Vijay Mohan Sethi
Senior Project Manager ||
Faridabad,HR
Summary
18+ years of overall experience in IT mainly into Agile Program management, Service Delivery manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, SDET, Development, Test Management, People management & Leadership role.
Overview
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Senior Project Manager ||
Adidas India
10.2022 - Current
- Working as a Senior Project Manager ||With over 7 years of corporate experience in delivering large- to medium-sized projects and managing end-to-end delivery.
- Managed programs such as Digital Transformation, S4 HANA migration, and cloud migration projects as project manager.
- Experience in transforming teams into an Agile way of working. The capability to facilitate multiple teams as an RTE and Scrum Master. And leading the Agile teams on Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.
- Responsible for managing the day-to-day operational aspects of multiple, large-scale, complex strategic, regulatory, mandatory, and departmental projects with cross-functional teams.
- Experience in stakeholder and vendor management, risk management, budget management, end-to-end delivery, and release cycle.
- Coached and trained teams, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners on Agile methodologies, Agile frameworks, and Agile ways of working. •
- Experience in preparing RFPs, managing workflows for POs on Ariba.
- Publishes weekly status reports to sponsors, business process owners, project teams, and key stakeholders.
- Involved in effective risk and dependency management with different teams handling cross-dependencies using various tools, such as Lean Dependency Management (LDM).
- Experience in measuring KPIs such as outcomes, delivery, and engineering, e.g. Flow Time, Flow Velocity, User Adoption, NPS, Stability at Team, Product, and Product Area Level.
- Reports and escalates to management as needed when project time deadlines become at risk.
- Coaches the team members on agile methodologies, self-management, and cross-functionality.
VP - Scrum Master
NatWest
04.2013 - 10.2022
- Managed delivery smoothly in a complex billing model.
- Worked as a Release Train Engineer on a SAFe program, and was responsible for leading five teams as the RTE in an ART.
- Responsible for preparing, maintaining, and publishing the dashboard and KPIs at the program level using JIRA and Eazy BI tools.
- Implemented the Flow Framework to measure the team's progress.
- The coached PO and team implemented measures to improve team velocity.
- Sharing the different reports with key stakeholders, like the Velocity Report, Burndown/Burnup chart, Epic/Product/Release burndown charts, and Capacity report.
- Sharing the different reports with key stakeholders, such as the Velocity Report, Burndown/Burnup chart, Epic/Product/Release burndown charts, and Capacity report.
- Ensured team deliverables are aligned with the release scope.
- Proficient skills in critical projects such as risk assessment, negotiation, quality assurance, and control measures.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
Sr Test Analyst/ScrumMaster
AonHewitt
02.2009 - 04.2013
- Facilitated two Scrum teams and one Kanban team.
- Sprint ceremonies - Facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinements, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums.
- Set up Kanban KPIs to track the monitoring of teams.
- Exercise different retrospective formats.
- Issues are tracked to effectively work on impediments in the project.
- Issues are tracked to effectively work on impediments in the project.
- Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
Sr Test Engineer
Niit Technologies
03.2006 - 01.2009
- Played the role of Scrum Master and led the delivery of all sprints, and interaction with product owners.
- Facilitated and participated in all Sprint ceremonies.
- Monitored and tracked progress, prepared status reports, resolved issues, coordinated tasks, and activities directed toward completing the project goals.
- Set up DOD, DOR, and business values fields in JIRA, which helped the team achieve better results.
- Set up DOD, DOR, and business values fields in JIRA, which helped the team achieve better results. Conducted daily stand-ups, encouraging open communication in the team.
- Facilitated the team in estimating story points and measuring velocity to plan future sprints.
- Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos.
Senior Test Engineer
Hewitt Associate
03.2005 - 03.2006
- Involved in end-to-end test management of large-scale programs and projects, which include test planning, test execution, defect triage, etc.
- Coordinate test execution (facilitate activities across sites, communicate the overall schedule, track status, etc.).
Associate Consultant
Iflexsolutions
01.2004 - 03.2005
- Involved in end-to-end test management of large-scale programs and projects, which include test planning, test execution, defect triage, etc.
- Coordinate test execution (facilitate activities across sites, communicate the overall schedule, track status, etc.).
Education
B Tech - Electrical
Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana
Ambala 04.2001 -
Skills
Jira
Confluence
MS Smartsheet
Eazy BI
Cloud Migration
Agile Coach/Scrum Master
Program Management
SAP & S4 Hana
Informatica 102
Digital Banking
Digital Retail
Insurance
Budget Management
Vendor Management
Certification
SAFe Agilist 5.1 Certified
Timeline
Senior Project Manager ||
Adidas India
10.2022 - Current
VP - Scrum Master
NatWest
04.2013 - 10.2022
Sr Test Analyst/ScrumMaster
AonHewitt
02.2009 - 04.2013
Sr Test Engineer
Niit Technologies
03.2006 - 01.2009
Senior Test Engineer
Hewitt Associate
03.2005 - 03.2006
Associate Consultant
Iflexsolutions
01.2004 - 03.2005
B Tech - Electrical
Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana
04.2001 -