HARIHARAN
Summary
Certified Scrum Master offering over 10+ years of experience in improving processes and complex product deliveries by implementing an Agile environment. Hands-on in training teams and supporting product owners to remove impediments and backlogs, enhance velocity, and help teams adopt Agile methodology and where I can make use of my talents and skills to the best of my capability and continue to improve them, and obtain an opportunity for value-based growth and career advancement while contributing handsomely to the organizations.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master | K Mart
Accenture
08.2023 - Current
- Works with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan.
- Ensuring Product backlog is of manageable size, preparing Product Release Burndown charts.
- Resolving internal team conflicts and Keeping the team motivated to ensure successful sprints.
- Tracking milestones and Publishing team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
- Facilitating Mid Sprint checkup to re review the acceptance criteria of committed Product backlog items.
- Helping team in self-management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burndown chart,Impediments list etc.
- Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them.
- Ensuring Product backlog is of manageable size, preparing Product Release Burndown charts.
- Making sure complacency doesn't set in team, at same time avoiding over committing to stakeholders.
- Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing time boxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective.
- Planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal clear understanding of sprint goals.
- Guided developers in adopting best practices and achieving higher code quality.
Scrum Master | BT
CTS
04.2021 - 07.2023
- Educate team members in an Agile methodology. Use of Clarity and Jira for tracking projects and tasks.
- Conduct training sessions and create documentation for new features and functionality being released.
- Publicize the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to the product owners and stakeholders.
- Communicate with subject matter experts (both internal and external) to understand business needs and/or prevent/resolve issues.
- The project is based on Agile methodology with a 2-week Sprint cycle.
- Role as a Scrum Master and Technical Lead Sprint Planning Validating the Stories within the sprint, providing story points Prioritization of Stories within a Sprint Velocity Tracking Retrospection at the end of each sprint Feature demonstration.
- Provided leadership in problem-solving and design strategies.
- Responsible for driving continuous improvement of the deployment process, including assessment of project delivery, gathering and reporting performance metrics, targets and measurement of ongoing progress.
- Responsible for managing and monitoring day-to-day activities and providing direction to team members and supporting organizations for timely delivery.
- Responsible for managing and monitoring quality targets and goals.
Project Associate | AstraZeneca
Aspire Systems
05.2018 - 04.2021
- Define Project Scope, Objective, and Deliverables and develop a detailed project plan, including timelines, releases, tasks, and resource allocation and create and maintain project documentation.
- Identify and engage project stakeholders, including clients and team members.
- Manage changes to project scope, ensuring they align with project objectives.
- Collaborated with PMO, product owners, team members, technologists, and other teams to define solutions and drive progress.
- Working with the project management office to utilize Concur standard project management and agile methodologies.
- Provides day-to-day guidance and oversight of team activities; actively works to recognize performance.
- Gathered data on integration issue and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Facilitated Scrum framework - sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Work with the PO in defining and maintaining the Product Backlog.
- Understand the product vision and lead the team to work towards it.
Manual Tester | AstraZeneca
Aspire Systems
09.2013 - 04.2018
- Prepared and executed Test Cases and captured Test Results and reported bugs to the developer.
- Understood business requirements.
- Involved in the analysis, design, and construction phases of the project.
- Performed System Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional and Regression testing
- Performed System Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional and Regression testing.
- Prepared daily status reports as per the planned and actual progress of deliverables.
- Provided Knowledge Transfer to new members of the project team.
- Direct Interaction with Business Clients and experience working as a tester or in a similar position.
- Reviewed, evaluated, and identified requirements for testability.
- Established and maintained effective communication with clients.
- Wrote protocols, qualification documents, test plans and test reports for quality assurance purposes.
Education
MBA - Project Management
Alagappa University
Karaikudi01.2023
BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Anna University
Chennai05-2013
Skills
- Leadership & Management
- Communication & Collaboration
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Agile Metrics & Reporting
- Risk Management & Mitigation
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Principles & Practices
- Problem solving
- Critical Thinking
- Agile metrics tracking
- Adaptive leadership
- Backlog grooming
- Scrum methodology
- Communication planning
- Self motivation
Certification
CSM @ Scrum Alliance
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the details and particulars furnished above are correct to my knowledge.
Date :
Place : Hariharan
Timeline
Scrum Master | K Mart
Accenture
08.2023 - Current
Scrum Master | BT
CTS
04.2021 - 07.2023
Project Associate | AstraZeneca
Aspire Systems
05.2018 - 04.2021
Manual Tester | AstraZeneca
Aspire Systems
09.2013 - 04.2018
MBA - Project Management
Alagappa University
BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Anna University
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