Parag P. Gaikwad,

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India17 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in product management.
  • Expert in Agile methodologies and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Passionate about product discovery and user-focused solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with extensive experience in SaaS and Agile environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesRelease Management

Other Skills

Stakeholder CollaborationRoadmap ExecutionUser StoriesFeature PrioritizationRisk AssessmentFeature DocumentationStrategy ImplementationCompetitive AnalysisTest AutomationManual TestingSeleniumTestingTest CasesJIRASplunk

About

Product Manager with 15+ years of experience building and scaling web and mobile (Android & iOS) products across enterprise and consumer domains. Currently working as an Associate Product Manager at ICE Mortgage Technology, where I focus on translating customer and business needs into high-impact product features. I collaborate closely with engineering, QA, design, and stakeholders to deliver frequent, high-quality releases using Agile and CI/CD-driven development practices—balancing speed, stability, and customer value. My strengths lie in: Gathering and refining requirements through deep collaboration with clients and internal teams Driving feature prioritization, bug fixes, and roadmap execution Ensuring product quality while accelerating time-to-market Bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders Prior to ICE, I’ve worked with Effective Digital (ADWEB), ZS Associates, and Saba Software, gaining exposure to diverse products, domains, and customer expectations. I’m passionate about building products that solve real problems. My favorite part of Product Management is the discovery phase—working with teams and users to shape ideas into meaningful, usable solutions. 🎓 Education: B.E. in Information Technology (Pune University) I’m always open to connecting with product professionals, former colleagues, and anyone interested in building great products. Feel free to reach out.

Experience

17 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
11 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Ice mortgage technology

2 roles

Product Manager

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos

Associate Product Manager

Sep 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

Effective digital

2 roles

Product Owner - Web & Native Mobile app (Android & iOS)

Promoted

Nov 2016Present · 9 yrs 6 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Product Management of web based application along with respective native mobile app development in Android and iOS.
  • Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of product.
  • Collaboration with Stakeholders & customers to co-develop a roadmap and drive product and features to launch in a fast-paced environment.
  • Providing product vision and direction to the agile development team and stakeholders through the project and create requirements.
  • Work in an agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables and identify opportunities and risks.
  • Developing, owning and executing Product Roadmap.
  • Working with user-focused departments to define the self-service user experience, support and monitoring for customers.
  • Translating product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, definition of done and acceptance test criteria.
  • Prioritizing and maintaining the sprint backlog for assigned products.
  • Defining and executing go-to-market release plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing and sales have what they need to be successful.
  • Developing and maintaining appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch.
  • Closely working with QA team to create automation framework for UI, functional and regression test suites.
  • Involved in overall hiring for the project.
Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesStakeholder CollaborationRoadmap ExecutionUser StoriesFeature Prioritization

Release Manager

Feb 2015May 2020 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Work with Stakeholders and Project Owners to gather requirements, define scopes, allocate resources.
  • Creating Feature Documents with respective Project Owner.
  • Evaluate and create Release Plan.
  • Work closely with the Project Teams to identify potential risks and create Risk Mitigation Plans.
  • Use Agile methodologies to work closely with all the teams to make sure we are achieving each and every Milestone.
  • Work with QA team to define industry standards processes for manual and automation testing.
  • Involved in training team members with new processes or tools.
  • Involved in creating testing frameworks for web (using Selenium Webdriver, JMeter etc.) and mobile app (using Postman, Appium etc.).
  • Use best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using tools like TeamCity, GIT etc.
  • Deliver quality product in timely manner.
  • Gather feedback from clients as well as in-house teams and prioritize changes for future releases along with new features.
  • Maintain and publish the Release Roadmap with Stakeholders and Project Teams.
Agile MethodologiesRisk AssessmentRelease ManagementFeature Documentation

Adweb software (the adweb agency)

3 roles

Release Manager

Promoted

Feb 2015May 2020 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Assistant Release Manager

Promoted

Feb 2014Feb 2015 · 1 yr

Sr. Software Engineer - Test

Feb 2013Feb 2015 · 2 yrs

Intranet dashboard

Sr. Software Engineer - Test

Feb 2013Feb 2015 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India

  • The ADWEB Agency is an established Melbourne based, web design and software development company, that has been developing leading online solutions for more than 16 years.Intranet DASHBOARD is The ADWEB Agency’s flagship intranet, extranet and portal software product. With coveted awards such as Intranet Journal's Product of the Year, CeBIT's Export Excellence Award and APC Magazine's Best Web Based Application, iD is a premier intranet solution, with unrivalled flexibility for deployment in different environments.

Z s associates pvt. ltd

Sr. Software Engineer - Test

Dec 2009Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India

  • ZS Associates is a global management consulting firm in sales and marketing consulting, capability building, and outsourcing.
  • Project Name: Javelin Incentive Manager; Responsibility:
  • Automation frame work design
  • Automating test cases for the assigned feature
  • Running regression rounds on different configurations
  • Planning for automation work
  • Provide meaningful data for project using Splunk

Saba software (i) pvt. ltd.

Jr. Quality Engineer

May 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Company Name: SABA Software (I) Pvt. Ltd.
  • SABA is the leading provider of Human Capital Development & Management Solutions, which increase Organizational performance through the implementation of management system for aligning, developing and managing people.
  • Project Name: Saba Enterprise 5.5 (Usability) Automation
  • Locales Testing and Automation Testing using Silk Test

Education

SEED INFOTECH

Diploma — Software Testing

P.C.C.O.E

B.E - I.T — Information Technology

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Air Force School

S.S.C

Jan 1999Jan 2000

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