Pashupathinath Thodupunuri

• Facilitated various scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, product backlog refinement meetings and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Participated in Backlog Refinement meeting along with the product owner in prioritizing at higher level to ensure the product backlog meets the DEEP criteria and moving the user stories to sprint backlog which ensured the Definition of Ready (Acceptance criteria).
• Getting ready for each sprint and release planning meeting by working with the team to breakdown feature stories into small deliverable User Stories that are appropriately sized for each sprint.
• Manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs for timely delivery and support, educate and assist the team on adapting to Scrum Framework and techniques.
• Assisting all teams to remove impediments by having an understanding of the control and release processes.
• Provided timely (WSR) reports to the stake holders, including sprint scope, issues, risks,mitigation plan and upcoming activities.
• Facilitating Time-boxed Agile Ceremonies, tracked team’s performance and scope creep using burn-up/burndown charts, designing internal reports to track team progress with respect to

every iteration.

• Alignment of plans, execution, and dependencies with multiple components and service teams.
• Represent the team in Scrum of Scrums to address dependencies and impediments, to share experience and knowledge.
• Protected team from over-commitment managed backlog & prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
• Tracking team velocity and effectively communicating sprint progress to the stakeholders and senior management.
• Trained the cross-functional team to use JIRA for keeping a track of the tasks and generate work progress graphs.
• Manage Team, handle team conflicts & Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve.

• Managed two scrum teams and ensured development teams are practicing Agile principles of collaboration,prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Organizing and Facilitating sprint planning.
• Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings with Scrum teams and stakeholders.
• Worked with Product owner to prioritize Epics, User Stories before the Sprint Planning.
• Communicated team overall progress by tracking burn down/burn up metrics and velocity.
• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering the team to self-organize.
• Steps in to help the team achieve their deliverables by actively removing impediments, following up on open items and collaborating with other scrum teams as necessary.
• Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts,and sprint/release progress to the team.

• Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for a business.
• Evaluate relative costs, benefits and obstacles of potential solutions.
• Identify and facilitate process design changes by conducting business systems process analysis and design.
• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholder and producing useful reports.
• Preparing documentations for Project (BRD,FRD, CR etc.)

• Processed mutual fund trades including purchase, redemption, and exchange requests, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of trades.
• Overseen fund accounting process, including daily net asset value
  (NAV calculation, income and expense accruals and preparation of regulatory reports.
• Reviewed and reconciled shareholder records with transfer agents.
• Responded to inquiries from investors,custodians, and other external parties.