SAURABH GUPTA
Project Manager
Gurgaon
Summary
Certified PMI-PMP from Project Management Institute, Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance Professional and SAFe6 certified from Scaled Agile. Fluent communicator with 14 years of experience in delivering IT projects, Resources management, Deployment, Architecture design, Beta testing/Dress Rehearsal, software releases and requirement analysis. Performing gap analysis between goals and existing procedures/ skill sets and designing process and system improvements to increase productivity and reduce costs. Excellent knowledge in Project management, Client Handling, Stakeholder management, Project Documentations, Communication and Dashboarding with Client, Vendors, Stakeholders and Sponsors, Excellent coordination skills, proven track record of complex tech. Projects.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Manager
BHARTI AIRTEL-AFRICA
Gurgaon
05.2024 - Current
- Managing 3 OpCos (African countries) to meet project delivery goals in Airtel Money, Airtel Digital Banking.
- Recently, Business Live Pay X successfully launched in Kenya, Budget of $4.5 million.
- Handling (Africa - Airtel Money): Virtual credit cards (global payments, QR code payments, switches - project budgeting of $9.4 million).
- Managing Teams – Airtel Money, Digital Wallet, Mobiquity, Middleware, Enterprise Portal, DevOps, and Database.
- Structured change roadmaps, oversee full project lifecycles, and monitor benefits across costing, reliability, safety, and quality.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to secure statutory approvals, and identifying areas for improvement. Presenting decision-making reports and data for leadership.
- Provide a strategic role for optimizing the overall IT landscape, from project plans to production deployment and go-live.
- Partner closely with Engineering, SRE, DevOps, TechOps, QA, global teams, and Change Management to ensure alignment and effective governance.
- Designing and mapping the release calendar for deployment in each opco and securing post go-live sign-offs.
- Team size: 41.
Project Manager
State Bank of India- GITC
Navi Mumbai
10.2023 - 05.2024
- Handled resources for 2 teams (Mumbai and Hyderabad) to meet project delivery goals.
- Feature enhancing (YONO 2.0), SBI Project budgeting of $3.7 million.
- Presented the YONO 2.0 SBI project landscape to Arundhati Bhattacharya (SBI Chairperson).
- Effectively communicate project objectives, progress and outcomes to various SBI bankers, leadership, tech leads, developers and business analysts.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to address concerns, provide updates and arrange required solutions to achieve deliverables.
- Develop and execute a project delivery strategy and conduct a risk assessment (Risk Register, RCA).
- Analyzes business needs, requirements, and strategies, changes scope and builds mapping.
- Collaborating with stakeholders for management of statutory approvals and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Conduct kick-off meetings and manage the design-to-construct transition.
- Monitoring project performance through regular status updates, milestone reviews, compliance and risk mitigation.
- Foster communication among project teams and stakeholders.
- Ensure timely projection of project progress reports and challenges with SBI-Bankers.
- Team Size: 103.
Project Delivery Manager
FlowerAura.com
Gurgaon
03.2021 - 09.2023
- Desktop/Mobile web and app (Android/iOS), PayU-Juspay payment aggregator, website flow planning/design mapping using UML case designs with stakeholders and product/sprint backlog update.
- Project documentation (WBS, project status reports, project charter, project plan), GANTT chart, RAID, FISHBONE, pre-deployment demos, and UAT planning with leads.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, deliverables, and success criteria.
- Conduct project risk assessments, and implement risk mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues.
- Replication Project - Bakingo.com with 9 members.
- Lead project meetings, including kick-off meetings, status updates, and project review sessions.
- Monitor project progress, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and ensure projects are delivered within agreed-upon timelines and quality standards.
- Third Party Integrations: Imagekit.io, searchTAP. AWS–SQS. Manage third-party resources prices and billings. APP - Android and iOS – APK build releases.
- Team size: 27.
QA Lead
Successive Technology
Noida
12.2020 - 03.2021
- UI Web-Applications.
- Test planning: review cases, test scripts, automation; suit design, integration testing, regression.
- Skills/Tools Used: CodeceptJS, IntelliJ, Maven, Skeleton, Cucumber BDD, Manual Testing, JMeter, Agile Methodology, JIRA Tool.
- Team size: 7.
Sr. Test Engineer/Scrum Master
T-Genies India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Client contact, vendor contact database, RFPs and user interface web applications.
- Test planning, test scripts, automation testing, integration testing, regression, AWS-SQS testing, Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, sprint backlog.
- Skills/Tools Used: Selenium, Eclipse, Core Java, Appium, Manual Testing, JMeter, Agile Methodology, JIRA Tool, AWS-SQS (Payloads), ARC API Testing, Scrum (Increments, Velocity, Burn-Up/Down Charts).
