Certified SAFe Scrum master
having 12+ years of rich
experience in SCRUM in agile
methodologies (5+ years).
Possess enormous knowledge
in handling multiple scrum teams.
Coaching and educating the
teams to work collaboratively
and remove impediments and
conflict resolution. Strong
skills in Agile frameworks
(Scrum, Kanban and SAFe),
User stories and Functional
testing
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Lead
Optum Global Solutions Private Limited
Hyderabad
07.2022 - Current
Coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, self-organization, etc., by explaining the benefits and Scrum and SAFE principles to the product owner and team.
Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
Built a relationship with the product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate the team's interaction with them.
Assisted team in removing impediments by understanding the control and release processes.
Identify dependencies, risks, and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.
Facilitate retrospection at the end of each sprint, and filter the learning for the next sprint by documenting the outcome of retrospection notes.
Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
Track metrics (Feature time to build , time to value, Predictability and Volatility, burn down charts etc) to communicate progress to leadership team.
Guide the team to break the tasks and assign hours to tasks.
Effectively managed the pre-release activities with the team.
Scrum Master , Senior Technical Developer
Factset India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
02.2019 - 06.2022
Worked and helped team to be focused on developing solutions for AVG BS data collection to reach FactSet Product swiftly by increasing the automation tasks of reading the financial data.
Ensured that the Scrum team was adhering to attend all the Scrum events.
Ensured that the team was delivering an increment for every sprint.
Coached team in adopting the Scrum process.
Scheduled Defect Triage call with the PO and Development team to decide which Defect needs to be prioritized when multiple Defects were filed.
Made note of the client feedbacks shared during Sprint Review and discussed them accordingly in Sprint Retrospective calls.
Sent the Sprint Start and End reports to the required stakeholders.
QA Lead and Senior QA Analyst
Factset India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2015 - 01.2019
Project - Inbox
Coordinating with management in understanding the functional and business requirements
Write and maintain the test plans and test cases for my teams projects to ensure they were fully tested
Log bugs found, in the JIRA and coordinate with development team for the fix
Create bug statistics and reports for directions to the department
Lead, over 7 testers and responsible for their additional training in SQL as well as on software testing methodology
Help ensure the timely release of software by making sure the test team gets their work done in timely manner
Performed manual testing on various windows and web-based applications and their database under Citrix environment
Identified Test scenarios, preparing test setups, generating test cases, implementing test execution, analyzing the test results, and reporting the bugs to developers
Provided demos to developers and assist them in analyzing the issues reported
Investigated the data flow issues in end-to-end process
As a SPOC on projects, I was responsible for coordinating, attending the Sprint meetings and reporting the testing feedback to stakeholders
Provide recommendations to improve the development process.
QA Test Engineer
Tech Mahindra
Hyderabad and Chennai
02.2012 - 05.2015
Project - Citibank NA Account Online.
Involved in Functionality, User Interface, Regression Testing, and Sanity Testing.
Preparation and Review of End-to-End Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Coverage matrix, and Test Data.
Effective defect tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay.
Preparation of Daily Status Report for the current releases.
Preparation of Defect Tracker Sheet with all the defects found during the testing.
Interacted with Developers & Designer's (Walk Through) and analyzed the system for functional aspects
Actively participated in calls with different teams to get the test data well and before the starting of the project.
Participated in weekly project status meeting and updated the testing Progress
Created traceability matrix and mapped requirements to Test Cases.