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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Prasant Mishra

Prasant Mishra

Remote

Summary

Dynamic Scrum Master with a strong track record at HCL Tech, proficient in fostering Agile culture to enhance team performance. Expertise in dashboard creation and conflict resolution has led to a 30% improvement in project delivery timelines while maintaining high stakeholder engagement. Committed to continuous process improvement and optimizing team dynamics for successful project outcomes.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

HCL Tech
Kolkata
03.2024 - Current
  • Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
  • Identified risks associated with sprint goals and worked with the team to mitigate them.
  • Collaborated with other Scrum Masters across teams to ensure consistency in processes and tools used.
  • Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
  • Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
  • Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
  • Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
  • Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
  • Encouraged continuous process improvement initiatives through retrospectives.
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
  • Assisted with release planning and coordinated efforts between multiple teams working on related projects.
  • Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

Scrum Master

HCL Tech UK Limited for Deutsche Bank Plc, Superdry Plc & Arqiva
Birmingham
07.2019 - 02.2024
  • Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
  • Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.

Test Lead

HCL Technologies
Kolkata
10.2016 - 06.2019
  • Resolved issues to improve productivity and workflows.
  • Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction.
  • Performed regression testing after each iteration of code changes to verify functionality is still intact.
  • Collaborated with management to establish testing plans develop improvement strategies.
  • Upheld quality standards by streamlining testing processes to verify results.

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Axon South Africa
Johanessburg
06.2014 - 07.2015
  • Created detailed reports on the progress of each project phase including bug tracking and resolution status.
  • Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction.
  • Collaborated with other teams such as product management, engineering and customer support in order to provide timely solutions for reported problems.
  • Analyzed requirements documents to ensure proper coverage of testing activities.
  • Designed and implemented automation frameworks to improve the efficiency of the QA process.

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
Noida
07.2010 - 05.2014
  • Analyzed requirements documents to ensure proper coverage of testing activities.
  • Ensured that all software changes were tested properly before being released into production environment.

Associate Consultant

Snapon Business Solutions
Noida
08.2007 - 07.2010
  • Evaluated needs of departments and delegated tasks to optimize overall production.
  • Created traceability matrices between user stories and test cases.
  • Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirements.
  • Collaborated with development teams on fixing bugs and improving existing features.
  • Documented defects found during testing process.
  • Developed test plans and strategies for products.

Assistant System Engineer

Techniche
Guwahati
04.2005 - 11.2006
  • Applied testing scenarios across multiple platforms and baselines to simulate real-world product usage scenarios.
  • Worked closely with other IT teams to ensure smooth operation of all components within the infrastructure environment.
  • Communicated with clients to train them about system functionalities.

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Jorhat Engineering College
Jorhat, Assam
04-2005

Skills

  • Scrum framework
  • Kanban
  • Dashboard creation
  • Conflict resolution
  • Effective communication
  • Lean principles
  • Agile coaching
  • Team facilitation
  • Risk assessment
  • Stakeholder engagement

Certification

➢ Professional Scrum Master™ I
➢ SAFe Certified Scrum Master
➢ ICAgile Certified Agile Coach
➢ Certified Agile Project Manager
➢ Professional Scrum Master™ II
➢ Certified Scrum Master SMPC®
➢ Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
➢ Lean Project Management-YB

➢ Exploring Agile Leadership
➢ Agile Explorer
➢ Leading and Managing Change
➢ Digital Product Management
➢ Project Planning and Management
➢ AWS Cloud Cloud Practitioner
➢ Microsoft Certified Azure
➢ Microsoft Certified Azure AI
➢ Google Cloud Digital Leader
➢ Oracle Supply Chain Management

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Scrum Master

HCL Tech
03.2024 - Current

Scrum Master

HCL Tech UK Limited for Deutsche Bank Plc, Superdry Plc & Arqiva
07.2019 - 02.2024

Test Lead

HCL Technologies
10.2016 - 06.2019

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Axon South Africa
06.2014 - 07.2015

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
07.2010 - 05.2014

Associate Consultant

Snapon Business Solutions
08.2007 - 07.2010

Assistant System Engineer

Techniche
04.2005 - 11.2006

Master of Computer Applications -

Jorhat Engineering College
Prasant Mishra