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Mandar Kale

Principal Consultant
Pune

Summary

Over 18 years of progressive experience across diverse domains, projects and teams in the IT industry with 4+ years of technical Leadership role, Facilitator and Change Agent. Proven quality delivery of project experience, backed by a strong software background.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Principal Consultant

Giesecke+Devrient
12.2024 - Current

1. Identify and finalize problem statement/use case to resolve through AI

2. Explore clickstream to integrate with Profiler4 for better user experience.

3. Explore AI enabled on-boaring and configuration of Profiler4 tool using chatbot.

Principal Engineer

Giesecke & Devrient
05.2023 - Current
  • Project: Profiler4 – Tool enables customers to instantiate SIM cards with requirements. Mainly used by Mobile Network operators
  • Current role in Product Management.
  • Work with stakeholders, Product Owners to refine the user requirements.
  • Liaising, with other product teams for backlog refinements
  • Work with the Dev and test team for concept discussion, implementation and testing.
  • Remain up to date with functional and technical changes within product

Consultant

Giesecke+Devrient
05.2017 - 04.2023
  • Designed and developed automation framework.
  • Established CI/CD setup for automation run to be executed daily.
  • Test Architect, revamp validation points to match the user scenarios
  • Continues efforts in keeping automation execution time low.
  • Knowledge of digital payment process, payment gateway and overall payment cycle.

Technical Lead

PTC Software (I) Ltd
01.2015 - 04.2017
  • Project: InService – Delivery System by PTC for Service Engineers InService is PTC product which is delivery system acts as service manual for service engineers.
  • As LEAD Developer, developed and enhance framework for in-house java based data validation tool called EDV (Electronic Data Validation).

Lead

PTC Software (I) Ltd
04.2009 - 12.2014
  • Involved in early phase of requirement understating and refinement.
  • Involved into discussion with Developers in early phase of implementation and involved in validation of Acceptance criteria.
  • Majorly worked in PLM Windchill - focused areas as File Vaulting, Content Replication.

Test Engineer

PTC Software (I) Ltd
05.2007 - 04.2009
  • Involved into requirement understanding.
  • Involved into deployment of Windchill with multiple configurations, like cluster, https, different OS and other configurations.
  • Involved into Upgrade/migration validations of Windchill across all the supported upgrade paths and configurations.
  • Involved into various windchill areas like FVCR, Reports, Import/Export, Data utilities, Workflow
  • Involved into various areas of FlexPLM as library, import/export, Adobe Illustrator.

Project Engineer

Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd
09.2004 - 04.2007
  • I learnt about quality assurance processes, need for quality standards like Six Sigma, ISO.

Education

M.S - Software Systems

BITS Pilani
02.2011 - 01.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical

Amravati University
05.1999 - 01.2003

Skills

Automated test processes

Technical research

Agile scrum environments

System architecture

Requirements gathering

DevOps practices

Accomplishments

1. Member of community of practise , a global team in G+D to specifically improve automation.

2. Member of global Architecture team.

3. Member of Innovation and Intellectual Property team.

Timeline

Principal Consultant

Giesecke+Devrient
12.2024 - Current

Principal Engineer

Giesecke & Devrient
05.2023 - Current

Consultant

Giesecke+Devrient
05.2017 - 04.2023

Technical Lead

PTC Software (I) Ltd
01.2015 - 04.2017

M.S - Software Systems

BITS Pilani
02.2011 - 01.2013

Lead

PTC Software (I) Ltd
04.2009 - 12.2014

Test Engineer

PTC Software (I) Ltd
05.2007 - 04.2009

Project Engineer

Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd
09.2004 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical

Amravati University
05.1999 - 01.2003
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