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
undefinedCertification
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
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