Sushma Nagendra P N

• Manage and develop Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity
• Guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each
• Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance
• Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide the teams on methods to escalate
• Deliver capabilities using agile practices while following the SDLC business process mapping, and various release processes to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met
• Partner with technical managers to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards
• Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the teams and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.

• Implement and enforce Scrum principles and practices, facilitate continuous improvement (CI), and identify and remove team impediments
• Support the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories and Acceptance criteria
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies - Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retro meetings
• Facilitate the Grooming sessions with the product owner to build product backlog
• Facilitate and plan Go-live activities
• Monitor, track, and report Scrum team velocity and performance against project plans to project stakeholders through structured communication
• Manage risks and escalations and drive to get resolutions
• Establish and actively manage all project and key stakeholder expectations and relationships
• Led to completion two POCs using Agile software development methodology
• Engage in involving other scrum masters to discuss the way forward and understand each other's project deliverables better.

• Implementing Agile and Scrum for Learning team initiatives - Kanban boards, Tasks and tracking in Jira, Scrum calls and retrospectives
• Partnering closely with 7+ Business leads to design LOB specific learning needs through targeted consulting and training needs analysis
• Partnering with internal teams and vendor (Oracle) to facelift learning platform that hosts all trainings for JP Morgan workforce
• Maintaining close relationships with Program Owners, Learning Partners and stakeholders to know and manage latest technology needs and verify content is up to date for DevOps and Test Automation tools
• Establish culture that values ownership, accountability and creates environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.

* Training & Developmenet lead competence for Test Automation tools & Oracle - SQL & PL/SQL
* Conducted training for 50+ batches of Test Automation tools like Selenium, UFT, Load Runner, ALM and Manual Testing for freshers and experienced professionals
* Conducted 5+ batches (35 day training program) on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL trainings for new joiners in HCL, Mphasis and Accenture.
* Responsible for content creation of training materials, lab exercises , hand outs & collation of reference materials and resources.

* Managed 10+ high-value existing and new business partnerships to deliver on objectives and maximize corporate revenue, support and awareness.
* Supervised and led 3 team members, 20+ learners to high performance levels in cross-functional matrix management structure
* Performed Techno functional roles for managing team for training as welll facilitating test automation trainings.
* Determined and recommended methods to address improvement opportunities