Vipul Bhalla
Noida
Summary
Results-driven scrum master and QA lead with 9.5 years of experience in agile methodologies, software quality assurance, and team leadership. Proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple agile methodologies, stakeholder management, and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Adept at fostering collaboration and communication within cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and achieve project objectives.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Flower Aura/Bakingo
04.2022 - Current
- Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies: Lead all Scrum ceremonies, including Daily Stand-ups, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews/UAT, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Ensure actionable items are followed up for continuous improvement
- Impediment Removal: Proactively identify and remove impediments faced by the Scrum team to ensure smooth progress and productivity
- Requirements and Delivery Management: Analyze business requirements, define technical scopes, manage multiple software development projects, drive comprehensive testing processes, and coordinate successful product launches
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Facilitate Scrum of Scrums meetings to manage cross-team dependencies effectively and ensure alignment across teams
- Stakeholder Communication: Manage stakeholders with effective and timely communication throughout the Sprint cycle, including Sprint Kick-off, progress updates, Sprint Closure Reports, Velocity Reports, and Release Planning
- Strategic Product Leadership: Collaborate with Product Management to define strategies and requirements, gain cross-functional team commitment for initiatives, drive consensus on technical approaches, and lead teams from design to delivery
- Risk Management: Identify potential project risks, escalate them to senior management, and develop robust mitigation plans to address and resolve issues efficiently
- Post-Release Sanity Testing: Oversee Post-Release Sanity Testing to ensure all critical business functionalities operate as expected in the production environment after Go-Live
QA Lead/Scrum Master
Gamezop/Astrozop/Quizzop
08.2021 - 03.2022
QA Lead
Ship Rocket
01.2021 - 08.2021
Sr.Software Engineer
Cars24
09.2015 - 01.2021
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
GNIOT
01.2011
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- Kanban Methodology
- Scrum processes
- SAFe
- Agile Sprint Planning
- Strategic Resource Management
- Facilitation of Agile Ceremonies
- Team Communication Facilitation
- Release planning
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Effective Conflict Resolution
- Logistical Operations Knowledge
- E-Commerce Expertise
- Quality Assurance Testing
- Project Coordination
- Technical Documentation Creation
- User Stories
- Requirements Traceability Management
- Jira Project Management
- Proficient in Confluence
- SDLC Framework
- PHP
- Experienced with Zephyr
- Redmine
- OpenProject
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Team facilitation
- Cross-functional coordination
- Backlog management
Certification
CSM Certification (Certified Scrum Master), Scrum Alliance, 12/01/21, 12/31/23
Languages
English
Hindi
Summary - Profile Summary
- 5 years of experience working as a Scrum Master in managing and delivering high-quality software products through Agile methodologies.
- Implemented the best practices of scrum principles. Mentored team and educated key stakeholders to adopt and utilize scrum principles effectively.
- Well versed in facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Scrum Meetings, Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review/UAT, conducting Sprint Retrospective and taking follow-up on actionable items for continuous improvement.
- Well experienced in mentoring the product owner on creating and maintaining a continuously prioritized Product Backlog of PBIs with clear acceptance criteria and well estimated by using Poker Planning.
- Expertise in Conflict Resolution, Stakeholder Communication Training & Coaching, Team Support, Facilitating cross-team coordination among various Dev and Infra teams for dependency management and impediment removal for successful sprint delivery.
- Well versed in Stakeholder management, Effective and timely Sprints' communication to all levels of the organization, including Sprint kick-off communication, Sprints Progress tracking, Sprint Closure Report, Sprint Velocity Chart, Sprint Release Planning.
- Well versed in Sprint management by using Jira & Confluence.
- Well versed with Project Management Concepts and have been involved in work estimations, requirement gatherings, forecasting and delivering releases.
- Co-ordination for Sprint Delivery and solution implementation with other Scrum Masters, Engineering and Product/Business teams.
- Maintain and report on key Agile metrics (velocity, burn down chart) to track progress.
- Mentoring the QA team with various QA practices.
- Experience in writing user stories in JIRA.
Timeline
Scrum Master
Flower Aura/Bakingo
04.2022 - Current
QA Lead/Scrum Master
Gamezop/Astrozop/Quizzop
08.2021 - 03.2022
QA Lead
Ship Rocket
01.2021 - 08.2021
Sr.Software Engineer
Cars24
09.2015 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
GNIOT
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