Priyanka Chourasia

• Create and oversee project timelines, tasks, responsibilities, and deliverables for all Team projects
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks, and ensure outcomes and successful delivery
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define and document project scopes, detailed functional and non-functional requirements when needed, and proactively manage dependencies
• Communicate regular project updates across all stakeholder groups
• Understand, adopt, and drive Agile Scrum framework
• Serve as Scrum Master and work with team members to resolve issues and eliminate roadblocks
• Analyze key metrics impacting the velocity/performance /progress of initiatives
• Refine project management methods into a system that will become the standard procedure for organizing and managing projects across the Team, and own the design, development, implementation, and governance of these processes
• Explore and provide strategic opportunities and recommendations to inform projects, roadmaps, and team needs, for leadership consideration
• Provide thought leadership and drive structure for the strategic project management function, as well as for the team

Project overview:- Revamp of Investor mobile app

Program objective is to revamp existing app to improvise performance and experience of user journey.

• Responsible for vendor evaluation
• Responsible for vendor management.
• Responsible for bridging gap for requirement analysis and understanding with ops as well as vendor.
• Responsible for cost negotiation and savings
• Responsible for ensuring no functional/technical impact.
• Responsible for facilitating API deliveries and right implementation of same.
• Project tracking as well as status update to all stakeholders.
• Timely escalation.
• Responsible for timely deliveries.

Project overview: -Revamp of Purchase Journey on Invest Easy Website

Program objective is to re-engineer purchase journey with “Mobile First” approach and enhance desktop experience.

• Attend meetings with client’s business and operations team to understand requirement.
• Responsible for analyzing requirements and estimating efforts.
• Responsible for project planning, prioritization and release deliveries.
• Responsible for regular status update to all stakeholders.
• Responsible for translating BRD in to understanding documents and estimating efforts along with development team.
• Proactively analyze and manage changes in scope to achieve timeline.
• Prepare definition of done/Acceptance criteria and get it signed off from operations.
• Work with development team closely to track deliverables.
• Lead QA team for delivering quality and timely releases Knowledge transfer to support team on new enhancements.
• Categorizing change requests and bugs/issues.
• Ensuring code management using GIT.

• End to end planning, execution and monitoring of key project aspects like schedule, cost, scope and quality for solution and infra delivery.
• Implementation of releases in UAT.
• Responsible for Production deployment of the releases.
• Leading the reconciliation issues of GL difference across assets and core banking system

• Project overview – SAS Anti money laundering application
  
  5.5 Years, INR 10+ Crores, and Team Size: 4, Framework: Waterfall
  
  Program objective is to build strong and robust anti money laundering solution engine that can monitor each and every type of transactions done in the bank by the customers and generate alerts for suspicious transactions which can be actioned upon by group of auditors. SAS India PVT Ltd is the primary vendor for this solution.
  
  Responsibilities:
• End to end planning, execution and monitoring of key project aspects like schedule, cost, scope and quality for solution and infra delivery.
• Team up with various teams of the Bank for detailed project plan with baselines cost, time and scope.
• Implementation of releases in UAT.
• Implementation of releases in Production and DR environment.
• Performing system integration testing (SIT) for all enhancements.
• Manage data migration from different applications to new solution.
• Manage procurement of infrastructure.
• Liaise between vendor and business for planning and execution.
• Manage SDLC activities.
• Provide timely reports/dashboards to senior executives.
• Manage risks, issues and change requests in per defined procedures.
• Ensure PMO policies and guidelines are followed for quality and governance .
• Closing and review of contracts with the vendors.
• Testing of enhancements.

Project –Integration of enterprise OCR with Trade on net Application

Ongoing, INR 2.5+ Crores, and Team Size: 2, Framework: Waterfall & Agile

HDFC bank has a very robust trade on net application and to take it to another level, we implemented OCR which is expected to automatically fetch the data from trade documents uploaded by the customer and auto populate it on front end. This is expected to give customers a different level of pleasant experience banking with HDFC.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and document requirement from Trade on net team
  Finalize the approach of integration of enterprise OCR engine with TON.
• Manage infrastructure solution and technical design
• Manage vendor deliveries and ensure internal support in delivering integrations
• Plan the project execution and manage external and internal dependencies
• Ensure all stakeholders are identified for a seamless planning and execution
• Ensure effected service owners are aware of project deliveries and render support in system study, integration, requirement gathering and risk analysis
• Providing technical consultancy in infrastructure, migration, system integration, deployment and performance testing streams
• Ensure timely testing, training and documentation delivery.
  Ensure all IT risks, security risks are addressed for smooth go-live of the project.
• Testing of enhancements
• Test bed preparation
• Preparation of test plan and test cases
• Release deployment to production and support during cooling period
• Test bed preparation.
• Preparation of test plan and test cases.
• Release deployment to production and support during cooling period.

Project – eThic audit workflow automation Application

1.5 Years, INR 2.5+ Crores, and Team Size: 4, Framework: Waterfall & Agile

Program objective is to automate the entire branch audit workflow which happens manually currently by implementing a new production from NCS soft solutions pvt ltd named, Ethic. This software will automate end to end audit flow in the system which includes audit planning, scheduling, team assignment, audit commencement, report release, gap discussion with the branch and compliance of the gaps. This application was a big project as this software was to be used across 4500+ branches of HDFC bank with a user load of around 14500 + users.

Responsibilities:

• Manage infrastructure solution and technical design.
• Manage vendor deliveries and ensure internal support in delivering integrations.
• Plan the project execution and manage external and internal dependencies.
• Ensure all stakeholders are identified for a seamless planning and execution.
• Ensure effected service owners are aware of project deliveries and render support in system study, integration, requirement gathering and risk analysis.
• Providing technical consultancy in infrastructure, migration, system integration, deployment and performance testing streams.
• Ensure timely testing, training and documentation delivery.
• Cost Savings of more than INR 65 Lacs.
• Testing of enhancements.
• Test bed preparation.
• Preparation of test plan and test cases.
• Release deployment to production and support during cooling period.

Project –Automation of NPA reporting

This application was built to automate the reporting of non-performing assets to RBI. This application was very complex in terms of integration as it involved extracting data from various sources of the bank and running complex ETL workflow.

Responsibilities:

• Manage infrastructure solution and technical design.
• Manage vendor deliveries and ensure internal support in delivering integrations.
• Plan the project execution and manage external and internal dependencies.
• Ensure all stakeholders are identified for a seamless planning and execution.
• Ensure effected service owners are aware of project deliveries and render support in system study, integration, requirement gathering and risk analysis.
• Providing technical consultancy in infrastructure, migration, system integration, deployment and performance testing streams.
• Ensure timely testing, training and documentation delivery.
• Ensure all IT risks, security risks are addressed for smooth go-live of the project.
• Database restorations and liaising with different source systems.
• Autosys implementation for all the ETL jobs