Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Leading Program Management operations for all of the Photography (Lightroom) & Photoshop India teams.
• I am an experienced Group Program Manager with a proven track record of delivering successful projects in the software industry. Currently, I am leading the Lightroom and Photoshop team at Adobe, where I am responsible for executing product strategies that meet the needs of our customers and drive business growth. With a strong focus on collaboration, innovation, and customer satisfaction, I am committed to delivering high-quality products that exceed expectations.
• Lead the Lightroom and Photoshop team in developing and executing product strategies that meet the needs of professional and amateur photographers, graphic designers, and creative professionals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and marketing, to ensure alignment and successful execution of product plans.
• Drive business growth through data-driven decision-making, market research, and customer feedback analysis.
• Manage a team of program managers, ensuring successful delivery of projects on time and within budget.
• Actively participate in Adobe's diversity and inclusion initiatives, fostering a culture of belonging and respect.

Jul 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs

Jan 2017 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Program Managing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Express products.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 · 6 yrs

• Program Manager for Lightroom Mobile on Android, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Fix, Photoshop Express Releases, experience in working in a cross-geo environment to successfully deliver large and complex software engineering projects with numerous internal and external stakeholders.

Oct 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• 7+ years of experience with significant exposure in Program Management and Quality Assurance in Digital Imaging domain.
• In depth knowledge of software development life cycle, worked across the entire software product lifecycle for various versions of Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements products
• Experience of working on diverse projects such as desktop, client-server, component based, and analytics products simultaneously
• Honed skills in project planning and resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, execution and closure
• Certified Scrum Master with hands on experience and knowledge of implementing Scrum techniques in various projects
• Experienced in handling program management responsibilities across multiple projects simultaneously
• Drove process improvements to enhance team productivity and efficiency
• Leadership skills reflected while leading feature teams during product development
• Extensive experience in the testing domain using black box and automation testing
• Cohesive team player with fast learning curve, along with analytical, problem solving, trouble shooting, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills
• Adept in building relationships with people internal/external to the organization and across hierarchical levels under multinational environments for smooth project/program execution

Aug 2005 – Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Key Responsibilities and Projects carried out:
• Face Recognition feature:
• o Managed a team of 4 engineers and lead the testing efforts for the highly complex Face Recognition feature
• o Set up communication mechanisms across cross-geography teams and 3rd Party vendors
• o Researched and analyzed various Face Recognition algorithms and presented results to management team
• o Awarded a SPOT AWARD for exemplary performance for work done in managing the team and for the testing related activities
• o Executed both manual and automation testing
• Code Coverage
• o Lead testing efforts for finding code coverage using Bulls Eye Code Coverage tool
• o Prepared Code coverage build and planned execution of functional test cases on this build for the whole product
• o Analyzed Code coverage results for percentage coverage and added new testcases to increase coverage and to remove redundant code in the product
• Change List Tracker Tool
• o Independently created the tool to track, assign and mange the changes that are made for a product
• o Tool used by various DI teams for tracking and testing every change that goes in a product
• o Helps product teams to test and identify bugs at the earliest stage, thus increasing efficiency and overall quality of the product
• Other testing related responsibilities across projects included
• o Designing Test Script documents, Test cases and Feature Test Plan for assigned features
• o Performed Sanity, Functional, Integration, UI and Performance, Localization and Acceptance Testing for the assigned areas
• o Performance and Memory leak Testing of the application using Performance Monitoring utility - Fortify
• o Coordinated with the Development team for reported bugs, requirement modifications and new feature requests
• o Suggested various process improvements within the team. Like investigated and analyzed various test case management tools for efficient test case management. Eventually suggested and adopted Test Studio