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Baviri Damodar Rao

Baviri Damodar Rao

Assistant Consultant
Kokata

Summary

Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master , Technical Program Manager

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
Kolkata
03.2020 - Current

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for organizing and facilitating program level events including planning, synchronizing, reviews and retrospectives
  • Communicated to management of the scrum team’s dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or other scrum teams and to release train leadership
  • Ensured the progress of the Program Delivery is transparent including RISK & impediments across Program
  • Hosted many collaborative sessions among scrum teams to ensure that Digital Lending understands the integration features to be developed and ensure that PIL is consuming the right API and External accounts are added properly to send funds
  • Facilitated work stream specific requirements deep dive sessions to align the teams required to develop the disbursements feature
  • Lead requirement clarification, slicing and sizing sessions and prioritized the PBI
  • Facilitating grooming and prioritization session with the team and assisted the product owners’ work with leads for requirement fine tuning & prioritization of stories


Scrum Master

TCS
Chennai
04.2019 - 02.2020

Role & responsibilities:

  • Involving in the backlog grooming along with product owner and scrum team.
  • Managed Burn down for tracking estimated and actual sizing against velocity to ensure strategic efforts meet committed target release dates
  • Used JIRA & confluence for implementing the agile project tasks
  • WIP Limits - Supported team in enforcing work in progress limits to ensure focus is maintained on priority efforts
  • Created and regularly monitored key scrum metrics (Sprint burn down charts, velocity, defects, through Agile tools like JIRA & confluence to meet project goals
  • Use key metric (Burn down charts, CFD) to track and monitor the status of committed work.

Test Lead(Client Location)

TCS
Chennai
10.2014 - 03.2019

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Developed the Automation Test Scripts in Selenium Web Driver using Java based on the design pattern Page Object Model for reusability
  • Maintaining and evaluating project metrics that provide insight Into QA effectiveness and efficiency
  • Utilized test driven development to create test cases via Junit
  • Developed and executed automated test scripts using UFT for Functional, Integration and Regression Testing
  • Hands on Designing Functional Test Plan and Data Management Test plan
  • Hands on performing different kind of testing like Smoke, Regression, Functional, Integration and Acceptance tests
  • Responsible for creating Traceability Matrix to ensure the test case coverage for all requirements
  • Involved in Bug reporting, defect tracking and re-testing using Application Lifecycle Management tool

Mainframe Tester

TCS
Chennai
07.2013 - 09.2014

ETL Test Analyst

TATA America
Jersey City
08.2009 - 06.2013

Test Engineer

TCS
Chennai
11.2005 - 07.2009

Education

B.E - Computer Science

Bhilai Institute of Technology
Durg,India
09.2001 - 06.2005

Skills

Defect Management: ALM and JIRA

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Certification

SAFe 5.0 Agilist

Timeline

SAFe 5.0 Agilist

07-2021

Scrum Master , Technical Program Manager

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
03.2020 - Current

Professional Scrum Master PSM -1

02-2020

Scrum Master

TCS
04.2019 - 02.2020

ISTQB® Certified Tester, Foundation Level

09-2018

Test Lead(Client Location)

TCS
10.2014 - 03.2019

Mainframe Tester

TCS
07.2013 - 09.2014

ETL Test Analyst

TATA America
08.2009 - 06.2013

Test Engineer

TCS
11.2005 - 07.2009

B.E - Computer Science

Bhilai Institute of Technology
09.2001 - 06.2005
Baviri Damodar RaoAssistant Consultant