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Ramesh Chiluveru, PMP®, PSM™ I, PSPO™ I SAFe® SSM

Program Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in managing cross-functional Agile teams.
  • Proven track record in program management for automotive software.
  • Strong background in quality assurance and testing methodologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Program Manager with expertise in Automotive software development and Agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementAgile LeadershipQuality AssuranceSoftware Testing

Other Skills

Risk ManagementCommunicationScrum MasterBluetoothWIFISoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingManual TestingProblem SolvingAnalytical SkillsIT Project & Program ManagementManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipAgile Project ManagementProject Delivery

About

Lead Program Management of Software development with multiple scrum teams virtually located. Responsibilities include: Helping teams with Agile planning across PI/Milestone/Sprints, Cross location Program resourcing for scrum teams, handling Change request management and prioritization, Capacity assessment, Cross-domain dependency resolution and tracking, RISK Management, Escalation and Conflict Management, negotiations, status reporting, metrics generation and projections, PI and Sprints Retrospections. Organize, present, and document technical and program reviews/status to Senior Management • Overseeing Vendor management, tracking issues and release vs project milestones, Interacting with the product management team, handling escalations, and prioritising issues from Projects. • Responsible for AITF, and ASPICE process strategy definition and rollout. Collaborating with the QA team, defining new Processes, measuring process footprints, defining and monitoring Process KPIs, and Quality management plans, tailoring existing Processes to improve efficiency, and ASPICE Audits. • Managing Android in-vehicle infotainment platform development with 3+0 engineers delivering to multiple Tier1 customers in North America, Asia, Europe and Germany. The scope involved technical discussions, interactions with the Product team, scoping of requirements, Sprint and milestone tracking of planned features and issues, escalation handling, prioritizing Root Cause analysis, Retrospection, and lessons learned for sprints.

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Harman india

3 roles

Manager II Engineering SW

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs

  • o Responsible for program management aspects and quality deliverables for Virtualization, USB and Camera domains.
  • o Facilitating sprint Planning, daily scrum, sprint review, retrospective meetings, and sprint demos.
  • o Identifying Risks, creating risks on time, finding risk mitigations, and supporting senior managers in Risk mitigation.
  • o Coordinating with CPM and product Owners and tracking progress against the established process for multiple projects.
  • o Managing the scrum team's resource requirements and dependency teams.
  • o Coordinating with architects, scrum teams, delivery teams and CPM to resolve cross-domain dependencies.
  • o Communicating project progress, escalations, and issues to management.
  • o Supporting scrum teams in optimizing resource usage on each sprint and during PI planning.
  • o Tracking issues, updating reports, and mitigating impediments to achieve the scrum team sprint goals.
  • o Facilitating scrum teams to adhere to organization-mandated processes and conducting team training.
  • o Presenting and maintaining Bi-Weekly team performance status reports to higher management.
  • o Maintaining the scrum team’s performance, status reports, and deliveries sprint by sprint.
  • o Defining, monitoring, and Tracking scrum team Quality Metrics.
  • o Tracking the progress of USB and camera Domain deliveries for multiple projects.
  • o Creating and maintaining an artefact repository from retrospectives and lessons learned for future reference.
Risk ManagementCommunicationProgram ManagementAgile Leadership

Manager I Eengineering SW

Promoted

Aug 2018Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Managed Connectivity (Bluetooth, WIFI) Platform deliveries for Tier1 Indian, Chinese and European customers with a cross-located team of 20 engineers.
  • Responsibilities involved Delivery management of different projects, Customer interaction, Technical discussion, Quality Assurance audit, resource planning, and reviewing programs with domain managers to track risk closely.
  • Successfully delivered and supported 5 projects during the period.
  • Developed key Program Management processes setting program goals and metrics, procedures, governance controls, and managing to change for team-wide process standardization, optimization, and transformation.
  • Restructured Interoperability team, introduced a new way of working and reporting, optimized time to delivery with the tailored existing process, increased teams visibility and value across the organization
Scrum MasterAgile LeadershipProgram Management

Principal Engineer

Apr 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • o To understand the Connectivity requirements, conduct grooming sessions for the team.
  • o To support the team in developing test cases and reviewing test cases.
  • o To plan and execute weekly RFI, CR verification, and update results.
  • o To develop and validate ACTS automation scripts in python and release.
  • o To run overnight CR+1, pre-Int and mainline builds using ACTS automaton and share reports to required stakeholders.
  • o To raise issues in Elvis’s tool with initial analysis and support the developer in fixing issues.
  • o To adhere to IATF and ASPICE processes and prepare samples in audits.
  • o To triage issues and coordinate with multiple teams for issue resolution.
  • o To conduct bi-weekly sprint planning, Lessons Learned, and Retrospective meetings with teams and discuss with higher managers.
  • o To create test reports, and issues report and publish them to stakeholders.
  • o To develop and maintain tools for testing Automation to improve efficiency and quality in the connectivity domain.
Software TestingSoftware Quality AssuranceQuality Assurance

Globaledge - intelligence of things

Project Lead

Sep 2012Mar 2017 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • o Executed Bluetooth profiles pre-certification testing, functional, concurrency, and performance test cases
  • o Prepared test plans, test specifications, automation feasibility study, and wrote automation scripts
  • o Verified functionality of Bluetooth BR/EDR profiles (HFP, A2DP, AVRCP, DUN, MAP, PBAP, SAP, PAN, and OBEX profiles)
  • o Executed BLE test cases for LE Peripheral and LE central roles
  • o Had good hands-on experience with BLE HOGP devices, fit bit, HTC fetch, Smart nudge, Moto key link, and wearable devices Moto watch, LG and Samsung devices
  • o Good hands-on experience with Bluetooth IOP testing with commercial devices
  • o Executed FM Tx, Rx, and FM over Bluetooth functionality and concurrency test on various product lines.
  • o Good Knowledge of FTM testing, SSR, AQ, KPI, and performance testing
  • o Good knowledge of Ellisys, FTS tools, and adb logs analysis for failure cases
  • o Reported IR’s, CR’s, FR’s and follow up with developers for resolving the issues
  • o Reported bugs in the bug reporting tool, supporting in reproducing issues and helping developers in resolving the issue.
  • o Generated bug reports, prepared test status reports, and prepared coverage reports for higher officials
  • o Executed BT and WLAN co-existence test scenarios and logged issues for failure scenarios
  • o Prepared new projects for each new Software Product Line and projected the coverage according to meet FC and CS dates
Regression TestingQuality AssuranceSoftware Testing

Smartplay technologies - an aricent company

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2010Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked as SSE in Bluetooth system testing, BLE functionality testing for mobile phones
Regression TestingManual TestingSoftware Testing

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2005

CDAC TVM

PG Diploma in Embedded Systems — Embedded Systems

Jan 2005Jan 2006

CDAC Trivendrum

PG Diploma in Embedded Systems — Computer Software Engineering

Aug 2005Apr 2006

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