Vinay Singh Thakur

Dynamic Scrum Master and Agile Practices Mentor with a proven track record of facilitating multiple Agile Development Teams to achieve organizational goals. Expertise in fostering collaboration, enhancing team performance, and driving continuous improvement within Agile frameworks. Committed to nurturing a culture of innovation and accountability while supporting individual team members' professional growth. Passionate about leveraging Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality results and optimize project outcomes.

• Coach the team on Agile principles and values.
• Develop, monitor and communicate team reporting and metrics.
• Ensure improvements are fed into delivery processes & customer value is delivered frequently.
• Ensure the team remains focused on priorities and aligned to strategy and road maps, and that backlog and release plans are maintained
• Provide guidance/direction in times of change; lead by example conveying flexibility and adaptability.
• Supported team for best practices to promote understanding of agile values and scrum principles
• Drove continuous improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops

• As a Scrum Master and Agile Professional, offering ~7+ years of experience across all aspects of Scrum Methodology and managing Squads
• Advanced Certified Scrum Master, experience in Scrum/Agile methodology establishing Scrum project management process.
• Overseas Scrum Master experience of 1year working with Online Bookstore (Booktopia) in Sydney, Australia
• Spearheaded agile transformation across the organization by coaching & mentoring to ensure that teams are adapted to Scrum practices.
• Actively involved in Product backlog grooming and backlog refinement, effective sprint planning along with product owners and Dev Team.
• Coached teams on Scrum, Kanban, and Jira during an Agile transitions.
• Training Fresh/Lateral hires on the Scrum methodology
• Experience working with Squads & Spotify Model
• Good experience in training multiple teams from waterfall to transform and adapt Agile methodology.
• Excellent communication, presentation, analytical & logical skills with multitasking ability.
• Liaise effectively and maintain good relations with internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly reliable, able to grasp new concepts and methods in the any domain and can work under pressure.
• As a Functional QA/QA Lead, have ~5.5 years of experience across all aspects of Testing related activities
• Good experience in Software Quality Assurance with emphasis on Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing
• Writing Test Case/Test Scenarios from Business Requirements, Use case/User Stories, Test Case execution, Fault tracking and management.
• 3.5 years of hands-on experience in Salesforce.com Domain - (SFDC) testing, including Workbench, Data Loader, Reports, and Dashboards.
• Result oriented professional with a good record of accomplishing complex testing projects within limits of time, budget and stakeholder’s satisfaction.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Booktopia Experience: 1 Year(s), 0 Month(s)
• Previous Experience: 11 Year(s), 10 Month(s)
• Total Experience: 12 Year(s), 10 Month(s)