Niranjan Sriram
Senior Scrum Master
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Experienced and Certified Scrum Master capable of delivering small, medium and large-scale software development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching Scrum teams. Proficient with Agile methodologies, Scrum Framework, Lean model and SAFe.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
Nike India Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - Current
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Providing extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to scrum teams with the goal of improving quality and productivity.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, tech architects and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Coaching and mentoring fellow scrum masters on the best practices of Agile and Scrum.
- Coaching scrum teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
- Coaching organization on the importance of velocity and use as a metric to track the performance of teams.
- Proposed new ways of working in the organizations resulting in continuous improvement of the scrum teams
- Facilitating Scrum of Scrums forum and guiding the organization to make best use of the platform to solve dependencies and blockers.
- Frequent interactions with US counterparts to resolve impediments and dependencies for the scrum team
- Helping Product managers and Product owners in Value Stream mapping during PI planning
- Tracking KPI's such as velocity and reliability and preparing reports for the visibility of Stakeholders/Leadership.
Senior Scrum Master
Devon Software Services Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 03.2021
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Implemented Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for a couple of scaling projects resulting in increase of productivity and quality by 30%
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Facilitate discussion leading to decision making, goal setting and conflict resolution within the scrum team.
- Creating forums for collaboration among team members during sprint ceremonies.
- Applied Lean-Agile principles which resulted in organization-wide transformation of many scrum teams
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
Senior Product Engineer
Harman Connected Services Corporation India Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 05.2015
- Apply, design and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks.
- Developed a 3-layer test automation framework using Cucumber, Selenium, Spring IOC, Jersey APIs and CME selenium web framework
- Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployments using Jenkins.
- Build a framework which supports API automation using Rest Assured.
- Framework is embedded with feature files and step definition which interfaces the framework implementation, a complete BDD framework with intelligent to convert English key words to webservice calls in the Intention to completely reduce the development, maintenance cost and most importantly a framework which provides a very quick feedback of the software applications.
- Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices, including emerging ones such as cloud and Mobile Testing.
- Working closely with business in identifying solution requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for the future solution.
- Participated in the full cycle of pre-sales activities like direct communications with potential customers, RFP processing, development of proposals for implementation and design of the solution and presentation of the proposed solution to a customer.
Software Test Engineer
Aryaan Solutions Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 11.2013
- Involve in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.
- Involved in Software test life cycle by preparing a strong test plan, test preparation and test execution.
- Analyze and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing
- Extensively worked on software life cycle development and has QA/Test background augmented by diverse experience in software development.
- Coordinate with functional experts and product owners in product development lifecycle to conform end user product and quality requirements and shipment schedule.
- Develop/Review test automation code.
- Involved in client-side performance using various tools and provide feedback on client-side coding strategy.
- Integrating tools like Sonar to continuously monitor code quality and report to the development team to ensure high code standards.
Education
B.E - Computer Science & Engineering
SJCIT
07.2006 - 08.2010
Skills
Scrum Framework
Agile Coaching
SAFe
Kanban
Test Automation
Meeting Facilitation
Collaboration
Agile Planning
Servant Leadership
Agile Project Management
Selenium
Accomplishments
- Recognized as the Best Scrum Master (2017,2018,2019)
- Awarded for Innovation of the year for Test Automation Framework
- Conducted multiple trainings in the organization on the below
Identifying Dysfunctions in the team
How to Ask powerful questions
Listening skills
Power start template for meetings
Certification
Professional Scrum Master
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
Nike India Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - Current
DevOps Foundation Program
10-2019
Professional Scrum Master
07-2016
Senior Scrum Master
Devon Software Services Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 03.2021
Senior Product Engineer
Harman Connected Services Corporation India Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 05.2015
Software Test Engineer
Aryaan Solutions Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 11.2013
NIIT certified Java developer
12-2010
B.E - Computer Science & Engineering
SJCIT
07.2006 - 08.2010