Sonal Soni

• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
• Articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams.
• Managed backlog of user stories for 2 products simultaneously.
• Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams.
• Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
• Applied Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management process.

Key achievement:

• Planned and estimated 2-week sprints in a realistic yet time-efficient manner that allowed the teams to deliver 97% of the MVP according to the company roadmap.

• Used coordination, planning & execution skills to achieve outcomes on diversified area in Quarterly Business Review according to schedule with global PMO team, Senior leadership Team, Principal Chapter leads.
• Mentoring ,Engaging, training & monitoring the internal leadership team across the global for various area like SOW management under B2B.
• Defining & Tracking the Program outcomes as SME ,Keeping senior leadership team communication with the asks & timelines, metrics, ,its measures & reporting
• Engaging Vendor PMO team & keeping Telstra compliance intact.
• Resource OPEX & CAPEX control within Programs & Project budget forecast v/s actual tracking and monitoring the adjustments.
• Through understanding of various organization process & changes in process, keeping the leadership team aligned. Managing & mitigating the risks,issues, dependencies & assumptions.
• Setting up clear set of expectation in regards with the timelines, outcomes, inspire action across cross functional technical leaders
• Formulate strategic delivery plans, including options analysis, risk analysis, delivery projections and release planning based on qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Facilitate the prioritization of the Program Backlogs
• Lead their squad to provide a reliable approach to sizing work on a continuous basis.
• Collaboration with product and engineering leadership to ensure the squads backlog of stories are well formed such that they are ready for the squad to complete in the most effective manner.
• Facilitate highly effective agile & Program practices including standup's, planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Track and make visible all planned and in progress items against the delivery strategy.
• Remove impediments to the ability of the team to deliver as Servant Leader.

• Administered monthly and annual reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans and follow-up procedures.
• Project Engagement,Service delivery assignment,Project kick off,Client and stakeholder management, Assistance to the Senior Directors.
• Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis.
• Ensure adherences to quality standards and reviews project deliverables. Managed the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• Provided technical and analytical guidance to project team. Recommended and took action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems.
• Lead Global Pre-sales PMO team ,Communicated to client/vendors/leadership.
• Vendor Management: Liaison with Vendor & Customers for Project Initiation & Resource Allocation.  Point of contact for Project Initiation with the End customer account i.e. Arcadis, Honeywell, AMEX, Waste management, Macquarie, MasterCard, and General Motors & General Motors Financial.  Team engagement: Communicate project requirements RFQ to Sales Team, Project Managers Team & Service Delivery Team along with site representatives, contractors and contacts.
• Validating and verifying the customer requirement RFQ, RFC, Internal request for the simple change for right first time/through puts and routing to the team for action.Track resolution and implementation of the resolution.
• Designed project metrics that can be tracked, prepare communication plans for project status updates and chair periodic reviews.
• Monitor and challenge Heads to continually improve the accuracy of their program/project milestones/schedules and resource planning based on master program/project schedule.
• Billing initiation & invoicing.

• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into reports
• Taking care of annual revenue generating Medlar Testing team which consists of both Manual and Specialized Testing.
• Worked on a QA Managed Services proposal.
• Automate Monthly and Weekly Status reports
• Worked on initiatives such as below Usability testing and Performance Testing using Load Runner ,Website cross browser testing.
• Successfully introduced new processes for the Monthly Timesheet tracking ,Billing reconciliation
• Worked on Project Monitoring and controlling ,Weekly meeting with client and reporting the project status.
• Independently handled account Management Recruited and developed a team of 12 certified testing professionals (12 hires in 2 months)
• Act as Project Management officer by supervising the Project and Project Management process .
• Handled 6 stakeholders from different location including seamless communication  Involved in Test Management, Resource Planning and Program Management activities.

• Designed technical upgrade paths, incorporating requested functionality and performance enhancements.
• Perform Business analysis and preparation of functional requirement specification for customized ERP implementation to cater to customer requirements and training them on different modules.
• End to end process PMO framework tailoring, implementation & monitoring.
• Training the clients on different products and assist them in performing UATs.
• A high-performance Management professional, with expertise in PMO Operations and Process Consulting/Transition for global clients aimed at improving processes & delivering values, Project Management using Agile and traditional Project Management Methodologies.

• Assigned tasks to IT personnel and junior module staff, delegating work orders based on individual employee proficiencies.
• Requirement gathering and WBD documentation.
• Prepared status reports and communicated with customers on testing status periodically.
• Notably received customer appreciation for successful completion of Empty file testing in Application.
• Reporting daily and weekly project status to the Project Manager
• Participation in Designing & Providing solutions based on Product owner requirement.
• Requirements gathering using brainstorming session and workshop with the product owners and key users