Mahesh Mistry

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Delivery Manager @ Validat Limited
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Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Mahesh Mistry

Profile• Experienced ISEB-qualified Professional Test & Release Manager delivering within regulated environments.• Extensive exposure to the Lloyd's London Markets working with both Brokers and Carrier associations and communities delivering latest electronic (EBOT) messaging protocols.• Qualified PRINCE2 Project Manager accredited to Practitioner level. • Programme, Project & Test management experience at both strategic and tactical level.• Professional Scrum Master 1 certified by Scrum.org• Six years Consultancy experience across KPMG & EY• 20+ years’ experience delivering Agile across SAFe4.0, Scrum, TDD, Kanban, DSDM etc. as Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Programme Test Manager• Agile Coaching of newly created Agile teams, setting up of required ceremonies, managing stakeholder expectation, mentoring 3rd party/in-house teams, off/near/on shore DevOps, coaching Product Owners on their responsibilities, integration/conflict management of CI/CD into existing Waterfall organisations, Scrum of Scrums, etc. • Overseeing Release Train Management regarding planning, specifying, and executing deployment both locally and on a global scale ensuring Integration, Prioritization and Production Risk issues are understood across a mixed SDLC n-tier architecture delivered by on, near and far shore software service providers.• Experienced Scrum Master roles delivering Big Data analytical systems using AWS Cloud, Hadoop, Python, docker, QlikView technologies – Data as a Service• Agile Project Management delivering the latest Electric Vehicle charging customer billing solution within Shell.• Scrum Master for eCommerce web-based portals for Aviva, LBG (FX eComm & Galaxy) and Hiscox Insurance• Extensive experience of building and leading greenfield project teams, including team recruitment / development / mentoring.• Full engagement with all parties involved in projects; design, development, business, management, and 3rd party vendor suppliers (near, on and far shore). • Very comfortable liaising and building relationships with stakeholders at all levels.• Proven track-record of project delivery and getting a quality job done. • Excellent skills in man-management, motivation & communication. • Highly organised, analytical with a strong attention to detail.

Mahesh Mistry's Current Company Details
Validat Limited

Validat Limited

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Delivery Manager
Mahesh Mistry Work Experience Details
  • Validat Limited
    Delivery Manager
    Validat Limited Jun 2024 - Present
    FinTech start up developing white label products to support:- FX Trading- Crypto Trading- KLM/Onboarding- Compliance- CRM
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  • Mocona Group
    Portfolio Integration Manager
    Mocona Group Jan 2024 - May 2024
    London Area, United Kingdom
    Greenfield FinTech startup looking to disrupt the banking sector servicing the needs of Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals by solving the delays encountered during standard Client Lifecycle Management onboarding process, cutting cost and elapsed time to less than ten percent.My role was to create an integration plan between whitelisted products covering Asset & Liability, FX Trading, Alternate Banking Service solution, CLM via Salesforce CRM, Mulesoft, and AWS using a modular distributed architecture to manage cross border GDPR related issues. This involved setting out the vision to the stakeholders, developing an integration plan covering the approach to Single Sign On, common data sharing, network and infrastructure security. This was then communicated to the various development organisations using a ‘Big Room Planning’ process, with planned integration points and a phased delivery plan.
  • Shell – Ev Motorbility
    Agile Project Manager
    Shell – Ev Motorbility Oct 2022 - Dec 2023
    London Area, United Kingdom
    Joined the Shell Mobility team, who were a one-year mature agile team, that had grown organically to 50+ people across the globe delivering across Charging, Fleet, Finance etc. The logical next step of splitting the group out into several parallel teams was the task I had been given as the Agile Coach.My initial scope was to define and manage the transition process, recruit new staff to fill voids, manage the risk of key person dependency and act as a Scrum Master for three out of seven of the squads while continuing to deliver on the scheduled pipeline. This transition period successfully ended after four months with all squads fully resourced, integrated and delivering.In January, I was then asked to additionally take on the role of Agile Project Manager for a greenfield team who were developing the key interface layer between Sales/Purchasing of electricity for EV Charging and the GSAP accounting system. The business process was currently executed manually with only a few sites across Europe under management. This project was to integrate all EV charging sites, globally into the one system. Using the traditional Waterfall process, the project was originally predicted to deliver in April 2025. By using Agile delivery, I was able to persuade the stakeholder group that we could do this faster using Agile. Once we had agreement, the team broke the deliverables into standalone MVP’s and started delivering. The team were able to deliver the initial Sales MVP by August 2023 with Purchase MVP on schedule for November 2023 and the entire project planned for completion by April 2024 cutting one year from the original estimate. Following a successful Purchase MVP, my role was transferred offshore due to cost savings.
