Ankit Thakkar Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Working as Agile Program Manager as part of R&D lab and Settlement teams under treasury services with more than 3 Scrum Teams across different GeographyLed multiple team of Cloud Mobile application , API Development and Web Development in Payment domainWorked with Security Engineering team to identify Security assessment and process for commercialization and Pilot phaseWork with Infrastructure and Dev ops team to resolve Environment, Deployment pipeline issues and set up CI/CD process for each project Worked with Product council team identify dependencies and Risks and communicate with appropriate team for Product launchAssist Delivery teams to adopt best agile practice and agile adoption and facilitated Agile ceremonies such as Product Backlog grooming, daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives meetingConducted Agile Maturity assessment and team assisted PMs to derive road map for Agile TransformationCoached and Mentored team to adhere to best agile values and principlesImplemented best software engineering practice such as Automated testing, TDD and BDD Communicated with Director of Software Engineering and VP of Software Engineering on Weekly basis and highlighted Risks and dependencies on Program levelWorked with cross functional team to resolve Risk and Dependencies and assist Scrum Masters to remove Road blockersWorked with Product owner and Business analysis to convert acceptance criteria in Gherkin languageConfigured Scrum and Kanban boards for product backlog in JIRAConducted Workshops and Training sessions for team for JIRA and confluence for documentation and product backlog managementManaged and coordinated release schedules across programsResource planning and Resource Management.

Worked as a Scrum master for different stakeholders as consultant such as Herbalife Nutrition, Honda for North America, FedEx and CISCO Systems.Facilitated Product Backlog grooming, daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives meetingCoached Product owner to prepare product backlog and helped to prioritized Features and User storiesWorked with Product owner and Business analysis to convert acceptance criteria in Gherkin languagePlanned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.Implemented best software engineering practice such as Automated testing, TDD and BDDLead overall scrum process and coordinate with program management team on weekly basis and highlight Risk, issues, and impediments Facilitate ART event by supporting Pre-PI Planning and Pl Planning Events, System Demos, Inspect and AdoptAssist and coached product owner to write Product increment objectives and communicate with management to get desired scores based on business need during PI planning eventAttend Scrum of Scrum meetings with Release Train Engineer and pass the information to team to track product incrementCommunicate with management and stake holders on regular basis to protect team from uncontrolled expansion of workAssist team to become self-organized and self-managed to achieve their sprint goals Assisted teams in constantly improving quality of their deliverables and meeting Definition of Done Configured Scrum and Kanban boards for product backlog in Team Foundation Server Assisted product owner for backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information among cross-functional team

Worked as a Test Lead for various clients such as Best Buy, Credit Suisse and Capital OneLead for all testing activities includes Functional testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and UAT TestingParticipated in preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Entrance Criteria and Test Exit Criteria documentationInvolved with business users, Project Managers, and IT team to review Business requirements and system requirements and sign of process Coordinating with other teams such as developers, functional team, QA manager, program manager and project manager Developed Requirement traceability matrix for various testing stages and cyclesCreated and executed Manual and automation test cases using SeleniumHands on Experience in API testing using SOAP UI and PostmanParticipated in building Page Object Model automation framework from ScratchHands on experience in executing automation test cases in batch using Jenkins CI/CD Developed and implemented standard testing practices/approach to improve testing process for manual testing using Quality Center 10.0 Managed all test deliverables to ensure quality deliverables is delivered at client as per schedule Track and report day to day activity/progress of testing team to QA ManagerParticipated in daily defect call meeting and updating test execution activities.

Served as PeopleSoft Test lead for Wipro Technology (Client : Capital One ) Developed and implemented tests to assess product quality of PeopleSoft HRMS ModuleExecuted test scripts, logged defects and worked to resolve issues noted in testing process. Coordinated with Project managers and Tech leads regarding weekly testing status and defects

Greater Chicago Area

Participated in Business Requirements Analysis, Use-Case Analysis and Gap AnalysisParticipated in Requirement gathering, review for functional design specification, Technical design specificationResponsible for creating and executing Manual Test casesParticipated in Code review, Test strategy and test plan documentationCoordinated with other teams such as developers, functional team, QA manager, program manager and project managers Developed test strategy, test plan and control matrix for various testing stages and cycles Developed and Uploaded Manual Test cases and automation test scripts into Quality center 10.0Involved in backend testing using SQL queries to validated dataInvolved in testing of other web based and .NET applications such as Report validation for third Party vendorsProvided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficienciesDeveloped and maintained quality assurance procedure documentation

Responsible for writing and executing Manual test casesParticipated with technical leads and senior QA engineers to review business requirement specification and Technical requirement specificationCreated Requirement Traceability matrix in HP Quality centerAssisted QA leads and managers to prepare Test plan and Test strategy documentsLogged and generated defect reports and coordinated with QA Leads and managers Participated in backend testing using MS SQL.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Organizational Leadership

MBA

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

3 Yearsof Bachelor of Commerce in 2000 Batch