Adventure Drive
Vishnu Kumar N
Scrum Master / Project Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
CSM @Scrum Org, SAFe Scrum Master (SSM-5.1) | Scrum Master | Product Management | Project Management | Agile Team Facilitation | Quality Management | Client Relationship Management | Resource Management |Risk Management | Defect Management | Requirement Analysis | Troubleshooting | Rally | JIRA| Confluence |PMP Aspirer | 14 + years
Professional Scrum Master (CSM)-1 Certified, SAFe 5 Scrum Master-(SSM), with over 14+ years of experience in managing wide range of Projects & Products.
4+ years of Scrum Master Experience.
Working with multiple cross functional scrum teams in becoming high performing & self-managed, focusing on best agile practices, running daily scrums, facilitating sprint review, planning & retrospective.
Accountable in upholding scrum, facilitating team decisions, coaching, mentoring, teaching & working on impediments. Expertise in Stakeholder Management, Customer Relationship and Delivery management.
Adept in supervising projects from beginning to end and ensuring that projects are completed within time.
Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.
Experienced Scrum Master with 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.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Scrum Maste
Onusworks
2 2023 - 7 2023
- Serve as facilitator and servant leader for development team, enabling them to work collaboratively and efficiently
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are effective and focused
- Working with distributed scrum team and implementing Scrum, using GitLab & Notion
- Act as liaison between development team and stakeholders, facilitating communication and managing expectations
- Work closely with product owner to groom and prioritize product backlog, ensuring that it is well-defined and actionable
- Help team in defining and achieving sprint goals, tracking progress, and delivering value incrementally
- Continuously monitor and improve team performance, implementing experiments and adapting processes as needed.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Streamlined workflow processes by identifying inefficiencies and recommending improvements to eliminate bottlenecks
- Conducted sprint reviews and retrospectives, fostering collaborative environment for feedback and improvement
- Identified and resolved impediments, ensuring smooth progress of projects towards completion
- Optimized resource allocation through capacity planning, maximizing team productivity without overloading resources
- Fostered environment of trust among team members through regular check-ins, open communication, and honest feedback
Manager
Capgemini
04.2022 - 09.2022
- Working with distributed scrum team and implementing Scrum, Jira & Confluence
- Discharging accountabilities of Scrum Master
- Coaching team and organization
- Mentoring & Teaching teams
- Facilitating scrum events
- Business & stakeholder collaboration
- Helping PO defining Product backlog
- Acts as Team Coach, manage Scrum Process & Best Agile practices
- Work on Retrospective improvement areas and Action items with teams thereby implementing them Sprint on Sprint
- Work with all stakeholders in effective release planning.
- Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
Associate Manager
UST Global
04.2020 - 04.2022
- Facilitates Scrum events for two teams
- Responsible for managing scrum process with coordination of scrum team in agile methodology
- Project planning, scheduling & estimation, and release documenting
- Knowledge of Estimation Techniques i.e., Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing
- Hands-on experience with Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, and Story Points
- Planning & Conducting Software Development sessions, project meetings, reviews, walkthrough, and coordinating various technical and managerial teams at all levels
- Ensuring that all Scrum Events takes place and are positive, productive and kept within timebox
- Ensure timely communications with all project stakeholders (internal/ external) on status, risks, issues and important information
- Protect team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
- Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product
- Resource planning and management- Ensuring availability of right competencies, assigning responsibilities, allocating work and ensuring utilization across projects
- Tracked and managed product backlog burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
Associate Manager
UST Global
05.2019 - 03.2020
- Facilitated Scrum process of planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives with team and Product Owner and proactively removed impediments to progress
- Managed project scope and timeline, ensured that sprint is on track
- Working with agile team focusing on agile practices, running daily stand up calls, organizing sprint review, retrospective calls
- Working with product owner and development team and managing product backlog
- Involved in Planning ceremonies, prepared readouts, velocity metrics, risks, dependencies
- Protect team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
- Helping product owner to make product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for next sprint
- Resource planning and management- Ensuring availability of right competencies, assigning responsibilities, allocating work and ensuring utilization across projects
Principal Software Engineer
Accion India Pvt Ltd
10.2016 - 11.2017
- Coach Teams in project Management best practices, Facilitate Scrum collaborations - daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
- Protect team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
- Helping product owner to make product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for next sprint.
- Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
- Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
- Resource planning and management- Ensuring availability of right competencies, assigning responsibilities, allocating work and ensuring utilization across projects.
- Ensure timely communications with all project stakeholders (internal/ external) on status, risks, issues and important information.
- Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
Test lead
CSC India Pvt Ltd
04.2014 - 07.2016
- Worked as Test Lead & did Coordination with client and Onsite Team, without any issues and successfully completed all deliverables in sprint
- Working on Enterprise Pharmacy System application, KPHC and OPPR applications
- Having experience in Web services testing by using SOAPUI
- Experience in Manual testing, including Sanity testing, Functional testing, System Integration Testing
- Integration testing and Regression testing, End to End testing
- Knowledge on Usage of Rally, SOAPUI, WinSCP and Putty
- Knowledge on Usage of Enterprise Test Management tool HP- Quality Centre
- Having good experience on Agile methodologies
- Executing test cases and reporting defect in Rally
- Writing Test Scenarios & Scripts as per user stories manually.
Senior Test Engineer
CSC India Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2014
- Training was given on health care domain with preliminary discussion of project with core team
- Involved in Test planning and Requirement discussion
- Review and execution of test cases to check functionality of tool against requirements and release notes
- Coordination with client and Onsite Team
- Writing, executing & verification of test cases and also preparing demo script in order to demo functionality to stake holders
- Performed functional & Regression testing
- Performed peer reviews
- Monitor defects (Using Defect Tracking system – Rally) and have participated in Defect review meeting
- Status Reporting on Major milestones completion with Escalations when required to relative stakeholders.
Senior Test Engineer
CSC India Pvt Ltd
03.2010 - 08.2011
- Training was given on health care domain with preliminary discussion of the project with the core team
- Performed functional & Regression testing
- Review and execution of test cases to check the functionality of the tool against the requirements and release notes
- Coordination with the client and Onsite Team
- Writing, executing & verification of test cases
- Performed peer reviews
- Monitor defects (Using Defect Tracking system – QC) and have participated in Defect review meeting
- Status Reporting on Major milestones completion with Escalations when required to relative stakeholders.
Senior QA Analyst
SGT India Pvt Ltd
08.2007 - 01.2010
- Preliminary discussion of project with core team
- Analyzed and prepared data for each individual tools before doing integration
- Performed functional, integration & backend database testing using SQL Queries
- Review and execution of test cases to check functionality of application against application requirement
- Manual test cases were created and reviewed for functionality coverage with core team
- Prepared test summary report at end of execution of each module
- Regular status reporting with all stakeholders both onshore and offshore.
QA Analyst
Deloitte
06.2006 - 07.2007
- Coordination with client and Onsite Team
- Writing, executing & verification of test cases
- Performed functional & Regression testing
- Training was given on health care domain with preliminary discussion of project with core team
- Involved in Test planning and Requirement discussion
Education
MCA (Master of Computer Applications) - Computer Science
Bangalore University
Bangalore 08.2000 - 2003.09
BBM - Finance & Marketing
Bangalore University
Bangalore 06.1997 - 2000.09
Skills
Certification
CSM
Interests
Timeline
Manager
Capgemini
04.2022 - 09.2022
Associate Manager
UST Global
04.2020 - 04.2022
Associate Manager
UST Global
05.2019 - 03.2020
Principal Software Engineer
Accion India Pvt Ltd
10.2016 - 11.2017
Test lead
CSC India Pvt Ltd
04.2014 - 07.2016
Senior Test Engineer
CSC India Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2014
Senior Test Engineer
CSC India Pvt Ltd
03.2010 - 08.2011
Senior QA Analyst
SGT India Pvt Ltd
08.2007 - 01.2010
QA Analyst
Deloitte
06.2006 - 07.2007
MCA (Master of Computer Applications) - Computer Science
Bangalore University
08.2000 - 2003.09
BBM - Finance & Marketing
Bangalore University
06.1997 - 2000.09
Scrum Maste
Onusworks
2 2023 - 7 2023
CSM
SAFe SSM5
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