MANISH GAJRE

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

NINE years of experience with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure

Seven years’ of experience in QA, BA (30%), resource manager, defect manager, PMO operations

Experienced in coordination, negotiating & motivating resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables

Managed various project management methodologies including Agile/Scrum ceremonies. Experience of working in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) projects

Proven effectiveness in building good client interaction, partnering with senior business leaders and working collaboratively at all levels to assess, plan, and implement IT solutions. Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, brainstorming sessions and conducting core team meetings

Excellent communication and presentation skills, quick learner, enthusiastic team player with an ability to perform individually

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Project Management Skills: Scrum Master, Team Building and Leadership, Service Delivery, Change Management, Dashboards, Cost Control Analysis, Project Planning, Scoping, and Scheduling, Project Risk Analysis, Project Billing, Development plans, Business Case Writing, Migration Project Delivery, continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD).

Technology & Skills: Project Management, MS Project, Visio, Proficient in Microsoft Office and Other Microsoft Office Application Suite, SharePoint, Customer Service skill, Written and Verbal Communication skills, Strong Organizational and Multitasking skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Unisoft

Designation: Project Manager, Jul-2017 – Till India

Role: Delivery Lead Scrum PMO Operation

Performed Project management duties including planning, scheduling, scoping, managing the deliverables, tracking progress, project charter, review project plan, implement corrective measures, mitigate risk and manage resources.

Worked on multiple projects with functional integration, and organizational change management

Assists with project initiation, risk assessment, team start-up, project execution and post-project review

Assist for sprint planning, scoping, stand-ups reviews, estimating, staffing, project monitoring, schedule, own and retrospectives with team, and Product Owner

Facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies delivered sprint commitments and Work with Team on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown and so on

Identify and take action on Retrospective Items and continuous improvement of engineering practices, helped team to increase team velocity every sprint & significant improvement on the quality of deliverables.

Schedule and work with all stakeholders, Product Owner, to maintain and communicate roadmap across releases and planning of application/Modules

Used project management tools to establish the planning process, document the project(s) scope of work and establish a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to include: requirements definition, establish milestones, plan and execute work plan, track progress; identify corrective actions and mitigate risks, and apply quality assurance using lessons learned, defining & measuring success metrics and monitoring the change progress, documentation retirement, and continual monitoring

Conduct on-site meetings to discuss project progress with the team and troubleshoot and resolve any issues/problems impeding smooth workflow or project deadlines

Manage, coordinates and facilitates business development projects (RFPs, RFIs, presentations, etc.) from initial receipt through delivery in a timely and quality-driven manner

Manage and communicate proposal status, key milestones, and post-proposal analysis to the proposal team, management, and sales organization

Employer: iGATE

Designation: Senior Consultant, Oct-14 – Jun-17 India

Role: Project Coordinator/Manager Delivery Lead

Lead development and approval of project definition and scoping with stakeholders including clients, delivery teams, finance team and senior management

Prepare and monitor Project Management artifacts including Statement of Work (SOW), project plan, weekly project status report, project staffing forecast, timesheet/billing, change management, issues, risks, action items and decisions (IRAD / RAID), project change control, and project closure document, Involve in RFP proposal, Pre-sales, client engagement

Work closely with PMO operations in building out project management best practices, standards, guidelines templates documentation

Understand the technical solutions being delivered and key functionalities the solutions provide enabling you to support client questions with limited involvement from development resources and provide accurate direction to project team(s)

Work with Management and Resource Manager to ensure adequate resource allocation, & priority to projects

Client : Maxis Mobile Sdn Bhd,

Consultant, Jul-12 – Sep-14 Malaysia

Role: QA Lead Release onsite coordinator

Analyze requirements, Prepare Test Scripts, Review High-level Scenario, test case, test plan of Cloud based Mobile testing

Work with Senior Management and other stakeholders to assess and define Scope and write Test Strategy, RFP, SOW, Contract, estimations, project plan, resource impacts, E2E environment

Define release schedules, product delivery milestones, roadmaps and communicate to the team

Prioritized and Escalate customer issues and developed action plans to address them

Coordinate and performs all QA activities within a distributed team at onsite

Lead project status and progress meetings for various releases and testing cycles

Work closely with PMO operations in building out project management best practices, standards, guidelines templates documentation

Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases

Execute test cases for Billing, Prepaid and PostPaid Mobile Application

Environment: Kenan modules like Rating, Billing & Financials, Front-End, etc

Designation: Senior Software Specialist, Jan-11 – 2015 India

Role: Release coordinator BA

Maintain data accuracy for assigned requirements of schedule, staffing, skill metrics, etc

Overall responsibility to plan, change management, resource and funding requirements, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams beginning with the Software Testing phase till production implementation

Develop the Scope of Work, and is accountable for building & maintaining an ongoing Plan

Responsible to maintain RFC's and make sure the processes adhere to Change/Release management standards. Communicate overall completion status to Technology Project managers.

Coordination with cross commit team & track deployment activities as they occur using implementation plans

Facilitate resolution of issues during deployment and escalate issues where necessary.

Various applications were developed using Visual Studio, C#, .NET Framework supported by TestComplete

Client : MetLife, USA

Designation: Senior Software Specialist, Jan-09 – Dec-10 USA/Canada, India

Role: Quality Assurance Testing BA

Requirement gathering and prepare business requirement

Creating functional understanding from the requirement documents and discussion points with client

Worked closely with Development team, client vendors in understanding the Requirements, business process

Prepare Review, Tracking Test Plan, Test case Requirement, and Dashboard in Quality Center

Established Release plan verified scope, sign-off deployment checklists & communicate stakeholders

Built Innovation team and formulated best practices for continuous improvement of QA processes to support customer using Agile methodologies

Used Quality Center to detect defects, tracking to communicate the dev team, BA, managements, vendors

CR management: Manage change requests from stakeholders to allow traceability and delivery planning

Client : Bottomline Technologies. USA

Designation: Technical Lead (Delivery), Dec-07 – Jan-09 USA, India

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the management of project resources ensuring budget and scheduling constraints adhering

Conduct Triage call and participate in several management calls with customer

Act as SPOC (single point of contact) for all delivery issues and escalations

Monitor and report delivery performance (metrics) KPIs of the team and meeting SLA and the OLA

Experience in delivering enterprise scale engineering transformation using a number of the listed technologies

Patni Internal Projects (Netherlands Project Center) Test Lead

Description: Chosen to work with Netherlands clients. I worked on proposals, various initiatives & learning activities

Helped ING to build testing improve test coordination facility. Provided right-shore solution to Delta Lloyd

Worked on POC to convert QC defects into Rational Clear Quest

Involved in RFI response to ING’s Central Europe region

Involved in testing framework: This establishes the testing and implementation principles, a common set of testing terminology, approaches and testing scenarios for the provision and operation of the Direct Debit and Credit Transfer payment instruments

Client : Merge-Cedara,

Designation: Technical Lead, Nov-06 – Dec-07 Canada, France

Responsible for reviewing the Test Cases and by executing System, Functional, GUI, and Regression testing

Executed functional, GUI, Integration, Regression test and System test cases with QTP

Analyzed non-conformances, assisted CAPA (Corrective Action Preventive Action) team to determine appropriate containment, problem statements, root causes and identify effective responses

Revised Corrective and Preventative Action and remediated reports on legacy CAPAs

Generated effective monitoring plans, Tailor Templates for appropriate and effective corrective / preventive actions with CAPA owners

Lead and support external / internal audits as necessary

Client : Passkey, USA

Designation: Software Specialist, Sep-03 – Nov-06 MA, USA, India

Responsible for project coordination, configuration management, Process Improvement, testing & reporting

Requirement studies and understand the requirements

Develop strategy according to test requirement and walkthrough with Team and Customer

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (Operation Management) from Eminent Institute of Management and Technology, 2015

Bachelor of Engineering (Computers) from University of Pune, India, 1998

Diploma in Systems Management in Computers from Computek Institute, India

TRAININGS / WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS

Employer based Internal Professional Training/Certification – QA Testing, PL/PM, testing, PMP Starter Kit, Scrum, Engagement Lead, Oracle DBA, Java, DevOps, QTP, Internal Audit, Internal Security Audits

Quality Assurance/Testing Training

Certificate Course in Oracle and Developer/2000

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Received Individual Excellence Performance Award, Team Performance Awards consecutively from 2003 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015

Received Letter of Appreciation repeatedly from 2003 to 2007 and 2012

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