SCRUM MASTER · AGILE COACH · QA LEADERSHIP

Manish
Upadhyay

Driving Agile delivery, team collaboration and software quality across complex products and cross-functional teams.

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📍 Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaPSM I Certified
Manish Upadhyay

12+ years

Software QA & Agile delivery

Combining Scrum facilitation, coaching, stakeholder collaboration and hands-on quality engineering.

01 / ABOUT

Agile execution.
Quality mindset.

Results-driven Scrum Master and Agile Coach with 12+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams across GIS/Mapping, Healthcare, eCommerce, Banking, Finance, Supply Chain and Insurance.

I facilitate Agile ceremonies, support Scrum values, remove impediments and promote continuous improvement. Alongside Agile delivery, I bring strong QA leadership experience in automation, test strategy and risk-based testing.

12+Years in software QA & Agile delivery
PSM IProfessional Scrum Master certification
GlobalClient exposure across Australia, UK, USA & India

02 / EXPERIENCE

Professional journey

Leadership across Agile delivery, QA management and test automation.

Nov 2021 — Present · Pune

Software QA Manager & Scrum Master

Salvoron Technologies (GapMaps) Pvt. Ltd.

  • Led Scrum ceremonies for the GapMaps location intelligence platform serving Australian government and business clients.
  • Built and coached the QA team, mentoring Agile and test-driven approaches and removing delivery impediments.
  • Designed an end-to-end automation framework from scratch using Java, Serenity BDD and Cucumber, integrated with GitLab CI/CD.
  • Managed the full test lifecycle with Jira and Zephyr; tracked sprint velocity metrics and burn-down charts.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners and stakeholders to refine and prioritize the backlog.
  • Performed functional and regression testing across desktop and mobile using BrowserStack and LambdaTest.

Aug 2020 — Oct 2021 · Pune

Senior Software QA Engineer

Unique System Skills (India) Pvt. Ltd.

  • Worked on the Massachusetts Medical Society portal in an Agile/Scrum environment.
  • Built automation using Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Maven and Jenkins; supported API testing with Postman and data validation with SQL Server.

Jul 2016 — May 2020 · Pune

SDET

Talent Anywhere Services Pvt. Ltd.

  • Delivered QA and automation for eCommerce products in Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Worked with Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Cucumber and Jenkins across smoke, regression, integration, ETL and UAT testing.

Jan 2015 — Jun 2016 · Pune

Associate Consultant

Systems Plus Transformations LLP

Functional and integration testing for procurement and supply-chain solutions in Agile environments.

Jan 2014 — Jan 2015 · Navi Mumbai

Associate Software Engineer

ICINDIATECH

Software testing and STLC activities across banking and finance solutions.

03 / AGILE & SCRUM

How I contribute

01

Scrum facilitation

Sprint planning, daily Scrum, reviews and retrospectives with focus on transparency, inspection and adaptation.

02

Team coaching

Encouraging collaboration, Scrum values, ownership and continuous learning within cross-functional teams.

03

Impediment removal

Identifying blockers, coordinating resolution and helping teams maintain sustainable delivery flow.

04

Continuous improvement

Using retrospectives, metrics and feedback to identify practical improvements in ways of working.

05

Quality strategy

Connecting Agile delivery with test strategy, automation, risk-based testing and release confidence.

06

Stakeholder collaboration

Working with Product Owners and stakeholders to support backlog refinement and prioritization.

04 / SKILLS

Tools & technical strengths

Agile & delivery

Scrum · Agile · Jira · Zephyr Squad · TestRail · Azure DevOps · TFS · VSTS · Bugzilla · Agilefant

Automation

Selenium WebDriver · Java · TestNG · Cucumber BDD · Serenity BDD · TestComplete · Apache JMeter

CI/CD & DevOps

Jenkins · GitLab · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub

Testing & API

Postman · BrowserStack · LambdaTest · Log4j · Functional · Regression · Integration · ETL · UAT

Backend & data

Microsoft SQL Server · MySQL · Akamai · Kinesis · Literatum · Magento · Splunk · ACS · AWS S3

Languages & platforms

Core Java · JavaScript · jQuery · Unix/Linux Shell Scripting · Windows · macOS · Ubuntu · Linux · iOS · Android

05 / EDUCATION

Foundation & certification

PSM I

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

MCA

Master of Computer Applications

KIIT University, Bhubaneswar · 2014

BCA

Bachelor of Computer Applications

IGNOU, MNNIT Design Center, Prayagraj · 2010

HSC

Higher Secondary Certificate

Utter Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, Prayagraj · 2007

SSC

Secondary School Certificate

Utter Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, Prayagraj · 2005

06 / DOMAIN EXPERIENCE

Products, platforms & industries

GIS / MappingHealthcareeCommerceBankingFinanceSupply ChainInsurance

07 / CONTACT

Let's build better
delivery together.

Open to conversations around Scrum Master, Agile delivery, QA leadership and related opportunities.

ermanishupadhyay@gmail.com ↗ LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