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Rekha Dongre

Rekha Dongre

Senior Manager - Program Management
Bangalore

Summary

Dedicated IT Professional with 20+ years of experience in project/ quality management/quality governance across diverse organizational domains.


Currently functioning as Senior Manager - Program Management with Software AG India Pvt. Ltd

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Senior Manager - Program Management

Software AG
Bangalore
01.2005 - Current
  • Work with the teams for process unification whenever new business/ companies are acquired
  • Track project progress using Jira, confluence
  • Participate in impediment handling for product teams
  • Help individual team Project Management needs
  • Team Management - Manage compliance team which is responsible for open-source audit and export compliance
  • Evaluate hiring and promotions requests.
  • Manage large-scale projects and introduce new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
  • Implement and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
  • Collaborate with development teams, internal customers, and product line management to verify delivery of desired quality requirements to distributors.
  • Deliver training sessions for newly hired team leaders and management staff.

Currently working on Release framework change - to support CI/CD


QA Manager: 2010 - 2015

  • Fix release Management: Responsible for fix release Management for multiple business units
  • Worked on continuous improvement efforts on stabilizing fix release process
  • Liaise with various support teams in ensuring smooth functioning of operations
  • Recruitment, grooming and mentoring of team members based on project requirements

QA Lead: 2005-2010

  • Responsible for functional QA for a product
  • Led a team of 8 members


Senior Software QA Engineer

Integral Development Corp
Bangalore
01.2004 - 05.2005
  • Liaise with clients and business analysts in collation/ analysis of requirements # Involved in development of comprehensive integration and system test plans # Drafted/ reviewed test scenarios, test case documents including requirements/ functional analysis documents # Involved in functional, integration, system testing and UAT # Analyzed and maintained automated test scripts
  • McAfee

QA Engineer

09.2002 - 01.2004
  • Prepared test cases and conducted tests on multiple platforms # Focused on automation of tests automation using shell scripts # Conducted localization/ globalization tests Page 2 of 3 # Maintained regular interaction with remote team at Oregon with regards to project activities # Involved in review of technical documentation # Groomed and mentored new team members based on business requirements # Liaised with beta customers

Senior Tech Support Engineer

CyberCash India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
04.2000 - 09.2002
  • Provide tech support for Company products [Payment solutions]

Tech Support Engineer

Aditi Technologies
10.1997 - 04.2000
  • Bangalore
  • Support MS SQL and Visual Basic

Education

BE - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

University of Mysore

Skills

Release Managementundefined

Certification

PMI ACP

Accomplishments

  • Presented with the CEO award for Sustainability solutions - honorable mention for building a solution using SoftwareAG products
  • Received special bonus for 'Best Performance team'
  • Mentoring women in 'SoftwareAgain' program (women returning to work after a career break)

Software

Scripting

Middleware/Integration domain

Timeline

PMI ACP

01-2023

ICP-ACC

09-2018

Senior Manager - Program Management

Software AG
01.2005 - Current

Senior Software QA Engineer

Integral Development Corp
01.2004 - 05.2005

QA Engineer

09.2002 - 01.2004

Senior Tech Support Engineer

CyberCash India Pvt. Ltd
04.2000 - 09.2002

Tech Support Engineer

Aditi Technologies
10.1997 - 04.2000

BE - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

University of Mysore
Rekha DongreSenior Manager - Program Management