Richa Mahesh Mamgai
Mumbai
Summary
Seasoned Scrum Master with 4+ years of specialized agile leadership within a 9-year professional career. Expert in facilitating cross-functional teams, promoting collaboration and continuous improvement culture, and maintaining transparency to achieve project milestones efficiently. Proven ability to guide teams through complex delivery challenges while driving enhanced performance and successful outcomes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master
TCS
Mumbai
09.2021 - Current
- Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to optimise team workflow.
- Worked closely with Product Owners to refine backlogs and define sprint goals for project alignment.
- Organised and led Scrum of Scrums meetings to address dependencies and coordinate with multiple teams.
- Monitored sprint progress through burn-down charts, adjusting strategies to meet deadlines.
- Mediated conflicts within the team, fostering a collaborative environment for problem-solving.
- Negotiated with stakeholders to set realistic expectations and align project objectives.
- Oversaw complete software development lifecycle from initial concept through to deployment and support.
- Spearheaded integration of quality assurance processes into software development lifecycle to enhance product reliability and performance.
- Oversee end-to-end audit preparation activities, ensuring comprehensive documentation review and strict compliance verification for agile methodologies and frameworks.
- Optimised application performance, achieving 40% faster load times and reducing server costs by 25%.
- Developed and executed a comprehensive testing strategy to enhance efficiency and ownership of quality assurance processes.
- Optimised team capacity utilisation across sprint cycles to enhance resource allocation and mitigate burnout.
- Established capacity tracking metrics to enhance oversight of team utilisation and inform strategic sprint planning decisions.
- Configured workflows for defect management using jile tool to ensure traceability.
Assisted in standardisation of classification system to improve triage efficiency.
Supported lifecycle tracking of defects to enhance closure rates within SLA. - Developed comprehensive estimation spreadsheets with automated calculations to enhance accuracy in planning processes.
Senior Process Associate
TCS
Mumbai
02.2019 - 08.2021
- Ensured high-quality annotation and quality checking for AI-driven digital farming projects, maintaining project integrity.
- Assisted in optimising client workspace assignments.
Identified diseases effectively during assessments.
Supported sorting of yellow trap images and classifying crop diseases. - Optimised data management processes to enhance digital farming solutions and promote sustainable farming methodologies.
Inventory Specialist
Monsanto Holding Private Limited
Hyderabad
09.2016 - 01.2019
- Oversaw bulk readiness planning for seed stock inventory, ensuring optimal stock levels and preventing stockouts through effective management of 3-month rolling forecasts.
- Implemented first-in-first-out inventory rotation protocols to optimise product freshness and minimise waste in seed stock management.
- Conducted comprehensive inventory assessments to enhance quality and ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Orchestrated stock transfers to distribution centres, enhancing fulfilment efficiency and optimising inventory allocation based on real-time sales demand analysis.
- Spearheaded collaboration with sales and operations teams in planning processes to optimise inventory strategies aligned with market demand and production capabilities.
- Optimised prioritisation frameworks for inventory handling processing and distribution to enhance operational efficiency and profitability.
- Executed early liquidation strategies for ageing inventory to minimise carrying costs and avert obsolescence.
Education
Master of Science - Plant pathology
GBPUA&T
Pantnagar, UT01-2016
Bachelor of Science - Horticulture
HNBGU
Srinagar, UT01-2014
Skills
- Agile methodology
- Backlog grooming
- Sprint planning
- Team facilitation
- Certified Scrum Master
- Stakeholder negotiation
- Resource allocation
- Defect management
- Testing strategy
- Scrum metrics tracking
- Artificial Intelligence
- Requirement gathering
- Risk assessment
- User acceptance testing
- Process improvements
- Test case design
- Software testing
- Manual test case preparation
- Defect resolution
- Project Management
Languages
Hindi
Proficient
C2
English
Advanced
C1
Marathi
Beginner
A1
Certification
Certified Scrum master from ScrumAllience
Hobbies and interests
- Singing
- Travelling
- Cooking
Timeline
Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master
TCS
09.2021 - Current
Senior Process Associate
TCS
02.2019 - 08.2021
Inventory Specialist
Monsanto Holding Private Limited
09.2016 - 01.2019
Master of Science - Plant pathology
GBPUA&T
Bachelor of Science - Horticulture
HNBGU