- Team size: 6.
Assistant Manager/Scrum Master
GENPACT INDIA (Corporate)
Gurgaon
01.2015 - 09.2019
- Helpmate is a cloud-based software offering clients, vendors, and customers Circle access to all the benefits of Euro lease AutoRomania loan facilities, application mapping as per EU laws.
- New My Time - HR website designed for tracking employees' attendance, leaves, working project hours, and reports.
- SFDC for Sales business regarding the PID creation and update the PID details as per business.
- Verifying the data migration from Oracle R11 to Oracle R12 version.
- Skills/Tools Used: Scrum events, Oracle, Pinnacle ICIMS, GBS, UAT, manual testing, regression testing, Agile methodology, waterfall, JIRA.
- Team Size: 9
SAP Consultant
DAMCO INDIA
Mumbai
11.2011 - 07.2014
- SAP SD, MM, T-Code, reports, interfaces, enhancement forms, workflow, and IDOC mapping.
- Award: Awarded for outstanding productivity improvement in Damco in March 2014.
- Skills/Tools Used: SAP SD, VSTS.
- Team size: 18.
Education
MBA - Business development management
NMIMS
Mumbai01.2019
B.Tech - CSE
GITM
Rohtak01.2011
Accomplishments
- YONO 2.0 Features enhancement Govt. India Project- UI/UX, Security layer, LMS and Core banking enhancement.
- PAY X -Airtel Africa App ( Android/IOS)Launch in Kenya, Virtual credit cards, QR code payments.
- Floweraura.ae : e-commerce website /Mobile App( Android/IOS) App Launch in UAE
Certification
Certified PMI- PMP (Project Management Professional).
Additional Information
- Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing(STLC).
- Mobile Applications( Hybrid, Native), Payment Gateways, Aggregators, Switches, Payment interfaces structuring, Digital wallets, UPI, Multi-currency convertors, Invoice Designing.
- Selenium Eclipse IDE, Core JAVA, J-meter(Performance, Load ,Rest API Testing), Manual testing, Appium Mobile Testing (Native, Web & Hybrid Apps.), Cucumber BDD- Gherkins, UAT(Alpha-Beta).
- GIT, Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline, AWS-SQS, Agile methodology, Waterfall, JIRA, Easy Redmine.
- ERP System- Oracle R12, SAP(SD-MM-FICO), SFDC (Pinnacle- ICMS integration).
- SAP- SD, MM, FICO, Ariba.
Current Project Responsibilities
- Coordinate with Technical Product owners, Tech. leads and Leadership for the flawless execution of projects and time deliverables.
- Detailed work on WBS, clear the requirements and goals of each stage. Coordinate with Leaders and stakeholders on TRD, FRD Amendments or change annexure required in the project.
- Resources planning, Setting timelines for Projects, tasks deliverables- Actual Vs Planned. Preparation on Business cases, project detailed plans/documentation, project charter/project scope.
- Present RAG Status of each project in leadership review meeting every Month and coordination with PMO for deliverables.
- Creating a collaborative, innovative, motivated and efficient working culture ,Optimizing processes and team productivity.
- Responsible for Project milestone delivery, Project closure Documentation, Timely dashboarding on project tasks and progressive reports with Leads.
Awards
Awarded as Silver and Bronze Award for best performer in Dec.2016 and July 2017 for Successful Project UAT Releases and Testing., Received Employee of Month- December (2021) Delivery Manager Responsibilities., Awarded as Outstanding productivity improvement in Damco in year March 2014.
Training
- 6 weeks Industrial Training at HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD from 1st June 2009 – 31st July 2009, The Project was based on the Computer Networking.
- 6 weeks Industrial Training at MUNJAL SHOWA LTD from 18th June 2010 – 23rd July 2010 “The project was based on Recovery and Disaster Management in SAP & SAP life cycle process”.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above-furnished details are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Place -Gurgaon (SAURABH GUPTA)
Timeline
Project Manager
BHARTI AIRTEL-AFRICA
05.2024 - Current
Project Manager
State Bank of India- GITC
10.2023 - 05.2024
Project Delivery Manager
FlowerAura.com
03.2021 - 09.2023
QA Lead
Successive Technology
12.2020 - 03.2021
Sr. Test Engineer/Scrum Master
T-Genies India Pvt. Ltd
10.2019 - 12.2020
Assistant Manager/Scrum Master
GENPACT INDIA (Corporate)
01.2015 - 09.2019
SAP Consultant
DAMCO INDIA
11.2011 - 07.2014
MBA - Business development management
NMIMS
B.Tech - CSE
GITM