Kartik Lamba
Gurgaon
Summary
Seeking a challenging and high visibility role in the project management space.
- Results-driven Technical Project Manager with over 3 of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact projects on time and within budget.
- Proven expertise in agile methodologies, software development lifecycle (SDLC), and stakeholder management.
- Adept at translating technical requirements into actionable plans, fostering collaboration, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Skilled in risk management, resource allocation, and driving continuous process improvements to optimize project efficiency.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with a track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr QA Manager / Senior Project Manager
ChangeCx (now Icreon)
10.2022 - Current
- Managing a team of 25 QA engineers and analysts in implementing quality assurance processes and procedures for software development projects
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of technical projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, designers, and business stakeholders, to drive project success.
- Allocated resources effectively, including personnel, budget, and equipment, to meet project requirements and timelines.
- Identify technical risks and dependencies early in the project lifecycle, developing mitigation strategies to minimize their impact on project outcomes.
- Assess and mitigate risks related to software quality and project delivery, proactively identifying potential issues and implementing preventive measures
- Identify areas for process improvement and optimization within the QA process, and implement best practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Evaluated and select appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks for project implementation, considering factors such as scalability, performance, and security.
- Acted as a primary point of contact for clients and stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, milestones, and deliverables.
- Define and track key quality metrics to measure the effectiveness of QA efforts, and provide regular reporting and analysis to stakeholders on software quality and testing progress
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team, encouraging innovation, learning, and adaptation to new technologies and methodologies.
Project Manager
Trine Tech LLC
09.2021 - 10.2022
- Managed a team of size (14-16) across multiple projects to ensure successful deliveries of high quality products
- Implement Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to ensure efficient project delivery.
- Managed project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to project team members, assisting with problem-solving and decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
- Assisted. the project team in improving effort estimation processes and techniques.
- Product backlog prioritization and Sprint planning.
- Developed detailed project plans to monitor and track progress.
- Performed risk management to minimize potential risks.
- Participated in customer negotiations involving scope, cost, and timing.
- Managed changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, designers, QA testers, and business stakeholders, to drive project success.
- Reviewing status reports, conducting periodic meetings and inspecting work products.
- Published and tracked KPIs for projects on a weekly or milestone basis.
- Established quality assurance processes and testing protocols to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of technical deliverables.
- Lead post-project reviews and retrospectives to identify lessons learned and areas for improvement, implementing process enhancements to optimize future project delivery.
Project Manager
NUMERIQUE
02.2018 - 09.2021
- Managed teams of size (10-12) across multiple projects and ensured successful deliveries of high quality products.
- Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
- Involved in sprint planning and actively participated in status calls, working with cross functional teams across different geographies
- Responsible for interacting with client to gather client requirement (business and functional) and perform analysis of those requirements, to turn them into deliverable tasks and to be distributed amongst team members.
- Facilitated resolution of conflicts between team members when necessary.
- Worked with developers, architects, business analysts and support teams in defining functional specifications
- Test strategy, planning and estimations
- Defined acceptance criteria’s and exit criteria’s to UAT.
QA Lead
TAIS Tech
08.2014 - 02.2018
- Led teams of size (4-6) across multiple projects and ensured successful deliveries of high quality products
- Responsible for interacting with client to gather client requirement (business and functional) and perform analysis of those requirements, to turn them into deliverable tasks and to be distributed amongst team members
- Worked with developers, architects, business analysts and support teams in defining functional specifications
- Designed Automation frameworks and monitored execution of the test scripts
- Stress, performance and scalability testing, ensuring the products are released post performance and integration testing
- Handled work traffic, assigned tasks to team members based on allocation and skillset required including mentoring on QAs
- Defect reporting and defect management: JIRA
- Test case documentation and execution: Testlink, TestRail
- Involved in sprint planning and actively participated in status calls, working with cross functional teams across different geographies
- Tested Webservices with SOAP and REST APIs
- Test strategy, planning and estimations
- Defined acceptance criteria’s and exit criteria’s to UAT
- Conflict resolution.
Senior Software QA
Opera Solutions
12.2011 - 08.2014
- Created and executed test automation scripts using Selenium Webdriver
- Analyzed Requirements, Design documents and Business rules
- Test case documentation and peer review
- Test case execution and status reporting
- Defect documentation and bug tracking
- Sanity/Smoke testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Compatibility Testing, Black Box Testing and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- System Testing, Integration Testing, E2E testing, Web Services testing and Database testing.
Education
BE/B.Tech in Computer Science -
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
01.2011
Skills
- Project Management
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Resource Allocation
- Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Requirements Analysis
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Data Analysis
- ATG
- Commercetools
- Demandware Business Manager
- OMS
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Certification
- Certified PMP (PMI)
- Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
- Data Science (Analytix Labs)
- Agile Methodology (Opera Solutions Internal)
Timeline
Sr QA Manager / Senior Project Manager
ChangeCx (now Icreon)
10.2022 - Current
Project Manager
Trine Tech LLC
09.2021 - 10.2022
Project Manager
NUMERIQUE
02.2018 - 09.2021
QA Lead
TAIS Tech
08.2014 - 02.2018
Senior Software QA
Opera Solutions
12.2011 - 08.2014
BE/B.Tech in Computer Science -
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
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