VEERABHADRAM JETTA

Mobile: +1 201-920-8966.
Mail ID: [email protected]

A qualified, trained and a dynamic IT Professional having 17+ years of rich professional experience
PROJECT MANAGEMENT -PROGRAM MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER/RELEASE TRAIN
ENGINEER/HEALTH CARE / AUTOMATION /AGILE /MOBILE APPS

CORE SKILLS

 Certified Scrum Master (CSM)  Waterfall to AGILE transformation

 Release Train Engineer (RTE)  AGILE & SAFe (Scaled Agile)
 Health Care Knowledge  Data Engineering, Data Operations
 Project Management  Salesforce
 On-site & Offshore Coordination  Data
 Delivery Manager experience  Excellent Communication skills

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY

 17+ years of experience in IT industry and worked extensively in IT Quality and Development with Skill set as
JIRA, X-Ray, SQL, IBM Rational tools, SharePoint, Confluence, IMS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM and DB2.
 8+ years of experience in Project Management and Delivery Management
 5+ Years of experience in Program Management
 Extensive experience in Health care domain.
 Extensive experience in Data, Data Engineering and Data Operations
 Good experience in agile methodology and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
 Good experience as Program Manager, owns End to End delivery of the project.
 Very good experience on managing Risks and dependencies.
 As a Program Manager, I facilitate all Status meetings, collect LOE (Level of Estimates), work with team to
align resources, project plan, implementation, and release & training activities.
 Good Experience in participating/facilitating Go/No-Go meetings.
 Extensive experience in tracking overall health of the projects, status dashboards creation and status tracking
in JIRA.
 Good experience in Test-a-thon coordination with different teams (more than 30 scrum teams)
 Good experience in participating SAFe – PI meetings and defining/finalizing objectives for that PI.
 Extensive experience in technical understanding of development and automation.
 As a manager used to take care of all HR related actives for 5 direct reporters and manages deliverables
 Coordinated with Salesforce data team during the migration.
 Good experience in conducting team meetings with all resources to track regular delivery activates.
 Good experience in taking care of goal settings and performance appraisal to direct reporting resources.
 Extensive experience in working with the offshore teams & coordination.
 Good experience in monitoring direct reporter’s activities closely
 Extensive experience in conducting weekly/Bi-weekly/Monthly Governance meetings with Sr Management
 Experience in assessing the Risk and providing mitigation plan to project teams to meet the delivery deadline.

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 TECHNICAL SKILL SET

 Tools used: SPUFI, SOAP UI, Endeavour,  Mainframe : COBOL, JCL and IMS.
TSO/ISPF, Jira, X-ray, Version One, IBM Rational  Test types: System Integration, Regression, User-
tools, SharePoint, PeopleSoft, AQT and Confluence. Acceptance, Database and Black Box testing, In-
 Familiar with: Agile Methodology, TDD/BDD Model, sprint automation
Mainframe, SAFe, Agile and Kanban.  Tested Applications Built in: Java, .Net, C++,
 Domain: Health Care, Commercial Insurance and Mainframe, HTML
Banking  Operating Systems: Windows and Mainframe OS

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

 MSc (Information Systems), Kakatiya University, India.

 Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) - Kakatiya University, India.

CERTIFICATIONS

 Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) from Scrum Alliance

CAREER PROFILE
Release Train Engineer (RTE) / Program Manager – Anthem, FEB 2018 – TILL DATE
LOCATION: ST LOUIS, MO

 As a Program Manager, facilitate status meetings, coordinate with all teams, closely work with release
management team to finalize release schedule for the project.
 Work with the various stakeholders to ensure planning, strategy, and execution alignment.
 Closely work with teams and assist with prioritization decisions by facilitating feature and capability estimation.
 Good experience in managing risks, dependencies, and track impediments.
 Good experience in Test-a-thon coordination with different teams (more than 40 scrum teams).
 Good experience in Data Engineering like Design, implements, and operates large-scale, high-volume, high-
performance data structures for analytics.
 Good Experience in Data Operations to maximize the value of the data and the pipeline.
 Coordinated many meetings like solution reviews and requirement backlog reviews.
 Good experience in creating and tracking enablers/spike stories.
 Extensive experience in technical understanding of development and automation.
 Good experience in Waterfall to AGILE transformation.
 Extensive experience in working on Salesforce (CRM)
 Conducts demos with Product Owners in scrum meetings.
 Facilitated defect triage meetings (during test-a-thon) with different teams/scrum teams.
 Good understanding about Continuation Integration and Continuation Declivity in BDD/TDD model.
 Worked with many third-party vendors, to finalize solutions.
 Facilitated many production checkout meetings in during release nights.
 Coordinated with offshore teams and different onsite teams.
 Facilitated the release level Triage meeting to discuss about the defects & testing status.
 Own complete project delivery right from Discovery session to Production delivery
o SOW Management
o Invoicing from all vendors
o Time allocation and financial checks

Tools & Environment:

JIRA, JIRA Align, qTest, Confluence, MS Project, MS office and PowerPoint.

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 Manager Projects – Cognizant (worked at Anthem), FEB 2010 – FEB 2018
LOCATION: ST LOUIS, MO

 As a Manager, I had coordinated many End-to-End projects in Anthem commercial space.

