Professional Scrum Master with skills in Agile planning and leadership. Having 8 years of overall experience, of which 2.5 years as Scrum Master with proven track record of delivering high quality software on time. Very keen on breaking barriers to deliver customer values and always takes time to understand individual motives to collective solutions. Passionate about being unique.
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VINODH BALAJI
SCRUM MASTER
Chennai,TAMIL NADU
Summary
Overview
8
years of professional experience
1
Certificate
Work History
INFOGAIN INDIA PVT LTD, HP INC
Senior Consultant
11.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Have good understanding of Scrum development methodologies
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional Scrum team of 4 to develop and deliver successful projects
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Daily Stand-up, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review and Sprint retrospective) and decision-making processes
- Constantly keeps track of dashboards, sprint boards, burn down chart and informing the Product Owner if there are any risks involved in the current sprint
- Constantly interact with the team to identify blockers/impediments and help them to overcome the same
- Good experience in dealing with onsite/offshore model
- Ability to facilitate resolution when there is an impasse/deadlock kind of situation
- Worked very closely with Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog
- Track and manage project tasks, processes and deliverables
- Experience in Project management tools like Azure Devops, JIRA and Confluence
- Utilized Agile scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity
- Organized and improved agile practices and values which increased the productivity and overall goal by an average of 8.5%
- Implemented the Sprint retrospective feedbacks to improve the team performance
- Led the company implementation and adaptation of Project tracking Tool Azure Devops which reduced the time to create and manage tickets by an average of 3days
- Identified areas of improvement to coach the team on daily basis to bring in discipline to follow
- Agile process
- Facilitated test-driven development on all projects increasing the quality and deliverables to stakeholders
- Handling End-To-End project release activities from Release planning to till Move To Production gets completed for the product in Production environment .
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, DELTA AIRLINES
IT Analyst
03.2019 - 11.2020
Job overview
- Led the project as an individual, Test Lead performing both manual & Automation test activities
- Work experience in BDD Cucumber Framework with Java/Selenium
- Experience in Framework like Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, and POM
- Experience in Data driven Testing using Selenium WebDriver, POM and TestNG
- Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reports and Test Summary Report
- Well Versed with Agile Scrum Methodology
- Experience in GIT Code Management tool
- Experience in Defect Management tool like Jira
- Experienced web and Mobile application testing
- Management tools such as Maven build tool
- Deployed Web Applications on AWS EC2 Linux Instance
- Utilized Linux commands to resolve the deployment & Build Issues through Jenkins
- Implemented and maintained automated testing scripts and test suites to ensure software quality
- Resolved conflicts and provided constructive feedback to team members
- Handling Scrum Meetings for the development Team
- Provided support & Clarification to Business SME’s who performs UAT Testing
- Clarifying the Queries related the Production Issues that are already in Live
- Provided inputs to Enhance the Functionality & Quality
- Provided DEMO to Business Stakeholders as part of sprint review for each sprint
- Worked on post production support to validate and
SUTHERLAND INDIA PVT LTD
Associate
10.2016 - 03.2019
Job overview
- Expertise in Manual Testing, Analyzing Business requirements
- Preparing Test Scenario, test data and test cases
- Experienced in validating request and response of the API using Postman
- Well Versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
- Reviewing of test cases prepared by peers
- Extensively worked on Writing Test Cases, Execute Test Cases, Logging Defects, Defect Tracking and Prioritize Defects
- Experienced in Regression Testing, Functional testing & Database testing
- Providing adequate support to the developers for defect analysis
- Constructed and executed SQL queries to validate the backend testing
- Created Test plan, RTM[Requirement Traceability Matrix] & Defect Management Templates
- Involved in UAT testing, SIT Testing, Regression Testing and Functional testing
- Developed a Defects Tracking Log for the SharePoint Site to track defects while testing
- Worked on a Pilot Project for a web application automation
- Excellent experience in test strategy, test plan preparation, test scope preparation, test script preparation and test execution.
GEM SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LIMITED, BARCLAYS BANK
Business Analyst
09.2015 - 10.2016
Job overview
- Assisted in developing analysis workflow improvements to raise effectiveness and decrease errors
- Experienced in performing Functional Testing for web applications
- Experienced write test cases for banking applications
- Engaged closely with partners to develop and expand reporting capabilities
- Worked with client requirements to specify business plans and goals
- Created test scripts under guidance of senior business analysts
- Experienced in web application testing
- Interact with Developers to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life
- Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC)
- Provided weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved
- Experience in performing API testing.
Education
MADHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics and Communication
01.2015
University Overview
Skills
SERVANT LEADER:
- Agile Leadership
- Interpersonal Skills
- Agile Planning
- Communication
- Forecasting
- Collaboration
- Shielding Team Members
- Conflict Resolution
- Servant Leader
- Empathy
- Adaptability
- Product Management
- Business Analysis
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Understanding of Team Building
- Software Management
TECHNICAL:
- Java
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- TestRail
- Microsoft Excel
- Selenium
- AWS
- Linux
- SQL
- Web & Mobile Application Testing
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Star Performer of the Month [March'2023]
- Star Performer of the Month [September'2022]
- Star Performer of the Month [February'2022]
- 100% Attendance Award
- Leading By Example Award[September'2019]
- Star Performer of the Month [August'2019]
- Star Performer of the Month [June'2019]
- Ace of initiative [July'2019]
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified
Timeline
Senior Consultant
INFOGAIN INDIA PVT LTD, HP INC
11.2020 - Current
IT Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, DELTA AIRLINES
03.2019 - 11.2020
Associate
SUTHERLAND INDIA PVT LTD
10.2016 - 03.2019
Business Analyst
GEM SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LIMITED, BARCLAYS BANK
09.2015 - 10.2016
MADHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics and Communication
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