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Smitha S

Smitha S

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  • About me

    Linkedin 8x Top Voice | Technical Program Manager | Project Manager | Agile Leadership & Certified SAFe Practitioner

  • Education

    • University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

      2018 - 2019
      Certificate of Business Excellence Executive Education, Berkeley Executive Program in Management

      The Berkeley Executive Program in Management is designed to create a deeply relevant, immersive and dynamic learning experience for senior executives ready for the next level of leadership challenge. Actively leveraging Berkeley's unique strengths and taught by the world class Berkeley Haas Faculty, the program exposes you to the latest theories and best practices in business, from strategy to team leadership, influence, innovation, product management, and more over a 1-year multi-modular… Show more The Berkeley Executive Program in Management is designed to create a deeply relevant, immersive and dynamic learning experience for senior executives ready for the next level of leadership challenge. Actively leveraging Berkeley's unique strengths and taught by the world class Berkeley Haas Faculty, the program exposes you to the latest theories and best practices in business, from strategy to team leadership, influence, innovation, product management, and more over a 1-year multi-modular program structure that also includes an intensive focus on application through a real-world focused Capstone Project. You leave the program with a mark of distinction from a world-renowned university and prepared to lead an enterprise towards global growth and success. Show less

    • Bangalore University

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      Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

    • Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

      2008 - 2010
      Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management Business Administration and Management, General

  • Experience

    • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

      Apr 2001 - Jan 2005
      Member Of Technical Staff

      Gap analysis, feasibility study, and development of a range of projects under The Government of India for e-governance programs, for several Corporations and Education Departments.

    • Sun Microsystems

      Feb 2005 - Sept 2006
      Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

      Formulating Test strategy, design and plans to ensure effective product releases.Defining automation strategy, resulting in cost savings.

    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

      Nov 2006 - Feb 2019

      HPE NONSTOP QA Lead engineer•Led products in parallel for enterprise class of servers for global function.•Managed testing projects of 18 components, driving the quality team test activities, owning patch releases activity and major releases.•Pioneered insourcing of components in compilers quality team in a month’s time and insourced platform testing.•Reduced critical defect backlog from 40+ to ~15; introduced orthogonal defect classification, left shifting of regressions, using Deep 5 Why RCAs. •Achieved test automation, test refactoring and technical improvements and reduced regression test cycles by > 65%. HPE Oneview •Worked closely with engineering teams and product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. Show less

      • Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

        Sept 2010 - Feb 2019

      • Quality Assurance Specialist

        Nov 2006 - Sept 2010

    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

      Feb 2020 - now

      HPE Ezmeral - Ezmeral Data Fabric and Ezmeral Unified Analytics •Program managing teams for the quality deliverables with different geographies, tracking dependencies worked with Product management/Dev teams/QA teams/architects and Doc teams/partner teams for planning the quarter with milestones.•Coordinating with Cross-functional teams India, US, Ukraine and Greece team for updates/ planning till execution.•Coordinating with Product management team to streamline the process of early planning for quarter and preparation of PRDs and design discussions on feature prioritization, Exercise and Evaluate the customer cases into use cases.•Working closely with PMO office for continuous process improvements.•Leading sprint cycles, unblocking issues, conflicts and conducting retrospectives for teams taking feedback and working with leadership team and implementing the action items on improvement areas.•Leading the scrum meetings and scrum of scrum discussions for multiple teams with Engineering teams.•Managing release cycles and planning for build availability to QA and RC build schedules.•Organized and Led the discussions /update meetings with Central teams for dependency tracking between engineering teams.•Coordinated with QA teams for the builds and on time delivery of features. •Representing as R&D for core team updates with external PMO office, sales, marketing, finance, pricing, launch teams for engineering updates.•Actively participated in NOI/NPI process discussions for products.•Coordinating with doc teams and Dev/QA team for updates. During release cycle last sprints conducted daily Bug scrubs to unblock and resolve the issues.•Managed RISK and planned for contingencies for feature delivery for releases.•Reporting weekly/Quarterly status reports on feature progress and bug status to leadership and engineering teams. Show less

      • Technical Program Manager

        Nov 2021 - now

      • Customer Success- Senior Specialist

        Feb 2020 - Oct 2021

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