Varun Sharma Email & Phone Number

 More than 17 years of professional experience primarily in the areas of Product development, Delivery management, Operations management, and Business development. Current Portfolio includes Third Party business and managing Captive product development teams in Financial and payment domain. Handling teams across Chandigarh and Gurgaon location. Responsible for Delivery Management, client and employee satisfaction, budgeting/forecasting and strategic planning Conducts project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, handover documentation and ongoing activities to accountable teams and complete a post-implementation review to identify areas of improvement Presently working with Fidelity Information Services ensuring end to end Product releases for multiple US Banking and Third-Party clients Worked on multiple domains eCommerce, Banking and Travel and varied roles like QA, Product Manager, Program Manager, RTE Managing ART of 125 resources with blend of Scrum Masters, Product Owners, QA’s and Development Team Work with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. Manage program level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and oversee the development of reports and analyses that document program activity. Facilitating the ART team’s refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready. Assists the ART in communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery. Drive cross team, ART, and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination. Successfully implemented Agile development frameworks - Scrum & Kanban. Adopting Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) at enterprise level. Certified SAFe Scrum Master Level 4 & 5, Release Train Engineer 5 being one of the prestigious certifications.  E2E Quality Delivery Management. Defining Test Strategy, Test reporting, SIT/UAT build sign offs, Test metrics generation, Defect Triaging, Go/No-Go recommendations, managing stakeholders.Managing whole SAFE Program from initiation to closure of project and working with Product and Client in ensuring planned releases Actively played role of QA Head, Delivery Manager and Release Train Engineer and was aggressively involved in Refinement Sessions/Retrospectives/Iteration Planning and ensuring meeting Program Goals of the project.

Listed skills include Manual Testing, Regression Testing, Team Management, Team Leadership, and 20 others.