Vijay V
Senior Scrum master/RTE Manager/PMO
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Proactive, multi-skilled professional around 12+ years of progressive experience heading Functions in organizations. Demonstrated expertise of over 1o years as Scrum Master,RTE Manager,PM PMO, closely 2years as a Integration Developer, on variety of domains in: Banking Domain, Insurance Domain, Manufacture Domain.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
EY
Hyderabad, India
01.2021 - Current
- Resolved impediments to team progress by proactively identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to develop clear product roadmaps and ensure timely release of high-quality deliverables.
- Enhanced team productivity by implementing Agile methodologies and improving communication between cross-functional teams.
- Developed strong relationships with key stakeholders across various departments to enhance collaboration efforts on complex projects.
- Streamlined project delivery by conducting daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and review meetings for multiple projects simultaneously.
- Managed risk effectively through comprehensive assessment, mitigation strategies, and contingency plans throughout the project lifecycle.
- Reduced time-to-market with efficient backlog management and prioritization of tasks based on business objectives.
- Enabled efficient knowledge transfer across the organization by developing comprehensive training materials and conducting informative workshops on Agile best practices.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Ensured alignment between business goals and technical requirements by working closely with stakeholders during sprint planning sessions.
- Established a strong foundation for successful project outcomes through efficient resource allocation and workload distribution among team members.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Improved overall project efficiency with effective coordination between development, testing, deployment, and support teams during release cycles.
Scrum Master
Modern Insync
Muscat, Oman
07.2019 - Current
- Lead the team as a Scrum Master, test lead in all phases of project management life cycle.
- Creation of weekly project status reports and attending the weekly status calls with the customer.
- Reporting Weekly/Monthly Status of the projects, by creating the Weekly Status Reports, Monthly Financials, etc.
- Responsible for creating the project estimates, resource plans and managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, etc., aspects of the projects.
- Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day-to-day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
- Interact with external interface teams, clients and other business analysts.
- Maintain and Manage Project Issues, Risks and Change controls.
- Conducted cadence and Bootcamp training sessions.
- Conducted daily scrum, sprint retrospectives, constant update of project dashboards and communication of project and team status to stakeholders and help agile teams come up with high-level stories and epics estimation.
- Conducted Scrum ceremonies in a geographically distributed environment.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and help the team in removing day-to-day task impediments.
- Used Kanban board to track the application developments issues and tasks using Microsoft team foundation server (TFS) as a tool.
- Work with Product Owner managing and prioritizing the product backlog, coaching/mentoring team for sprint planning/backlog grooming; organize and facilitate sprint retrospective, sprint planning and release planning sessions, attending Product backlog meetings with the product owner.
- Coached scrum team members to break down user stories to daily tasks effectively and efficiently.
- Consistently recognize by the management team for meeting goals, effective communication using excellent information radiators and improving customer satisfaction by Product backlog grooming, retrospective & sprint planning, writing epic and user stories.
- Monitor the progress of release and its deliverable and work with engineering teams, keep leadership apprised of Sprint and Release progress.
- Communicate team progress by burn-down & velocity charts, release progress and weekly status reports.
- Project status by generating weekly status reports, and variety of reports and dashboards to the management team and the customer.
- Environment: TFS, MS-Office, MS-Project 2010, Visio, Clarity, SharePoint, SAP ECC 6.0, Digital portfolio portal.
Scrum Master
Capgemini
11.2018 - 06.2019
- Coached scrum teams on the adoption of agile theory, practices and rules of using Scrum framework/concepts.
- Help product and program teams come up with the product/goals/intent definition, involving various end users in the creation of epic and user stories, release/sprint planning.
- Conduct daily scrum, sprint retrospectives, constant update of project dashboards and communication of project and team status to stakeholders and help agile teams come up with high-level stories and epics estimation.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and helped the team in removing day-to-day task impediments.
- Coached scrum team members to break down user stories to daily tasks effectively and efficiently.
- Conducted Scrum ceremonies in a geographically distributed environment.
- Consistently recognized by the management team for meeting goals, effective communication using excellent information radiators and improving customer satisfaction Product backlog grooming, retrospective & sprint planning, epic user stories.
- Communicate team progress by burn-down & velocity charts, release progress and weekly status reports.
- Work with Product Owner managing and prioritizing the product backlog, coaching/mentoring team for sprint planning/backlog; organize, facilitate retrospective, sprint and release planning sessions, attending Product backlog meetings with the product owner.
- Project status by generating weekly status reports, and variety of reports and dashboards to the management team and the customer.
- Implemented quality control processes which resulted in 15% increase in case closure rates.
