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Jyoti Chandegaonkar

PUNE

Summary

Seasoned Senior Project Manager with 19+ years of experience and a proven track record at Infosys, leading teams across continents to deliver high-quality testing solutions and achieving over 10% revenue growth annually. Expert in Agile methodologies and stakeholder management, I excel in strategic planning and risk management, driving process improvements and operational efficiencies.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Infosys
PUNE
10.2019 - Current
  • Managing a 15 million AUD portfolio consisting of testing and quality assurance work streams in an Australian bank account.
  • This portfolio has a team of 120 team members.
  • Accountable for delivery that spans system integration testing, integration acceptance testing.
  • Test Governance, Test quality assurance
  • As Part of my responsibilities include interacting with business users, understanding their needs and form a team of IT professional to deliver to the business needs
  • Lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget constraints.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
  • Implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity.
  • Oversee project teams, providing guidance and support to ensure successful project execution.
  • Monitor project progress, identify risks, and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Conduct regular status meetings with stakeholders to communicate project updates, and address any concerns.
  • Utilize rich experience Agile and testing solution to guide the team
  • Participate in contract renewal discussions (SOW renewals) every three months.
  • Demand management forms one of my core responsibilities in this role
  • Lead a team of test Leads and scrum masters from portfolio and assign them to Projects
  • During my tenure in this role, was responsible for over 10% year on year revenue growth for Infosys with margins consistently above 30%
  • Manage resourcing strategies, strategic business initiatives and mentor the Leads on the ground in growing the account for Infosys
  • Maximize customer benefit by leveraging the best practices across accounts and teams

Test Manager – Projects

Infosys
PUNE
10.2016 - 09.2019
  • Managed end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project execution.
  • Developed and maintained project plans, schedules, and budgets.
  • Conducted risk assessments and implemented risk mitigation plans.
  • Facilitated Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
  • Executed projects both in traditional SDLC and agile models
  • Built a highly motivated success-oriented team of consultants who were treated as subject matter experts by the customer

Test Lead - Projects

Infosys
12.2010 - 09.2016
  • Worked as Test lead for the US bank for the credit card industry
  • Managed the Team size of 4
  • Was responsible for the requirement Analysis, Review of test cases, writing Test Plan, test approach, Test closure documents, Defects Analysis and Defect Tracking
  • Was involved in daily co-ordination with client and onsite coordinator

Senior Associate Consultant

Capgemini
12.2005 - 11.2010
  • Worked as Tester for the US bank
  • Was responsible for the requirement Analysis, Writing the Test cases, Execution of the Testcases, Raising defects, Sending DSR to stakeholders
  • Was involved in helping Test leads in various operational activities for prepetition of Metric reports

Education

B.E(E&TC) -

Dr Babasaheb Marathwada University
Aurangabad, Maharashtra

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Strategic Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Agile & Scrum Methodologies
  • Team Leadership
  • Budget Management
  • Estimation Planning
  • Iterative Project Mgmt & Delivery
  • Basic knowledge of Selenium and UFT
  • Operational Design & Efficiencies
  • Mainframe and DB2
  • Project estimation and bidding

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • ISTQB foundation level certified

Accomplishments

  • Setup the team from scratch, defined strategic direction, established the relationship with customer and helped the account grow into a multi-million dollar asset for the organization in 5 years.
  • Consistently clocked 4.5/5 customer satisfaction scores over a period of 5 years in the account.
  • Proposed an innovative staffing strategy to meet customer’s needs of optimal cost with quality delivery, resulting in savings of almost 30% to the department in a span of 6 months.
  • Built a team of core Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for a large Australian bank account to grow the automation within portfolio from 20% to 60%, increasing productivity by 30%.
  • Consistently achieved above 30% margin figures while keeping the revenue numbers on an upward trend for the past year.
  • Maintained a consistent below the industry average attrition numbers (about 4%) with a total team strength averaging around 120 personnel over a period of 5 years.

Professional Summary

Adoption of user focused execution methodologies which inject pragmatism by striking an optimal balance between processes and speed to market., Strong advocate and practitioner of growing with team and not growing at the expense of team., Responsible for facilitating multiple cross team discussions involving highly explosive situations and passionate discussions., Tackled innumerable hurdles through positive dialogue, negotiation, flexibility and openness within the team., Ability to participate and steer technical discussions towards solutions, well versed with technical platforms, tools and utilities., Consistently recognized achievements and encouraged positive disposition while noting areas of opportunities., Highly analytical, persistent, meticulous and inquiring, with seasoned problem solving ability., Proven ability to streamline procedures and increase productivity, meet deadlines more effectively., Strong believer in making decision based on facts and being objective about them., Exhibit agility in adapting to changing needs – people, process or technology with ease.

Affiliations

  • Reading books
  • travelling
  • Yoga and Meditation

Languages

Marathi
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Infosys
10.2019 - Current

Test Manager – Projects

Infosys
10.2016 - 09.2019

Test Lead - Projects

Infosys
12.2010 - 09.2016

Senior Associate Consultant

Capgemini
12.2005 - 11.2010

B.E(E&TC) -

Dr Babasaheb Marathwada University
Jyoti Chandegaonkar