  • Jaguar Land Rover Uk
    Agile Coach
    Jaguar Land Rover Uk Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
    Gaydon, England, United Kingdom
    Jaguar Land Rover engineering was undergoing a business wide agile transformation involving 14,000 engineers moving from waterfall development processes into a proscribed methodology as defined by Boston Consultancy Group. The roll out is being conducted in waves, each wave involving additional engineers working in ‘squads’ of six to twelve with a Scrum Master and Product Owner. Each ‘squad’ delivered into a Product Group and ultimately into the overall vehicle being developed.North Highland provided the coaching consultants and I joined at the start of Wave 3 when there were 30 agile coaches on site. Currently we are entering into Wave 5 and we are now up to 80 agile coaches.My role as an Agile Coach was to mentor three squads in agile ways as proscribed by Boston Consulting Group in their JLR Handbook over a rolling three-month duration covering a single Quarterly Business Review (QBR – aka PI). This would involve regular assessments, 1-2-1 coaching of the SM’s & PO’s as well as squad wide group training. Attendance of sprint ceremonies, deep dives into specific aspects of agile ways of working (Back log grooming, Story Pointing/Poker Game, Self-Enablement, etc), participating in Community of Practice sessions, Scrum of Scrums and development of training material were additional activities undertaken. My squads for W3 covered the 2024 release year full electric Range Rover and W4 switched to Infotainment, Phone & Internet connectivity squads.
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  • Royal Mail Group Plc
    Portfolio Test Manager/Agile Coach, Revenue Integrity & International (Parcels)
    Royal Mail Group Plc Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
    London Area, United Kingdom
    My role was to work with my peers across the RMG change portfolio and forward plan resource requirements with our offshore testing services organisation to ensure the correct resourcing was in place. I was additionally responsible to review each project, identify the risks and then outlining the delivery approach being used to mitigate these risks and deliver the required functionality. This entailed working closely with the Agile sprint Teams, Environments Team and Testing Service, ensuring all agreed processes are followed, blockers resolved and mentor/coach the teams for successful delivery. I also served as the escalation point for issues to resolution, Quality Assuring the outputs/results and then providing the final Test Assurance statement for deployment approval. In my role, I was personally responsible for up to 12 parallel projects at any one time and had an average of 25 direct reports based both on and offshore. Portfolio: Revenue Integrity.New area of growth for RMG to combat the fraudulent sending of parcels through the parcels network. To claim back lost revenue via correct identification and surcharging.Was instrumental in introducing an ‘Agile’ delivery approach by breaking requirements into two weekly ‘sprints’ and testing in cycles. As part of the introduction, I was required to drive the adoption in process change by coaching the key roles of Product Owner and Scrum Master to ensure responsibilities were understood and required actions taken.Projects:• Cancelled Barcodes• Reconciliation (Phase 1, 2, 3)• Interoperability Portfolio: International (Parcels).Portfolio covered all aspects of parcels coming into, or traveling out of, the UK. The main area of change in this period was to cover the Brexit requirements to identify Revenue impacting packages along with a major upgrade to core functionality.Projects:• Brexit: Customs Declaration System Upgrade to v2020• Brexit: Export Declared Duty Paid (DDP)
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  • Ey
    Snr. Manager - Ts&I, Advisory, Pi
    Ey Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
    London Area, United Kingdom
    Ernst & Young, London - Jan 2018 to Oct 2019Snr. Manager, TSI - AdvisoryProjects:• Client: BAML - Command & Control to deliver Brexito Soft Go-Live Production Defect Managero End to end batch test cycle UAT Test Manager• Client: Aviva Investors - Cloud-based Data as a Service solutiono Agile Coach/QA Manager o Greenfield data analytic agile team based in EY Wavespace centre in Madrido Mentored junior agile team on roles and responsibilities, moving away from rapid prototyping to verifiable, production quality deliverableso AWS cloud, Hadoop, Python, docker, QlikView• Client: Deutsche Bank - Brexit Programmeo Programme Assurance reviewing approach taken, risks identified/mitigated
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  • Nordea
    Agile Coach/Scrum Master - Data Engineering Analytics
    Nordea Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
    Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
