Vinodhini Gunasekaran

Adapted SAFE (Scaled Agile framework for client Airbus-) Facilitated Program Increment (PI) planning session, Iteration planning, Product backlog grooming, daily stand-up, Iteration reviews and Iteration retrospectives.

• Formed and coached new team of 11 members on Agile methodologies emphasizing on SCRUM & SAFE.
• Worked closely with RTE to ensure ART meet its overall objectives and coordinated dependencies through coach sync.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to develop clear product roadmaps and ensure timely release of high-quality deliverables
• Ensured way of working, cadence, ceremonies are all clearly documented, adapted and continuously improved by team while adhering to SAFE Framework.
• Ensured adherence to SAFE scum practices by mentoring team regularly, measured this by conducting organizational agility assessment
• Experience in tracking and publishing different metrics regularly to various stakeholders like Sprint reports, Status, burndown charts, velocity etc
• Impediments are proactively identified by team and raised as early as possible, minimizing no new surprises within Iteration.
• Made sure entire team has voice in retrospective and ensured that team agrees on actionable improvement items
• Facilitated team on how to reduce technical debt by bringing in automation, refactoring and other best practices
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
• Streamlined onboarding process for new team members, reducing ramp-up time and enabling them to contribute more quickly to support efforts
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks. Extensively used Digital Agility (Version One) and Jira tool.

Expertise in preparing Project plan, project charter and reports during project lifecycle

• Managed multiple projects at time (Offshore & Onsite) with various team sizes of 10-25
• Significant experience in managing projects in Agile framework- SCRUM, KANBAN and Waterfall methodologies for all onsite and offshore projects
• Expert in writing Epics and User stories for approved Business case and Prioritized same based on MOSCOW rule
• Worked extensively with cross-functional teams and project board to meet objectives and timeline of project
• Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospective meetings, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations
• Coordinated with workforce team and allocated right resources with specified skill to team
• Analyzed in detail on resources required for every phase, conducted estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities, prepared resource and development plan
• Expert in preparing detailed software development proposals for client
• Used interpersonal and communication skills in interactions, enriching team collaboration, customer relationships on multiple client projects
• Fostered relationships with vendors to promote positive working relationships
• Handled complaints, provided appropriate solutions and alternatives within appropriate timeframes, and followed up to achieve resolution
• Interacted with clients on regular basis to quickly alleviate issues and provide project updates
• Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationships for future business opportunities
• Experience in managing tasks in Trello, Jira and Zoho one desk.
• Mentored junior team members, fostering collaborative environment that nurtured professional development and growth within organization
• Nurtured culture of continuous learning and innovation within team, encouraging experimentation with emerging tools and technologies to stay ahead of industry trends

• Communicated between stakeholders and internal members on project status and timeline
• Facilitated everyday scrum meetings to track progress of deliverables for Simple warehouse management and sales application
• Understood Operations process flow and gathered business requirements as per Warehouse and Sales Application
• Involved in planning and resource allocation for projects
• Extensively used Fresh desk portal for logging and tracking defects and attending client queries and concerns effectively
• Prepared daily/weekly reports based on analysis and presenting to management
• Extensively involved in DB and IIS services setup for application for various clients
• Actively participated in Production support activity for Global users and proactively resolving issues faced by them and providing them solutions without delay
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance
• Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
• Implemented scheduled maintenance, retooling production status sheets and driving 10 tasks to achieve scheduling effectiveness
• Reduced downtime for critical systems by proactively identifying potential issues and implementing preventive measures
• Facilitated regular reviews of production metrics, enabling proactive identification of trends or potential bottlenecks that could impact operations
• Analyzed production data and prepared reports for senior management.

• Participated and provided inputs in Business-Vendor workshop and gathered requirements for enhancements of cost estimating application
• Experience in interpreting business requirements into user stories, recognizing impact on business processes and making recommendations
• Designed detailed Project plan by interacting with Business, IT team and other Internal team members to get required input
• Interfaced with SMEs, BA's and technical team members to design solution
• Communicated effectively with Business users on day-to-day basis to resolve action items, obtain clarification and provide updates
• Facilitated detailed walkthrough of project plan for Business & IT team to get their Sign off
• Involved in Tech refresh for application which involved coordinating with different teams to get Hardware lease extension for application, involved in migration of WSL to ADFS authentication and involved in working on end to end process of converting Physical server to Virtual servers for application
• Coordinated Project Launches with Project manager and business Stakeholders for all three phases of project.
• Developed robust Test plan for application and for interfaces which helped us detect bug during testing of software releases
• Coordinated with Application Maintenance team to provide sustainable ongoing operations Communicate status, issues and risks to business and IT upper management.

• Prepared all test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and data requirements for SIT/UAT
• Expertise in STLC - Requirement analysis, test scenario preparation, test case preparation, test data preparation, test execution, defect reporting, test management
• Exposure to various testing - Unit Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing, Functional Testing and Re-testing
• Expertise in Test Design Phase - Test Scenarios identification, Test design Requirements, Test Cases design executions and shared it across stakeholders prior to test execution
• Requirements Traceability Matrix developed to align Test Cases to Requirements
• Proactive participant of defect management and timely escalation of issues and risks
• Ensured compliance with company standards and procedures for sign off as RTM
• Worked on various UI/UX to backend modules as support for entire STLC from requirement analysis, business, technical analysis and implementation.