Ravindra Thakur

Experience

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  National Informatics Center

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2006

  Scientist - B

  - Technical and Financial adviser on Government IT projects (Application and Infrastructure) of a designated districts or state. - Accountable for implementation and security of data centres and numerous applications running across various government departments, units and semi-government bodies. - Responsible to enforce Government IT policies in various IT projects, financial budgets and expenditures.- Heading a local or distributed software development team, IT infrastructure installation and support team. - Training and advising to top officials on rolling out multi user and multi-language software applications, administrating and keep applications running and systems for public usage.- Coach, mentor to staff of 20+ Government departments at district and state secretariat level on IT Infrastructure and application maintenance. Show less

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  Aztecsoft

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Sr SDE QE

  - Played scrum master role for 3 enterprise application development squads.- Facilitated scrum ceremonies, resolved day to day impediments and dependencies. - Collaborated with client PO and with other scrum teams. Took part in scrum of scrum.- Supported PO in managing and prioritizing product backlog, refinement session and story estimation. - Oversaw the entire gamut of tasks related to design, build, test and deploy. - Implemented automated deployment, formal bug reporting, periodical triage call and made defect management more effective. - Started and exceeded white box, E2E API / Web services test automation using C#- Researched, successfully created and demonstrated PoC of software adapter for MS Dynamics Axapta and CCH products that helped to win a new project.- Delivered 8 fixed price projects with reduced resources and cost, timely handling of risks.- Evaluated and performed gap analysis of 4 Projects and successfully brought it to CMMI level 5. Show less

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  WebSoft Pvt Ltd, Pune

  May 2006 - Sept 2006

  Project Manager

  - Played the role of Offshore delivery and Project manager of this Canadian OTC. - Reported to CEO and offshore director. - Assisted in reorganization of company's Vision, Mission and Goals and transformed it into product and service road-map.- Improved IT asset management server farm placed at Vancouver, Canada and reduced maintenance and support cost by 40% in a year.- Accomplished successful migration of web applications to the new development platform and technology, ASP to ASP.NET and C#. - Interacted periodically with executive management, clients, stakeholders, marketing and sales group on health of the projects, new feature demos and proof of concepts (Pre-Sales Presentation).- Managed deliveries, schedules, risks, resources and financial aspects of concurrently running projects. - Accountable for continues support to maintain good health of online products and IT infrastructure.- Performed people management of techno-functional teams and managed staffing and resource planning. Show less

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  Tieto Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd

  Dec 2008 - Nov 2013

  - Worked in Capital Markets 4 product units following scaled scrum & Kanban.- Ownership of release planning, scheduling, configuration management, change approval and packaging/deployment.- Accountable for delivery, planning, estimation, capacity planning and risk management. - Implemented agile best practices such as regular refactoring, inspection and adoption, coding standard, CI and CD, Test automation (Functional, Unit test and BVT), DoR, DoD, Test First, Story point estimation,- Cultured cross functionality, effective human collaboration and self-organizing environment.- Prepared proposals with business case, ROI, offerings to Nordic customers.- Presented white paper in STC-2012 'Higher test coverage and team productivity in functional testing by using a simple tool based on 5W and All pair methodology’. - Achieved 85% ROI from test automation and saving of 100K Euros.- Part of founding people of CoE and CoP within FS vertical- Reported to senior leadership and responsible for people management, talent segmentation & career growth. Show less - Lead concurrently many agile projects, achieving 78% ROI and running in SCRUM sprint N+1 fashion. - Systematized onshore to offshore migration of 2 Dev and QA projects from Finland to India Tieto.- Significantly increased quality and reduced production issues by rolling out additional agile best practices code refactoring, frequent feedback from PO, Unit testing, UI test automation.- Conducted workshop (5W and 1H) for group of BAs on efficiently gathering requirements & writing acceptance criteria.- Established CoP across to excel knowledge sharing and knowledge bank to retain domain and product knowledge. - Conducted PoV and published internal report on agile ALM tool, test automation and defect management.- Contributed in many value added capability initiatives and done people management. Show less

  • Sr. Test Manager

    Mar 2011 - Nov 2013

  • Lead Test Engineer

    Dec 2008 - Apr 2011
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  Cygni Digital Concepts Pvt Ltd

  Nov 2013 - Sept 2014

  Director
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  Accenture in India

  Sept 2014 - Dec 2017

  Agile Coach and Scrum master
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  Accenture Belgium

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  Agile Coach and Release management

  - Joined this program in a very challenging environment mainly due to immature teams with limited/no agile knowledge and very complex solution.- Played agile coach and RTE role facilitating SAFe related ceremonies such as PI planning, Scrum of Scrum, PI Product Backlog prioritization, T-shirt sizing, post PI activities, release and Go Live activities. - Coached Accenture and client members on agile WOW considering program level priorities and dependencies that resulted in project getting CERTIFIED status in SAFe (Essential) agile framework - Successfully completed 3 PI planning, 41 sprints and supported scrum masters in regular scrum events.- Proactively identified team related risks/issues and coordinated teams accordingly to mitigate risks/issues (Testing topics, Integration topics, people motivation, etc.)- Redefined collaboration to accelerate resolution of PI dependency and queries that helped in completing 90% of product backlog by Belgium and Netherlands teams.- Conducted workshops to refine release management plan of future releases giving precise visibility on timeline, control over the risks, timely mitigations, CAB and release communications. - Reduced scope change to 7% by a clear & transparent Program level reporting towards client + Accenture BE leadership.- Devised & got implemented DevOps tools and practices to shift from tedious manual to automated and on-demand deployments (TST, ACC & BVT, Regression & UAT test). Show less

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  Accenture UK

  Aug 2018 - Aug 2020

  • Agile Iterataion Manager

    May 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Agile Iteration Manager

    Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
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  Accenture in India

  Aug 2020 - Sept 2021

  Innovation and Transformation Lead
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  Lelihana Learnings

  Sept 2020 - now

  Career Management and Innovative life Coach (LelihanaLearnings.com)
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  CorePeelers

  Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  Director Technology