PRANITA RAJ NANDGAONKAR
Thane
Summary
Dynamic Software Engineer Manager with over 20 years in IT, adept at delivering complex testing solutions. Proven expertise in Agile methodologies and test planning, coupled with strong analytical skills. Successfully led cross-functional teams, ensuring timely project delivery while enhancing client satisfaction through effective communication and risk management.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer Manager (Delivery Lead, Agile Project Management and Testing)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for end-to-end delivery across all workstreams for Release.
- Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings.
- Chair and facilitate governance forums, steering committee meetings, and program status reviews with Standard leadership.
- Maintain the integrated program plan, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions (RAID log).
- Establish and enforce program management standards, delivery cadences, and reporting rhythms across the Accenture team.
- Provide strategic guidance to Standard on program governance structure, decision-making escalation paths, and solution scope for Release.
- Ensure alignment between Accenture delivery teams and Standard stakeholders on priorities, timelines, and expectations.
- Proactively identify delivery risks and drive resolution before they impact release timelines.
- Lead advisory engagements with Standard leadership on organizational design and operational readiness for Release.
- Guide the stand-up of Standard's internal processes, roles, and team structures required to support the pilot release.
- Collaborate with Standard on defining and refining case selection criteria for the pilot, ensuring alignment with operational capacity.
Delivery Lead
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Oversee the Accenture business analysis and design team supporting V3locity configuration and solution delivery.
- Ensure business analysis outputs — including requirements, functional specifications, and design decisions — are documented, reviewed, and baselined in a timely manner.
- Own delivery coordination across planning, preparation, and execution of VERification (in-sprint) and VALidation activities for the V3locity scope of Releases.
- Monitor in-sprint verification results and escalate defects or scope gaps that pose a risk to the release baseline.
- Maintain traceability between business requirements, design decisions, and test outcomes for the V3locity workstream.
- Coordinate with the ECM and testing workstream leads to manage cross-stream dependencies and integration touchpoints.
- Proactively identify delivery risks and drive resolution before they impact release timelines.
Offshore Project Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Led end-to-end delivery of new product rollout to new country, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Managed client expectations and led escalations meetings with leadership to resolve issues and maintain project momentum.
- Own the delivery of features from requirement elicitation to deployment into production.
- Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.
- Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings.
- Led daily scrums and scrum of scrums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment.
- Shielded development team from distractions and impediments, facilitating focus on product backlog to enhance workflow.
- Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management & continuous delivery.
- Creation of the product backlog, writing themes, epics and user stories.
- Communicated the progress to senior management through 'Burndown Charts'.
- Planned and Implemented Selenium based automation framework for Smoke Test and Regression test Automation.
Project Manager/Test Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Managed a team of 25+ D365 CRM resources along with testing and implementing several modules of the application.
- Led the planning and tracking of the successful execution of 3 integration test cycles that tested over 5000 business operational end to end test cases required prior to getting the go ahead for Go-Live for a project.
- Managed and conducted demos of the application for the Business team and stakeholders.
- Managed test implementation of CRM application and other integration applications with CRM. Also, Migration of the data from older systems.
- Developed detailed test project plan, schedule including estimation of over 5000 test cases and planning for test execution each of the integration test cycles that tested end to end.
- Build key status reports, matrices in test centre and test trending reports to key management including the CIO of the company.
Scrum Master
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Played a Scrum master and Product Owner role for multiple feature teams in Pensions and HR Exit.
- Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings.
- Led daily scrums and scrum of scrums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment.
- Shielded development team from outside distractions and impediments, fostering focus on product backlog.
- Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management & continuous delivery.
- Creation of the product backlog, writing themes, epics and user stories.
- Own the delivery of features from requirement elicitation to deployment into production.
- Monitored project progress, communicated updates to stakeholders, and identified and mitigated team risks and impediments daily.
- Work with the product management, enterprise architecture and external vendor teams based in the UK to define and deliver the business and system integration requirements.
Scrum Master /Test Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Worked as a Scrum Master leading 2 cross-functional product development teams.
- Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
- Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 2-week sprint cycles.
- Produced requirement documents, technical specifications, test plans and code review for SDLC methodology and produced implementation plans.
- Ensured all contract deliverables, internal and external processes are documented and in a deliverable format.
- Managed and performed Risk-Based requirements validation tests, data analysis, and work for Independent Validation.
- Wrote Test Plans, Test Analysis Reports, risk assessment, and testing scope reports, lessons learned, assessment reports.
- Reviewed test cases, requirements, defects, and test execution within Application Lifecycle Management Version.
- Facilitated several testing intake assessments, which consisted of initial document review, Criticality Analysis.
Test Lead
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Ensured all contract deliverables, internal and external processes are documented and in a deliverable format.
- Managed and performed Risk-Based requirements validation tests, data analysis, and work for Independent Validation.
- Wrote Test Plans, Test Analysis Reports, risk assessment, and testing scope reports, lessons learned, assessment reports.
- Reviewed test cases, requirements, defects, and test execution within Application Lifecycle Management Version.
