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Education
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Sudarson Ravi

Sudarson Ravi

Certified Scrum Master And An ISTQB Certified Test Analyst
Chennai

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

IDP
05.2023 - Current

Project Title: IDP.com

Domain: Education

  • Applying agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Planning Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Managing product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Actively participating in PI Planning and Scrum of Scrum sessions
  • Coaching teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Lading sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Collaborating with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Facilitating Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Working on metrics like Burndown and Velocity Charts
  • Proving ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
  • Working well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.

Scrum Master - Software Test Analyst

Natwest
12.2019 - 05.2023

Project Title: DEBT MANAGEMENT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM

Domain: Banking

  • Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies from planning till retrospective.
  • Facilitated the daily scrum meetings.
  • Mentored the scrum team to follow the scrum values
  • Coached the members joining the scrum team towards agile methodologies.
  • Driven the team towards the goals defined in the planning sessions
  • Served as a bridge between the product and the development teams
  • Identified and cleared Impediments and protected the team from distractions
  • Managed the conflicts and mentored the team to be self-organized
  • Always been change ready to mentor any workstream/team under the project. Have mentored almost all the workstreams/teams under the DMTP program, like CCS, SPFT, Letters, Telephony and Migration.
  • Had been a quick learner to learn and excel the work in all workstreams/teams involved.
  • Had mentored the migration team and paved way for its success, by completing the testing on time, by coaching the team members through different odds.
  • Have been well-connected with different teams to get the information and clarity required by the scrum team to achieve the goals.
  • Have lead the test team to successfully test the migration of data from the then DM System to the recently developed version of the system.

Achievements:

  • Received two ‘SPOT’ awards.
  • Received the ‘Risk Master’ awards once. This award honors members finding out a risk, that could be a blocker to the progress decreasing productivity and coming up with a mitigation.
  • Received two LOVs. ‘Living Our Values’ is one of the prestigious appreciations which is given for an outstanding contribution towards success of a project or an initiative.
  • Nominated for ‘Bronze’ awards thrice. An award that honors achievements on a monthly basis

NATWEST Initiatives

  • Hosted member engagement programs like Rewards and Recognition.
  • Hosted CSR activities to exhibit Social Responsibilities

Scrum Master - Senior Software Engineer

CGI
05.2016 - 12.2019

Project Title: LABORATORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Domain: Healthcare

  • Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
  • Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organized and coached team to higher levels of development.
  • Supported team using Servant Leadership style.
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
  • Lead the offshore test team in Chennai in all the test related activities from planning till closure
  • Actively communicated test metrics to the onsite team in Denmark

FUNSOLUVIS - A CGI Initiative

  • Scheduled and hosted organizational activities like Annual Family Meets and Quarterly Townhall Meetings.
  • Hosted CSR activities to exhibit Social Responsibilities
  • Inspected and provided detailed reports on the vendors and their companies servicing the activities and meetings

Senior Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
06.2012 - 04.2016

Project Title: INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE INFORMATION SYSTEM

Domain: Education

  • Created accurate and efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
  • Identified and tracked defects and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
  • Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
  • Trained and mentored junior test engineers, by teaching skills in Functional Testing and working together to improve overall team performance.
  • Suggested improvements to team and project workflow.
  • Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.

Project Title: AIG-WORKDAY R1.2

Domain: Workday

  • Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results.
  • Set up data for the user files created and successfully generated their pay roles, basically data set up activity.
  • Developed and executed comprehensive test cases in Quality Centre 10.0

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

PMR Institute of Technology, Anna University
Chennai

Skills

Leadership and Coaching

Professional Summary

A Certified Scrum Master and an ISTQB Certified Quality Assurance Engineer with Twelve plus years of experience in the Software Industry, with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time. Serving as a Scrum Master for Six Plus years with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems. Focused on removing impediments and delivering customer centric products and features. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary organizational, people management and risk oversight skills.

Certification

ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level

Timeline

Scrum Master

IDP
05.2023 - Current

Certified Scrum Master(valid till May 2025)

05-2021

Scrum Master - Software Test Analyst

Natwest
12.2019 - 05.2023

Scrum Master - Senior Software Engineer

CGI
05.2016 - 12.2019

ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level

05-2013

Senior Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
06.2012 - 04.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

PMR Institute of Technology, Anna University
Sudarson RaviCertified Scrum Master And An ISTQB Certified Test Analyst