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Shrikant Gopinath Kale

Scrum Master, Project Manager, Release Train Engineer
Pune

Summary

Results-oriented Scrum Master with 11 years in Agile methodologies and SAFe frameworks, specializing in software testing and quality assurance within payments, banking, and telecom sectors. Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with a record of facilitating project execution and enhancing team collaboration. Skilled in process improvement and strategic operational management, applying analytical expertise to drive financial performance and organizational growth.

Overview

2
2
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Vice President

Citicorp Services India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - Current
  • Contributed to budget planning, and initiatives for communications, planning and coordination of facility management and space allocations.
  • Prepared and recorded meeting minutes and documented actions taken at board meetings, committee meetings and special sessions.
  • Led cross-functional teams to implement process improvements, enhancing operational efficiency and team collaboration.
  • Developed and executed strategic initiatives that streamlined project workflows, resulting in timely project deliveries.
  • Facilitated stakeholder meetings to gather requirements, ensuring alignment with project goals and improving communication.
  • Mentored junior staff on best practices in project management, fostering skill development and team cohesion.
  • Attended weekly meetings and special sessions of Leadership and Executive Leadership Teams and contributed to major administrative initiatives, policies and decisions.
  • Allocated work assignments and tasks to comprehensively manage administrative projects.
  • Attracted and retained new members through organizational rebranding and targeting marketing campaigns to specific audiences.
  • Generated financial and operational reports to assist management with business strategy.
  • Facilitated training sessions for staff on new systems, resulting in improved productivity and user adoption.

Software Test Engineer

Xoriant Solutions
09.2017 - 08.2018

Description:

  • Alto Latam is highly scalable, application that is designed to support the processing needs of Low Value Payments. The main purpose is process payment instruction from Citi customer and deliver them to payment entities like clearing house or internal system. This application has designed with spring and hibernate framework with all backend processing written predominantly in Core Java
  • Responsibilities:
  • Understand the customer requirement by analysing SRS document.
  • Responsible for gathering Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Design Documents
  • Analysis of Business requirement document
  • Raising clarifications to Business coordinator
  • Preparation of test artifacts such as Master test plan, Detailed Test Plan, Test Scenarios etc
  • Writing and reviewing Test Scripts and test the payments flow and functionality of the gateway through web links
  • Preparation of test data
  • Defect management.
  • Refined test cases to enhance the effectiveness of manual software testing.
  • Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Involved in designing the Test Cases
  • Participated in the Test case review meetings
  • Performed Functionality Testing, Retesting and Regression Testing
  • Interact with developers and discussed technical problems, Bugs Tracking
  • Reported status updates to management promptly.
  • Involved in Backend Testing
  • Effective co-ordination between development team and testing team.
  • Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
  • Conducted regression testing, analyzed results, and submitted observations to development team.
  • Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Developed and executed comprehensive test plans, ensuring software quality and user satisfaction.
  • Identified and documented software defects, collaborating with developers to drive timely resolutions.
  • Automated testing processes using industry-standard tools, significantly enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
  • Led cross-functional teams in Agile environments, fostering collaboration and improving project delivery timelines.

Software Test Engineer

Arsys Infosolutions
09.2014 - 09.2017

Description:

  • IPS is a digital payment service that combines insights, people, and proprietary technology to help you centralize your payables processes, phase out costly, labour-intensive paper checks, and transition to electronic payments.IPS enables the continued reduction of paper checks by giving your suppliers an efficient electronic payment option
  • IPS’S secure, online portal provides you and your supplier’s visibility into your ACH payments while allowing you to maintain existing business processes and banking relationships

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and executing test cases according to the Functional specifications
  • Reviewed test cases as part of the quality assurance process.
  • Executed functionality testing, retesting, and regression testing to ensure software quality and reliability.
  • Reported status updates to management promptly to ensure clear communication.
  • Involved in the Behavioural, Input Domain, Error Handling, Calculation-based, And Service Level Coverage
  • Conducted integration testing, system compatibility testing, and system testing.
  • In fact, mediation technology is the logical starting point for an entire BSS infrastructure transformation; the sort of quantum architectural shift that is increasingly required as new network and application technologies take root
  • In fact, mediation technology is the logical starting point for an entire BSS infrastructure transformation, the sort of quantum architectural shift that is increasingly required as new network and application technologies take root
  • Among the benefits experienced was an ability to de-commission a number of legacy systems resulting in fewer application platforms and related infrastructure to maintain
  • Optimized test cases to enhance effectiveness of manual software testing.

Education

BE - Information Technology

University of Pune
Pune
06.2012 - 05.2014

Skills

Effective team facilitation, Servant Leadership, Communication, Coaching & Mentoring, Conflict Resolution, Impediment removal, Stakeholder Management, Agile & Scrum Expertise, Problem Solving & Critical Thinking, Continuous Improvement Mindset, Test Scenarios and Test cases preparation, Defect analysis and Debugging

Additional Information

  • Acted as a scrum master, leading the delivery of all sprints and interaction with product owners. Monitored and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks, and activities directed toward completing the project goals. Closely worked with product owners to ensure understanding of user stories and keeping the backlog groomed Facilitated and participated in Sprint planning, design, and estimation. Monitored the Sprint Burndown and conducted daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team. Facilitated the team to estimate story points and measured velocity to plan future sprints. Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos. Responsible for Coaching team members, hosting daily stand-up meetings, Assist the PO with the product backlog, remove the roadblocks, etc. Facilitate meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective) Responsible for Test Case Writing, Execution, Bug Tracking and Reporting. Actively involved in Review of test Case. Performed Functional, Integration, Retesting, Regression, Sanity, Browser Compatibility and Database testing. Enough exposure to all stages of SDLC. Mapped the business requirements with test case by preparing Traceability matrix. Strong knowledge over whole Software Test Life Cycle (STLC). Work closely with other testers and developers with bug fixes and Defect Analysis Using defect management tool such as JIRA and ALM 11.5 Worked on Software quality assurance Process AGILE methodology. Participated in Scrum meetings. Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables to ensure data integrity. Knowledge about UNIX Commands. Self-motivated, Pro- Active and Quick learner of new concepts and technologies. Capable of working under time constraints in a target-oriented environment.

Timeline

Assistant Vice President

Citicorp Services India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - Current

Software Test Engineer

Xoriant Solutions
09.2017 - 08.2018

Software Test Engineer

Arsys Infosolutions
09.2014 - 09.2017

BE - Information Technology

University of Pune
06.2012 - 05.2014
Shrikant Gopinath KaleScrum Master, Project Manager, Release Train Engineer