Pooja Sonawane

Experience

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  Tech Mahindra

  Dec 2009 - Sept 2014

  • Promoted as Project Manager to Plan, Schedule, Estimate and Execute testing phase of the project. • Led a team of 10+ professionals from initiation through planning, analysis, design, execution and support.• Responsible for analyzing business requirements, impact on the end-to-end architecture and creating test proposals.• Calculation of test estimates based on the Unified Test Points (UTP) estimation process.• Assessing and prioritizing the Risks and Assumptions based on the new business requirements.• Articulating project goals and scope, preparing detailed Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and instilling shared accountability for achieving project milestones.• Managed Change Request process and ensured team complies with the defined process.• Analyzed competing priorities, financial constraints and schedule considerations to determine costs and benefits of change requests.• Resolved issues through mediation, negotiation with stakeholders or escalation (based on cross-release or cross-project impact).• Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.• Awarded ‘Valuable team player’ Award for successfully delivering Intelligence network (IN) platform upgrade which covered around 13k test cases. Show less • Responsible for cost/effort estimation using test case point analysis for the new change requests.• Responsible for preparing release wise traceability matrix.• Applied technical and functional requirement knowledge to draft high-level and low-level component test cases to ensure maximum test coverage.• Preparing test data before starting test case execution.• Execute CST test cases, raise defects and issues with the development and design team using Mercury Quality Center & ExpertDesk.• Led show and tell sessions with client and end-to-end testing teams.• Responsible for functional and regression testing.• Attended various CPT meetings with client to resolve severe external issues.• Integral member for production deployment team Show less

  • QA Team Lead

    Aug 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Software Test Engineer

    Dec 2009 - Aug 2012
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  IQVIA

  Jul 2016 - Mar 2021

  • Successfully managed multiple/simultaneous implementation projects by continually motivating clients, ensuring project timelines are met, and client and/or vendor partner issues are addressed while adhering to SOPs• Lead Requirement gathering sessions for large-scale system implementations and provide design solutions aligning with business requirements • Utilize wire framing tools to develop system prototypes based on business requirements• Lead cross-functional teams to manage project deliverables for various successful system implementations• Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as 50% under budget• Designing and implementing interfaces, creating integration with third party solutions such as SAP, Concur, Veeva and other ERPs, enabling data capture from multiple sources and ensuring more accurate compliance reporting• Provide product owners with feedback on potential features/capabilities based on industry need and client feedback Show less • Led multi-vendor, cross-functional teams for major releases throughout SDLC cycle • Demonstrated abilities to manage a project through its complete lifecycle viz. Initiation, Planning and Design, Execution, monitoring and controlling through Closing• Analyzed risks, roadblocks, dependencies and other challenges for bug free releases with 98% success rate• Actively led meetings with cross-functional teams to market benefits of new releases• Identified Change Requests for future releases and prepared reports for Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings• Ensured project releases were delivered on time and within budget and ensured the features meet or exceed expectations• Maintained a release repository and managed key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and distribution lists using Confluence • Well versed with Project Management best practices (PMBOK) and ITIL best practices for Service Management, Change Management and Release Management Show less

  • Technology Consultant

    Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

  • Release Manager

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
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  Finix

  Mar 2021 - Jul 2022

  Technical Project Manager
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  Gracenote

  Sept 2022 - now

  • Director of Program Management

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Sr. Program Manager

    Sept 2022 - Nov 2024