Manisha Shahi

Release Coordination & JIRA Management

• Facilitated end-to-end release planning and execution by supporting cross-functional teams (BA, DA, Developers) in understanding issues and creating well-documented JIRA tickets mapped to appropriate due dates.
• Managed and maintained JIRA backlog, ensuring all items were up-to-date with complete project artifacts including UAT sign-offs, test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and test results.
• Coordinated post-release activities, including JIRA closure, validation of deliverables, and securing approvals for off-cycle and emergency releases.
• Generated Change Request (CR) numbers in the Release on Demand (ROD) portal, validating build versions, components, and deployment readiness for production.
• Ensured all release JIRAs were properly linked to respective project IDs and functional modules to maintain traceability and compliance.

Budget Planning & Resource Management

• Collaborated with Project Managers to determine resource requirements aligned with approved project budgets.
• Developed annual budget forecasts, outlining project costs and resource allocation plans.
• Monitored monthly expenditure against forecasts, identifying and reporting variances to ensure budget adherence
• Designed and implemented capacity models to optimize resource utilization and improve scheduling efficiency.
• Coordinated resource availability to align with project timelines and delivery goals.

Talent Acquisition & Onboarding Coordination

• Created role-specific hiring plans based on annual headcount forecasts.
• Conducted weekly calls with the Talent Acquisition team to track and close aging positions efficiently.
• Supported onboarding by ensuring new hires received timely access to systems, tools, and required documentation.

Risk & Compliance Administration

• Ensured timely completion of mandatory trainings, timesheet submissions, and bulk employee data uploads on the Viper platform.
• Managed access control activities, including raising gate passes and tracking renewals to meet compliance standards.
• Maintained records for employees working on national holidays and obtained necessary approvals in line with risk and control requirements.

Operational & Team Support

• Assisted team leads with various operational tasks such as VOE (Voice of Employee) tracking, project milestone reporting, and monthly team coordination meetings.
• Supported organizational initiatives such as CAMP activities to ensure smooth functioning and alignment with business goals.

Employee Engagement & Team Culture

• Led quarterly employee engagement initiatives including town halls, leadership site visits, and floor-wide interactive activities.
• Organized team-building events such as birthday celebrations, team lunches, outings, and farewells to promote a collaborative and inclusive work culture.

Owning Talent acquisition function for multiple Business units and groups based across Pune.

• Handling complete recruitment needs and assisting the hiring managers to define and qualify requirements and thereby designing and implementing recruiting strategies.
• Driving the sourcing, selection & interviewing process in collaboration with the hiring managers.
• Formulating various strategies to attract talented professionals and passive candidates.
• Creating Pro-active talent pipeline to cater to future hiring spikes across functions.
• Manage and present Talent Analytic to Business Leaders on weekly, monthly, Quarterly and Annual review meetings.
• Sourcing candidates through Internal Database, Job portals, social networks, head hunting and advertisement.
• Posting Job requirements on leading job portals (if required) and screening responses.
• Coordinating between the candidate & the panel during the entire recruitment process.
• Organizing Telephonic / Face to Face interviews.
• Ensuring timely follow ups & candidates until they complete all the levels of interview.
• Key Skills - Well versed with ATS tools like Workday, Taleo,etc.
• Client - CitiCorp

• End to End Recruitment, As a Recruiter, I conduct in-depth technical and non-technical interviews various positions.
• Informing job applicant job duties, responsibilities, benefits, creating offer letters and explaining working conditions, working opportunities etc.
• Full lifecycle recruiting including conducting professional assessment and verification for skills, experience, availability, compensation, willingness to travel/relocate and overall suitability for the position.
• Communicate with candidates throughout the hiring process.
• Maintain daily and weekly client reports.
• Active Search: Resume search of active candidates from job boards such as LinkedIn, Naukri, Glassdoors, Monster.
• Work closely and assist senior team members.
• Cater to all Internship hiring requirements.

• Ensuring everyone is fully trained up and can do their job effectively and help employees learn new skills and develop existing ones.
• To study how training and development assist employees to function more effectively in their present positions by exposing them to latest concepts, information and techniques.
• Coordinate and ensure the employees work for organizations present and future needs.