Kamakshi Venkateswaran

• Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Effective Active planning and prioritization - that helped in reduction of spillover trends over releases.
• Proficient in ADO, JIRA to measure the velocity, important agile metrics, and capacity of the teams.
• Ensuring that a clear, correct, prioritized product backlog is maintained and estimated by the team and Product Owner.
• Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
• Continuously monitored customer feedback channels after launch to gather insightful data for future iterations or updates.
• Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.

• Led multiple Scrum teams in the adoption and consistent application of Agile and Scrum practices, ensuring alignment with project goals and milestones.
• Delivered more than 12 primary project that satisfies on-time and on-budget metrics in multiple domains like Healthcare, Retail, Telecommunication.
• Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• • Involved in Acceptance criteria refinement in JIRA board for all features, stories involved and owned the JIRA board for multiple teams. Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.

• Designed and implemented comprehensive testing architectures for multiple software projects, defining test strategies, automation frameworks, and test environments to meet project objectives efficiently.

• Spearheaded the development and maintenance of test automation frameworks using industry standard tools and languages, resulting in reduction of manual testing efforts and increase in test coverage.

• Introduced and enforced quality assurance processes and standards, resulting in improved software quality and customer satisfaction scores.

• Led a team of more than 15 testers in planning, designing, and executing comprehensive software testing strategies for multiple projects, ensuring adherence to project timelines and quality standards.

• Conducted root cause analysis on recurring defects, implementing corrective measures to prevent future occurrences.
• Managed cross-functional teams to ensure seamless coordination between QA, development, and support departments.
• Improved overall efficiency of the QA department through strategic planning and resource allocation.
• Developed training programs for junior QA analysts, improving their technical skills and proficiency in testing methodologies.
• Optimized test case coverage by identifying gaps in existing test plans and devising new strategies for comprehensive testing.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to establish key performance indicators for the QA team, driving continuous improvement efforts throughout the organization.

• Utilized Collibra to design and implement data governance frameworks, including data catalogs, data lineage, business glossaries, and data stewardship models.

• Collaborated with business units and IT teams to define data governance objectives, policies, and standards, aligning them with regulatory requirements.

• Ensured data security and access controls within Collibra, maintaining data privacy and compliance with data protection regulations.

• Enhanced data quality by performing thorough cleaning, validation, and transformation tasks.

• Collaborated with Collibra support and vendor teams to resolve technical issues and implement platform upgrades and enhancements.

• Conducted data analysis and provided insights to stakeholders based on data extracted, transformed, and loaded into data warehouses.

• Responsible for managing the project from inception including, building test strategy, sizing user stories, creation of test plan, test cases, defect creation and tracking, capturing metrics, test closure.

• Involved in API testing using POSTMAN, for the JSON responses received, and performed API level validation, for the application. Hands-on experience in both SOAP UI and POSTMAN in validating the mobile APIs consumed during the testing process.

• Defect has been raised and tracked on API and JSON level, when any API call fails across the developed mobile Application. Expertise in testing chat bot model, across the platforms

• Excellent hands-on experience in using the SWAGGER, on analyzing the API documentation for respective sprint and feature delivered, according to Acceptance criteria.

• Involved in deriving Test estimations and updating Resource Load for Functional, Mobile, Multilingual and Accessibility as per the overall Project implementation plan.