Jaiganesh Natarajan
Coimbatore
Summary
Dynamic Associate Project Manager with a proven track record at Augment, excelling in Agile project management and stakeholder engagement. Expert in sprint planning and quality assurance, I drive project efficiency and foster team collaboration, ensuring successful project delivery while effectively managing scope and schedules.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Project Manager
Augment
Coimbatore
05.2020 - Current
- Tracked, monitored, and reported project progress while coaching team members and removing impediments to maintain workflow
- Supported development and implementation of approved process and application development methodology to enhance project efficiency
- Communicating regularly with stakeholders to ensure that they are informed about the progress of the project
- Assisting Project Managers and Senior Project Managers to manage their projects like scheduling and organizing meetings
- Assist the product owner by incorporating techniques to improve processes
- Facilitated daily standups to promote team communication.
- Facilitated iteration and sprint planning meetings to prevent team over-commitment and scope creep, aiding in estimation and sub-task creation
- Engaged with team during sprint reviews to gather insights for project improvements. - Participate in the meeting and capture feedback.
- Retrospectives - Note areas for improvement and action items for future sprints.
Quality Analyst
Augment
India
05.2018 - 05.2020
- Defined quality standards and metrics for project/product using Agile practices.
- Created milestones and checkpoints with measurable criteria to assess quality consistently.
- Functioned as the main liaison for the QA team regarding all escalations related to testing and quality assurance.
- Working with all stakeholders to ensure that the quality metrics are reviewed, closed, and agreed upon.
- Ensured QA team understood Quality matrix and clarified their questions.
- Analyzed status reports from team managers and implemented necessary actions.
Quality Analyst
Archstone Consulting Engineers
01.2013 - 04.2018
- Developed test plan, requirement document, and technical specification using agile practices to ensure project alignment.
- Performed functional testing, retest, regression, and defect reporting using TRAC.
- Preparation of test data, test cases as per specifications and participated in review of Test Cases.
- Compiled and presented weekly project status reports to stakeholders, highlighting progress and identifying potential risks.
- Maintained daily communication with customer to provide timely project updates and address any concerns.
- Actively participated in project status meetings and provided technical support for the team related to testing.
- Created final test report to summarize testing results and conclusions. and report the status to Team Lead.
Software QA Tester
IRCA Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 04.2012
- Developed and executed test plans for software applications at IRCA Pvt Ltd.
- Collaborated with developers to identify and resolve software defects effectively.
- Conducted functional, regression, and performance testing on various applications.
Skills
- Agile project management
- Sprint planning
- Facilitating daily scrums
- Conducting retrospectives
- Project initiation
- Project execution
- Project closure strategies
- Managing scope and schedules
- Resource management techniques
- Stakeholder engagement
- Quality assurance
- Documentation processes
- Risk identification
- Testing management
- Software deployment
Certification
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
Languages
- Tamil
- English
- Tamil
Projects
- GOAUGMENT PVT LTD, Assisting Project Managers and Senior Project Managers to manage their projects like scheduling and organizing meetings, Assisting in the development and implementation of an approved process and application development methodology, Assisting with tracking, monitoring, and reporting project progress, Coaching team members and removal of impediments, Assisting the product owner by incorporating techniques to improve processes, Communicating regularly with stakeholders to ensure that they are informed about the progress of the project, Facilitating daily standups (or the daily scrum) as needed, Protecting the team from over-committing and scope creep, Participating in sprint reviews and capturing feedback, Noting areas for improvement and action items for future sprints
- ARCHSTONE CONSULTING ENGINEERS, Preparing the Test Plan, Requirement Document and Technical Specification, Preparation of test data, test cases as per specifications and participated in review of Test Cases, Responsible for Functional testing, Retest, Regression and Defect Reporting in TRAC, Communicating project status, issues, and concerns with Customer on daily basis, Preparing and delivering reports regarding project status on weekly basis, Actively participating in project status meetings and providing technical support for the team related to testing, Preparing Final Test Report and reporting the status to Team Lead
Applications Tools
JIRA, Rally, ASANA, Excel sheets, Monday, Click up, Invision, Figma, Zeplin, Tortoise SVN, DB Visualizer, Dyna trace, IBM Web sphere, Zephyr, OneSignal, Firebase
Personal Information
- Father's Name: V. Natarajan
- Date of Birth: 05/12/86
- Gender: M
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Associate Project Manager
Augment
05.2020 - Current
Quality Analyst
Augment
05.2018 - 05.2020
Quality Analyst
Archstone Consulting Engineers
01.2013 - 04.2018
Software QA Tester
IRCA Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 04.2012