Neeraj Bhaskar
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Neeraj Bhaskar is an experienced Agile Project Leader with nearly 18 years in software development and delivery, currently leading a 30+ member global team across India, Denmark, and Poland. He specializes in Agile frameworks including Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban, and has successfully driven Agile transformations across diverse domains.
With 6.3 years of client-facing experience in Denmark and Australia, Neeraj has built and led high-performing Agile teams, fostering collaboration and delivering value-driven outcomes. He excels in stakeholder engagement, team facilitation, and ensuring delivery within scope and timelines. His focus is on scaling Agile practices, enabling digital transformation, and driving continuous improvement.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
Certificates
Work History
Agile Project Manager
NEC Software Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
09.2020 - Current
- Lead a cross-functional Agile team of 30+ members across India, Denmark, and Poland, including Product Owners, Architects, Developers, Testers, and Scrum Masters.
- Drive end-to-end product development and service delivery using Agile and DevOps methodologies, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes within budget.
- Implement and enforce the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) across teams, promoting alignment, transparency, and consistent delivery practices.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies (PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Reviews, Retrospectives) and ensure adherence to Scrum principles and best practices.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Technology Leadership to define product roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, and align delivery with business goals.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and Agile maturity through coaching, mentoring, and process optimization.
- Manage stakeholder engagement, ensuring clear communication, expectation alignment, and proactive risk mitigation throughout the project lifecycle.
- Oversee resource planning, team performance reviews, and career development to build and sustain a high-performance Agile team.
Technical Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
12.2018 - 09.2020
- Led end-to-end Agile software product development and service delivery across time & material and managed service models, ensuring timely and quality releases.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews) to drive team alignment, velocity, and continuous improvement.
- Oversaw sprint execution and release planning, proactively removing impediments and optimizing workflows to meet delivery timelines and business goals.
- Implemented governance frameworks with regular reporting (daily/weekly status, release dashboards) to ensure transparency and stakeholder engagement.
- Ensured strict adherence to SLAs and KPIs within a managed service delivery framework, maintaining high customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
- Built and nurtured high-performing Agile teams through coaching, mentoring, performance reviews, and strategic hiring/offboarding practices.
- Managed cross-functional stakeholder relationships and risk mitigation strategies to ensure smooth program execution and alignment with business objectives.
- Led program-level audits and compliance initiatives (ISO 9001:2015, BCP, DCP, DRP), integrating Agile best practices into organizational standards.
Test Manager
Planit Test Management Solutions Pty. Ltd.
10.2017 - 08.2018
- Led the preparation of RFP responses, including detailed impact analysis and test estimation aligned with Agile delivery timelines.
- Provided test governance across a geographically distributed, multi-vendor environment, ensuring alignment with Agile principles and sprint goals.
- Owned end-to-end test management activities including defining test strategy, planning, execution oversight, defect management, and reporting within Scrum teams.
- Reviewed test summary reports and proactively recommended risk mitigation strategies to enhance sprint and release success rates.
- Collaborated with the Project Manager and stakeholders to provide data-driven insights for informed decision-making during CAB meetings.
- Actively participated in sprint retrospectives, identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities in test processes and team collaboration.
Test Delivery Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
09.2015 - 10.2017
- Overall test delivery and management of testing projects of value up to AUD200k.
- Gathered key inputs regarding testing projects, performed impact analysis, effort estimation and provided approved total cost forecast to IT project manager.
- Prepared test plan, test strategy and test agreement documents.
- Facilitated use cases, change requests analysis and reviews & clarification with business specialists/solution designers.
- Facilitated writing test objective matrix, requirement traceability matrix, test cases scripting, test data preparation & test environment booking.
- Managed defects, facilitated daily status report, reviewed test summary report, managed risks/issues, escalations, provided KPIs for the project, implemented new process improvement opportunities w.r.t test delivery, facilitated test automation w.r.t new developments and regression test, prepared coaching and development plans for the team and conducted performance appraisals.
