Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Awards Recognitions
Disclaimer
Languages
Timeline
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Geethaanjali Yoganathan

COIMBATORE

Summary

As a Scrum Master, I bring a collaborative and team-oriented approach to project management. With a strong background in effective communication and leadership, I prioritize tasks and optimize workflows. My expertise lies in facilitating cross-functional teams, ensuring clear communication, and delivering successful outcomes. Whether it’s managing risks or driving Agile methodologies, I thrive in fast-paced environments, contributing to project success.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2013 - Current

•Implemented Agile methodologies, leading to enhanced team efficiency and successful daily scrum meetings.
•Streamlined project delivery by effectively managing backlogs and sprint planning.
•Fostered cross-functional communication, enabling seamless collaboration among teams.
•Proactively identified and resolved impediments, ensuring smooth project progress.
•Developed performance metrics to track team achievements against goals.
•Anticipated risks and created mitigation plans to manage project uncertainties.
•Conducted sprint reviews and retrospectives, promoting a collaborative feedback-driven environment.

Agile Project Manager

Mars Relay Implementation
COIMBATORE, Tamil Nadu
03.2021 - Current
  • Oversaw the end-to-end delivery of Mars Relay Implementation project, ensuring all deliverables met quality standards and were delivered on time.
  • Acted as the primary point of contact for clients during Sprint Review meetings and Defect Triages, effectively managing client expectations and facilitating issue resolution.
  • Collaborated with clients and end users to analyze technical complexities and UAT defects, improving defect resolution efficiency by 25% and contributing to the successful delivery of the project.
  • Facilitate meetings like- Sprint Planning, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Product backlog refinement and sprint retrospective

    Attend 3-day PI planning workshops and facilitate system demo, inspect, and adapt workshops for future PIs.

    Help the Product Owner in maintaining, refining, and prioritizing the product backlog.

    Help the team to write and split and estimate User stories, breakdown Epics.

    Use Jira to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking, and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts.

    Track team progress, creating sprint & Release burndown charts

    Perform sprint retrospectives to capture lessons learned and what can be improved in next sprint.

    Mitigate impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks.

    Create and publish weekly status reports and weekly dashboards.

Salesforce Test Lead

PETCO
03.2020 - 02.2021
  • Led Salesforce QA Lead role, ensuring quality standards.
  • Participated in Sprint Review meetings, achieving 100% client satisfaction.
  • Collaborated with clients and end users, resolving technical complexities and analyzing UAT defects, reducing defect resolution time by 20%.
  • Developed SFDC Test cases from Functional Specifications, averaging 15 cases per week.
  • Generated daily Test Summary Reports, providing stakeholders with timely updates on testing progress.
  • Conducted Back-End Testing using SOQL queries, resolving an average of 10 issues per week.
  • Contributed to CTI testing and Live Agent testing, enhancing system performance and reliability.

Module Lead

HANOVER INSURANCE COMPANY
02.2019 - 02.2020
  • Analyzed client requirements and formulated test scenarios and cases
  • Prepared Test Summary Reports and Understanding documents
  • Managed Defect Tracking and utilized HP ALM for defect management
  • Conducted Patch testing and Regression testing using Selenium
  • Demonstrated end-to-end application knowledge
  • Provided knowledge transfer sessions to new team members
  • Participated in Scrum of Scrum meetings and other ceremonies
  • Achieved 100% sprint testing target through proactive collaboration with developers

Test Analyst

Willis Tower Watson-MVR
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Conducted Web service testing for connected broking application.
  • Analyzed client requirements and formulated test scenarios and test cases.
  • Executed Web service testing and documented observed defects in application.
  • Prepared Test Summary Reports and Understanding documents.
  • Managed Defect Tracking and Management in TFS, generating automated daily reports using HP ALM.
  • Utilized SOAP UI for Web service testing.
  • Possessed comprehensive end-to-end knowledge of application.
  • Provided knowledge transfer sessions to new team members.
  • Represented scrum of scrum meeting and other ceremonies.
  • Achieved 100% sprint testing target by conducting desk checks with developers to identify and report any issues early.

Jr.Test Analyst

State street-WAS and JRE upgrade
09.2013 - 12.2015
  • Analyzed client requirements and crafted test scenarios and cases.
  • Conducted System Integration Testing and documented application defects.
  • Generated Test Summary Reports and Understanding documents.
  • Participated in trainings to enhance software knowledge.

Education

B.E(EEE) -

Bannari Amman Institute of technology, Sathyamangalam, Anna University
01.2013

12th -

BVB Matric Higher secondary School, Thindal, Erode, State board
01.2009

10th -

KVM Matriculation higher secondary school, Perundurai, Erode, Matriculation
01.2007

Skills

  • HP ALM, JIRA
  • Test Execution
  • Defect Tracking and Reporting
  • Team Mentoring
  • Bug tracking
  • Test Data Management
  • Agile Methodology
  • Regression testing understanding
  • Manual test case preparation
  • Integration Testing
  • Scrum Framework

Certification

  • PSM1, Coimbatore, India, Scrum.org
  • Salesforce Admin, Coimbatore, India, Salesforce

Awards Recognitions

Received appreciations from various project client for successful project deliverables

Disclaimer

I consider myself familiar with Information Technology Aspects. I am also confident of my ability to work in a team or single. I hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Agile Project Manager

Mars Relay Implementation
03.2021 - Current

Salesforce Test Lead

PETCO
03.2020 - 02.2021

Module Lead

HANOVER INSURANCE COMPANY
02.2019 - 02.2020

Test Analyst

Willis Tower Watson-MVR
01.2016 - 01.2019

Summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2013 - Current

Jr.Test Analyst

State street-WAS and JRE upgrade
09.2013 - 12.2015

B.E(EEE) -

Bannari Amman Institute of technology, Sathyamangalam, Anna University

12th -

BVB Matric Higher secondary School, Thindal, Erode, State board

10th -

KVM Matriculation higher secondary school, Perundurai, Erode, Matriculation
Geethaanjali Yoganathan