Vishad Shukla

Automotive IT Projects | Germany, Romania & India |

• Spearheaded the end-to-end transition of IT services and operations from Germany and Romania to a newly established offshore team in India, ensuring knowledge continuity, minimal disruption, and a successful go-live.
• Set up the offshore team by defining role structures, onboarding plans, infrastructure access, and delivery ownership in alignment with client expectations.
• Designed and executed comprehensive Transition Plans covering KT sessions, reverse shadowing, process documentation, and stakeholder approvals.
• Acted as the Project Lead and SPOC, managing governance calls, tracking milestones, mitigating risks, and ensuring timely reporting on project health across scope, resources, planning, and financials.
• Post-transition, evolved into a Business Consultant cum Analyst, serving as the primary liaison between client business teams and offshore delivery.
• Conducted requirement analysis, process mapping, and feasibility assessments for new digital automotive solutions.
• Collaborated with product owners and architects to convert business needs into functional specifications, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with customer value.
• Supported Agile delivery cycles through backlog grooming, sprint planning, and stakeholder validation during UAT phases.
• Leveraged domain expertise in automotive R&D, manufacturing, and IT to propose optimizations in vehicle development and digital aftermarket services.
• Contributed to presales efforts, helping prepare solution proposals and presenting value-driven narratives to prospective clients.

Automotive IT Projects | Germany, Romania & India |

• Managing multiple products as a Designer for optimizing and building data flow pipelines using Azure Devops
• Responsible for bringing in new requirements and Upgrades in products specified for the development Team from Germany, Romania and India
• Prioritized project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
• Designed Delivered high-quality solutions for clients through comprehensive research.

• Taken over Multiple roles in the project over the period and responsible for delivering the product with right quality by meeting the Delivery deadlines.
• Responsibility as Project Delivery Lead: Responsible for Updating the Project status every month end under various aspects varying from Scope of work, resources, Risks, Issues, Project planning, Invoices etc.
• Responsibility as Product Owner: Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team. Own and approves release.
• Create, manage and refine requirements for execution and delivery of the product.
• Define product vision and growth Opportunities ensuring that the team always has an adequate number of prepared stories in the backlog.
• Work closely with stakeholders to create and maintain a product backlog according to the business value.
• Assess business value, develop use cases, and prioritize stories.
• Defining Product features according to the Customer Needs.
• Advise and supervise the scrum Team to meet software expectations.
• Nurturing Ideas and solutions to existing customer problems.
• Communicate effectively with Team and all the stakeholders to achieve project goals.
• Schedule and lead meetings to Identify issues and fixes for projects.
• Responsibility as Defect Manager: Responsible for Defect Ownership, Defining Process and management of defect Handling process.
• Owning and chairing all the defect discussions with Development, Testing Team and Client Testing Team.
• Creating, recording and prioritizing all the UAT defects and Production Incidents in the backlog to maintain effective delivery to achieve client satisfaction.
• Responsibility as Transition Co-Ordinator: Actively responsible for Training and building Business Knowledge for Daimler Product Owners.
• Ensuring a smooth Transition of workflow between MSG and Daimler development Team.
• Presenting, Supporting and Guiding Daimler in understanding the Business Requirements and Specification Documents.

• Title of Program: Market Research for an Indian Conglomerate for assessing location for setting up of way side Amenities, on a requirement raised by National Highway Authority of India.
• Roles and Responsibilities: The Project Includes study, research and assessment performed upon the data collected through Primary and secondary research.

• Associated with Volvo Eicher commercial vehicle as Onsite Associated Testing Engineer from Paramtech CAD Services Pvt. Ltd,Pune.
• Roles and Responsibilities: The quality & Test Engineer for Performance Validation of the VE 2100 SERIES. This was an entirely new platform for the organization under Heavy Commercial Vehicles (HCV's).
• Foremost team member in Introduction and implementation of TIR (Test Incident Reporting) System in Eicher motors under leadership.
• Clearing of Quality check of the Designed part installed and taking sign off with the designer after fitment in vehicles.
• Testing for the outsourced aggregates like Engine, Axle, transmission and their Installation quality assurance.
• Excellent report generation skills with Product values & quality in market and customer voice on the product & its quality.