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Sangeetha Roddom

Agile Coach, Release Manager
Bangalore

Summary

Agile Coach / Software Project Manager Name: Total IT Experience: 15+ Years Project Manager / Scrum Master Experience: 5+ Years Testing / Automation Experience: 8 Years Work Experience in USA: 3 Years in Banking Domain, worked as QA Analyst & BA. Ph: Sangeetha Roddom, is an Agile Scrum professional / Project Manager with around 16 years of extensive IT experience in Project management / Agile Scrum / QA in domains like Automotive, Banking, Telecom, Ecommerce sites (B2B and B2C), Web API’s, AWS Cloud, SSRS Reports. She has around 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master. Worked as QA Automation Lead, using Selenium Web driver. Trained Agile Scrum and SAFE Agile Professional, with proven experience in TDD,FDD, knowledge of Lean , Kanban. Provided trainings and guidance to transitioning teams on SAFE Agile and Agile scrum concepts. Proven experience working as a BA, collaborated with the client to understand the FRD, RSD, perform assessment and define technical specifications for technology enhancements and update Jira with the stories for Epics. Experienced in delivering technology solutions, and passionate around solving business problems through innovation & engineering practices to drive business value for Fortune 500 companies. My experience is into software products design & development, DevOps, Project management, agile practices, Program management and Portfolio product delivery including End to End delivery execution experience handling complex Digital Transformation Programs (DBT).

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
6
6
Languages

Work History

Agility Lead / Release Manager

JP Morgan & Chase
09.2021 - Current
  • Delivery Management and accountability to ensure all delivery takes place as per commitment and service level agreement as contracted
  • Facilitating and ensuring that all the scrum ceremonies are followed as per the Scrum guidelines and principles
  • Completed AWS cloud practitioner training internally from JPMC
  • Built high performing feature teams which includes Java backend API developers, Android Developers, IOS Developers, QA Automation testers, Architects, Cognitive engineers, SDET & NFT Test engineers, SCRUM Masters and Product Owners
  • Coaching the Squads to make them cross competitive and self-organized teams to deliver features in 2 week sprints, adapting to the Agile Principles and guidelines
  • Collaborate with GTI team to ensure the Elastic data is migrated to the AWS Cloud considering the security, scalability, maintenance and performance aspects
  • Programs – Digital Assistance and Search, Chat Bot Development and UAT of new Orchestrator Service API and Integration with existing Search API, Chabot
  • Driving delivery excellence which meets Quality and requirements
  • Owned the initiative to migrate the Elastic search Data from Gaia Cloud to AWS cloud
  • Driving a culture of innovation – automation opportunities, develop new solutions; work with service lines to create the assets / accelerators to bring efficient and better outcomes
  • Working with opportunity owners to drive business and tap into new opportunities
  • Staffing of all opportunities, ensuring right capability is staffed for each requirement, right talent pyramid is built, infusion of additional capability when needed
  • Skills and capability enhancement – Continuously assess capabilities of the team, identify gaps and drive capability building drives to ensure gaps are bridged
  • Relationship management with other account executives and supporting teams
  • Empower the team and ensure that in-sprint automation tasks are completed for all the in-sprint stories for the implemented features.

