Ashish Kumar, PMP®

Product Manager

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India17 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 8 years of Agile delivery excellence.
  • Reduced application bugs by over 60%.
  • Expert in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe frameworks.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Scrum Master and Quality Analyst in the SaaS industry.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

ScrumAgile Project ManagementAgileQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Project ManagementStrategic PlanningAgile TestingSoftware QualityMobile TestingPostman APIDefect TrackingCollaborative Problem SolvingProcess SchedulerSprint PlanningSprint reviewSoftware TestingTeam ManagementManual TestingSystem Testing

About

🚀 Results-driven 𝑺𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒕 with over 8 years of hands-on experience driving Agile delivery excellence across cross-functional product and engineering teams. Hands on experience to maintain project/product quality and reduce bug to 70%. I specialize in 𝑺𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒎, 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒃𝒂𝒏, and 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒈𝒊𝒍𝒆 (𝑺𝑨𝑭𝒆) 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔, with a proven record of facilitating Agile transformation, improving sprint predictability, and enhancing team collaboration. 💡 I have successfully led Agile delivery for product Hapana [onefirstop] from scratch, Hapana 𝑨𝑷𝑰 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒊𝑶𝑺 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒑𝒑 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, managing People 360 HR domain those servicing more than 100 client's including USBank, P&G, Nestle Purina etc., 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒏𝒅-𝒕𝒐-𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒐𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉-𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. I focus on removing impediments, coaching teams, and promoting a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous learning. 📊 Skilled in leveraging 𝑱𝒊𝒓𝒂, 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑨𝒛𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝑶𝒑𝒔 for 𝑨𝒈𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕. I monitor velocity, burndown charts, cycle time, and team health to improve sprint predictability and optimize team performance. 📞 Contact Me: Ashish Kumar 📱 +91-9711167675 ✉️ thakurashish01@gmail.com

Experience

17 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

People360 by insala

2 roles

Scrum Master / Head of QA

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Acted as a Scrum Master, leading Agile teams through key ceremonies such as backlog grooming,
  • sprint planning, estimation, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to ensure consistent and high-quality
  • delivery of product increments.
  • Helped the team reduce application bugs by over 60%
  • Coaching team on Agile values and Scrum practices to improve collaboration, ownership, and delivery predictability
  • Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to gather, validate, and prioritize requirements and
  • acceptance criteria that guided development efforts and ensured stakeholder alignment.
  • Working closely with product owner, stakeholders and development teams to ensure backlog items
  • were well-defined
  • Performed KPI monitoring to track sprint progress, team productivity, and delivery trends, ensuring
  • data-driven decision-making
  • Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows, ensuring
  • faster feedback and higher quality releases.
Project ManagementStrategic PlanningScrumAgile Project Management

Head of QA

Apr 2022 – Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Remote

  • Define the testing strategy aligned with project goals with the help of team and discussed with the
  • team for more clarity.
  • Collaborated closely with development teams and end customers to analyse and implement
  • change requests, driving enhancements in product functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Helping team to get the task for them, get it reviewed, provide additional help if they stuck.
  • Requirement discussion with team and stakeholders, regularly provide status, risk update and
  • quality metrics.
  • Acted as Scrum Master, facilitating key Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning,
  • retrospectives) to maintain team velocity, remove impediments, and foster a culture of continuous
  • improvement.
  • Lead QA delivery for complex web and mobile applications under Agile methodology.
  • Conduct requirement analysis and ensure complete test coverage.
  • Manage manual functional, integration, regression, UAT, and API testing using Postman
  • Define QA processes, templates, and quality checkpoints to ensure consistency across sprints.
  • Conduct peer reviews of test cases, test data, and reports to ensure quality and accuracy.
  • Collaborate with project managers and product owners to align QA scope with business requirements.
  • Track and report QA metrics—defect trends, test progress, and quality KPIs - to stakeholders.
  • Drive continuous process improvement and coach teams on QA best practices and Agile values.
Agile TestingProject ManagementAgileQuality Assurance

Hapana

Lead QA Engineer

Oct 2017 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Define the testing strategy aligned with project goals with the help of team and discussed with the
  • team for more clarity.
  • Collaborated closely with development teams and end customers to analyse and implement
  • change requests, driving enhancements in product functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Helping team to get the task for them, get it reviewed, provide additional help if they stuck.
  • Requirement discussion with team and stakeholders, regularly provide status, risk update and
  • quality metrics.
  • Lead QA delivery for complex web and mobile applications under Agile methodology.
  • Conduct requirement analysis and ensure complete test coverage.
  • Manage manual functional, integration, regression, UAT, and API testing using Postman
  • Define QA processes, templates, and quality checkpoints to ensure consistency across sprints.
  • Conduct peer reviews of test cases, test data, and reports to ensure quality and accuracy.
  • Collaborate with product owner to align QA scope with business requirements.
  • Track and report QA metrics—defect trends, test progress, and quality KPIs - to stakeholders.
  • Drive continuous process improvement and coach teams on QA best practices and Agile values.
Software QualityMobile TestingQuality AssuranceAgile

3pillar global

Module lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Apr 2012 – Jun 2017 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • ⦁ Manual Testing: Experience in web based application and Mobile testing and desktop application
  • ⦁ Reporting Tool: Jira, Mantis, Bugzilla, In-house tool configured on Lotus Notes.
  • ⦁ Automation Tool : Selenium web driver, CodedUI and jmeter
  • ⦁ Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/WIN 7/ WIN 8, Mac OS X
  • ⦁ Operating System: MS SQL SERVER 2000/2005/2008

Finantix

QA Specialist

Jun 2011 – Apr 2012 · 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • ⦁ Preparing and Executing Test Cases.
  • ⦁ Experience in writing, and execution of test case scenarios.
  • ⦁ Hands on experience in Designing and Executing Test cases.
  • ⦁ Proficient in Functionality, GUI Testing, System and Regression Testing.
  • ⦁ Very good knowledge of reporting bugs. Using Mantis to report the bugs.
  • ⦁ Knowledge of the documentation of the project.

Safaltek software pvt ltd

QC Engineer

Nov 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Chandigarh, India · On-site

  • ⦁ Preparing and Executing Test Cases.
  • ⦁ Experience in writing, and execution of test case scenarios.
  • ⦁ Hands on experience in Designing and Executing Test cases.
  • ⦁ Proficient in Functionality, GUI Testing, System and Regression Testing.
  • ⦁ Very good knowledge of reporting bugs. Using Mantis to report the bugs.
  • ⦁ Knowledge of the documentation of the project.

Education

Kurukshetra University

MCA — English

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008

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