Pramod Nagalikar

• Managing team of 15-20 members of cross-functional,multi-geographical teams to deliver products based on Market requirements and feedback.
• Monitoring and controlling projects in terms of cost,vendor selection, resource allocation
• Interacted with customers and clients to identify business needs and requirements.
• Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.

• Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
• Managing India SW requirements for various Nokia mobile phones including both Feature phones and Android.
• Accountable for defining milestones, conduct CAB meetings including various stakeholders to decide Go-NoGo for each product.
• Conceptualized,managed development of Diagnostic tool for Nokia feature phones

• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
• Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
• Accountable for all activities from India Regional Quality perspective, Responsibilities including Resource planning and Estimation for products testing.
• Vendor Cost estimation and Test planning.
• Providing feedack on product quality to program teams and influencing GO-NO-GO decisions

• Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects delegating tasks and providing feedback.
• Design,develop and deploy automation framework for CI systems. designing and deploying Scalable and reliable remote test infrastructure with different devices connected across the globe(30 countires).
• Test infrastructure helped to achieve 40% of cost reduction and 30%reduced cycle time in Testing of different phone SW across different geographical locations.

Development of mobile device cloud to enable multi-geopraphical teams to access the device hub via web interface. Goal was to reduce overall cost of Quality assurance for 60+ R&D project teams in terms of test automation and Hardware. System yield was 40% reduction in overall cost.

Project Lead and Test manager for team involved in conceptualization, design and building OTA update system for mobile phones to enable volume growth and drive down the cost per delivery of services software update to In market devices

Responsible for Design and development of Test framework to ensure the quality of APIs for Display Driver, Video and Audio Codecs