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Nitin Rathi

@nitinrathi

Project Manager at Cadient

Delhi, India

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CadientDelhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Nitin Rathi is a certified Project Manager (PMP, ACP, ITIL) with over 12 years of experience, combining expertise in Agile methodology and QA. He possesses superior communication and leadership skills, enabling him to build trusting client relationships and consistently exceed demands. He is skilled in managing project lifecycles, resource allocation, and financial forecasting using tools like EVM.

Experience

Project Manager

Cadient

Aug 2019 - Present

Managing fast-paced projects and timelines to deliver operational excellence as well as customer experience in Agile Model. Managing all phases of the project from Planning, Executing, Monitoring, Control, Quality Initiation, and Lifecycle. Planning out the blueprints for projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance. Preparation of Project Plan, Product Roadmap, Release Plan, Defining MVP, tracking milestones, deliverables, and change requests. Performing Project activities like Effort estimations, requirements gathering, assumptions, risk analysis, project planning, Defect Prevention activities, reporting, and Process Review. Managing a Cross-functional team of fifteen direct reports by offering support and constructive feedback with a Servant Leadership mindset. Set, Track and Review the KPI s, KPA s of the team members, Resource management activities like interviews, training, retention, offering, on-boarding, mentoring & coaching, Team Building exercises, Recognition & Reward Programs, Performance Reviews, conflict management, appraisals and highlighting training and development opportunities. Responsible for creation of three Baselines (Scope, Cost, Schedule), Determining Budget, monitoring, and forecasting using EVM tools like CV, SV, SPI, CPI, EAC, BAC, and TCPI. Conducting Scrum ceremonies like Hosting various workshops like Story size estimation, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. Function as Subject Matter Expert for SQL and QA methodology within the team, keeping the team aligned with optimum collaborative and documentation processes. Prepare and Report metrics data (such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed) & reports on project progress and other project-specific information, project status and financial updates to stakeholders, collected feedback using tools like Jira, MS Project, MS Team, M

Lead QA Engineer

Kronos Incorporated

Jan 2017 - Aug 2019

Worked as Lead QA Engineer and Non-Functional Testing Lead. Responsible for managing and providing training to team. Assigning Jira tasks to team. Timely reporting of Project Status in Excel, PPT format to applicable stakeholders. Maintain, Execution and Analysis of CI/CD build on Daily Basis in Bamboo. Framework Design including WebDriver(Hybrid, Keyword Driven), BDD(using Gherkin), Rest Assured, Appium. Requirements analysis with product owner/dev and QA team. Execution of Automation build run on daily basis and analysis of failures. Execution of Performance suite run, Security run and Accessibility run on Sprint End. Providing help to Tech Support Team in resolving client issues. Creating Change Request for monthly Releases. Prepare Test Plans and Test Scenarios that ensure the product adheres to the application environment. Reporting defects in Jira and generating reports for the daily status meetings. Review Release Notes and Bug Report with Client. Adding new functionality test scenarios in Automation suite. Responsible for designing and implementing Automation Framework and code review.

Sr. Software Engineer

Birlasoft

Aug 2015 - Jan 2017

Work as Sr. Software Engineer and Non-Functional Testing Lead. Gathering Requirements by Direct Interaction with client in Agile Model. Prepared test plan, Automation test Scripts in Selenium Webdriver Using TestNG in KeyDriven Framework, and execution using Jenkins jobs. Maintaining code in Maven, Jenkins, and Git. Cross Browser Testing by integrating Selenium with Spacelab’s. Data Analytical Testing using Google Analytics tool. Application Monitoring using NewRelic Tool. AWS Testing (S3, EBS, CloudFront, DynamoDB, RDS, EC2, ELB, Autoscaling, Route53, Lambda Function). Analyzed and understand the project’s functional requirements and their Automation in Agile Methodology. Performance Testing using J-meter and Load Runner. API (Rest and SOAP) testing using SOAP UI, Postman, Rest Client. Security testing using Burpsuite and ZAP tools. Regression Testing, Preparation of test scenarios, and execution of Test Cases. Defect tracking and reporting in Rally. Creation and responsible for fixing Framework bugs.

I.T. Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services

Mar 2011 - Jul 2015

Interaction with client. Test case creation and execution. Selenium Scripts writing and Test Case Creation using Selenium Webdriver testNG. Parallel Execution using Selenium Grid and Cross Browser Testing. Regression Testing of the enhancements and fixed defects. Script execution on daily basis. Documentation (FTS) and Report making. Database Testing in MS-SQL. Leading the NON-Functionality Testing Team. Performance Testing using JMeter. Security Testing using Burp Suite and ZAP. Defect tracking and reporting in Jira. API Testing using Soap UI.

Software Engineer

Rights Reality

Jun 2010 - Mar 2011

Involved in creating various test scenarios for testing the crawler. Prepared test data for the exhaustive testing of complete functionality of the crawler. Involved in functional testing, regression testing, Web-security testing and GUI testing. Responsible for signing off the feature to UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Education

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Master of Business Administration

Information Technology and Marketing

Jun 2017 - May 2019

IIMT Group of Colleges

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science

Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

Licenses & Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Project Management Institute

Issued: Aug 2022• No expiration

Credential ID: 3275865

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

Project Management Institute

Issued: Aug 2022• No expiration

Credential ID: 3305555

ITIL Foundation Level

AXELOS Global Best Practice

• No expiration

Credential ID: GR671402309NR

Skills

Project Management
Team leadership
Effective Communication
Team building
Business strategy
Requirements understanding
Problem-solving
Agile Methodology
SQL
Java
Selenium WebDriver
JMeter
LoadRunner
AWS
JIRA
Kanban
Test Automation Framework
Core Java
Rest Assured
Google Analytics
Competitor analysis
Research and trend analysis