Seasoned Scrum Master with over 12 years of expertise in IT, holding a certification as a SAFe Scrum Master. Proven track record in steering substantial Agile transformations, proficient in implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to ensure the seamless delivery of intricate projects. Eagerly pursuing a challenging role to harness my extensive experience in SAFe, Scrum, and Agile methodologies.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
EY GDS
10.2021 - Current
Led SAFe Agile Release Trains (ARTs) through PI (Program Increment) planning and execution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Facilitated scrum events, including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums(SoS), and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops, to enhance coordination and collaboration among teams.
Worked closely with Product Owners, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), and stakeholders to prioritize and refine the program backlog.
Proactively identified and mitigated impediments and dependencies across teams, contributing to the overall success of the program.
Coached and mentored teams in adopting SAFe practices, emphasizing Lean-Agile mindset, principles, and values.
Collaborated with Release Train Engineers and Product Owners to ensure effective prioritization and alignment with business objectives.
Conducted SAFe Program Increment (PI) retrospectives to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and implemented action plans.
Lead Consultant\Scrum Master
ITC InfoTech
01.2019 - 10.2021
Dedicated and certified Scrum Master in guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products.
Adept at implementing Scrum framework, facilitated Agile ceremonies, and fostering a collaborative and productive team environment.
Got an opportunity to contribute my expertise in Agile project management to drive successful project outcomes.
Led my scrum team through the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and Scrum framework.
Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective meetings to enhance communication and collaboration among team members.
Coordinated with product owners to define and prioritize product backlogs, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
Removed impediments and blockers to enhance team productivity and ensured a smooth and efficient development process.
Conducted regular retrospectives to identify areas for continuous improvement and implemented strategies to optimize team performance.
Gathered the requirements, Understand the Business and development.
Did Root Cause analysis of the issue.
Worked on interfaces and helped the team to move the existing interface using patterns (Internal to Old Mutual).
Developed policies for AAA (authentication, authorization and auditing) for securing services using Digital certificates and LDAP method.
Technologies: IBM integration Bus 10, WebSphere MQ 7.5, SOAPUI, RFHUTIL, Oracle, SQL server, JIRA, Data power XI52, Jenkins.
Associate, Senior Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2016 - 09.2018
The project involved taking care of integration needs for the customer.
Worked with 22 Members in offshore and also mentored them into delivering good quality code within the timelines.
Participated in Requirement workshops and provided review comments on the mapping specs.
Development, build and deploy message flows and supporting message broker applications.
Executed the test plan and provided the test results to the onsite team.
Prepared MQ scripts, property files, bar files, SQL scripts and Release document to move the code to the higher environments.
Provided QA, UAT test support, PROD and fix the defects if any.
Prepared production deployment plans and provided L3 support.
Worked during the requirement phase, developed and provided support till Live.
Gave handover KT to Production Team about the project.
Technologies: WebSphere message Broker 8.0, IBM integration Bus 9.0 WebSphere MQ 7.5, SOAPUI, RFHUTIL, Oracle, SQL server, Bit bucket, JIRA.
The objective was to migrate all the Message flows and Projects from Message Broker (Version 6.1) to IBM Integration Bus (IIB 9).
As there are lots of enhanced features in the new Version which does not support all the features of WMB Version 6, the aim was to debug and fix all The Message Flows, Unit Test and Link Test Cases which were developed in Version 6 and are Failing in IIB 9.
Client : Lloyds Bank, UK.
Updating the message flows for the transformation of data with different nodes.
Create and configure Brokers, Broker Domain and WMQ Queue manger, Queues, MQ.
Debugging the flows,Unit testing ,Link testing of the applications flows.
Worked with XML, XMLNSC, SOAP and fixed length message formats.
Worked on ESQL Compute Node and Database Node to query the databases and call the stored procedures.
Worked on error handling process for performance improvement.
Integrated testing the application in all the environments like DEV/QA/UAT/PROD.
Documented all the procedures and implementation process.Provided on-call support on need basis.
Organization : Wipro technologies, Chennai Role : Developer.
Developer
Wipro Technologies
08.2012 - 08.2013
Building components in the existing test environment – carrying out parameter changes, deploying code in test environment Test data set up (refreshing from production, new data, etc.) Performing Code changes in SIT 2 - online and batch Problem analysis in SIT 2 Management of data issues in SIT 2, managing batch a bend Managing SIT 2 environment issues.
Incident Resolution for the Test Environment b.
Measurement and analysis (metrics) - identifying, capturing, tracking, measuring and reporting metrics c.
Service management (service level agreement/ operational level agreement) - covered under a separate stream.
Updating the Ticket with the RCA in the BMC Remedy tool.
Resolving the Ticket once the issue resolved.
Good knowledge on Data Power Crypto Tools.
Implemented Forward, Reverse and two ways SSL.
Implemented non-xml data transformation using XSLT.
Configured various Data Power Policies, Rules, Actions, and used Data Power extension functions and different types of Data Power variables.
Developed various XSL's for dynamic routing based on context, error handling in various processing rules.
Very good at troubleshooting the issues, by using Logs and enabling probe as required.
Very good at troubleshooting the issues, by using Logs and enabling probe as required.