Manoj Prabhakaran

About Manoj Prabhakaran

A recognized leader with the ability to facilitate and train Scrum teams. Demonstrates the ability to strengthen relationships with internal and external organizations, and senior stakeholders to deliver systems, build trust and achieve project deliverables on-time and within budget. Focused on the successful management of processes, tools and reporting solutions to deliver seamless outcomes for projects/programmes in Insurance, Banking & Finance and Retail domains for customers across UK and USA.• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance. 2+ years of experience as Scrum Master with overall 8+ years of experience in Agile methodologies• Expert at devising and implementing robust test strategies for Digital Transformation Programs through an overarching test approach, defined deliverables, efficient test efforts, clear roles & responsibilities, reporting, and defect Management processes.• Proficient in all levels of testing including System Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, and Non-Functional Testing• Skilled at using Agile Approach (Scrum & Kanban Frameworks), Waterfall methodologies• Experience in leading teams from multiple geographic locations – UK and India.• Evaluation of both commercial and open-source test tools for Functional and Non-Functional testing in line with project needs• Coached several teams on Agile methodologies.• Expertise in Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and daily stand up.• Hands on Experience in removing Impediments on daily basis and helping the team for smoother progress on Stories.• Expertise in Sprint planning and Estimation (Velocity Calculations).• Cross platform testing expertise on various mobile operating systems including Android and iOS. • Hands On experience in doing ETL testing across Database.• IoT End to End integration testing using Wireshark tool• Zigbee level debugging with triage to identify the potential issue on the Issue on the design or implementation level of the device, liaising with stack developers and propose workarounds to achieve the desired result• Experienced with Git versioning control and Jenkins for CI/CD• Built and maintained excellent stakeholder relationship including Senior Management and External IT Partners and Vendors• Proficient at motivating staff to increase performance and to drive organisational improvements and implementation of best practices.• Hands on experience of implementing Test Management and Reporting tools like Jira, Zephyr, DA Console.

Experience

1. Program Manager

   Qualcomm

   Feb 2023 — Present · Chennai, IN

Education

• Crescent Engineering College

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

  2005 — 2009

• SBIOA Model Hr Sec School

  HSC, Computer Science

  2004 — 2005