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JYOTI RANJAN BARAL

PUNE

Summary

Highly accomplished project portfolio and program management professional with 14 years of extensive experience in program/project planning, execution and evaluation across diverse industries. An effective leader with proven ability to supervise and lead high-performance teams to ensure a 100% success rate in achieving company goals in an extremely competitive business environment.

Overview

5
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Lentra AI

Senior Manager - Project Management
04.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Successfully migrated over 100+ client applications from on-premise to the AWS cloud in under 6 months, resulting in a 30% cost saving for customers.
  • Coordinated, guided and managed the planning and delivery of critical Application and Infrastructure Services migrations from an on-premise Data Center to AWS Cloud.
  • Worked with 10+ product management, engineering, DevOps, CloudOps, Service delivery and Customer success team to successfully migrate on premise application to AWS Cloud.
  • provide accurate reporting on project status throughout its life cycle to 20+ project teams and stakeholders encompassing budget estimation, scheduling and resource planning as part of the IT division's policies.
  • Tracked and reported project issues. Monitored progress and key milestones. Identified and mitigated risks and advised senior management about project opportunities and risks.

Seagate Technology

Staff Engineer - Engineering Manager
04.2022 - 10.2022

Job overview

  • Establish Program Management function and agile process to increase effectiveness of the engineering organization.
  • Work with Product Management, Engineering leadership on Roadmap Planning and develop overall release schedule, manage project scope, timelines together with core project team, Partner and OEM project delivery.
  • Perform Scrum master duties and effectively manage sprints from planning to execution. Mitigate risks by proactively engaging with teams, anticipating challenges, resolving conflicts and removing roadblocks.
  • Managed multiple QA projects simultaneously with a focus and delivering highest quality product without jeopardizing product delivery schedules.
  • Managed schedules, infrastructure, test setup, execution and presentation of results to Product Delivery teams.
  • Participated in daily problem management reviews between development, system engineers and test teams.
  • Wrote test plans, designed and managed execution of a wide variety of tests based on product and customer requirements.
  • Responsible for interviewing and hiring new employees.
  • Worked cross-functionally with other managers to streamline operations (Agile Integration Team).

Calsoft

QA Manager
10.2018 - 03.2022

Job overview

  • Led a team of 15 QA engineers spread across multiple geographical locations ensuring quality and on time delivery of CloudControl product across multi-cloud (VMware, AWS, Kubernetes) that enables Security for Access Control, Secure multi-tenancy, and Compliance Automation.
  • Consistent track record of on-time delivery across 15+ major and minor releases of the CloudControl product line with highest quality proven by downward trend in customer escalations.
  • Led with an automation-first strategy to expand automation test coverage and reduced regression test cycles from one month to under 2 weeks and reduced time to release.
  • Maintained strategic relationships and facilitated positive interactions with the Support team to drive customer escalations to resolution.
  • Improved project planning by scoping & prioritization of the work and anticipating, mitigating risks to ensure timely deliverables while maintaining high quality.
  • Drove Beta Release Program for Internal and External customers to gain early feedback and incorporate it prior to release.
  • Performed all Scrum master duties. Worked closely with Product Owners to ensure the acceptance criteria and user stories were well defined, documented prior to the start of the sprint and ran Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, standups, and retrospectives.
  • Collaborated with internal stakeholders to identify, escalate and drive resolution of issues that affected program schedule and feature commitments. Managed communications to stakeholders ensuring they remained informed of release plans, and delivery status.
  • Provided technical leadership to develop and implement test strategies and quality processes.
  • Coached QA leads for preparing Test Coverage Matrices, holding bug triages, test case reviews, and product demos.
  • Provided guidance and feedback to the technical documentation team.

Education

Biju Pattnaik Institute of Technology
Odisha

B.Tech from IT

Skills

  • Cloud Migration
  • Cloud Computing
  • AWS
  • Infrastructure Design
  • Kubernetes
  • Virtualisation VMware
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cost Optimisation
  • Test Planning and Strategy
  • Quality Assurance
  • Networking Security
  • Program management
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Team Work and Leadership
  • Scrum and Agile methodology
  • Team Management and supervision
  • Storage protocols: FC SAN, iSCSI SAN, vSAN
  • Storage Controller: SAN, DAS, RAID

Certification

  • Certified Agilist SA 4.5 (SAFe)
  • Udamy – Python – Rahul Shetty
  • Leads Training
  • Seagate: Core people skill

TOOLS

  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • XRAY
  • Zypher
  • Spira
  • GSuite
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Slack


PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  • Innominds | Technical Lead | AUG 2015 - SEPT 2018, HYD
  • Calsoft | Principal QA Engineer | JULY 2012 - AUG 2015, PUNE
  • VMware | MTS | APR 2009 - MAY 2012, PUNE



Timeline

Senior Manager - Project Management

Lentra AI
04.2023 - Current

Staff Engineer - Engineering Manager

Seagate Technology
04.2022 - 10.2022

QA Manager

Calsoft
10.2018 - 03.2022

Biju Pattnaik Institute of Technology

B.Tech from IT

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