RAHUL KARANKAL
Pune,India
Summary
Dedicated and detail-oriented Product Manager. Bringing extensive experience in quality assurance, strong analytical skills, technical exposure and a passion for enhancing product functionality, efficiency and user experience.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Manager - Engineering
Avalara
08.2023 - Current
- Proactively started working on TPO responsibilities with full capacity and backfilled one of the PM from the team.
- Lead TPO activities for VCP initiatives like SSGL, Integrations UI, SCS UI and User Management UI for Avatax and ELR products.
- Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
- Working closely in collaboration with the Product Managers, Engineers, UX Designers and Technical Writers from teams to translate business requirements into epic/user stories to develop web apps.
- Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between end to end feature rollout to production environment.
- Served as an end-to-end subject matter expert on projects like Integrations UI, SCSUI and User Management UI.
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Regularly collaborated with UX designers to streamline product interfaces, achieving maximum improvement in user satisfaction.
- Developed clear, detailed, consistent, and actionable epics that encompass the technical and business requirements.
- Coordinated and communicated progress, challenges, and risks throughout the development cycle to ensure clear visibility and alignment of the team's efforts to the roadmap and the defined objectives.
- Coordinated design meetings and decisions with internal departments and teams.
- Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Facilitated partnerships with key stakeholders to expand product reach and enhance value proposition.
- Enhanced product usability, overseeing user interface design improvements based on user testing and feedback.
SDET
Avalara
02.2021 - 07.2023
- Continuous collaborations with PMs and PXG to get engineering teams unblocked
- Feature testing and bug reporting in the projects assigned
- Prepared UAT documents as per product team's requirements with data and users
- Covered new features and bugs with e2e automation tests to avoid bug leakages
- Good knowledge of designing and implementation of automation frameworks
- Worked on Cypress, NightWatch, BDD Cucumber, Data Driven and Hybrid frameworks
- Assisted Global UI teams to onboard SonarQube in existing CI/CD Gitlab pipelines
Sr. Test Automation Engineer
E-zest Solutions
06.2020 - 01.2021
QA Automation Engineer
Inflight Dublin
01.2019 - 06.2020
Automation QA Analyst
Principal Financial Group
09.2017 - 12.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Nitor Infotech
01.2014 - 01.2017
Education
Bachelor's degree - Engineering (IT)
Savitribai Phule Pune University
06-2014
Diploma in Engineering - IT
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
06-2011
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Agile software development
- Product lifecycle management
- Stakeholder communications
- Roadmap development
- Requirements gathering
- User feedback collection
- Cross functional leadership
- Product strategy
- Stakeholder relations
- API
- Test automation
- STCL management
Certification
- Certified Technical Product Manager - Product HQ
- Technical Product Owner Certification - Avalara
Timeline
Product Manager - Engineering
Avalara
08.2023 - Current
SDET
Avalara
02.2021 - 07.2023
Sr. Test Automation Engineer
E-zest Solutions
06.2020 - 01.2021
QA Automation Engineer
Inflight Dublin
01.2019 - 06.2020
Automation QA Analyst
Principal Financial Group
09.2017 - 12.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Nitor Infotech
01.2014 - 01.2017
Bachelor's degree - Engineering (IT)
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Diploma in Engineering - IT
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
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