SANDEEP DUTTA
Pune
Summary
A seasoned professional with 8 years of experience working in an Agile framework. I relentlessly focus on removing impediments and delivering customer-centric products and features.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
Cerence India
Pune
06.2020 - Current
- Facilitating all scrum events (Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily standup, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective).
- Working as a Servant leader and removing impediments to the Scrum team.
- Coach team members on Agile principles and providing guidance on the methodology.
- Determine team capacity (Velocity) based on historical data
- Updated Agile tracking systems, JIRA, to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
- Facilitate work agreement between the Scrum team
- Encouraging the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
- Working with Product Owners in the creation and maintenance of Product Backlog, negotiating the minimum viable product for delivery.
- Facilitating sprint retrospective meetings at the end of the sprint and discussing what went well during the previous sprint cycle and what can be improved in the next sprint.
- Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all teams and management
Scrum Master
Maersk
Pune
08.2019 - 06.2020
- Worked as a scrum master for a team of 9 people - Dev team, PO and SM
- Coached team members on agile principles and provided general guidance on the methodology.
- Organized sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum ceremonies.
- Removed impediments by finding the right staff to solve the impediment
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to the stakeholders.
- Creates a Team environment by establishing trust and transparency through collaboration and communication.
- Guide Teams to adhere to Team agreements.
- Worked with Product Owners in the creation and maintenance of Product Backlog,
- Planning and monitoring the project.
Technical Analyst
Allianz Technology
Pune
03.2016 - 07.2019
- Played a vital role in supervising Allianz's critical business application. Act as an interface between customer and Agile teams.
- Worked together with technical designer and customer to understand the business requirement and provide solutions to the customer.
- Support Rollouts and Deployments by doing functionality tests and following up with the customer for any issue observed post-sprint release.
- Analyse, reproduce, and retest the issues reported by customers and work with the agile team to provide permanent fixes through bug fixes and hotfixes.
- Build and maintain collaboration & coordination within the team.
- A clear understanding of Allianz's business critical application and ability to perform UAT testing before go live to determine the priority issues are fixed and customer expectations are met.
- Keep track of Jira board to ensure Jira tickets are moving toward resolution with defined SLA.
- Able to diagnose all the production issues and Defects efficiently and able to follow the standard procedure to provide a permanent fix of the bug.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Information Technology
University of Pune
Pune01-2014
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Sikkim Manipal University
Guwahati01-2010
Skills
- Scrum Master
- Scrum Values, Agile Principles
- Servant Leader
- Project Management in Jira
- Impediment Removal
- Coaching
- Facilitate Meetings
- Conflict Resolution
- Problem Solving
- Interpersonal Skills
Certification
- PSM-1 - Professional Scrum Master
- CSF - Certified Scrum Fundamental
- ITIL v3 Foundation
- ITIL Intermediate - Service Transition
Personal
- Present address – Flat C wing 406, Rohan Abhilasha, Wagholi Pune, Pin - 412207
- Permanent address - Bargoloi near VKV School, Dist - Tinsukia, Assam, Pin – 786181
- PAN - BAFPD3544N
- Passport - P0395323
- Marital status - Married
- Nationality - Indian
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
Cerence India
06.2020 - Current
Scrum Master
Maersk
08.2019 - 06.2020
Technical Analyst
Allianz Technology
03.2016 - 07.2019
Master of Computer Applications - Information Technology
University of Pune
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Sikkim Manipal University
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