Varun Agarwal

Operations Associate

Hyderabad, Telangana, India18 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

Certified ISO Auditor with expertise in multiple standards.
16 years of experience in Agile practices and release management.
Proven track record in driving compliance and process improvement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance and Agile Compliance Specialist in the IT and Technology sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile Project ManagementRelease ManagementChange ManagementQuality AssuranceProject ManagementConfiguration ManagementTesting

Other Skills

CommunicationMicrosoft ExcelAuditEnvironmental AuditingIT AuditAudit ManagementISO StandardsInternal AuditsAuditingAuditing StandardsAnalytical SkillsJiraProduct ManagementAgile EnvironmentDevOps

About

I am a Certified ISO Auditor (ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001) with hands-on experience in driving compliance, conducting audits, and enabling organization to align with global standards for quality, environmental, and occupational health & safety management systems. Over the last 2 years, I have been instrumental in strengthening process maturity, embedding compliance culture, and supporting continual improvement initiatives. Before transitioning into auditing, I built a 16-year career as an Agile Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, and Release Manager, where I successfully led complex technology transformations, end-to-end release management, IT operations, and stakeholder collaboration. My strength lies in bridging process compliance with business agility, ensuring organizations achieve both regulatory excellence and delivery efficiency. I am passionate about process improvement, agile compliance, stakeholder management, and organizational change, and I thrive in roles where I can combine structured governance with agility to deliver long-term business value.

Experience

18 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cisco systems (india) private limited, bangalore

2 roles

Auditing Manager

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Technical PM And Release Manager at Cisco Systems Inc

Jun 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

A result-oriented Agile Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, Release Manager, Incident Manager and change evangelist with 16 years of experience in independently managing complex technology driven transformations and driving agile compliance among varied teams. Experienced in end- to-end production release management, IT operations management, and stakeholder engagement.

CommunicationMicrosoft ExcelAgile Project ManagementRelease Management

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

Scrum Master and Release Manager

Promoted

Feb 2012 – Jan 2023 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Change Management:
Track all the changes during the release life cycle and manage the Future Release defects.
Create the Change Requests in Service Now for application/database getting impacted during the release.
Assess the Release Readiness once all the changes are finalized.
Technical:
Work closely with IT Development teams, IT Operations, and IT Program/Project Managers and come up with the Application Release Plan.
Help in getting the issues resolved during the release lifecycle.
Prepare the System cut-over and Contingency plans for the release.
Coordinate end to end application updates, operating system patches, security improvements, hardware upgrades, as well as projects and programs across both Waterfall and Agile project life-cycles.
Manage the deployments through Appdb for all the Oracle Database changes.
Project Assessment : Perform project risk/impact analysis along with cross functional dependencies and High level planning once the risk/impact assessment with respect to specific project is completed
Infrastructure Support: Infrastructure planning, Infrastructure engagement process (Engage with Sys. Admin., DBA, SRA and TES), Security Management and Space management.
Release Review:
Lead and oversee Go-Live activities including preparation of support, execution of the deployment plans and triaging of issues during deployment.
Conduct periodic service reviews to ensure 2-way feedback and incorporate any insights from that feedback

CommunicationMicrosoft ExcelChange ManagementRelease Management

Quality Assurance Specialist

Mar 2011 – Feb 2012 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsibilities
As a Project Lead, I was involved in Environment set up for testing.
Performing and coordinating database, Informatica and environment sanity checks
Communicating with the Onsite Team and coordinating the offshore team activities accordingly.
Working with Functional Team in case of data issue or code issue.
Open a TD and assign it to Functional team for tracking the efforts.
Maintaining data flow through the system.
Resolving issues in Informatica workflows, Database Package executions and $Universe Environments.
Debugging workflows, mappings, procedures and packages.
Following up with the respective teams with the help from transition team during HLEP Activities.
Software Used Informatica 9.1, $Universe, TOAD, SSH Client.
Operating System Unix, Windows XP
Languages SQL, PL/SQL

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Tech mahindra

Configuration Specialist

Jun 2007 – Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsibilities
Migration of Code and ETLs into Test Environment.
Sanity Checks of the Environments.
Monitoring the Data flow and Taking care of the track related issues observed during job execution.
Writing and executing Functional, Data Validation and Performance Test Cases as per Cisco architectural standards.
System testing, Integration testing, Performance Testing and Extensive data reconciliation.
Thorough analysis of design/performance issues and reporting the defects.
Taking care of Production deployment of the code during the code releases.
Software Used Informatica 8.1, HP Quality Centre, Kintana, PVCS, $Universe, TOAD, SSH Client
Operating System Unix, Windows XP
Languages SQL, PL/SQL