Arjun Ramesh
Project Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Self-driven and creative IT professional with 11+ years of experience in SDLC within both product and service based companies. Skilled in analysis, planning, estimation, implementation, and delivery. Collaborates effectively with engineering teams to ensure high-quality product development. Demonstrates strong understanding of business standards, processes, tools, and methodologies. Known for excellent management skills and meticulous attention to detail. Thrives in high-pressure situations, delivering prompt and precise results. Possesses exceptional client handling abilities.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Trika Technologies
Bangalore
03.2024 - Current
- Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
- Analyzed data from various sources such as surveys, interviews, focus groups. to inform decision-making related to projects.
- Presented findings from data analysis in a clear, concise manner that was easily understood by stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
- Drafted reports summarizing progress made on projects for review by executive leadership team.
- Participated in cross-functional teams responsible for developing innovative solutions for complex problems.
- Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams as needed for successful completion of projects.
- Advised other departments on best practices related to managing large-scale projects.
- Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.
- Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Managed multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously.
- Created and implemented processes to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Communicated effectively with stakeholders to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget.
- Identified risks associated with each project and developed strategies for mitigating those risks.
- Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
- Reviewed project risks and devised proactive strategies to avoid potential roadblocks.
Scrum Master - 3M Project
Compliance Quest
02.2023 - 12.2023
- Developed goals, tasks, and implementation plans of new and upgraded Salesforce projects.
- Work with Product Management to agree and articulate planned deliverables for each sprint.
- Coordinate all product-level design, development, and test activities to maintain a regular and predictable release cadence.
- Facilitate regular product stand-ups, set priorities, review and retrospect, and work to resolve impediments to progress.
- Created exclusive Agile dashboard, regular MOMs, sprint reports, and delivery artifacts.
- Liaise frequently with key internal and external stakeholders on project progress, RAID, mitigation plans, change, and sign-offs.
- Maintain constant interaction with the engineering team on process, leave plans, work logs, performance improvements, and recognition.
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Photon
Chennai
07.2021 - 12.2022
- Owned complete planning to delivery of Azure lift and shift project
- Experience in release forecasting, risk management, assumptions, issues & dependencies
- Act as a custodian for the Agile process and ensures all scrum processes are used as intended
- Maintain the product backlog and release plans, publish reports to ensure the product owner is updated about the team progress
- Mentors the team, remove barriers to successful implementation and keeps them focused on the task at hand
- Understand business pain points and derive scalable solutions in consultation with product management team
- Strong understanding and demonstrated experience in Agile softwares such as Jira and Confluence
- Ensure Scrum artifacts are accurate, including progress tracking through burn-up/ burn-down charts, velocity/capacity metrics and views
Scrum Master/QA Lead
Nova Leah - Dundalk, Ireland (Encora)
Dundalk
03.2018 - 06.2021
- Worked closely with Product Owners in prioritizing and developing the product roadmap
- Facilitate regular agile ceremonies, e.g
- Planning, backlog refinement, standups, sprint demos and retrospectives
- Experience in Confluence and Jira for documentation and project management respectively
- Ensured all quality checks, risk assessment, processes and procedures have been followed by the teams in relation to all releases to production
- Coordinated test activities with the team to ensure test coverage
- Collaborated with agile teams to identify integration points for new work
- Framework 1: Rest API Automation with Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Maven
- Framework 2: Cypress, Javascript, Jasmine, Mocha, Jenkins
Sr. QA Engineer
Cook Medical
Limerick
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Involved in both white-box and block-box testing of Cook's in-house applications
- Framework designed: Java, Selenium, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, log4j
- Conducted Functional, Regression, Smoke testing across browsers
- Worked with business users and was involved in user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Involved in reporting and triaging of defects during test execution and verified that the resolved bugs have been fixed in test environment
Testing Engineer
Infosys
Chennai
06.2013 - 08.2016
- Reviewed software requirements and developed test plans, strategies, and scenarios to ensure all requirements are met.
- Conducted functional, system integration, regression, stress, performance and user acceptance testing.
- Created detailed bug reports with steps to reproduce the issue and worked with developers to resolve them quickly.
- Designed test cases based on use cases and business requirements documents.
- Executed manual tests and generated comprehensive test results for review by stakeholders.
- Utilized defect tracking tools such as JIRA to document issues encountered during testing cycles.
- Worked closely with development teams to ensure product quality is maintained throughout the software lifecycle.
- Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirements.
- Developed automated scripts for web-based applications using Selenium WebDriver.
Education
Master of Engineering - Computer & Comm. Systems
University of Limerick
09.2017
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Comm. Science
Madras University
04.2014
Skills
- Project planning and development
- Critical thinking
- Estimation
- Monitoring and Control
- Reporting and analysis
- Jira
- Azure Devops
- Confluence
- Project tracking
- Root Cause Analysis
- Work flow planning
- Risk Management
- Resource Allocation
- Schedule Management
- Agile Methodology
- Stakeholder Communications
- Feasibility analysis
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Processes and procedures
- Quality assurance and control
Certification
- ISTQB - Foundation
- Certified Scrum Master
- Lean Six Sigma - Yellow belt
Accomplishments
- Awarded Select Evidence quarterly award for exceptional performance as a Scrum Master, demonstrating expertise in Agile transformation and quick project delivery (2020)
- Best performer award for QA operations in displaying great attention to detail and for being a solid gatekeeper for a quality project
TRAILHEAD COURSES
- Salesforce Admin - Beginner
- Salesforce Admin - Intermediate
Timeline
Project Manager
Trika Technologies
03.2024 - Current
Scrum Master - 3M Project
Compliance Quest
02.2023 - 12.2023
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Photon
07.2021 - 12.2022
Scrum Master/QA Lead
Nova Leah - Dundalk, Ireland (Encora)
03.2018 - 06.2021
Sr. QA Engineer
Cook Medical
01.2017 - 01.2018
Testing Engineer
Infosys
06.2013 - 08.2016
- ISTQB - Foundation
- Certified Scrum Master
- Lean Six Sigma - Yellow belt
Master of Engineering - Computer & Comm. Systems
University of Limerick
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Comm. Science
Madras University
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