PRAVEEN GURUSHANTHU

• Project : International Transaction Reporting System( ITRS ) : ITRS is a data collection system that collects data on all peso and foreign currency transactions. It is a weekly report submitted to the central bank
• Methodology: Agile & Scrum
• Achievements :
• · Act as a central coordination point for project planning, execution and delivery
• · Develop and maintain project documentation and reports to track progress, risks and watch items
• · Facilitate stakeholder communication, ensuring transparency and alignment across all teams
• · Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies to address project challenges
• · Support financial planning, budgeting and resource allocation
• · Work closely with cross functional teams, including architects, engineers and business stakeholders
• · Provide weekly project status and burn reports to relevant stake holders
• · Conduct agile ceremonies like daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• · Participate in requirements gathering session with business users
• · Participate in PI meeting and prioritize scope of work
• · Plan for releases based on regulatory compliance and business need
• · Assist product owner in managing, prioritizing and refining product backlog
• · Manage sprint backlog and remove roadblocks for dev team
• · Track stories and epics to closure
• · Track metrics like burn down chart, velocity and CFD
• · Coordinate with change management team and PMO for releases
• · Facilitated discussion between multiple cross functional teams
• · Trained, mentored, and coached team in agile practices for effective agile product delivery

Project : CADENCE is the enterprise-wide anti-money laundering risk assessment platform that calculates the AML risk score and the Customer Risk Rating for all the Amex proprietary accounts/ relationships

Methodology : SAFe Agile

· Take part in the quarterly PI meeting and present the PI plant to stakeholders

· Prepare the agile charter at the beginning of PI and obtain sign-off

· Conduct agile ceremonies like daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

· Represent the team in Scrum of Scrum calls

· Assist product owner in managing, prioritizing and refining product backlog

· Manage sprint backlog and remove roadblocks for dev team

· Track metrics like burn down chart, velocity and CFD

· Track velocity and story points during each sprint

· Coordinate with change management team for releases

· Share resource and project forecast as per allocated funds

· Facilitated discussion between multiple cross functional teams

· Trained, mentored, and coached team in agile practices for effective agile product delivery

Project : Stearns digital Mortgage is a platform to digitize the customer loan origination and servicing process. This has digitized end-to-end home buying process

Methodology : Agile & Scrum

· Conduct agile ceremonies like daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective

· Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.

· Assisted product owner in managing product backlog

· Track features and user stories to closure

· Prepare agile charter and submit for approval

· Estimate story points during each sprint and ensure team achieves it during each sprint

· Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive

progress.

Project : Voice Response (VR) is an application that enables customers to enter their AMEX card number through the telephone keypad (or by speech) and access their accounts for a variety of services

Methodology : Agile & Scrum

· Implemented user acceptance testing with focus on documenting defects, identifying bottlenecks and executing test cases

· Validating business requirement and defining scope

· UAT planning, test case specification, test execution, defect management and test status reporting activities

· Lead and manage quality focused UAT test execution events, in alignment with UAT entry/exit criteria, timeline, budgetary and

resourcing constraints

· Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues

· Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android, and iOS mobile devices

· Participate in and facilitate pre-launch and post-launch Business verification testing activities for projects

Project : Chase Loan Manager (CLM) is the process by which a borrower applies for a new loan, and a lender processes that application

Methodology : Waterfall

· Test scenario and test case preparation and execution

· Defect reporting/tracking till closure

· Performed conditioning of test accounts using QTP automation tool

· Involved in cross functional training

· Executing regression test cases using QTP

Project : Microsoft service enterprise is an internal ticketing tool which had an integrated knowledge base system used by the Microsoft technical support team

Methodology : Waterfall

· Test scenario and test case preparation and execution

· Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance.

· Defect reporting/tracking till closure

· Sharing status report on daily basis

· Conditioning of test accounts using QTP automation tool