About

Mukul Pratap is an experienced Principal Program Manager at Cadence Design Systems with over 20 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance) and has extensive knowledge and expertise in Agile methodology, client handling, team handling, and Agile Software Engineering Model. Mukul has a sound exposure and experience in project planning, effort estimation, test planning, project coordination, stakeholder, and risk management. He has also worked as an experienced Scrum Master, handling multiple teams simultaneously. He has a proven track record of getting signoffs from QA, UAT (Business), for production deployment and has worked with different client point of contacts to analyze the interdependencies of the projects/artifacts and communicate to respective parties. Mukul has experience in test management, plan & strategy, and team management for multiple projects. He has been involved in various process handling activities like maintaining a query register, risk register, milestone tracking, and project review with senior management. He has experience in managing a team of around 30+ engineers (Developers, Dev Lead, Test Er/Sr. Test Er/Leads/Sr Lead). Mukul has expertise in leading software testing life-cycle involving requirement analysis, system study, test plan/script/case preparation & execution, debugging and documentation, setting-up test environment and managing defect execution & tracking, estimation techniques, go-live/roll-out, and training & support. He has exposure to working on testing products of various domains and has worked with cross-functional teams using interactive & motivational leadership. Mukul has expertise in Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Java, Python, Junit & Maven. He has strong knowledge in web services testing via tools such as SOAP UI/ Restful web services. He also has good knowledge of load and performance testing using self-developed Perl/Python scripts along with industry-standard tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, SOAP UI. He has implemented various automation frameworks like Keyword Driven, Data Driven, and Hybrid framework for multiple projects. In the past, Mukul has worked with Virtusa as Delivery Manager and with Mentor Graphics as Project Manager Scrum Master. At Mentor Graphics, he was responsible for testing internal websites of Mentor Graphics for Calibre family of products using Selenium tools. He played a key role in Scrum planning and all the scrum-related activities, requirement understanding from Product Owner as well as grooming of the stories along with the team, and