Agile project manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2013 - 08.2015
- Worked as agile project leader for a team of up to 20 members from onsite (Aalborg, Denmark)
- Worked as single point of contact for client for end to end delivery of development, maintenance and testing work products.
- Ensured the project was delivered using agile methodology (scrum framework).
- Managed package release to production through sprint backlog, sprint handover, capacity planning, sprint planning, release planning, sprint execution, daily scrum, burn charts, KPI reports, stakeholders, scrum team, product owner, scrum master, sprint handback/review, sprint retrospective.
- Managed development, maintenance and & test activities among testers, developers, functional consultants, business specialists, system architects and other project stakeholders.
- Provided reports to business unit managers, product managers and other client project stake holders.
- Identified and implemented improvement opportunities in the project and the team.
- Resource management, performance assessment and onsite/offshore team management.
- Built good relationships within the team and across other teams and groups.
Test Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2010 - 08.2013
- Responsible for overall quality assurance on SAP implementation, roll-out, enhancement pack upgrade(migration) and support projects.
- Responsible for test planning, management, monitoring, control and reporting.
- Responsible for test resources management, test environment management and quality KPIs, setting up defect management process and facilitating defect triage.
- Established risk based testing approach and facilitated automated regression test by using QTP and CBTA.
- Worked very closely with product manager, business unit manager, application architect, business specialist, development, maintenance, testing teams and other project stakeholders to encourage and established collaboration.
- Reviewed test summary report, filled quality gate checklist, provided qualified inputs to change advisory board and helped in taking informed decision.
- Handover/handback of test tasks for a sprint between business and test Team.
- Test plan, sprint plan, test strategy, test estimation, capacity planning.
- Requirements analysis, impact analysis, test design, test case scripting, review, test data/environment preparation, test plan in ALM/QC, test case execution, defect management using application lifecycle management, test reports, test closure activities.
- Co-ordination of test activities among testers, developers, business specialists/SMEs, system architect, project manager and business unit managers.
- Plan and participate in system test, system integration test, release test, risk based test, regression test and produce daily defect status report, weighted defect count.
- Executed automated regression test using QTP.
Transport request, deviation request and dispensation request handling.
Test Engineer
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
12.2006 - 06.2010
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
05.2006
Skills
Agile project leadership
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Scrum
Kanban
Agile competency building
Agile transformation
Building high performance teams
Coaching and mentoring
Leading scrum masters and agile teams
Product backlog management
PI Planning
Scrum events
Continuous improvements
Team management
Stakeholder management
Risk management
Agile project metrics
Quality assurance and control
Audits and compliances
Azure DevOps
Jira
Digital Transformation
Offshoring
Certification
Executive Program in Digital Transformation (04/2024) 1 Year certification course from IIM, Indore
Timeline
Agile Project Manager
NEC Software Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
09.2020 - Current
Technical Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
12.2018 - 09.2020
Test Manager
Planit Test Management Solutions Pty. Ltd.
10.2017 - 08.2018
Test Delivery Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
09.2015 - 10.2017
Agile project manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2013 - 08.2015
Test Manager
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
08.2010 - 08.2013
Test Engineer
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
12.2006 - 06.2010
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
ORGANISATIONS
- NEC Software solutions India pvt. ltd. (09/2020 - Present) Project Manager
- Tech Mahindra Limited, India (12/2018 - 09/2020) Technical Manager
- Planit Test Management Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia (10/2017 - 08/2018) Test Manager
- Tech Mahindra Limited, India (12/2006 - 10/2017) Project Manager
Awards
- Going above and beyond award (03/2023) by NEC Software solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
- Feather in the cap (08/2021) by NEC Software solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
- Extraordinary Effort Award (10/2014) by client KMD A/S,
- Extraordinary Effort Award (04/2014) by client KMD A/S,
- Pat on Back Award (11/2012) by Tech Mahindra Ltd.
- Associate of the Month (06/2008) by Tech Mahindra Ltd.