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Sumalatha Hosahalli.

Summary

  • Results-driven Technical Program Manager with 15 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex, high-impact projects on time and within budget. Expertise in Project/ program management, stakeholder engagement, and driving scalable technical solutions. Proficient in Agile methodologies, risk management, and fostering collaboration between engineering, product, and business teams. Passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges.
  • Test Management: Overseeing the testing & Automation process to ensure high-quality outcomes.
  • Team Leadership: Leading a dedicated team of 22+ QA & Automation professionals and fostering a collaborative work environment including Outsourcing partners.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President / Technical Program Manager

Kotak Mahindra Bank, Parts
11.2024 - Current
  • Leading the Data Engineering team as a Technical Program Manager, driving projects from initial Business Requirement Document (BRD) validation to stakeholder communication for production readiness
  • Providing weekly status updates to the leadership team to ensure transparency and strategic alignment
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to manage interdependencies and drive seamless project execution
  • Establishing and monitoring KPI metrics to define and evaluate project success criteria
  • Tracking project progress and performance through Azure DevOps dashboards to ensure timely delivery
  • Developing and enforcing standardized processes for each stage of the project lifecycle to maintain quality and consistency
  • Advance Auto, Project : Data Analytics\IT Finance

Project / Program Manager

GSPANN Technologies
04.2020 - 11.2024
  • Provide strategic leadership and oversight for two large-scale, mission-critical programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and successful delivery
  • Ensure software delivery excellence and quality across the entire Data Analytics domain
  • Plan, coordinate, and drive the end-to-end execution of all projects within the Data domain
  • Lead and promote the adoption of the ADVS Python automation tool to streamline processes and enhance efficiency
  • Projects
  • Data Lake 2.0, EDW Data Vault Migration projects
  • Oracle Fusion
  • Spearhead the test strategy and execution of Intrepid
  • Driven the process initiatives to transition the Application software SQA test practices to deliver stable software quality and the test artifacts
  • Increased efficiencies in the test organization systems, artifacts and processes
  • Built & established a high-performance team of 22+ SQA engineers and contractors

Senior Tech Lead

01.2019 - 04.2020
  • Leading 2 scrum teams
  • Defining Test strategy, Test estimations, creating RTM for BI and ETL testing
  • Technical mentoring & troubleshooting of (solution test) engineers
  • Projects
  • Fixing & Enhancing test scripts – End-to-End data test scripts
  • Technologies involved – SSRS, SQL, Jira
  • Cognizant Technologies”
  • Project : Test Manager for JPMorgan Test Team

Manager

01.2018 - 07.2018
  • Test Manager for new platform Test development activities
  • Test leader for critical customer programs
  • Creation of test strategies, resource planning, executing test cycle, participate in cross-functional meets, Bug Scrubs, Design / Test review meetings and automation
  • Zensar Technologies.

Test Lead

Optum
04.2014 - 11.2017
  • Held primarily responsible for the technical & leadership for the complete product test cycles & automation efforts for the Beach Body product lines
  • The new software releases & regression cycles on the product line are handled by the GW test group
  • Independent technical contributions in core test activities:
  • Test strategy development – Work upfront on a new release test activity with marketing & engineering
  • Test plan creation & Test plan reviews
  • Test scheduling & monitoring release test progress
  • Optimized lab network design, new device bring up/configuration/maintenance
  • Test automation & inputs to test automation framework development
  • Manage on release test & unplanned and support activities
  • Supervisory activities undertaken for the team:
  • Test execution progress by engineers
  • Reviews of Test plans/ Test reports/ Automation
  • Technically involved in every aspect of the project
  • Mentor & guide the team on new technologies
  • Involved in Test process creation, implementation, and adherence
  • (Previously United Health Group), Project : NHI HUMEDICA INTEGRATION

07.2011 - 04.2014
  • As an onsite lead for NHI my responsibilities included owning the following tasks
  • Understanding the customer requirements
  • Recommending product features for new releases to the product management and the customer on a common set of product features
  • Technical responsibilities included:
  • Final product functional specifications
  • Product architecture & design evolution across releases
  • Design reviews on all components – Database design and Test framework features & usability aspects
  • Review of all design specs (high-level & detailed)
  • Test planning & Test execution
  • Documentation of product collateral – Release notes, and user guides
  • Customer support on product issues – all issues were reviewed
  • TCS.”
  • Project : Cigna.

03.2009 - 07.2011
  • Writing test cases on, Staging tables, Dimension tables, Fact tables and executing them in SQL developer
  • End to End Test execution.

Education

Master of Computer Application -

<ul><li>Professional Scrum Master</li><li>AHM 250</li></ul> -

Skills

  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Participating in initiatives that give back to the community
  • Campus Recruitment: Engaging in campus hiring to identify and attract new talent
  • Women in Engineering: Supporting initiatives aimed at empowering women in the workplace
  • Software Products
  • Tools
  • Data Analyst Skills
  • Data Quality, Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Mapping, Data Profiling; Data Extraction, Transformation, Loading (ETL); Star and Snowflake Schema; Data Objects Creation
  • Cloud Technologies
  • AWS, Snowflake, Oracle Fusion
  • Languages
  • SQL, Cobol, DB2, JCL, SAS, Python, Gherkin(Cucumber)
  • Functional Testing
  • Web Application & API testing ,Oracle Fusion Application
  • Database/ Database Tools
  • DB2, IMS, Mainframes, Teradata, Toad, SQL Developer, Oracle, SparkSQL ,Spark Data Frames, Snowflake
  • Big Data
  • Hadoop, Hive, Apache Drill, Spark,Data Vault
  • Reporting tools
  • Cognos, OBIEE, Power BI
  • Bug Tracking tools
  • HP QC, JIRA, Zephyr
  • Special Software/ Tools
  • Ultra-Edit, , File-Aid, RDE (Proclaim GUI), ViPr 60 (Proclaim GUI) &, JIRA, TestRail ,Share point
  • Operating Systems
  • Windows
  • Methodologies
  • Agile, Waterfall, V model

Additional Information

  • ISTQB , Oracle SQL Visa- H1B B1 Awards STAR of the month Award.

Timeline

Vice President / Technical Program Manager

Kotak Mahindra Bank, Parts
11.2024 - Current

Project / Program Manager

GSPANN Technologies
04.2020 - 11.2024

Senior Tech Lead

01.2019 - 04.2020

Manager

01.2018 - 07.2018

Test Lead

Optum
04.2014 - 11.2017

07.2011 - 04.2014

03.2009 - 07.2011

Master of Computer Application -

<ul><li>Professional Scrum Master</li><li>AHM 250</li></ul> -

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