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Mayuresh Angarkar
Scrum Master (AVP)
Pune
Summary
Diligent Scrum Master offering a proven record of success leading all phases of a Project Delivery.
Excellent communicator, leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
An Agile Enthusiast with experience of practicing various agile methodologies in the role(s) of Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master to facilitate successful and efficient delivery of large-scale Banking projects.
Skilled in transformation, adoption & implementation of Enterprise agility via continued focus on people, processes & results across onshore/offshore teams to drive feature delivery cycles & achieve project goals.
Cumulative experience of 16 years in projects spanning cross-geographic teams across the business domains of Banking 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master/Project Manager in Agile based projects on frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, TDD and SAFe.
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Certified Scrum Master with definitive leadership qualities and strong critical thinking and decision making skills. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Bringing overall 16 years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment with with top-notch implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams.. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
12
12
Certificates
4
4
Languages
Work History
Scrum Master
Credit Suisse Services AG
Pune
05.2021 - Current
- Coach Teams in Agile Project Management Best Practices
- Introduce Engineering Practices that result in Quality Deliverables
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
Scrum Master
Credit Suisse Services AG
Pune
03.2020 - 02.2021
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Helped to manage product backlog and supported Scrum framework for quarterly releases.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
Senior Consultant Specialist
HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
05.2019 - 03.2020
- Inception of potential projects followed by creation of project flight plan in conjunction with resourcing strategy
- Introduce Engineering Practices that result in Quality Deliverables
- Help communicate the owner’s wish list to the project team
- Arrange and optimize product backlog & Organize scrum events as necessary
- Implement changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity
- Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies efficiency
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Managed team of employees, overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of employees.
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
- Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organized and coached team to higher levels of development.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
Scrum Master
Cognizant Technology Solutions Australia
Sydney
11.2018 - 04.2019
- Inception of potential projects followed by creation of project flight plan in conjunction with resourcing strategy
- Steering functional changes across the development pipeline from dev to prod environments whilst coordinating across multiple teams making simultaneous changes
- Stakeholder engagement of product owner/project sponsor across the project cycles to enable continuous engagement of business and technology teams
- Facilitate grooming of the product backlog to assign order, value and estimate against each item
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
Agile Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
05.2014 - 10.2018
- Steering functional changes across the development pipeline from dev to prod environments whilst coordinating across multiple teams’ making simultaneous changes
- Stakeholder engagement of Product Owner/Project Sponsor/Program Manager/Agile Coach/Release Manager across the project cycles to enable continuous engagement of business and technology teams
- Keeping track of blockers/impediments/issues/risks/escalations
- Implementation of Kanban based methodology in maintenance teams to maximize continuous flow of work items
- Continuous identification & engagement of risk items during all stages of project execution to reduce project risk
- Facilitate grooming of the product backlog to assign order, value and estimate against each item
- Team Building and Mentoring new joiners in the team
- Code Quality Manager to monitor and improve the quality of deliverables
- Setup and manage an offshore DevOps team
- Attend Weekly Governance meetings with the customer to provide timely update on the team’s progress
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
- Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
Sr. Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
03.2014 - 05.2014
- Engagement of project stakeholders, customers and end-users followed by creating communication channels during all stages of project lifecycle to enable transparency & deliver solutions
- Strategize & facilitate multiple product releases simultaneously to enable deliveries across various teams
- Leading the entire project lifecycle through discovery, feasibility, kick-off, iterative development, deployment followed by sustenance & support
- Continuous efforts towards removal of waste, dependencies and impediments to facilitate development teams
- Interact with product owner to ensure prioritization of features, defects, risks and change requests along with availability of clear and concise backlog items
- Management of digital information radiators with info of sprint and release progress statuses by publishing burn-downs, burn-ups, team temperature, control charts and assessment radars
- Lead collaboration & brainstorming activities of requirement gathering, retrospectives, defining ways of working and communities of practice amongst teams
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Android Toolkit and working to improve overall team performance.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
Technical Leader
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2014 - 03.2014
- Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
- Create a culture of self-organization amongst development teams to enable greater autonomy and ownership
- Continuous liaising with Product owner to ensure availability of clear and concise items in product backlog
- Communication of project metrics by publishing burn-downs, feature progress reports & defect rates
- Engage & remove impediments/blockers to enable development team’s continued focus on sprint goals
- Promote the practices of continuous improvement and relative estimation
- Process transformation of Sustenance teams from Scrum to Kanban for visualized flow of work
- Guided teams during continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.
- Offered input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives.
- Identified value opportunities to exploit product for maximum business effectiveness.
Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
07.2011 - 03.2014
- Managed schedules, accepted time off requests and found coverage for short shifts.
- Reported on updates to project specifications and progress.
- Participated in cross-functional team-building activities.
- Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Performed troubleshooting and diagnostics to uncover root malfunctions.
- Designed, developed and implemented software applications for website based on analyzed requirements and understanding of industry technical standards.
- Participated in performance analysis, design, development and testing.
- Developed robust Java code for Portfolio Management applications.
- Built Portfolio Management application for HNI and UHNI using customized JAP framework.
- Lead code reviews and estimated required changes.
- Collaborated in team-based, Agile environment to accomplish objectives by deadlines.
- Participated in requirements gathering and design development meetings.
- Wrote, modified and maintained software documentation and specifications.
Sr. Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions AG
Zurich
07.2009 - 06.2011
- Involved in the design, development, estimation and spec writing activities of the product during sprint cycles
- Assist the product owner in technical breakdown of features to user stories and user stories to tasks
- Collaborate with cross-geographic team members in feature development activities & production support
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in customized JAP and working to improve overall team performance.
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Reworked applications to meet individual customer demands.
