Amrendra Singh

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Apr 2007 - now

  Successfully Implemented 10+ Large projects, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) team of a Leading UK Bank. Underlying technologies are IBM Datapower, Message Broker.Co-ordinating teams across various Labs, Service Delivery, Leading the changes through various Route-To-Live phases. Recognises outstanding behaviours in Implementation and Change Management. Accountabilities / Responsibilitieso Delivery* Accountable for the delivery of IT work packages impacting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)* Being involved in early discussions with impacted systems to specify requirements, timescales, and budget.* Responsible for managing delivery plans, scope, change management, stakeholders, risk and issues.* Ensuring project delivery is on time, within budget meeting operational and business requirements.* Identify and define planning and tracking of work packages.* Form project team structures and define delivery approach.* Manage project dependencies.* Maintain relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.* Ensure project governance and compliance is adhered to.* Negotiate the best possible commercial agreement for delivering change* Managing resources across multiple geographic locations* Ensuring quality deliverables to the customer within SLAo Process* As a Scrum Master/IT Project manager - To chair Daily huddle and track the progress through Kanban Board* Prioritising the various deliveries and assigning developers for the same, based on capacity planning* Requirement gathering and Discussion with stakeholders* To manage Release plan, Risk tracker & Issue Tracker Show less As a part of ‘Informatica to An Initio Migration’ initiative of a leading US based financials firm, the INFA nodes had been migrated to alternate technology, including Ab Initio and MDF. Accountabilities / Responsibilitieso Delivery* Involvement in Tech Troubleshooting for the issues, team faces* Developing and maintaining a detailed project document* Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary* Strong background in Cost Estimation, Resourcing and Project Lifecycle planning* Managing technology teams, coordinating with Business, Technology and Vendor partners* Managing resources across multiple geographic locationso Process* Coordinating all SCRUM ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective along with Story Grooming and Release planning* Tracking of sprint backlog and helping Product Owner to maintain and prioritize Product backlog* Driving results while operating in a strong process framework* To manage Release plan, Risk tracker & Issue Tracker* Monitoring the project health and timely completion of review on all deliverables* Ensuring quality deliverables to the customer within SLA Show less Managed a team which primarily deals with the Automation support for various in-house teams in Leading US financial firm at all different stages of software development, includingo Build Automation - CI/CD o Unit & Regression testing Automationo Service Virtualisation o Test Data Management Accountabilities / Responsibilitieso Delivery E2E project manager for various projects/initiatives placed under team Developing and maintaining a detailed project document Managing project scope and change control and escalating issues where necessary Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary Strong background in Cost Estimation, Resourcing and Project Lifecycle planning Managing technology teams, coordinating with Business, Technology and Vendor partnerso Process End to End Project Management from Initiation to Closure To establish project scope and deliverables including specification for the subcontracted components. Resource Allocation and Management in SDLC PM Tool - Clarity Driving results while operating in a strong process framework Managing resources across multiple geographic locations Monitoring the project health and timely completion of review on all deliverables To chair the project calls with various teams within AmEx to understand the maturity level of automation coverage for a given team and scope for further Automation Diverse experience in Customer engagement & Stakeholder Management Experience in Communications Management, Status Reporting to the leadership on a regular basis Show less Managed a team which primarily deals with reconciliation of financial transaction being done in Leading US based financials institution, including In and Out Cheque data reconciliation. It primarily includeso To maintain the Issued & Paid cheque details of Ameripriseo To perform cheque data reconciliation Accountabilities / Responsibilitieso Delivery Requirement analysis and discussion with stakeholders  Preparation of Design/Technical documents for development team Working with interfacing systems to align on architecture and design Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan Managing project scope, Cost Estimation, Resourcing and Project Lifecycle planning Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary Strong background in o Process Project Management process from Project Initiation to Closure Driving results while operating in a strong process framework Diverse experience in Customer engagement & Stakeholder Management – Interfaced directly with Technical Managers, Business Managers, Business Sponsors, Operations, End Users Monitoring the project health and timely completion of review on all deliverables Ensuring quality deliverables to the customer within SLA Significant contribution in providing recommendations to Business partners to enhance the solution to achieve greater customer experience Show less Been part of Run the Bank (RTB) in Leading Netherlands bank, which provides Operation support. It is a high performance, 24*7 support/solution model, which ensures the availability of all assets for End users, along with reliability and cost effectiveness. Primary focused areas were Core Banking & Payments. Managed the team during Integration testing for large bank level integration program  Lead the Team for Test environment refresh activity from Client location Provided 24*7 support for various applications from client location Received appreciations from Clients as well as from external teams Accountabilities / Responsibilities To provide L3 support in Production region while L1, L2 & L3 support for non-Production region Supported IBM Mainframe Technologies (JCL, COBOL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, REXX, IMSDB) based applications Complete End-To-End batch support for various applications in Prod & Non-Prod region Problem Management - Providing permanent fix for recurring Prod/Non-Prod issues Active involvement in process improvement activities, as a part of Re-Engineering and Saves practice To support environment data refresh activity at primary level, including batch support Managing technology teams, coordinating with Business, Technology and Vendor partners Driving results while operating in a strong process framework Diverse experience in Customer engagement & Stakeholder Management – Interfaced directly with Technical Managers, Business Managers, Business Sponsors, Operations, End Users Show less Been part of a leading financial firm of USA, which primarily deal with selling Long-term Care products. My team has managed an application software product, which has been customized to meet business requirements.Accountabilities / Responsibilities Analysing the requirements and developing the design documents  Working with interfacing systems to align on architecture and design Writing the code components and performing UT Supporting SIT, UAT and implementing the solution Supporting the Production implementation Providing post implementation warranty support Managing Risk and Change Controls Ensuring deliverable quality and process compliance Resource and schedule planning  Publishing Status reports  Managing the individual module within the team Coordinating between the onsite and offshore teams Regular health check-up for the project Show less

  • Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

    Dec 2017 - now

  • Scrum Master

    Mar 2017 - Nov 2017

  • IT Project Manager

    May 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Analyst, Technical Project Manager

    Oct 2012 - May 2016

  • Technical Lead

    May 2009 - Oct 2012

  • Technical Developer

    Apr 2007 - May 2009