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RUBANKUMAR R

RUBANKUMAR R

Scrum Master
Coimbatore,Tamilnadu

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with 12 + years of Professional IT experience in successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in Scrum Framework, Servant-Leadership,Agile methodologies, stakeholder management,Facilitation,Release management. Extensive experience in working on multiple concurrent Data Warehouse & Consumer healthcare projects . Highly organized in managing complex projects within deadlines.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

Haleon (GSK)
Bangalore
05.2021 - Current
  • Skillfully facilitated all sprint ceremonies, ensuring a productive and collaborative atmosphere during planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, Refinement meetings
  • Proactively identified and addressed impediments, minimizing their impact on team progress
  • Provided coaching and mentoring to product owner and product manager on the Agile process & Agile Techniques, and helped them on writing useful user stories and managing the backlog
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Assisted and collaborated with Product Owner in Product Backlog refinement, Planning, Business value prioritization and handled deliveries according to the prioritized backlog
  • Demonstrated a strong customer-centric approach, ensuring that the team's work aligned with customer needs and expectations, resulted in increased customer satisfaction.
  • Calculated team's velocity based on previous sprint's historical data which helps in limiting Work in Progress (WIP) and helps the team to increase the predictability above 80%
  • Reflected team's capacity during Sprint Planning with the help of story points provided to the user stories
  • Tracked Sprint progress through Sprint Burndown Charts
  • Communicated Project's progress, Business risks & Dependencies to stakeholders and project management on a regular basis
  • Worked with organizational resources outside the team to remove impediments and protect them from organizational bureaucracy
  • Successfully navigated unforeseen challenges, by demonstrating adaptability and implementing effective problem-solving strategies.


Scrum Master & Release Manager

NORDEA Bank IT
Gdansk
10.2017 - 05.2021
  • Skillfully facilitated all sprint ceremonies, ensuring a productive and collaborative atmosphere during ceremonies.
  • Assisted and collaborated with Product Owner in Product Backlog refinement, Planning, Business value prioritization and handled deliveries according to the prioritized backlog
  • Using Kanban board, tracked & managed project progress and visualizes the team's local metrics
  • Reflected team's capacity during Sprint Planning with the help of story points provided to the user stories and Navigated impediments that can hinder the team to achieve sprint goals
  • Tracked Sprint progress through Sprint Burndown Charts
  • Defined release and prioritized Release artifacts & Ensured Project passes all the production and quality assurance gates within Scheduled timeline
  • As a Release Manager, created and maintained overall implementation plans for each phase of the Programme roadmap
  • Prepared and Chaired release planning meetings,Post Implementation Reviews
  • Reviewed and provided signoffs for Deployment Plan, Verification and Backout plan, Master Test plan and Master Test Report
  • Conducted Quality & Risk Analysis meeting with Business stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify high-level Business & Technical risks along with mitigation plans
  • Attended Ready to Review meetings, CAB meetings and make sure the project passes all the production gates before given deadlines
  • Provided weekly updates to the team on the release calendar, managing Code deployments, test environment availabilities, change freezes
  • Managed and tracked production incidents associated with the project implementations & Concise communication and reporting to Senior IT, Business, and Steering Committee stakeholders
  • Maintains regular communications with development and operations teams to resolve difficulties which may impact the release
  • Promoted and ensured Project's mandatory compliance with the Bank's Change Management, Release Management and Production Assurance policies & procedures.

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Coimbatore
03.2016 - 10.2017
  • Collaborated with Business users and cross-functional teams to gather Business Requirement Documents (BRD), define KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), and identify data sources
  • Worked on requirement specifications for the strategic KPI's that drive performance and profitability in the division
  • Designed user interface objects in Qlikview applications
  • Developed executive dashboards to measure the performance of the business with analytical capabilities in Qlikview & Qliksense
  • Performed time over time analysis of sales and performance-related data
  • Performed testing of dashboards for functionality, data, performance, look and feel
  • Deployed dashboards to the production environment
  • Implemented Section access and Hidden scripting for Application Security.

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
06.2010 - 12.2015


  • Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle Experience (SDLC) from Development to Deployment
  • Developed design based on scope, processes, requirement, alternatives, and risks
  • Loaded data into the Teradata database using Load utilities like Fast Export, Fast Load, Multiload, and Tpump
  • Created proper PI by considering planned access and even distribution of data across all the available AMPS
  • Prepared BTEQ scripts to transform data and Fast export scripts to export data
  • Scheduled jobs for batch processing using Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS)
  • Managed the live code movement in ENDEVOR system
  • Handled Change Management and incident management for the production issues using SM7 and AXIS.

