Software Project Manager

The Senior Technical Project Manager (STPM) is responsible for providing technical project planning, management and oversight for key initiatives and implementation projects, ensuring first that these initiatives and projects are closely aligned with VUME's strategic priorities, and second, that these initiatives and projects are completed on-time, within scope and budget and with an extremely high quality of deliverables. The STPM will ensure the optimum mix of cost, schedule, performance, and system supportability throughout the life cycle (design, development, testing and evaluation, production and disposition) of each program and will analyze alternative problem solutions and present a case for the recommended solutions with a detailed analysis of risks and return on investment.
The STPM manages all phases of service delivery including: analysis and design, configuration and build, testing and training, and deployment of solutions and will be accountable for all aspects of project management including all project resources (including partners/subcontractors), project planning, scheduling, risk management, scope management, internal and external communications, status reporting, and resource management (internal and partners).

Responsibilities:
1. Evaluates complex situations using multiple sources of information filters, validates and interpret dynamic material.
2. Manages and appropriately escalates: delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated to the product development initiatives.
3. Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels.
4. Analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties.
5. Assigns and monitor work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on-time and within budget.
6. Creates a method of change management including ownership of a documentation, communication plans, process training, etc.
7. Defines project scope, deliverables, roles and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders and business partners.
8. Defines, acquires and allocates budget, staff, and other resources necessary to accomplish the goals and/or objectives of the program group/function and monitors performance across resource channels.
9. Designs and implements processes to monitor and control resources, budget, risks and value to Business Objectives.
10. Establishes, plans, and executes major milestone reviews and decision gates to complete the program and project life cycle. Ensures all the required products are produced and reviewed, including the technical leadership of requirements management, design, implementation, system integration, verification, test, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainment of the technical solution.
11. Evaluates technological choices (network/hardware related and technology/code related) by querying providers and understanding enough about implications to make choices for the organization that have an appropriate balance between cost /benefit today and future implications and limitations.
12. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group; developers, product owners, and subject matter experts.
13. Exercises broadly delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing many routine and complex projects/programs.
14. Identifies, clarifies and communicates project vision, goals and objectives and how these tie into, support or impedes organizational strategic objectives.
15. Manage scope throughout the project duration. Maintains accurate program estimates, timelines, project plans, status reports.
16. Manages and tracks team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports.
17. Possesses high-level understanding in the areas of web application programming, content management systems, API, database and system design.
18. Provide process improvement recommendations based on best practices and industry standards.
19. Resolves conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies.
20. Responsible for complex program management tasks and development of standards and processes for scheduling, administration, and accounting.
21. Understands, tracks and articulates issues / risks / action items; work with responsible owners to address the items on a timely basis; update the appropriate stakeholders as needed.

Qualifications:
1. 5-7+ years of Technical Project Manager experience with gradually increasing responsibilities and a demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, artifacts and tools.
2. A track record as a coach, mentor, and developer of talent.
3. Ability to independently manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and project team.
4. An ability to drive to big picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail.
5. An ability to quickly identify and drive to the optimal solution when presented with a series of constraints.
6. Demonstrated ability in people management, strategic planning, risk management, change management, project management.
7. Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills 8. Experience in business process mapping or operational redesign/improvement.
9. Experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles to ensure quality.
10. Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices 11. Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management.
12. Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
13. Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills and ability to achieve results without direct reporting relationships.
14. Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to present a polished, professional, and diplomatic image to all stakeholders.
15. Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality work.

Responsibilities
- Planning out the blueprints for software projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance
- Assembling and leading the project team
- Participating in and supervising each stage of the project
- Ensuring each project stays on schedule and adheres to the deadlines
- Creating a project budget and ensuring the project adheres to the budget as closely as possible
- Perform risk management to minimize/mitigate project risks
- Determining and overseeing consistent testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of all products in all stages of completion
- Track project performance - milestones, deliverables, and change requests
- Delivering completed software products to clients and performing regular checks on the products' performance

Skills
- Proven experience in project management and software development, estimation techniques
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
- Good leadership, decision-making, and organization skills
- Strong attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

LambdaTest is a cloud-based testing platform aimed at bringing the whole testing ecosystem to cloud. LambdaTest provides access to a powerful cloud network of 2000+ real browsers and operating system that helps testers in cross-browser and cross platform compatibility testing. The product roadmap is evolving and there are many more functionalities and features which will be added to the product. The company is angel funded by the leading investors and entrepreneurs of the industry. We are growing at a fantastic rate. This is an incredible opportunity for someone talented and ambitious to make a huge impact.

 

You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll out a product that delivers the company’s vision and strategy.

