Riya Sajan
Kochi
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience in leading Agile teams, managing cross functional projects ensuring diverse teams collaborate effectively, align on goals and integration and facilitating successful delivery of software products. Expertise in Agile methodologies, team leadership, and continuous process improvements focusing on identifying inefficiencies or bottlenecks and implementing strategies to enhance productivity and quality fostering an environment of collaboration, trust, and open communication.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager, Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2021 - Current
- ·Led a team of 25+ associates in Agile practices, facilitating all key ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives and backlog grooming.
- Managed project timelines and deliverables, maintaining alignment with business objectives and ensuring timely completion of sprints and milestones.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders and architects to evaluate and prioritize the product backlog, optimizing delivery and alignment with business needs.
- Maintained effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks and changes, ensuring alignment with project goals and expectations.
- Implemented productivity improvements through mentorship, impediment resolution, and comprehensive tracking of team progress.
- Managed backlog creation, prioritization, and maintenance, ensuring alignment with Agile principles of collaboration, accountability, and transparency.
- Monitored and reviewed metrics and performance indicators to drive continuous improvement and achieve 100% adherence to Agile practices.
- Maintained comprehensive project documentation, including sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog changes, and provided detailed reports to senior management on project progress and outcomes.
- Coordinated with delivery manager for creating SoWs, Resource loading, allocation and resource constraints to ensure project success.
- Technologies/Platforms: IntelliJ, AWS Workspace, Java Spring Boot, Microservices, Oracle, Azure, Databricks, Scala
- Scrum Tools: JIRA, Confluence
Scrum Master
Allianz Technology
04.2018 - 09.2021
- Achievements: Nakshatra Award, Q3- 2019.
- Worked with Technical Product owner/ Business Analyst to get the requirements and build product backlog.
- Communicated queries and functional gaps/ risks within the development & testing team.
- Ensured all stories are tested 100% to deployment.
- Deployment plan for Go-live activities.
- Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint progress.
- Track and maintain reports and documentation.
- Worked with stakeholders to gather and share project status.
Backend Engineer
Allianz Technology
04.2018 - 09.2021
- Feature Enhancements
- Application support and upgrades
- Bug fixes
Business Analyst
AppZoc Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2016 - 03.2018
- Requirement Gathering
- Analysis and Documentation
- Create wire frame designs
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitating grooming sessions
- Facilitating data validation during each sprint
- Functional testing to ensure that features are in line with the requirement
- Carried out test case review with scrum teams to make sure end to end functionality is effectively covered in test cases.
- Prepared Demo Deck and Scenarios to demonstrate the development carried out in each sprint
- Tool Used: Adobe XD, Jira
C# Intern
Lapis Technologies
07.2016 - 09.2016
- Created a web application for recording criminal case with detailed information about each case, document management and storage providing access to case files allowing investigators and attorneys to work remotely
- Technology Used: c#.net, SQL
Education
B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering
St. Joseph's College of Engineering & Technology
Kerala05.2016
Skills
- Agile and Collaboration Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams
- Cloud platform and DevOps Tools: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Azure
- Development and Testing Tools: IntelliJ, Postman, Swagger, Selenium, Bitbucket
- Database & Back-end Tools: PostgreSQL, Java Springboot, Oracle
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
COMPETENCIES
- Agile Project Management
- Software Development Life cycle
- Scrum Framework
- Team leadership and Mentoring
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Continuous Improvement
- Conflict Resolution
- Risk & Issue Management
- Metrics and Reporting
- JIRA, Confluence
- Agile Ceremonies/ Events
- Resource Utilization
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Scrum
- Business Analysis
- Project Management
- Functional Testing
- Manual Testing
- Jira
- Confluence
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/30/94
- Gender: Female
Timeline
Program Manager, Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Allianz Technology
04.2018 - 09.2021
Backend Engineer
Allianz Technology
04.2018 - 09.2021
Business Analyst
AppZoc Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2016 - 03.2018
C# Intern
Lapis Technologies
07.2016 - 09.2016
B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering
St. Joseph's College of Engineering & Technology
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