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Phanindra Kondabathini

Phanindra Kondabathini

Hyderabad

Summary

Certified Safe 6 Agilist with over 13 years of experience in Agile methodologies, specializing in SCRUM. Expertise in managing SCRUM teams, coaching members, and facilitating collaboration to eliminate impediments. Proficient in Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Lead

Optum, India
Hyderabad
07.2022 - Current
  • Works with the Product Owner and Engineering Leads to align teams with the product vision, charter sprint goals, and other necessary information in order to have the prioritized backlog for value deliverables.
  • Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue, and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.
  • Coaches' teams should conduct continuous improvement events not just as events, but as opportunities to improve.
  • Coach product owners in the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning.
  • Work with the team to identify the waste in the work being done, and focus on continuous improvement areas that will foster customer satisfaction.
  • Create an environment of trust that helps the members to collaborate and take accountability. Promotes transparency by ensuring that all Scrum events (PBR, SP, DSU, Retros, Demos) take place to facilitate opportunities to inspect and adapt.
  • Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution to help the team become a high-performance team. Build Agile maturity by making the teams think about outcomes rather than outputs.
  • Being an impediment remover and acting as a servant leader, change agent, in order to accomplish the goals wherever needed.

Scrum Master

Factset India
Hyderabad
02.2017 - 06.2022
  • Coached four teams to transition from the traditional Waterfall model project to Agile/Scrum by imparting the Agile values and principles.
  • Responsible for end-to-end delivery (initiation until closure) of six projects by interacting with stakeholders, and leading teams.
  • Taking ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, and coordinate directly with other development and product teams on inter-.
  • Dependencies or through the Scrum-of-Scrums ceremony.
  • Experience in managing information radiators to monitor sprint progress and share the ongoing dashboards with the stakeholders for inspecting the current status.
  • Collaborated with Product Owner to manage EPIC, User Stories, Product backlog in a way to make them transparent and easily be adapted by stakeholders.
  • Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives; coached team members and clients on Agile.
  • Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's and interacting with them.
  • Help the team with Quality and teamwork by introducing Agile Values.
  • Involved in all phases of project since the projects initiation i.e. Requirement gathering, planning, designs, execution cycle and production.
  • Participating in Product backlog, Sprint planning, Daily scrum, Sprint backlog,
  • Sprint Retrospective Meetings. Conducted structural walkthrough, Defect Triage,
  • Sound knowledge of SDLC and STLC

Senior Quality Analyst

Factset India
Hyderabad
06.2015 - 01.2017
  • 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.

QA Analyst

Tech Mahindra, India
Hyderabad And Chennai
02.2012 - 05.2015
  • 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

Education

B.Tech -

Vardhaman College of Engineering, JNTU
Hyderabad
04-2011

Skills

  • Primary Skill Sets: SCRUM, Agile Coaching, SAFe, Agile Leadership, Agile Methodologies, Agile Project Management,Servant Leadership
  • Software: Oracle, SQL, Unix
  • Tools: Rally, Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, Justifier
  • Domain Experience: Health care , Banking and Telecom and Financial
  • Management Experience: Team Skill, Analytical Ability, Communication,Organizing and planning

Languages

  • English
  • Telugu

Personal Information

Title: ANDROID DEVELOPER

Websites

Certification

  • Safe 6 Agilist
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • ISTQB

Timeline

Scrum Lead

Optum, India
07.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Factset India
02.2017 - 06.2022

Senior Quality Analyst

Factset India
06.2015 - 01.2017

QA Analyst

Tech Mahindra, India
02.2012 - 05.2015

B.Tech -

Vardhaman College of Engineering, JNTU
Phanindra Kondabathini