Harshal Zele — Product Manager
Proficient in spearheading multi-disciplinary teams and formulate product strategies as part of developing and launching mission-critical products at minimal costs to catapult business growth and accomplish long-term business objectives. ~16 years of experience in championing product development worldwide while overseeing the quality to ensure highest level of customer satisfaction. Achieving measurable outcomes across product, engineering, quality, and client acquisition/retention domains. Highlights ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ★ Received the Spot Award at Sling TV in Jun '15 for delivering projects successfully within a stipulated timeframe ★ Performed a key role in reducing customer churn by 0.5% and increasing customer base by 2% YoY ★ Served as a Test Lead at Sling TV and successfully reduced test execution time by 30% ★ Proactively created product analytics Tableau dashboards and executed 80/20 strategy leading to a reduction in test execution time by 20% ★ Successfully migrated internal tools to open-source for reducing yearly cost by ~ $300K for Mule Enterprise licenses at Sling TV Snapshot ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ★ Prolific track record of performing requirement gathering, prioritizing bugs and designing product roadmaps while coordinating with the top-level management as part of enhancing user experience ★ Enabled decision-making for BETA and production releases and conceptualized end-to-end delivery strategies while serving as a Delivery Manager & Scrum Master at Sling TV ★ Enforced quality control measures as well as diagnosed and resolved bugs via Jira to improve user experience ★ Recruited and mentored ~20 recruits across roles spanning QA, Senior QA, and Test Lead for manual & automation testing Areas of Expertise ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ★ Product Launch ★ Product Testing & Optimization ★ Quality Assurance ★ Global Client Relations ★ Software Development ★ Regression & Integration Testing Technical Skills ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ★ Python ★ Docker ★ Tableau ★ scikit-learn ★ NumPy
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with expertise in AI and ML product development.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 18 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Global Client Relations
- Product Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Quality Assurance
- Automation Testing
Career Highlights
- Reduced customer churn by 0.5% and increased customer base by 2% YoY.
- Achieved Spot Award for timely project delivery at Sling TV.
- Migrated tools to open-source, saving ~$300K annually.
Work Experience
Sling TV
Technical Product Manager (6 yrs 2 mos)
Delivery Manager & Scrum Master (1 yr 8 mos)
Staff Engineer - Quality (5 yrs 10 mos)
Senior QA Engineer (4 yrs 8 mos)
QA Engineer (6 mos)
Education
Degree of Master of Science at Liverpool John Moores University
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics at Shivaji University
Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
