Uma Maheswari Kuna

• Facilitated all agile ceremonies, ensuring productive outcomes across sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Acted as servant leader to enable team self-organization, enhancing agile maturity and promoting transparency.
• Partnered with product owners to refine user stories, prioritize backlog, define acceptance criteria, and ensure delivery of business value.
• Identified, tracked, and removed impediments while managing risks and dependencies to maintain continuous sprint flow.
• Led agile execution using metrics such as velocity and cycle time to drive predictability and quality.
• Coached teams on scrum, kanban, and SAFe practices to improve delivery discipline and alignment.
• Supported PI planning by helping break down features, coordinate dependencies, track PI objectives, and align sprint goals with program-level priorities.
• Collaborated with RTEs, architects, QA, DevOps, UX, and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth execution and timely release readiness.
• Maintained team dashboards, sprint health reports, and stakeholder communication to ensure transparency and proactive risk visibility.
• Drove continuous improvement, designing and implementing CI actions using retrospectives, metrics, and team feedback.
• Shielded the team from external interruptions, and ensured uninterrupted focus on sprint commitments.
• Supported the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code-quality reviews, and an API-first development approach.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Directed QA strategy for Apple's geospatial platform, validating driver routing and Minimum ETA estimations.
• Validated critical navigation data including Positioning Address Points (lane-wise) and POI identification.
• Managed end-to-end testing of GPS data and geo data layers, ensuring data integrity against client quality standards.
• Led defect resolution and test execution across the project lifecycle.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Led QA strategy for UK geospatial mapping, ensuring Minimum ETA and high-accuracy routing algorithms.
• Validated critical navigation data, including Positioning Address Points (lane-wise precision) and POI identification.
• Executed complex testing of GPS data and geo data layers, managing defect resolution and data integrity across the project
• lifecycle.
• Key Focus: Business continuity and quality assurance for client-facing mapping solutions.

• I joined GT as an associate and aligned with the Google Maps project, where I quickly ramped up on product knowledge.
• Moved to quality as a quality controller, and within the span of six months, moved to Meta (quality on quality).
• Mentored all new bees.
• Initiated in grooming the quality team (newly joined teams).
• Take the orientation sessions for the people who joined the QC team.
• Worked on the final audit report on every country closure to measure the quality.
• Initiated in Meta-on-meta to raise awareness of the quality of the respective country (spot).
• Conducted brainstorming sessions for the spot in terms of quality.
• Cross-verify the stats sent by the metrics team on behalf of our team, and respond if required.