Bhanu Supriya Nuthalapati

Citrix Workspace App Program
Client: Citrix Business Unit
Model: Agile / SAFe
Tools: JIRA, Confluence, AEM, Gcloud Suite
Team Size: 5 Teams

• Oversaw the execution, integration, stakeholder engagement, and risk management of a large-scale program across multiple platforms and components.
• Managed several onshore and offshore SAFe ARTs and Scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and timely delivery.
• Defined project roadmaps with epics, features, and stories during SAFe Product Increment (PI) and iteration planning events.
• Tracked and published SAFe ART-specific project metrics on a regular basis to keep stakeholders informed.
• Ensured clarity around the scope of Epics, Features, and testing within SAFe and Scrum teams.
• Provided coaching and support for Scrum adoption across the organization.
• Managed end-to-end program releases and cross-functional dependencies, proactively identifying risks and escalating issues.
• Maintained JIRA hygiene for all teams, ensuring consistency and quality.
• Created and maintained release checklists, gateway documents, and multiple dashboard levels for teams, PIs, and releases.
• Conducted Sprint end demos, ensuring that feedback was captured and incorporated in JIRA for follow-up.

Partner Portal Cloud, Firewall Tools, Migration Tools, Next-Gen Automation Tools
Client: Cisco Systems and Technology
Model: Agile / SAFe
Tools: JIRA, Rally, Doc Central, CDETS, QUIP, MIRO, Confluence
Team Size: 3 Teams (Average of 8 members each)

• Led initiatives for Customer Experience Cloud-based tools, focusing on onboarding customers, managing subscriptions, and tracking partner/user details.
• Identified and removed impediments to team progress by facilitating effective problem-solving sessions, ensuring smooth project execution.
• Evaluated existing organizational processes, pinpointing opportunities for improvement, and implemented changes to enhance team performance and efficiency.
• Maintained close communication with project teams to swiftly resolve issues, minimizing delays.
• Coordinated with stakeholders to define and adjust project scope and objectives as necessary.
• Monitored and tracked team performance against sprint objectives, adjusting project plans according to evolving requirements and available resources.
• Maintained comprehensive records of work completed during each sprint, including any changes made to the project.
• Fostered cross-team collaboration by organizing knowledge-sharing sessions, improving communication between multiple locations.
• Actively contributed to the Agile Community of Practice at the organizational level, enhancing knowledge and best practices.
• Participated in internal training sessions and brown bag talks to continuously improve personal and team skills.
• Worked as a team gardener, decentralized dependencies among team leads/managers, and took part in staffing and recruitment efforts to build a strong team culture.

Capgemini (Client: CISCO)

• Client Interaction & Scope Management:Collaborated with clients and Product Owners (PO) to prioritize and finalize release requirements.
• Initiated and finalized the scope for releases and release backlogs.
• Obtained formal approvals on release goals from clients and stakeholders.
• Sprint Ceremonies & Coaching:Conducted all essential Sprint ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective).
• Provided guidance and coaching to the team, ensuring adherence to Agile Scrum practices.
• Assisted team members in staying on track and improving their Scrum performance.
• Stakeholder Communication:Acted as the communication bridge between stakeholders and the engineering team.
  Ensured all stakeholders were informed about current activities and project progress.
• Scrum Metrics & Monitoring:Continuously monitored Scrum metrics to track team adherence to Scrum practices and Agile principles.
• Worked to maintain the team’s effectiveness and helped address any roadblocks.
• Release Tracking & Reporting:Maintained and tracked all planned release dates, ensuring alignment with actual release dates.
• Managed project status updates via dashboards, keeping the team and stakeholders informed on project progress and timelines.
  

FM Facts (Facilities and Maintenance)- FM facts is facilities and contracts tracking system. It creates solutions for larger facilities and facilities service provider who manages the facilities of multiple clients across multiple sites.
Model : Agile Methodology

OS : Windows,Android,IOS

Platform : VB,.Net Framework 1.1& 2.0

Automation Tool : Selenium WebDriver

• Facilitate in identifying and refining the product backlogs.
• Updating and removing individual and team impediments.
• Facilitating sprint planning based on team capacity .
• Facilitate and monitor the scrum meeting ,make sure they are all time boxed and focused.
• Publishing End of the sprint reports.
• Facilitate and help the Product Owner and team to ensure two weeks ahead we have all refined stories which meets DOR (Definition of Ready ) and team agreements.
• Focusing on continuous improvement of each individual and the team[facilitate if any internal training or external training req].
• Facilitate Cross functionality knowledge sharing.
• Facilitate all Sprint activities – Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standup’s, Review, and Retrospective.
• Team Coaching to follow and adhere to Best Scrum Practices.

PIM [Product Information Management] : Product Information Manager is a basically a tool used by a supplier or Retailer to exchange product data and establish business between them

Client : GXS

Team Size : 11

Platform : QTP 11, Quality Center 10, Bugzilla, XML, Java, J2EE, Web logic, Oracle, Window server/Pro and Linux

• Designing Test Cases and Test Scenarios by referring Functional Specifications
• Testing the Modules manually and Automating using QTP 11
• Prepared the Test Plan and coordinate the work across the team.
• Executing test cases and update the status in Quality center.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix(RTM) and Test summary report.
• Executed SQL scripts in SQL Server Database to validate data which flows to the end user with the actual data in the Database.
• Identifying, analyzing defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions.
• Documenting, tracking test result and Defect/Bug tracking and reporting bugs in Bugzilla.
• Involved in Client interaction in solving the problem and getting the proper functionality information.