Maldar Mohammed Sohail(Scrum Master)
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Senior Scrum Master with 8.8 years of IT experience, including 4.5 years of focused Scrum Master experience. Proven track record in enhancing Agile delivery, improving team performance, and reducing sprint spillovers by 30%. Expert in Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban frameworks, with strong skills in Agile coaching, backlog management, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement. Adept at driving high-performing teams, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and delivering measurable business value. Experienced in stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and Agile metrics reporting using Jira, Confluence, and other Agile tools.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead
MPL
Bangalore
06.2022 - Current
- Served as Scrum Master/Delivery Lead for 2 Agile teams, comprising 19 members across product, engineering, QA, and business.
- Facilitated 25–30 Agile ceremonies per sprint, ensuring a consistent cadence and adherence to Scrum best practices.
- Partnered with 3–5 Product Owners to maintain 100% sprint-ready backlogs, improving sprint commitment accuracy by 30%.
- Led PI Planning and Scrum of Scrums in a SAFe environment, aligning delivery across 2 or more Agile Release Trains.
- Identified, tracked, and resolved over 90% of impediments within 48 hours, reducing sprint spillovers by 25%.
- Improved team velocity by 20–35% within 6–8 sprints through backlog refinement, estimation coaching, and capacity planning.
- Implemented Kanban flow metrics (Cycle Time, Lead Time, CFD), reducing the average cycle time by 22%.
- Created and maintained 10+ Jira dashboards tracking velocity, burndown, OKRs, risks, and dependencies.
- Increased delivery predictability from 70% to 92% by enforcing the Definition of Ready (DoR) and the Definition of Done (DoD).
- Coached 15–20 team members on Agile principles, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices, improving Agile maturity scores by 30%.
- Coordinated with 10+ internal and external stakeholders per release, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, and risks.
- Supported CI/CD and quality practices, contributing to a 15–20% reduction in production defects.
Senior Test Engineer / QA Lead
MPL
Bangalore
04.2019 - 05.2022
- Led QA and testing efforts for 3–5 applications, supporting 4–6 major releases per year across Agile and hybrid models.
- Coordinated with 10–15 member cross-functional teams to ensure test coverage and release readiness.
- Owned test planning, execution, defect management, and release sign-off across sprint cycles.
- Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-ups, and Retrospectives, supporting Agile adoption.
- Reduced defect turnaround time by 20% through effective triage and collaboration.
Agile / Scrum Master
HCL
02.2017 - 04.2019
- Supported 2–3 Agile teams (12–20 members) delivering enterprise applications in an Agile/Hybrid model.
- Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives for multiple concurrent teams.
- Assisted Product Owners in grooming and managing 150+ user stories, ensuring clear acceptance criteria.
- Maintained Agile artifacts including sprint backlogs, burndown charts, and release plans in Jira.
- Tracked risks, dependencies, and impediments, contributing to 20% faster issue resolution.
- Supported 4–6 production releases, coordinating UAT, defect triage, and go-live activities.
- Prepared weekly delivery dashboards and status reports for project managers and stakeholders.
- Played an active role in Agile transformation initiatives, improving team adoption of Scrum practices.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics Communication and Engineering
JNTU Anantapur
05-2015
Skills
- Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Safe
- Kanban
- Scrum ceremonies facilitation
- Agile coaching
- Team enablement
- Backlog management
- Prioritization
- Scaled Agile implementation
- PI planning
- Arts
- Agile metrics
- Delivery predictability
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Continuous improvement
- Change management
- Jira
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- Rally
- Asana
- Miro
- Mural
- CI/CD
- GitHub
- Git
- Bitbucket
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Velocity
- Burndown/Burnup
- Cycle time
- CFD
- TDD
- BDD
Certification
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) – Scrum Alliance
- SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master & SAFe 6.0 Agilist
- Kanban Professional – Hello SM
- Scrum Master Accelerator – Hello SM
Projects
AI-based game recommendation and player engagement platform, led agile delivery of an AI-driven recommendation engine analyzing player behavior to improve engagement and retention through personalized game and tournament suggestions
Digital customer onboarding and eKYC platform (US banking) Scrum Master for an end-to-end digital onboarding and eKYC platform enabling online account opening delivered in 2-week sprints using CI/CD, integrating AI/OCR, selfie face match, credit checks, and AML screening, reducing onboarding time from days to minutes, and improving conversion rates
AI-driven medical claims adjudication platform (US healthcare) Scrum Master for an AI-enabled claims adjudication solution automating validation, eligibility checks, fraud detection, and approve/deny recommendations, ensured HIPAA compliance, reduced manual reviews, and improved adjudication accuracy and turnaround time
Personal Information
Title: Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead
Tools And Technical Skills
- Jira
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- Rally
- Trello
- Asana
- Miro
- Mural
- CI/CD
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Cloud: AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Agile Metrics: Velocity
- Burndown/Burnup
- Cycle Time
- CFD
- Lean
- Kanban
- SAFe
- XP (TDD/BDD exposure)
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead
MPL
06.2022 - Current
Senior Test Engineer / QA Lead
MPL
04.2019 - 05.2022
Agile / Scrum Master
HCL
02.2017 - 04.2019
B.Tech - Electronics Communication and Engineering
JNTU Anantapur