Ramkumar Athinarayanaperumal

Agile Leadership & Scrum Mastery

• Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure clear communication, team alignment, and continuous delivery
• Guided teams in embracing Agile principles and the Scrum framework, fostering a self-organizing, cross-functional culture focused on delivering high-quality software increments
• Secured Definition of Ready (DoR) compliance prior to sprint initiation, facilitating seamless and predictable sprint execution
• Acted as a servant-leader, coaching and mentoring team members on Agile best practices while promoting transparency, trust, and accountability
• Collaborated closely with Product Owners to prioritize backlog items, refine user stories, and define clear acceptance criteria for consistent stakeholder value delivery
• Enabled two Scrum teams to share a unified product backlog for streamlined coordination when team size exceeded 10 members
• Championed 100% automation of functional stories within the Scrum team to accelerate delivery and improve quality

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Managed a project tower comprising over 50 associates while simultaneously fulfilling Scrum Master responsibilities
• Delivered complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, evolving requirements, and high technical complexity
• Maintained strong client relationships through transparent Scrum progress updates, achieving a 100% customer satisfaction index
• Initiated SAFe practices by coordinating PI backlog sharing across six Scrum teams to support scaled Agile delivery
• Represented the team in customer-facing engagements, consistently driving customer delight and reinforcing organizational credibility

Tools, Automation & Technical Expertise

• Leveraged Jira for Sprint planning and issues tracking, custom dashboards (via jQuery), Confluence trackers, DoR/DoD monitoring, and burndown/velocity charts to visualize team progress.
• Defined branching and code commit strategies in Bitbucket to support streamlined development workflows
• Provided technical guidance on sprint-impacting issues, drawing from hands-on experience as a developer, automation tester, and business analyst
• Initiated and supported continuous improvement initiatives, encouraging innovation, experimentation, and a learning culture across teams
• Led efforts to identify and mitigate internal and external risks affecting product quality and delivery timelines
• Ensured compliance with internal and customer quality audits, consistently meeting all audit requirements

Recognition & Growth

• Consistently promoted ahead of schedule across all roles by demonstrating excellence, adaptability, and leadership in response to project demands
  

Technical Knowledge

• Spearheaded the design and implementation of scalable Selenium Java automation frameworks using Cucumber BDD, tailored to diverse project needs
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define test objectives, conduct automation feasibility studies, and champion automation-first strategies across complex requirements
• Owned the complete testing lifecycle—from requirement analysis and strategy development to execution, reporting, and quality assurance
• Proficient in leveraging tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Jenkins, and QTest to automate testing across web applications, SOAP services, Spring batches, databases, and XML validations
• Recognized as a subject matter expert in automation testing, providing technical guidance, mentoring teams, and enforcing coding standards to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Led continuous improvement initiatives to enhance automation processes, tools, and methodologies, accelerating delivery and reducing time-to-market
• Experienced in direct customer engagement through requirement reviews, product demos, and status presentations, ensuring alignment and satisfaction