Kartik Sthapak

Projects : IPC-Open Payments Marketplace- Jan 2023-Till Date

• Facilitate Scrum framework – PI Planning, Iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Assessed each Scrum team member's responsibilities for OPM team.
• Guided team in creating and improving these agile processes
• Facilitating business process guidance to stakeholders and tracking status and outcomes.
• Manage project progress and adapt work projects meet deadlines.
• Contributed towards Activity and resource planning, managing project risk and monitoring progress.
• Guided teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches.

Projects : American Express- Export Blue. March 2022-Dec 2023

• Collaborating with product owners, team members and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Manage project progress and adapt work projects meet deadlines.
• Facilitate Release Planning, PI Planning, Iteration Planning, Backlog Grooming(Feature, Story, Defect), and Retrospective meeting.
• Conducting daily scrum, planning sprints, demonstrating sprints, and scheduling process improvement meetings.
• Coordinated well with project stakeholders fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Worked on Stakeholder Management by generating various reports.
• Ensuring timely and defect free delivery of requirements at end of each sprint.
• Initiating management interventions wherever gaps in Export Blue Project
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.

Projects : Metlife Japan KK, Enterprise Integration

• Assessed each Scrum team member's responsibilities for EI team.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – Sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Managed project progress and adapt work projects meet deadlines.
• Creating new screen in Jira and map Jira issue types.
• Configure workflow resolution in Jira and create workflow transitions.

Projects : Digital Insurance CSR, CSR Dashboard on IBM WATSON, CSR Portal Desktop

As a Scrum Master

• Facilitate Release Planning, PI Planning, Iteration Planning, Backlog Grooming(Feature, Story, Defect), and Retrospective meeting.
• Conducting daily scrum, planning sprints, demonstrating sprints, and scheduling process improvement meetings.
• Coordinated well with project stakeholders fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Worked on Stakeholder Management by generating various reports like Velocity report, Commitment reliability, Capacity Utilization, Estimation Variance, Scope Change, Defect Leakage and Backlog Health
• Ensuring timely and defect free delivery of requirements at end of each sprint.
• Extensively supported on Jira tool configuration settings as Jira Admin.
• Extensive support on User testing during release

As Business Analyst:

• Responsible for creating Technical requirements in Safe Agile User Story format for couple of Scrum Teams in CSR Dashboard on IBM Watson and CSR Portal Desktop implemented for Life Insurance Domain.
• Participated Design discussions among Product Owners/Business, front-end thru backend SMEs or Solution Architects and project leads in Scrum.
• Planning, Reviews, Development, Defects & Deployments and Post Deployments.
• Understand Business needs and transform into requirements that can be development ready for Scrum teams.
• Publishing Incident tickets on defect tracking tool – JIRA and providing Root Cause of issue.
• User story analysis and clearing requirement, mapping requirements to test cases.

• Engaging with entrepreneurs from Small Scale Industries (SSI) and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) to inform them about rating process and encouraging them to participate in subsidiary scheme offered by MSME and NSIC.
• Educating SSI and SME owners about advantages of ratings and assisting them in accessing benefits associated with favorable rating.
• Conducting seminars in collaboration with NSIC to provide information and support to SME and SSI participants.
• Organizing and overseeing events and marketing initiatives to enhance generation of qualified leads.
• Building and maintaining relationships with external data providers and research vendors for effective collaboration and information exchange.

• Handled bidding process on behalf of company across different websites, securing projects for organization.
• Coordinated with international clients to facilitate sales and contribute to revenue generation.
• Promoted company's products in both domestic and international markets.