Jaiganesh Padmanabhan

Experience

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  Wipro Technologies

  Sept 2005 - Feb 2010

  Senior software engineer

  Role: Tableau Designero Gather requirements from the users and understanding the functionality and business rules.o Develop worksheet using parameters, calculated fields, groups, sets and hierarchies, o Create different styles like bar, pie, tree, filled map and dual axiso Create user friendly dashboard using tableau desktop and applying actionable in sights.o Provide good narratives and summary for the dashboards. o Publish reports and ensure extract refreshing happens on pre-set basis o Create batch users for end users to pilot and provide feedbackRole: COBIT 5 Consultanto Implement IT Controls for Management & Governance processeso Assess Minimum Standard Controls for organization Risk mitigation Role: Defect managero Design, Implement and communicate Defect management processes in a cross-vendor landscapes, involving multi regional development and testing squads. o Define test entry & exit criteria across test management cycle Prepare ‘End of test reports’ for scripts execution completeness, ‘Critical defects closure’ to provide a go/no go towards release deployment, ‘Work off plan defect reports’ for addressing deferred defectsRole: Release managemento Establish Release governance councils to strategize, evaluate & monitor release management o Plan release windows, define release quality assurance and review pre-release candidates o Report KPIs and dashboards to executive management o Report scorecards as Successful deployments, Unauthorized changes, Ration of emergency and normal releases etc.o Evaluate Releases risk scores prior to production deployment through “Release bulge risk indicators” o Implement Release quality gating mechanisms in Clear quest resulted zero post production incidents. Role: Solution Roadmap Consultanto Study As Is Performance, Identify Gaps, Analyzing production defect metrics and stakeholder interviews. o Implement ‘Shift Left’ process Solution Accelerators using SPEAR framework optimizing Bottom line Show less

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  Cognizant Technology Solutions

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2011

  Associate

  Facilitated Statistical tools implementation as Process performance models for predicting process outcomes, Controlcharts for critical sub processes monitoring, Hypothesis for significant improvements evaluation, Gauge R&R formeasurement errorso Have facilitated testing teams for documenting PIIDs and FAR interviews during CMMI1.2 SCAMPI A appraisals. Havebeen a part of diagnostic reviews as wello Trained 800+ professionals including directors and presidents on ‘Risk management’, ‘Defect prevention’, ‘Highmaturity practices’ and ‘Test case point estimations’ and ‘Configuration management’o Key role played in customizing ‘Test case point estimations’ TCP, based on testing team’s requirementso Insights on best fit factors favoring Agile delivery were deduced using Sets, Scatter plots in Tableau. Periodic extractsto illustrate the trends and organization focus were configured for Agile executive council team.o Designed statistical models for predictive data analytics. Regression models for predicting the testexecution productivity. Facilitated Statistical tools implementation as Process performance models forpredicting process outcomes, Control charts for critical sub processes monitoring. Show less

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  Infosys

  Jul 2011 - Aug 2013

  Senior Lead Quality Assurance

  Role: Kanban Practice Facilitatoro Implement Kanban in IT Problem management ways using PACIFY framework.o Design metrics as Throughput, Cycle time for assessing monthly performance of Problem ticketso Implement practices as WIP limits, Continuous flows, Visual boards in problem tickets o Ensure SOPs for Problem management life cycle from Problem creation until Resolutiono Develop Prioritization models using Business urgency and Impacts.o Collaborate with Level 2 Incident support team for blocker & impediments redressals.Role: Scrum Master o Facilitate Sprint Planning in helping derive capacity and tasks to be burnt downo Effective Impedance management by identifying, investigating, assigning ownership on Impediments o Trace RCA of impediments and help prevent re-occurrenceo Organize, facilitate Backlog grooming, Sprint retrospections, DSM, Sprint reviews in a timely way o Ensure healthy relationships with the project sponsor, senior management, and other project contributors o Ensure team commits stories in concurrence to the velocity patterns Show less

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  HCL Technologies

  Aug 2013 - Mar 2022

  Tribe Agile Coach

  o Conduct workshops on agile principles, manifestos, 3-5-3 concepts to squadso Develop coaching plans using GROW approach by observing, interacting one to one with squadso Facilitate Sprint Captains, Scrum Masters and Squads on agile ways of working o Inculcate agile ways of thinking culture through gamified ceremonies. Have built DIRFI & Dynamic retro modelso Challenge right questions to drill deep for teams to unblock their challenges and select solution patterns.o Facilitate Product Owners and Feature Engineers on user story slicing & feature sizing techniques.o Improvise Devops squad operation excellence through measurement insight reports and Lean ways.o Develop empowered teams by identifying team conflicts, weak links then strengthen through coaching skills. o Enhance inter squad collaboration through forums as ‘Chapters’ & ‘Guilds’o Identify baby steps to for sustainable ways of implementing agile practices o Configure workflow management, hygiene dashboards o Demonstrate alignment to organization objectives by mapping and tracing Themes to Sprint goals.o Evaluate feature readiness for upcoming quarter in Quarterly Business Reviewso Practice and demonstrate the squad on social contracts and agreements that the squad would prefer too Establish Lean culture and mindsets for a quick business feedback and market feedback Show less

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  Infosys

  Jan 2022 - now

  Lead Consultant

  Studied the team As Is working ways, Agile maturity, portfolio and frameworkso Executive training for Tower leads, Portfolio leads on SAFE values, competencieso Provide persona-based trainings to product owners, Scrum masters, engineering managers on topics relevant to process agility, business agility and Team agilityo Pilot on Agile ways of working, enablement practices and engineering practices and institutionaliseo Built measurements, boards for introspecting data driven improvements along with Agile maturity assessment frameworks to be self-evaluated at individual teams Show less