MEETA SAWANT

Program/Project Manager (Agile, Certified Scrum Master)

Phone 541-231-4485 Email : meeta_sawant@hotmail.com, Cupertino, CA.

Solution-oriented professional with a dedicated 18 year career leading the appropriate testing and delivery of quality
software, products, systems, applications to meet business, market and customer needs, utilizing blended
onshore/offshore delivery model. 11+ years of financial banking industry experience.
Project Planning and Tracking, Risk Management, Stakeholder management, Time, Scope Management, Quality
Management, Budget Planning, Project progress reporting covering schedule, actual cost against budget, Resource
Planning, Analytical and excellent communication skills, Project monitoring with virtual teams in India.
Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for quality assurance testing, white box, black
box, gray box testing, defect tracking, status reporting, team building, performance, productivity improvement, problem
solving within Agile, Waterfall and Iterative development environments to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency.
Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated and manual testing strategies to identify risks and issues,
design effective mitigation solution, and enhance the on-time delivery of quality systems.
Expert presenter, negotiator and communicator able to forge solid relationships with teams, business, leadership and
partners, and build consensus and communication across multiple organizational levels.
Earned reputation for meeting deadlines and delivering critical solutions. Excellent experience of large application based
on Web-based technology, client-server, and mainframe including requirement analysis, design, development, testing and
documentation.
Specialties: In depth understanding of Healthcare products, claims, Consumer directed health plan program and financial
software products solutions ranging from core-banking, online-banking, lending, risk and compliance, security, mobile,
document archiving, payment solutions, online banking, EFT.

Education
Master of Science (Computer Science)
Certifications CSM -Certified Scrum Master (Agile Expert) Scrum Alliance, Pursuing PMP
Training : PMP (PMI), Salesforce admin, Apttus QTC
Work Experience
Program/Project Manager Kaiser Permanente. Oct 2013-Till Date
Ensure the successful development, installation, implementation of Rational Team concert throughout the organization.
Ensure the successful development, installation, implementation and maintenance of a Legacy claims technology platform that
supports many regions. Leading large scale programs from beginning to end.
The scope of OPTUM Rate Manager Project includes the installation of the New Rate Manager Version 1307 for PPS grouping and
pricing of facility claims. In scope are Institutional claims that require pricing through OPTUM Insight PPS pricer System and
Diamond, Xcelys, Tapestry claims processing systems. Develop and maintain program dashboards on Share point. Distribute and
present program status.
Project Manager Test Kaiser Permanente. Oct 2012 - Sept 2013
Managed multiple concurrent projects & initiatives including building Consumer Directed Health care platform for companys core
business functions.

Manage and facilitate testing for multiple projects

Plan testing by creating Test Strategy, Resource Plans and Test Plans.

Ensure implementation of the established methodologies, processes, standards and tools within the context of the
appropriate project delivery process. Assess and plan the testing with the regional testing teams, communicating with the
business & IT stakeholders on the testing estimates, issues/risks and status.

Ensure testing environments are setup and resources secured in order to prepare for testing.

Appropriate test strategies, test plans and test summaries are completed for the approved Change requests.

Triage and tracking of defects or issues to closure.

Show testing status and statistics and interpret what the data is showing - raise issues early, define risks, all based on
progress.

Assist with hiring of staff, including onshore and offshore contractors.

Define, implement & monitor testing processes for successful completion of releases

Assist leads with acquiring testing resources for projects

Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and facilitate meetings for troubleshooting issues and resolving defects.

Reviews time and resource estimates for projects and track actual hours to budget.

