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Prasannakumar Palaniandy

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Accomplished Project Manager and Scrum Master, adept in project planning and QA management. Excelled in steering cross-functional teams towards successful project deliveries, evidenced by a consistent track record of meeting deadlines and budget targets. Skilled in fostering stakeholder relationships and proficient in project scheduling, demonstrating a unique blend of technical and interpersonal prowess.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

TPG Telecom
Sydney, NSW
10.2021 - Current
  • Coordinate with vendors and stakeholders for the planning, execution, and delivery of projects.
  • Preparation and management of timelines for the projects.
  • Review of work packages shared by vendors.
  • Raise and share the purchase orders for the vendor work packages.
  • Manages the budget with monthly forecasts and actuals.
  • Conduct weekly meetings with all stakeholders in the project to track the progress.
  • Prepare and share weekly reports with all key updates for the projects with higher management.
  • Present the project status, including key achievements, and blockers, in the monthly SteerCo meetings.
  • Raise the deployment CR, and track production deployment activities.

Scrum Master

TPG Telecom
Sydney, NSW
07.2021 - 09.2022
  • Conducts daily scrum meetings to inspect the progress of the team.
  • Runs Spring meetings to check the status of sprint goals, to meet the timeline.
  • Facilitates the sprint planning meeting to derive the scope for the current sprint.
  • Maintains the scrum board and other artifacts to reflect the latest updates and details.
  • Organizes sprint retrospective meetings after each sprint, and captures action items and areas for improvement.
  • Helps manage the product backlog with the right prioritization.
  • Works with vendors for work packages and provides purchase orders.
  • Manages the budget for each sprint.

Test Manager (Delivery)

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Sydney, NSW
01.2017 - 06.2021
  • Work closely with the customer's test governance team in driving all the planned releases.
  • Preparation of estimates for the projects.
  • Preparation of the work package for the projects.
  • Review the test plan, test scenarios, test cases, and ensure coverage of requirements.
  • Manage the delivery of system integration testing based on the test cases prepared.
  • Ensure the automation coverage identified for testing.
  • Manage the coordination provided by the SIT team with other phases of testing, such as User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, and Operational Acceptance Testing.
  • Manage the delivery of the Clean Regression Run Test Phase.
  • Attend daily or weekly status meetings with the project team during critical phases of the project.
  • Review the End of Project Report prepared for the project.
  • Provide support during cutover verification testing performed in the production environment during deployment.

Test Manager (Governance)

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Sydney, NSW
05.2016 - 12.2016
  • Review the estimation prepared for the project.
  • Test strategy preparation.
  • Review the test plan, test scenarios, test cases, and ensure coverage of requirements.
  • Ensure the completion of system testing, with proper approval.
  • Govern the execution of system integration testing based on the test cases prepared.
  • Ensure the automation coverage for the scope identified for testing.
  • Govern and facilitate the triaging of the defects raised in Quality Center.
  • Govern and coordinate other phases of testing, such as User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, Clean Run Regression, and Operational Acceptance Testing.
  • Attend daily and weekly status meetings with the project team.
  • Review the Test Summary Report, End of Project Report, and KPI metrics for the project.

Test Manager

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
11.2013 - 04.2016
  • Contribute to the preparation of an estimation for the project.
  • Define the test strategy and approach after going through the requirement specification document and the HLD document for a better-quality deliverable.
  • Review of the test plan, test scenarios, and test cases prepared for various phases of testing for proper coverage.
  • Guide the team in different phases of testing, such as Sanity, System Testing, Comparison Testing, System Integration Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Cutover Verification Testing.
  • Tracking defects raised by the team using Quality Center.
  • Guiding the team to perform regression tests.
  • Attend the daily status and defect meeting.
  • Review the test summary report prepared for the project.

Test Lead

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
06.2011 - 10.2013
  • Contribute to the preparation of project estimates.
  • Contribute to the test strategy document.
  • Review the test plan, test scenarios, test data, test cases, and ensure that all the requirements are covered.
  • Ensure the sanity testing has been performed by the team for a stability check of the environment and systems.
  • Manage the testing done by the team based on the test cases prepared.
  • Manage and triage defects using Quality Center.
  • Manage the team to perform regression tests.
  • Provide support to the UAT team for performing user acceptance testing.
  • Provide support during cutover verification testing performed in the production environment during go-live.
  • Update the project team with the daily status report.
  • Attend daily status and defect meetings.

Test Lead

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Sydney, NSW
11.2010 - 05.2011
  • Prepare a test plan.
  • Review the test scenarios and test cases, and ensure that all the requirements are covered.
  • Execute a smoke test to ensure the stability of the environment and systems.
  • Perform combined System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing based on the test cases prepared.
  • Raise and track defects using TestDirector.
  • Perform regression testing.
  • Perform cutover verification in the production environment during deployments.
  • Update the team with the daily status report.
  • Attend the Daily Status and Defect Meeting.
  • Prepare the Test Summary Report for the project.
  • Coordinate with the offshore team.

Test Analyst

Hutchison 3G Australia
Sydney, NSW
01.2009 - 10.2010
  • Contribute to the preparation of the test plan.
  • Review the test scenarios and test cases, and ensure that all the requirements are covered.
  • Execute a smoke test to ensure the stability of the environment and systems.
  • Perform combined System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing based on the test cases prepared.
  • Raise and track defects using Quality Center.
  • Perform regression testing.
  • Perform cutover verification in the production environment during Go Live.
  • Update the team with the daily status report.
  • Attend the Daily Status and Defect Meeting.
  • Coordinate with the offshore team.

Test Analyst

Hutchison 3G Australia
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2006 - 12.2008
  • Prepare test scenarios, test cases, and test data based on the requirements.
  • Execute a smoke test to ensure the stability of the environment and systems.
  • Perform system integration testing based on the test cases prepared.
  • Raise and track defects using Test Director/Quality Center.
  • Perform regression tests.
  • Perform cutover verification in the production environment on the go-live date.
  • Attend the daily status meeting, and the defect meeting.
  • Prepare and share the daily status report.
  • Perform production verification after deployment.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Pondicherry Engineering College
Pondicherry
06-2006

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

St Joseph's College of Arts And Science
Cuddalore
04-2003

Skills

  • Project management
  • Project planning
  • Project scheduling
  • Schedule management
  • Scope management
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Agile methodology
  • QA management
  • Quality Control
  • Team management
  • Resource management
  • Vendor management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Staff development
  • Process improvement
  • Flexibility
  • Adaptability
  • Integrity
  • Teamwork
  • Learning attitude
  • Logical approach
  • Written and verbal communication

Timeline

Project Manager

TPG Telecom
10.2021 - Current

Scrum Master

TPG Telecom
07.2021 - 09.2022

Test Manager (Delivery)

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
01.2017 - 06.2021

Test Manager (Governance)

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
05.2016 - 12.2016

Test Manager

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
11.2013 - 04.2016

Test Lead

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
06.2011 - 10.2013

Test Lead

Vodafone Hutchison Australia
11.2010 - 05.2011

Test Analyst

Hutchison 3G Australia
01.2009 - 10.2010

Test Analyst

Hutchison 3G Australia
09.2006 - 12.2008

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Pondicherry Engineering College

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

St Joseph's College of Arts And Science

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