Sahiti Surineni
Release Train Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Release Train Engineer with a strong background in leadership and team development. Proven track record of driving employee engagement and implementing effective strategies to enhance performance. Skilled in conflict resolution and fostering a collaborative work environment. Reliable and flexible leader, committed to adaptability and continuous improvement, showcasing skills in communication and problem-solving. .
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Release Train Engineer, Interim People Leader
Novo Nordisk
Bangalore
08.2023 - Current
- Support ART of 100 plus sized ensuring quality delivery by meeting customer needs.
- Mature the organization last year by 25% on agile ways of working and smarter ways
- Established strong working relationships with clients through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
- Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
- Provide support to Scrum masters and agile teams within the release train to ensure they adhere to agile principles
- Identifying and managing dependencies amongst the agile teams, resolving any potential blockers to ensure smooth collaboration across the teams
- Assisting in the resolution of issues and impediments that impact the progress of the release train, collaborate with the teams to find solutions and maintain momentum
- Maintaining and reporting on Agile metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) related to the release train, tracking progress and identifying areas for improvement
- Facilitate the ART to efficient delivery
- Facilitate effective Program Increment (PI) planning events
- Keep track of and help solve program impediments and escalate if necessary
- Help the ART manage their progress via transparent program backlog and program board overviews
- Drive Agile teams, vendors and customers in the Novo Nordisk Agile way of working incl
- Agile Delivery Model, Azure DevOps, Agile QMS and Agile Sourcing
- Be a change ambassador to drive the learning culture and Agile mindset in Novo Nordisk
- Ensure the right capabilities are available in the ART to enable long term ability to deliver
- Work with the leadership to agree on ART budgets and ensure program execution and operational excellence
- Contributed to talent acquisition efforts by participating in interviews, evaluating candidates based on potential fit within the organization.
Scrum Master, Team Coach
Novo Nordisk
Copenhagen
01.2022 - Current
- Facilitate the Agile team to efficient delivery
- Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
- Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
- Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
- Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.
- Help the Agile team manage their progress via transparent backlog and board overviews
- Change ambassador to drive the learning culture and Agile mindset in Novo Nordisk
System Manager & Project Manager for Rollout responsible for DocuSign, FIGGO & SurveyMonkey
Novo Nordisk
08.2018 - Current
- Overseeing the life cycle management of the IT system including incident response efforts, proactively addressing issues before they escalated into larger problems.
- Championed best practices in change management processes to ensure smooth transitions during system upgrades or replacements.
- Designed backup strategies which ensured minimal operational impact during disaster recovery scenarios.
System Manager, Rollout responsible for all affiliates
Novo Nordisk
04.2019 - 01.2022
- Support the project running in agile and handling smooth operations by building strong operations team to handle changes and adapt to the agile mindset by building agile mindset
- Build DeVOps team and tools to be utilized for CI/CD pipeline, ADO test management, ServiceNow Visual task boards etc
- Develop close coordination with stakeholders and internal teams to ensure the quality deliverables and build up the strong stakeholder management
- Ensure excellence in system management & delivery from various project teams involved in rollouts, deployments, change initiatives carried out for the system with agile methodologies
- Ensure services are delivered within budget, time, scope and quality
- Handle MSA,SOW and addendums and negotiations with vendors and F2F discussions with vendor teams
- Handle budget discussions and invoice processing
- Ensure system is maintained with high level of quality compliance
- For example, maintaining good results from Global Internal Audit (GIA)
- Renewal of contracts and agreeing of services to be delivered Ensure the day-to-day usage, operation and maintenance of the system or service is aligned to GxP processes
- Comprehend business requirements and coordinate with the vendor team to analyze on technical solutions and impact on processes
- Driving the change and release management activities
- Incident and problem management support and track SLA’s agreed with business
- System to be in line with compliance requirements (application and infrastructure)
- Ensuring the team delivers excellent quality of service towards Novo Nordisk end-users and never deviating from agreed SLA KPI’s
- Audit readiness
- Periodic activities (URR, CRR, ITPSE and DR drill) and yearly wheel document updates (SIA, IT security templates etc)
