Ruchika Panwar
Project Manager
Summary
Almost 8 years of professional experience in the field of Information Technology with expertise in Management, leadership and Development in the domains of E-Commerce, Utility and Academic with a good command on design, development, testing and deployment of web based and software applications and serving as the highly motivated IT project manager who was responsible for being on the front line leading and facilitating the requirements and delivery of application development solutions while utilizing the agile leadership skills and technical proficiency with the focus of amplifying business growth through innovative practices.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager
IqubeTechnologies Inc/Client- Walmart
11.2020 - 5 2022
- Worked closely with Walmart business teams, technical leads, design teams and development teams onsite/offshore to ensure delivery of application on time with high quality
- Allocating resources, including personnel, equipment, and budget, to ensure that project is completed on time and within budget
- Ensuring that all project documentation, including requirements, design documents, and test plans, are complete and up-to-date
- Involved in managing changes to project scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and that changes are properly documented
- Involved in Identifying potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them, ensuring that project stays on track and within budget
- Involved in managing team of developers, designers, and other professionals, ensuring that everyone is working together effectively and efficiently
- Providing training and support to end-users
- Continuously evaluate project processes and procedures, looking for ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Coach, guide and mentor teams on Agile/Scrum practices and techniques
- Responsible for providing written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates
- Involved in Planning, executing and finalizing projects according to strict deadlines, delivering projects on time and within budget.
Scrum Master
Continental Utility Solutions (CUSI)
05.2016 - 08.2020
- Involved in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Requirement gathering, Designed Analysis and Code development using Agile Methodology
- Work closely with project owner in backlog management
- Managed conflict resolution effectively, resulting in smoother team communication and collaboration
- Managed team of 10 web application developers
- Improved team productivity by introducing Scrum
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospectives, stakeholders meetings, Story refinement, release planning and Sprint Demos
- Supported product owner with documentation of User Stories and Acceptance criteria
- Conducted retrospective meetings to identify process improvements, leading to increase in team productivity and reduction in project risks
- Acted as Agile mentor for 6 teams by coaching cross-functional team members(Dev, QA, BA, Architecture)
- Good experience on quality control, used JIRA for tracking defects, submitting defects, reviewing Backend Code issue and closing defects
- Removed obstacles and managed risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness
- Agile framework(scrum, kanban), Jira and Jira portfolio, focusing on removing impediments from team
- And delivering customer centric product and features.
Application Developer (Graduate Assistant)
Arkansas State University
11.2014 - 05.2016
- Designed and developed microservices using Spring-Boot based Restful web service interface and use Rest Controllers to serve with JSON data and used JWT for authentication and authorization for RESTful APIs
- Implemented Centralized External Configuration using spring cloud-config server, Load Balancing, Service Registry and Service Discovery using Eureka server and fallback Methods using Circuit Breaker (Hystrix) from Spring Cloud Netflix OSS components
- Involved in automation build trigger of application using Jenkins CICD pipeline and Kubernetes for application deployment
- Used Karate Framework to test Rest APIs endpoints
- Worked extensively on various spring modules: Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud
- Used Java concepts such as Java 8 features such as Streams API, Functional Interface, Lambda Expression, Exception Handling, Collection
- Provide support for testing, defects fixing and maintenance of code base, code deployment, triage support and manage those items up through pipeline to prod
- Involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of academic project in AState, Requirement gathering, Designed Analysis and Code development
- Provided support for testing, defects fixing and maintenance of code base, code deployment, triage support and manage those items up through pipeline to prod
- Involved in Bug fixing of various modules that were raised by testing teams in application during Integration testing phase
- Implemented cache mechanism to increase performance of subsequent requests and deliver response from service layer to frontend.
Education
Master’s in Computer Science -
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas 08.2014 - 05.2016
Skills
Agile Tools(Jira, Confluence, Trello)
Agile Methodology- (Scrum, Kanban)
Project Planning
Scheduling
Resource allocation
Budget Management and Forecasying
Stakeholder Management
Staff Management
Project Management
Project Tracking
Coaching and Mentoring
Risk Management
Document Management
Presentations
Resource Allocation
User Stories
Github
CICD
Scalability
Quality Assurance
Communication Skills
Client Relations
Timeline
Project Manager
IqubeTechnologies Inc/Client- Walmart
11.2020 - 5 2022
Scrum Master
Continental Utility Solutions (CUSI)
05.2016 - 08.2020
Application Developer (Graduate Assistant)
Arkansas State University
11.2014 - 05.2016
Master’s in Computer Science -
Arkansas State University
08.2014 - 05.2016
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