Chandra Sekhar Panchadi

People management and QA Manager for for 3 Teams and Serving as a full-time Scrum Master for 2 scrum teams. Facilitate the Agile Release Train (ART) processes and program execution within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), escalate impediments, manage risk, and contribute to program-level continuous improvement. Manage the ART's financial affairs and assist with resource planning. Additionally, promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, empowering individual teams to self-manage and maximize their cross-functional potential. Facilitate open communication and discussion among stakeholders by developing and implementing stakeholder engagement strategies.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Assisting the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for program deliverables and communicating with stakeholders
• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Monitor and establish a clear communication plan for the project, including status reports and updates/changes
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
• Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
• Manage the agreed-upon project user stories and schedules, ensuring that the project is completed within the agreed-upon scope, budget, time, and quality constraints.
• Experience and Performance-driven professional with excellence in client engagement; set up project delivery strategy, operations readiness & internal controls in the organization.
• Customer Centric Professional; efficient in interacting with clients for following up on unresolved issues; effective in ensuring high-quality customer experience, enriching customer satisfaction while adhering to the work processes & SLAs
• Providing the support to the client MBR meetings, Service line meetings and CoP meetings.
• Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
• Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.
• Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation.
• Recruited and hired top performers to add talent and value to department.

• Entrusted with the responsibilities of leading the Offshore Team and reviewing the team activities
• Showcased skills in writing and reviewing test cases and SQL queries for complex ETL rules
• Acted as a training specialist; imparted trainings to the teams on functional and domain knowledge
• Led initiatives in highlighting the project risks, mitigation release and version migration

• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Collaborated with fellow engineers to evaluate software and hardware interfaces.
• Informed internal personnel and external stakeholders of project milestones.