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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Hobbies
Accomplishments
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Pramod Shinde

Pramod Shinde

Lead Scrum Master
Pune

Summary

Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications

Work History

Lead Scrum Master

Northern Trust (TLM Reconciliation)
09.2022 - Current
  • Facilitate and coach: Lead Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for multiple teams. Coach teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices to enhance team maturity and performance.
  • Remove impediments: Actively identify and remove obstacles that hinder the team's progress, shielding them from distractions to allow them to focus on achieving goals.
  • Support Product Owners: Work with Product Owners to ensure the product backlog is well-defined, refined, and prioritized, helping them understand the need for clear backlog items.
  • Drive continuous improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging feedback, reflection, and experimentation within the teams.
  • Promote Agile adoption: Support the organization's Agile transformation initiatives and help align processes across different Scrum teams.
  • Track and report: Collect and communicate team analytics to stakeholders to foster data-based insights and track progress, risks, and issues.

Scrum Master

Capita India Pvt Ltd (Pay360 Public)
12.2020 - 09.2022
  • Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
  • Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.

Scrum Master

Hexaware - Wolters Kluwer(WizNG), Ernst & Young (Taxchat)
09.2018 - 12.2020
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
  • Assessed and reported progress to stakeholders regularly, maintaining transparency throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.

Scrum Master

Capgemini - Nomura
06.2017 - 04.2018
  • Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
  • Boosted customer satisfaction scores by providing regular updates on product enhancements resulting from feedback provided during sprint review meetings.
  • Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.

Scrum Master

WNS Global Services - Inchcape (Kofax – Total Agility), Energy Australia (Collection Mgt.), Transamerica (Omniflow)
10.2015 - 06.2017
  • Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
  • Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
  • Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.

Test Lead

SQS BFSI Limited (Formerly Known as Thinksoft Global Services) - The Ratnakar Bank (CMS) - Collection Management System, SBI ITFO FINACLE
06.2014 - 04.2015

· Reading and understanding business customization requirements.

· End to end testing Trade Finance - Guarantee & Loan life cycle

· Preparation of Test ware like Test conditions, test cases.

· Execution of system test cases

· Sanity and Ad-hoc testing.

· Preparing clarification sheet and raising the clarification.

· Verification of accounting entries for the Trade Finance transactions.

· Verification of EOD-BOD reports.

· Preparation of Pass logs, defect logs, closure.

· User support for Business simulation.

· Preparation of Dashboard to provide the daily status to client.

Assisted in preparation of Exit/Closure report delivery to client

Manual Tester

L&T Infotech (CITI Bank (FSTI - UNITRAX), Nordea Bank)
01.2011 - 11.2013

· Developing test plan and test Cases.

· Writing test cases for regression and functional testing.

· Peer Review of the test cases written for regression & functional testing.

· Preparation test Case Scenarios for UAT Enhancement Testing.

· Defect discussion.

· Defect tracking and reporting to the Development.

· Effective Co-ordination with different Teams.

· Preparation of Enhancement Process Documents.

Preparation of Weekly & Monthly Status Reports.

Localization Engineer

Lionbridge
02.2010 - 12.2011
  • Optimized resource allocation by carefully managing budgets and schedules for each project.
  • Adapted language assets including terminology databases and translation memories, ensuring consistent and accurate translations across multiple projects.
  • Enhanced translation quality with thorough linguistic testing and validation.
  • Evaluated software applications for potential integration into the existing technology stack, enhancing overall capabilities of the team.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

ICLES – Mumbai University
Mumbai
04.2001 -

Skills

Agile Scrum practices

Certification

Professional Scrum Master I

Hobbies

Dancing, Trekking, Reading, Outdoor Sports

Accomplishments

° Successfully completed migration of whole product to new technology for better client experience

° Integrated pipelining across different Teams

° Helping quality team to continuously update and manage the process at organization level

° Created new Team to implement BDD process across organization

° Delivery flow and predictability

° Improved sprint predictability: reduced sprint scope creep and increased sprint completion rate from 50% to 85%.

° Increased throughput: raised story points completed per sprint by 80% via better backlog refinement and flow management.

° Reduced lead time and cycle time

Timeline

Safe 6 Practitioner

01-2026

Safe 6 POPM

06-2025

Safe 6 Release Train Engineer

02-2025

Safe 6 Scrum Master

09-2024

Lead Scrum Master

Northern Trust (TLM Reconciliation)
09.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Capita India Pvt Ltd (Pay360 Public)
12.2020 - 09.2022

Professional Scrum Master I

05-2020

Scrum Master

Hexaware - Wolters Kluwer(WizNG), Ernst & Young (Taxchat)
09.2018 - 12.2020

Certified Scrum Master

04-2018

Scrum Master

Capgemini - Nomura
06.2017 - 04.2018

Kofax Total Agility 7.0

03-2017

Scrum Master

WNS Global Services - Inchcape (Kofax – Total Agility), Energy Australia (Collection Mgt.), Transamerica (Omniflow)
10.2015 - 06.2017

Test Lead

SQS BFSI Limited (Formerly Known as Thinksoft Global Services) - The Ratnakar Bank (CMS) - Collection Management System, SBI ITFO FINACLE
06.2014 - 04.2015

ISTQB

09-2012

NCFM (Mutual Funds, Financial markets)

02-2012

Manual Tester

L&T Infotech (CITI Bank (FSTI - UNITRAX), Nordea Bank)
01.2011 - 11.2013

Localization Engineer

Lionbridge
02.2010 - 12.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

ICLES – Mumbai University
04.2001 -
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