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
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Scrum Master
HCL PVT LTD
Chennai
10.2022 - Current
Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
Delivered analysis of market, sales and consumer trend impact on long and short-term strategies.
Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
Implemented business intelligence solutions to increase operational efficiency.
Scrum Master
TCS Pvt LTD
Chennai
08.2009 - 10.2020
In addition to that allocating the jobs to the members in the team, making them work on the order received and clarifying team member queries in processing the orders, negotiate with the onshore team regarding the quires
Tracking the entire workflow of the process and completing the job to meet client satisfaction
Took the role of Trainer from 2011, In addition to the existing QA role
Taking initiatives and conduct knowledge sharing & best practice sharing session in the team to improve their process knowledge thereby reduce errors and delays
Got six sigma GB certificate by successfully completing the GB training and also by providing project improvement plan to the team, 5 FTE count has been reduced by implementing the project plan it also resulted in improving the team quality
Responsible for achieving schedule adherence and high productivity levels for team
Responsible for meeting quality standards in resolution deliverance for the team
Point of contact person for Quality & productivity of the Team
Aiding associates for quality and process on floor
(Floor support)
Responsible for TAT in Transactions basis for the team
Responsible for Auditing and Corrections within TAT for the team
Managed the team as a Team Leader from 2013 and preparing QIP and RCA reports for the monthly error and provide mitigation plan
Preparing Error analysis and Pareto chart and quality reports for the team on daily basis in-order to classify and concentrate on the major issue area
Preparing and adding points to the training documents and discussing the same in client call
Review daily production and inventory reports
Analysis and review dashboard to discuss in the client calls
Reviewing the errors and making rebuttal for the same
As a project leader was managing a team of 40 associates including 2 team leaders till 2017
Deliberately coordinate with my managers to complete the committed projects deadlines using agile methodology
Experience 3:
Joined Banking domain from Retail Domain after doing PI projects
Did end to end automation to reduce 14 FTE in Retail Domain - Market Research
Successfully performing Scrum master role in agile project
Manage the team and sharing project status to client and stake holders
Will set up scrum calls, review meeting, retrospective meeting, stand up meeting
Review the product backlog with the project owner and understand the scope for next Sprint
Check with client on the upcoming project and will prepare the team for development
Experience 4:
In Banking project working as a Test lead managing UAT team of 18 team membersand perform manual testing in Mainframe enhancement project
Where Mainframe is the backend server and front-end Java webserver
Experienced and tested SWIFT ISO 20022 Message, MT103 and MT202 and
MT999 messages
Will be part of scrum planning calls to understand the scope of the project and project plans and do capacity planning
Review scrum stories/requirement and help the team in plotting scenarios
Based on the scenarios plotted discuss with Business SME and finalize the scenario for scripting
Write the script for the stories reviewed and validate with the client and business SME, do a walkthrough on the scripts written with SME
Prepare Test plan and Test guide for the project and do a walkthrough on this with the stakeholders and get it approved
Once Project is completed prepare TCR report and signoff document and provide signoff for the project
Automate the manual scripts on a longer run with help of teams using selenium and ensure the scripts are approved and tested in test environment and get it approved by client
Monitor the team performance and guide them to complete the assigned test cases
Conduct backlog refinement calls and daily huddle to understand the amount of work completed and in-progress
Train the team on software tools and application they will work with
Do end to end testing to validate the functional and regression test script worked as expected as per the client demand
Conduct 1 to 1 meetings to understand the strength and lacking areas
Send execution status to the client daily and will have weekly calls with client to understand the upcoming projects and also get feedback from client to scale up the team's knowledge level and capacity
Send project DSR to the client and stakeholders
In the meantime, learn UFT and other automation test software and tools
Projects worked as part of Banking – Swift GPI, SEPA credits, GPP UI, SEB XML, , ensure the requirement are gathered and planned for product driven activity
Collaborate with development scrum team and cascade the information gathered from the client are explained to the team to kick start the activity
Monitor the work being completed and calculate the progress of work done and ensure the backlogs are picked and completed on time to meet the deadline
Do gap analysis and root cause analysis for the issue in case the product is not achieved on the committed timeline
Provide guidance and KT and Training to the project and operation team
Create and review stories/requirement in Jira and help the team in plotting scenarios
Coordinate between the project and operations during impact analysis and during the application changes and creation
Risk in the project are identified and reported to business steer-co meeting
Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
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.
Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
Generated reports for IT project progress and performance.
Managed various IT projects to meet deadlines and customer requirements.
Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
Assessed and analyzed customer requirements to develop effective IT project plans.
Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
Scrum Master
Accenture PVT LTD, Tata Consultancy services
Chennai
09.2007 - 05.2009
Played the role of a MEA (Manual Eligibility Analyst) in maintaining and enrolling patient records in the Data Base for an onshore health insurance client
Played the role of VDA (Vendor Data Analyst) in maintaining the Provider (Doctor) record in the Data Base
Played the role of QA in analyzing the order received from onshore and allocating the order to the suitable person and QC those works once completed by the associates
Trained new associates for the core process
Auditing the daily work for the new associates
Conducting team huddle daily
Preparing and conducting assessment questions on various work types for the new associates
Conducting various process training and coaching for the team
Making outreach(clarification) call for the team members whenever needed
Responsible for all the work site access for both client and Accenture for the new joiners
Ensure all the deliverables are completed with 100% accuracy
Ensure all inputs are received on time and all the activities are met SLA
Submitted ideas to reduce/remove value added activities and to improve the accuracy and productivity of the process
Keep the team posted on all process related updates
Prompt and accurate response for all client queries
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Dr Ambedkar College of Science
Chennai
07.2004 - 06.2007
Skills
Operating system: Windows 98/2000/XP/ 2007/2013undefined
chess, Dancing
Like Dancing and Singing
I also do Mono acting by doing mimicry.
Chess, I would play to relax my mind as a stress buster.
Timeline
Scrum Master
HCL PVT LTD
10.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
TCS Pvt LTD
08.2009 - 10.2020
Scrum Master
Accenture PVT LTD, Tata Consultancy services
09.2007 - 05.2009
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Dr Ambedkar College of Science
07.2004 - 06.2007
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