ANKIT THAKUR (CSM, CSTM, ISTQB)--
Skype: ankitthakur
Profile Summary:
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Certified Scrum Master with rich experience in Project Management, Quality Assurance of Mobile & Web
Applications on wide array of technologies
Possess in-depth knowledge of Proposal, Scoping and Estimation and User Stories creation for Pre-sales
leads
Sound knowledge of ERP (Sales, HRM, Finance, Inventory pronouncement), CRM, HR, Application
tracking apps research, implementation, infra and integration with third-party system
In depth knowledge Smart Home, Telecom, Mobile, Hardware B2B and E-commerce development with
third party integrations like Payment gateway, google Analytic, Supplier API
Business, marketing’s and sales process automation like campaign, sales integration, automation
analytic etc
Skilled in mapping project requirements by interacting with Business Managers / Vendors / Clients and
translating these requirements into functional specifications, services and implementations
Hands-on experience in managing multiple projects focusing on Requirement Analysis, Test Planning,
Scoping, Quality, Resource Planning, Scheduling & Delivery with various team
Coach team members throughout the process and ensure continuous improvements
Adroit in managing and preparing scrum artefacts like DOD, Burndown charts, Scrum Board, Capacity
and Velocity charts
Experience with working different telecom operator like At&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone UK, Tata
telecommunication etc
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Project/Test Management tools expertise: Jira, Rally, Basecamp, HP-QC, Test manager, Bugzilla,
Confluence, Mantis, IBM-CQ
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Onsite Exposure: USA (Seattle, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Raleigh) UK, France, Germany, South Korea and
Philippines
Core Competencies
Project Management
Effort Estimation
Resource Planning & Allocation
Stakeholders Management
Scrum / Agile Management
Product Owner
Distinctive Accolades
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Formed CDMA & AGPS testing teams in Samsung India
Received Best Knowledge Sharing Award in 2008 (Samsung)
Work Experience
Dec 19- Till Date
Aug’17- Dec 19
May’16 – Jul’ 17
Feb’14 – Apr’16
Apr’10 – Jan’14
Mar’08 – Apr’10
Technology Program Manager
Project Manager and Delivery Consultant
Product Owner with Intellicore, Delhi
Associate Manager Projects with DMI Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Noida
Scrum Master/TL with Aricent, Gurgaon
Sr. Test Engineer with Samsung, Noida
Dec’05 – Mar’08
Sr. Consultant – with Fidelity Information Services, Chandigarh
Education
• Masters in Maths with Computer Science from Jamia Milia Islamia University
• B. Sc. (PCM) from Delhi University
• PGDBA (Operation research) from Symbiosis
Professional Certification
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ISTQB, Certified Tester Foundation Level
CSTM, Certified Software Test Managers
CSM, Certified Scrum Master
Dec 19- till Date Technology Program Manger
Project:
ERP, ATS, Deployer/HRMS, ERP, Crew apps, BI and Data science
Role:
Project Manager
Team Size 15+
Responsibilities:
• Managing Deliveries for ATS, Deployer, HR, ERP, Crew apps DevOps, and Data science applications
• ERP Research, implementation and adaptation
• Stakeholder, Vendor and development team management.
• Managing contracts (draft, review, negotiation, deliverables)
• Planning for business process automation and solution.
• Requirement gathering, grooming estimation and managing product backlog
• Evaluation and implementation of S/W and application for different business unit
• New technology adoption delivering new capabilities and driving value attainment for consumers
• Responsible for strategic direction, design, documentation, implementation, validation and support
• Identify ERP use case for different department, integration points, data migration from legacy system
• Managing customer and production issue
• Help team for technical issue and remove their blocker
• Providing leadership, motivation and direction to IT team
• Driving compliance with industry best practice for system implementation and technical architecture
standards
• AWS infra audit and cost optimization.
Aug’17 to Dec 19: Project Manager
Project:
Smart home Automation, Web, Mobile apps, IOT solution
Role:
Project Manager
Team Size 8+
Responsibilities:
• Leading IT, web/Mobile projects
• Managing vendor, supplier and cross functional team distributed across different geography
• Heading India and Philippines web development centre/vendors.
• Contracting and negotiation with vendor and suppliers across the globe.
• Requirement gathering and grooming and solutions before push to development.
• Managing development and production launch for Mobile app, Web development, and e-commerce
• New technology adoption delivering new capabilities and driving value attainment for consumers.
• Responsible for strategic direction, evolution, design, documentation, implementation, validation and
support for Smart home automation, IT and web/mobile apps projects.
• Providing leadership, motivation and direction to team.
• Proactively driving SmartHome solutions, architecture and on-going evolution ensuring maintenance of
current stability, reliability, performance, flexibility, and capacity.
• Supporting sales team for campaign, sales automation and analytic.
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Driving compliance with industry best practice for system implementation and technical architecture
standards.
Third party integration and evaluation.
Infra management and cost optimization.
