Param Prakash Semwal
Product lead Scrum Master
Faridabad
Summary
Total 14 years of experience in IT industry Highly motivated, experienced Scrum Master/Product Lead with an enthusiasm for all aspects of product development who knows how to work with a team of highly skilled engineers. Proven ability to to create an environment where continuous improvement of the development process is in focus and where everyone’s common goal is to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Lead & Scrum Master
Coforge
10.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
- Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning with company objectives.
- Lead cross-functional teams in the development, launch, and enhancement of products.
- Conduct market research to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
- Facilitating all the scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and refinement meeting as well.
- Run the software delivery for team ensuring there are smooth and efficient processes for getting software through from requirements to working in production.
- Plan product release.
- Develop, implement and maintain the risk and mitigation strategies and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure these objectives are met.
- Working as an enterprise mind-set able to foster collaboration, break down silos, identify and work to remove blockers.
- Facilitating joint application development sessions, including Deva and QA personnels.
- Ensuring Agile governance and ceremonies are in place and effective.
- Coaching and supporting to squad ensuring that they operate well as a team and foster culture of ownership and respect.
- Line manager of 2 team leads.
- Partner with Agile leads, other delivery leads, clients and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements.
- Manage relationships & status reporting within the organization, with clients & applicable third parties.
- Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program.
- Responsible for Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burn down Charts, QA Metrics (Quality/Technical Debt; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure activities, Team working Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker) etc.
- Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level.
- Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
Agile Coach & Scrum Master
Bravura Solutions
01.2022 - 10.2023
- Company Overview: Sonata is a unified wealth management solution with deep functionality. It draws on a long heritage to cover multiple business lines superannuation, retirement plan, Pensions, life insurance, investment. It provides a personalized, user-friendly UI portal which is suitable for use across each of sonata’s business lines. Seamlessly integrate into the core platform; Sonata web supports real time, straight through processing.
- Facilitating all the scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and refinement meeting as well.
- Run the software delivery for team ensuring there are smooth and efficient processes for getting software through from requirements to working in production.
- Working as an enterprise mind-set able to foster collaboration, break down silos, identify and work to remove blockers.
- Facilitating joint application development sessions, including Deva and QA personnels.
- Partner with Agile leads, other delivery leads, clients and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements.
- Manage relationships & status reporting within the organization, with clients & applicable third parties.
- Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program.
- Responsible for Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burn down Charts, QA Metrics (Quality/Technical Debt; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure activities, Team working Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker) etc.
- Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level.
- Sonata is a unified wealth management solution with deep functionality. It draws on a long heritage to cover multiple business lines superannuation, retirement plan, Pensions, life insurance, investment. It provides a personalized, user-friendly UI portal which is suitable for use across each of sonata’s business lines. Seamlessly integrate into the core platform; Sonata web supports real time, straight through processing.
Team Lead/Scrum Master
Coforge
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
- Mentoring individuals and Team.
- Helping organization to Achieve High value of delivery.
- Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies.
- Tracked burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
- Trained other members regarding Agile methodology.
- Handling upgrades of different Product versions.
- Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
Team Member
DXC Technology
08.2018 - 01.2020
- Company Overview: Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
- Delivery Responsibility which includes work delegation, delivery assurance, quality control.
- Understanding the requirements and performing detailed analysis and feasibility study on the subject.
- Software Effort Planning and Estimation.
- Performing Code Walkthroughs & Reviews.
- Analysing the production related queries and providing resolution by data fixes and/or program fixes.
- Analysis of the issues /change requests.
- Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
Team Member
GalaxE Solutions
04.2016 - 08.2018
- Company Overview: It's one of the leading pharmacy benefit managements (PBM) companies which provide comprehensive prescription benefit management services to over 2,000 health plans including corporations, managed care organizations, insurance companies, unions and government entities.
- Delivery Responsibility which includes work delegation, delivery assurance, quality control.
- Understanding the requirements and performing detailed analysis and feasibility study on the subject.
- Software Effort Planning and Estimation.
- Performing Code Walkthroughs & Reviews.
- Analysing the production related queries and providing resolution by data fixes and/or program fixes.
- Analysis of the issues /change requests.
- It's one of the leading pharmacy benefit managements (PBM) companies which provide comprehensive prescription benefit management services to over 2,000 health plans including corporations, managed care organizations, insurance companies, unions and government entities.
Team member
DXC Technology
04.2011 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
- Delivery Responsibility which includes work delegation, delivery assurance, quality control.
- Understanding the requirements and performing detailed analysis and feasibility study on the subject.
- Software Effort Planning and Estimation.
- Performing Code Walkthroughs & Reviews.
- Analysing the production related queries and providing resolution by data fixes and/or program fixes.
- Analysis of the issues /change requests.
- Genius is a comprehensive software solution for the Property & Casualty insurance market. It supports all major lines of business, including specialist and niche lines, handling multiple classes and complex policies. Across the world of insurance Genius is helping the most demanding organisations handle a wide range of domestic and international insurance programmes. With depth of functionality, stability, and continual enhancement, Genius provides a powerful platform for insurance processing.
Education
Professional Certificate - Product Management with Generative AI
ISB Hyderabad
M.Sc. - Master of computer Science
MD University
01.2010 - 12.2010
B.Sc. - undefined
D.A.V. College MD University
01.2008 - 12.2008
Senior Secondary Education - undefined
H.B.S.E Board
High School Education - undefined
H.B.S.E Board
Skills
Agile Process & Management
Digital Transformation
Product Development and management
Data Migration
Market Structure Analysis
Opportunity identification
A/A and A/B testing
MVP and Growth Hacking
Concept testing
Sentiment Analysis
Product Solution Design
Willingness to pay and price setting
Product positioning and branding
Managing product performance and metrics
Gen AI
Business & Functional Domain
Insurance
Wealth Management
Power BI
Tableau
GitHub
Jenkins
JIRA
ADO
Mural
Figma
Conjointly
Zerocode
Locobuzz
Trello
Asana
Balsamiq
Personal Information
- Passport Number: Yes
- Father's Name: Sh. Rajender Prashad Semwal
- Mother's Name: Smt. Rajeshwari Devi
Timeline
Product Lead & Scrum Master
Coforge
10.2023 - Current
Agile Coach & Scrum Master
Bravura Solutions
01.2022 - 10.2023
Team Lead/Scrum Master
Coforge
01.2020 - 01.2022
Team Member
DXC Technology
08.2018 - 01.2020
Team Member
GalaxE Solutions
04.2016 - 08.2018
Team member
DXC Technology
04.2011 - 03.2016
M.Sc. - Master of computer Science
MD University
01.2010 - 12.2010
B.Sc. - undefined
D.A.V. College MD University
01.2008 - 12.2008
Senior Secondary Education - undefined
H.B.S.E Board
High School Education - undefined
H.B.S.E Board
Professional Certificate - Product Management with Generative AI
ISB Hyderabad