Prashanth P
Project Manager
Bangalore
Summary
CERTIFIED PMP, LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT, ISTQB, ITIL ITSO and CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER professional with strong expertise in Project Management, Agile Delivery and Scrum Master background in multi-cultural environments. Evolved & executed plans that reached out to Indian markets and restructured the way industry works.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
2005
2005
years of post-secondary education
10
10
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Project Manager
Apex Fund Services LLP
06.2022 - 07.2024
- Collaborated with technical, business and product teams to define project goals, deliverables and success metrics.
- Overseen the end-to-end communication process to ensure that stakeholders are consistently updated on project progress, risk and key milestones.
- Facilitated Daily scrums and other Agile ceremonies. Conducted sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily cadence meetings, reviews/demos, retrospective and other scrum ceremonies.
- Participated with team in story point estimation using various techniques such as poker planning, Bucket system, T-shirt sizing across the project.
- Facilitated discussions and conflict resolutions.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to resolved issues and ensure that project timelines and quality standards are met.
- Managed the team resources, delivery, risk and escalations.
- Work with production associates to assure the proper usage of internal audits while supporting the correct type of audit write ups that make the organization better.
- Create and maintain all required documents for Internal and External audits.
- Perform root cause analysis with direct correlation to audit findings with a focus to improve the overall environment.
- Documented project progress, key decisions, and action items to ensure transparency and alignment across all teams.
- Identified and quantified project impediments and proposed mitigation and resolution including escalations to management as needed.
- Controlled Risks and Dependencies by effectively leading forums and escalating timely to management.
- Developed metrics and reports using Jira to help the team understand its health and progress.
- Ensured clear communication and collaboration among the Product Owner and members.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensured that project timelines and quality standards are met.
- Facilitated demo sessions and UAT sessions for end users.
Project Lead QA
Symphony Summit IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
08.2011 - 06.2022
- Company Overview: Symphony Technology Group Company
- Advocated Agile methodology process and best practices.
- Implemented Agile framework across organization. Trained and coached team to imbibe the best practices.
- Served as a Scrum Master and steered Daily Scrum meetings organized for development process catering modules across domain.
- Facilitated meetings with Product Owner and Development teams to plan release cycles based on selected feature lists from Product Backlog.
- Facilitated KANBAN concept for R&D team as the dynamics vary.
- Conducted Scrum review, Retrospective and Scrum of Scrum ceremonies.
- Ensured all QA tools (bug management automation and test management) are fully utilized by team.
- Imparted role-based quality training on process and usage of QMS (Templates).
- Provided training on ISO 9001, ITIL, global processes to the staff.
- Ensured: DevOps implementation in SDLC to cater evolving product.
- Symphony Technology Group Company
Test Engineer
Philips
10.2010 - 07.2011
- Performed sanity and regression testing of MR applications.
- Headed various functions related to multi-OS testing, localization testing, bug tracking and reporting in IBM Clear Quest.
Test Engineer
RASS Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
05.2009 - 11.2009
- Company Overview: (DARE and Defence R&D Organization)
- (DARE and Defence R&D Organization)
Test Engineer
GTRE
05.2006 - 04.2009
- Company Overview: (Defence R&D Organization)
- (Defence R&D Organization)
Education
B.E. - Information Science & Engineering
SCTIT
Skills
- Project Management
- Quality Management
- Inspection & Auditing
- Defect Management
- Process Improvement
- Team Management
- Agile Methodology
- Azure concepts
- DevOps practices
- IT Skills
- PM Methodologies: Agile
- PM Methodologies: Scrum
- PM Methodologies: Waterfall
- PMI Project Planning Methodology
- Project Management Tools: JIRA
- Project Management Tools: MS Project
- Project Management Tools: Azure DevOps
- S/W packages: Ms-Office
- Technologies: PC
- Technologies: Web and Mobile Technologies
- Technologies: Java
- Technologies: Net
- Technologies: C#
- Technologies: API
- Defect Tracking: JIRA
- Defect Tracking: Azure DevOps
- Defect Tracking: HP QC
- Databases: Oracle
- Databases: SQL Server
- Databases: MS Access
Certification
Certified Project Management Professional, 2025
Key Result Areas
- Handling activities related to software project management software development life-cycle / software engineering
- Project monitoring
- Defect prevention
- Process implementation
- Metrics collection
- Decision analysis & resolution
Professional Summary
17, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development (TDD), eliciting requirements, writing User Stories, Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, communicating with Subject Matter Experts, analysing Business Process, documenting various artifacts, testing operations, managing end-to-end communications, coaching teams on Agile and Scrum, developing and executing project plans, monitoring progress, resource management, maintaining KPI’s
It Experience
- Project Manager, Apex Fund Services LLP, Bangalore, 2022-06-01, 2024-07-31
- Project Lead QA, Symphony Summit IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, 2011-08-01, 2022-06-30
- Test Engineer, Philips (Through Vista Info Systems Private Ltd.), Bangalore, 2010-10-01, 2011-07-31
- Test Engineer, RASS Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (DARE and Defence R&D Organization), Bangalore, 2009-05-01, 2009-11-30
- Test Engineer, GTRE (Defence R&D Organization), Bangalore, 2006-05-01, 2009-04-30
Location Preference
Bangalore
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Date of Birth: 1984-08-18
Timeline
Project Manager
Apex Fund Services LLP
06.2022 - 07.2024
Project Lead QA
Symphony Summit IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
08.2011 - 06.2022
Test Engineer
Philips
10.2010 - 07.2011
Test Engineer
RASS Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
05.2009 - 11.2009
Test Engineer
GTRE
05.2006 - 04.2009
B.E. - Information Science & Engineering
SCTIT
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