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Registration: 10.02.2024

Manish Gajre

Portfolio

Banking

Sdlc

Retail

Sdlc

All

As per resume

Skills

Scrum Master
Agile
Project Management
Java
React
Microsoft Tools
Cloud
Project Management
Test Management
Client Relationship Management
Quality Assurance
Risk Management
Change & Scope Management
Budget & Costing
Business Process Reengineering
Project Planning & Execution
SDLC / STLC
Governance

Work experience

Manager – Scrum Master Delivery
since 01.2020 - Till the present day |Niveus
Scrum, Agile
- Acted as Coach/Mentor for the Solution and Business Team, facilitate Scrum workshops-between Scrum Teams to share Project dependencies and re usability of components. - Facilitating successful Agile/Scrum practices of large banking application, and work across project team boundaries in a matrix environment. - Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and demos to define solutions for improvement of quality. - Facilitated Development Team to identify the Sprint length keeping requirement Volatility and Team Velocity as the parameters. - Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality and manage in a complex dynamic environment, revise to meet changing requirement. - Build relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments. - Partner cross-functional with project stakeholders and provide strategic roadmap and tactical thought partnership to drive project deliveries. - Ensuring Team Motivation by conducting monthly Reward and Recognition with joint participation from Agile Program Leader. - Created self-organizing and high performing teams for a project team of 50+ members.
Manager
01.2017 - 01.2020 |Unisoft Systems
Project Management
- Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments. - Collaborate with all levels of the organization to monitor and manage the critical path, plan contingencies, facilitate scope, changes and control resource expenditures. - Build the teams by energizing them with a clear purpose and creating an interactive environment which encourages collaborative culture. - Create self-organizing and high performing teams for a project team of 50 members involving high degree of technological complexity, communications complexity and requirements uncertainty. - Build trust with the client and enhance customer satisfaction with open, honest and transparent communications. - Strive for clean code - laid down coding standards and single-handedly performed code reviews for all the developers and relentlessly perform code refactoring. - Train the teams on Agile values, principles and practices, Scrum ceremonies and practices like pair programming, TDD, refactoring and CICD. - Ensure continuous improvements by evaluating the current processes via various types of retrospectives and facilitation meetings. - Defining and preparing the work scope, grooming backlog, providing effort and cost estimates and prepare request for proposals for bidding.
Project Manager
09.2003 - 07.2017 |IGate
Retails, Medical, Healthcare, BFSI, Banking, Telecom
Involve in end to end SDLC activities Managed complex projects within European markets, including project planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.  Managed complex IT Applications modernization, product development, system integration projects.  Coordinated cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives, adhering to European regulatory standards and client expectations.  Conducted regular status meetings, providing comprehensive project updates to European clients, senior management, and project stakeholders.  Successfully delivered projects within budget and timeline constraints while maintaining high-quality standards  Facilitated project kickoff meetings, project objectives, and defined project scopes and deliverables aligned with European standards.  Prepared and present project status reports and executive-level updates to stakeholders, including European clients, partners, and regulatory bodies.
QA Test Lead / Manager
NDA
Project Management
- Estimate the effort and providing the project delivery timelines - Document, develop and deliver various interfaces based on agreed design between Client Middleware and its partners. - Develop/create master test plans and related documents, test cases, test plans, procedures. - Execute test cases/scenarios across development projects. - Identify and track defects, issues, risks, and action items. - Validate requirements for system testing, report preparation, defect recording, and defect tracking. - Perform regression testing to validate the resolution of any software or system defects. - Provide input for program schedules and is responsible for creation and development of Used Cases. - Report preparation, defect recording, and tracking, Identify, record, report, and track defects.
Project Manager
NDA
Project Management
- Exhibited leadership in technical & functional Agile Project Management including scheduling & negotiating with clients, balancing work distribution to meet project deliverables & delivery as per quality & time norms. - Showcased excellent aptitude in driving business growth and attaining client delight through excellent service delivery and by driving best practices & continuous improvement plans. - Led project planning, execution, and closure for multiple concurrent projects across various industries. - Defined project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders. - Developed detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation. - Monitored project progress, identified risks and issues, and implemented appropriate mitigation strategies. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication and coordination. - Conducted regular status meetings and provided project updates to clients and stakeholders. - Managed project budgets, tracked expenses, and ensured adherence to financial targets. - Identified process improvement opportunities and implemented best practices to enhance project efficiency. - Fostered a collaborative and high-performing team environment, providing guidance and support to team members. - Conducted post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and identify areas for improvement.

Educational background

Operation Management
Till 2015
MBA
Systems Management in Computer
Till 1992
Computek Institute-Technology
Oracle and Developer 2000
Till 1998
Certificate Course
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
1994 - 1998
University of Pune

Languages

EnglishAdvanced