Manoj Elangovan

Facilitated and participated in Program Increment (PI) Planning events as part of SAFe Agile Release
Train (ART), aligning multiple Scrum teams around shared delivery goals.
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Collaborated with Product Management, System Architects, and Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to
prepare pre-PI planning content, including vision, roadmap, and prioritized features.
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Guided teams through team breakouts, capacity planning, and dependency identification during PI
Planning sessions.
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Collaborated with Agile Practitioners to drive transformation initiatives within Core Platforms
division.
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Focused on identifying process blockers and communication gaps to guide teams toward
self-sufficiency.
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Proficient in writing advanced JQL queries to filter and analyze sprint data, backlog health, and
delivery performance.

• Coached team members on agile principles, resulting in a high-performing and self-organizing team culture.
• Collaborated with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize backlogs and manage expectations, leading to a 15 percent improvement in customer satisfaction.
• Identify areas of improvement, plan a strategy and act effectively to create or promote improvement.
• Developed a project plan and timelines with Gantt charts, improving project visibility by 23 percent.
• Conducted a SWOT analysis to assess and mitigate project risks, resulting in 31 percent fewer risks.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and success criteria, ensuring alignment with business requirements.

• Led an Agile team in developing and implementing a CI/CD pipeline, streamlining software development and deployment processes.
• Facilitated daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives with development team and product owner.
• Designed and implemented custom Jira workflows to meet the unique needs of different projects.
• Communicating with the different stake holders, Third party vendors, systems for any blockers or issues.
• Collaborated with product owners to prioritize tasks and refine user stories for CI/CD initiatives.

• Managed the integration of CI/CD workflows through Azure DevOps, leading to a 20 percent decrease in release cycle time.
• Use Agile methodology to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Schedule and facilitate Scrum meetings, events, and decision-making processes.
• Collaborate closely with product owners to prioritize and groom the product backlog.
• Generated detailed reports in Jira to track team performance, velocity, and sprint outcomes.
• Delivered training sessions and workshops to enhance team members' knowledge and proficiency in CI/CD best practices and tools.

• Performed manual testing on a web-based application in accordance with the given requirements.
• Contributed to the preparation of the test plan, scenarios, cases, and data.
• Performed GUI and functional testing by utilizing black-box testing techniques.
• Reported testing status weekly to the QA Manager and the Project Team.
• Utilized JIRA to track and report defects.
• Collaborated with teams to ensure efficient execution of SDLC and STLC using Agile-Scrum methodologies.
• Participated in daily Scrum call, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective ceremonies.