About

Balamurugan Manickam is an accomplished IT Project Manager with 19.6 years of experience in project management and delivery assurance. He is a PMP and Certified Scrum Master with excellent communication and people management skills across multiple domains. Balamurugan has a good understanding of QA methodology, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and experience in complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle. He is proficient in analyzing business requirements, system requirement specifications, functional requirement specification, efforts estimation, and design documents to formulate test strategies, test plans, and test cases. Balamurugan has experience in using testing methodologies like Agile and Waterfall methods. He has conducted Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings. He has trained teams on Agile Processes and ensured the adoption and compliance of agile practices. Balamurugan has liaised and interacted with offshore and onsite management. He has also provided additional oversight for deployment-related activities during Go-Live. Balamurugan is currently working as a Project Manager at disys. He facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospectives. He supports the Product Owners with updating and grooming the product backlog. He identifies and removes impediments to development teams' progress and protects the teams from outside distractions. Balamurugan is responsible for end-to-end service delivery for the portfolio/LOB being managed, ensuring management reports are circulated to the relevant stakeholders as per agreed timelines. He devises corrective and preventive actions for any Service Level breaches, near misses, and customer escalations. He continuously follows up with the support team for relevant notification updates per SLA and drives resolution. Balamurugan has worked with Cardio P Services of America, Ltd. as a Technical Consultant and with Salzer Technologies Limited as a Scrum Master. He has a degree in M.C.A from A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College and completed Higher Secondary School from Don Bosco Mat. Hr. Sec. School, Thanjavur. Balamurugan is PMP Certified, Scrum Master Certified, ITIL4 Certified, and HP QC 9.2 & QTP 9.2 Certified. His specialties include test, SQL, QA, Software Engineer, CI/CD, and Integration. With over 21.05 years of relevant experience, Balamurugan is a valuable