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 • Working with external third-party vendors and partners on system integrations to ensure connected experience for clients • Engaging closely with client facing business partners like Sales, Implementation and Client Service teams on feature release and Go-To-Market activities• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to build alignment on feature release plans like controlled pilots, General availability, client upgrades and migrations• Build collaterals for product positioning, and messaging and engage with clients through product demos and training• Defining and monitoring success metrics for products to drive adoption, task success and facilitate data-driven decisions on features and initiatives

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• Contribute to Go-To-Market activities to ensure a successful launch of new product features, migrations or upgrades, sales readiness etc.• Facilitate data-driven decisions on quality, performance, scalability and reliability• Define and monitor business success metrics for product features to help influence product decisions and support business case development• Partner and build relationships with global business partners like Sales, Client Services, Implementation and Finance for marketing, support, pricing and billing of product features• Communicate with senior leadership across business units on roadmaps, staffing, strategies, and other initiatives• Research and implement best practices across functions for continuous discovery, process improvement and drive technology adoption• Effectively conduct people leadership activities like recruitment, staffing, onboarding, performance evaluations, mentoring associates

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• Led multiple types of testing efforts like Functional, Integration, End to End and Migrations in all QA environments, Sandbox thru Production • Conducted managerial activities of mentoring, Performance evaluation, recruitment etc.

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 of issue/queriesSync up with PM, BA, Dev to validate user stories, solution design and other regular activitiesDesign, implement and ensure adherence to Component Test StrategyDrive project management activities like Effort estimation, resource plans, project tracking and reportingDrive V&V effort towards Functional, Integration, End to End and Migrations in all QA environments, Sandbox thru ProductionDefine, Collate and Maintain metrics to ensure adherence to quality gates in each V&V cycle and facilitate risk based decision makingDrive process improvements to enhance quality of test assets and end deliverableConduct managerial activities like mentoring, performance assessment, recruitment etc.

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 coverageDrive end-to-end integration and System testing of the application (Tool: Quality Center)Involve in gray box testing of the application to ensure maximum code coverageInvolve in Defect analysis and resolution process. Provide status reports, metrics and other reports to managementWork with PM and senior Management to strategize, plan and implement initiatives and activities to meet business goals

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 Activities, Post production support.Perform GUI, Functional, Integration, Regression, and System Testing.

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

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