ANKIT THAKUR

• Experience in enterprise Agile transformation, coaching teams and stakeholders on Scrum, SAFe, and Agile best practices to drive organizational adoption.
• Facilitated collaboration between Product Owners, Development Teams, and senior stakeholders, ensuring delivery alignment and business value realization.
• Managed Agile ceremonies and artifacts, including dashboards, PI/Big Room Planning, capacity planning, estimations, team velocity tracking, and quarterly Agile maturity assessments.
• Mentored and led a core team of 10, enabling Agile capability development, performance excellence, and team maturity improvements.
• Partnered with Product Owners and management on backlog prioritization, OKR management, and product strategy, aligning delivery with organizational objectives.
• Coordinated onshore/offshore project plans and timelines, enhancing transparency, risk mitigation, and cross-team alignment.
• Monitored Agile metrics, escalated risks and impediments, and drove prompt resolutions to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Participated in pre-PI planning sessions, aligning scope with team capacity and enabling strategic portfolio planning.

Finastra (Client Engagements) | Sept 2020 – Oct 2021

• Partnered with stakeholders & Product Owners for requirements elicitation, backlog management, and prioritization.
• Authored system specifications, user stories, workflows, mock-ups, and UI designs (InVision & Draw.io).
• Supported solution architecture ensuring alignment with business use cases.
• Coached & mentored Scrum teams, facilitated ceremonies, and established Scrum & SDLC frameworks.
• Led QA teams, managing test plans, cases, STLC, bug tracking, ensuring zero-defect delivery.
• Directed Business Analysts for documentation, UAT walkthroughs, and user manuals.
• Mitigated risks, impediments, and critical defects by driving cross-team resolutions.
• Key Projects: GreenCap (climate risk platform), LIBOR Express (SaaS valuation), CECL Express (compliance & credit loss forecasting).

JP Morgan – Corporate Oversight & Risk Control | Sept 2018 – Jun 2019

• Collaborated with offshore Product Owners and stakeholders for requirement elicitation and backlog refinement.
• Authored user stories and functional specifications for development teams.
• Worked closely with developers to remove impediments and ensure sprint goal achievement.
• Supported backlog management, estimation, and prioritization of user stories.
• Performed in-sprint testing to validate features against acceptance criteria.
• Presented sprint demos to global stakeholders, ensuring feature understanding and adoption.
• Contributed to Risk Management & Corporate Oversight, an RCSA-based risk monitoring platform used globally.
• Tools & Technologies: JIRA, Agile

TG Campus (Tomorrow’s Genius) | Jun 2014 – Aug 2018

• Led and managed a team of 10+ BAs and QAs, collaborating with cross-functional teams for project planning, delivery, and backlog management.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, sprint execution, and ensured quality releases through functional, compatibility, and automation testing.
• Partnered with Product Owners and senior management to define product strategy, organizational roadmap, and priorities.
• Delivered major platforms including TG Campus (SaaS LMS) and TIMS (E-commerce rewards platform).
• Technologies: Azure Cloud, Power BI, Azure DevOps, Janus, Linux, Whiteboard

Telarc Consulting Ltd – Remedy Asset Management | Apr 2013 – May 2014

• Led ITSM implementation on BMC Remedy (7.6x), managing a team of 3 consultants and coordinating with offshore teams to resolve defects.
• Acted as Testing Lead, preparing test plans, metrics, and release reports to ensure timely, compliant, and quality delivery.
• Conducted system and functional testing, ensuring successful implementation per client-specific requirements.

Expense Management System | Jul 2010 – Mar 2013

• Collaborated with clients, PMs, and developers for requirements gathering, release planning, and delivery, authoring system specifications and workflows.
• Managed QA activities, including test case review, bug tracking, functional, cross-browser, and device testing, ensuring production readiness and UAT validation.
• Contributed to UI design and web development using C#, SQL Server, HTML, and Excel to deliver quality solutions.

OneSource | Apr 2008 – May 2010

• Translated business requirements into system specifications and served as the single point of contact between clients and development teams.
• Conducted manual, functional, regression, and UAT testing, reporting metrics and training end-users on new features.
• Supported a Telecom Expense Management (TEM) platform, optimizing telecom costs and asset management.