ALM
Aditi Deshmukh
Scrum Master
Pune,MH
Summary
Objective Highly skilled professional with more than 10 years of experience managing large-scale traditional Waterfall and Scrum projects. Well-versed in leveraging cross-functional IT, Agile, and QA teams to complete project deliverables on time and within budget. Demonstrated success applying project management best practices, technical expertise, and business acumen to consistently achieve targeted results
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
35
35
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Scrum Master
Cognizant
04.2019 - Current
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
- Acted as a scrum master, leading the delivery of all sprints and interaction with product owners
- Monitor and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks and activities directed toward completing the project goals
- Closely worked with product owners to ensure understanding of user stories and keeping the backlog groomed
- Facilitated and participated in Sprint planning, design and estimation
- Monitored the Sprint Burndown and conducted daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team
- Successfully coached the team in scrum and helped them move from waterfall to agile as part of the broader enterprise-wide agile transformation.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Produced reports and updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
Team Lead
Cognizant
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Lead a team of 15 for a test data management project
- Managed creation of regression suit in consistent with new functionalities
- Defect management, Test plan management in JIRA
- Successfully delivered multiple key features for customers such as – automated tools for test data management, Automated test data creation ensuring timelines and quality standards were adhered to
- Championed the use of a continuous integration system and automated testing leading to improved developer productivity and better-quality software
- Closely co-ordinated with Client on understanding the Functional requirements
- Lead a team of 9 for a Functional manual testing and managed successful container wise delivery
- Developed In-House capabilities by motivating team members to take up new challanges
Manual Tester
Cognizant
01.2011 - 01.2016
- Executed test scripts, logged defects and worked to resolve issues noted in testing process.
- Pursued professional development opportunities to learn new testing tools and test strategies.
- Worked extended hours when necessary to meet deadlines.
- Isolated issues by analyzing process steps, log files and data input for Telecom Projects.
- Collaborated with stakeholders for testing and release management to achieve high-quality production of Product.
Education
SSC -
Kamla Nehru High School
HSC - Science
Science College
Bachelor Of technology - Instrumentation Engineering
SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology
ISTQB Certification - undefined
CSM (Certified Scrum Master - undefined
Skills
Public speaking
Project Management
Risk identification
Customer interaction
Problem-Solving
Multitasking Abilities
Software
JIRA
SVN
UFT
Interests
Reading, Travelling
Timeline
Scrum Master
Cognizant
04.2019 - Current
Team Lead
Cognizant
01.2016 - 01.2019
Manual Tester
Cognizant
01.2011 - 01.2016
SSC -
Kamla Nehru High School
HSC - Science
Science College
Bachelor Of technology - Instrumentation Engineering
SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology