Shama Nagabhushan
QA Engineer/Scrum Master
Bengaluru
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Efi
Bengalore
04.2020 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
Quality Assurance Engineer
EFI
Bangalore
07.2017 - 03.2020
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
- Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function and performance.
- Drove corrective actions to accomplish project closure and recurrence control.
- Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge.
- Worked with stakeholders and team members on quality assurance efforts for hardware components.
- Produced and maintained technical documentation for project reference.
- Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
- Fixed identified issues to improve workflows.
- Trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in quality assurance standards, policies and procedures.
- Met tight deadlines to satisfy client demands and project timelines.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous
Bangalore 08.2014 - 06.2017
Skills
Development team trainings
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
Timeline
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
04-2022
Scrum Master
Efi
04.2020 - Current
Quality Assurance Engineer
EFI
07.2017 - 03.2020
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous
08.2014 - 06.2017
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