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Anita Jaggi

Anita Jaggi

New Delhi

Summary

  • Results-oriented IT professional with ~18 years of proven experience, including 2 years of entrepreneurship, across various technologies, processes, and domains.
  • Certified CSM agile leader with expertise in Project Delivery, Quality Assurance, Program & Project Management.
  • Recognized for excellence in customers, people, and stakeholder management.
  • Diligent delivery manager with background in managing complex projects across various industries.
  • Known for successfully leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within scope.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage project lifecycles and implement process improvements.
  • Skilled in managing geographically dispersed, remote, multi-cultural teams and transitioning legacy projects from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.
  • Proficient in Agile tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, with a focus on project revenue analysis and quality assurance.
  • Proven experience in Transformation from Waterfall to Agile in legacy projects.
  • Expertise in agile metrics, KPIs creation, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting and management dashboards.
  • Expertise on project revenue analysis, quality assurance, governance & communication management; and known for high-quality deliverables within timelines & budgetary targets.
  • Passionate about creating a safe and ethical work environment for teams to achieve project objectives effectively and efficiently.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Cognizant
11.2024 - Current
  • Leading and managing IT projects from planning till closure
  • Managing delivery portfolio of 40+ FTEs including development and QA teams.
  • Managing stakeholders and building strong relationship with clients, internal business units and third-party vendors
  • Driving cost-saving & operational efficiency optimizations through automation & various technological advancements by working with relevant teams
  • Managing resourcing for complete portfolio catering to Germany region of client IT applications
  • Driving continuous improvements in the team while advocating for best engineering practices and tools; Fostering a collaborative culture within the team
  • Managing changes, issues, and risks via risk register & doing governance calls
  • Managing the project plan and team activities, facilitating communication upward to the management level and across all streams (e.g., Development, Quality Assurance, DevOps)
  • Doing checkpoint calls regularly with Stakeholders to ensure seamless running & maintenance of BAU projects and successful new projects kickoff

Associate Project Manager

Hays Business Solution
06.2021 - 10.2024
  • Managing delivery teams for applications catering to Germany Speaking Countries (GSC)
  • Project Planning, monitoring, and managing deliveries of various IT projects catering to GSC regions
  • As a servant leader, assisting the agile teams in the moderation of scrum ceremonies as per the business requirements
  • Building & maintaining productive relationship with stakeholders globally
  • Implementing agile process across development projects and ensuring all scrum ceremonies are conducted timely
  • Liaising with the project teams and ensuring quality & timely deliveries
  • Managing Automation COE team catering to automation and load testing requirements of various projects
  • Coaching scrum teams and automation COE teams to foster culture of self-managed teams
  • Involved in various org-level initiatives towards CSR activities and Diversity Equality & Inclusion (DE&I) focus area.
  • Developed and maintained strong relationships with clients, team members, and other stakeholders to foster a collaborative working environment.

Director – Web Development & Digital Marketing

Netilly
02.2019 - 02.2021
  • Managing delivery teams for both web development and digital marketing functions
  • Doing business development, sending proposals, and on boarded many clients
  • Planning, monitoring, and managing multiple projects
  • Building & maintaining productive relationship with clients
  • Liaising with the project teams and other stakeholders
  • Managing issues and risks
  • Determining budget and timeline for business service delivery
  • Preparing the content strategy for various brands
  • Extensive experience in conceptualizing result-driven online promotion strategies
  • Conducted webinars on digital marketing & content marketing practices
  • Automated marketing KPI reporting using Google sheets which saved roughly 10 hours of manual work each week
  • Monitoring and controlling expenses.

Project Scrum Master

Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS
12.2009 - 12.2017

Scrum Master:

  • Transformation from Waterfall to Agile in legacy project using waterfall approach.
  • Facilitating scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-up, etc.).
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
  • Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
  • Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

QA & Release Manager:

  • Worked in various projects and regulatory programs handling software testing and release management responsibilities.
  • Responsible for an end-to-end release implementation as a global release owner.
  • Front-to-back test planning and preparation of testing schedules based on project timelines.
  • Preparing the test strategy and other test artefacts
  • Worked closely with development and business team to understand requirements and Business flows
  • Giving demos to the business users on the workflows
  • Maintaining & executing QTP test scripts and sharing reports
  • Managing QA teams of varied sizes depending upon the projects.

Sr. Software Engineer

Birlasoft Technologies
01.2006 - 12.2009
  • Worked in various projects and managing the testing activities required for the project
  • Extensive onshore/ onsite experience for functional testing & UAT activities
  • Responsible for Test Planning and Test Estimation for the assigned project
  • Manual testing of functional changes/new functionality on each release of the application
  • Writing test scripts in Silk Test and QTP in various projects
  • Execute the test plans rigorously & analyze the failures to find out the bugs as part of regression testing
  • Responsible for Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Database Testing, System Testing
  • Bug reporting & tracking through Quality Centre/Rational Tools

Education

MCA -

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

BCOM (Hons.) - undefined

Delhi University

Senior Secondary -

CBSE

Secondary - undefined

CBSE

Skills

  • Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
  • Leadership Skills: Strategic Planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Effective Communication, Risk Management, Resource Planning, People management, Good Interpersonal Skills, Result Oriented
  • Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Trello

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
  • Generative AI Overview (PMI)
  • Certification in Process Champion workshop (PCW)

Accomplishments

  • πŸ† Shining Manager Award – Hays Business Solutions (2022)
  • πŸ… Best Team Award – Hays Business Solutions (2021)
  • 🌟 Ovation Award – Royal Bank of Scotland (2012)
  • πŸ“œ Certificate of Recognition – Royal Bank of Scotland (2010)
  • πŸ‘ Employee of the Month – Birlasoft (June 2007)
  • πŸ† Best Team Award – Birlasoft (Q4 2008)
  • πŸŽ“ MCA Topper – Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Additional Professional Achievements:

  • Led Agile transition of 2+ legacy projects, cutting delivery cycles by 35%.
  • Improved team velocity and predictability by 25% across Agile teams.
  • Delivered 100% client satisfaction on Germany-region project portfolio.
  • Set up Automation CoE, reducing manual testing effort by 40%.

Timeline

Project Manager

Cognizant
11.2024 - Current

Associate Project Manager

Hays Business Solution
06.2021 - 10.2024

Director – Web Development & Digital Marketing

Netilly
02.2019 - 02.2021

Project Scrum Master

Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS
12.2009 - 12.2017

Sr. Software Engineer

Birlasoft Technologies
01.2006 - 12.2009

BCOM (Hons.) - undefined

Delhi University

Secondary - undefined

CBSE

MCA -

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Senior Secondary -

CBSE
Anita Jaggi