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Monikongkana Bharadwaj

Technical Program Manager
Bengaluru
Monikongkana Bharadwaj

Summary

Experienced Technical Program Manager with 9 years of experience having expertise in agile project management, people management, and regulatory compliance. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams and delivering innovative solutions on time and within budget with a strong background in system analysis, data analytics and regulatory compliance. Renowned for exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder management, dedicated to enhancing operational efficiency and achieving organizational goals.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Biofourmis India Limited
Bengaluru

Technical Program Manager
10.2020 - 12.2024

Job overview

• Performed product backlog refinement and prioritized requirements.
• Performed requirement analysis, wrote BRD, FRD and created epics and user stories in
JIRA.
• Wire-framed features.
• Used data-driven insights to optimize processes, identify bottlenecks, and improve overall
program delivery.
• Identified and removed impediments that may hinder the team's progress, allowing for a
smooth workflow and optimal productivity.
• Performed project management duties: creating project plans, timelines/Gantt charts and
providing efforts and estimations to higher management.
• Managed risk, scope, and resources while maintaining a sharp focus on timelines and
quality.
• Drove and facilitated the end-to-end product development process, overseeing all aspects
from concept to release based on regulatory compliance.
• Managed stakeholders.
• Handled change requests.
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration, bridging the gap between engineering teams,
product managers, and business leaders.
• Established Agile processes where necessary, and worked with key stakeholders to ensure
the teams are always aligned on sprint cadence and deliverables.
• Conducted scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Facilitated timely backlog grooming.
• Tracked the team's progress using Agile metrics and tools, ensuring transparency and
making necessary adjustments to keep the project on track.
• Coached the Scrum team in Agile practices and principles, fostering a collaborative and
self-organizing environment.
• Conducted UAT and established a healthy environment for useful customer feedback.
• Oversaw the deployment, maintenance, and optimisation of cloud infrastructure (AWS) to
ensure scalability, security, and efficiency.
• Created and managed technical and regulatory documentations: PAF, CRF, technical
design documents etc.
• Resolved conflicts within and across teams with expertise.
• Mentored and developed team talent.

Unisys

System Engineer
12.2018 - 09.2020

Job overview

• Established Agile processes where necessary, and worked with key stakeholders to ensure the teams are always aligned on sprint cadence and deliverables.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) are conducted efficiently and effectively.
• Facilitated timely backlog grooming.
• Tracked the team's progress using Agile metrics and tools, ensuring transparency, and
making necessary adjustments to keep the project on track.
• Mentored the Scrum team in Agile practices and principles, fostering a collaborative and
self-organizing environment.
• Efficiently and effectively performed front-end and back-end testing of mainframe
systems for a banking client.
• Performed installation testing, HA testing, and integration testing on the back end.
• Created automation test scripts using the Java Selenium TestNG framework for a
web-based load manager application.
• Created automation test scripts for Windows-based components using PowerShell.

• Performed API testing using Postman API.
• Took the initiative in improving application performance using JMeter and implemented
the same.
• Groomed the new talents into the team for a smooth onboarding project experience, and
provided KT.

Capgemini

Associate Consultant
10.2015 - 12.2018

Job overview

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) are conducted efficiently and effectively.
• Mentored the Scrum team in Agile practices and principles, fostering a collaborative and self-organizing environment.
• Tracked the team's progress using Agile metrics and tools, ensuring transparency, and making necessary adjustments to keep the project on track.
• Contributed as an Automation Test Engineer for a series of clients across different domains, such as Healthcare, Retail, Agriculture, and Transportation, using testing tools like HP UFT, Worksoft Certify, and CBTA.
• Worked on creating hybrid test automation frameworks involving different combinations of: Data Driven, Modular, Hybrid, and Business Process Testing.
• Wrote manual test cases for functional, client-centric, SAT, UAT, and regression.
• Contributed to Agile methodology using the Scrum approach over HP ALM. tool.
• Set up an automation framework for testing SAP HANA using UFT (VBScript).
• Created automation scripts for SAP (FI, FICO, FILO, Hana).
• Awarded bravo for automating over 200 test cases within a month.
• I did hands-on work using Selenium and TestNG on the SAP application and presented a
POC aimed at helping to reduce costs for which I received POB.

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Successfully spearheaded the implementation of a statistical feature, optimizing operations, increasing patient count by 200, and boosting ROI by 20% for the quarter.
  • Led cross-functional teams to secure FDA clearance for a Biofourmis project, ensuring timely releases. This expanded our presence in the US healthcare market and secured additional accounts.
  • Trained and successfully implemented healthcare regulatory compliances across all Biofourmis projects, ensuring every product meets regulatory standards
  • Strategized innovative testing solutions as QA Lead Manager, reducing defect rates by30% and boosting ROI.
  • Received accolades for skillfully presenting multiple product demonstrations to clients.
  • Received Bravo award for excellence in innovative solutions in the QA team and becoming the SME for chronic disease management guidelines (HF, HTN, Afib, LIPIDS).
  • Promoted to Technical Program Manager
  • Promoted to QA Team Lead Manager

Skills

  • Agile project management
  • Scaled Agile Framework
  • People management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Regulatory compliance in healthcare
  • System Analysis
  • Business and Data Analysis
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Technical writing
  • FDA submissions
  • Product demonstration to clients
  • Hiring and technical recruiting
  • QA (Automation and Manual)
  • Excellent domain knowledge in ChronicCare, GDMT, RPM & EWS
  • Excellent in communication
  • Expert in inter-personal skills
  • Business writing

Software

JIRA

Confluence

HP ALM

MS Office 365

Lucidchart

Figma

Copilot

ChatGPT

Java

Cucumber BDD

SQL

Postman API

Selenium Webdriver

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCareer advancementCompany CultureFlexible work hours

Certification

Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I

Education

KCG College of Technology
Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering from Electrical And Electronics Engineering
09.2011 - 05.2015

University Overview

Affiliations

Affiliations
  • Business English Certification (ESOL Cambridge)

References

References
References available upon request.

Interests

Trekking

Tree plantations

Monikongkana BharadwajTechnical Program Manager