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Renjini S Nair

Renjini S Nair

Trivandrum

Summary

Dynamic Project Manager and Scrum Master with a proven track record at UST Global, successfully launching key projects and enhancing Agile methodologies. Expert in risk management and stakeholder communication, achieving a 20% improvement in project output. Strong leadership skills complemented by proficiency in JIRA and project tracking ensure effective team collaboration and project success.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager/Scrum Master

UST GLOBAL
Trivandrum
09.2020 - Current
  • Launched 5 key projects, achieving 98% on-time delivery.
  • Played pivotal role in adopting Agile methodology and improved project delivery time.
  • Supervised all stages of project lifecycle to ensure 20% improvement in project output.
  • Implemented a risk management plan that reduced critical issues by 40% and ensured project continuity.
  • People Management.
  • Developed comprehensive project documentation, which improved project handover efficiency by 40% and served as a model for future projects.
  • Managed Agile project initiatives, achieving key milestones on target and within budget.
  • Facilitated and guided 7+ Sprint Planning and Review meetings while maintaining team engagement.
  • Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
  • Ensuring transparency and timely communication of project status.
  • Utilizing Agile metrics (velocity, burn-down charts, etc.) to assess team performance.
  • Leading retrospectives to reflect on team performance and implement improvements.

Onsite Co-Ordinator/Scrum Master

UST GLOBAL
Nottingham
01.2018 - 08.2020
  • Managed Agile project initiatives.
  • Organize regular meetings (daily standups, status updates, and retrospectives) to track progress, address roadblocks, and share feedback between onsite and offshore teams.
  • Facilitated and guided Sprint Planning and Review meetings while maintaining team engagement.
  • Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
  • Assisted the product owner with product backlog management and sprint reviews.
  • Ensure clear and effective communication between onsite and offshore teams, fostering seamless collaboration and alignment throughout the project.
  • Facilitated efficient communication among developers, testers, and data engineers, enabling on-time project execution.
  • Oversee testing activities and proactively address challenges, ensuring timely resolutions to maintain project momentum.
  • Facilitated sprint activities, managing timelines, and provided effective updates to stakeholders with concise sprint reports.
  • Improved code quality by introducing pair programming and code reviews, reducing bugs by 40%.
  • Implemented risk mitigation strategies that significantly reduced project delays.
  • Implement the KPI matrix as per project/business specification.

Test Lead of Agile Project

UST GLOBAL
Trivandrum
11.2011 - 12.2017
  • Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies and test plans based on project requirements.
  • Lead and manage a team of testers, assigning tasks, setting priorities, and ensuring timely completion.
  • Estimate testing efforts and allocate resources accordingly.
  • Interacting with business team to understand the requirements and identify the testing effort by analysing the requirement.
  • Coordinate and lead test execution for different test phases (unit, integration, system, acceptance, etc.).
  • Provide detailed reports on test progress, quality metrics, and risk assessments.
  • Perform Static Testing to identify the defects in requirements.
  • Constant Interaction with clients and Business Analyst.
  • Daily Status Reporting to client and higher management.
  • Worked closely with BAs and Development team on functionality issues/ defects.
  • Track and report defects (Jira, Bugzilla), ensuring they are logged, prioritized, and resolved effectively.
  • Followed Agile process for the Report life cycle management.
  • Prepare and present test summary reports, quality metrics, and test results to stakeholders.
  • Data validation and ETL testing.
  • Report Validation (UI) and Analysing mapping document, design documents and requirements and developed test cases for system testing using HPALM.
  • Running Workflows using Informatica and doing validation in Source/Target DBs.

Sr. Test Analyst

UST GLOBAL
Bangalore
10.2009 - 10.2011
  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Preparation of test plans for the projects.
  • Generate the test cases, test execution and report the defects.
  • Actively involved in Scrum Planning, Design Workshop, Review and Retrospective Sessions with clients.
  • Involved in preparing daily/weekly status report.
  • Direct client interaction.

Sr. Quality Engineer

Symphony Services
Bangalore
08.2006 - 07.2009
  • Project Scope Analysis, Planning, Effort Estimation. Test Environment Setup, Execution and Tracking.
  • Having good exposure to Software Test Development Life Cycle and developing test cases.
  • Preparing the test plan as per the project requirement.
  • Installation and configuration of Appmanager Unix agent on all the Unix platforms.
  • Analysis of the requirements.
  • Creating test scenarios from requirements spec and use cases and document it.
  • Comparing and Analysing the Expected with Actual results in SQL DB.
  • Involved in Installation, Functional, Regression and System and Performance Testing.
  • Setting up the environment using DELL Hardware (PowerEdge/Power Vault systems) including OS (windows/Unix/Esx) install and validating the Microsoft product on all DELL servers.
  • Configure and test using IPV4 and IPV6.
  • Analysis, Planning, and Effort Estimation and testing for commutative hotfix.
  • Setting up the environment, which is like customer environment in cluster and non-cluster environment.
  • Create Large customer environment with around 1000 UNIX and windows servers.

Tech Support Engineer

Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
05.2003 - 04.2006
  • The installation of new releases and patches on NT/Unix Servers for various applications and on various environments (production/dry run/Integrated Testing Machine) as part of release.
  • Performing testing/validations for ITRC application on various environments (production/dry run/Integrated Testing Machine) as part of release.
  • Integration testing (connectivity, correctness of request and response XML).
  • UI testing.
  • Coordinating testing process with various region testers (NA/APJ/EMEA).

Education

Master of Computer Application (MCA) -

Sikkim Manipal University

GNIIT - System Management

NIIT
Bangalore

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Mahatma Gandhi University

Pre-Degree -

Mahatma Gandhi University

Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination -

Skills

Technical

  • Banking and Finance, Semi-Conductor
  • DB -Oracle /Netezza/SQL
  • ETL: Informatica 91/101

Project Management

  • MS Project, JIRA,HP ALM, Spira
  • Risk management
  • Budgeting, Scheduling
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills
  • Strong leadership and team-building abilities
  • Proficient in Jira and Confluence
  • Capable of managing multiple stakeholder expectations
  • Agile methodology
  • Sprint planning
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Test management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Data analysis
  • Documentation practices
  • Budget control
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Project tracking
  • Concrete estimation
  • Resource allocation

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Professional, 2004
  • ITIL V3 Foundation level Certification, 2006
  • ISTQB Foundation level Certification, 2008
  • CSM Certified, 2022

Accomplishments

  • Award of excellence from Hewlett Packard, 2003
  • Award of excellence from Symphony Services, 2007
  • Award of excellence from UST, 2012
  • Super Star Award from Nissan, 2022
  • Super Star Award from Nissan, 2024

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Project Manager/Scrum Master

UST GLOBAL
09.2020 - Current

Onsite Co-Ordinator/Scrum Master

UST GLOBAL
01.2018 - 08.2020

Test Lead of Agile Project

UST GLOBAL
11.2011 - 12.2017

Sr. Test Analyst

UST GLOBAL
10.2009 - 10.2011

Sr. Quality Engineer

Symphony Services
08.2006 - 07.2009

Tech Support Engineer

Hewlett Packard
05.2003 - 04.2006

Master of Computer Application (MCA) -

Sikkim Manipal University

GNIIT - System Management

NIIT

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Mahatma Gandhi University

Pre-Degree -

Mahatma Gandhi University

Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination -

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