Praveena Goud
Pune
Summary
Lead Project/program manager with over 6 years of experience in project management and 10 years in software testing. Expertise in agile methodologies and strategic planning, with a proven track record of enhancing program velocity through effective change management. Skilled in implementing communication standards across diverse programs, ensuring alignment with executive and key partner expectations. Successfully managed a portfolio of programs that deliver significant business impact and drive organizational success.
Overview
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Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead - Project/Program Manager
PTC Software Pvt Ltd
Pune
01.2020 - Current
- Lead cross-functional technical programmes that drive business strategic goals, ensuring seamless execution across multiple teams.
- Collaborate with sales, partners and service professionals on the development of qualified proposals, customer onboarding readiness and SOW’s
- Define technical roadmaps, align them with business goals, and prioritise initiatives.
- Own programme execution, track key deliverables, manage risks, and ensure timely delivery of high-impact initiatives.
- Lead all change management activities, and ensure timely decisions on change requests.
- Communicate programme updates, risks, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders across global teams.
- Build best practices and lead analysis for continued improvements through RCAs and retrospectives.
- Define KPIs and SLAs to lead periodic release status review meetings with senior management.
- Define and use the tools and business systems required to support existing processes and best practices.
- Collaborate with other programme and release managers to define and improve organisational standards for programmes, releases, processes, and best practices.
Senior QA Technical lead
PTC Software Pvt Ltd
02.2015 - 01.2020
- Perform functional, regression, security, and performance testing of software to prove the stability, capability, and adherence to specification requirements.
- Automation testing for Java API using the ITF-JUnit framework.
Application Engineer
Onward Technologies Pvt. Ltd
12.2010 - 02.2015
- Testing on desktop applications like XMA (Expert Model Analysis) related to Creo, which removes the design errors.
- Web application testing, localisation testing, user acceptance testing, compatibility testing, cross-browser testing, and build verification testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical
Pulla Reddy Engineering college
Kurnool, AP2007
Skills
- Project/Program Management: Agile Scrum software product development methodology, end-to-end program execution, project controls & governance, strategic planning & analysis, risk and change management, stakeholders management,
- Project management tools: Jira, Qlik, Smartsheet, ALM tools, MS PowerPoint, Excel
- Testing Skills & Tools: Functional, Regression, E2E, UI, Web, API, Selenium, ITF (JUnit), JMeter
Website
https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveena-goud-38201124/
Certification
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
Personal Information
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Lead - Project/Program Manager
PTC Software Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - Current
Senior QA Technical lead
PTC Software Pvt Ltd
02.2015 - 01.2020
Application Engineer
Onward Technologies Pvt. Ltd
12.2010 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical
Pulla Reddy Engineering college