Traveling, Learning new things, meeting and understanding different people,
Neeraj Pophale
Scrum Master And Business Analyst
Pune
Summary
CAREER SUMMARY:
- Completed B.E. in 2007 from Pune university with second University topper during education.
- Total relevant Experience-: 9+ Years
- Exposure to all SDLC implementation from BA and scrum perspective
- Qualitative experience of working with global teams and client, spread across different time zones
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum.org with PSM -II and Scrum Alliance with CSM
- Good knowledge of implementation of all sprint ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum ,Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, even from scratch
- Experience of requirement gathering, user story creation, maintaining product backlog, go-live assistance for product as BA
- Experienced of working in different domain like Fintech, Edutech, Investment, Visa Immigration and Gaming, PLM etc
- Expert in Project Management Tools like Jira, Confluence
- Working as Scrum Master and Business Analyst in Accionlabs India (A Cloud and Digital Transformation based software solution provider) since Aug 2021 .
- Worked as Scrum Master and Business Analyst in VGESPL (A Software company in educational ERP domain) for 2 + years
- Experience of working as ERP Coordinator and Trainer in BRACT’s VIT for 6+ years
- Worked as Quality Assurance Specialist (Software Testing) in PTC software India Ltd. for PLM software (Windchill 9.1/10.0) for 3 years
- Worked as QA Executive in Neilsoft Ltd. for customers like Autodesk etc for 3 years
- Good leader with qualities like resource management, team building, motivating and good communication skills to obtain the best possible performance from the team
- Fast learner, flexible and adoptive to new situations
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Scrum Master And Business Analyst
AccionLabs India Ltd.
Pune
08.2021 - Current
- Domain: Fintech, Visa and Immigration, Gaming
- Main responsibilities:
- Facilitation of Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives to maximize the team efficiency and Product value
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Sprint start, Sprint closing, conducting all sprint ceremonies and creating required tickets for tracking different activities
- Tracking the product development and maintaining burn down graph/ velocities
- Generating required reports for management and clients
- Requirement gathering and analysis,
- Writing user stories based on business requirements,
- Grooming the stories for front end and Back end developers,
- Maintaining product and sprint Backlog,
- Getting UX/UI designs ready for developers, Solving queries of developers and QA team
Scrum Master and Business Analyst
VGESPL, Vishwakarma Global Educational Software
Pune
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Domain: Educational ERP
- Main responsibilities:
- Scheduling meetings with appropriate persons from the client/ business
- Understanding the requirements of client/ business
- Preparing Epics, User stories and Jiras tickets based on business requirements
- Coordination, Testing and Client delivery of ERP modules using Jira,
- Implementing the Agile scrum framework,
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Requirement gathering from client,
- Conveying the same and getting it done from development team,
- Once software is ready giving demo to client and its implementation at client side
- Defect Prioritization and defects fixing
- Helping DM in estimation and planning
ERP Coordinator and Trainer
BRACT’s VIT
Pune
01.2013 - 05.2019
- Managed end user/client requirements and relationships through easily understood explanations and clear communication.
- Preparing Epics, User stories and Jiras tickets based on business requirements
- Creating appropriate Acceptance criteria for user stories
- Coordinator for NBA accreditation
- ERP implementation related all coordination
- Taught end users to navigate ERP system by developing and presenting training sessions.
- Implementing the scrum framework and ceremonies in the team
- Resolution of obstacles and impediments in client deliverables
QA Specialist
PTC softwares (India) Pvt. Ltd
Pune
05.2010 - 02.2013
- Windchill PLM, UWGM (Unified workgroup Manager for Windchill PLM )
- Main responsibilities:
- Test case preparation from specifications and stories
- Execution of Test cases as instructed on different OS and browser platforms
- Generating test results and checking in PDS
- Defect logging and defect verification on Siebel for functional, User Interface and Installation defects
- Automating test cases using trail based automation using “Auto” tool
- Experience of windchill releases such as windchill 9.1M050/M060, 10.0FCS, 10M010/MO20.
QA Executive
Neilsoft Ltd
Pune
07.2007 - 04.2010
- Kit preparation from specifications given Autodesk
- Execution of Test Designs as instructed
- Generating test results and posting it to the instructed location.
- Defect logging and defect verification on JIRA (Autodesk worldwide localization Issue tracking system) for functional, User Interface and Installation defects.
- Execution of check-in & check-out Test cases in AutoDesk Inventor
- Successful release of localized software.
Education
B.E. -
Sinhagad College of Engineering
Pune, India 08.2004 - 06.2007
Skills
Scrum and Agile proficiency
Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word
Written and oral communication
Leadership and team building
Scrum / PM tools
Certification
Certified Scrum Mater from Scrum Alliance
Interests
Hearing influential personalities from different fields like literature, culture, history, politics and philosophy
Timeline
Profession Scrum Mater- level 2 from Scrum.org
04-2023
Certified Scrum Mater from Scrum Alliance
08-2021
Scrum Master And Business Analyst
AccionLabs India Ltd.
08.2021 - Current
Scrum Master and Business Analyst
VGESPL, Vishwakarma Global Educational Software
06.2019 - 08.2021
ERP Coordinator and Trainer
BRACT’s VIT
01.2013 - 05.2019
QA Specialist
PTC softwares (India) Pvt. Ltd
05.2010 - 02.2013
QA Executive
Neilsoft Ltd
07.2007 - 04.2010
B.E. -
Sinhagad College of Engineering
08.2004 - 06.2007