    Simplified Reporting (SimRep) within the Data Engineering Analytics team are responsible for providing specified data from sourcing systems to enable regulatory, business critical or mandatory reporting to be completed by the reporting functions within Nordea.Having adopted a new Agile way of working after previously using a waterfall process within data engineering analytics, my role covered the activities of a Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Working closely with the business to understand/document delivery requirement, set prioritisation and expectations with the DevOps delivery team of data scientist writing in Python to ensure sprint deliverables are progressed, while ensuring the Agile processes are understood and followed. The activities have included:• Worked with the Product Owner to understand the delivery pipeline, requirements, prioritisation, acceptance criteria• Specifying 'Definition of Ready' and 'Definition of Done' for each phase of the TOM process• Documenting the above using Jira/Confluence and HP ALMo Creating sprint plans, o Conducting Poker Games, o Setting delivery expectations and allocating work items - 'self-organising' had not fully integrated within deliveryo Running daily stand up meetings over Skypeo Reporting progress against plan (burn down charts)o Identifying Risks and issueso Coaching the off agile teams on scrum methods and processes• Coordination with the 14 other parallel delivery scrum teams delivering within the same environment• Adherence to the existing waterfall delivery and release process to ensure all gates and milestones are passed• Delivered one years planned backlog within nine months, reducing cost by 25%
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  • Nordea
    Programme Test Manager/Agile Coach - Group Functions
    Nordea Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
    Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
    The Nordea Group Simplification Programme had been set up by the retail bank to merge the multiple systems, platforms and products across four Nordic regions.As the PTM, I was responsible for ensuring the strategic Group Functions systems are protected from adverse impact by ensuring each programme of change has been correctly verified according to business requirements and that the Group Functions capability of performing both internal and external regulatory reporting continues.The GSP is a multi-year programme with the following deliverables:• The merging of 45 payments systems into a single offering across all supported regions to deliver in phases between now and mid-2018• The simplification of 76 savings products into five generic offerings using Terminos24 across all supported regions between now and end-2017• Similar programmes of work to deliver loans and mortgages from mid-2017 to end 2020 along with decommissioning of multiple legacy mainframe systemsIn order to achieve this level of change, an Agile development process had been adopted with teams from Cap-Gemini, Deloitte and Nordea based in Copenhagen, Helsinki and Gdynia with the business representation within Oslo and Stockholm. My role was as the Agile Coach across these delivery teams. The impact on Group Functions had been clearly understood as being at a very high risk and consequently, the following activities had been instigated:• Development and delivery of additional testing environments• The definition, capture and creation of Golden Source test data, based on a production copy which has been masked to remove 21 key identification features • Introduction of functional test automation using synthetic data for reproducibility of results• The commissioning and delivery of a 'Time Travel' environment in order to compress two months of test execution in to two weeks• Sprint reviews, definition of acceptance criteria, witness and sample testing
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  • Kpmg
    Snr. Manager - Tech Enablement Testing Services
    Kpmg Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
    Uk Wide
    Developed a new Test and Assurance function within KPMG Advisory area. Conducting recruitment, creating collateral, developing Accelerators & Training material and Mentoring while delivering to engaged clients. Over the period, the team has grown from two to twenty with projected revenue of £5m across all sectors in year three of which £1m were personal sales targets achieved. 2016: Client: Network Rail - UAT for Ellipse v6 to v8.6 upgrade Client: Lloyd's of London - DAQA Agile Project Manager for CSRP R1.1 PbS Programme (Con't)2015: Client: Lloyd's of London - DAQA Agile Project Manager for CSRP R1.1 PbS Programme Client: Kingfisher - Assessment of KITS QA Function Client: Royal London Group - PTM for Finance Systems Restructure (Oracle Fusion)2014: Client: Swiss Re: - PERLs Programme Level Assessment of QA Function Client: DB - StRIDe Release Level Assessment of QA Function Client: Morgan Stanley - UAT for delivery of FinRep Reporting Client: SocGen - E2E Test Optimisation for GEMMS (Gilts) Reporting against LSE Rulebook Client: RBS Williams and Glynn - Programme level Assessment of QA Function within Programme Rainbow
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  • Mphasis
    Regional Head [Europe] Of Qa For Qbe
    Mphasis Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
    London, United Kingdom
    Integrated a new managed service testing function within QBE-EO providing a Business Process focused verification and validation service against the change portfolio. Leveraging on-shore/off-shore capabilities and introduced new working practices with tools for BRD capture, test scripting, manual and automated execution.
