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Education
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SREENU  CHIMATA

SREENU CHIMATA

SAFe Scrum Master I Agile Coach
Hyderabad, India

Summary

Accomplished servant-leader with 11 years of IT Industry experience and 7 years of rich experience as a Scrum Master, successfully delivering large-scale software and web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum Teams under agile framework. Demonstrated excellence in steering SAFe,Scrum, Kanban Frameworks.

Education

MBA - Finance And Marketing

Osmania University, Hyderabad

Certification

  • SAFe@6.0 Scrum Master (SSM) Certification.
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification.
  • ICC-ACP Agile Coach Certification.
  • IBM Certified Data Scientist.
  • ITIL 4 Foundation.

Work History

Agile Consultant I SAFe Scrum Master I Agile Coach

Cognizant Technologies
Hyderabad, TELANGANA
03.2024 - Current

Client : US Bank, Minnesota, USA.
Project : Doc Exchange Application Development


Coached, Trained, Mentored multiple teams in Agile Values, principles, methodologies and frameworks.
Define project / program scope, roadmaps, goals, and deliverables that support business goals and objectives in collaboration with senior management and other stakeholders.
Educate the team about Lean and SAFe Agile practices like Safe, Scrum and Kanban.
Plan, schedule and lead the PI planning, SOS, product synchs and other platform meetings.
Facilitated team events such as Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, reviews, and retrospectives
Strengthen communication and relationships with other teams, especially those on the Agile Release Train (ART)
Identify potential risks, dependencies and blockers and develop the mitigation strategies.
Designed and implemented feedback loops, incorporating stakeholder input into continuous product improvement.
Led the transformation of traditional project management to Agile frameworks, enhancing workflow efficiency.
Developed and maintained Agile metrics, such as velocity and sprint burn-down charts, to monitor team performance.
Led the charge in creating a community of practice among Agile practitioners, sharing knowledge and best practices.
Mediated conflicts within teams, restoring focus on common goals and fostering a cooperative environment.
Assessed team maturity and provided tailored coaching plans, resulting in enhanced Agile adoption.
Mentored junior Agile coaches and Scrum Masters, contributing to the development of internal expertise.

Scrum Master.

Tata Consultancy Services.
Hyderabad
06.2022 - 03.2024

Client: Iron Mountain Inc, USA

Project: Salesforce Cloud CRM application development and Platform enhancements.

Responsibilities:

  • Acts as a coach and mentor for the team, helping them to understand and apply Agile values,principles and practices.
  • Teach and guide the team on how to use scaled agile practices and values with a preference for use of the Scale Agile Framework (SAFe).
  • Facilitating scaled agile ceremonies and coaching teams on best-practices, supporting with advancement and improvement of scaled agile within the organization.
  • Lead multiple Agile teams within an Agile Release Train (ART).
  • Play an active role in PI Planning and managing multiple agile teams.
  • Ensuring that all SAF events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
  • Identifies and removes any impediments or obstacles that hinder the team's progress and escalate organizational impediments to leadership as appropriate.
  • Create a high performing environment by resolving conflict, removing impediments and identifying areas of continuous improvement.
  • Preparing and presenting status reports to internal management and other stakeholders.

Scrum Master.

Tata Consultancy Services.
Bangalore
08.2021 - 06.2022

Client : Signify NV, Netherlands.

Project: Loftware and Certification application development.

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events/ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective & Backlog Refinement.
  • Demonstrate Servant-leadership by way of coaching, consulting, mentoring and supporting Agile teams assigned to Product Dev, Business & Ops Team.
  • Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organization.
  • Experience with leadership facilitation situational awareness conflict resolution continual improvement empowerment and increasing transparency.
  • Communicating program or project goals, status, requirements and deliverables to all team members, stakeholders, and sponsors.

Scrum Master.

Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore
09.2020 - 08.2021

Client : CITI Bank N.A

Project: KIWI - Customer data management application development.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
  • Facilitate Scrum events such as Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, Retrospectives and Quarterly planning
  • Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate status transparency
  • Tracking and timely escalation of project processes, deliverables, and risks.
  • Preparing and presenting status reports to internal management and other stakeholders with various

Sr Analyst | Scrum Master.

