Bhagyalaxmi Choudhury
Hyderabad
Summary
Passionate and dedicated professional with 10+ years of successful experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Coach, Agile Project Manager, and QA/Software Development Professional. Proficient in Health Care, Banking, E-commerce domain, and Agile frameworks with a strong background of successfully helping organizations and teams, large and small, transform their work methods. As a Coach, Mentor, Trainer, and Servant Leader, helped organizations to efficiently deliver web products using Agile, Scrum and Kanban.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Scrum Master (Group Scrum Lead)
Telstra
02.2024 - 10.2024
- Facilitate PI Planning sessions to align cross-functional teams on objectives and deliverables.
- Implement and optimize agile practices using AI-driven tools for enhanced team performance.
- Mentor team members in agile methodologies and SAFe principles for continuous improvement.
- Coordinate with Product Owners to ensure clear backlog prioritization and refinement.
- Utilize data analytics to track team progress and identify areas for improvement.
- Lead daily stand-ups and retrospectives to foster open communication and collaboration.
- Drive automation of routine tasks to increase efficiency and reduce manual errors.
- Facilitate remote collaboration using digital tools to maintain team cohesion and productivity.
- Adapt to emerging technologies and industry trends to keep the team competitive.
- Resolve impediments by collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring timely delivery of solutions.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the agile team.
Scrum Master Project Management
S&P Global
7 2023 - 02.2024
- Experience working in an Agile Environment using Scrum Methodologies
- Strong collaboration skills - partner with other teams to solve problems, incorporate feedback, and ensure smooth delivery
- Work with the data engineering teams to build high-level estimates, define timelines, and add features to the roadmap followed by outlining a milestone plan showing the major features to be delivered
- Accuracy through verifying and communicating routinely with both the client and internal Teams
- Demonstrated competence in leadership, team building, time management, organizational management, customer interface, and multiple stakeholder communications
- Managing and creating a forward-looking product backlog
- Prioritizing the backlog items based on changing requirements
- Understand, analyze, and document business needs
- Build process flows for current and future state
- Breakdown business needs into features and stories and back them with diagrams and documentation
- Realize requirements, know the value and reasoning behind current prioritization
- Facilitating the agile ceremonies, and project-based leadership check-ins on a bi-weekly basis
- Work across different component teams to seek feature-related feedback, and understand and resolve dependencies
Scrum Master /Project Manager
State Street Corporation
05.2021 - 07.2023
- Introduced Scrum Agile framework across AI/ML teams
- Coached 5+ teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum framework
- Drives overall client satisfaction through effective coordination and communication of Client deliverables
- Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development that help them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams
- Proactively updates client and project team stakeholders on deadlines
- Accuracy through verifying and communicating routinely with both the client and internal Teams
- Created and conducted 5 training sessions annually for Scrum Masters and teams related to agile best practices, sessions were attended by 60+ employees over 2 years
- Need identification; resource requirements; project dependencies, planning, and progression; financials management; status reporting; prolific and effective communications; ongoing risk assessment and adaptation; and appropriate escalation strategies and implementation
- Collaborated with teams of 2 project manager to work cross-functionally to align the software delivery with project scope
- Set and Met 90% of goal deadlines, allocated budget, and worked across software and executive teams to ensure teams were properly resourced
- Contributed to various aspects of the requirement elicitation, including workshops, interviews, detailing business requirement documents, refinements, and signoffs from clients
- Responsible for writing feature acceptance criteria, reviewing test scenarios & signoff, performing user acceptance tests, and handling defect triage
- Worked with multi-disciplinary teams to build MVP plans by identifying the feature dependencies and project timelines
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases
Scrum Master
Quest Diagnostics
02.2019 - 05.2021
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
- Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross-functional teams
- Spearheaded 50+ Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story Refinement, and Release Planning
- Tracked and communicated projects' progress to stakeholders and management staff
- Translated features into user stories within the team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder's requirements
- Acted as liaison between business, sales and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands
- Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process
Senior Test Analyst
Accenture
11.2017 - 01.2019
- Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing
- Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing
- Directed teams completing regression tests to support successful product development stages
- Created the Automation Test Framework using Selenium and Java
- Met with quality assurance, developers and project managers to assess scope and sequence of project
Scrum Master
06.2015 - 11.2017
- Facilitated Scrum framework - sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases
- Contributed to various aspects of the requirement elicitation, including workshops, interviews, detailing business requirement documents, refinements, and signoffs from clients
- Responsible for writing feature acceptance criteria, reviewing test scenarios & sign-off, performing user acceptance tests, and handling defect triage
- Coordinated with onsite personnel, Scrum team, and project manager to perform gap analysis and risk assessment
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
09.2013 - 06.2015
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts and use cases to support testing objectives
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability
- Helped in providing test estimates
- Involved in all the phases of testing which includes SIT, UAT, Regression Testing
- Supported the Selenium Test Automation Framework
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Mangalore, Karnataka 08.2008 - 06.2012
Skills
Agile Frameworks
Scrum
Kanban
Project Management
Risk Management
Resource Management
Communication
Java
SQL
SAFe frameworks
User Stories
ATDD
Continuous Integration
STLC
SDLC
Software Testing
Automation Testing
Selenium
Snowflake
Jira
Clarity
Azure DevOps
Rally
Certification
Certified Scrum Master, 09/01/20
Timeline
Scrum Master (Group Scrum Lead)
Telstra
02.2024 - 10.2024
Scrum Master /Project Manager
State Street Corporation
05.2021 - 07.2023
Scrum Master
Quest Diagnostics
02.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Test Analyst
Accenture
11.2017 - 01.2019
Scrum Master
06.2015 - 11.2017
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
09.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
08.2008 - 06.2012
Scrum Master Project Management
S&P Global
7 2023 - 02.2024
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