Pragya Yadav, PMP®, CSM®

Experience

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  Infosys

  Oct 2008 - Oct 2010

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Developed a new interface for TeamConnect and Atlas Legal Hold which enabled users to have dispute data information into TeamConnect. • Successfully led a 5 member team in upgration of TeamConnect from 2.5 to 3.0, Legal Matter Management Tool from Mitratech.• Handled Client interaction for requirements gathering and participate in design process. • Conduct annual, bi-annual and quarterly audits for the client, with the Reproting Process in place.

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  IBM

  Nov 2010 - Aug 2015

  • SPOC of the FSD’s business aspect of the whole GTS application for the Operations Portfolio of UPS. Designed the HLD’s/ LLD’s of the Project along with the team.• Support to CDT, Stake holders and applications teams in requirements gathering & analysis. SME for the new enhancements and integration projects for GTS. • Successfully performed the Logical day planning, Dashboard Management, Configuration Management, Release Management, Conflict Management, Incident Manager Role for the overall Program. Show less

  • Onsite Module Lead

    Sept 2012 - Aug 2015

  • IT Analyst

    Nov 2010 - Sept 2012
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  Mphasis

  Sept 2015 - Oct 2021

  • Overall ownership of projects’s Cross-Functional Deliverables, within timelines, allocated resources, Project Budget and customer satisfaction. • Create project plans and schedules and track progress against each plan. • Establish project milestones that reflect realization of agreed business benefits within timeframe and budget. Identify and track milestones, deliverables, changes and dependencies within the schedule. • Identifying project risks and issue, along with the mitigation and contingency Plans.• Conduct Weekly/monthly review meeting with Mphasis and client leadership teams for key achievements and callouts. • Build high performance, cross functional teams to drive completion of project objectives.• Ensuring agile principles are practiced during Sprint Lifecycle of initiation, planning, execution and closure. • Automated weekly/monthly manual project support activities using RPA tools like OpenSpan. Show less • Facilitate Scrum Events (Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Retrospectives) along with team. • Working with PO on Product Roadmap, manage prioritization & trade-offs among. • Published committed Sprint objectives & tracked via relevant metrics/Dashboard (Velocity, Burn down Chart, Bug Trend Lines and Test Execution Status etc.). • Risk Mitigation with continual Review Mechanism with Internal/ Client Teams & handling Change Management during the Project Execution Phases.• Resolved Impediments raised by team members, enabling successful delivery in frequent releases. • Coordinated with client(s), stakeholder(s) and team(s) to keep the Product Backlog groomed. • Coordination with development teams, PO, Business and stakeholders to align & ensure a mutual understanding on process/practice. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2018 - Oct 2021

  • Project Lead

    Sept 2015 - Nov 2018
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  Visa

  Oct 2021 - now

  Senior Technical Program Manager

  Work as a Technical program manager for a API based Payment solution (VisaDirect), defining & managing functional asks & Product enhancements.• Facilitated a distributed program team, overseeing all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily work.• Collaborating on Business process reengineering, defining ownership & timelines with cross-functional teams, drawing up requirements specifications, conducting feasibility studies, creating high level and detailed Design models, overseeing development and implementing solutions.• Create, maintain & review QEP(Quarterly Execution Plan) and QBR’s (Quarterly business Review), with leadership team in accordance with signed-off AOP (Annual Operation Plans) for the product.• Provide support to product owners and business analysts in backlog grooming and refinement. Manage and track the product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.• Manage Cybersecurity aspects of the product while working with Cybersec engineers to determine and ensure all vulnerabilities were addressed and remediated before the Release Readiness Date (RRD).• Overseeing the monthly software release process, which involves tasks such as planning, deployments,conducting security assessments, and ensuring quality assurance.• Manage program roadmaps, Delivery roadmaps, performance metrics validations and releasemanagement processes. Show less