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Apoorva Odugoudar

SAFe Scrum Master
Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic IT professional with over 14 years of experience, including 5 years as an Agile Scrum Master, specializing in the successful implementation of Agile frameworks across diverse software development teams. Proven track record of enhancing efficiency and productivity by 20%, consistently delivering projects ahead of schedule while minimizing blockers. Expertise in mentoring team members on Agile best practices, proactively identifying risks and dependencies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement in project performance. Committed to leveraging emerging technologies with a focus on exploring AI applications to optimize Agile processes, enhance team collaboration, and improve delivery outcomes.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Cognizant
06.2024 - Current
  • Led a fixed-bid project for a banking client, ensuring consistent sprint delivery aligned with expected velocity.
  • Acted as a proxy Product Owner in the absence of a dedicated PO, collaborating closely with multiple delivery managers to maintain and refine the backlog.
  • Developed and maintained transparent tracking dashboards using JQL in Jira, improving visibility and stakeholder confidence.
  • Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies and coached the team on Agile best practices.
  • Improved velocity by 20% in 7 sprints, and delivered 28 consistent sprints.

SAFe Scrum Master

Continental
04.2023 - 05.2024
  • Led 3 teams and facilitated Scrum – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
  • Introduced backlog refinement sessions and improved user story estimation accuracy, resulting in 20% reduction in sprint planning time and increased focus on high-priority work
  • Led and facilitated quarterly PI Planning events, ensuring alignment of teams to common goals and objectives
  • Collaborated with other Scrum master's and RTEs to address and resolve cross-team dependencies and impediments within Agile Release Train (ART)
  • Identify and remove impediments and help team identify any risks
  • Maintained and published agile metrics to stakeholders ensuring various KPI's
  • Prepared and handled various dashboards, created confluence pages tracking necessary details
  • Coaching team on what and how of Agile whenever required
  • Worked along with Product Manager to track Sprint release updates
  • SAFe 6 SSM certified from Scaled Agile.

Scrum Master

DXC Technology
05.2020 - 03.2023
  • Led team transition to Agile development in 3 months and improved team communication, collaboration, and productivity by implementing agile methodologies
  • Consistently improved team velocity by 10% quarter-over-quarter throughout year
  • Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions
  • Facilitated Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives) for cross-functional and various geographies teams
  • Guided and coached development team and Product Owner to adopt Scrum practices and principles
  • Preparing and representing team metrics (Burndown, velocity, defect injection rates)
  • CSM Certified with Scrum Alliance.

Test Lead

DXC Technology
12.2017 - 04.2020
  • Collaborate with product owners and software development team to analyze product specs, develop test scenarios, and execute to ensure quality of solutions
  • Responsible for defect tracking and reporting and RCA's
  • Used Postman and SOAPUI for Rest service testing
  • Aided Test Planning and estimations
  • Identifying and developing cases required for automation using ReadyAPI (Groovy scripting and Java) Actively worked to identify, communicate, mitigate, and resolve testing issues and risks
  • Coordinate with other QAEs to ensure consistent testing across platform
  • Mentored team of 8.

Programmer Analyst, QA, Senior Quality Engineer – API Testing

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2013 - 11.2017
  • Undergone Agile transformation and followed SCRUM, Kanban frameworks
  • Validation of both SOAP and REST services
  • Ensured functionality of services (test execution) is covered from all scenarios
  • Perform different types of testing including sanity, functional, regression, UAT, and report defects suitably
  • Developed complete data driven Soap UI project
  • Involved in doing estimates for API's
  • Ensured effective preparation of test cases, automation test cases, and other test related documents
  • Identification of regression test cases for automation
  • Accolades for Associate of the Quarter.

Programmer Trainee-Backend Testing

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2011 - 02.2013
  • Efficiently involved in understanding customer requests, writing test cases, mapping them to MDM
  • Written various SQL DDL and DML scripts with Oracle DB to insert data and fetch data from various sources
  • Validated UI for the data validation
  • Ensured effective preparation of Release documents, Agent Validation notes, etc
  • And supported sanity of post-production validation along with customers.

Education

B.E - Information Science

Bangalore College of Engineering and Technology (VTU)
05.2010

Skills

Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

Capacity planning

Stakeholder communication and Risk management

Dashboards and KPI reporting

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Certification

02/01/2023, CSM (Certified Scrum Master), Scrum Alliance

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Cognizant
06.2024 - Current

SAFe Scrum Master

Continental
04.2023 - 05.2024

Scrum Master

DXC Technology
05.2020 - 03.2023

Test Lead

DXC Technology
12.2017 - 04.2020

Programmer Analyst, QA, Senior Quality Engineer – API Testing

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2013 - 11.2017

Programmer Trainee-Backend Testing

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2011 - 02.2013

B.E - Information Science

Bangalore College of Engineering and Technology (VTU)

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