- Facilitated several testing intake assessments, which consisted of initial document review, Criticality Analysis.
Test Lead (Manual and Automation)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Lead the Univadis 2.0 Program as Overall Test Lead to a successful UK Rollout with a 100% offshore model with Agile Testing Methodology.
- Managed a peak team size of 25 resources offshore.
- Performed additional role of defect triage coordinator for the entire program from offshore for the first time.
- Led the initiative in coordination of War Room exercises at ACN facilities for various divisions / teams of Univadis Program the efforts for which resulted in substantial decrease in Active Defects.
- Planning, Monitoring, Managing and tracking all the Testing Activities.
- Worked with Cognizant team for the KT Plan for Knowledge Acquisition, Job Shadowing and Reverse Job Shadowing.
Test Lead and FVT execution Lead (Manual and Automation)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Developed test strategy and approach for testing cycles in major enhancements and maintenance projects for US insurance policy admin system.
- Executed and reviewed test conditions and cases for functional verification testing, ensuring comprehensive coverage of requirements.
- Created test automation strategy for generating vanilla policies, facilitating execution of policy premium and rating functionalities.
- Identified and reported risks and issues related to third-party data management system dependencies to ensure timely resolution.
- Coordinated transitions to and from ITKO – LISA to minimize system downtime during testing phases.
- Collaborated with the Test Manager and internal stakeholders in daily forums to review project status and outline next steps.
Senior Tester (Manual)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Preparing, modifying, executing test conditions and test cases and logging and tracking Defects in Quality Centre.
- Involved in Peer reviews for all the deliverables while delivering from offshore.
- Involved in GUI Testing, Functionality Testing and Regression Testing.
- Change Request Management.
- Supported customers during UAT Testing.
Performance Tester
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Prepared flow diagrams Visio for Performance Testing.
- Conducted peer reviews on the deliverables as a part of the processes defined for the project.
- Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Testing.
- Enhancing the Automation suite with the new changes.
- Bug reporting in Test Director.
Senior Tester (Manual & Automation)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2008 - Current
- Participated in gap analysis to identify test cases that need remediation.
- Conducted peer reviews on the deliverables as a part of the processes defined for the project.
- Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Testing.
- Enhancing the Automation suite with the new changes.
- Bug reporting in Test Director.
Senior Test Engineer
Capgemini Consulting Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
12.2005 - 08.2008
- Preparing Test Plan for implementing Testing for a project based on Retail Domain.
- Preparing, modifying, executing test conditions and test cases and logging and tracking Defects in Test Director Test Management tool.
- Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing using QTP.
- Performing reviews of test conditions and test cases.
- Performed Database testing and Business Objects Report Testing.
- Supported customers during UAT Testing.
Automation Test Engineer
Saba Software Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai
05.2004 - 12.2005
- Developing and Executing the Automation Scripts for Regression testing.
- Prepared and executed test conditions and test cases for US-based insurance applications, ensuring thorough coverage and quality.
- Executed GUI testing and validated reports to ensure accuracy and compliance with specifications.
- Reported defects using Quality Centre, facilitating effective tracking and resolution of issues.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Information Technology
Mumbai University11-2003
Diploma Engineering -
Computer Technology
Mumbai University06-2000
Higher Secondary Certificate -
G.N Khalsa Jr. College
Mumbai03-1997
Secondary School Certificate -
I.E.S. Girl's School
Mumbai03-1995
Skills
- Experience in Manual, Automation and Performance Testing
- Testing solutions
- Test planning coordination
- Project lifecycle management
- Agile coaching
- Agile Adaptability
- Project Prioritization
- Analytical testing skills
- Client interaction management
Accomplishments
- Accenture Celebrate Excellence (ACE) FY 26 Q2 AI Client Value Award
- Industry Excellence Awards Client Trailblazer Award -FY25 Q4
- Amplify Impact Award FY 24 Q4 Growth Trailblazer
- Recognized and Awarded as Lead by example award for Financial Services Project (Accenture) FY 2019
- Recognized and Awarded as Client Value Addition for Merck 2013
Technical Qualifications
- PMP Certified
- IPC Certified
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certified
- ITIL Foundation Level Certified
- HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.0x Certified
- HP Quick Test Pro 10.0 Certified
- AZ-900 Foundation Level Certified
Timeline
Software Engineer Manager (Delivery Lead, Agile Project Management and Testing)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Delivery Lead
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Offshore Project Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Project Manager/Test Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Scrum Master
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Scrum Master /Test Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Test Lead
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Test Lead (Manual and Automation)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Test Lead and FVT execution Lead (Manual and Automation)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Senior Tester (Manual)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Performance Tester
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Senior Tester (Manual & Automation)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd.
08.2008 - Current
Senior Test Engineer
Capgemini Consulting Pvt Ltd
12.2005 - 08.2008
Automation Test Engineer
Saba Software Pvt. Ltd
05.2004 - 12.2005
Bachelor of Engineering -
Information Technology
Diploma Engineering -
Computer Technology
Higher Secondary Certificate -
G.N Khalsa Jr. College
Secondary School Certificate -
I.E.S. Girl's School