Sagar AS (Immediate Joiner)
Immediate Joiner | Program Manager |Project Manager | Lead Scrum Master | Release Lead
Greater Bengaluru Area
16+ years of work experience
Jul 20233 yrs 4 mosPresent
Bengaluru
Enabled processing and delivery governance for files received through multiple vendor payment channels.
Facilitated quarterly PI planning and Business Review aligning feature start dates, release dates, priorities, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
Led Scrum ceremonies and reinforced Scrum values, transparency, inspection, and adaptation across the delivery lifecycle.
Published work-assignment, milestone, and accomplishment reports to provide stakeholders with clear delivery visibility.
Partnered with Development and DevOps teams to identify architectural dependencies, remove impediments, and support high value product delivery.
Coached the team in self-organization and cross-functionality and supported Agile adoption across teams.
Owned feature release management activities, including change-request creation and follow-up for scans, approvals, and release readiness
Led delivery for manual and automation testing across auto-lending products.
Led two Agile teams and facilitated knowledge-transfer sessions for each product, enabling structured onboarding and execution readiness.
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, work allocation, milestone reporting, and stakeholder communication across the engagement.
Identified and mitigated delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments at the earliest opportunity.
Managed budgeting and forecasting, resource allocation, scope, and delivery risks while balancing quality and timeline commitments.
Provided Agile coaching across teams and promoted consistent ways of working and governance.
Managed & tracked cross-functional project milestones, aligning sprint outputs with corporate strategic goals.
Facilitated all core Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives) for cross-functional teams, successfully improving velocity.
Acted as the primary bridge between executive leadership and the development teams, translating complex agile metrics into clear, executive-ready milestone roadmaps.
Jul 20185 yrsJun 2023
Greater Bengaluru Area
Supported migration of datasets used by risk applications, including AIDW, OnDemand, VPC Importer, SPAN/SPAN2 risk parameter files, margin results, valuations, and performance data, to Google Cloud Platform.
Maintained frequent client engagement to obtain feedback, resolve concerns, and align deliverables with business expectations.
Produced milestone, weekly, and daily status reports to ensure transparent progress communication.
Led client interactions and incorporated delivery feedback into team planning and execution.
Published milestone, weekly, and daily status reporting for stakeholders and delivery teams.
Facilitated backlog refinement and Sprint events and coached the team on Scrum values and practices.
Enabled self-organization and cross-functional collaboration to improve delivery of high-value outcomes. Supported Agile coaching across teams and reinforced consistent delivery practices.
Coached the Development Team in self-organization, cross-functionality, and delivery of high-value product increments.
Partnered continuously with the Product Owner and key stakeholders on product priorities and incremental delivery.
Guided teams operating in environments where Scrum was not yet fully adopted or understood.
Nov 20161 yr 8 mosJun 2018
Bengaluru
Validated real-time and historical margin calculations across multiple curve cycles, including downstream data movement from the Risk Library to Rubix tables through end-of-day jobs.
Led daily stand-ups, collected work status, and generated progress reporting for management and clients.
Reviewed and updated test cases based on approved requirement changes and contributed directly to testing activities.
Created test plans and test-specification documents and monitored aged and critical defects through resolution. Escalated critical issues and reviewed test progress with the Project Manager and clients.
Supported strategic planning, resource loading, sharing, and utilization across projects.
Cross-trained team members through structured module knowledge sessions.
Jul 20151 yr 5 mosNov 2016
Bengaluru
Worked on the testing of integration layers which involve the ESB components.
ESB components such as web services, TIBCO ESB, MQs and Topics.
iTKO LISA is the tool used to validate the integration layers of the service.
HP Quality Center 11 is the tool used to raise a defect.
All the requirements were drafted in JIRA.
TIBCO is the middleware application used to validate the logs of the services.
Jul 20132 yrsJun 2015
Bengaluru
Worked on the testing of integration layers which involve the ESB components.
ESB components such as web services, TIBCO ESB, MQs and Topics.
iTKO LISA is the tool used to validate the integration layers of the service.
HP Quality Center 11 is the tool used to raise a defect.
All the requirements were drafted in JIRA.
TIBCO is the middleware application used to validate the logs of the services.
Aug 20103 yrsJul 2013
Bangalore
SOA Webservices, Webmethods Testing using Soap UI tool.
Nov 200910 mosAug 2010
Webapplication, Functionality Testing.
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Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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