Sachin Hattangadi

Working as an Agility Lead in Merchant Services - Payments Technology for Corporate & Investment Bank line of business.

Have exposure of working as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master for mature teams catering to large complex programs and application engines of Merchant Servicing technology.

Have exposure of building new scrum teams as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master catering to greenfield product development projects right from scratch in the Mobile Payments space.

Have exposure of closely working & collaborating across various functions such as the Product, Operations, Support, UX Design and Leadership in product discovery & roadmapping, prioritization, planning & forecast and overall delivery of the deliverables.

Have been active in-house Agility initiatives, working for Agile OKRs & Metrics, strengthening product management practices, disseminating Agile Values & Mindset through brownbags and CoP activities.

Have been active in Agile knowledge forums to deliver training, mentoring and coaching sessions.

Part of the Strategy & Operations (S&O) TMT practice in Deloitte India Consulting as a Senior Consultant specializing in Agile & Scrum.

Part of the pool of Agile Resource(s) within the larger consulting practice for various clients demands such as Scrum Master & Agile Coach in Agile/Scrum.

Deployed to a project for the Deloitte Indirect Tax practice, responsible as a Project Manager to implement Indirect Tax solutions for multiple marquee clients.

Responsible for project planning, finalizing the scope & deliverables, stakeholder management, overseeing the implementation and coordinating with Tax SMEs, Tax Technology/Product Team and Client side Project Managers.

Responsible for working and supporting on business development, pre-sales (proposal development) for Agile & Scrum requirements for the Agile sub-practice within S&O TMT

Played roles of a Scrum Master and IT Business Analyst for Digital Transformation projects running and Agile (Scrum).

Part of the extended team of the Product Owner’s organization located in Paris, functioning as an IT Business Analyst in the Business Analysis & Solutions department of Corporate Banking IT.

Working closely with the IT Product Owner and Business Project Team based in Paris to understand and define business needs, problem statements and to transform them into business/functional requirements.

To prepare and maintain business requirements in form of epics, improvement stories, problem stories, user stories and align them with functional and technical requirements. Leading grooming and refining sessions of user stories and other Product Backlog Items to come up with right acceptance criteria for the business.

As a Scrum Master leading in the Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning Meeting with the Development Team to come up with story point estimations, tasks identification/break-down, risk, dependencies, sprint goals & objectives. Removing blockers, impediments on a day to day basis and enforcement of inspection & adaption.

Liaising between business and technical members to ensure a mutual understanding of processes, specifications and business rules. Providing clarifications to the development/testing teams and assisting in agreement/consensus to be taken for the technical approach of the implementation/testing of the user stories.

Consulting in wider forums within the organization in the area of Scrum framework and have worked in several process improvement initiatives and defining new processes.

Working with the Business Project team for operational readiness, change management, training, roll-out, UAT Test Management, preparation of user guides, training support documents and other documents for knowledge management.

Single point-of-contact for other peripheral function such as Delivery Management, Application Production Support, Transversal IT, Performance/Security Testing Teams etc.

Worked as a Remote Consultant from India having been clubbed with the client’s captive development center in Vietnam, assisted them from scratch in setting up regional team processes.

Consulted and helped the regional team in Requirements Analysis/Development of User Stories and strategizing/planning functional and regression testing.

Collaborating in the Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning Team with the Regional Scrum Team to come up with story point estimations, tasks identification/estimations, risk, dependencies, sprint goals & objectives.

Worked as a Coordinator/Single Point of Contact in communication with teams based in Croatia and Los Angeles (USA).

Have consulted in the area of Scrum framework and have documented the implemented practices on Scrum Alliance member articles forum.

Leading/Facilitating Feature Review calls on behalf of the regional team with the Product Management based in Croatia & US.

Independently handling/leading features/functionalities in Agile Methodology representing as a Feature Lead/Functional Analyst from system testing standpoint right from Inception to Delivery.

Collaborating in the Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning Team with the Agile Team to come up with story point estimations, tasks identification/estimations, risk, dependencies, sprint goals & objectives.

Have also worked as a Proxy Business Analyst for some of the projects which involved in user story creation, requirement analysis, providing walkthrough to the implementation team, conducting user acceptance testing, creating user manuals, and imparting knowledge/training users.

Have acted as Scrum Master in the project scrum ceremonies and have been active part of the Agile Transformation program of the organization.

Have been part of the Agile CoE and was responsible in coaching in the area of Scrum framework and documenting implemented practices.

Have been a Functional SME/Mediator to the allied test functions such as Performance & Automation Test Teams helping them functionally in developing scripts.

Providing product demo/review sessions to the Product Owner in Sprint Review meeting.

Have played a dual role of a Quality Assurance/Business Analyst for in-house developed systems as well as COTS such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Analyzing, Designing & Documenting functional specifications and assisting on-shore business consultants in documenting the right acceptance criteria for the user stories.

Performing impact analysis on the proposed functional changes in the system.

Conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) during the requirements planning stage.

Facilitation and coordination of various project management activities such as Scrum Meetings and Bug Triage Meetings.

Coordinating with the vendor Test Teams, Infrastructure and Third Party Development Maintenance vendors.

Responsible for analyzing and designing business requirements of the banking products offered

Understanding the Business & Functional Specification document.

Studying the entire Software aspects in and out (SME)

Involved in testing the critical requirements and its impact analysis.

Execution of test cases end to end, handling defect calls, product calls, functionality status calls.

Worked closely with Finance Controllers and Product Managers to give walk-through and presentations on Business Test Scenarios for Finance and Stakeholder sign-offs.