 I participate in S2 and S3 (if required) meetings to address our team impediments call participation.
 Good experience in participating SAFe – PI meetings and defining objectives for that PI.
 Extensive experience in LOE (Level of Estimates) preparation (25%, 50% and 90%).
 Once project is approved, worked closely with teams on resource planning and project timelines.
 Good experience in working on multiple projects at a time.
 Good experience in understanding the project needs and working with appropriate teams.
 Good experience in creating and tracking enablers/spike stories.
 Extensive experience in technical understanding of development and automation.
 Conducting Test-a-thon with around 10 scrum teams across in Digital Technologies space
 Good experience in Waterfall to AGILE transformation
 Trained in Automation and In-sprint Automation and BDD & TDD
 Conducts demos with Product Owners in scrum meetings.
 Facilitated defect triage meetings with different teams/scrum teams.
 Good understanding about Continuation Integration and Continuation Declivity in BDD/TDD model
 Worked with many third-party vendors, to setup test data at their systems.
 Facilitated many production checkout meetings in Consumer Portal space during release nights.
 Developed and executed SQL queries in AQT to fetch data from DB2.
 Generated the Defect Status Report and send to the key stakeholders.
 Coordinated with offshore teams and different onsite teams.
 Extensive experience with SOW Management (Effort sizing, finalizing team, submitting SOW & Renewals)
 Extensive experience in Invoicing and time submission
 Facilitated the release level Triage meeting to discuss about the defects & testing status.

Tools & Environment:

JIRA, X-Ray, Confluence, SQL studio, CAD DB, SOAP UI, On Demand, Clarity DB, and Web Applications

Mainframe Programmer – Blue Cross Blue shield Rhode Island, JUN 2008 – FEB 2010
LOCATION: PROVIDENCE, RI

 Participated in project planning activities to determine scope of the project for development.
 Used to prepared clarification document and get it clarified all questions by business
 Prepared Detail Design documents from the Requirement Solution Document obtained from solutions team,
then present them in the Detail Design review meetings, secure approval from solution & business teams to
proceed further.
 Created and modified the many JCL’s while setting up the UAT environment.
 Heavily Used File-AID for VSAM files Management and analyzed the table data using SPUFI and QMF.
 Heavily used IDCAMS to created new GDG bases when necessary.
 Created UAT environment and automated all batch flow’s using CA-7 and CA-11.
 Created Test plans, Test scenarios, Test scripts, and executed all test cases.
 Involved in both black box and white box testing.
 Created production Job’s for new application and automated batch flow using CA-7 and CA-11.
 Extensive experience in Monthly, Weekly and Daily Job Calendar Scheduling in CA-7
 Extensively involved in testing for integrating the data between FACETS, Mainframe, Data Stage, Clear Cycle
and JCAPS.
 Created SFTP, Robo FTP, FTP, Robo File Watcher, and Trigger File Watcher JCL’s.
 Created new JCLs for Stone Branch Script, Data moves and Data balancing. Created new Procedures to
execute JCAPS run books.

Tools & Environment:

JCAPS, Facet, COBOL, JCL, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, Sort Utilities XPEDITER, Intertest, CA-7, CA-11, File Aid,
Test director and Remedy

Mainframe Programmer – CNA, MAR 2006 – MAY 2008

LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL
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  Communicating with Project Stakeholders in all phases of the engagement - Initiation, Planning, Execution,
Monitoring & Control, and Closing.
 Provided key input in working with users in defining project Requirement Solution Document (RSD).
 Direct and manage the Change Control process for the project as a whole by facilitating group meetings, one-
on-one interviews and corresponding through emails with work stream owners to discuss the impact of change
request on the project.
 Act as the primary liaison between the business units such as Rating, Forms & policy print, to collect business
requirements.
 Worked on technical specs & coding COBOL, DB2 and VSAM programs.
 Execute test batch via ESP to process transactions and to verify that the billing processes are executing
properly and research batch exceptions if there are any.
 Perform risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritize the
application development and testing.
 Recommended some impact decisions. Performed regression integration and functional testing on the builds of
the application.
 Analyzed the data using SPUFI.
 Responsible for setting up test JCL and PROCS in multiple environments for multiple code releases.
 Transmitted Production libraries and members to the test region and edited them for testing purposes.
 Verifying that the JCL, PROC, SYSIN changes are completed.

Tools & Environment: OS (IBM MVS/VM), COBOL II, MF COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, IMS,
TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST, XPEDITOR, File Aid & IDCAMS

Mainframe Programmer – AMEX, OCT 2005 – FEB 2006

LOCATION: CHENNAI – INDIA.

 Analyzed Cool: Plex Code and prepare Functional Understanding Documents.

 Prepared Process Flows, Preparation of Design and Business System Analyze documents.
 Prepared the functional specification and detail design documents
 Developed new programs and did few Enhancements to existing functionality using detailed design
documents.
 Conducted Peer reviews and provided comments accordingly.
 Analyzed many service requests and fixed them and used to prepare Root Cause Analysis documents.
 Used to interact with the clients, Business and Solution People.
 Involved in setting up the system and the process flows.
 Very much involved in team discussions.
 Created lot of documentation for the development team to help for easy maintenance.

Tools & Environment: Cool: Plex, AS400, DB2400, Visio 2003, VC++, IBM S390, MVS/ESA and OS2-PC.

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