Manoj Elangovan
Chennai
Summary
Team-driven scrum master knowledgeable in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization. Committed agile expert with several years of expertise in public speaking, presenting information clearly and developing high performing teams. Collaborative individual remains poised in all types of situations. Offering excellent project management, multi-tasking and communication skills to coordinate multiple, concurrent projects with competing demands. Makes sound decisions in high-pressure settings and utilize analytical problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Articulate communicator with strong customer service skills.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master/Project Manager
INSOLUTIONS GLOBAL PVT LMT
Chennai
12.2023 - Current
- Coach team members on scrum framework and successfully deliver product in frequent releases
- Monitored and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks, and activities directed toward completing the project goals
- Monitored project risks and scope creep to address them in advance
- Identify areas of improvement, plan a strategy and act effectively to create or promote improvement
- Exhibit confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems
- Encouraged continuous process improvement initiatives through retrospectives
- Participated in feature design discussions offering insights from an Agile perspective when necessary.
- Developed project plan and timelines with Gantt charts, improving project visibility by 23%
- Conducted SWOT analysis to assess and mitigate project risks, resulting in 31% fewer risk
- Identified project risks and developed mitigation strategies to minimize impact on project deliverables
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and success criteria, ensuring alignment with business requirements
- Managed project resources, including allocation, task assignment, and performance evaluation, to optimize productivity and efficiency
- Monitored project progress, tracked key performance indicators, and provided regular status updates to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Scrum Master
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
Chennai
01.2022 - 12.2023
- Facilitating daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives with development team and product owner
- Created metrics to provide the development teams and other stakeholders with feedback
- Resolving impediments raised by team members
- Discussing same with the respective person responsible as and when required
- Proactively support the uplift of Agile practices and foster a culture of continual service improvement
- Communicating with the different stake holders, Third party vendors, systems for any blockers or issues
- Planning for the release to be delivered to the release train to be deployed in production and tracking the progress through Jira
- Create & maintain live dashboards in Jira and Creating reports in Confluence by linking Jira and Confluence.
Scrum Master
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
Chennai
07.2020 - 12.2021
- Collaborate with the product owner to set goals for each project
- Create and monitor daily targets for each team member
- Advocate scrum values and motivate team members
- Provide ongoing professional development on organizational skills and Agile best practices
- Use Agile methodology to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
- Train, mentor, and support teams to use Scrum Framework
- Schedule and facilitate Scrum meetings, events, and decision-making processes
- Monitor progress and help teams make improvements
- Collaborate closely with product owners to prioritize and groom the product backlog
- Foster a culture of transparency, trust, and accountability within the teams
- Track team velocity and metrics to monitor progress and ensure predictability
QA Test Analyst
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
Chennai
07.2018 - 06.2020
- Performed Manual testing on Web based application as per the requirements
- Analysing the user stories and planning the user stories to be completed in the particular sprints
- Involved in Preparation of Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data
- Complete regression, positive, negative, integration and functional testing to produce bug free product
- Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing using Black box Testing Techniques
- Report testing status to QA Manager and Project Team weekly
- Involved in Test Execution, Results Evaluating and Defect Reporting
- Defect tracking and generation of reports done with Excel sheet
- Report testing status to QA Manager and Project Team weekly
- Hands on experience in Tracking and Reporting of defects using Defect Tracking Tools - JIRA
- Worked with SDLC, STLC with Agile-Scrum Methodologies of Software development
- Involved in Ceremonies like Daily Scrum call, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
Annamalai University
05-2020
BE - Mechanical Engineering
K.Ramakrishna College of Technology
03-2018
Skills
- Scrum development methodologies
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies
- Dashboards
- Burn down chart
- Identifying blockers / impediments
- Dealing with onsite/offshore model
- Facilitating resolution in impasse/deadlock situations
- Working with Business stakeholders
- Defining Epics & Stories
- Elaborating Epics/Stories into sub-tasks
- Software testing
- Creation of test cases / scripts / scenarios
- Defect tracking using different tools
- Test management tools (ALM, JIRA, Trello, Confluence)
- Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Agile Leadership
- Interpersonal Skills
- Agile Planning
- Communication
Additional Information
6.4 years
Scrummasterexperience
4.4 years
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 04/28/1995
- Marital Status: Single
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master 1
- Safe Scrum Master
- AI Tool
Languages
Tamil
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Timeline
Scrum Master/Project Manager
INSOLUTIONS GLOBAL PVT LMT
12.2023 - Current
Scrum Master
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
01.2022 - 12.2023
Scrum Master
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
07.2020 - 12.2021
QA Test Analyst
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
07.2018 - 06.2020
MBA - Human Resources Management
Annamalai University
BE - Mechanical Engineering
K.Ramakrishna College of Technology
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