Software Project Manager / Agile Coach

APTIV ITC, Hyundai Kia Motor Corporation, HKMC
01.2020 - 09.2021
  • Responsibilities:
  • Managing large enterprise software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations
  • Facilitating agile development team, developing the active safety, ASIL B features for HKMC Client, for multiple variants using a common platform and meet the project goals
  • Delivering for 2 sensor and 4 sensor configurations features, like Safe-Exit-Assist (SEA), Blind-Spot Collision Avoidance-Assist-Rear (BCA-R), BCW-Blind-Spot Collision Warning or LCDA, RCCW, RCCA, FSD, FOW, ODM etc
  • Ensure that the team follows AUTOSAR standards and are compliant with the coding standards and guidelines expected from the OEM’s
  • Ensure that the release audits are completed without any FuSa (Functional Safety) gaps before the milestone release is done
  • Adhering and ensuring that the team follows 100 % ASPICE Compliant for all the Software process areas SWE.1 to SWE.6
  • Collaborate with the client, PO to understand and prioritize the requirements in Product Backlog
  • Ensure that the entire development team is aligned with the sprint goals and PI goals/Objectives
  • Worked towards building 100% build automation by integrating to Jenkins for achieving CI/CD
  • Integrated Regression Testing, Integration testing and static analysis to trigger after every completing automated build
  • The dashboard is built to reflect the test results after every run
  • Ensure that SAD is up to date with all the new ports and interfaces being added for implementing any new feature
  • Ensure that all the nonfunctional requirements are also delivered along with functional requirements eg: RAM, ROM, Throughput are within the specified threshold
  • Maintaining and delivering the SW products and artifacts for all release milestones and keeping them up to date
  • Facilitate for developing automation scripts for all Software and CDD components for any new feature in every sprint
  • Collaborate with the team and analyze with proper approach for any problems reported by ITV or manufacturing team, with Business value Index > 8
  • Document the lessons learnt for the delivered milestones and the problems resolved
  • Collaborate with the client, PO to understand and prioritize the requirements in Product Backlog
  • Ensure that the entire development team is aligned with the sprint goals and PI goals/Objectives
  • Document functional specifications and other related requirements artifacts
  • Maintaining and Updating artifacts like issue register, Risk Register and lessons log

Senior Associate QA L2/Agile Lead

Publicis Sapient
09.2012 - 01.2020
  • Clients Worked With: Rayban, Ascena, BNCB, JPMorgan Chase, VF Corp, Future Electronics, Home Depot Canada
  • Core Responsibilities in Sapient Projects:
  • Trained and migrated team from waterfall model of SDLC to Agile Scrum
  • Contributed in backlog prioritization & guided teams on understanding of estimation practices & techniques
  • Facilitate the daily scrum meetings and all other scrum events
  • Consolidate and projecting the project checkpoint reports and the QA metrics, performance metrics reports to the management on weekly basis and showcase the work progress and highlight any risks and the mitigation plan if any
  • As a BA, Collaborating with the clients to gather the Requirements and update Jira stories
  • As a BA, collaborated with the development team and the client to make sure that everyone are aligned with the final product being developed and facilitate the dev team to demonstrate the product iterations at the end of every sprint
  • Enhanced the use of JIRA, through customizations to dashboards, reports and workflows
  • To make sure that the team is unblocked due to any impediments and if there are any issues, take it up and resolve accordingly ASAP
  • Evaluated the functional Specs (FRD) and tech Specs (RSD) proposing changes to the developers
  • Coordinating Dev, Integration, UAT and Prod builds for the release and certifying them by sending the detailed QA report with the metrics and highlighting the issues/Risks if any
  • Empowering the QA team to automate the Sanity/Regression suite using Selenium, for the projects in Rayban and timberland Ecommerce site
  • Regression suite was also compatible to run on different devices like Mobile, Ipad, Tab, desktop and different browsers, OS like MAC safari etc and check the compatibility

QA Analyst II - BA

Las Vegas
11.2010 - 05.2012
  • Work with the customer and Users to understand the requirement for different credit card types and the risk management protocols
  • Evaluated the functional Specs (FRD) and tech Specs (RSD) proposing changes to the developers
  • Developed the test scripts for the bugs going to be tested in this release, logging the new issues in the bug tracker (Issue view and Rally)
  • Testing the vulnerability of the application for different frauds on a financial application with the prepaid cards by simulating the fraud, using SQL Injection
  • Writing complex SQL Queries using joins and testing new card programs
  • Tested IVR independently end to end, which was implemented through web service for discover, Paycard etc and other clients
  • Validating from the cyber source (3rd Party payment gateway), to see if the payments are processed successfully.

