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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

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 -

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