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Misbah Sayyed

Misbah Sayyed

Senior Scrum Master
Pune

Summary

I am a Certified and mission-focused Senior Scrum Master with 8+ years of experience.


I strongly believe in bringing individuals together and keeping them together with effective impediment removal.

Supporting my organization and team by coaching and implementing Scrum techniques correctly is my top skill.


If I choose a project, I'm all in, and my motivation easily infects others. I try to get rid of anti-patterns. I always choose to find resolutions instead of blaming people and situations.

The method is second place but needs to be a good fit with the team.


When someone chooses to work with me, they are bringing a strong contender to the table – and I'm not afraid to argue my case.


I am an ardent lover of the Scaled Agile Framework and Scrum at Scale. I believe scaling scrum is the next best thing.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
4
4
Languages

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Nuance Communications
Pune
05.2022 - Current
  • Managing 3 Teams in the Agile Release Train for the Site Reliability Engineering Platform. 2 Scrum Teams and 1 Kanban Team.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Facilitation of PI Planning Event - Team Breakout sessions, Draft Plan Presentation and led the Problem Solving workshop successfully.
  • Increased say-do ratio for the team from 70% to 95%.

  • Increased level of participation of Team members to 100% for Scrum ceremonies (especially Retrospective) and PI Planning events by bringing innovative ideas of engagement.
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.

Senior Lead - Agile Scrum Master

FIS
Pune
07.2021 - 05.2022
  • As a Scrum Master I encouraged collaboration and transparency and led teams in daily standup, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Retrospectives, and support backlog refinement activities. Handled 3 Scrum Teams.
  • Laid out initial plans for critical Transformation Client in Wealth and Retirement Domain. Establish hierarchy for issue types, laid out plan for deployment and final delivery.
  • By presenting teams velocity and various other sprint metrics like say-do ratio, Burn-up and burn- down charts, and CFD, I made sure that team were on their path of continuous improvement
  • Maintained all Scrum ceremonies
  • Actively participated in PI planning
  • Protected team from interruptions
  • Promoted scrum / agile methodologies throughout whole ART.
  • Facilitated discussions and conflict resolutions wherever necessary.
  • Helped Product Owner, Business Analysts, and development team to achieve customer satisfaction. Receive NPS score of 9 out of 10.
  • Coached scrum team members in Lean-Agile practices, mindsets and drive efficiency and Spotify Model.
  • Helped manage risks and dependencies.
  • Escalated and tracked impediments.
  • Created ART and Team Dashboard for Managers and Coaches to identify critical metrics, orphan objects and missing data. This in turn helped ART to have metrics and progress displayed effectively to client.

Senior Project Management Analyst

Western Union
Pune
09.2019 - 07.2021
  • Worked as a Scrum Master and a Back-Up RTE who reported to the Head of Engineering. Achieved improvement in the Say-do ratio of the ART from 75% to 90% in a span of one Program Increment.
  • Played a critical role in driving the development teams towards the highest level of operational excellence -engaging with senior leadership and driving the delivery of the stellar platform!
  • Drove the Transformation and Modernization efforts on the new in-house tool called Pharos. Helped organization achieve 25% growth in sales.
  • Exhibited deep level knowledge on the SAFe 5.0 framework and was a integral part of the entire PI planning event.
  • My Key Responsibilities included the following:
  • Make sure all ART team members understand the project's goals and scope
  • Guide the venture's usage of Agile/Scrum
  • Continuous collaboration with the Product Manager on the product backlog
  • Coordinates and drives the scrum ceremonies: stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retros (and other meetings)
  • Coach and mentor autonomous full stack development Teams
  • Assist in removing blockers to drive progress
  • Constant focus on process improvement
  • Keep the project stakeholders up to date on Team's progress
  • As the teams are built out, assisting in cross team communication and collaboration to keep everyone in the loop
  • Release management - Keeping tickets up to date in Jira, creation of release plan, any coordination needed for major releases etc
  • Understanding key metrics and analysis to identify areas of improvement for teams - data backed decision making
  • Working with the team to break up work into the smallest deliverables
  • Assisting the team in identifying dependencies/blockers early on

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Entrata
Pune
01.2016 - 08.2019
  • Worked in Agile & Scrum SDLC models
  • Working as a Scrum Master as well as a QA engineer for my Team
  • Working on Automation testing using Selenium
  • Excellent analytical, trouble-shooting and good interpersonal skills
  • A team player with good communication and collaboration skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner
  • Experience of the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
  • Proficient in both Manual and Automation testing with ability to manage the entire testing Cycles
  • Experience in various type of software testing- Functional, Integration, Regression, compatibility testing and Ad-Hoc testing
  • Expertise in analyzing Business Specifications and develop Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and execute them.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt.Ltd
Pune
09.2013 - 04.2015
  • Project : Lloyds Banking Group
  • Experience of over 2 years in Manual testing in Banking and financial services domain
  • Performed Manual testing using Black Box Testing
  • Testing of Mainframe application
  • Performing initial analysis and study of the requirements provided
  • Analyzed project requirements designed by System Analyst team
  • Writing SQL Queries to Test Web application and Database Testing
  • Involved in preparing Test Cases and Test Plans and resolving software testing issues
  • Involved in Test Planning, Test Execution and Test result analysis
  • Understand the client business and business process
  • Creation of test cases and execution of test cases
  • Execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results
  • Reporting defects and retesting them using Quality Center
  • Extensively involved in Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, Integration Testing, Database testing & Compatibility Testing

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Pune
06.2010 - 06.2013

Technical Diploma - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

Bhivarabai Sawant Institute
Pune
06.2007 - 06.2010

Skills

Agile

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Software

JIRA

JIRA Align

Azure DevOps

Rally

Confluence

Miro

Lucid Charts

IObeya

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Nuance Communications
05.2022 - Current

Senior Lead - Agile Scrum Master

FIS
07.2021 - 05.2022

SAFe 5 Scrum Master

09-2020

SAFe 4 Practitioner

01-2020

Senior Project Management Analyst

Western Union
09.2019 - 07.2021

Certified Scrum Master

05-2019

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Entrata
01.2016 - 08.2019

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt.Ltd
09.2013 - 04.2015

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
06.2010 - 06.2013

Technical Diploma - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

Bhivarabai Sawant Institute
06.2007 - 06.2010

Accomplishments

  • Won the Team Spot Award for proactively coming up with the ideas for Agile Community of Practice.
  • Achieved Employee of the Quarter Award through effectively helping Team and bringing excellent changes to the Process.
  • Achieved Xento Golden Ticket by completing Perfect Taskflow and Regression Suite for my Team with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Won the High Flyer of the Month Award. Was the only Trainee to ever receive this award in 2014 Pune Location.

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