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  • S.T.K. Tech Ltd
    Director
    S.T.K. Tech Ltd Jan 2012 - Jul 2013
    Jan 13 to Mar 13: Certeco/Aviva - General Insurance>>>> Wrote the Programme Test Strategy for Asprea / Sirius programme Apr 12 to Dec 12: Aviva - Life & Pensions>>>> Programme Test Manager - Integrated Workspace & Savings Programme DeliveredJan 12 to Mar 12: Deutsche Bank>>>> UAT Manager Risk & PnL Systems
  • Ernst & Young
    Snr. Manager - Financial Services, Advisory
    Ernst & Young Nov 2010 - Dec 2011
    Oct 11 to Dec 11>> Agile Project Manager for LBG-Galaxy (Internet Banking) delivering STP Current Account and FATCAJan 11 to May 11>> Programme Test Manager for LBG-GI Migration delivering the Financial Business Acceptance Test Phase (F-BAT)
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  • S.T.K. Tech Ltd
    Director
    S.T.K. Tech Ltd Aug 2008 - Nov 2010
    May 10 - Nov 10: Lloyds Banking Group- FX eCommerce Trading>>>> Programme Test Manager - FX Trading (eComm) ProgrammeMar 10: Lighthouse Testing/Marks & Spencer - SGP Project>>>> On site test review and reportSept 08 - Nov 09: CIBC World Markets>>>> Global QA / Release Manager - GDSR Programme
  • Icap Plc
    Eu Electronic Trading Systems Head Of Qa (Emea And Apac)
    Icap Plc Apr 2006 - Jul 2008
    EMEA and APAC IEB QA Test Team ManagerICAP are the worlds leading Inter-dealer broker by volume in both the Voice and Electronic markets with a daily transaction average of USD 1.25 Trillion. The platforms developed by ICAP are used in all of the financial centres across the globe by most trading institutions. Using ICAP systems, you are able to trade a full range of instruments including Gilts, FX, CDS, Energy, Securities, etc. with revenue for ICAP being generated either via commission on each trade or on the price ‘spread’ dependent on the instruments/markets being traded.The role of the EU IEB Test Team Manager was to - Ensure the EU delivery pipeline across all these groups is clearly understood,- Correctly coordinated and prioritised according to business driven criteria while minimising production risk, - Direct the test strategy and review results achieved – ensuring released applications are fit for production by providing test cycle exit statement and sign off,- Communicate release information to Production Support and ensure all stake- holders in a release are included,- Coordinate with development teams in USA, Sri Lanka, Norway and the UK to schedule releases into QA within planned cycles,- Manage release implementation weekends from an Assurance perspective,- Process improvement within the QA scope,- Defect management and issue escalation,- Recruitment, staff appraisal and mentoring
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  • Bytes Software Services
    Test & Release Manager
    Bytes Software Services 2005 - 2006
    Systems Test ManagerRole within Bytes was to develop a Systems Testing offering within the IT consultancy based within their London offices. The primary objective was to replace a Microgen team on a client site, for whom Bytes develop an insurance based web product, within a 3 month time scale. The approach taken was:- Identify resource profile and recruit- Identify tools profile, specify, purchase and implement- Organise handover from Microgen staff within 3 months- Zero impact on delivery program to the clientHaving identified the Test Analyst profile, I completed the recruitment of a team of 5 within 2 months. The handover from Microgen was phased over a 3 month period and we continued to deliver functionality to the client with no delays to the program schedule.Selected Mercury’s Test Director suite and implemented Quality Centre for defect tracking, test ware generation and execution tracking; WinRunner to capture and develop automated regression scripts and LoadRunner to prove load and performance requirements. A bespoke defect tracking lifecycle was developed which included interactions between client business analysts, developers, system test analysts and UAT specialists. The tool is fundamental for communication and audit across these groups as they are geographically separated. Additional to the above role, I act within a QA consultancy role for other Bytes clients that include a travel company and a member of the automotive industry.
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  • Henderson Group Plc
    Test & Release Manager
    Henderson Group Plc May 2003 - Jan 2005
    Joined the products development team during a transition period when the department was converting from predominantly contractor driven resource to permanent employees. The transition period was a difficult period for the development environment which had to be absorbed to ensure continued application support and enhancements.The role involved: Taking control of the test environments and establishing processes to improve the software regression test and deployment processes, Instigated weekly release cycles with established UAT & regression test periods, Documenting and publishing the test environments utilisation, Liaising with Service Delivery group to resource changes into Production, Representing IT changes to Change Control board, Review test approaches and recommend enhancements, Mentoring in test techniques to Business Analyst and Developer audiences, Defined new change control process for new tracking system – HEAT, Implementing QA Run automation test tool for regression testingDue to the number of applications under support and development, a new process had to be implemented which stabilised the integration, test and release cycles down from a restrictive monthly cycle to a more flexible weekly release. This was achieved by taking control of, and documenting all the development and test environments and setting up a formal refresh, integration, test and release cycle within two overlapping test environments. The adopted process was flexible enough to accommodate between 3 and 10 application changes into production a week.
  • Ubs Investment Bank
    Qa Consultant
    Ubs Investment Bank Aug 2001 - Apr 2003
    Eurobank Test Manager (Secondment) – Cash Bonds & Repos – September 2002 to April 2003Regional Head of QA – CFT – January 2002 to August 2002
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  • Cwb
    Programme Test Manager – ‘Credit Risk Management System’ Development Team
    Cwb Jan 1999 - Jul 2001
    London, United Kingdom
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  • Dr Solomon'S Group
    Senior Software Quality Test Analyst - Development Test
    Dr Solomon'S Group Jul 1997 - Dec 1998

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