Sasikumar Kuppuswamy CSM|SAFe Agilist

Worked as a Scrum Master in a Leading Bank Project

• Managed Agile teams using SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) practices, including both Scrum and Kanban teams, to deliver quality financial products.
• Possessed an understanding of banking applications, including channel, payment engine, FX and SWIFT, and facilitated successful integration with internal applications to ensure smooth operations.
• Led daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to promote effective collaboration and delivery.
• Supported teams in following SAFe processes, including Program Increment (PI) planning and execution.
• Coached cross-functional teams on Agile methodologies, fostering a culture of self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Actively identified and removed impediments to ensure smooth sprint execution.
• Collaborated with the Product Owner to manage and prioritize the product backlog effectively, including writing user stories and creating tasks for a team of 13 members.
• Facilitated retrospectives to identify areas for improvement and enhance team velocity.
• Maintained strong communication with stakeholders to align on project priorities and progress.
• Utilized Jira and Confluence for tracking progress and reporting key Agile metrics.

• Served as Scrum Master for the team including the Agile Program Office Cohort. Established work procedures and processes that support company and departmental standards, procedures, and strategic directives Managed Scrum teams.
• Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, story estimation, sprint review and demo
• Worked closely with product owner to ensure a well-groomed Product Backlog for the teams to ensure long term work visibility is maintained.
• Collaborated with product manager, Development, Quality Assurance, and others in support of moving deliverables
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Conducted project status meetings to ensure alignment

• Handle a full range of queries from Investment Bankers for data research respective to their Equity & Industry Research.
• Sound Working knowledge on Global Financial Research Databases such as Thomson Eikon, Factset, Capital IQ, SNL Market Intelligence, Bloomberg, Factiva, Orbis, Moody’s, Fitch BMI, S&P, BoardEx, Perfect Information.
• Creating requests in the workflow management tool
• Assisting & Coordinating with Bankers in creating the requests based on their requirements
• End to end workflow management, Coordinating with company and industry researchers and maintained SLA
• Present the Productivity and Quality data to the Stake Holders (Bankers)meeting for business continuity