Richa Pandkar

• Owning and planning, stand ups, demos, retrospectives and execution of sprints
• Remove blockers and find a path forward in challenging situations
• Facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog refinement and other scrum events
• Mentor Team adeptly towards optimum productivity in AGILE Environment
• Understanding and translating the business vision into API(s) and its functions
• Produce API design and technical implementation documents for developers ensuring all APIs adhere to the latest API standard
• Working closely with the lead developers and scrum masters to ensure that the project is delivered on time and of best quality
• Leading production releases and actively supporting postproduction care
• Collaborating with other engineers to understand pain points and addressing them, solving problems alongside lead developer for any development specific queries
• Translating architectural guidance into practices and driving continuous improvement of processes, tooling, and engineering practices to be followed within the team
• Actively participating in project iteration planning meetings
• Managing requirements gathering, collation of project functional and technical requirements, following up with clients throughout the project lifecycle to ensure full understanding of needs and concerns
• Streamlined design process by implementing new collaboration tools, reducing project turnaround time.
• Collaborated with senior management to develop, review and finalize design concepts.
• Mentored junior designers, fostering culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• Analyzed user behavior and feedback to optimize design and user experience.

• Developing System APIs in MuleSoft for US banking functions like Bill payments, retrieve account history, retrieve account list, retrieve personal details etc
• Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives, coached team members and clients on Agile process
• Readiness with Capacity Planning, Velocity, Sprint health and Spill over data as an input for PI Planning
• Collaborating closely with teams for ensuring adherence to agile practices like Backlog grooming, Release Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review & Retrospectives
• Worked as a Servant Leader and Helped team to resolve the conflicts/impediments
• Key driver of the Release where my role involved closely working with Feature teams, Epic & Story Authors, Product Owners, Solution Architects and Business Stockholders
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
• Engaging external teams at the right time to get over dependencies or business specific mandates (NFR)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Technologies used: MuleSoft
• Worked closely with clients to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications for implementation.
• Debugged complex software issues, leading to a more stable product release.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features.

• RESTful API development using core java version 8, Spring boot & MuleSoft
• Regular calls with the business and other stakeholders to communicate the timely progress or highlighting any risk for the delivery
• Adapted quickly to new technologies and programming languages, enhancing overall team productivity.
• Conducted thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Coordinating with other teams to resolve system dependencies
• Helping and mentoring technical team in development and in troubleshooting and fixing critical issues
• Production release activities that involved monitoring AppDynamics and Splunk dashboards
• Production support after product went live to the customers
• Technologies used: Java 8, Spring boot, Restful webservices, PCF, Jira, AppDynamics, Splunk

• Developed an application that served a vendor with HSBC user account information
• Worked on development of all modules and was actively involved in requirement and Impact analysis during design, development and deployment phase
• Due to vendor engagement, there was a constant need of weekly calls with Vendor for status update and progress and I was actively involved in the same
• This application involved executing around 8 messages to the backend
• The challenge was to aggregate the response of all these messages and thereafter send it in a specific format as required by the vendor
• Response time being a crucial factor, the application was required to be implemented using the complex Splitter/Aggregator concepts of MVC wherein multiple requests had to be triggered to the backend simultaneously thus reducing the response time
• Technologies used: Java 5, Spring MVC, Spring Integration, SOAP Web Services, PCF, Splunk

• Involved in maintaining, customizing, and enhancing this application
• Wrote APIs and integrated it in the existing application to send email notification to the customer whenever his/her personal information is getting updated either through PIB or Customer care using core java version 5, Spring, JSP Servlets & JavaScript
• Involved in preparing solution design with architects
• Technologies used: Java 5, HSBC legacy framework

Interacting directly with Business to get information regarding customers to be migrated(close to a billion)

• Executing the scripts for the change in the database and then verifying if the customers have got migrated successfully with the help of SQL developer by executing SQL Queries
• This project was extremely crucial from Business point of view and required me to be extra cautious since I was dealing directly with real customer data in Production database
• Bearing all consequences in mind, delivering the project without issues adhering to timelines
• Technologies used: MySQL