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SANDEEP NAGAPURKAR
Manager - Projects
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
- Erudite Project Manager with excellence in executing and delivering IT projects for Services and Product industry ensuring phenomenal project delivery with over 15+ years of experience and expertise
- Currently working as Project Manager and Scrum Master
- Highly adept in delivering IT Fix Bid, T&M and hybrid model for assignments related with Project Management, End- End agile implementation, Test Manager, Problem Manager, Test Coordinator, Client relationship and management, handling techno functional cross teams, Estimations, Scheduling, Analysis
- Testing 4+ years of experience as Project Manager and 3 years of experience as a dedicated Scrum Master and Agile Project manager
- 4+ years of experience as a L2 Problem Support Team lead for Digital asset Management in house Product at Cognizant
- Worked as a Global Test Lead and Global Test Manager for five vendor products at assetSERV - Cognizant DAM product for six years for reputed clients from Govt Industry projects, Food and Beverages domain, Banking domain, Digital Asset Management Domain
- Possess rich skills to generate executive reports for KPI for problem management solutions and project management services Excellent in evaluating, integrating and testing other marketing-related technologies to deliver process and productivity gains
- Understand customer requirements and manage expectations throughout project delivery
- Highly experienced in transitioning projects from legacy model to Scrum and rich exposure on implementing SAFe for projects
- Extensive Stakeholder Management experience with following skill set: communication, planning, expectation management, leadership, Negotiation, project management, Needs for assessment and problem solving, streamline delivery processes/standards in compliance with business functions; ensure achievement of customer expectations and provide technical leadership in project
- Proven track record in delivering projects tasks related to testing methodologies like Regression, Smoke, Sanity, ad-hoc testing and test the Application in different Environments, Black Box Testing & ETL Testing , Test Management tool Quality Center, TESTFLO, Confluence, JIRA, Bugzilla Load Runner, Forecast facilita
- Extensive experience in carrying out Embedded domain testing through Whitebox strategies for PREN50128 SIL standards across railway and avionic domains
- Highly skilled and result oriented in serving Project Management , Test Management , Project delivery, Agile Project Management with all the spectrum of activities involved in different project SDLC models for Service and Product based industry
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Project and Agile Manager, Scrum Master
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad, Telangana
03.2018 - Current
- Project Role Project Manager and Scrum Master Client Reputed BFS Client Company.
- Implemented end-end project implementation by breaking down a monolithic application into different chunks of microservices.
- Team Size: 50 ( Client end: 20 and team Internal to company:30) Enterprise microservices (EMSA)program aims to build the platform and microservices.
- It aligns on and publish microservice standards, create criteria for federated vs centralized development.
- Provide governance and oversight for LOBs.
- Develop common repository of middleware services to provide outstanding consulting services to business and technology partners through EBST Application Portfolios Role and Responsibilities:.
- Work as a Project Manager and Scrum Master and transition projects from waterfall to scrum.
- End-end project management activities: Initiate, feasibility budgeting, teams, resources, setting goals and objectives, defining roles and producing schedules and timelines for tasks, create a visual project plan.
- Collaborated with Product owner, Scrum Team, Architects, Developers, BA, Tech BA and DevOps team to bring them on same page w.r.t delivery frequency to have a successful monthly / quarterly / half yearly and yearly release to production
- Used Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Microsoft project plan and other software tools to create end-end lifecycle documents from project inception to closure and other communications.
- Managed projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results.
- Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
- Created plans and communicated deadlines to ensure projects were completed on time.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
- Delivered exceptional level of service to each customer by listening to concerns and answering questions.
- Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
- Offered friendly and efficient service to all customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
- Delivered 2 innovations with Agile implementation from a legacy methodology model saving $10,000$ yearly for the client
- Received 4 WOW amazing job done appreciations from 2018-2021 from BFS client
- Imparted Agile - Scrum coaching to team at all levels also including the vendors for accomplishing project goals within time and avoid overshooting budgets
- Shared excellent Executive reports / Project level reports / Sprint level metrics at Client and parent company for key decision making
- Participated in all client and company related audits to ensure project health score is above par
Test Lead/Global Test Manager/Scrum Master/L2 Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad, Telangana
04.2008 - 03.2018
- Delivered meeting yearly target by achieving 15.8 MN Digital asset Management account across five DAM vendors for the only DAM Product accelerator assetSERV established in 2012
- Implemented Go To Market testing strategies across US, UK and APAC geographies offering testing services to launch assetSERV products.
- As a Global Test Manager Implemented Automation, Performance and Security testing as YOY services and offering automation ROI meets the agreed $ value as per the targets set for every year and reducing the test cycle window by 60%.
- Lead a team of 30 associates for delivering a defect-free application across 5 vendors by implementing Zero Defect Delivery model services to launch assetSERV products.
- Conceptualized and implemented go to market testing strategies across US, UK and APAC geographies offering testing services to launch assetSERV products.
