Varsha Nihanth Reddy V
India
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2022 - Current
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
- Conducted quality assurance to verify accuracy of data used in IT projects.
- Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
- Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
Scrum Master/QE LEAD
Techolution India Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 05.2022
- Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans.
- Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Managed multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
- Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
- Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
Quality Assurance Specialist
Maventus Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
09.2015 - 08.2019
- Completed routine inspections of components and products to fulfill quality assurance requirements.
- Collected, analyzed and summarized data including failed processes and recalls to create accurate quality documentation.
- Developed Quality Audits to identify and track defects in products prior to mass production.
- Produced thorough reports detailing findings and proposed recommendations.
- Contributed to business growth by confirming customer satisfaction with service and quality.
- Increased process improvement initiatives by troubleshooting problems for corrective action to boost functionality and workflow.
- Reviewed customer interactions and activity reports to identify and address concerns.
- Monitored QA procedures for adherence by employees, notifying personnel of non-compliance issues.
- Collaborated with management to discuss effective plans for resolving major quality problems.
- Consulted with management and personnel to educate on QA standards.
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
- Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
- Monitored product standards and quality-control programs.
Quality Assurance Analyst
3DOT INFO SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2013 - 08.2015
- Reviewed project risks and devised proactive strategies to avoid potential roadblocks.
- Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors and contractors.
- Developed solutions to project risks and issues, meeting quality and timeline goals and objectives.
- Documented current production methods to identify points of limitation to target for quantification through testing procedures.
- Tailored testing procedures to obtain data most relevant to understanding underlying causes of production limitations.
- Evaluated data sets from multiple test implementations to determine and account for standard variance in test results.
- Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android and iOS mobile devices.
- Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
- Recommended changes and corrections to developers for optimal software performance and usability.
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements.
- Developed and maintained defect databases for known issues.
- Made changes to project scope and cost and implemented most effective change management processes to keep project up-to-date.
- Forecasted, scheduled and monitored project timelines, personnel performance and cost efficiency.
Education
Certificate - ScrumMaster
Scrum Alliance
Https://www.scrumalliance.org07.2022
Certificate -
ISTQB
International Software Testing Qualifications Boar03.2014
B.Tech - CSE
JNTU
India03.2013
Skills
- Workflow Analysis
- Sprint Planning and Prioritization
- Recruiting and Hiring
- Requirements Gathering
- Project Planning
- Scrum Methodology
- Meeting Participation
- Customer Interaction
- Presentation Skills
- Risk Identification
- Resource Allocation
- Performance Monitoring
- Documentation and Reporting
- Risk Assessment
- Project Tracking
- Root Cause Analysis
- Gathering Requirements
- Quality Assurance
- Test Scripts and Diagnostics
- Change Management
Timeline
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2022 - Current
Scrum Master/QE LEAD
Techolution India Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 05.2022
Quality Assurance Specialist
Maventus Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
09.2015 - 08.2019
Quality Assurance Analyst
3DOT INFO SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2013 - 08.2015
Certificate - ScrumMaster
Scrum Alliance
Certificate -
ISTQB
B.Tech - CSE
JNTU
Accomplishments
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Collaborated with team of 25 in the development of Faceopen Project.
- Minimized manual efforts by introducing site24x7 tool for monitoring tasks.