Education

M.S Software Engineering -

BITS, Pilani
01.2011 - 2014.12

B. Sc. Information Technology -

PSG College of Arts And Science
Coimbatore
04.2007 - 2010.05

Personal Information

  • Citizenship: India
  • Date of Birth: 02/14/89
  • Gender: Male
  • Marital Status: Married

Projects

COMPANY :HALEON(GSK),BANGALORE, INDIA

Project 5 & 6 : ePOS & GAIA

Duration : May 2021 to till date 

Role : Scrum Master for 2 Squads consisting total of 15+ Team Members, Reporting to  Scrum Master Chapter Lead


  • ePOS : Provide a single, automated POS data ingestion platform to feed required data across several data products to drive keys decisions and performance. Provide an automated order recommendation per POS/SKU to improve sales visit outcomes. Develop an automated system to ensure the right product is in the right store at the right time (for Walgreens) GAIA Help the business to accurately track and monitor progress towards Haleon's environmental commitments to make informed decisions to meet the sustainability targets.
  • GAIA :Help the business to accurately track and monitor progress towards Haleon's environmental commitments to make informed decisions to meet the sustainability targets.


COMPANY : NORDEA BANK IT, GDANSK, POLAND

Project 4 : CORE BANKING PROGRAMME (CBP) - Downstream Core CDW, Semantics

Duration :November 2017 to May 2021

Role : Scrum Master & Release Manager for two teams consisting of 20+ team members, Reporting to Senior Project Manager


  • Project Summary :Nordic Core Banking Platform (CBP), is bank's Simplification program which will enable digitalization and allow Nordea to simplify its banking platforms across the four Nordic countries for 11 million customers. Different core banking functions, products and processes running on many legacy systems (Misys’ Midas and Tieto’s Core Banking Suite) across four Nordic countries will be combined into a single platform using Temenos T24 core banking system. With this consolidation, customers will enjoy consistent and easier banking services across all Nordic countries. This program allows enabling of Ncore data into Common Data Warehouse to consume by different Semantic Layers for Business and Regulatory Reporting


COMPANY : COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, COIMBATORE, INDIA 

Client : ABBVIE (Pharmaceutical)

Project 3 : Market Spectrum 

Duration: March 2016–August 2017

Role : QlikView Developer in a team of 5, Reporting to Project Manager 


  • Project Summary :The strategic intent of Market Spectrum is to establish an aligned single way of looking at the business to identify market specific growth opportunities to deliver tailored recommendations to individual affiliates from different regions.



COMPANY : WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, CHENNAI, INDIA

CLIENT : LLOYDS BANK (Banking)

Project 2 : VERDE 

Duration : June 2011 – December 2015 

Role : Senior Teradata Developer in a team of 10 , Reporting to Project Manager


Project Summary : Lloyds bank’s divestment plan—codenamed "Verde"—identified 632 branches which would be transferred to a new business. The objective of this project is to build a data mart that captures the web presence of the VERDE customers and to issue the new Verde customer credit card account details through FDI and then process through the existing load process



COMPANY : WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, CHENNAI, INDIA

CLIENT : LLOYDS BANK (Banking)

Project 1 : Commercial Registration & Instant Activation

Duration : June 2010 – May 2011

Role : Teradata Developer in a team of 7, Reporting to Project Manager


Project Summary : Lloyds bank’s divestment plan—codenamed "Verde"—identified 632 branches which would be transferred to a new business. The objective of this project is to build a data mart that captures the web presence of the VERDE customers and to issue the new Verde customer credit card account details through FDI and then process through the existing load process

Certification

Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe for Scrum Master

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Skills

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Timeline

Registered Product Owner™ credential from Agile Education by Scrum Inc.™

11-2022

Registered Scrum Master™ credential from Agile Education by Scrum Inc.™

05-2022

Scrum Master

Haleon (GSK)
05.2021 - Current

Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe Devops Practitioner

01-2021

ITIL V3

01-2020

Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe for Scrum Master

06-2019

Scrum Master & Release Manager

NORDEA Bank IT
10.2017 - 05.2021

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 10.2017

M.S Software Engineering -

BITS, Pilani
01.2011 - 2014.12

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2010 - 12.2015

B. Sc. Information Technology -

PSG College of Arts And Science
04.2007 - 2010.05
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