Md Arshad
Senior Project Manager
Bangalore,Karanataka
Summary
- Proficient Senior Project Manager with 12+ years of experience in Agile Project Management, Scrum, Agile Coaching, Test management, Change and Release Management driving over multiple projects to completion.
- Highly organized, methodical and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. Well-versed in solution deliverable and resource planning and deployment.
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/ Scrum practices. Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Skilled in overseeing technical staff and checking that projects are completed on schedule, within budget and according to specifications.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel/ plan to remove the impediment.
- Have experience of working directly with client stakeholders and business users and in self-directed teams.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning or dictating the work.
- Have a deep understanding of the software testing and quality assurance processes with significant expertise in functional testing, test automation and performance testing of web and desktop applications, web services and APIs.
- Mentoring and motivational skills to achieve team’s objectives.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, ability to conceptualize and learn quickly, good analytical reasoning and high compliance to new technologies and tools.
- Experience with interviewing profiles and recruitment for team building.
- Current expertise and research interest in Machine Learning and AI.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Engineer
TekSystems India
Bengaluru, Karnataka
12.2020 - Current
- Manage deliverable of multiple tracks (analytics team) under IDS (Information and Data Services) work line for Adobe.
- Prepare and commit to FY Quarter Plannings with Product, Program and Engineering Mangers.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere holding accountable both the upstream and the downstream teams.
- Agile Coach for multiple teams in Manage deliverable vertical.
- Arrange variety of team calls, host stand up calls, backlog refinement calls, review and retrospective meetings, sprint planning meeting and produce meeting minutes for all regular and ad-hoc meetings.
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork as inputs/ outcome of retrospective sessions.
- Created plans and communicated deadlines to ensure projects were completed on time.
- Coordinate and communicate with stakeholders (Go to Market Team, Adobe CSMs) for the ask planned as quarter deliverables and address any concerns raised by them.
- Plan change management and release management activities for the projects/ quarters under Data Analytics vertical.
Senior Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited
Kolkata, West Bengal
06.2012 - 12.2021
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for sprint releases.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Managed minimum of 3 projects each year while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements.
- Manage and lead the QA team (onshore and offshore) in planning and execution of testing activities
- Identify scenarios for testing of complex PBIs with high priorities
- Develop Test scripts using Protractor JavaScript for Angular applications
- Developed Protractor framework using Node capabilities Package.json for centralized dependencies and Jasmine framework
- Handled JavaScript promises for all asynchronous operations with
- Jasmine Unit testing for robust Protractor tests development
- Experience in integrating Protractor framework to CI Jenkins tool with scheduled builds to achieve continuous Integration
- Giving demo and presentation of important functionalities implemented at the end of the sprint
- Present POC, develop automation framework for LEA (Angular application) and deliver as a value addition to the project apart from the regular Sprint work
- Monitoring performance of APIs using JMeter and reporting to developers for APIs having performance issues
- Support, retest, validate and sign off UAT bugs.
- Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders and Product Owner.
- Monitored and managed staff performance to attain target metrics both individually and team unit.
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2009 - 06.2012
- Created accurate and successful test scripts in UFT to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Completed assigned automation of functional and regression test suite.
- Established and adhere to company automation methodology, frameworks and tools.
- Identified and tracked defects in application, supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
- Trained quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
Education
Automobile Engineering
MCKV Institute of Engineering
04.2004 - 05.2008
ISC - Science
St Thomas Boys School
03.2002 - 04.2004
ICSE - Science
Loyola High School
03.1991 - 03.2004
Skills
Program Management
Accomplishments
Certifications:
- ISTQB Foundation level
- ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst
- Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance (CSM)
- Advanced Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance (A - CSM)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Timeline
Senior Project Engineer
TekSystems India
12.2020 - Current
Senior Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited
06.2012 - 12.2021
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
01.2009 - 06.2012
Automobile Engineering
MCKV Institute of Engineering
04.2004 - 05.2008
ISC - Science
St Thomas Boys School
03.2002 - 04.2004
ICSE - Science
Loyola High School
03.1991 - 03.2004
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