- Performed troubleshooting and diagnostics to uncover root malfunctions.
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Designed, developed and implemented software applications for website based on analyzed requirements and understanding of industry technical standards.
- Developed robust Java code for Portfolio Management applications.
- Lead code reviews and estimated required changes.
- Collaborated in team-based, Agile environment to accomplish objectives by deadlines.
- Wrote, modified and maintained software documentation and specifications.
- Investigated issues and defects to determine problem root cause and formulate corrective action recommendations.
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
Lead Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
03.2009 - 06.2009
- Involved in analysis, estimation, development and testing of new features, change requests and defects
- Collaborate with financial analysts to understand business requirements
- Release and Configuration Management & Post Production Support
- Interfaced with front-end and back-end development teams to develop unified product, smoothing out coding conflicts before problems arose.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Performed troubleshooting and diagnostics to uncover root malfunctions.
- Lead code reviews and estimated required changes.
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
Lead Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2009 - 06.2009
- Involved in analysis, estimation, development and testing of new features, change requests and defects
- Post Production support
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Tested software products for strong functionality and optimization.
- Translated customer requirements into written use cases.
- Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
- Interfaced with front-end and back-end development teams to develop unified product, smoothing out coding conflicts before problems arose.
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
07.2008 - 01.2009
- Involved in analysis, estimation, development and testing of new features, change requests and defects
- Release and Configuration Management
- Post Production support
- Facilitating Quality Audits
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
02.2008 - 07.2008
- This project was aimed at providing with tailored insurance solutions to Public / Credit Suisse clients
- It provides a comparison of the benefits provided by different insurance companies for Endowment and Annuity insurances
- The Relationship Manager can make proposals as well when requested by a specific client
- Involved in analysis, estimation, development and testing of new features, change requests and defects
- Collaborate with financial analysts to understand business requirements
- Weekly Status Reporting to the project management
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Wrote, modified and maintained software documentation and specifications.
- Performed troubleshooting and diagnostics to uncover root malfunctions.
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
11.2007 - 01.2008
- This project aimed to provide services to read information about the Mutual Funds available for trading in the user’s chosen domicile
- Involved in analysis, estimation, development and testing of new features, change requests and defects
- Collaborate with financial analysts to understand business requirements
- Facilitate Quality and Delivery Audits
- Mentor the fresh recruits
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
- Participated in requirements gathering and design development meetings.
- Reworked applications to meet individual customer demands.
- Developed robust Java code for FundLab applications.
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
04.2007 - 11.2007
- The project aimed to provide a service to send notifications and alerts over different channels
- The services could be used for triggering e-mails, SMS for the events set by the user on their Portfolios
- Involved in analysis, estimation, development and testing of new features, change requests and defects
- Collaborate with financial analysts to understand business requirements
- Create a modular structure of the code base
- Weekly Status reporting
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Developed robust Java code for SMS/Email Alert Distribution Service applications.
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
06.2006 - 03.2007
- Involved in implementing JSPs and other static elements
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
- Developed robust Java code for Core Banking applications.
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani, Rajasthan, India 01.2008 - 03.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Government College of Engineering
Karad, Maharashtra, India 08.2002 - 06.2006
Skills
Agile
Certification
First Time Leads
Additional Information
Awards
1. Shower the Power 2018
2. Special Recognition for Extraordinary Performance in collaborating between two projects in two Competitive Organizations 2016
3. Special Recognition as Tech Auditor Award for Q2 2016
4. Winner of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Hackathon Confederation of Indian Industry 2016
5. Project of the Year Cognizant Technology Solutions 2016
6. Star Performer Award for Q4 2011
7. Rising Star Award (Onsite) 2011
8. Star Performer Award for Q3 2008
Technical Certifications
1. Brainbench : OO Concepts, Business Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Managing People, Change Management, Problem Solving – Qualitative, Project Management, Struts, Web Services, Java 2 Non-GUI, J2EE 1.4, EJB, JSP 2.1, JavaScript, Programmer / Analyst Aptitude, Software Testing, Time Management (U.S.) 2015
2. Secure Coding Practitioner Cognizant Academy 2008
3. Core Java L-0 Cognizant Academy 2006
Interests
Hiking
Motor Biking
Badminton
Soccer
Movies
Work Availability
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Timeline
Scaled Professional Scrum : SPS
09-2022
Professional Scrum Master – II: PSM – II
08-2022
Professional Agile Leadership – I: PAL – I
09-2021
Professional Scrum Master – I: PSM – I
06-2021
Scrum Master
Credit Suisse Services AG
05.2021 - Current
SAFe Scrum Master: SSM5.0
11-2020
Leading with Agility: ICP-LEA
09-2020
Scrum Master
Credit Suisse Services AG
03.2020 - 02.2021
Senior Consultant Specialist
HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2019 - 03.2020
Certified Agile Coach: ICP-ACC
12-2018
Scrum Master
Cognizant Technology Solutions Australia
11.2018 - 04.2019
SAFe Agilist 4.5
09-2018
Certified Scrum Master: Scrum Alliance
03-2016
Certified Scrum Product Owner
03-2016
Performing Leads: Bulletproof Manager
07-2015
Agile Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2014 - 10.2018
Sr. Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2014 - 05.2014
Technical Leader
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2014 - 03.2014
First Time Leads
03-2013
Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2011 - 03.2014
Sr. Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions AG
07.2009 - 06.2011
Lead Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2009 - 06.2009
Lead Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2009 - 06.2009
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2008 - 01.2009
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2008 - 07.2008
Master of Science - Software Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science
01.2008 - 03.2010
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2007 - 01.2008
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2007 - 11.2007
Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2006 - 03.2007
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Government College of Engineering
08.2002 - 06.2006
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