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SriRamya Sanagavarapu

Summary

Results-oriented certified professional Scrum Master with 9 years of IT experience. Successfully guided cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on time. Expertise in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies, with knowledge of SAFe practices. Skilled in tight deadline management, client expectation management, effective leadership, conflict resolution, and negotiation. Experienced in multi-time zone team management and client relationship building.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Aptiv Components Ltd
08.2023 - Current
  • Facilitate and coach Teams in various SAFe scaling events like PI Planning, I&A, Iteration Planning, CDP, SoS which involves multiple ARTs.
  • Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on the product backlog and sprint timeline.
  • Collaborated closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep the product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring that acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for estimation.
  • Created transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate tools and metrics, including story mapping, roadmaps, sprint plans, burn down charts, cycle times, and release plans.
  • Contributed to product roadmap planning, project scheduling, and release management.
  • Reduced the number of blockers by 50%, and increased team ability to deliver high-quality features.
  • Assisted product owner in CI/CD release planning.
  • Knowledge of DevOps tools and understanding of CI/CD pipelines.

Scrum Master

TechMahindra Ltd
10.2021 - 04.2023
  • Client: British Telecom.
  • Exposure to DevOps, coordinated cross-functional teams, and improved team's velocity by 50%.
  • Maintained an updated release cycle every sprint, ensuring feature delivery on committed time.
  • Proactively collaborated with the Product Owner for the last year and effectively maintained the team's backlog.
  • Gathering input from all team members to uncover potential issues. Raised risk to ensure transparency.
  • Monitored team health by using tools like JIRA and Confluence.
  • Built trust and positive working relationships with teams to support the delivery.
  • Followed agile project management practices for multidisciplinary teams.
  • Coached teams to take ownership of each deliverable (stories, sprint, and release wise).
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

Scrum Master

ZF WABCO India Ltd
12.2019 - 04.2021
  • Facilitated design meetings with the team during agile development cycle which brought a clear understanding on end user requirement for ADAS (AEB) Product
  • Improved team self-management by coaching and mentoring
  • Facilitated & participated in scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
  • Worked with Scrum Team in creating & maintaining Scrum artifacts: Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Burndown chart
  • Resolved cross-team impediments and blocking issues.

Scrum Master

WABCO India Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2019
  • Worked as Scrum Master for Emergency braking system team as a part of ADAS project.
  • Responsibilities involved facilitating Scrum events, helping the team in self-organizing, helping the Product Owner and team by facilitating backlog refinement, prioritization of user stories, defining scope and timeline of the releases, and definition of done, etc.
  • Trained and mentored team members on the best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency.
  • Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
  • Coordinated with development teams (ADAS) to meet release deadline

R&D Manager

Bharat Forge Ltd
09.2015 - 07.2017
  • Successfully Coordinated with Indian Defence Research Development organization (DRDO) For ATAGS (All electric Artillery Gun) control system design project
  • Involved in Initial requirements gathering, design of test cases along with test conditions
  • Coordinated cross functional testing activities
  • Collaborated with vendors/stakeholders regularly.

Education

M.Tech - Modeling and Simulation

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), DRDO
Pune, India
05.2015

B.Tech - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

JNTU Anantapur
Anantapur, India
05.2012

Skills

  • Scrum processes
  • Sprint Planning
  • Backlog management
  • Enterprise Agile
  • Lean Change Management
  • Coaching, Mentoring & Training
  • Business Agility
  • Facilitation
  • Conflict Management
  • Scaling Agile
  • Servant Leadership
  • Design Thinking
  • Product Management
  • Continuous Integration , Continuous Delivery
  • TDD
  • Documentation And Reporting
  • Work Planning and Prioritization
  • Risk Management
  • Jira and Confluence
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins

Certification

  • Professional ScrumMaster (PSM-I), 09/2021
  • Foundation Scrum from Certiprof, 09/2021
  • PMP Kickoff from PMI, 03/2023

Timeline

Scrum Master

Aptiv Components Ltd
08.2023 - Current

Scrum Master

TechMahindra Ltd
10.2021 - 04.2023

Scrum Master

ZF WABCO India Ltd
12.2019 - 04.2021

Scrum Master

WABCO India Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2019

R&D Manager

Bharat Forge Ltd
09.2015 - 07.2017

M.Tech - Modeling and Simulation

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), DRDO

B.Tech - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

JNTU Anantapur
SriRamya Sanagavarapu