Priyanka Thombre
Telemetry Team Lead
Pune
Summary
Team Leader experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, provides training, sets goals and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker, and consensus builder.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Telemetry Team Lead
Ubisoft Entertainment
Pune
04.2024 - Current
- Aided in organizational growth by being part of taskforce to bring change on studio level.
- Established local ERG to facilitate growth of women employees and empower them with knowledge and trainings as per their need.
- Ran a unofficial crew with QC director with few additional members to empower workforce inclusively. Executed ideas into reality to achieve the group goals
- Collaborated with global ERG's in multiple ubisoft sites to exchange ideas and conduct collaborative sessions
- Collaborated with HR's to conduct Play my game sessions and educate other employees about unit and telemetry service
- Sent reports to HQ stakeholders quarterly to keep them updated on project progress
- Sent budget requirements to HQ operations for production cycle
- Aided in hiring top quality resources in Qc functionality
- Was part of "Train the Trainer" program where i assisted L&D team to increase the no of good trainers in studio
- Was unofficially the secondary manager for Chengdu team and helped them with their tasks, queries and issues in work.
- Continued excelling in work done as Associate Telemetry lead mentioned below.
Associate Telemetry Team Lead
Ubisoft Entertainment
Pune
07.2022 - 04.2024
- As a telemetry team lead, proficient in managing multiple projects simultaneously with effective stakeholder management
- Promoted a positive work environment by fostering teamwork, open communication, and employee recognition initiatives.
- Enhanced overall team performance by providing regular coaching, feedback, and skill development opportunities.
- Established clear performance metrics for the team which helped in tracking progress towards set targets effectively.
- Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
- Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
- Collaborated with other department leads to streamline workflows, improve interdepartmental coordination, and achieve business goals collectively.
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
- Led cross-functional teams for successful project execution while maintaining strong collaboration among team members.
- Conducted regular progress reviews with individual team members to identify areas for improvement and provide guidance on career development opportunities.
- Managed risks and mitigated potential issues through proactive planning, monitoring, and timely decisionmaking.
- Assisted in recruitment to build team of top performers.
- Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
- Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
Senior UOR/Networking Specialist
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
Pune
04.2021 - Current
- Responsible for ensuring smooth submission of multiple video games under my umbrella
- Currently managing of 3 projects as project lead and 2 projects as back-up, which involves managing project, resources, working with project managers, production, project closers and stakeholders
- Working in collaboration with dev teams, QC teams, Automation team to improve the quality of results on AAA projects
- Working in collaboration with WWUORQC to improve the process in TSD department
- Defining resources requirement for projects, creating tasks and maintaining schedule of project
- Raising timely risks on project via risk register or email
- Communicating with Stakeholders, team involved, project closers, leadership and project manager to ensure alignment of status on project
- Conducting training for new team members, ensuring that team is on par with necessary technical skills required for job
- Suggesting trainings to manager for improving team quality
- Conducting Scrum meeting to define the work on project, understanding the risk, clearing the doubts regarding tests or resolving any other queries
- Organized virtual events such as Confab, virtual game sessions in WFH situation for team health
UOR/Networking Specialist
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
Pune
04.2019 - 03.2021
- Successfully shipped 2 AAA tiles and 1 casual Ubisoft Title
- Attended trainings to improve personal and technical skills
- Compiled Project Statistics, Jira Statistics and report statistics for Pune UOR team for submission to WWUORQC management
- Prepared several test plans in testrail to improve the quality of tests w,r,t UOR guidelines in collaboration with WWUORQC
- Assigning work to project resources and following up with them for timely completion
- Created UOR newsletter for studio communication
Junior UOR/Networking Specialist
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
Pune
11.2017 - 03.2019
Junior Game Tester
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
Pune
08.2016 - 10.2017
Education
B.E - Electronics & Telecomm
University of Pune
Skills
Video game testing
Data driven solutions
Process Improvement
Jira
Microsoft Office
Performance monitoring
Process improvement
Coaching and mentoring
Stakeholder management
Influencing skills
Strategic planning
Project management
Risk management
Employee training
Change management
Employee engagement
People management
Leadership
Data analysis
Operations management
Certification
Project Management (In Progress)
Additional Information
2024- Current ERT member for Ubisoft Pune
2022-2023 Diversity and Inclusion council Member, Ubisoft India
2021-Current- ERG Lead for Women, Lets talk about games!
2021,2022- Member of PGC management
2021- IC committer member
2018,2021,2022- Organized and lead Battleground Tournament for Ubisoft Pune
Timeline
Telemetry Team Lead
Ubisoft Entertainment
04.2024 - Current
Associate Telemetry Team Lead
Ubisoft Entertainment
07.2022 - 04.2024
Senior UOR/Networking Specialist
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
04.2021 - Current
UOR/Networking Specialist
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
04.2019 - 03.2021
Junior UOR/Networking Specialist
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
11.2017 - 03.2019
Junior Game Tester
Ubisoft Entertainment Private Limited
08.2016 - 10.2017
B.E - Electronics & Telecomm
University of Pune