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Megha Jain

Megha Jain

Scrum Master

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Mphasis
Hyderabad
07.2021 - 07.2023
  • Tools: Atlassian JIRA-Confluence, Mphasis, Hyderabad
  • Managed 100% of the Scrum process from initiation to management to delivery
  • Doubled team velocity, throughput, burndown, and cumulative flow of 4 cross-functional teams
  • Served as a Scrum Master for the scrum team, with a focus on coaching the team on agile values and principles and the ensuing practices
  • Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Sprint retrospectives, Daily Scrum, backlog refinement, Scrum of Scrum
  • Assisted Product Owner with Definition of Readiness and Definition of Done
  • Worked along with Product Owner on backlog refinement
  • Worked collaboratively with stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks
  • Developed & Utilized key Metrics to help improve the team effectiveness
  • Facilitated cross-team coordination, reaching out to the larger organization for dependency management and proactively removing impediments
  • Tracked Defects and planned fixture based on Severity and Priority
  • Coached development teams on the core principles of self-organization and continuous improvement
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
  • 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.

Consultant

Deloitte
Hyderabad
07.2016 - 07.2021
  • Tools: UFT, , Eclipse, Atlassian JIRA, Java, Selenium, BDD Cucumber, Tosca
  • Client: Lloyds
  • Company: Deloitte
  • Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings as a Team member and Scrum Master
  • Successfully lead a virtual scrum team by implementing all the scrum process and managing the deliveries on time and with high quality
  • Facilitating all the scrum ceremonies including Stand ups, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and retrospectives for both the teams
  • Ensuring story readiness ahead of sprint planning
  • Identifying team capacity, estimation
  • Proactively seeking and resolving team impediments and ensuring team remains focused on sprint goal
  • Implemented automation using Selenium Web Driver, JAVA and SAP automation using UFT and Tosca
  • Expertise in Defect Tracking and Management using TFS, JIRA and ALM
  • Expertise in effort estimation client interaction
  • Exposure to work with customers for UAT testing
  • Experience in all types of manual testing.
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Tracked test reports and failures determined by root cause data trends.
  • Created plans for test method validation using research or field observations.
  • Reviewed, evaluated, and identified requirements for testability.
  • Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
  • Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
  • Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture
Gurgaon
02.2013 - 05.2016
  • Tools: Atlassian JIRA, ALM, Eclipse, Java, Selenium
  • Company:
  • Implemented automation using Selenium Web Driver, JAVA
  • Implemented Data Driven framework to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases
  • Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA/ALM
  • Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings
  • Interacted with the clients for Requirement gathering and analysis
  • Owned a small team of 3 members to achieve browser compatibility across various browsers and devices
  • Identified requirement gap and helped in saving 20% time and cost of testing
  • Part of the agile module team, responsible for status tracking and reporting from offshore
  • Responsible for Effort Estimation using Rally.
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, and working to improve overall team performance.
  • Pursued professional development opportunities to learn new testing tools and test strategies.
  • Executed test scripts, logged defects and worked to resolve issues noted in testing process.
  • Led test-driven development, functional integration and regression testing initiatives to determine effectiveness of software.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Bharat Institute of Technology
01.2008 - 1 2012

Skills

Agile Methodologyundefined

Certification

CSM - Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

CSM - Certified Scrum Master

01-2023

Scrum Master

Mphasis
07.2021 - 07.2023

Consultant

Deloitte
07.2016 - 07.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture
02.2013 - 05.2016

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Bharat Institute of Technology
01.2008 - 1 2012
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