Rakesh Lal — Product Manager

Strategic Product Management professional with extensive experience in leading localization management, quality assurance, and project management initiatives for industry giants like Adobe, Google, Netflix and Facebook. ★ Product Management: Defining roadmap of product in international markets by adding new languages, enabling new features, optimizing localization budgets, streamlining workflows, and enhance product offerings tailored to client needs and revenue potential ★ Quality Management: Releasing products with highest standards of quality through automation and manual testing, tools, documentation and regular monitoring of trends, reports, following best practices and processes, and ensuring customer satisfaction by engaging with beta customer, taking feedback, fixing customer reported issues. ★ People Management: Experience in planning, delegation, monitoring, feedback, skill upgrade, motivation & mentoring of small and large QE teams as direct and skip level people manager and driving product innovation ★ Project Management: Client Relation Management, Project Planning & Execution, Project Budgeting & Monitoring, Resource Management and Release Management ★ Vendor Management: Co-ordination with several world leading vendors for localization testing of Adobe products ★ Localization: SME on localization of all Adobe products on Japanese, MEA and Indic languages ★ SDLC: Well versed with SDLC models like waterfall and agile scrum. ★ Experience in setting up of teams from the scratch, hiring, developing and implementing processes. ★ Patent : Bidirectional text selection: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/rakesh-lal ★ Papers/Presentations: ● Speaker at Unicode conference 2012 (Santa Clara, USA) – (Topic - Arabic and Hebrew testing) ● Speaker at Adobe Tech Summit 2013 (San Jose, USA) – (Topic - How Adobe went Arabic) ● Best Paper/Practice submitted at Software Testing Conference 2011 (Emerging Linguistic Testing Processes) ● Speaker at Adobe QE Summit 2008 (Noida) – (Topic – I18n/L10n testing of Adobe products)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Localization and Quality Assurance expert in the SaaS industry.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 25 yrs 6 mos