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KanagaPriya S

KanagaPriya S

Summary

CSM Certified with overall 13.5 years of experience in improving processes and complex product deliveries by implementing a scaled Agile environment. Hands-on experience in supporting product owners to remove impediments and backlogs, enhance velocity, and help teams adopt Agile methodology. A self-motivated professional with 13.5 years total experience and currently working with Client Apple Inc – MFi and Radar now as Scrum master – Project Management in Wipro Technologies, Chennai

Work History

Project Lead

Apple Inc
06.2017 - Current
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Won “Customer Charmer” For winning customer perception, and continuous focus in gaining customer confidence and setting delivery records
  • Won “Certification of Excellence (Hall of Fame)” (Individual) for extraordinary contribution in productivity
  • Ensured 3 project teams lived Agile values and principles and followed client-required processes and practices
  • Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story Refinement, and Release Planning
  • Tracked and communicated projects' progress to product owners and management staffs
  • Interfaced with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities
  • Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported
  • Team modeling with cost effectiveness and optimize if required
  • Prepare and conduct Service review meetings
  • Performance reviews
  • Team Building & Training, Role:
  • Coordinated and directed QA Testing Efforts in an agile sprint based
  • Collaborated with product managers and developers to define workflow procedures and manage agile boards as well as process improvements
  • Performed Integration testing after each story completion identifying all the integration points
  • Leading the test design, development, and implementation of test solutions
  • Interacted with developers on daily basis for requirement analysis and requirement gathering, design review, testing, bug review and documentation for application developed in agile process with frequent changing requirements and features set
  • Work with QA automation team to plan and prioritize automation of test cases
  • Ensuring design or testability during reviews and audits
  • Mentored less experienced QA staff on QA best practices and methodologies
  • Conducting peer reviews and provide technical leadership to Test Engineers
  • Developing test plans & test estimation to meet testing needs
  • Collaborating with internal and external customers to done requirements and specification or testing
  • Managing highly integrated System Testing programs from test planning, test execution, to data reporting
  • Providing Signoff report for the functional and automation reports to the dev team.

Test Lead

CVS Caremark
07.2014 - 06.2017
  • Role:
  • Facilitating high productivity and Quality from the team
  • Identify the process gaps and address it
  • Monitoring the SLAs
  • Train team members Cross functionally
  • Customers connect and exception/escalation handling
  • Mentoring and coaching

Senior Quality Analyst

Kohl's
06.2010 - 04.2014
  • Involved in gathering test data and involved in user acceptance testing (functional, integration, positive, negative, regression and load testing)
  • Executed manual and automated test cases for regression, smoke, and UI testing
  • Identified, investigated, and helped resolve issues/risk related to sprint & end-to-end to senior management
  • Executed manual and automated test cases for regression, acceptance, black box, integration, smoke and UAT testing
  • Attending Business meetings with onsite clients, and transfer knowledge to other team members on new projects
  • Direct interaction with the End Customers for understanding the exact requirement there by reducing the cycle time by means of exceptions
  • Training & Mentoring Role:
  • Training new joiners on the process
  • Performing quality audits to measure team adherence to process
  • Facilitating refresher trainings on the process to ensure team is up-to date.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Institute of Road and Transport Technology, Anna University
Erode
05.2008

Skills

  • Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
  • Knowledge on tools - JIRA, RADAR
  • Managing cross functional teams distributed globally
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
  • Working with co-ordination and explaining delivery situations to Delivery Management coordinators, Customer project Managers & Delivery Escalation Managers
  • Expertise in process (SME) and dedicated trainer for new joiners
  • Good in Microsoft tools (PowerPoint, Excel)
  • PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
  • Working with Wipro Technologies limited as Scrum Master handling scrum team I have been into different roles such as PMO, Test Lead, Senior QA and Test engineer prior to this role
  • Status Updates
  • Effective Project Management
  • Leading Projects
  • Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
  • Project Planning
  • Project Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Vendor Relations
  • Client Relations
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Maintaining Quality Assurance Standards
  • Adept in Scheduling
  • Team Member Development
  • Training Junior Team Members
  • Gathering Requirements
  • Functional and Business Requirements
  • Agile Methodology
  • Performance Improvement
  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Timely Project Completion
  • Project Deadlines
  • Project Goals and Milestones
  • Systems Implementations
  • Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
  • Testing
  • Staff Training
  • Staff Retention

Current Company

Wipro Technologies, Chennai

Certification

Certified Scrum Master(Certification number- 001521501) TRAININGS Trained in Agile Methodologies RPA concepts, Page 1 of 5

Quote

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
Barbara Corcoran

Timeline

Project Lead

Apple Inc
06.2017 - Current

Test Lead

CVS Caremark
07.2014 - 06.2017

Senior Quality Analyst

Kohl's
06.2010 - 04.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Institute of Road and Transport Technology, Anna University
KanagaPriya S