System Manager and Project Manager for rollouts
Novo Nordisk
04.2014 - 07.2019
- Ensure excellence in system management & delivery from various rollouts, deployments, change initiatives carried out for the system
- Prepare system strategy for short and long terms and align with business strategy
- Ensure services are delivered within budget, time, scope and quality
- Handle MSA,SOW and addendums and negotiations with vendors and F2F discussions with vendor teams
- Handle budget discussions and invoice processing
- Ensure excellence in service delivery from GxP critical application
- Ensure system is maintained with high level of quality compliance
- For example, maintaining good results from Global Internal Audit (GIA)
- Renewal of contracts and agreeing of services to be delivered Ensure the day-to-day usage, operation and maintenance of the system or service is aligned to GxP processes
- Comprehend business requirements and coordinate with the vendor team to analyze on technical solutions and impact on processes
- Driving the change and release management activities
- Ensure relevant training to end users and NN SOP training for the vendors
- Incident and problem management support and track SLA’s agreed with business
- Ensure GXP specific documentation standards
- System to be in line with compliance requirements (application and infrastructure)
- Handle the SAB and CAB meetings
- Ensuring the team delivers excellent quality of service towards Novo Nordisk end-users and never deviating from agreed SLA KPI’s
- Audit readiness
- Manage vendors and ensure that the services are provided as per agreed timeline by adhering to the GxP processes
- Manage contracts and SLAs with the vendors on regular basis
- Periodic activities (URR, CRR, ITPSE and DR drill) and yearly wheel GxP document updates (SIA, IT security templates etc)
- Handle invoices and ensure they are processed
- Create plan for the IT security procedures and mitigation procedures
- Handle the rollouts of the current application to new affiliates and handle the invoices
Team Member and handling Team lead Role
Wipro Technologies
06.2013 - 04.2014
- Company Overview: Wipro Technologies is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company
- Building of the Integration Objects required for the reports, and deploying them on the server
- Implemented Multi-Lingual Reports
- Technical installation updates for the reports segment
- Developed around 15 reports for 9 languages for this project
- Involved in Administration activities migrating the repository from development to testing environment, and assisting the production support team during deployment activities
- Wipro Technologies is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company
Team Member
Wipro Technologies
10.2010 - 06.2013
- Company Overview: Wipro Technologies is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company
- BIP Report template designing by studying the requirement and high-level design for the Reports and prepared the Low-level design document to configure in application and Tools
- Building of the Integration Objects required for the reports, and deploying them on the server
- Implemented Multi-Lingual Reports, Parameterized Reports and also implemented Scheduler functionality for the Reports from Siebel Server end
- Implemented Performance tuning for the Reports
- Technical Installation Updates for BI Publisher
- Developed around 25 reports for the project
- Unit Specification document for all the reports is maintained up to date
- Involved in Administration activities migrating the repository from development to testing environment, and assisting the production support team during deployment activities
- Wipro Technologies is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company
Team Member
Wipro-Centre of Excellence
05.2010 - 09.2010
- Written code in HTML and integrated it into OBIEE
- Deploy Mapviewer in the OC4J that holds BI EE
Team Member
Wipro-Centre of Excellence
Bangalore
12.2009 - 04.2010
- Developing of Code in Java and importing the data into Siebel
- Setting of connections between two Siebel databases
- Involved in testing and documentation
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
01.2004 - 01.2008
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 02/12/87
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
certifications
ITIL
GAMP
SAFe Release Train Engineer
SAFe PO/PM
SAFe Scrum Master
Timeline
Release Train Engineer, Interim People Leader
Novo Nordisk
08.2023 - Current
Scrum Master, Team Coach
Novo Nordisk
01.2022 - Current
System Manager, Rollout responsible for all affiliates
Novo Nordisk
04.2019 - 01.2022
System Manager & Project Manager for Rollout responsible for DocuSign, FIGGO & SurveyMonkey
Novo Nordisk
08.2018 - Current
System Manager and Project Manager for rollouts
Novo Nordisk
04.2014 - 07.2019
Team Member and handling Team lead Role
Wipro Technologies
06.2013 - 04.2014
Team Member
Wipro Technologies
10.2010 - 06.2013
Team Member
Wipro-Centre of Excellence
05.2010 - 09.2010
Team Member
Wipro-Centre of Excellence
12.2009 - 04.2010
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
01.2004 - 01.2008
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