Keshab Panigrahi
Pune
Summary
Certified Scrum Master and Project Manager with 10+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. Exceptional stakeholder management skills and adeptness in navigating complex organizational structures. Committed to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with industry best practices. Passionate about empowering teams to achieve their full potential while maintaining a strong focus on business goals. Demonstrated success in optimizing processes, reducing cycle times, and driving organizational transformation through Agile practices.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates
Work History
Scrum Master
Infosys BPM Limited
10.2021 - Current
- Serving as Scrum master to two Scrum teams consists of 13 members.
- Facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews) & group interactions.
- Implement and monitor key Agile metrics, such as burn down charts, velocity, and cycle times, to ensure delivery efficiency.
- Ensure backlog items are developed and delivered with quality subject to appropriate reviews and approvals and acceptance.
- Implementing Scrum framework - Kick Off's,sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog refinement, spike, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, creating detailed project plans and road maps.
- Proactively identifying and resolving impediments faced by product owner and development team to mitigate risks in project deliverables.
- Collaborate with senior management and other Scrum Masters to ensure consistency of Scrum practices across teams.
- Helping team in arriving at work estimates capacity planning and story points.
- Delivered RPA automation project in record time helped improving team productivity by 50%
Technology Lead
Infosys BPM Limited
11.2020 - 08.2021
- Extensive UK, APAC and across different regions client Managed multiple development team in understanding as-Is business processes across digital transformation projects.
- Created more than 50+ FTE Pipelines for technology unit to be delivered in 2024. Review the proposal and commercial prepared by consultants, provide guidance & analyze the solution defined for the business problem with a view to proactively identify risks.
- Developed detailed business cases for senior management, including effort estimation, cost calculations, FTE benefits, process-specific bot analysis, and cost benefit analysis to highlight net ROI.
- Worked closely with RPA Solution Architects to finalize and refine To-Be state robotics solutions.
- Streamlined software development process with the introduction of Agile methodologies, resulting in faster project completion times.
- Participate in continuous improvement & transformation projects to deliver project goals.
Senior Developer
Anglo African Mauritius
08.2019 - 10.2020
- Worked with this leading banks & manufacturing company in Mauritius as an RPA Lead with IT delivery client teams (Business & IT).
- Facilitated and guided business operation by establishing effective agile mindset.
- As part of this team have been involved in Requirement analysis to production deployment and ongoing support
- Led Proof of Concepts (POCs) to demonstrate product capabilities and seek feedback for further improvements to increase ROI
- Ensure Code Reviews are done and defects are analyzed to root cause level and closed and the exit criteria in met.
- Gather estimates/story points from IT Dev & EST for developing, stabilizing & deploying phases.
- Preparing and sending daily and weekly status report for higher management and business also tracking defects and coordinating with quality team to get them resolved.
- Own and Drive Project and sprint retrospective sessions (Lessons Learnt, Metrics and Best Practices).
- Drive the production releases and deployments.
- Ensured comprehensive Scrum training for all team members, promoting continuous learning and skill development.
Senior Associate
Tata Consultancy services
08.2013 - 07.2019
- As a senior team member capable of managing 5 people for production support & process controller in process automation.
- Successfully delivered 6 Bot using different RPA tool across regions and generated good revenue for technology unit.
- Setting up Scrum call to understand the development progress and discuss on the risk during every phase of SDLC.
- Create a risk management plan identifying the risks and streamlines the process using various RPA.
Education
Bachelor's - commerce (Business and Finance)
Utkal University
MBA - Operations Management
IMT Ghaziabad
GhaziabadSkills
Project Management Skills
Agile & Scrum Methodology
Scrum Ceremonies
Sprint Planning & Execution
JIRA Software
Product Backlog Refinement
Release & Sprint Burndown Metrics
Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
Cross-functional Team
Stakeholder Management
Conflict Resolution & Problem Solving
Certification
Scrum Foundation Professional-Certiprof
Timeline
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance
12-2024
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
11-2024
Scrum Foundation Professional-Certiprof
04-2022
Scrum Master
Infosys BPM Limited
10.2021 - Current
Technology Lead
Infosys BPM Limited
11.2020 - 08.2021
Senior Developer
Anglo African Mauritius
08.2019 - 10.2020
Robotics Process Automation
07-2019
Senior Associate
Tata Consultancy services
08.2013 - 07.2019
Bachelor's - commerce (Business and Finance)
Utkal University
MBA - Operations Management
IMT Ghaziabad