Navatha Telakapalle

• Led the successful execution of a major migration initiative, transitioning legacy systems from ColdFusion to modern Microservices architecture using Java, React.js, and Kotlin within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Led the migration of the test automation framework from Selenium to Playwright
• Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-business value items for faster completion.
• Facilitated PI planning events, sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives ensuring effective communication among team members
• Customized Jira dash boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team using different metrics.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Provided Agile coaching to cross-functional teams on SAFe practices, contributing to a measurable increase in project delivery success rates.
• Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
• Maintained a collaborative team environment by actively listening to feedback, identifying impediments, and facilitating conflict resolution..
• Supported and enforced Scrum best practices, ensuring timely and efficient sprint releases.

• Proficiently organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies sprint planning, Daily standup's, Backlog Grooming, Sprint retrospective for the Scrum teams working on different Worley Digital Products
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Served as main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout the Product development.
• Implemented and enforced scrum principles and practices, facilitated continuous improvement (CI), identified and removed the impediments
• Ensured that the teams are self-organized, empowered, understand the purpose of all Scrum events
• Supported the product owner for grooming and maintaining the product backlog and working with the team.

• Extended maternity leave to bring up my son until he is old enough to start schooling
• During my break- Attended Scrum Master certification program and successful in becoming Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with Certificate ID: 001143127
• Supported/Educated farmers to go organic and tried connecting farmers with communities

• Implemented scrum framework in development of various SharePoint projects
• Facilitated meetings involved from design phase till the product release stage
• Manage Sprint backlog items and tasks
• Working closely with product owners to define requirements into features/epics
• Raising flag to stakeholders involved whenever there is an impediment
• Collaborating with cross function teams to resolve impediments

• Manage and coordinate activities during overall SDLC
• As part of Change Coordination, responsible for validating change request, CAB Preparation, arranging costs from customers, schedule & assign change to developers and planning deployment
• Maintenance of Release Calendar and facilitate successful release of code from development to QA and then to production including functional testing and UAT
• Reporting of services on weekly basis (SLA's), Responsible for communications to the Key User Community related to services
• Continuously follow-up with support team for relevant notification updates per SLA, and drive resolution
• Chair bridge calls for effective coordination, resolution, service restoration in case of critical Incidents

• My contribution in this project involves both support and development tasks
• Supported post migration of intranet portal from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 and also has new phase of developing Intranet Portal in SharePoint 2010
• Acted as SharePoint lead for development of portal using SharePoint
• Responsible for Application design adhering to best practices of SharePoint 2010. Manage, plan, develop and implement standard procedures for solving Incidents
• Coordinate with clients to gather project requirements, specifications and decide timelines. Ensured effective timely delivery of project with high quality standards
• Responsible in set direction, prioritizing, scheduling and delivery of
  tasks by effective coordination. Responsible to close open tickets and implement Change Requests in support activities

Worked as a C#.NET Developer for various projects supporting multiple customers in USA

• Analysis of the specifications, Prototyping and Documentation
• Application Design and Development, Database design and management, Testing of different products, Coding using C#.Net, HTML, Java Script.