Shruti Varghese

• Acting as a liason between product, Salesforce development team and customer demands to build and prioritize new feature.
• Owned the product road map and met 96% of all feature deadlines by identifying and mitigating any emerging roadblocks.
• Creating Epics for different user demands and ensuring the team deliver the same on the set deadline.
• Fostered open communication between different stakeholders and salesforce development team resulting in improved feature development.
• Ensuring right set of skilled people are onboarded as per the client request in the process of new team formation.
• Managed and re-prioritized the product backlog as per the client demand.
• Worked with 3 cross-functional teams to deliver 3 different product.
• Closely collaborated with project teams to identify and quickly address the problem.
• Diffused challenging situations using conflict management techniques.

• Defining Product vision for development project and maintaining it throughout development cycle by creating a product roadmap.

• Work directly with end users to capture and analyze challenges to their workflow.

• Prioritizes work within an agile team and maintain a backlog of future work for consideration/prioritization

• During the planning stages, working with stakeholders to identify and organize the steps required for the next iteration.

• Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize user stories with the agile teams

• Own and drive backlog grooming and management, prioritize user stories, creating acceptance criteria and drive testing and delivery

• Work with Program Management and leadership to support new business

• Maximizing the work of the development team

• Resolving teams queries on requirement during Sprint Refinement.

• Focus on what is most important to deliver next to maximize the product value.

• Strong communication with stakeholders and customer via email/calls and ensuring that customer is happy with the outcome of the value delivered. Traveled onsite to build strong customer relationship and bridge any gaps with India team.

Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams.
⦁ Worked with customers and product owners to prioritize and validate requirements.
⦁ Coordinated the work efforts of 10 person team for 2 projects. Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolve impediments encountered by team members.
⦁ Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
⦁ Worked with UI designer to incorporate UX best practices / design to ensure a more comprehensive and innovative approach.
⦁ Successfully guided development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.
⦁ Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.
⦁ Successfully coached the team in scrum and helped them move from waterfall to agile as part of the broader enterprise wide agile transformation.
⦁ Championed the use of a continuous integration system and automated testing leading to
⦁ Improved developer productivity and better quality software.
⦁ Held and facilitated backlog grooming, release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups,
⦁ sprint review and sprint retrospective.
⦁ Co-ordinates with Product Owner on backlog grooming and prioritization to ensure optimal delivery.

⦁ Developed best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which spanned various internal Developed best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which spanned various internal projects.
⦁ Administered and maintained HP Quality Centre including creating projects and users, customizing workflows.
⦁ Responsible for creating detailed project plans and work breakdown structure plans to illustrate resource allocation and scheduling tasks using MS Project.
⦁ Participated in regular meetings with upper management to communicate accomplishments, plans and issues as well as any risks to the project's progress.
⦁ Worked effectively with Developers, AGILE Team, Project Management to achieve high quality, release deadlines and QA processes improvements.

Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
⦁ Coordinating with team for the correction of any defect found and send it further for printing.
⦁ Tracking defects using Quality center and closing the same as per SLA.

⦁ Assisted with user-acceptance testing and defect tracking for new software releases.

⦁ Created and executed software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes.
functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.
⦁ Excellent experience in automation of Web-based and Mobile Application
⦁ Solid experience of Defect/Test Management tools Rally and HP QualityCenter
⦁ Solid experience of Performance/Load/Stress testing with Jmeter
⦁ Strong hands on Burp tool for Security testing for web application.