Manjiri Bane
Mumbai
Summary
Seasoned IT leader with over 25 years of experience, including more than 14 years specializing in delivery, program, and release management across diverse sectors such as telecom, automotive, energy, and construction. Proven expertise in managing the end-to-end release lifecycle, providing test leadership, and ensuring effective multi-region deployment governance within both Agile and Waterfall frameworks. Strong track record in engagement management includes leadership in delivery, stakeholder relations, people management, process compliance, operations oversight, and budgeting. Adept at planning and executing enterprise-wide releases across distributed teams while driving release governance and quality assurance to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes aligned with business objectives.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
- Managed end-to-end release cycles across multiple portfolios ensuring alignment with business timelines and SLAs
- Coordinated cross-functional teams (Development, QA, Infrastructure, Business) for seamless release execution
- Defined and governed release calendars, deployment plans, and rollback strategies
- Ensured environment readiness and dependency tracking across global teams
- Led test planning, execution tracking, and defect triage ensuring quality gates before release
- Conducted Go/No-Go decision meetings with stakeholders
- Managed production releases with minimal downtime and effective risk mitigation strategies
- Established release governance frameworks and KPIs such as defect leakage and release success rate
Delivery Director, Client Projects
NTT Managed Services India Pvt Ltd
11.2024 - Current
- Lead release planning and execution across Cloud Transformation and Application Modernization programs
- Govern multi-region releases (APAC, Europe, US) ensuring alignment with business and operational timelines
- Coordinate deployment activities, environment readiness, and stakeholder communication for production releases
- Drive test case generation and validation (including AI-driven testing solutions) ensuring release quality
- Conduct release reviews, risk assessments, and Go-Live readiness checkpoints
- Ensure smooth production deployment and post-release stabilization support
- Manage stakeholder engagement for global clients including Exclusive Networks and CMA CGM Group
- Responsible for 100% offshore managed on-time successful delivery across these projects
- Delivery excellence with right shoring, pyramid correction and productivity improvement.
Program Manager
Capgemini Technology Services Ltd
06.2019 - 10.2024
- Managed end-to-end release lifecycle for large-scale digital transformation programs (~20M Euro portfolio)
- Established and governed release calendars, sprint releases, and production deployments under SAFe Agile
- Ensured timely release of business features by removing impediments and managing dependencies
- Led test strategy, execution tracking, and defect management across Build and Run phases
- Facilitated Go/No-Go decisions with IT and Business stakeholders
- Governed quality gates ensuring releases met SLA, KPI, and compliance standards
- Coordinated cross-functional teams across geographies including Dev, QA, Infra, and Business
- Monitored release risks, mitigation strategies, and production stability metrics
- Collaborated with business and IT leadership to ensure continuous delivery and release improvements
Delivery Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd
08.1998 - 06.2019
- Led multiple release cycles for Telecom applications including Order Fulfillment and Activation systems
- Managed test planning, execution, and defect resolution cycles for transformation programs
- Coordinated release deployments across legacy to ESB-based architecture transitions
- Ensured production readiness, rollback planning, and issue resolution during releases
- Collaborated with business and technical teams to ensure high-quality deliverables and stable releases
Education
B.Sc. Technology - Computer Science
Mumbai University
B.Sc. Mathematics - undefined
Mumbai University
Management Development Program - undefined
Welingkar Institute
Skills
Delivery Governance
Release Management
Test Strategy & QA Leadership
Defect & Incident Management
Accomplishments
- Successfully delivered large-scale global releases with high success rates and minimal production issues
- Established release governance and QA frameworks improving delivery quality and predictability
- Reduced defect leakage and improved release stability through structured testing and release processes
- Led complex transformation releases from legacy to modern architectures with minimal downtime
- Built and scaled offshore Digital Factory recognized as a flagship engagement at Capgemini
- Recipient of multiple leadership and delivery excellence awards across organizations
Certification
SAFe RTE 6.0 Certified
Timeline
Delivery Director, Client Projects
NTT Managed Services India Pvt Ltd
11.2024 - Current
Program Manager
Capgemini Technology Services Ltd
06.2019 - 10.2024
Delivery Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd
08.1998 - 06.2019
B.Sc. Mathematics - undefined
Mumbai University
Management Development Program - undefined
Welingkar Institute
B.Sc. Technology - Computer Science
Mumbai University
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Excellence in People Leadership Award being highest level of competence at Capgemini India level (contest against 2500 nominated people leaders with multiple levels of assessments)
- Grand Salute – The Guru for People Manager award for showcasing the highest level of competence in managing People and Process pillars for BT UK transformation project
- People Leader Award for Delivery excellence for Technip Energies engagement, Capgemini India
- Shortlisted under Top 5 winners, for AMS Innovation Challenge 2020, Capgemini India
- Best team award for Tech Mahindra for BT Italy and BT UK transformation projects
- Certificate of honor from British Telecom for project execution