remediated and risks communicated
- Align with Configuration Management and
Release Management
- Ensured test data provisioning, test
environment and test automation aligns with the proposed test strategy
- Delivered program level testing status
report to enterprise management