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ASHISH KUMAR NATH

Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with a strong background in Agile methodologies and team facilitation in the card payment Financial services industry with 3+ years of experience. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on time. Skilled in conflict resolution and creating a collaborative work environment.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Apexx Global
01.2024 - Current
  • Facilitated and led Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Refinement and Retrospectives
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering Teams, and Stakeholders to define scope, goals on JIRA, and deliverables and communicate project status to stakeholders.
  • Help the teams to accomplish sprint goals & PI OKRs by following ceremonies and estimation of features and user stories, increasing sprint velocity by 15%
  • Drove product backlog refinement sessions, prioritizing 250+ user stories and resolving 75+ cross-functional dependencies, resulting in a 20% faster release cycle and improved product predictability.
  • Tactically identify dependencies and blockers, track and help remove them accordingly and recommend business insights via root cause analysis to stakeholders, which helped banking clients cut business losses by 13%
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and high performance within the team.
  • Set up and review KPI metrics such as Burndown charts and sprint capacity to drive progress.
  • Note anti-agile patterns through metrics and coach/steer teams accordingly.
  • Escalate to upper management if the project’s progress is on track or is currently delayed.
  • Coached 6 Scrum teams in Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality products

Business Analyst

Apexx Global
07.2023 - 01.2024
  • Led the Business Requirements gathering for 15+ Payments clients and detailed out scope documents, including functional and non-functional requirements
  • Led user acceptance testing(UAT) of 5+ projects, coordinating with QA teams and end-users to validate that solutions meet functional and usability requirements.
  • Overhauled a Business Process Improvement strategy for one of the largest airline clients in the UK, resulting in a system downtime reduction by 80%
  • Optimized SQL queries for data extraction, reporting and analysis. Worked on 25+ RESTful APIS and third-party integrations. Validated UAT business scenarios via Postman API on the sandbox environment.
  • Designed, developed and executed test cases to validate data model and data flows for 5 system designs.
  • Excelled in stakeholder management via continuous improvement and relaying project challenges.

Senior Analyst- Business & Integration Architecture

Accenture
06.2022 - 05.2023
  • Elicited, analyzed, and documented business requirements and aligned functional and non-functional specifications.
  • Teamed up with stakeholders to collect, challenge, and facilitate 100+ Features, Epics and user stories.
  • Spearheaded business requirements gathering for KYC, AML and Financial Crime projects for a reputed Australian banking client
  • Collaborated with QA teams for User Acceptance Testing(UAT) to deliver a KYC project ahead of schedule, resulting in a revenue increase of 45%
  • Translated customer insights into 70+ user stories with Acceptance Criteria for the development and QA teams.
  • Acted as a Scrum Master as well, coaching 5 scrum teams on the Agile principles and conducting Sprint planning for 5 tech teams, leading to an improvement in sprint velocity by 20%

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM/MBA) - Operations Management

Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research
Bengaluru, India
06.2022

Bachelor of Engineering(B.E.) - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune, India
06.2017

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Scrum
  • Sprint Planning
  • Backlog refinement
  • SDLC
  • Agile methodology
  • Jira
  • ERP
  • Program management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Agile metrics tracking
  • Release management
  • Agile Testing
  • Agile Coaching
  • Kanban
  • Azure DevOps

Certification

  • SAFe 5.0 Certified Advanced Scrum Master, Scaled Agile Inc
  • Entry Certificate in Business Analysis, IIBA

Timeline

Scrum Master

Apexx Global
01.2024 - Current

Business Analyst

Apexx Global
07.2023 - 01.2024

Senior Analyst- Business & Integration Architecture

Accenture
06.2022 - 05.2023

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM/MBA) - Operations Management

Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research

Bachelor of Engineering(B.E.) - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University

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