ROHIT GARG
Release Train Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Seasoned Professional with about 14 years of work experience.
Experience working in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in Agile Release Train (ART).
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Release Train Engineer, Planning Specialist
British Telecom (BT Group)
11.2023 - Current
- Working in the Finance and Supply Chain space with 3 Tribes and 12 squads set up
- Work with Product Management and System Architects to ensure the alignment to strategy and execution of committed work
- Prepare and facilitate all the ART events Optimizing flow
- Ability to take initiatives and drive certain actions around process improvements
- Tracking execution of features and capabilities, manage dependencies and risks
- Work with Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
- Tracking all major Strategic Initiatives and Milestones and provide timely updates during QBR with Leadership.
Release Train Engineer, Deputy General Manager
Schneider Electric
11.2021 - Current
- Release Train Engineer of a program comprising 3 teams
- Working in the Identity Access Management space building solutions which enables around 250 Applications to manage and track end to end user journey on various touchpoints in Registration and Login flows
- Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments
- Responsible for conducting Program Increment Planning Event for the program, both in person and virtual setting
- Audience size ranging in 60-100
- Tracking execution of features and capabilities, manage dependencies and risks
- Work with Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
- Represent Development Teams in various Train Level meetings and also external status meetings with Stakeholders communicating status and relevant information effectively
- Drive collaboration across internal platform development teams, ensuring that features and implementations for each platform remain in sync
- Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand
- Assess team's Agile maturity and constantly raise the bar to improve the team's maturity
- Build and Track ART activities by leveraging various metrices and dashboards to maintain the transparency and easy tracking of bottlenecks and impediments.
Release Train Engineer/Program Increment Coordinator
ExxonMobil
12.2019 - 11.2021
- Act as Release Train Engineer for 4 teams in the program to manage and communicate the delivery project plan, timelines and status reports on a regular basis to relevant stakeholders
- Drive the team to follow the agreed SAFe(Scaled Agile Framework)practices to ensure high-quality product, timely delivery and appropriate coordination within teams in the Program
- Lead and mentor Product Owners and Scrum Masters responsible for multiple cross-functional development teams to have better coordination among themselves
- Build teams, plan team structure and resources, indicate resource needs as required
- Accountable for successful delivery, maintenance, and support of the assigned functional area
- Review feature requests with key stakeholders and Product Owners and work with team to ensure successful feature delivery
- Work effectively with AD teams and Solution Architects to resolve application issues
- Execute the role of Scrum Master for one development team working on Tier 1 Business Critical Application.
Test Lead
Accenture
8 2014 - 10.2019
Software Engineer
CNO Financial Group
04.2014 - 07.2014
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
08.2010 - 04.2014
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jaypee University of Information Technology
Solan, HPSkills
Preparing and organizing PI Planning Event
SAFe Framework and ART (Agile Release Train)
Ideas and Program Backlog Management
Agile, Leadership Skills, Strategic Planning
Planning and workload Management
Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps
Stakeholder Management and Communication
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance, https://certification.scrumalliance.org/accounts/937957-rohit-garg/certifications/1063723-csm
Accomplishments
- Consistent performer throughout my career.
- Received highest “Dare to Disrupt” recognition in Schneider Electric for contribution towards overhauling entire Program Backlog Management Framework.
- Received several recognitions for designing most efficient virtual PI Planning framework in ExxonMobil. This was built from scratch during COVID and has proven to be very efficient.
- Received a lot of accolades for revamping Ideation, Planning and Prioritization workflow for the program in Exxonmobil.
- Many certificates of appreciation received during my tenure with Infosys and Accenture.
Timeline
Release Train Engineer, Planning Specialist
British Telecom (BT Group)
11.2023 - Current
Release Train Engineer, Deputy General Manager
Schneider Electric
11.2021 - Current
Release Train Engineer/Program Increment Coordinator
ExxonMobil
12.2019 - 11.2021
Software Engineer
CNO Financial Group
04.2014 - 07.2014
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
08.2010 - 04.2014
Test Lead
Accenture
8 2014 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jaypee University of Information Technology