Ankit Yadav
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Hyderabad,TS
Summary
Over 14 years of working experience performing various roles from consultant & Team Lead to Scrum Master. Worked with reputed customers both at offshore and onsite on various agile projects. Played a key role as Agile Team Facilitator & Scrum Master for steering the entire project & project planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling and configuration. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master communicating effectively and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. Ability to learn new concepts and adapt to new environments. Excellent problem solving, analytical and interpersonal skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
25
25
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Edspread Technologies
Hyderabad, Dubai, UAE, UAE
02.2017 - 10.2021
- Domain: Real Estate, Retail.
- Worked as Scrum Master and Mentored team members on Agile process.
- Conducted Scrum ceremonies like stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning, retrospective and sprint demos and guide team to plan and get better burn down reports, track issues and risks and plan to mitigate them.
- Track portfolio level risks and maintain healthy delivery across teams.
- Monitored and Tracked progress of Scrum Teams.
- Velocity and Capacity Planning as part of Program Increment.
- Collaborate with business to understand program goals.
- Project planning, Design Reviews and code reviews organizing.
- Tracking and communicating overall progress of release to stakeholders using burn down charts and Kanban boards.
- Conduct classroom training sessions on Agile and scrum orientation and improve agile awareness across portfolio.
- Make sure team effectively makes use of TDD/BDD, pair programming and other agile engineering principles.
- Participated in client conference calls and updated status and daily coordination with Offshore team for Business clarifications.
- Planning for and identifying potential risks, performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and planning risk mitigation strategies.
- Planning, defining, and developing schedules, activities, estimating resources and activity durations.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Franklin Lakes, Omaha, NJ, NE
09.2012 - 01.2017
- Domains- Healthcare, Investment.
- Technology.
Consultant
The Hackett Group
HYDERABAD, Telangana
11.2010 - 11.2011
- Domain- Finance.
- Planning and reviewing Test cases for Functionality, Security, Performance, Database and User Acceptance.
- Performed manual testing on different Modules of Application by executing Test Cases.
- Implemented use of Web Service and SoapUI tools to illustrate project features and requirements.
- Effectively interacted with BA & SMEs regarding software defects and severe issues, working closely to develop innovative solutions.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every bi-weekly and well-organized sprints.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient, and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.
- Increased and improved knowledge of various software and tools like Guidewire, SoapUI etc.
- By engaging in all available trainings and seminars.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
Associate
Mahindra Satyam
HYDERABAD, Telangana
12.2006 - 12.2009
- Domain- Insurance.
- Gathered, Analyzed, Evaluated system requirements and formulate the Test cases.
- Developed Data for individual test cases to satisfy positive and negative testing.
- Performed Integration testing with Web Services and overall system testing.
- Performed data validation testing to check for applications failure to properly validate input from client, Tested navigational flow of portal, Performed Cross browser testing on different browsers.
- Fully involved in backend integration database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure data integrity and data consistency.
- Writing SQL queries to validate data.
Scrum Master
Publicis Sapient
Bangalore, KA
10.2021 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Proactively covered the tasks of the PO in absence of our product owner.
- Took all the responsibilities of RTE for atleast 3 months when our RTE suddenly resigned.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Worked with the stakeholders and organized regular Demos.
- Helped the team to rise from underperformance to the first position squad in the program.
- Successfully delivered the MVP despite of several challenges.
- Received Client appreciation multiple times since the project start.
Education
Bachelor Degree (B.Tech) - Computer Science
UPTU
Lucknow 07.2002 - 06.2006
Intermediate - PCM
St. Fidelis College
Lucknow 04.2001 - 03.2021
High School - Science
St. Fidelis College
Lucknow 04.1999 - 03.2000
Skills
Managerial skillsundefined
USA work authorization
H1b which can be reinstated under NSC.
Timeline
Scrum Master
Publicis Sapient
10.2021 - Current
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Edspread Technologies
02.2017 - 10.2021
Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2012 - 01.2017
Consultant
The Hackett Group
11.2010 - 11.2011
Associate
Mahindra Satyam
12.2006 - 12.2009
Bachelor Degree (B.Tech) - Computer Science
UPTU
07.2002 - 06.2006
Intermediate - PCM
St. Fidelis College
04.2001 - 03.2021
High School - Science
St. Fidelis College
04.1999 - 03.2000
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