Apr’16 to Jul’ 17 with Intellicore, NCR
Project: B2B Travel, Enterprise portal
Role:
Project Manager/Product Owner
Browser
Chrome, Safari, Mozilla, IE
Team Size: 15
Responsibilities:
• Created Project plan and SOW/Contract
• Research on Travel portal, new feature, Competitor product
• Defining the Product feature and Analyse E Commerce industry requirement.
• Requirement gathering, User story grooming and managing change request.
• Define Mark-up discount, coupon module for different products.
• Vendor and supplier management for integrations.
• Manage project budgeting and resourcing.
• Support cross function team for UX/UI design review and approval, workflow for API Integration.
• Analyse change request entries and prioritize with other product backlog items
• Keeping customers or users apprised of status and getting their feedback.
• Coach/ support development team's questions and resolve conflict regarding requirements
• Ensure quality by evaluating results of iterations and either approve or reject results based on DOD.
• Verify Google Analytic. Payment Gateway and all Third-party integration
• Managing the production release by executing production check list.
Feb’14 – Apr’16 with DMI Innovations, Noida
Project: Fitness First, UK
Role:
Project Manager
Platform:
iOS, Android
Team Size:
20
Responsibilities:
• Facilitated sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product
owners/solution architect to groom stories in advance of each sprint.
• Schedule and facilitate daily stand up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile / Scrum
ceremonies.
• Define, develop, and manage the whole process of a project for partner integration, and
engaging individuals across various departments or organizations to resolve problems.
• Managing scrum artefacts Burndown charts, velocity and DOD.
• Worked to identify blocked or stalled stories and assists the team in learning to resolve the issues
or assists getting resolution.
• Identified and removed the team obstacles/impedance.
• Managed and communicating the change in estimates basis the scope changes.
• Managed the Cross functional team Like UX/UI, Android, iOS, backend and testing.
• Managed Mobile App distribution and production deployment on iTune and play store.
• Involved in POC, RFPs, estimation, pre-sales, budgeting and contracting.
Project: Haystack (Parking, Location base)
Role:
Scrum Master/Principal QA
Platform:
iOS, Android
Team Size: 15
Responsibilities:
• Facilitate Sprint planning, daily stand-up, retrospectives and sprint reviews.
• Identify the risks and pro-actively plan to mitigate them.
• Identifying and removing the obstacles defending the team from interruption.
• Preparing test bed, procuring devices and did the field trials for Android iOS Mobile app.
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Managing end to end testing & delivery activities on multiple projects, in parallel, including
estimation, resource allocation & planning.
Coordinating with the leadership team/stakeholders across the geographies for project testing
& delivery and ensuring meeting SLAs.
Apr’10 – Jan’14 with Aricent, Gurgaon
Project: Unit Connection CISCO
Devices:
CISCO IP Phone
Role:
Scrum Master
Team Size:
100+
Responsibilities:
• Handled 3 Scrum and Testing teams comprising of development and testing members.
• Facilitate daily stand-up, Look ahead, sprint planning, Demo, retrospectives and sprint reviews.
• Identifying and removing the obstacles defending the team from interruption.
• Manage Scrum board, Velocity, Team capacity and Burndown charts.
• Providing project status on regular intervals to external and internal stakeholders.
• Act as an Agile Coach, Guide team Transformation from Waterfall to Agile methodology.
• Introduced best practices to make agile adaptation and practices successfully.
• Prepare and implement definition of done (DOD) for scrum teams.
• Manage Continuous and Automation Testing team.
Project: IMC (Intel Mobile Communication)
Role:
Technical Lead
Devices:
HTC 6230(Modem and handset)
Team Size:
15
Chipset:
Infineon 6180, 6130, 2230, 6260 (Mobile Modem with AGPS)
Tools Used: Unified tracking (UTP), Quality centre, Wireshark, Mobile Analyser
Responsibilities:
• Analysing the requirement and preparing the test plan and test report.
• Performing functional, performance and sensitivity tests on new platforms.
• Field / Drive, IOT and Acceptance testing in 2G/3G network.
• Performing testing in conformance to 3GPP & OMA specifications.
• Analysing the logs and reproduce the client issues in lab environment.
• Execution of test case using Network simulator Spirent and ULTS.
• NMEA data processing and preparing report using KML.
• Execution of AT command to test the Driver, Modem of new handset with different releases.
• Product Certification and Approval before Go Live.
Dec’05 – Mar’08 with Fidelity Information Services, Chandigarh
Project:
Devices:
Dexterra /Vodafone UK
BB-8707, 8800, MIDP- E61, PPC-2003/2005(I-mate).
Role:
Team Size:
Senior Consultant
20+
Responsibilities:
• Requirement analysis and Creation of test environment, Test Plan, end user scenario, test case
based on business.
• Compatibility testing of product RDS, JMP server & Dexterra Concert on Various O/S (Windows
XP, Windows 2003 & Linux) and Databases
• Executing End-to-End Scenarios for different application on simulator and device
• Performance and load testing on Devices and Mobile application server.
• Tested billing module according to business requirement.
• Tested Mobile server on cross platform and browsers.
• Knowledge sharing within teams working at different locations worldwide.
