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Divya Chandra

Divya Chandra

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master
Bangalore

Summary

Overall 18 years of industry experience of which recent 8+ years in Project management and Delivery management as scrum master with a proven history of inculcating Agile practices and culture in teams and there by enabling teams to deliver customer centric product and services.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Senior Manager

Embitel Technologies (Part Of Cariad VW Group)
2023.06 - Current
  • Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence for team responsible for 3 Features (PCIe, Ethernet, I2C)
  • Over period of time with regular constructive retrospectives coached team to identify and implement few process improvements resulting in effective backlog refinement and planning and thereby improving overall teams productivity and job satisfaction
  • With second PI, team was able to achieve 88% of goals

Project Manager

Elektrobit India Ltd.
2017.08 - 2023.05

Cloud Team

  • Streamlined new developer joiner ramp up process and plan.
  • Played important role in helping collaboration between team in Germany and India

Bluetooth Team

  • Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross-functional teams ( Bluetooth, Multimedia, Projection and Client side)
  • Streamlined Defects management by introducing Agile - Kanban methodology which helped in setting right priority and visibility for upcoming releases
  • Contributed to successful release of multiple software versions through rigorous testing and defect management processes.
  • Over a period of time, we observed increased competency and bug resolution time with zero build break issues

Project Lead

Harman Connected Services
2009.08 - 2017.08

Lead - Instrument Cluster Validation

  • Facilitated required discussion between cross functional teams to seek requirement and architectural clarification
  • Ensured effective PI planning by taking in account teams capacity and timely highlighting of risks and dependencies

Defect Management & Change Management

  • Reviewing & Coordinating with Architects for defined work packages to ensure estimates from all impacted teams is provided
  • In span of ~ 3 years had less than 3 instances of missed impact.
  • Facilitate sharing of estimation details in CCB meetings
  • Enforced process to improve Bugs triaging productivity by 20%
  • Facilitate Regular Defect Management Meeting between 5 cross functional teams and customer representative

Senior Software Engineer

Sasken Communications
2005.02 - 2009.07
  • August 2009– July 2011 -Multimedia – Photo/Video Editor Testing

Test lead for for third party media editor app feature testing and integration for an upcoming Nokia phone.

  • June 2008 – Feb 2009 - Tester for Motorola Mobile Browser Testing

This involved testing browser component of various upcoming products of the client.

  • July 2006 –July 2007 -Telephony Testing for Motorola Birmingham (U.K.)
    This was onsite (UK) project for testing telephony component for new upcoming mobile device with Symbian OS.

Education

Master of Computer Application - Computer Application

Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi
2000.04 - 2004.06

Skills

Tools - Jira, Confluence, CodeBeamer, Doors

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Certification

SSM: SAFe5 Scrum Master from Scaled Agile

Accomplishments

  • Extra Mile award -2024
  • Pinnacle award (Yearly Award) - annual performance for contributions for 2019
  • Maverik award (Quarterly Award) for contributions to the Ford project - 2018
  • Thrice received Spot Award from Teleca India for outstanding performance at the client location.
  • Excellence award from Nokia for contributions made in multimedia testing project.

Timeline

Senior Manager

Embitel Technologies (Part Of Cariad VW Group)
2023.06 - Current

SSM: SAFe5 Scrum Master from Scaled Agile

2022-03

Project Manager

Elektrobit India Ltd.
2017.08 - 2023.05

PSM: Profession Scrum master from Scrum.org

2017-07

Project Lead

Harman Connected Services
2009.08 - 2017.08

Senior Software Engineer

Sasken Communications
2005.02 - 2009.07

Master of Computer Application - Computer Application

Indira Gandhi National Open University
2000.04 - 2004.06
Divya ChandraSenior Project Manager / Scrum Master