Ashutosh Yadav
Summary
Over 11 years of technical experience as a delivery lead and technical product owner, successfully delivering complex IT programs. Expertise in leading cross-functional teams, managing stakeholders, and aligning technology solutions with business objectives. Proven track record in driving agile execution, mitigating risks, and ensuring high-quality, customer-focused delivery. Managed delivery of ANZ app features, coordinating efforts across 10+ teams and 100+ resources from strategic planning to production release.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner/Delivery Lead
ANZ Bank
09.2023 - Current
- Defined and owned the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for digital banking initiatives, aligning priorities with business stakeholders and technology teams.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including developers, QA, UX designers, and business analysts to deliver high-quality product increments in an Agile/Scrum framework.
- Conducted sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint retrospectives; ensured user stories were well-defined with clear acceptance criteria.
- Managed and prioritised the product backlog in Jira, maintaining a healthy and refined backlog to support continuous delivery and sprint goals.
- Acted as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, translating business requirements into actionable technical user stories and epics.
- Drove release planning and coordinated with release management and DevOps teams to ensure smooth and timely deployments with minimal business disruption.
- Engaged with senior leadership and key stakeholders to provide regular updates on product progress, risk mitigation strategies, and roadmap changes.
- Leveraged strong background in release and change management to bring process discipline to sprint ceremonies and production rollouts.
- Utilised Confluence for maintaining product documentation, release notes, and team knowledge base.
Manager - Release Engineering
Accelya
Pune
05.2022 - 08.2023
- Coordinated end-to-end project release management, ensuring seamless planning, scheduling, and deployment across cross-functional teams while maintaining adherence to release timelines and quality standards.
- Developed and maintained Jira dashboards and reporting frameworks to track release components, project milestones, and deployment status, significantly improving stakeholder visibility and project transparency.
- Designed and implemented a structured change management process, enabling efficient tracking, approval, and documentation of production changes while reducing deployment risks.
- Authored comprehensive release runbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for pre-release validation, deployment execution, and post-release verification across multiple customer environments.
- Facilitated Go/No-Go decision meetings with stakeholders, customers, and internal teams to evaluate release readiness and ensure successful production deployments.
- Managed release readiness activities, including checklist validation, risk assessment, and cross-team coordination to ensure all technical and operational dependencies were prepared ahead of release day.
- Collaborated with development teams to perform GitLab code merges and version control activities for emergency fixes, hotfixes, and patch releases while maintaining repository integrity.
- Participated in Agile ceremonies and program governance meetings, including stand-ups, sprint reviews, product overview sessions, and program status updates to ensure alignment across teams.
Release Manager - SSE
HSBC Technology
Pune
07.2016 - 05.2022
- Coordinated implementation and configuration of DevOps ARCAD tools within the Core Banking environment, enabling streamlined release automation, version control, and deployment governance.
- Managed end-to-end Change Request lifecycle in alignment with ITIL change management practices, ensuring proper documentation, approval workflows, and risk assessment prior to production releases.
- Authorized and validated Change Requests on behalf of the Release Management team supporting Europe and MENA regions, ensuring compliance with enterprise release governance and deployment policies.
- Conducted internal audits for all Change Requests raised by the team to ensure adherence to organizational standards, compliance requirements, and release governance frameworks.
- Collaborated with external audit teams by providing detailed documentation, audit trails, and compliance reports related to production changes and release activities.
- Reviewed and validated release packages and Change Requests before production deployment, ensuring technical readiness, risk mitigation, and compliance with release standards.
- Facilitated stakeholder approvals for production deployments, coordinating with project teams, IT service owners, and business stakeholders to ensure controlled and authorized releases.
- Served as the BCP (Business Continuity Planning) Coordinator for the project team, actively participating in BCP, Business Continuity (BC), and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) initiatives to ensure operational resilience.
- Acted as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) during major implementation and deployment activities, coordinating communication between technical teams, project management, and senior leadership.
Associate Software Engineer
Barry-Wehmiller International
Chennai
02.2015 - 07.2016
- Performed log analysis and root cause analysis (RCA) by reviewing job logs and system dumps to diagnose and resolve production issues.
- Managed release prioritization and quality governance, ensuring adherence to established quality processes and release standards.
- Maintained and tracked defect fixes and release activities in Quality Center, ensuring proper documentation and traceability.
- Provided production support and urgent code fixes, debugging and testing application programs to ensure system stability.
- Conducted client touchpoint meetings and requirement analysis, addressing critical issues and aligning development with business needs.
- Acted as team backup lead, independently managing project tasks and delivering internal training sessions to support team capability development.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SBCT Indore RGPV University
Bhopal06.2014
Higher Secondary - PCM
Rajeshwar Hr. Sec. School
Mhow, MP03.2010
Skills
- Product strategy and vision
- Agile delivery and release management
- DevOps enablement
- Stakeholder and change management
- CI/CD processes
- Production support
- Risk and compliance oversight
- Team leadership
- GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins expertise
- CodeFresh and Arcad proficiency
- ServiceNow utilization
- RDI and Implementer knowledge
- RTC experience
- Microsoft Excel proficiency
- Confluence documentation skills
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), scrum.org
Personal Information
Passport Number: L69903337
Timeline
Product Owner/Delivery Lead
ANZ Bank
09.2023 - Current
Manager - Release Engineering
Accelya
05.2022 - 08.2023
Release Manager - SSE
HSBC Technology
07.2016 - 05.2022
Associate Software Engineer
Barry-Wehmiller International
02.2015 - 07.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SBCT Indore RGPV University
Higher Secondary - PCM
Rajeshwar Hr. Sec. School