A highly organized Scrum Master with 9+ years of experience with vast experience in Release Management, Deployment Management, Change Management, and Build Request Management roles in banking, telecom and insurance domain.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master 4
Comcast
Chennai
02.2024 - Current
Lead agile development teams, provides coaching and mentorship to team members, and facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies to ensure correct adoption.
Work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Lead, and stakeholders(End User) to prioritize and refine the product backlog, ensuring that the team is delivering value to the business.
Created dashboards using various tools, such as JIRA and EasyBI, to track project progress and milestones. Uses Confluence to track all the documentation.
Updates the Roadmap in AHA to track project progress and milestones.
Maintain product backlogs and RAID logs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
Ensures that the team is fully funded by tracking and defining the budgeting and forecasts.
Attends all the delivery status call and engineering call, and Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status with senior management.
Responsible for sending all the release updates to the senior management and to the end users.
Scrum Master
TCS
Chennai
07.2019 - 02.2024
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans. Timely updates the RAID logs.
Align sprints and manages capacity to optimally align with product roadmap and initiative timelines.
Apply Scrum principles for transparent progress and timely feature delivery during on-premises to GCP migration.
Supported the PO in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
Ensured MoSCoW adherence of Sprint Backlog at the Sprint level.
Activities after Production Go Live, such as Enhancements, CRs, and Defects, are being followed up.
Monitor and report project progress and team performance using agile metrics and tools, such as JIRA and Confluence.
Conducted training sessions on agile methodologies, Scrum, and other related topics for team members and stakeholders.
Scrum Master
HCL
Chennai
05.2018 - 06.2019
Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders and organized Scrum ceremonies.
Collaborated with the product owner to set goals for each project.
Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints through JIRA.
Collaborated with other Scrum Masters across teams to ensure consistency in processes and tools used.
Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
Manage releases and deployments, coordinating with operations teams to ensure smooth and timely delivery of software updates to production environments. Used ServiceNow for all the change activities in production.
Release and Deployment Analyst
HCL
Chennai
03.2015 - 04.2018
Planning, managing all the releases and deployments of projects as per the requirement.
Working with Build, Test, and BA teams in getting the release plan information and other documentation prior to the release.
Managing from initial planning, development through retirement (decommissioning) through change process.
Coordinate tracking of defects in Jira during different release phases with the Project Manager, and work with the Project Manager to ensure proper closure.
Involved in creating Release, release item for specific release, and release task for various teams involved.
Supporting the design of change implementation scheduling.
Supporting the design and approving new change process models.
Education
B-Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
NIMS Institute of Engineering & Technology
Jaipur
08-2012
Skills
Jira
Confluence
Scrum Framework
Agile Framework
Agile Estimation techniques
Agile Prioritization Techniques
Agile Metrics
Agile Release Planning
Change Management
Release Management
Deployment Management
Build Request Management
Conflict Resolution
Certification
Agile E2 Internal Certified (Equivalent to PSM1)
ITIL Certified( Foundation)
Timeline
Scrum Master 4
Comcast
02.2024 - Current
Scrum Master
TCS
07.2019 - 02.2024
Scrum Master
HCL
05.2018 - 06.2019
Release and Deployment Analyst
HCL
03.2015 - 04.2018
B-Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering