Darshana Rananavare
Mumbai
Summary
Accomplished Scrum Master and Business Analyst with a proven track record at Stewart Title, India, where I led over numerous successful sprints. Expert in Agile best practices and Scrum processes, I excel in stakeholder management and requirements gathering. My approach combines technical proficiency in software development lifecycle with effective team leadership and project management skills.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Programmer Analyst
Stewart Title, India
Mumbai
03.2023 - Current
- Led and facilitated Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives for a cross-functional team of 10+ members, ensuring the successful completion of more than 20 sprints.
- Created dashboards using various tools, such as Azure DevOps, to track project progress and milestones.
- Coached the team on Agile best practices and principles, ensuring they understood and adhered to Scrum frameworks.
- Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
- Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and define user requirements, and convert them into well-structured user stories.
- Wrote clear, concise, and actionable user stories using the INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable) criteria.
- Reviewed user stories prior to sprint planning sessions to ensure accurate scope definition.
Associate
Altudo; Collabera
Remote
07.2021 - 02.2023
- Coached the team in Agile best practices, ensuring alignment with SAFe principles, and supporting continuous improvement through retrospectives and action items.
- Participated in all scrum events.
- Participated in Program Increment (PI) Planning, and coordinated with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to ensure the team was aligned with larger ART (Agile Release Train) objectives.
- Partnered with the Product Owner to manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring user stories were well-defined and ready for sprint execution.
- Utilized metrics like burn-down charts, velocity, and cumulative flow diagrams to track sprint and team performance, helping make data-driven improvements.
- Created well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria, ensuring that product features met business requirements, and were ready for implementation in Agile sprints.
- Led sessions for requirement gathering, including workshops, interviews, and surveys, to gather input from stakeholders, and ensure requirements were understood and documented accurately.
Executive
AGS Transact Technologies
Mumbai
09.2019 - 01.2021
- Acted as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure alignment on project objectives.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather business requirements, and document them clearly.
- Developed and maintained a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) to track the progress of requirements from the initial gathering phase to final project delivery.
- Defined and managed project scope to ensure that the project remained focused on key deliverables, mitigating scope creep through effective change management processes.
Trainee Software Developer
U-To Solutions
Mumbai
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Assisted with the development of web-based applications utilizing SQL server technologies.
- Analyzed and developed web applications using ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
PVG's College of Science And Technology
Mumbai04-2017
Skills
- Scrum processes
- Agile best practices
- Software development lifecycle
- Requirements gathering
- Backlog grooming
- Stakeholder management
- Customer requirements analysis
- User story creation
- Project management
- Backlog management
Technical Expertise
- Project Management tools: Jira, Azure DevOps.
- Version Controlling System: Git
- Documentation tools: MS Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
- Modelling tools: MS Visio 2007
- Prototyping tools: Axure RP Pro and Balsamiq
- Agile Methodologies
- UML Diagrams
- ASP.Net & ASP.Net MVC
- MS SQL
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Affiliations
- Successfully implemented agile methodologies, reducing project completion time.
- Successfully led the transition to agile methodologies, enhancing team collaboration and project efficiency, while consistently delivering high-quality results aligned with business objectives.
- Successfully managed project documentation, leading to reduction in errors.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance
- Certified IT Business Analyst from IIBA-EEP
Timeline
IT Programmer Analyst
Stewart Title, India
03.2023 - Current
Associate
Altudo; Collabera
07.2021 - 02.2023
Executive
AGS Transact Technologies
09.2019 - 01.2021
Trainee Software Developer
U-To Solutions
08.2018 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
PVG's College of Science And Technology
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