Harini Reddy Chinna Chowdary

Worked as a Business Project Manager in NSW Department of Education in Finance division, managing critical projects related to Ministerial commitments ranging between 850K to1.2M budgets. The projects related to fulfilling commitments by the Ministers to improve NSW school’s financial administration management so the school staff time can be effectively utilised towards student welfare.

Some of my key responsibilities, but not limited to in this role are:

• Managed multiple medium scale projects ensuring timely delivery adhering quality standards
• Led teams with varying sizes from12 to18 resources providing mentorship guidance and performance evaluations
• Driving interactive sessions with Stakeholders/Business end users to define and agree upon project scope
• Working closely with stakeholders and IT teams in breaking up the scope into sprint goals
• Guiding Business Analysts on converting product requirements into business requirements
• Utilised Agile methodology which reduced resource utilisation by 25% and increased time to market by 20%
• Liaising with and engaging all Business Stakeholders in deliverables involving joint deliverables and obtaining their approvals
• Developed and maintained detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets, tracking progress and making necessary adjustments
• Engaging IT delivery teams, testing teams, multiple support teams, Vendors, and Integration teams to ensure smooth end-to-end delivery of project of agreed scope within the agreed timelines
• Assessing Change management and Training needs and oversee change management and delivery planning
• Develop and monitor schedule, estimates and ensuring that the business outcomes are achieved under the agreed project cost and timeline
• Identifying and managing Risk/Issues and developing their mitigation strategies
• Plan, acquire and secures Project resources
• Lead the project team by motivating team morale
• Administer Production Deployment\\Implementation\\Warranty & Support activities
• Create and submitting project closure reports and handover to BAU teams

Worked as a Business project Manager in Fraud/AML domain managing a team of8 to12 resources and budgets ranging between1.1M to1.5M related to implementation of AUSTRAC recommendations for Westpac Brach applications delivered in multiple releases. The projects scope was to incorporate AUSTRAC findings/recommendations to adhere with regulations on Threshold Transaction Reporting. In this role a hybrid approach was adopted with a mix of agile for product delivery and waterfall methodology for implementation

In this role below were my key responsibilities

• Managing project in agile methodology by ensuring all scrum events such as daily stand-up’s, Sprint planning, Sprint review & Sprint retros are conducted
• Created and maintained Project plan along with scope creep management by ensuring open dialogue environment was catered for with stakeholders to understand and communicate the needs of changes and its impacts
• Created and managed RAID, looping the project director on timely updates, risks, issues and team performance to ensure smooth project delivery
• Worked closely with Change team and ensured agreed AUSTRAC confirmation were provided to the Project Director

HSBC was joining the New Payments Platform in Australia, and I was part of it managing its overall testing.

Some of my key responsibilities, but not limited to were:

• To manage both internal (with various Internal HSBC systems) and external testing (Industry testing) with NPP participants (Other financial institutions in Australia)
• Responsible for both functional and non-functional testing and ensuring timelines are met within budget
• HSBS’s point of contact for NPP board, managing all required ceremonies, completing all milestones and obtaining their signoffs in a timely manner
• Overseeing implementation and monitoring post implementation activities such as BPVT

In Westpac worked as Business Test Manager/Scrum Master for a green field project (Card Disputes), the first full-time automation of online payment claims and disputes processes within the bank. Formulated and executed Project Plan & UAT strategy; point of contact for key business stakeholders on the Operations, IT, Infrastructure, and vendor teams. Worked in conjunction with business representatives on test executions

I was part of the Financial Crime Platform of the Bank that provides fraud detection and prevention for CBA Debit, Credit & Travel Money cards, NetBank (CommBank Online portal), CommBank App (CommBank mobile app for tablet & mobile), Merchants transactions and the Staff Initiated Payments from Branch. I was responsible for overall testing of projects under AML (Anti Money Laundering) and Sanctions domain. Directed multiple teams with varying sizes between4 to 8 resources.

Projects:

• Bankwest Customer Screening
• Mini AGP
• Fuzzy Logic
• Strong Alias
• PEP Active Inactive
• Decoupling Sanctions Screening from Transaction Monitoring
• Pay Tag
• SAN1 & SAN2 New Rules
• World Check Category changes
• Address Grouping
• File Act
• SAA (SWIFT Alias Access) - AMH (Alliance management Hub) Migration

Payments Platform

Projects:

• CRS (Customer Reporting System)
• BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
• PDS (Payments Data Store)

Payments Platform

Projects:

• NPP
• Credit Cards migration
• Trade Finance
• TMS (Terminal Management System)
• Albert Terminal
• Older EFT POS terminal related projects

• Worked for Lion Nathan as Automation Test Lead (QTP) from Jan 2010 to Jun 2010
• Worked for Health Communications & Networks as Automation Test Analyst from Jun 2009 to Dec 2009
• Worked for HSBC Data Processing India Ltd (HDPI) from Sep 2003 to Dec 2006