Amit Desai

Director of Engineering

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Agile methodologies and Scrum.
Strong background in data security and QA.
Proven track record in managing distributed teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Manager with expertise in Agile methodologies and data security in the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile Project ManagementProject ManagementTeam ManagementTeam Building

Other Skills

New Product ReleaseProduct OperationsProject Team ManagementProject EngineeringSoftware Project ManagementVirtual TeamsAgile MethodologiesScrumProcess ImprovementCustomer SatisfactionBashManual TestingTestingTest AutomationFunctional Testing

About

A dynamic Senior Engineering Manager and Product Owner with a strong background in leading geographically distributed teams. Expert in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, and a proven track record in project and team management. Possesses deep technical and QA expertise in data security, telecom, and networking, with a focus on both functional and non-functional testing. Extensive experience at multinational corporations, including Protegrity, Nokia Networks, Aricent, Sonus Networks and Cisco.

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

10 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Protegrity

6 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

New Product ReleaseProduct OperationsAgile Project ManagementProject Team ManagementProject ManagementProject Engineering+1

Product Owner

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Agile Project ManagementTeam ManagementVirtual TeamsAgile MethodologiesScrum

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Team BuildingProcess ImprovementAgile Project ManagementProject Team ManagementCustomer SatisfactionVirtual Teams

Team Lead

Oct 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Working with the geographically distributed large technical team mix of Dev, QA, Doc and Devops engineers.
Handling day to day activities for team with JIRA.
Advocate of agile and scrum methodology.
Tracking product and feature development.
Monitoring releases closely and risk management.
Test planning and quality assurance throughout product life span.
Test Automation status and regular check on ROI from it.
Planning and Monitoring Demos, providing regular feedback.
Team collaboration facilitator for intra and inter teams.
Resource Allocation.
Support and Maintenance activity planning.

Virtual Teams

Subject Matter Expert

May 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Handling all the QA activities for team.
Collaborating with Dev, Doc, Devops, Security and Performance teams.
Collaborating other dependent product teams.
Keeping eye on automation and regular checks to improve ROI.
Test management, Test planning, Test scope, Test executions.
Resource allocation, Release Planning, Feature and Release Delivery Management
Support/Maintenance activities.

Scrum Master and Senior QA Engineer

Nov 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Scrum activities & Scrum ceremonies,
Trainings and supporting functions for team
Feature Testing, Release Testing, Virtualization and Cloud platforms(AWS, GCP, Azure) testing for product
Test planning, Test execution, Test Reporting
Support activities.