Poornima Palanisamy
Scrum Master / Project Manager
Veldhoven
Summary
Focused Project Manager /Scrum master with great zeal for quality and more than 14 years of experience in the industry.
Certified professional (PRINCE2 , Professional Scrum Master I and ISTQB Foundation ) with experience in different sectors like Semiconductor , Healthcare and Automotive .
Quick learner and open to embrace change.
Excels through mentoring and empowering team
Currently seeking for full time position that utilizes my technical and managerial skills to achieve mutual growth.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
2
2
Languages
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager
Capgemini Engineering - (Client:ASML)
Veldhoven
01.2020 - Current
- Managed complex projects from procurement to delivery..
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with stakeholders to manage performance.
- Identified and managed plans , resources- , change requests and risks to meet project goals and objectives.
- Prepared and submitted project invoices for review and approval.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations.
Scrum Master
Capgemini Engineering -(Client :ASML)
Veldhoven
01.2020 - 09.2022
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for sprint releases.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technical specialists , and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
- Generated reports for project progress and performance.
- Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks.
- Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
Test Lead
Capgemini Engineering- (Client:ASML)
veldhoven
01.2016 - 11.2020
- Responsible for maintaining quality , creating test roadmap and getting them accomplished
- Key stakeholder in every delivery to ensure all requirements are tested including NFR, risks are covered and see if manual tests could be automated to achieve test efficiency.
Participate in test community forums and bring the knowledge back to the team.
Collaborate with engineers to create maintainable systems and efficient test strategy including CI/CD
Perform 5why's analysis on the defects in order prevent • them in future. - Coach the team to organize test artifacts meaningfully , to make use of test techniques and to shift to least expensive environment.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Wrote detailed requirements to create robust test plans and realistic work estimates for testing phases.
- Documented diagnostic findings in reports to inform stakeholders of product performance.
- Conducted regression testing of existing products.
- Delivered lectures on testing techniques, tools to internal staff.
- Streamlined testing processes to identify areas in need of improvement.
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
- Directed teams completing regression tests to support successful product development stages.
- Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
- Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
Senior Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies - (client : Microsoft , Intel , Harman )
Bangalore , hyderabad
09.2009 - 11.2016
- Perform requirement analysis
- Create Test plan , strategy and test cases
- Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.
- Led failure investigations and root-cause analyses.
- Designed and validated test support systems for Automotive , Healthcare ,semiconductor industry.
- Reviewed results and produced daily reports for developers.
- Reproduced defects and documented findings.
- Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and testing software.
- Automated test cases using python , C# , MAUI ,ROBOT ,UI framework.
- Coordinate various teams and lead their day to day activities including resource
/work allocation - Completed regression tests of new software builds to assess performance and success of bug fixes.
- Identified delivery risks for ongoing projects, developing strategies to avoid delays.
- Participate in candidate selection process :screening , interviewing, assessing
and decision making
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
BITS
PILANI 09.2009 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Jairam School of Arts And Science
Salem 06.2006 - 05.2009
Skills
Presentation and Reporting
Project estimation
Contract/Change Management
Budget administration
Performance Evaluations
Project and People Management
Risk analysis and management
Testing and Automation
Accomplishments
- Completed several Projects on time and under budget.
- coached team members on test principles and conduced 5 why analysis , resulting in a 10% reduction in reported Defects.
- Increased company revenue to more than 43 % and expedited the project plans.
- Improved customer satisfaction ratings by 16% by improving the ownership and quality
- Supervised team of 21 staff members.
Certification
PSM
Timeline
Project Manager
Capgemini Engineering - (Client:ASML)
01.2020 - Current
Scrum Master
Capgemini Engineering -(Client :ASML)
01.2020 - 09.2022
Test Lead
Capgemini Engineering- (Client:ASML)
01.2016 - 11.2020
Senior Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies - (client : Microsoft , Intel , Harman )
09.2009 - 11.2016
Master of Science - Software Engineering
BITS
09.2009 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Jairam School of Arts And Science
06.2006 - 05.2009