Shraddha Ukalkar

CEO

Lehi, Utah, United States15 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Agile methodologies and certified Scrum Master.
  • Managed $15 MM R&D engineering operations budget.
  • Led global engineering operations across multiple countries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in technical program management and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementAgile Project ManagementTechnical Program ManagementProduct ManagementQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile methodologiesArchitectural DesignAutomation TestingBudgetBudget ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementC#Cloud technologiesContract negotiationDefining Product RequirementsDepartmental BudgetingEmpathy MappingEngineering operationsEngineering program management

About

• Direct & manage large technical programs & operation teams that includes multiple international and local teams. • Manage and analyze $15 MM R&D engineering operations’ budget. Heads $4MM development budget from different departments including engineering, sales, IT, & marketing. • Liaison between parent company, employed company, and vendor companies. • Involvement in planning, developing, implementing new product functions and performances. • Strong experience in hiring, motivating, and developing teams. • Experience in developing technical requirement documentations, contracts, SOWs, RFEs, etc. • Experience in establish strategies ensuring a stable, secure and cost effective infrastructure in alignment with and in support of the overall IT and corporate strategies. • Experience in initiating & managing vendor relationships. • Experience in presenting reports to C-level executives. • Experience in product management and software development. • Strong experience of product/software development life cycles—Waterfall & Agile. • Expert in Agile methodologies, SCRUM and Kanban specialist. Certified Scrum Master. • Experience in Cloud technologies & detailed understanding of product architecture including APIs, database, networking and mobile apps. Managed Cloud based software Restful API services hosted on Azure and AWS.

Experience

Mercedes-benz india pvt. ltd.

Chief Information Officer

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Adobe

Engineering Program Management

May 2021Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Lehi, Utah, United States · On-site

Budget ManagementRegression TestingInformation TechnologyArchitectural DesignSolution ArchitectureTechnical Product Management+11

Imagine learning

Director of Global Engineering Operations & Company Software Solutions

Sep 2015Sep 2020 · 5 yrs · Utah, United States

  • Led and managed merger & acquisition, Product integrations, Corporate strategies for transforming business, Budget Management, Contract negotiation, Product operations & technical program management
  • Global vendor relationship management & strategy
  • Directed technical Program Management team and managed software development teams— in-house and vendor teams in various countries.
  • Directed Engineering Operations including R&D Budget. Manages the team of companywide software administrators. Partnered with enterprise solution design architectural team.
  • Directed the managers of corporate website development team and other in-house product development teams.
  • Directed and managed security and penetration testing teams. Directs the managers of agile development teams.
  • Managed and directed technical programs for 20+ outsourced software development project teams with multiple vendors in various countries (e.g., USA, India, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, etc.).
  • Managed and coordinated various quality related programs and projects. Some were internal and some collaborated with external partners and customers.
  • Partnered with internal leaders in engineering, sales, product management, marketing, IT (cloud) operations, technical support, and HR to meet development program deadlines. Identified gaps in product development and managed those gaps by assigning suitable resources.
  • Led and directed technical product management teams. Directed, managed, and developed software product requirements for projects with local and international vendor teams; make technical decisions to resolve issues.
  • Initiated and manages data analytics team to identify bugs prior to get encountered by clients
  • Initiated & developed Web API automation tests by using C#. Led Performance (Scalability & Load/Stress) tests every Sprint prior to release.
  • Defined software QA and release process. Applied industry best practice such as Agile practice (SCRUM/Kanban) to software development.
Regression TestingProject ManagementInformation TechnologyScrumTechnical Program ManagementProduct Management

Central connecticut state university

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

May 2014May 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Hartford

Information TechnologyScrum

Approva

QA

Aug 2008Dec 2008 · 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Responsibility:
  • Involved in System Testing, Sanity Testing and Regression Testing.
  • Functionality study of the application.
  • Preparing and executing Test- cases for different features.
  • Understanding the functional requirements of the application
  • Updating the test cases based on the Change Requests/Enhancements
  • Updating the Requirement Traceability Matrix document
  • Responsible for Bug management activities using HP Quality Center
  • Window’s based Application Testing
Regression TestingInformation TechnologyScrum

Laksha infosys

Product Management/Lead/Senior Software Test Engineer

Jan 2008Jan 2012 · 4 yrs · Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • Responsibilities:
  • Work with project management for handling issues of changing requirements and change whole test cases in QC..
  • Creating Test cases, Test scripts as per the requirement documents and Coordinating Quality Center with QTP as per the requirement documents.
  • Used java script to write functions for Opening orpopping up a new window with programmatic control over the size, position, and attributes of the new window (e.g. whether the menus, toolbars, etc., are visible).
  • Used java script for validating input values of a web form to make sure that they are acceptable before being submitted to the server.
  • Responsible for Functionality, Usability, System, Compatibility and Navigation Flow Testing
  • Used Standard checkpoints to check the attributes of the application across several builds and versions.
  • Validated the application against the expected results by inserting Databases, Bitmaps and GUI checkpoints.
  • Involved in Drives the effort for End-To-End Test scenarios and test script building for UAT
  • Involved in End-To-End testing and was responsible for the Quality Assurance of this application to complete in an estimated time
  • Created batch scripts to execute the various test scripts, thus saving time by performing tests overnight and at off-peak hours.
  • Developed reports and graphs to present the load/stress test results.
  • Confer with personnel of organizational units to analyze current operational procedures, to identify problems and learn specific input and output requirements such as forms of data, how data is to be summarized and format for reports.
  • Involved in Author proposal for web-based automation testing utilizing Selenium IDE.
  • Designed and implemented automation test framework using Selenium, multiple load,
  • performance, and stress tools.
  • Created test schedules and formulated deadlines and strategies.
  • Wrote SQL scripts to back-end and data integrity testing.
Regression TestingInformation TechnologyScrumQuality Assurance

Various companies

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr

  • Website design and development and Testing for Nagpur University and for different clients
  • Website bug fix Engineer at KITS, Ramtek
  • Digital Imagine Processing software development for ISRO
Regression TestingInformation TechnologyScrum

Education

University of Utah

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Executive

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Central Connecticut State University

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2015

Nagpur University

Bachelor's degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

Maharashtra State Board Of Technical Education, India

Diploma in Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2002

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