Abhijeet Gudadhe
Product Manager
Pune
Summary
Dynamic Product Manager with a proven track record at Avalara, adept in Agile Software Development and fostering team collaboration. Excelled in defining product visions that align with market needs and spearheading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions, enhancing product knowledge. Expert in stakeholder management and critical thinking.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Product Manager
Avalara
10.2021 - Current
- Product Vision: Defining the product vision, roadmap, and requirements to meet customer needs and business objectives.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborating with engineering, design, sales, marketing, and customer support teams to ensure successful product delivery.
- Customer Understanding: Gathering customer feedback, market research, and industry trends to inform product decisions.
- Prioritization: Prioritizing product features and requirements based on customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Developing go-to-market strategies to launch new products and features.
- Metrics and Analysis: Defining and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and inform future product decisions.
- Staying Up-to-Date: Keeping up with industry trends, regulatory changes, and competitor activity to ensure Avalara's products remain competitive and compliant.
- Documentation: Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Collaborated with sales teams to develop effective training materials that drove increased product knowledge among staff members, resulting in higher close rates.
- Implemented Agile methodologies for more efficient project management and team collaboration.
- Developed comprehensive product roadmaps, setting clear vision and direction for development team.
QA Lead
Avalara
10.2015 - 09.2021
- Coordinates and collaborates with the PM team, respective stakeholders, and Engineering team to understand the collected requirements and generate Test scenarios and test cases to meet them.
- Liaising with Business Analysts and product Owners to understand the business importance of delivering the change. Be able to confidently counter requirements & proposed solutions.
- Undertake risk assessment on change requirements in collaboration with business & Engineering teams.
- Standardized bug reporting methods for better communication between QA and development teams.
- Mentored junior team members, fostering growth and enhancing team performance.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
- Streamlined QA processes for improved efficiency, reducing project completion time.
- Optimized test coverage by defining clear test objectives and prioritizing scenarios based on risk assessment.
- Conducted root cause analysis on recurring defects, implementing preventative measures to reduce future occurrences.
- Enhanced software quality by developing comprehensive test strategies and plans.
- Facilitated seamless integration of new team members into ongoing projects through comprehensive training programs and documentation support.
- Implemented automation tools, increasing testing accuracy and reducing manual effort.
- Reduced defect leakage by effectively conducting regression testing after each release cycle.
- Developed reusable test scripts for efficient execution across multiple platforms and environments.
- Design test automation scripts in Selenium – Java with TestNG.
Lead Analyst - Testing
Nitor Infotech
02.2012 - 10.2015
- Product understanding and creating the understanding document.
- Prepared Test Plan. Participation in Scrum, Sprint Planning, and Spring Review Meetings.
- Design Functional, UI Test Cases and review the other team member’s test cases as well.
- Design, review, execution, and maintenance of Test Automation Scripts in Selenium – Java.
- Performing Functional Testing, Retesting, Regression Testing, User Interface Testing, Exploratory Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Smoke Testing, Ad-Hoc Testing.
- Prepared defect list document on daily basis.
- Conducted Usability Testing and prepared the necessary reports for the same.
- Inform Project Lead/ Project Manager on any issues that could potentially impact the Quality, Schedule of the Project / Release.
QA Engineer
Livepages Infotech
11.2010 - 02.2012
- Understand and analyze Functional, Technical & UI requirements of the project/release.
- Create Test Scenarios, Test Conditions, Expected Results, and Test cases.
- Manual execution of Test cases.
- Performing Functional Testing, Retesting, Regression Testing, User Interface Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Smoke Testing, Ad-Hoc Testing.
- Maintaining Bug Reports signifying the status of bugs in TFS.
- Inform Test Lead on any issues that could potentially impact the Quality, Schedule of the Project / Release.
- Coordination with the Development and BA Teams.
- Status reporting.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
University of Pune
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science -
University of Pune
04.2001 -
Skills
Product Lifecycle Management
Product Development
Project Planning
Product Vision and Strategy
Roadmap development
Product Roadmaps
Critical Thinking
Requirements Gathering
Agile Software Development
Interpersonal Communication
Product Metrics Analysis
Data Analytics
Jira, Atlassian, Wiki
Stakeholder Management
Product Backlog Management
Stakeholder Communications
Competitive Analysis
User Story Creation
Feature Prioritization
Product Validation
Troubleshooting and QA
Software Development
Problem-Solving
Root Cause Analysis
Team Collaboration
Problem-solving aptitude
Market Analysis
Training and Onboarding
Languages
English
Hindi
Marathi
Certification
CSPO
Timeline
Product Manager
Avalara
10.2021 - Current
CSPO
08-2021
CSM
04-2021
QA Lead
Avalara
10.2015 - 09.2021
Lead Analyst - Testing
Nitor Infotech
02.2012 - 10.2015
QA Engineer
Livepages Infotech
11.2010 - 02.2012
Master of Computer Applications -
University of Pune
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science -
University of Pune
04.2001 -