Susheel Balla

Experience

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  Capgemini

  Nov 2015 - now

  Project: Prudential investments Client: Prudential Investments Group Inc.,Project Description- Modernization of Prudential Investments Management Application1.Modernizing the Legacy Application - The new on-line PIMS web application is reengineered,Designed and Developed into Web API’s using .Net Core and angular as front end.2.The aim of project is to modernize the existing Reports using SQL server Reporting Services. Over 60reports are Designed and developed using SSRS and SSDT tools.Implemented PI. Facilitated team breakout and root cause analysis sessions. Prepared release calendars. Participated in preparing Book of work, maintained EPIC and feature health. Well versed with Jira and experienced in dashboard preparation. Managing End to End Modernization of project. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame,retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. Working with team in predicting the number of deliverable possible for an iteration. Direct and manage development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.Manage project execution to ensure adherence to schedule, and scope. Developed and updated project plans for information technology projects including information suchas project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, and staffing. Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables. Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems. Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. Involved in agile methodologies and development for these two applications. Involved in dailystandup, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and Product backlog refinement.  Part of Followed all defined coding standards, security guidelines during coding and otherdevelopment. Show less Project: Personal lines InsuranceClient: Selective Insurance Group Inc., USAProject Description:The Insurance Operations segment writes personal lines property and casualty insurance throughindependent insurance agents in 15 states in the Eastern and Midwestern regions of the United StatesResponsibilities: Facilitate teams planning and tracking activities while coaching in Agile principles. Coordinate backlog refinement with Product Owner and Team to resolve blocking challenges. Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delightcustomers. Involved in agile methodologies and development for these two applications. Involved in dailystandup, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and Product backlog refinement.  Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnelto remove the impediment. Interaction with BSU’s on a regular basis to understand the business requirement and plan theestimates for delivering enhancements.• Maintenance of various tickets in JIRA.• Working with team in predicting the number of deliverable possible for an iteration.• Direct and manage development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown. Managedproject scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope.• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to schedule, and scope.• Developed and updated project plans for information technology projects including information suchas project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, and staffing.• Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.• Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.• Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.• Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. Show less Project: Personal lines InsuranceClient: Selective Insurance Group Inc., USAProject Description: The Insurance Operations segment writes personal lines property and casualtyinsurance through independent insurance agents in 15 states in the Eastern and Midwestern regions of theUnited StatesResponsibilities:• Bridge between offshore and the Selective BSU’s of PLUS application for open queries, clarification,and confirmations. Working closely with the client to enhance the process and improve the TAT forcritical and high priority support.• Developing the Requirements by adhering to Selective programming standards and meet thedefined SLA’s.• Providing Support for both Pre-Implementation and production Deployment. Ensuring thatappropriate unit test cases are identified and developed and work with Selective team tocreate/generate unit test data sets to thoroughly test the application logic.Environment: .Net Technologies, SQL Server 2017 Show less Project: Personal lines InsuranceClient: Selective Insurance Group Inc., USAProject Description: The Insurance Operations segment writes personal lines property and casualtyinsurance through independent insurance agents in 15 states in the Eastern and Midwestern regions of theUnited StatesResponsibilities:• Development & maintenance of requirements with complete impact analysis.• Ensure proper unit testing before further delivering to independent testing vendor.Representing the updates in the daily status call. • Working with additional Selective team members during quality assurance (QA), user acceptancetesting phases and ensure proper processes for release management are followed.• Meeting the SLA's designed for both Break fixes and MM's. Show less

  • Senior Consultant

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Senior Consultant

    Aug 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Consultant

    May 2017 - Jul 2019

  • Associate Consultant

    Nov 2015 - Apr 2017