Simarjeet Kaur

Technical Program Manager

Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven expertise in managing globally distributed teams.
Strong background in Agile methodologies and program management.
Experience in driving initiatives in travel technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Program Manager specializing in Agile methodologies within the Travel Technology sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesProgram ManagementAgile Project ManagementProject ManagementScrumQuality AssuranceSoftware Development Life Cycle

Other Skills

User StoriesProduct Backlog ManagementProduct ManagementStakeholder CommunicationProject PlanningStakeholder ManagementTeam ManagementProject CoordinationTestingRelease ManagementManual TestingAutomation TestingDefect LoggingScrum MasterSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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Experienced Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Agile Methodologies, Requirements Analysis, Program Management, Process setup for Agile Teams and Mobile Applications & API Testing. • Leading an agile team to continuously improve, focusing on maturing the agile ceremonies. • Assist with release/iteration planning and project management via product backlog and user-story management, such as actively maintain and prioritize the product backlog and elaborate on user stories for the immediate iterations. • Creating user stories following the INVEST model for better understanding. • Regularly refining of product backlog and maintain alignment to the product/project vision and roadmap. • Experienced in handling globally distributed teams. Creating working agreements, following best practices to ensure smooth functioning of distributed/remote teams. • Conduct Agile health assessments every quarter across teams to derive health & areas of improvement for PMO.

Experience

Expedia group

2 roles

Technical Program Manager

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Part of the Cars team in Expedia's Transport domain, driving multiple initiatives while working closely with Product & Program Managers.
Create program roadmap and helping Product Manager to structure product backlog and user-story management, such as actively maintain and prioritise the product backlog and elaborate on user stories for the immediate iterations.
Experienced in handling globally distributed teams. Creating working agreements, following best practices to ensure smooth functioning and remove delivery roadblocks of distributed/remote teams.
Keeping track of programs & providing updates to stakeholder & raising risks when needed.

Agile MethodologiesProgram ManagementUser StoriesProduct Backlog Management

Program Manager II

Jul 2017 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

Working on Expedia’s Vrbo Post booking Applications
Leading an agile team to continuously improve, focusing on maturing the basic agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, iterations demos, retrospectives and story refinement, with Sprint & Kanban setup.
Assist with release/iteration planning and project management via product backlog and user-story management, such as actively maintain and prioritize the product backlog and elaborate on user stories for the immediate iterations. Creating user stories following the INVEST model for better understanding.
Regularly refine the product backlog by adding, prioritizing, and/or removing feature-level user stories to maintain alignment to the product/project vision and roadmap.
Experienced in handling globally distributed teams. Creating working agreements, following best practices to ensure smooth functioning of distributed/remote teams.
Good experience of working in fast-paced environments requiring skills in scheduling, management, and team building.
Experienced in managing end to end project delivery, worked through all phases of software development life cycle, from requirements definition through testing and deployment.
Create project plans, weekly project status reports and communicate timeline changes, risks and issues to stakeholders and propose possible solutions.
Conduct project health assessments and adjust resources, scope, or timelines with approvals as needed.

Agile MethodologiesProgram ManagementUser StoriesProduct Backlog Management

Walmart global tech india

Senior TPM

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the Customer communications team at Walmart customer engagement domain, creating program roadmap and helping Product Manager to structure product backlog and user-story management, such as actively maintain and prioritise the product backlog and elaborate on user stories for the immediate iterations.
Managing end to end delivery and resolving impediments along the sprint lifecycle.
Create project plans for deliverables outside of the scrum teams, based on team velocity & projections, weekly reports and highlight timeline changes, risks and issues to stakeholders and propose possible solutions, and adjust resources, scope, or timelines with approvals as needed.

Agile Project ManagementUser StoriesProject PlanningStakeholder ManagementProject Management

Snapdeal

Scrum Master

Jun 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

Leading projects and task allocation.
Managing end to end feature delivery.
Coordinating with multiple teams for smooth work & delivery during Sprints.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer -
Analyzing requirements, effort estimations and timelines.
Testing of various Growth projects on Android and iOS applications.
Requirement Collection, preparing test scenarios-based specs provided by the Product team.
Responsible for deployment and release activities on staging & production environment.

ScrumTeam ManagementProject CoordinationProject Management

Letsgomo labs llp (acquired by snapdeal in may 2015)

Senior Test Engineer

Mar 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Testing of various Indian e-commerce projects – Snapdeal.com, ShopClues.com, Jaypore.com, on Android, iOS, Windows, Web & WAP platforms.
Analyzing requirements, Effort estimations and timelines.
Managing the projects and assigning tasks to team.
Release Management for all mobile applications.

TestingRelease ManagementProject ManagementQuality Assurance

Capgemini

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Manual & Automation testing of all YouSee applications.
Writing test cases, preparing test data, defect logging & tracking during the releases.
Automation testing of salesforce applications using Selenium.
Manual testing of salesforce & Java applications of the project.

Manual TestingAutomation TestingDefect LoggingQuality AssuranceSoftware Development Life Cycle