Gaurav Mankar

About Gaurav Mankar

Software Professional with 15 years of experience. Majorly in Banking and Finance (Regulatory, Retail & Private Banking). Proficient in IT Project Management, Agile Scrum, SAFe framework, good exposure to Requirement elicitation, Test AutomationProject Management-•Project Scoping - To facilitate requirement gathering, review documentation, ensure traceability, sign off by all the stakeholders.•Contracting and Agreement - Provide inputs on the delivery aspects in the contract to limit financial risk to the company.•Estimation - Lead the estimation activities considering org / unit goals, review the estimates and communicate to all the stakeholders.•Resource Planning - Prepare resource plan including people, space, infrastructure, and liaison with required groups to fulfill the project resource requirements.•Scheduling - Prepare a detailed project schedule, baseline the same, manage any changes to ensure on time delivery of the project.•Project Tracking, Control & Report - Track the project scope, work allocation, schedule, quality, resource requirements, financials, risk, SLAs on a periodic basis, take corrective measures and communicate to all stakeholders.SAFe Scrum Master-•Facilitate Daily Scrum/ Standup, Sprint/ Iteration Planning, Sprint Review/ Demo and Sprint Retrospective, PI/ Quarterly Planning for an IT Project of Banking Industry. •To cross-functional Agile teams in implementing SAFe practices and ceremonies. •Create and maintain an ecosystem for teams to adopt Agile way of working. •Coordinate with Product Owner/Manager on Product Backlog Refinement. •Track and report Scrum team velocity and other KPIs•Coordinate with other Scrum Masters as voice of the team, to help ensure impediments and dependencies are sorted in a timely fashion and planned objectives are met in each iteration.Test Automation-•End-to-end application testing and implementation across Banking and Finance, Point of Sale (Cables and Communications), Health Care Cards and letters, domains.•Expertise in System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing,(UAT), •Proficient in defect life cycle management by creating the defects with functional and technical specification comparison•Experience in preparing test summary, closure and sign off reports.•Exposure to Web applications automation using Selenium WebDriver with Page Object Model, Keyword and Data Driven Frameworks•Experience in regression test scripts maintenance using Element Locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG.•Development and Maintenance of automation scripts.

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Capgemini

   May 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj Engineering College, Shegaon, Maharashtra India

  Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

  2006 — 2010