Harsimran Kaur
Bengaluru
Summary
Agile Coach with 16+ yrs of experience with definitive leadership qualities, strong critical thinking and decision-making skills. Experience in coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Passionate about facilitating teams that solves real world customer problems. .
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consulting Manager, Agile Coach
Cognizant
Bangalore
07.2025 - Current
- Agile Transformation Leadership: Drove Agile adoption across teams, reducing cycle time by 20% through coaching and process optimization.
- Strategic Planning & Delivery: Developed and executed release roadmaps, improving feature delivery predictability and aligning outcomes with business priorities.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Enhanced stakeholder satisfaction by implementing transparent reporting and proactive communication, reduce scope changes by 15%.
- Risk Management & Governance: Introduced early risk identification and migration strategies, minimizing delivery delays and improving compliance with governance standards.
- Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Implemented Agile metrics(velocity, cycle time) and facilitated retrospectives, increasing team productivity by 25%.
Senior Consultant, Scrum Master
Infosys
Chandigarh
10.2022 - 07.2025
- Enhanced Transparency and Decision-Making: Created standardized dashboards that provided valuable insights to both clients and the team, facilitating better understanding of project progress and performance.
- Improved Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Collaborated effectively with stakeholders, Product Owners, and other Scrum Masters to identify and remove impediments, ensuring smooth team progress and successful sprint goal achievement.
- Streamlined Project Management: Worked closely with Project Managers to optimize scope, estimate accurately, plan resource allocation effectively, and manage team capacity.
- Facilitated High-Performing Scrum Events: Conducted and facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), training the team on effective participation, resulting in concise daily stand-ups, efficient planning, and impactful review sessions.
- Facilitated PI Planning Sessions: Led Agile teams through structured PI planning, ensuring alignment on objectives, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Managed Risks & Dependencies: Worked closely with RTEs, Product Managers, and System Architects to identify, track, and mitigate risks across teams.
- Improved Backlog Refinement: Organized and facilitated Backlog Refinement sessions, ensuring a clear understanding of backlog items. Proactively raised and communicated key issues, risks, and decisions to the entire team for improved visibility and proactive mitigation.
- Fostered Agile Engineering Practices: Coached and mentored team members on Agile engineering practices, promoting continuous improvement and a culture of excellence.
- Optimized Team Collaboration: Guided teams in breaking down features into user stories, estimating effort, and committing to achievable PI objectives.
Test Lead, Scrum Master
ImpactQA
NOIDA
12.2021 - 10.2022
- Improved Knowledge Transition: Analyzed and identified inefficiencies in the knowledge transfer process. Proactively suggested a revised roadmap, resulting in enhanced product understanding for new team members.
- Streamlined Regression Testing: Identified gaps in the regression suite and implemented Jira shortcuts, leading to a 30% reduction in testing effort within two sprints.
- Enhanced Team Collaboration: Mentored junior team members on effective communication with developers, accelerating the development process and increasing sprint velocity. Actively participated in all scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective) and collaborated with the Product Owner on ticket refinement.
- Improved Estimation Accuracy: Mentored team members on best practices for Poker Planning, leading to more accurate story estimation and improved sprint predictability.
- Fostered Agile Mindset: Guided team members in developing an agile mindset focused on delivering high-value products.
- Delivered High-Quality Testing: Performed comprehensive Agile, Functional, and End-to-End testing of the Lonewolf back-office system.
Founder
Asanasiddhi
Gurgaon
01.2017 - 11.2021
- Strategic planning: Spearheaded multi-channel marketing campaigns (email, Facebook, Google Ads) to drive lead generation, demonstrating strategic planning and performance tracking.
- Customer Engagement: Created and managed engaging content across digital platforms, enhancing brand visibility and customer engagement.
- Expanded Corporate Partnerships: Built and maintained corporate partnerships, aligning service delivery with client goals and expanding business reach.
- Designed and facilitated high-impact wellness programs, showcasing strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and delivery excellence.
Senior Data Analyst
Vodafone Shared Services Pvt. Ltd
Pune
10.2014 - 02.2016
- Mining data from different sources and organized it in the required form for effective testing.
- Designed and maintained data systems and databases, including data related problems.
- Used that data for testing purposes in simulated environment for more effective test.
- Collaborated with programmers and engineers for process improvements on regular basis.
Senior Test Engineer
Torus Insurance
Gurgaon
02.2014 - 10.2014
- Analyzed the requirements and design the scenarios for add to existing scopes of testing.
- Prepared test plans, test closure documents.
- Identified impactful test cases for after every release & Automated the UI scenarios using Selenium.
- Communicated with developers and stakeholders for better product delivery.
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra
NOIDA
02.2010 - 02.2014
- Analyzed the requirements and design the scenarios.
- Prepared test plans, test closure documents. Executed the test scenarios using REST services (API testing)
- Automated the UI scenarios using Selenium Web Driver.
- Participated in defect triage calls to ensure quick closure of defects.
- Supported On call for BBNMS clients.
Education
Master of Computer Application - Computer
Birla Institute of Technology
Ranchi01.2009
Bachelor of Computer Application - Computer
Panjab University
Chandigarh01.2006
Skills
- Agile methodologies: Scrum, SAFe, Scrumban
- Agile coaching
- Strategic planning
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Continuous improvement
- Project delivery
- Team collaboration
- Process optimization
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Metrics tracking
- Collaborative leadership
- Project management tools: Jira, Azure DevOps
- Written and verbal communication
- Facilitation and conflict resolution
- Negotiation and active listening
- Incident management: ServiceNow
- Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Java programming language
- Testing methodologies
Certification
- PMP (PMI)
- PSM-1 (Scrum.org)
- Generative AI, Datalandscape AI for GenAI, Prompt Engineering (PMI)
Additional Information
Certified Hatha Yoga trainer from Isha Foundation. Lead various corporate/private workshops as well as retreats across India., Resin artist.
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Punjabi
Native
Native
Timeline
Consulting Manager, Agile Coach
Cognizant
07.2025 - Current
Senior Consultant, Scrum Master
Infosys
10.2022 - 07.2025
Test Lead, Scrum Master
ImpactQA
12.2021 - 10.2022
Founder
Asanasiddhi
01.2017 - 11.2021
Senior Data Analyst
Vodafone Shared Services Pvt. Ltd
10.2014 - 02.2016
Senior Test Engineer
Torus Insurance
02.2014 - 10.2014
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra
02.2010 - 02.2014
Master of Computer Application - Computer
Birla Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Computer Application - Computer
Panjab University