Wipro Ltd
Bangalore
03.2017 - 09.2020

Client : Societe Generale S.A

Project: E-Collect (KYC) application.

Responsibilities:

  • Implement and enforce Scrum principles and practices, facilitate continuous improvement, and identify and remove team impediments.
  • Work closely with the scrum team to deliver the project deliverables, prioritization, estimations and planning.
  • Ensure the scrum teams adherence to delivery schedule and estimates. Assess surfaces all schedule risk and communicate accordingly.
  • Creates partnership with product owners, stakeholders and transversal teams (security, solution architects, compliance ).
  • Assures transparency of the work that is being done and communicate its progress via regular reporting inclusive of Burn down/ Burn Up Charts. Status reports, Risks, Issues.
  • Oversaw onshore & offshore delivery management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects Attended Scrum Meeting, Backlog Grooming Sessions, Scrum of Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning.

Business Analyst.

Byte Consulting.
Bangalore
05.2016 - 01.2017

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Product Owner, Team Lead and Developers on tasks related to the planning, scheduling and coordination of project activities.
  • Plan, facilitate and conduct requirements gathering workshops with external clients.
  • Define, maintain and track changes to requirements documentation.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business objectives and elicit clear and concise requirements.
  • Communicate project progress, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders at various levels.
  • Identify and analyze risks associated with business decisions and suggest risk mitigation strategies.
  • Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and organizational efficiency.
  • Skill Set : Jira, Confluence, Business Analysis, SQL, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, BRD, FRD.

Business Analyst

Broadridge
Hyderabad
01.2013 - 09.2015

Responsibilities:

  • Requirements gathering and analysis / break down of large requests into user stories and/or component parts
  • Analyze business processes and systems to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
  • Manage client support queries, issues, and/or enhancement requests ensuring adherence to SLAs.
  • Collaborate with team members to create detailed functional and/or technical specifications for complex development of new, or modifications to existing, applications
  • Skill Set : Jira, Confluence, Business Analysis, SQL, Power BI, Microsoft Excel, BRD, FRD,

Skills

  • Agile Principals
  • Scaled Agile Framework
  • Scrum, SAFe, Kanban
  • PI Planning
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Story-based Development
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Risk Management
  • Pair Programming
  • DevOps CI/CD
  • Jira Confluence Git Lab MS Teams
  • Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
  • Multi-Site Operations
  • SDLC
  • Business AnalysisData Analysis
  • ETL SQL
  • Python Data Science
  • Tableau Power BI

References:

Nordeen Roxy : Product Manager (PM) - US Bank - Minnesota, USA.

Tripp Allison : Product Owner (PO) - US Bank, Minnesota, USA.

Alexandria Cook : Principle Agilist, VP, US Bank - Minnesota, USA.

Billie Blinken | Release Train Engineer (RTE) - Iron Mountain Inc , USA. Contact No:+16 103426515.

Christina Bishop | Product Manager (PM) -Iron Mountain Inc, USA. Contact No: +16 103423978.

Emily Griffin | Product Owner (PO)- Iron Mountain Inc , Arizona, USA. Contact No: +16 103429513.

Aditya Verma | Technical Architect - Iron Mountain Inc, Canada. aditya.verma@Ironmountain.com.

Jose Jesus Hernandez : PO/PM - Signify N.V, Netherlands.

Timeline

Agile Consultant I SAFe Scrum Master I Agile Coach - Cognizant Technologies
03.2024 - Current
Scrum Master. - Tata Consultancy Services.
06.2022 - 03.2024
Scrum Master. - Tata Consultancy Services.
08.2021 - 06.2022
Scrum Master. - Tata Consultancy Services
09.2020 - 08.2021
Sr Analyst | Scrum Master. - Wipro Ltd
03.2017 - 09.2020
Business Analyst. - Byte Consulting.
05.2016 - 01.2017
Business Analyst - Broadridge
01.2013 - 09.2015
Osmania University - MBA, Finance And Marketing
SREENU CHIMATASAFe Scrum Master I Agile Coach