Test Lead
WiproTechnologies
05.2016 - 10.2018
- Worked as Test lead by handling team size of 15.
- Involved in Preparing test estimates and test plan.
- Retesting the hot-fixes on current build of the Application.
- Task distribution to the team and mentoring the team on entire process.
- Create Test Data for testing purpose and Set up test bed.
- Designed Test cases and executed those test cases.
- Reviewing test cases at peer level and sending test cases to BU for external reviews.
- Logging the defect into the defect-tracking tool (Bugzilla).
- Coordinate with the onsite team, offshore team and other stakeholders.
- Guide Track the defects logged by Team members, to see the valid issues has been logged in the defect tracking tool QC.
Senior QA
Wipro Technologies
09.2015 - 04.2016
- Experience in Troubleshooting issues of Production servers/ UAT.
- Day to day Developing and maintenance of the IBM ESB Developer / IBM Certified Cloud Developer (including Queue Managers and Queues and all interconnecting Channels on our servers).
- Mule ESB Developer / IBM Certified Cloud Developer.
- Created IBM ESB Developer / IBM Certified Cloud Developer/Admin & MQ Series objects on local and remote Machines.
- IBM ESB Developer/ IBM Certified Cloud Developer/MQ Object Creation and Clusters. Backing up messages and Testing.
- IBM ESB Developer / IBM Certified Cloud Developer/Admin Monitoring the Queue Manager Logs for unresolved messages stuck in the queues.
- Worked on IBM ESB Developer / IBM Certified Cloud Developer in DQM environment.
- End to End Supporting & Monitoring of the queues, channels which needs to be up 24X7 for business critical applications and supporting clients.
- Environment: IIB v9 and IBM MQ, DEV, QA and SIT Environments.
Software Developer
Wipro Technologies
07.2013 - 08.2015
- ESB Development& IIB developer, MQ/MB SDLC for Message Flows and Message Sets as per requirement.
- ESB Development of ESQL for message transformation, enrichment and mapping.
- ESB Development of message definition files according to the mapping document.
- ESB Development and Involved in developing Audit and Exception handler mechanism.
- ESB Development & Performing Unit testing for the message flows.
- Involved in deploying the bar files in various environments.
- Hands-on knowledge on ICP, Docker, Kubernetes and mapping source to target fields by using Mapping node, Bug fixing on all native cloud environments using IBM Cloud or On-Premises.
- Environment: IBM Message Broker v8 and IBM MQ, DEV, QA and SIT Environments.
Education
Mtech - VlSI
SRM University
Skills
Project Management Methodology (SDLC, Agile-Scrum)
Clarity
Team foundation server (TFS)
MS office
Microsoft project professional
Agile Project Management Tool
Jira
HP ALM
ESQL
Visual Basic 6
Oracle
SQL Server
Windows
UNIX
Certification
SAFE5 Certified
Projects Handled
- Oman Arab Bank, Data & Analytics Team, 07/01/19, Present, Scrum Master
- Discover, Corporate Internet banking, 11/01/18, 06/30/19, Scrum Master
- MichelinTyres, Michelin, China & Japan, 05/01/16, 10/31/18, Test Lead
- AIC(Agriculture & Insurance), Insurance, 09/01/15, 04/30/16, Senior QA
- BankMuscat, InternetBanking, 07/01/13, 08/31/15, Software Developer
Executive Highlights
- Lead the team as a Scrum Master, test lead in all phases of project management life cycle.
- Vast Experience in IT industry with skills in the areas of Project Management, Scrum Master, Development with strong Risk Management and People Management skill.
- Experience working with cross-culture teams. Knowledge of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, Velocity, and poker estimation.
- Managed multiple projects for EY,ModernInsync, Capgemini, WiproTechnologies comprised with teams to support the new processes and methods (Agile – Scrum framework) initiatives.
- Delivering and implementing the projects as per schedule deadlines and extending post-implementation and maintenance support.
- Designing, developing and implementing the workflow program, presentation and handling various phases of interface development based on technical specification.
- Successful in reorganizing, streamlining and strengthening existing operations.
- Identifying inefficient processes and implementing reliable and cost-effective solutions to improve quality and ensure on-time delivery of release management.
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
EY
01.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Modern Insync
07.2019 - Current
Scrum Master
Capgemini
11.2018 - 06.2019
Test Lead
WiproTechnologies
05.2016 - 10.2018
Senior QA
Wipro Technologies
09.2015 - 04.2016
Software Developer
Wipro Technologies
07.2013 - 08.2015
Mtech - VlSI
SRM University