Kumar Lav

KUMAR LAV Technology Project Manager • Control-M Enterprise Architect • Mainframe QA & Clearing Systems Expert Bengaluru, India • - • - • linkedin.com/in/Kumar Lav 11 Years | Global Payment System Giant | Clearing & Settlement | Workload Automation | Agile + Waterfall + Fixed-Price Delivery 11 YRS Total Experience 47+ Projects Delivered $14.6M Portfolio Managed 72K+ CTM Jobs Governed 99.997% Batch SLA Compliance 2,765+ QA Test Cases Authored Zero P1 Post-Release Defects Executive Summary Rare triple-domain expert combining 11 years of simultaneous, hands-on mastery across Technology Project Management, BMC Control-M Enterprise Architecture, and Mission-Critical Mainframe QA & Clearing. As a Project Manager: delivered 24 projects (Agile/SAFe, Waterfall, and Fixed-Price) totalling $14.6M portfolio value with a 96% on-time delivery record and zero budget overruns. As a Control-M Architect: designed and governs the enterprise workload automation estate of 70,000+ jobs across z/OS, UNIX, Windows, SAP, Informatica, and cloud platforms — driving $4.8M in documented OpEx savings. As a Mainframe QA & Clearing SME: authored 2765+ test cases covering ISO 8583, ISO 20022, SWIFT, ACH, and chargeback lifecycle flows; achieved zero P1 defect leakage to production across 4 consecutive fiscal years. Actively seeking a senior leadership role where all three competency pillars can be fully leveraged at scale. Core Competencies — Tri-Domain Mastery Project Management PMP, SAFe, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall SDLC, Fixed-Price Contract Delivery, SOW authoring, budget management ($80K–$3.8M), resource planning, risk registers, RAG reporting, RAID logs, stakeholder governance ,MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, change control, vendor management (BMC, IBM, Accenture, TCS) Control-M Platform BMC Control-M v9/18/19/21, Control-M/EM, Control-M/Server, Control-M/Agent (z/OS, UNIX, Windows, AIX, Solaris), AAPI, (WCM), SLA Management, BIM, Control-M Forecast, Helix SaaS, Control-M for SAP (XBP 3.0), Control-M for Informatica, Control-M MFT. Batch Scheduling Zeke, Zena ,CA-7, JCL stream authoring, critical path modelling, event-driven scheduling, Quantitative Resource pools, Smart Folder / Sub-Application taxonomy, calendar & active-period management, SLA breach early-warning. Mainframe & Ops IBM z/OS 2.4/2.5, VSAM KSDS/ESDS, DB2 for z/OS, ISPF/PDF, GDG management, OMEGAMON, XPEDITER, File-AID, AbendAid, Endevor SCM, IBM MQ, TSO/ISPF, checkpoint/restart. File Transmissions Connect: Direct .Sterling File Gateway, MFT, SFTP/FTPS, PGP/GPG encryption (AES-256), EBCDIC↔ASCII translation (CP037/UTF-8), SSL/TLS 1.3, certificate lifecycle management, partner onboarding, TCP/IP Clearing & Payments ISO 8583 v1987/1993/2003 (all DEs), ISO 20022 MX (pacs.008/002, camt.054), SWIFT MT103/940/950, ACH NACHA, SEPA, interchange presentment, settlement T+0/T+1/T+2, chargeback adjudication (Visa/MC reason codes), reconciliation balancing, BIN table management, cross-border FX conversion rules QA & Testing Test Analyst + Technical, Functional, Regression, SIT, UAT, Performance, Chaos/Resilience, Compliance, Data Integrity, Negative/Boundary, E2E Settlement Validation, PCI-DSS compliance testing, Shift-Left, 3-Amigos, ATDD, BDD/Gherkin, Zephyr Scale, HP ALM Automation & CI/CD Python, Git/GitHub Monitoring & Observability Control-M BIM, Splunk (SPL — CTM log forwarding, anomaly alerts), Dynatrace, OMEGAMON for z/OS, IBM RMF, ServiceNow ITSM (auto-incident), PagerDuty (escalation chains), Control-M Workload Change Manager Compliance & Governance PCI-DSS v4.0 (all applicable controls), SOX batch evidence, GDPR test data masking, ISO 27001, EMV 3DS 2.x, SWIFT CSCF, RBAC in Control-M, CAB change governance, Endevor promotion controls Professional Experience Wipro- Dec 2023 – present Vyom Labs – Oct 2022- July 2023 Capgemini –Sept 2018- Sept 2022 HCL Tech — Feb 2015- Aug 2018 Education , Certifications & Professional Credentials Certification Issuing Body Year Project Management Professional (PMP) (PMI) 2019 WPMP Wipro 2026 BMC Control-M Certified Professional — Workload Automation BMC Software 2018 MBAFM IGNOU 2025 MBAOM IGNOU 2026 Google GENAI L1/L2 Google 2025 ITIL 4 Foundation Wipro/Capgemini 2019 Architect Carrer Enablement Wipro 2025 MS GitHub L1/L2 Wipro 2025 B.E. C.S.E. Anna university, Chennai 2014 MBAFM I.G.N.O.U 2025 MBAOM I.G.N.O.U 2026