 

Requirement -

• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products 
• Implement new features to solve critical problems that our customers face in their development and testing cycle. 
• Define, track and improve feature success metric. 
• Work closely with our engineering and design teams to simplify testing for our customers Collaborate with the Sales, Marketing and GTM team and execute successful product launches

 

Experience –

• 3 – 5 years of overall experience in Product Management or Engineering Passionate or hands-on about programming, software testing and DevOps Able to understand and write code. 
• Have prior experience building or using developer products Strong hold on basic tech concepts. Willingness to learn advanced concepts. 
• Experience in web, app development or automation testing is a plus (Optional)

 

Process Compliance & Maturity model expert – JIRA

        

(a)    This is a Client facing role – need good communication and inter-personal skills

(b)    8 + Years of experience

(c)     Scrum Master/Project Manager with rich JIRA admin/workflow development experience is needed

(d)    Should be Bangalore based as there is a need of on-site presence (at Koramangala)

(e)    Should gather client requirements in detail, discuss and refine those,  and  translate to JIRA workflows

(f)      For Development and testing of workflows specs to be handed over to junior developer(s)

(g)    Once developed, implement (and fine tune) the workflows in production

(h)    6 days working and (Expense will be paid on Saturday)

 

This person MUST have:
 

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• Cloud architect with hands on development background.
• Build a collaborative relationship with different stakeholders
• Experience on React JS and Python Programming
• Exposure to Python/Django +  NodeJS + ReactJS
• Ensure and drive completions of all committed tasks and deliverables
• Run daily stand-ups and bring teams into an agile cadence of frequent iterations
• Increase team productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.
• Able to prioritise different tasks and communicate it to the different verticals of the organisation.
• Regularly assess risks and opportunities; understand best practices, drive for process improvements, and find new ways of operating,
• with a focus on simplification and productivity.
• Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills
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Experience:

• Min 7 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote 

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

We're looking for someone having 4-6 years of total work experience with strong managerial and leadership skills. The manager will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of web and mobile development projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.

 

**Responsibilities**

• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and within budget.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Coordinate internal resources and customer team members for the flawless execution of projects.
• Lead the project scope definition and objectives ,involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation through appropriate forecasting.
• Keep your knowledge and the company’s products up to date with the latest web industry trends.
• Report problems and escalate to management as needed.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Plan and oversee the preparation and dissemination of project communications.
• Create learning opportunities for the team through training, conferences, hands-on training and mentorship in projects.
• Oversee recruitment of new team members when required.
• Maintain and develop relationships with existing customers and reach out to potential customers for new business.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Screen potential business deals by analyzing requirements, financials and market strategies.
• Track & monitor project cost as per the budget.

 

    **Skills**

• Must have project planning, project monitoring project management skills
• Must have Schedule Management, Project Budgeting, expense monitoring, Project reporting skills.
• Must have basic knowledge of Web, iOS and Android development technologies.
• Must have excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Must have Customer communication on Project status & reports.
• Must have strong leadership and team management qualities.
• Must have strong management and organizational skills.
• Must have good analytical and troubleshooting skills with end-users / customers.
• Must have competitive intelligence.
• Must have experience in using tools like JIRA etc.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be resourceful, innovative, self-motivated, and confident in high-stress situations.

 

Introduction

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

 

Role and Responsibilities

1. Ensures correct adaptation of Agile practices at the team level.
2. Coaches the Product Manager on Product Backlog management.
3. Leads the team to remove impediments to reach the sprint goal.
4. Organizes the agile rituals and ceremonies, and makes sure that it is applied correctly within the team. If necessary, facilitates these rituals.
5. Guides the team in organizing motivational and inclusive events.
6. Supports onboarding of the new people who joined the team.
7. Guides the team for continuous improvement (Kaizen).
8. Responsible for the correct flow of the team’s processes and workflow.
9. Helps the team visualize its performance, impediments, and processes.
   
   Requirements

1. BTech or MTech degree in engineering or relevant fields
2. Having deep knowledge in the Agile mindset.
3. Experience in working and applying Agile for a minimum of 2 years in a software development team is required (Scrum Master role is preferred).
4. Confidence in working with multiple Agile teams.
5. Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills.
6. Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, and facilitation skills.
7. Excellent command of written and spoken English.
8. Certification of the following is a plus: PSM, PSPO, PSK, PAL, PMI-ACP, etc.
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology, processes, and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative to help the teams achieve their goals regardless of boundaries, and works well in a team.

 8-12 years of overall experience in software development projects. 4-5 years of hands-on software development experience. preferably back-end development. 2-4 years of project management experience with at least 60% of the time spent on managing fixed price or outcome-based projects. Good exposure to the Agile software development process. Proven success in managing complex projects on-time and on- or below-budget Ability to manage multiple projects and highly talented engineering teams Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively Strong sense of empathy and emotional awareness Impeccable attention to detail

As Project Manager in the R&D function, the person would be responsible for managing one or multiple product releases ensuring that the timelines, budget and quality parameters are met. • Accountable for managing one of the multiple product releases within defined time, quality and cost constraints • Work closely with the Product Owner, BU Head in the assessment of the scope of the releases, effort estimation, resourcing and timeline definition. • Project planning, monitoring, and control including risk assessment and timely escalation to the stakeholders to ensure timely resolution thereby ensuring the zero\minimal impact to the project timelines, budget or quality.