Santhosh SB

Roles and Responsibelity:

• Closely work with the team of Product Managers to craft and maintain a strong product vision that aligns with market trends and strategic goals.
• Understand the competitive landscape and differentiate your product from others.
• Prioritizing the essential features, bug fixes over non trivial feature requests.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine and groom backlog items.
• Clearly define what needs to be built for each feature or user story.
• Balance detail with flexibility, allowing the development team to make informed decisions.
• Guide the team toward alignment without micromanaging.
• Ensure everyone feels heard and respected, even when managing conflicting interests.

Achievements:

• Played key role in delivering the planned features working closely with Product, Program Management
• Improved product quality by reducing defects by nearly 20% comparison to previous customer deliveries done
• Facilitated effective collaboration between cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated adaptability in responding to changing market conditions.

• Reduced time-to-market for new products by streamlining the prototyping process and leveraging rapid prototyping technologies.
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
• Optimized resource allocation by implementing project prioritization methodologies aligned with company strategic goals.
• Set aggressive targets for employees to drive company success and strengthen motivation.
• Coordinated multidisciplinary project teams to deliver complex research projects on schedule while meeting established budget constraints.
• Championed a collaborative work environment within the R&D team through open communication channels and regular team-building activities.
• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement within the R&D department through regular performance evaluations and targeted employee development programs.
• Led process optimization initiatives aimed at reducing costs while maintaining high-quality standards in product development efforts.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.

• Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
• Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
• Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
• Fostered a culture of innovation and creativity within the project team, leading to improved problem-solving capabilities and enhanced outcomes.
• Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
• Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
• Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
• Managed risk assessments and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues during project execution.
• Implemented continuous improvement initiatives to optimize project outcomes while maintaining costeffectiveness.

Roles and Responsibelity:

• Involved in the development of comprehensive test strategy as the Product Roadmap and Project delivery timelines by closely collaborating with Product and Program management.
  
• Design detailed test plans that outline testing objectives, scope, resources, and timelines.
• Lead and coordinate the testing team. Provide guidance, mentorship, and supervision.
• Manage and allocate test resources efficiently. This includes personnel, technical tools, and IT infrastructure.
• Oversee the execution of test cases, ensuring adherence to the defined test plans.
• Analyze test outcomes, identify defects, and collaborate with development teams for resolution.
• Prepare reports summarizing test progress, results, and any critical issues. Share these insights with stakeholders.
• Identify risks related to testing and propose mitigation strategies.
• Apply relevant test metrics to assess product quality and team performance.
• Continuously improve testing processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Explore opportunities to enhance testing efficiency through technical innovations.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, system administrators, project managers and Product managers.
  

Achievements:

• Successfully led the testing team to deliver quality software to customers as per the Project timelines and Roadmap plan.
• Implemented Test Automation resulting in optimized testing cycles.
• Improved defect detection rates by refining test processes.
• Fostered a collaborative environment that facilitated effective communication across teams.

• Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
• Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
• Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
• Maintained existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects.
• Collaborated with fellow engineers to evaluate software and hardware interfaces.
• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.