QA Project Manager Agile Scrum Methodology QA - Fiserv Aug 2002-Sept 2012

Managed a team of 60+ onsite and offshore team members developing, testing Acumen an enterprise scale, core banking SaaS
platform for credit unions in Canada, US. Acumen is financial software for credit unions from the beginning of Development Life
cycle. Worked on Teller, savings, deposit products, regulatory products, Lending, Back office processing functional areas like
Automated Clearing House (ACH) system, online banking, web services, EFT. At Fiserv, due to PCI compliance and SAS 5970 audit
requirements, security focused testing was critical. I was involved in planning and executing security testing using IBM's AppScan
enterprise in the following areas like:
- Establishing process for testing application on secluded pristine production code / configuration
- Setting up application data for testing
- Used agile management software methodology tool VersionOne and project tracking and JIRA to capture and organize issues
- Troubleshooting tool and security policy issues and weeding out false positives
- Reporting and escalating vulnerability assessment reports.

Responsibilities :

Managing project releases, Project Planning and Tracking, Risk Management, Stakeholder management, Quality
Management, Budget Planning, Project progress reporting covering schedule, actual cost against budget, Resource
Planning, Project monitoring with virtual teams in India.

Gather, organize and manipulate operational performance data to identify and explain trends, problems and their causes.
Compare, contrast and combine information to determine underlying issues.

Build operational processes to drive efficiencies across front and back office activities in partnership with relevant
functions as it relates to new product launches.

Strong operational experience on Defect tracking tool Clear quest, Clear case, Test Automation Framework, Oracle 10g,
11g, Microsoft office suite and white box testing, black box testing and gray box testing methodologies.
Agile Methodologies. Experienced in the use of agile approaches, including Extreme Programming, Test-Driven
Development and Scrum.

Developed processes, reports and best practices streamlining data collection

Managed competing priorities within tight time constraints, Ability to learn rapidly and adapt quickly to changing situations.

Partnered closely with associates, managers and business partners at all level to
for discussions on implement key technology and product strategies

US Bank, Lyon Financial Services Web Portal (Oct 2001 Aug 2002)
Java/Web Developer - Developed a web Portal for Lyon Financial Services a Leasing Company, which is a division of US Bank
Corp. Developing GUI (Front end) in Java Server Pages, Java Beans, JavaScript, style sheets, XML, and HTML. XSL used for
transforming XSL documents. Debug and Testing on Web sphere Test Environment of Visual Age -Integrated Development
environment.
Med shares Inc. (05/2001 to 09/2001) - Java/Web Developer
Developed and customized Healthcare software using Java beans, Swing, Servlet, JSP) Design and develop new functionality,
deployment. Debugging & Testing done on Ant utility for build, compiling & prepare applications.
MCI WorldCom, US. (09/2000 to 04/2001) -NCBS - (Non-Commercial Billing System), Month End Billing
Development- Java Programmer- GUI development using screens for individual tables in the DB2 database. This also involves
coding of db2copybooks, db2 container, Java beans, JSP & Servlets for bill generation & billing operations. MQ Series is used to
exchange information between different applications, regardless of different hardware and operating systems. I was responsible for
evaluation of web sphere application server installation, deploying & testing.
L & T INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LTD. (LTITL) - 7/98 till 08/00- PROJECT 1. CONVERGYS, US. EZ1 Accounting System.
JAVA PROGRAMMER Developed project consists of recording Transactions, Updating the relevant accounts affected,
presentation of purchase orders and checks, maintaining vendor details and generation of appropriate reports.
Rizvi Software Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. 8/97 to 5/98 Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) - MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER
Developed a system that provides Centralized Management of day to day activities of distribution of FMCGs on Environment IBM
ES/9000, Pentium, OS/2, MVS/ESA, JCL, VS COBOL II, CICS, VSAM and DB2.
BPL Mobile Communications Pvt. Ltd. (8/95 to 8/97)- MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS)-PROGRAMMER
Developed a software for report requirements of various departments like Customer-Care, Customer Administration Group, Finance,
Quality Control, IT, Sales, Marketing. As per the Requirements from various departments for reports, coded SQL queries &
generated required reports of airtime bill cycles. Coordination with departments like Customer Care, Customer Administration
Group, Customer Support, Finance. Backup & recovery of Airtime billing data & bills. Generating reports daily, weekly, fortnightly,
monthly & yearly basis.