Mita Sinha
Project Manager, Agile Master
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Project Manager and 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. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and stakeholders.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager, Agile Master
Bosch Digital
Bangalore
10.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other Agile masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Evangelized agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Facilitated Kanban framework – milestone based planning, backlog grooming, daily stand up, milestone reviews, and retrospectives.
- Drove team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Led milestone 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.
- Worked effectively with multiple teams both internally and off-shore.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
- Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
- Supported team using servant leadership style and leading by example.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Responsible for onboarding new team members into the project.
Project Manager
Wipro Technologies (British Petroleum & British Telecom)
Bangalore
08.2021 - 10.2023
- Worked on a Time and Material project contract.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Managed projects from procurement to delivery.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with team leaders to manage performance.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations, action items.
- Coordinated material procurement and required services for projects within budget requirements.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Prepared and submitted project invoices for review and approval.
- Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
- Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
- Reported regularly to higher management on project budget, progress and technical problems.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
- Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
- Worked on order booking quarterly to determine the monthly budget and also the budget split for Human resources and Hardware/tools.
- Experience in managing 50+ resources (multiple scrum teams) spread across geographies.
Project Scrum Master
Wipro Technologies (Roche Diagnostics)
Bangalore
01.2019 - 08.2021
- Facilitating scrum ceremonies.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Ensure on time milestone delivery.
- Work with the team to define clear goals, WBS, Sprint planning to prioritize user stories and estimation and managing product backlog.
- Keeping track of the team’s velocity, burn down and other Sprint metrics using TFS.
- Accountable for accurate forecasting and reporting of key project information.
- Actively involved in customer program steering board meeting to understand customer priorities.
- Responsible for providing timely and constructive feedback and appreciation to the team members.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Resolved conflicts within the team and identified potential areas of improvement.
Onsite Test Lead
Wipro Technologies (Roche Diagnostics)
Zurich
03.2018 - 02.2019
- As instrument test lead, responsible for Test plan, test case development, execution and device certification.
- Along with customer test manager streamlined the testing process using JIRA and HPALM.
- Mentored the testers for using different diagnostic tools, configuring instruments and in-depth understanding of business flows.
- Developed bi-directional traceability matrix to map the requirements and dependent functionalities in order to maximize the test coverage and to avoid possible.
- Improved the testing efficiency and accuracy by way of using diagnostic tools like Wireshark, JSON editor
Automation Test Lead
Wipro Technologies (Ford Motors)
Bangalore
01.2014 - 08.2016
- Participated in different workshops with developers and project managers to assess scope, requirements and sequence of project.
- Discussed requirements and processes with project managers and developers.
- Defined Automation plan and requirement traceability for implementation.
- Created accurate, efficient and reusable python scripts in Squish to manage automated testing of the product and features for In-vehicle infotainment unit.
- Trained new team members on Python and Automotive features and company guidelines to promote productive and high quality work.
- Reviewed all test cases and test scripts and identified additional areas to review.
Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies (Motorola, Telstra, Australia & Nokia)
Bangalore, Sydney
08.2007 - 12.2013
- Worked along with customer to develop the test strategy, testing road map and test platform builds.
- Complete functional and regression tests of new software builds to assess performance and success of bug fixes.
- Developed and executed comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scripts and use cases.
- Custodian of quality assurance metrics -test cases/suites, results and metrics.
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability. Periodic test plan reviews.
- Mentored junior team members.
Education
Bachelor's of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
07.2004 - 07.2007
Diploma in Engineering - Computer Science And Technology
07.2001 - 06.2004
Skills
Project planning and development
undefinedTimeline
Project Manager, Agile Master - Bosch Digital
10.2022 - Current
Project Manager - Wipro Technologies (British Petroleum & British Telecom)
08.2021 - 10.2023
Project Scrum Master - Wipro Technologies (Roche Diagnostics)
01.2019 - 08.2021
Onsite Test Lead - Wipro Technologies (Roche Diagnostics)
03.2018 - 02.2019
Automation Test Lead - Wipro Technologies (Ford Motors)
01.2014 - 08.2016
Test Engineer - Wipro Technologies (Motorola, Telstra, Australia & Nokia)
08.2007 - 12.2013
West Bengal University of Technology - Bachelor's of Technology, Computer Science And Engineering
07.2004 - 07.2007
West Bengal State Council of Technical Education - Diploma in Engineering, Computer Science And Technology
07.2001 - 06.2004