Debabrata Hota
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven Agile Coach specializing in fostering high productivity and efficiency within software development teams. Skilled in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies to streamline processes and enhance team performance. Excel at leadership, communication, and problem-solving to navigate complex project landscapes and drive successful outcomes. Committed to continuous improvement and adept at facilitating collaboration across diverse groups to achieve project objectives.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Coach / Program Manager
American Express
Bangalore
10.2023 - 08.2024
- Created strategies for transitioning from traditional project management approaches to agile practices.Provided guidance on the use of tools like JIRA to track progress, manage tasks, and identify areas of improvement.
- Responsible for keeping product backlogs maintained for the tech teams, managing sprint backlogs, and burn down charts, along with participating in story point estimation. Heading events like PI planning meeting, daily stand-up calls, sprint review, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, and backlog refinement meetings.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
- Led workshops on Agile principles and best practices.
- Assisted teams in identifying blockers or impediments that were preventing them from achieving their goals.
Senior Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
Bangalore
05.2021 - 09.2023
- Coached and mentored team members in Agile and Scrum concepts, values, principles, and practices.
- Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Identified and removed impediments to the team's progress through effective facilitation of problem solving sessions.
- Tracked and reported on project progress using burn down charts, velocity tracking and other metrics.
- Developed strategies for continuous improvement of the software development process.
- Collaborated with stakeholders from different departments to ensure successful delivery of projects.
Scrum Master
HCL Technologies
Bangalore
10.2019 - 04.2021
- Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
- Kept up-to-date with industry trends in agile software development methods.
- Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
- Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
Associate QA Engineer
Wells Fargo
Bangalore
05.2016 - 07.2018
- Developed, maintained, and executed manual tests for web-based applications.
- Reviewed software requirements and technical specifications to identify test requirements.
- Created detailed reports of the test results after conducting tests.
- Documented defects in bug tracking systems such as JIRA and Bugzilla.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Gandhi Institute For Technologies
Bhubaneswar07-2013
Skills
- Certification: PSM1 (certified Scrum Master)and PMP
- Agile Frameworks- Scrum ,Kanban, SAFe
- Agile Tools- JIRA,Confluence,Rally
- MS EXCEL
- Escalation Management
- Planning and Monitoring
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- People Management
- Resource Allocation
- Defect Management
- SDLC
- Product Management
- Agile Transformation
- Program Management
- Value stream mapping
Certification
- PSM
- PMP
- ISTQB
Timeline
Agile Coach / Program Manager
American Express
10.2023 - 08.2024
Senior Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
05.2021 - 09.2023
Scrum Master
HCL Technologies
10.2019 - 04.2021
Associate QA Engineer
Wells Fargo
05.2016 - 07.2018
- PSM
- PMP
- ISTQB
Bachelor of Technology -
Gandhi Institute For Technologies
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