Mohammed Sohail Maldar
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead
Hyderabad
Summary
Results-driven Senior Scrum Master with 8.8 years of IT experience, including 4.5+ years leading Agile delivery across Scrum, SAFe®, and Kanban for enterprise applications. CSM, SAFe® 6.0 Agilist, and AI-Empowered SAFe® 6.0 Scrum Master, experienced in Scrum execution, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART execution, and program-level delivery governance. Led 2 cross-functional Agile teams (19 members), improving sprint predictability by 20–25%, reducing spillovers by ~30%, and resolving 85–90% of impediments within 48 hours. Strong in Scrum facilitation, Agile coaching, SAFe ceremonies, Kanban flow optimization, and stakeholder, risk, and dependency management, leveraging Jira / Azure DevOps metrics to drive predictable delivery and measurable business outcomes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead
MPL
07.2021 - Current
- Served as Scrum Master for two cross-functional Agile teams (19 members) across Product, Engineering, QA, and Business, enabling predictable end-to-end delivery aligned with business outcomes.
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and continuous improvement.
- Partnered closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to maintain 100% sprint-ready backlogs, enforcing the Definition of Ready (DoR) and the Definition of Done (DoD), improving sprint predictability by 20–25%.
- Coached teams on velocity-based planning, empirical forecasting, and commitment vs. capacity, reducing sprint spillovers, and improving delivery confidence.
- Identified, tracked, and resolved 85–90% of team-level impediments within 48 hours, minimizing delivery risks and delays.
- Supported PI Planning in a SAFe environment, contributing to team capacity planning, dependency mapping, risk identification, and alignment to Program Increment (PI) objectives.
- Participated in Scrum of Scrums, coordinating cross-team dependencies, escalating risks, and collaborating with Release Train Engineers (RTEs), and peer Scrum Masters.
- Contributed to system demos and Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshops, enabling program-level feedback, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Supported Agile Release Train (ART) execution by tracking commitments, risks, milestones, and delivery health across teams.
- Consolidated team-level metrics (velocity, predictability, risks, dependencies), and provided structured status updates and insights to senior stakeholders to support program-level decision-making.
- Applied Kanban practices for support and operational work, maintaining Kanban boards, WIP limits, explicit workflow policies, and service classes.
- Monitored and analyzed Kanban flow metrics, including Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFD), improving flow efficiency by 15–20%.
- Enabled teams to operate in Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid delivery models based on work type, demand, and delivery priorities.
- Supported Agile project management activities, including sprint tracking, release planning, dependency management, and milestone tracking, to ensure on-time delivery.
- Coordinated with 8 to 10 internal and external stakeholders per release, aligning on scope, timelines, risks, and delivery expectations.
- Acted as an Agile Coach and servant leader, mentoring teams and Product Owners on Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and Lean-Agile practices.
- Facilitated retrospectives and process improvement workshops, driving actionable outcomes, and measurable improvements in team maturity and performance.
- Collaborated with DevOps and QA teams to support CI/CD pipelines, automation, and quality engineering practices, contributing to improved release stability and predictable delivery.
Senior Test Engineer / QA Lead
MPL
04.2019 - 06.2021
- Led QA/testing for 3-5 applications, supporting 5–7 major releases in Agile/Scrum/Kanban, ensuring production-ready increments.
- Collaborated with 10–15 cross-functional Agile team members to ensure sprint-level test coverage, regression readiness, and alignment with user stories, acceptance criteria, DoD, and sprint goals.
- Managed test planning, execution, defect logging, regression testing, and release sign-off using Jira, enabling early defect detection and improving release quality by 20%.
QA Engineer/IT Analyst
HCL
02.2017 - 04.2019
- Executed QA/testing for 2–3 enterprise applications, supporting 4–6 major releases in Agile/Scrum/Kanban environments.
- Collaborated with 10–15 cross-functional Agile team members to validate sprint deliverables, ensure test coverage, and align with user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint goals, and DoD.
- Performed test planning, execution, defect logging, regression testing, and release sign-off using Jira, participating in Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives to enable early defect detection.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics Communication and Engineering
JNTU Anantapur
Skills
Agile project coordination
Proficient in SAFe practices
Kanban methodology expertise
Large-scale Scrum implementation
Agile Portfolio & Program
Management
PI Planning & ART Execution
Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation
Agile Coaching & Team Enablement
Backlog Prioritization &
Management
Dependency & Cross-Team Coordination
Program-Level Planning & Execution Support
Delivery Predictability & Outcome-Focused Execution
Agile Metrics & Empirical Reporting (Velocity,Burndown/Burnup)
Release Planning & Coordination
Agile Estimation Techniques (Planning Poker, Story Points)
Agile Governance & Delivery Tracking
Scaled Dependency & Risk Management
Flow Metrics & Optimization (Cycle Time, CFD, Throughput)
Risk & Impediment Management
Change Management in Agile Environments
Continuous Improvement & Process Optimization
Lean & XP Practices (TDD/BDD)
End-to-End Delivery Ownership
Governance-Driven Delivery Tracking
Certification
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) – Scrum Alliance
• SAFe 6.0 Agilist – Scaled Agile
• AI empowered SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master
• Kanban Professional – Hello SM
• Scrum Master Accelerator – Hello SM
• SAFe 6.0 Agilist – Scaled Agile
• AI empowered SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master
• Kanban Professional – Hello SM
• Scrum Master Accelerator – Hello SM
Tools And Technical Skills
- Jira/Jira Align
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- Rally
- Trello
- Asana
- Miro
- Mural
- CI/CD
- Git
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Cloud: AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Microsoft Power BI
- MS Excel
- Jenkins
- SharePoint
- Slack
- Jira reports (burndown, velocity, cumulative flow)
- Monday.com
- Smartsheet
- TestRail
- Postman
Soft Skills
- Facilitation Skills
- Influencing Without Authority
- Stakeholder & Expectation Management
- Executive-Level Communication
- Decision Facilitation & Consensus Building
- Conflict Resolution & Facilitating Difficult Conversations
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Adaptability in Agile Environments
- Systems Thinking
- Continuous Improvement Orientation
- Risk Awareness & Mitigation
Projects
AI-based game recommendation and player engagement platform, led agile delivery of an AI-driven recommendation engine analyzing player behavior to improve engagement and retention through personalized game and tournament suggestions
Digital customer onboarding and eKYC platform Scrum Master for an end-to-end digital onboarding and eKYC platform enabling online account opening delivered in 2-week sprints using CI/CD, integrating AI/OCR, selfie face match, credit checks, and AML screening, reducing onboarding time from days to minutes, and improving conversion rates
AI-driven medical claims adjudication led Agile delivery for an AI-enabled claims adjudication platform, automating eligibility checks, validation, fraud detection, and approve/deny recommendations Ensured HIPAA compliance, reduced manual reviews, improved adjudication accuracy, and shortened turnaround time.
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead
MPL
07.2021 - Current
Senior Test Engineer / QA Lead
MPL
04.2019 - 06.2021
QA Engineer/IT Analyst
HCL
02.2017 - 04.2019
B.Tech - Electronics Communication and Engineering
JNTU Anantapur