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Work History
Education
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Certification
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Geetika Gagneja

Software Engineer Manager - Automation
Bangalore

Summary

With a proven track record in team leadership, planning and Organizational skills cultivated throughout a successful career, adeptly managed teams, empowering employees to autonomously navigate daily functions and fulfils stakeholder requirements. As a meticulous trainer and mentor with outstanding management capabilities and a results-driven approach, excel in Quality Assurance operations, policies, and procedures. 8+ years experience extends to recruiting and developing individual team members, and remain steadfast in commitment to rigorously evaluate product quality and manufacturing processes, ensuring outstanding results and customer satisfaction.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates

Work History

Consulatant - Agile and Leadership Coach

Freelancer
10.2023 - Current
  • Identified workflow inefficiencies to formulate and implement operational improvements at network level.
  • Monitored and analysed clients' progress, results and overall satisfaction to implement process improvement initiatives.
  • Provided coaching and mentoring to employees.
  • Assisting clients how to handle situations in case of rightsizing
  • Fostered positive, proactive and professional relationships to achieve short- and long-term team goals.
  • Troubleshot, brainstormed and collaborated with fellow coaches on ways to make coaching more impactful for clients.
  • Utilised variety of instructional agile methodologies to create effective learning experiences.

Software Engineer Manager - Automation

Planview India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
02.2016 - 09.2023
  • Organized and led staff orientation programs and training to promote collaboration.
  • Applied coaching techniques and tools to support managers and team members in improving performance.
  • Facilitated onboarding sessions and on-the-job training for new hires, supporting employee job position knowledge and skillset.
  • Design and Implemented one Single Automation Framework for API and UI automation for Enterprise application
  • Established and tracked quality department goals and objectives.
  • Developed quality planning for multiple new product features by implementing Shift left approach.
  • Implemented Definition of Ready and Definition of Done in teams
  • Implemented Dashboard depicting customer bugs with various charts
  • Implemented strategic program aimed at fostering closer collaboration between Customer Care and Development teams, resulting in significantly optimised bug resolution time
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.

Principal Software Engineer

EFI India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
05.2006 - 02.2016
  • Implemented end-to-end automation for desktop application through API's and UI, reducing test costs by 30%.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
  • Researched and selected automation tools, prioritizing cost-effective solutions to shorten workflows.
  • Participated in different phases of test automation code review meetings, providing input on colleagues' coding efforts.
  • Integrated test automation into all layers of application stacks to improve product quality.
  • Worked with project managers, developers and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Oversaw all software releases with eye for quality and understanding of project deadlines.
  • Collaborated on hiring, retention, and promotion of junior engineers.
  • Mentored QA engineers via careful supervision through entire onboarding process and beyond.
  • Maintained current and extensive knowledge of various programming languages

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

Lingaya's Institute of Management And Technology
Faridabad, HR
10.2001 - 05.2005

MBA - Finance

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
Pune
07.2008 - 06.2010

Skills

    Coaching and mentoring

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Accomplishments

  • Used Microsoft PowerBI to develop dashboard for the customer issues
  • Supervised team of 12 staff members.
  • Participated in "Force for Good" events
  • Led the POSH committee as presiding officer

Certification

Certified SAFe Agilist

Interests

Trekking

Running and Cycling

Reading

Writing Journal

Timeline

Consulatant - Agile and Leadership Coach

Freelancer
10.2023 - Current

Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS

10-2023

Certified SAFe Agilist

03-2020

Software Engineer Manager - Automation

Planview India Pvt Ltd
02.2016 - 09.2023

MBA - Finance

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
07.2008 - 06.2010

Principal Software Engineer

EFI India Pvt Ltd
05.2006 - 02.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

Lingaya's Institute of Management And Technology
10.2001 - 05.2005
Geetika GagnejaSoftware Engineer Manager - Automation