Lokesh Vaswani
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced with managing end-to-end software release processes and ensuring adherence to timelines. Utilizes strong analytical and organizational skills to streamline release activities and mitigate risks. Track record of fostering effective communication and collaboration across diverse teams to achieve successful project outcomes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Release Manager
IBM India Software Labs
Bengaluru, India
01.2025 - Current
- Plan, schedule, and manage software releases across multiple applications and environments (Dev, QA, Staging, Production).
- Develop and maintain release calendars , ensuring alignment with project timelines and stakeholder expectations.
- Coordinate with Dev, QA, and Product owners to ensure successful release execution. Identify, communicate, and mitigate release risks and issues proactively.
- Accountable for defining, tracking, and achieving release management KPIs,ensuring on-time, high quality deployments with minimal risk, downtime and post-release incidents.
- Ensure quality benchmarks and testing criteria are met before deployment.
- Drive daily scrum calls and ensure security SAST and DAST scans are up to date to make a product non-vulnerable to customers.
- Ensuring all product releases include licensing, certification, launch, announcement, trainings to L2, support and collaborating with various stakeholders.
- Conducted post-release assessments to identify areas for improvement, driving ongoing enhancements to the release management process.
Release Manager
Tech Mahindra
Bengaluru, India
03.2021 - 01.2025
- Managing and coordinating end-to-end release process including Plans, Release Calendar, scope, schedules and adhering to the timelines to ensure timely software product delivery.
- Identify potential risks and dependencies associated with releases. Keeping the track of multiple applications release timelines and Risk Assessment. Proactively communicate risks and issues to stakeholders and facilitate resolution.
- Facilitate change management processes to assess the impact of proposed changes on release schedules and environments. Coordinate with change advisory boards (CABs) to review and approve release-related changes.
- Drive Incident Management bridge calls and conversations with production management, application development, infrastructure teams, and senior leadership with the purpose of remediating customer-impacting incidents quickly.
Test Specialist
IBM India
Bengaluru, India
06.2018 - 03.2021
- Financial analysis, forecasting, and budgeting, as well as having a clear understanding of reporting and regulatory requirements and key success factors.
- Collaborated with product management to define test requirements and validate functionality against user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Improved test efficiency by creating reusable test assets such as data sets, templates, and scripts.
- Collaborated with developers to identify root causes of defects and ensure timely resolution.
- Streamlined the testing process by developing automated test scripts for regression and functional testing.
Associate Consultant
Capgemini Pvt. Ltd.
09.2015 - 06.2018
- Developed custom solution based upon client's strict requirements.
- Gave budget suggestions to projects, outlining financial needs and forecasting.
- Created and developed detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines and troubleshoot issues by understanding issues, diagnosing root cause.
Education
B.Tech - Jaipur(Raj.)
Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology
06.2015
Skills
- Agile methodology
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Managing schedules
- Bug tracking and resolution
- Project management
- Software documentation
- Problem Solving
- Planning and Monitoring
- Teamwork and collaboration
- GIT Hub
- Jenkins
- Service Now
- IBM Release Tools
- Software development lifecycle
- Cross-functional team leadership
Accomplishments
- IBM Agile Explorer Badge (05/2020)
- IBM enterprise design thinking and practitioner. (06/2020)
- IBM Automation essentials. (09/2020)
- IBM Business Analyst essentials. (01/2020)
- Manager's choice award. (07/2019)
- IBM Hackathon 2019 (03/2019)
- From Delivery Heads (04/2022) Appreciated by clients for extensive contribution in leading the team, expanding the team and gaining excellent feedback from the client.
- Xtra Mile Award for good performance in the business unit. (06/2017)
Timeline
Software Release Manager
IBM India Software Labs
01.2025 - Current
Release Manager
Tech Mahindra
03.2021 - 01.2025
Test Specialist
IBM India
06.2018 - 03.2021
Associate Consultant
Capgemini Pvt. Ltd.
09.2015 - 06.2018
B.Tech - Jaipur(Raj.)
Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology