Project Manager - REMOTE

Working with a renowned public insurance organization
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Responsibilities
a)Creating, executing, and managing project plans, following agile methodology, practices, and ceremonies {program increment planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives), based on direction and priorities established by program sponsors and stream leads.
b)Managing the testing schedule, milestones. deliverables, and action items for projects.
c)Organizing and overseeing release of key deliverables for acceptor and/or approvers.
d)Deploying and managing the appropriate framework to meet the testing mandate
e)Creating. deploying, maintaining and adapting solid test processes in a fast-paced environment
f)Driving technical quality assurance efforts including user acceptance, regression and integration testing
g)Liaising proactively with the business, production support, information technology and project
teams
h)Performing detailed test analysis and writing test plans and cases to industry standards
i)Managing and coordinates activities to ensure tasks are executed according to the plan and objectives.
j)Leading project discussions and participates as an active member of the project team.
k)Understanding the nature of work performed by the project and provides recommendations on best practices to plan and execute to meet expected timelines and quality deliverables.
I)Logging, maintaining, and escalating raid (risks, actions, assumptions, issues, decisions, dependencies) on behalf of project using project software tool, Azure DevOps. Following up and acting as required.
m)Managing statements of work and tracking vendor deliverables to ensure scope, timelines, and contractual commitments are met
n)Facilitating daily and weekly agile ceremonies for the project.
o)Attending governance forums and provides updates on behalf of the project, including risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers.
p)Proactively identifies and manages interdependencies and constraints between streams to reduce delivery risk.
q)Ensuring the appropriate governance structure is maintained on the project.
r)Contributing to defining and assessing project success and readiness criterion factors and measurements.
s)Collaborating and sharing knowledge with the program management team to ensure consistency among streams and leverage best practices to ensure overall project delivery and success.
t)Working closely to resolve conflicts and competing priorities between streams.

Qualifications
1.Degree in Business, Commerce. Computer Science or equivalent
2.Project Management Professional (PMP), Scaled Agile (SAFe) certification or designation.
3.Quality Assurance certifications such as Certified Manager of Software Quality (CMSQ), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSOA) or Certified Associate in Software Quality (CASO).
4.10 years related experience, of which three (3) should be in a senior quality assurance project manager role in an enterprise n-tier system environment with a mix of custom, packaged and configured applications

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