Vijendra Pal R

Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

• Experienced Technical Program Manager, Scrum Master & IT Program Manager with vast IT Exposure in Consulting, Services & Product Development. Also, well versed with new technology skill set like APIs, MicroServices, Cloud (GCP).
• Demonstrated strengths in engineering, technology implementation, management of diverse technical teams, client needs and technical innovation while adhering PMI process, CMM, Waterfall, SDLC Lifecycle, Iterative and Agile methodologies.
• Recognized for leadership in project planning, scheduling, prioritization, contingency and risk planning, work assignments, and definition of scope for enterprise projects.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, learning and organizing skills matched with the ability to manage stress, time and people effectively.
• Collaborating with product teams, conduct gap analysis, estimate work efforts, define OKRs and resolve dependencies.
• Vendor management: hiring, training, contracting, Resource and budget forecasting.
• Setup processes, drive automation and efficient operations
• Effectively co-coordinating, communicating and participating with the QA / Dev Teams / DevOps
• Management of different geographic locations
• Member of R&D team of the Organization, providing insights for better processes to be followed for all the phases of SDLC, risk mitigation, keeping QA independent, protocols, documentation, release procedures.
• Managing a team of 150+ team members including of 5 Project Managers, 4 QA Mangers. Taking care of Goal Setting and Clarity, Continuous Feedback, Skill Development and Training, Performance Metrics, Performance Reviews, Recognition and Rewards, Personal Development Plans, Encourage SelfReflection

• Encora Innovation Labs, Google HYD, 11/2015, Present, Deputed at Google HYD on behalf of Encora Innovation Labs
• NCR Corporation, Hyd, 11/2011, 11/2015
• Cognizant Technology Solutions, 08/2009, 11/2011
• HCL America Inc, Redmond, USA, 08/2007, 08/2009
• HCL Technologies Ltd, Hyd, India, 02/2006, 08/2007
• India Insure Risk Management Services, Hyd, India, 01/2005, 02/2006

Gmail, Program Manager / QA Manager, 

• Help product owners understand how to create and maintain the product backlog.,
• Planning and designing the program and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues, and initiating appropriate corrective action defining the program's governance arrangements,
• Facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams,
• Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the program's individual projects.,
• Managing third party contributions to the program. Ensuring Devops pipeline on track,
• Managing communications with all stakeholders,
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects (Ex: hotfix patching), Managing risks to the program's successful outcome,
• working with the development team to find and implement the technical practices needed to get to Done at the end of each sprint.,
• Removing impediments to the team's progress

• NCR Corporation, HYD, India and Duluth USA, Kalpana, Senior Test Lead / Project Manager, APTRA Connection, Senior Test Lead, Security Team, Senior Test Lead
• Cognizant, HYD, India and Vancouver, USA, MLX/T5, Module Lead
• HCL America Inc., Redmond, USA, Microsoft Virtual Earth, SDET II / Lead Engineer, Microsoft Dynamics Live Services, SDET / Lead Engineer
• HCL Technologies, HYD, India, Microsoft Virtual Earth, SDET II / Lead Engineer, Microsoft Dynamics Live Services, SDET / Lead Engineer
• India Insure, HYD, India, India Insure, Executive - IT