R&D Operating Mgr

Overview

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our \~16,800 employees create world\-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.

Our award\-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry\-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.

Responsibilities

• *Core responsibilities**

• **Planning:** Develop project plans, define scope, set deadlines, and estimate resources (both HW, SW and human resource)
• **Execution:** Manage and lead the project team and ensure tasks are completed according to the plan. Manage multiple projects at the same time.
• **Monitoring and Control:** Track project progress, identify and manage risks.
• **Communication:** Act as the central point of contact for stakeholders and team members, providing updates and managing expectations.
• **Closure:** Evaluate project success, conduct post\-project reviews, and ensure all deliverables are finalized and accepted by the customer.
• **Customer engagements:** Manage specific customer engagements w.r.t build delivery, drive issue resolution and build qualification.
• **Continuous improvement:** Drive continuous improvement of development and test processes leading to improved product quality and increased team efficiency.

Qualifications:* **10 to 12 yrs of overall experience out of which 5\+ yrs as a project manager.**

• **Leadership and communication:** Ability to motivate a team, manage conflict, and communicate effectively with both technical and non\-technical stakeholders. Very assertive and strong articulation skills. Ability to interface with SW and FPGA teams. Excellent analysis and reporting skills.
• **Organizational and planning skills:** Strong ability to manage time, prioritize tasks, and create detailed plans and schedules.
• **Monitoring and Controlling skills:** Strong ability to track development and QA plans, prepare and track bug convergence plans, prepare and track regression plans.
• **Risk management:** Proactively identify potential problems and develop plans to mitigate them.
• **Technical knowledge:**
• + Good technical, product and market knowledge in computer networking industry.

+ Experience of managing software and hardware projects related to computer networking.

+ Strong background in product development and testing. Very good knowledge in any of the programming languages like Python, C, C\+\+

+ Thorough knowledge of SDLC, Agile and waterfall models, Automation and CI/CD tools and processes.

+ Well versed with tools like Jira, Project planning and tracking software’s, Git, Perforce, Excel, bug tracking tools, Jenkins etc.

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