Engineering Management

Shikha Saxena

***************@*****.***, Newark, CA 408-***-****

INTERESTS

Program Management

Project Management

Technical Program

Management

EDUCATION

International Technical

University, San Jose, CA —

Masters in Software

Engineering

Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

Rajiv Gandhi Technical

University, India — Bachelor of

Engineering in Computer Science &

Engineering

June 2004 - July 2008

CERTIFICATES

PMI-ACP Certification(21PDU

complete)

Risk Management

SKILLS

Tableau, SQL, Java, Python,

Android UiAutomator,

PowerBI,Buganizer, Jira,

Kanban, Scrum

COURSEWORK GRADUATE

Software Requirements

Elicitation • Software

Engineering

• Data Science • Python

Programming • Data Structure •

Big Data • Java • Oracle

Database Architecture &

Administration • Numerical

Analysis • Unix Operating

System

PROJECTS

• Release test program

management for Android Search

Assistant project at

Google[Employer: Etouch Inc]

• Resource management at Tech

Mahindra

• Online Loan Management design

and managing a team of 4

coworkers at ITU, San Jose

• Entrepreneur.com: Design and

development of sites at ITU, San

Jose

EXPERIENCE

Program Manager Google Inc (working through Etouch) Mountain View, CA Dec 2015 - Apr 2018

1. Coordinated with the developers and the Product managers to create the Use Cases, User Story and feature/requirements document. 2. Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.

3. Executive briefing and reporting on scrum metrics, burn-up and process improvements periodically.

4. Assisted in planning/scheduling major and long-term projects using Kanban

5. Participated in discussions and gave opinions about the product's performance & design Managed requirements and performed UAT for an internal tool (tools and infrastructure team)

6. Developed test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test reports on multiple projects from scratch. Prepared various documentation regarding reporting system, deployment, and tester guide

7. Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.

8. Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates. 9. Wrote User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stakeholders.

10. Coordinated with the offshore team to make them through with the feature/testing process & bug Triage

11. Vendor management : Managing device procurement, maintaining test infra, and establishing test env for validation .

12. Making dashboards to study data and look for improvements. Sr Executive Tech Mahindra Noida, India Jun 2009 – Dec 2012 1. Resource allocation and Management . Resource Fulfillment through internal bench, rotation, Lateral hire and Subcontracting. 2. Resource Fulfillment through internal bench, rotation, Lateral hire and Subcontracting.

3. Collaborate with various teams across location sales & business development, delivery and resource management to staff projects while balancing commercial, business and individual career development aspirations 4. Project allocation & de allocation including Employees interaction, interaction with the Delivery Heads/Center Heads, & Succession Management. 5. Coordinate with Education Services Group (training) for various programs regarding skills enhancement and certification of employees. 6. Control overall movement/rotation of resources within the business units. AWARDS

● Kudos for efficient and effective resource management at TechM

● Kudos for unblocking critical projects at TechM

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