Srikant Panda

Agile Coach:

• Drives the adoption of Agile practices and principles across the organization.
• Helps to align the organization’s strategy with Agile methodologies.
• Works with leadership to remove systemic impediments.
• Encourages a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Helps teams and individuals reflect and adapt through retrospectives and other feedback mechanisms.
• Assists in developing metrics and KPIs that drive Agile maturity and team performance.

Scrum Master:

• Ensures the team follows Scrum practices and understands Agile principles.
• Facilitates key Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coaches the team to become self-organizing and cross-functional.
• Ensures effective communication and collaboration within the team and with stakeholders.
• Helps the team reach consensus during decision-making.
• Facilitates problem-solving sessions and conflict resolution.
• Ensures the Scrum process is being followed and helps the team adhere to Agile principles.
• Monitors the team’s progress and productivity, using tools like burndown charts and velocity tracking.
• Encourages continuous improvement through regular retrospectives.
• Acts as a bridge between the team and the Product Owner, ensuring that the backlog is well-groomed and understood by the team.
• Facilitates collaboration between the team and external stakeholders.
• Ensures that the team has a clear understanding of the product vision and goals.

• Ensures the team follows Scrum practices and understands Agile principles.
• Facilitates key Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coaches the team to become self-organizing and cross-functional
• Protects the team from external interruptions and distractions.
• Removes impediments that hinder the team’s progress.
• Advocates for the team’s needs and well-being.
• Helps the team reach consensus during decision-making.

• Coordinating the Offshore/ Onshore team with respect to QA activities
• Working on Amadeus Altea products like Customer Management (CM), Altea Reservation Desk (ARD), Altea Group Management (AGM), Altea Inventory (AI), SWIFT for South West Airlines.
• Leading Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting along with Daily Stand-up Calls.
• Facilitating Backlog Refinement Meetings or resolving any impediments to team, providing reports to leadership team, client & other stakeholders for velocity and progress as compared to previous sprints , lead PI planning , sprint demo and refinement session.
• Preparing and designing the test strategy, test plans and test cases (automated unit test cases) for all projects; reviewing activities such as requirements review, design review, test strategy review and test case review.
• Recording software defects and providing thorough technical descriptions and evidence

• Designs (QA)quality assurance and test processes for portions and subsystems of the cloud services
• Develop and implement automation strategies for testing cloud services, considering scalability, reliability, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyzes design and determines test scripts, coding, automation and integration activities required based on specific objectives and established project guidelines.
• Automate test cases for functional, non-functional, and integration testing of cloud applications and microservices.
• Executes and writes portions of testing plans and documentation for assigned portion of the cloud application and microservices

• Develop and implement automation strategies for testing cloud services, considering scalability, reliability, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate test cases for functional, non-functional, and integration testing of cloud applications and microservices.
• Executes and writes portions of testing plans and documentation for assigned portion of the cloud application and microservices

• Work with the QA lead and project leads to enhance manual and automated test processes.
• Maintain test scripts and keep them up to date for each project/task;
• Document test cases and expected results for applications under test.
• Cross-browser test and debug applications for defects.
• Participate in the issue resolution, retesting, and UAT phases of the project.

• Create and execute test cases and test plans
• Identify, report, and track defects to closure
• Collaborate with the development team to resolve defects
• Work with the development team to ensure that software is designed with testing in mind