Inder Hooda

About Inder Hooda

Strong 15+ years of experience (With 1+ years in Agentic AI) in Software Engineering with emphasis on system analysis, development, Build, manual & automated system/Integration testing and implementation of systems using offshore and onsite model.• Currently managing Agentic AI deliverables for Supply partners which involves NLP powered Help, Day to day task automation & AI Responsive coaching for enhancing Lodging Supply for the marketplace.• Previously managed Technical Product deliverables in Supply partner Payment space which involves applications related to Matching & Reconciliation System, Account Payables Reconciliation and vendor invoicing processes.• 5+ years of experience in leading, implementing and performing various agile ceremonies like Daily standups, sprint planning, grooming, demo and retrospective to ensure Quality deliverables from scrum teams.• Excellent skills in requirements analysis, story writing, Technical Story grooming, test cases writing, test coverage, Business review and defect logging/tracking.• Demonstrated good leadership, positive attitude, hard work, quick learning and dedication to work with mentoring, communication and interpersonal skills.• Expertise in Manual testing, Automated testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, UAT testing, Service API testing, DB testing, Sanity testing and Smoke testing.• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in testing SQL db and REST services in Data Centers (On Premise) & on AWS (Cloud).• Performed task assignments, knowledge sharing sessions, work prioritization and domain knowledge to clear offshore impediments and ensured that team has available resources to do their daily tasks.• Expertise in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, co-ordination and conflict management skills.• Facilitated release management meetings, coordinated issues and resolutions pertaining to the release process.• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Specialties: Agentic AI, Onsite-Offshore Team Management, Scrum, Technical Product Management, Resource optimization, Productivity enhancement, AWS

Experience

1. Technical Product Manager

   Expedia Group

   Apr 2014 — Present

   Turning high-level project objectives into a comprehensive set of requirements by collaborating with various business owners from multiple disciplines.• Owning & driving internal partner engagement to ensure requirements, product roadmap, development plans, success metrics and expectations are constantly aligned.• Leading, Owning & Managing agile process like daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint and release planning, demos, retrospectives and other Scrum-related meetings for the scrum team as a scrum master.• Backlog grooming & Technical reviews with Product owner and Scrum team for stories in the backlog.• Create & manage detailed delivery road maps, plans, schedules, resources and work breakdown structures.• Reviewing Designs, code reviews, Test Plan & Test case documents for all stories committed in a sprint to make sure that they address failure modes, scalability, security and are suitable for tier 1 services.• Ensuring Unit testing, Functional testing, Regression testing & deployments are automated with each release.• Coordinating with Business Users for UAT Sign-Off for sprint releases.• Capturing & Reporting Sprint Quality Metrics (i.e. burn down, velocity etc) and Sprint close out summary report to leadership.• Manage dependencies in the sprint plan & remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the ability of the team to accomplish sprint goals.• Work with leadership team to quickly adjust and adapt the plan to changing conditions.• Provide transparent communication up, down and across the organization.• Set expectations for (and with) the team and hold people and teams accountable for deliverables and schedules.• Coach and mentor agile team members on agile standards and best practices to ensure consistent best practices across the work streams.• Using the learnings from each sprint to strive towards increasing the velocity of agile team from both QA & dev perspective.

Skills

• T-Sql
• Jenkins
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Test Cases
• Manual Testing
• Sql
• Testing
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Leadership
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Data Warehousing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Software Quality Assurance
• Quality Assurance
• Agile Project Management
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Db2
• Test Planning
• Etl
• Technical Product Management
• Xml
• Sdlc
• Release Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Management