Kalyani Vemuri

•Project Management, Tracking & Reporting, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Preparing project plans, estimation, scheduling, scoping, strategy, Process Improvement - Product Support, Escalation Management

• Collaborating with Product Owners to ensure the product backlog is well-defined and prioritized, and turning business requirements into well-defined features and user stories, ensuring clarity and alignment with the PI planning feature delivery goals.
• Liaise with stakeholders to Maintain/Organize the Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Working closely with the Architect to create a project plan and also refinement
• Spearheading cross-functional agile teams conducting all agile ceremonies and leading scrum implementations
• Assisting the team in identifying obstacles and devising solutions, focusing on maximizing the team's productivity
• Ensuring Scrum artifacts are updated regularly for better visibility and transparency on the Product Burn Up charts
• Tracking team's Velocity, Sprint Burn down, and Product Burn up to communicate the Product's health to all stakeholders
• Manage risks, mitigate impediments and blocking issues to the team’s progress, and negotiate dependencies within and across teams.
• Organize Release planning workshop, story map creation, and product workshop with all stakeholders and help the Product Owner to come up with Product Vision, Product Backlog, Milestones & Release plans
• Encouraging the use of Agile engineering practices within the development team.

• Managed core Agile ceremonies in team environments.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Working with the Product Owner on artifacts such as the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown.
• Working with stakeholders and product owners to prioritize the requirements for the sprint.
• Keeping the team together and establishing effective communication that is consistent across development, QA, UAT, and business.
• Lead product prioritization meetings, and ensure that deliverables are up to quality standards within the specified time, resolving conflicts, resolving impediments, and keeping the team focused.
• Working closely with the architect to create a project plan and refinement.
• Representing the team to report the overall project status, upcoming risks, and suggest solutions to improve the team's engineering practices and tools as required.
• Creating and managing estimates, project plans, project schedules, resource allocation, and assignment of user stories to ensure that targets are met.
• Conducted planning meetings, backlog grooming, and provided the team's status to upper management.
• Encouraging the team to self-organize to boost efficiency and coordination.
• Coached and mentored agile team members, and provided constructive performance feedback.

• Gathering the business requirements from regional and global stakeholders.
• Documenting requirements and presenting recommendations to the Core Design Group for decision-making and prioritization.
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies (grooming, story walkthrough, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.) Managing the bugs list, ensuring the QA team logs the bugs and other QA tasks in the Jira tool.
• Manage semi-annual release activities for appointed modules, including making recommendations on optional release functionality, performing regression testing, managing, and communicating release details to the business.
• Deliver end-user education and knowledge management for the HR team.
• Conducting a thorough analysis of business requirements, collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize and align with project goals.
• Coordinating end-to-end project schedules, including semester plans, milestones, timelines, and releases, ensuring adherence to established processes.
• Organize and conduct regular demos to gather feedback and incorporate it into product iterations.
• Interact with business users to triage, prioritize, and address feedback within your domain.
• Defining the success criteria and fostering relationships for implementing features in complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment across organizations.

• Working under financial Facilities and project Group providing insurance and health compliance data under name of Sammons Financial Group Insurance profile.
• Working with excellent communication, leadership qualities, handling client calls.
• Working for project development program (BRD) For implementation of robotics.
• Preparing daily and monthly reports.
• Sending reporting works and team performance.
• Certified as best trainer for the process from client.
• Providing training to the new joins in the process.

• Worked as Configuration Analyst for implementation for US Health care.
• Configuring the client benefits related to H&W (Healthcare, Benefits & FSA, Payrolls, Carrier's) in configuration Tools.