JIRA & Confluence
DILEEP RAJ N
Release Train Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven Release Train Engineer (RTE) with 14+ years of overall IT experience, including expertise in Agile transformation, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), and enterprise-level program execution. Adept at facilitating Agile Release Trains (ARTs), optimizing delivery pipelines, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution. Skilled in fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, resolving impediments, and driving continuous improvement for high-quality product delivery.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Release Train Engineer
Bosch Global Software Solutions
Bengaluru
05.2022 - Current
- Goals setting and tracking for the members of ART.
- Facilitating career growth, succession planning and personal development inside ART
- Support people on problem identification and decision making.
- Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings
- Facilitate train ceremonies such as (SoS & ART Sync) ensuring effective communication and collaboration across all Scrum teams.
- Working with Product Manager, Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensuring strategy and execution alignment.
- Track and communicate key ART execution metrics during PI Planning & System demos.
- Compile team objectives into PI Objectives and Program delivery board that is published and shared for visibility
- Identify, remove & escalate impediments that may hinder the progress of release train.
- Drive Innovation events during IP Iteration
- Driving Inspect and Adapt workshops for relentless improvement
- Implement best practices to optimize team efficiency and productivity
- Managing & mitigating risk inside release train.
- Leading Release planning and coordinate activities to ensure successful release.
- JIRA & Confluence space Admin for ART.
- Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the practices
associated with DevOps. - Encouraging collaboration between teams and System Architects.
- Contributing to planning of resources and budget.
- Coach, mentor and educate Scrum Masters on Agile best practices and process improvements.
- Leading the CoP of SM-RTE in department.
- Driving engineering excellence topics inside the ART.
Sr. Scrum Master
Bosch Global Software Solutions
Bengaluru
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided
necessary training to create positive mindset - Managed product backlog with PO and releases.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Identifying and managing risks, facilitating
release planning meetings, supporting the scrum
of scrums, and resolving and escalating
impediments. - Leading release planning and coordinate
activities to ensure a successful release.
Scrum Master
Flatirons Solutions
Chennai
09.2020 - 11.2021
- Serving as Scrum Master for multiple teams across program.
- Experienced in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
- Assisting in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood
- Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to overall program and to define resolution paths
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Collect and consolidate cross-team status for delivery to executive Leadership.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, architects and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Removed obstacles by finding right team to advance on blockers.
- Continuously work to improve team performance and productivity
- Responsible for building team collaboration, commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else.
- Auditing various teams across organization.
System Analyst
Hexaware Technologies Ltd
Chennai
08.2013 - 09.2020
- As Scrum master (CSM) ensured to deliver high quality product in rapidly evolving and dynamic environment.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies - sprint planning, daily scrums, scrum of scrum, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations.
- Resolving impediments raised by team members.
- Onsite Coordinator of the project (SAEI & SAAT)
- Helping the Superusers with queries regarding the functionality, technical queries and process flow in AMOS.
- Managing and coordinating development team members located across onsite and offshore locations, including those from external product vendors.
- Understanding the client requirements by studying Business Process document
- KT sessions to team members on application functionality
- Identified test requirement and reviewing if the test cases were complete to test the business functionality
- Identifying proper defects reported by team and reporting it to the Client.
- Creation of Business Flow document for South African Airways Technical (SAAT)
Support Consultant
Rusada India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai
Chennai
08.2010 - 07.2013
- Support for the Engineering & Logistics, Quality, HR and Flight Operations modules.
- Advising customers of best practices/processes and how RUSADA software can help them run their business efficiently.
- Testing requirement deliverables and ensuring that deliverables cover all requirements and meet necessary quality considerations.
- Handling Change Requests - Impact Analysis.
- Analyze customer requirements in MRO industry.
- Process modeling of Change requests and preparing Feature Specification notes.
- Performing Impact Analysis of CRs and detailing them into Functional specifications.
- Tracking Defects, Preparing and reviewing Test cases and testing application to ensure compliance with requirements.
- Providing Go-Live and Post Go-Live support Defect Coordinator of project.
Education
B.E - Aeronautical Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Chennai 08.2006 - 05.2010
Skills
- Agile Release Train (ART) Facilitation
- PI (Program Increment) Planning & Execution
- SAFe Implementation & Agile Coaching
- Risk & Dependency Management
- Release Management
- Continuous Improvement & Agile Maturity
- Cross-Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Value Stream Mapping & Optimization
- Agile Metrics & Performance Tracking
- Process Standardization & Governance
Software
X-Ray & Agile Test
MIRO
AMOS MRO & Envision
Azure DevOps (ADO)
SonarQube
ServiceNow (SNOW)
PIPlanningio
Certification
SAFe Agilist
Accomplishments
- Received awards from the HoE for exceptional performance & successful software releases.
- Drove continuous improvement initiatives, such as implementing Kanban Board and DoD in JIRA
- Implemented process improvements and optimized release management practices, resulting in reduced release cycle times.
Timeline
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10-2024
ICC- Certified Agile Coaching
11-2022
Release Train Engineer
Bosch Global Software Solutions
05.2022 - Current
SAFe Agilist
12-2021
Sr. Scrum Master
Bosch Global Software Solutions
11.2021 - 11.2022
Scrum Master
Flatirons Solutions
09.2020 - 11.2021
System Analyst
Hexaware Technologies Ltd
08.2013 - 09.2020
Support Consultant
Rusada India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai
08.2010 - 07.2013
B.E - Aeronautical Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering College
08.2006 - 05.2010
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