QA Analyst I

Ecommlink Inc
Las Vegas
04.2009 - 06.2010
  • BA)
  • Verifying the closed loop and open loop prepaid cards for the proper functionality
  • Validated the transaction processing for MasterCard, Visa and Discover branded cards with the pulse network
  • Involved in the complete release cycle and also Support the customer post production release and during the UAT testing
  • Involved in the customer interactions for the new functionalities requested
  • Independently Performed the UAT support to the customer
  • Was responsible to simulate the financial transactions and perform the Load testing under peak network and high resource usage/Load conditions and come up with the performance reports.

ARCOT R
Bangalore
10.2007 - 12.2008
  • Verifying RSD and PRD, Writing the test plan based on the PRD and RSD
  • Installation of the Build on the server machine, Deployment of admin and client
  • Verifying the Change Requests and updating the Bug tracker (PVCS)
  • Testing the application for the different Browser/OS compatibility
  • Validating the support for OTP credential for ArcotID roaming download
  • Performing Risk analysis for the user authentication details.

Sasken Communication Tec LTD
Bangalore
11.2004 - 10.2007
  • Developing test cases/test scripts/test suites using shell (UNIX, Linux) for testing
  • Using Stratus Tool to test the basic sanity tests for any BSC/TCU load
  • Using Net hawk and GIDA tools to capture the Abis messages and analyze the call flow for GSM and GPRS network
  • Key Performance testing for GSM/GPRS/Edge calls using Patatras tool to simulate the calls
  • Stress testing for Nortel BSC/TCU/BTS
  • Validating the connectivity and performance of the call connect and call disconnect features for CDMA and GSM mobiles with new enhancements and features.

Education

B.E - Computer Science

Gulbarga University
01.1996 - 01.2000

12th - Science Stream

Gulbarga University
01.1994 - 01.1996

10th - undefined

CBSE

Skills

Vector cast, Atlassian, Plastics, UNICI, Jenkins, ClearCase, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, VS code, BDD Cucumber, QTP Jmeter, Blaze meter,GIT Hub, Jira, Rest Assured, Oracle, Micro services, MSSQL TestNG, Vector cast, MPP, Alsatian Jira, Plastics, GIT, UNICI, Jenkins, Clear Case, Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, Gaia (Private Cloud), VS code, BDD Cucumber, QTPundefined

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Accomplishments

  • Prince2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
  • Social Responsibility
  • Part of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) team called as “PRAYAAS”
  • Raise funds for the disabled children, took initiative in many social activities and was actively involved during the Karnataka, Kerala Floods to raise funds, procurement and distribution of the daily needs for the people
  • Have been part of the NGO who work with providing free checkup and eyeglasses for the school children and rural people
  • Helping them on weekend drives to reach out to the needy people
  • Have been a part of the awareness marathons like Pinkathon and also the runs which are conducted at the organization level or the city level to raise funds for needy.

Software

Agile , Scrum

SQL

QA, Selenium

SAFE 4 Agile

Kanban

C, C

Jira

Additional Information

Out of BOW:
1. Managing and updating the file for the REQ's in Seat and open positions for Digital Search
2. Taking interviews and participating in the drives for hiring at LOB and org level.
3. Active member of the Women on the move , Take It Forward Drive/initiative from org.
4. Completely owned the task of Migration Elastic search data from Gaia cloud to AWS cloud adhering to the governance aspects.
5. Organizing and driving the monthly team building events. Got Appreciation from MD and ED for this proactive initiative.

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Quote

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Timeline

Agility Lead / Release Manager

JP Morgan & Chase
09.2021 - Current

Software Project Manager / Agile Coach

APTIV ITC, Hyundai Kia Motor Corporation, HKMC
01.2020 - 09.2021

Senior Associate QA L2/Agile Lead

Publicis Sapient
09.2012 - 01.2020

QA Analyst II - BA

11.2010 - 05.2012

QA Analyst I

Ecommlink Inc
04.2009 - 06.2010

ARCOT R
10.2007 - 12.2008

Sasken Communication Tec LTD
11.2004 - 10.2007

B.E - Computer Science

Gulbarga University
01.1996 - 01.2000

12th - Science Stream

Gulbarga University
01.1994 - 01.1996

10th - undefined

CBSE

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