Niranjan Tare Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Driving implementation of product strategy with the aim to increase sales, adoption and client experience for Talent Management products
• Defining and maintaining quarterly and yearly product roadmaps to align with the strategy and fiscal year goals for the business unit
• Conducting Market Research and Competitor Analysis to recommend product enhancements and features based on trends and insights
• Actively engage with clients to uncover pain points, understand user behavior and validate hypotheses
• Authoring user stories and prioritizing backlog features to align with roadmaps using frameworks like the KANO Model, RICE or Weighted Sum model
• Collaborating closely with UX Designers, Developers, Architects and other internal partners to scope, wireframe and design optimal solutions

Pune Area, India

• Lead enterprise-grade multi-tenant global SaaS products on Talent Management, Payroll built in Java stack, React.js, Microservices, KAFKA, Oracle and Postgres
• Strategize and drive complex, large-scale initiatives (50+ employees) on new product development, cloud migration (on AWS), modernization and digital transformation with globally distributed SCRUM teams
• Define and lead end-to-end product life cycle activities like Market/User research, Competitive analysis, Product Discovery, User Experience Design, Architecture, Development, Testing, and Production Support
• Influence product decisions on strategy, scoping, technical design, capacity planning, development methodologies, and staffing across scrum teams
• Define roadmaps for multiple initiatives based on business and product OKRs for the fiscal year
• Collaborate across product functions like Product Managers, Architects, Designers, Development and DevOps to mitigate risks, incidents and bottlenecks to ensure Quality and On-Time delivery

Parsippany, New Jersey

• Led global Software Testing Team of 14+ Test Engineers driving product testing and automation initiatives
• Collaborated with Product Managers, Development Leads and DevOps for product testing and release planning
• Defined and implemented product testing strategy to ensure adherence with functional, performance, reliability and security benchmarks
• Defined and monitored product quality and release readiness metrics to help make data-driven decisions on product release.
• As a Subject Matter Expert, collaborated with Product Implementation Services and Client Support Services to ensure quick resolution of queries/issues
• As a SCRUM Master, handled activities like Release Planning, Sprint planning, Resourcing, Backlog Grooming, Architecture, Construction, Testing, Automation and Retrospectives

Hyderabad Area, India

Lead global product assurance team to drive QA efforts for WFN – Time off and Compensation Management componentsAs a part of WFN QA Manager’s Team, collaborate with Sr. management on V&V and release management effortSync up with Implementation Services, Client Support [Tier I and Tier II] and other Partner R&D and Non R&D teams to ensure quick resolution.

Lead QA Team of 14 Test Engineers at HyderabadCoordinate with Onshore Manager for work and resource allocationProvide technical leadership to the team to achieve goals for schedule and Quality Carry out Planning, estimation of test effort and define the scope after assessing the risksPrepare Test Plans, test cases and conduct reviews to ensure functional.

Hyderabad Area, India

Lead the Product Quality Assurance Team of 8 Test Engineers Work closely with onsite Test Manager to set up expectations and work plans for the Test TeamWork with onsite Product Management/Stakeholders in Sprint Planning and Management for automation effortInvolve across SDLC, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Solution Design, Veriication and Validation.

Lead QA team of 5 Test Engineers and Worked in Agile Development Model having 2 weeks release cycle.Identify test cases for automation and develop automation scripts for the same Maintain and enhance the function library supplied by client

Prepared user documentation like User Guides, Installation Guides and Online Help. Executed acceptance test cases and reported issues into an in-house defect tracking system

Executive Mba In Product Leadership

Mba, It And Systems

Be, Industrial Engineering