- Implemented Agile-Scrum framework , automation, performance and security testing as YOY services and offered automation ROI in meeting the agreed $ value as per set targets.
- Work as a L2 problem manager to analyze incidents and prioritize them according to the business impact they represent , coordinate all aspects of problem diagnosis and provide resolution, maintain an overview of the problem queue, updating status and keeping the affected stakeholder informed of progress, prevent Incident recurrence and provide innovative approached to improve metrics, create and publish KPI reports across clients only a decided frequency basis.
- Ensuring goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, safety, quality and team member performance.
- Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
- Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services.
- Producing accurate and timely reporting of projects status throughout its life cycle || Analyzing project risks || Working on strategy with the marketing team.
- Delivered projects under CI and CD framework.
- Delivered successful solutions across Migration testing from different platforms and upgrades.
- Lead and motivate project team from both internal and external stakeholder organizations.
- Carry out monitoring, auditing and control activities in order to track the progress of the project.
- Report regularly to management and the client.
- Close the project - including evaluating successes and challenges to enhance learning for the next project.
- Increased customer satisfaction by resolving product issues across five different DAM product clients
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
- Served customers in a friendly, efficient manner following outlined steps of service.
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
- Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins.
- Managed team of 30 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees.
- Collaborated with internal stakeholders in house and client Account, HR, Delivery excellence and Admin team to ensure all team members are successfully delivering what is expected out of them for the project
Associate Consultant
Polaris Software Labs
Hyderabad, Telangana
05.2008 - 08.2010
- Joined Polaris Software labs and worked as a Manual and automation test consultant for General electric client
- Delivery solution related to Manual Testing, Automation Testing using QTP, Dataware House Testing using informatica and Database testing for various General Electric applications
- Garnered high appreciation from client to implement 100% automation for more than a couple of applications
- Played key roles as a Dataware house tester and Database tester replacing senior level folks in the team to ensure safe delivery
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
- Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Saved $3000 by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.
Embedded Senior Tester
LGCNS GLOBAL
Bangalore, Karnataka
11.2005 - 04.2008
- Worked in LGCNS global as a Embedded domain tester for verification and validation testing which is actually white box testing - involving setting project instrumenting code adding libraries and performing code coverage, statement coverage, loop coverage decision coverage for 10000 lines of close covering all functions and ensuring a green report observing Safety Integrity Levels and PREN50128 standards. Also worked on Blackbox testing and Automation testing using QTP
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
- Improved covering code through consistent hard work, team coaching and dedication to deliver the project in a phased wise manner
- Completed Integration testing to ensure compliance with relevant PREN50128 regulations conducting audit of team with client managers ensuring all Safety Integrity Levels are met
- Created plans and communicated deadlines to ensure projects were completed on time.
- Performed duties in accordance with all applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
Lokmanya Tilak PG College
Hyderabad - Ibrahimpattanam 07.2002 - 09.2005
Bachelor of Computer Science And Electronics - Computer Science And Electronics
Avanthi Degree College
Hyderabad Barkatpura 07.2000 - 07.2002
Skills
Risk identification
Public speaking
Development team trainings
Customer interaction and end-end Management
Project Management
Risk mitigation planning
Documentation Management
Reporting template development
Quality assurance
Troubleshooting
Critical thinking
Adaptability
Collaboration
Data management
Customer service
Teamwork
Basic math
Scrum and Safe Implementation
Funtastic Events
Stakeholder end end Management
Organization and Time management
Self-motivated professional
Certification
Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance (post 2018)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating System: WIN 10 Professional/XP/7, UNIX
Cloud: Amazon Web Services, PCF
Database: Oracle 8i/9G/10G, MS SQL Server, MySQL
Delivery Methodologies: Agile – Scrum, Safe, Waterfall, Iterative, Hybrid Model
IDE: Eclipse
Version Control: VSS, SVN and GIT
Others: JIRA, WIKI, HP-Qualitycenter, Bugzilla, Selenium 2.54, Telerik, Load Runner, MS-Project Professional, JMeter, Qualys, Perfmon
Accomplishments
- Received 4 WOW awards on Amazing Job done for reputed BFS client for saving $10,000 annually by implementing 2 innovations from 2018 to 2020
- Received long serving outstanding performer for assetSERV - Cognizant for introducing various testing services, transition to agile model and serve as a L2 Problem manager and delivering innovations every year from 2012 to 2018
Interests
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Quote
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
Project and Agile Manager, Scrum Master
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2018 - Current
Associate Consultant
Polaris Software Labs
05.2008 - 08.2010
Test Lead/Global Test Manager/Scrum Master/L2 Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2008 - 03.2018
Embedded Senior Tester
LGCNS GLOBAL
11.2005 - 04.2008
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
Lokmanya Tilak PG College
07.2002 - 09.2005
Bachelor of Computer Science And Electronics - Computer Science And Electronics
Avanthi Degree College
07.2000 - 07.2002