Kavitha Nama

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Scrum Master and Agile Team Coach

Dynamic, hands-on Scrum Master with 3 years of experience in managing large enterprise software development projects. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations on-shore and off-shore teams. Multifaceted technical career with 15-year track record of innovation and success. Profound understanding of Software development activities, methodologies, process and artifacts with DevOps culture. Ability to manage many projects at once while working within strict deadlines by maintaining professionalism .Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral, written presentation and communication skills.

Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility due to strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service and overall performance.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) certification from Scrum.org.

SAFe 4.5 Scrum Master (SSM) training and Certification with DevOPS culture.

Trained PMI-ACP (Agile Certified professional).

ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC).

Proficiency in Agile Software development/iterative development using Scrum, Kanban and SAFE.

Experience in working under Lean/Agile/SaFe(Scaled Agile Framework) for 8 years and Waterfall Methodologies for 5 years.

Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment along with Project Management and Conflict management skills .

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the team.

Excellent grasp of SDLC principles, Application Life cycle management (ALM) and tools .

Knowledge of DevOps CI\CD pipeline, Process, Phases and Tools .

Coordinated QA\QC activities on a 7 different scrum projects being member of Development team about 5 years, working under varies Scrum Masters.

Acted as liaison for project teams, management, clients service representatives to provide updates, resolve issues and establish the project delivery vision for IT teams.

Implemented an efficient and productive process as a QA Lead for 5 years for a group of 6 to 12 testers working under multiple products and projects at onshore\offshore locations supporting multiple software versions.

Over 10+ years of experience in working for Healthcare Industry such as Allscripts and Siemens.

Acquired knowledge on Change control process and Release planning and monitoring.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Defect Management Tools : JIRA, Visual Studio 2015\TFS, Rally, Version One.

Project Management/Scrum Process : Confluence, TFS

Development Methodologies : Agile, Waterfall, SAFe 4.5 .

DevOPS Tools : Git, Jenkins, Docker, Nagios, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Maven etc

Automation : Test Partner 5.2.1, Selenium .

Database Management: SQL Server 2014 (and varies versions) for Data validation.

Utilities : Microsoft Office, MS Project, Share Point, WebEx, Citrix, Sales Force, Zoom.

Data Visualization using Tableau 10.0 \Tableau Server Administration 10.3.

Tableau Public link - https://public.tableau.com/profile/kavithanama

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager Systems (07/2018 – Present) Mphasis Corporation USA.

Scrum Master (07/2018 – 12/2018) JP Morgan Chase, AWM, Newark, DE

Actively facilitated all standard ceremonies and activities including backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, user story mapping, technical overviews, walkthroughs and Demos.

Objectively set Sprint Goals, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready.

Collaborated closely with product owner and associates on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized.

Effectively tracked teams progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.

Coached/Mentored a cross functional team of 6-12 resources effectively setting working agreements.

Monitor and managed dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.

Identified and removed project and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Served two Scrum teams as a Servant leader by adopting Scrum core values, Principles and Agile development best practices.

Enhanced Team effectiveness by collectively setting Ground Rules or working Agreements.

Addressed Agile and Scrum anti-patterns, Team Anti-Patterns.

Projects assigned to:

COACS eDelivery Project for Private Bank of America, COACS eDelivery Project for International Private Bank

LEAD-Expert Quality Engineer\SCRUM MASTER(10/2006 – 6/2017) Allscripts,Malvern, PA

Actively facilitated all standard ceremonies and activities including backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, user story mapping, technical overviews, walkthroughs and Demos.

Objectively set Sprint Goals, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready.

Enforced SAFe and Agile\Lean development scrum process and principles.

Helped Business Analyst and development team for product\sprint backlog grooming.

Regularly tracked and monitored Scrum Metrics such as Burn-down chart, Velocity, Backlog Health.

Helped team members to communicate, coordinate and collaborate. Also assisted the team in meeting their delivery goals and sprint objectives.

Experienced in Agile Testing methodologies, Scrum approach for coordinating testing activities .

Set and communicated project objectives and key performance indicators to inspire individuals and the team to achieve high performance and to increase team velocity.

Coordinated with System Team and Shared Services to help the team to find external sources for information such as SME, Config mgmt, Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure and tools mgmt, Tech Writers etc.

Assisted the team in preparing for ART activities such as PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshop.

Worked with BA’s to priorities and validate requirements\user stories\Acceptance criteria for DOR(definition of Ready).

Monitored and tracked development progress throughout sprint\release to ensure project is within the defined timeline and making progress towards the goal.

Assisted teams to improve quality of deliverables and meeting DOD.(Definition of Done) .

Dedicated to continuous process improvements through coaching, feedback loops, retrospectives, individual improvements .

Participated in product design sessions, technical design sessions, requirements specifications, User story overview\mapping, and worked with varies teams in early design phase of the application modules.

Help the team set common vision, goals and values and over come conflicts in achieving consensus.

Supported professional services/customer support activities for production related issues.

Helped, managed and mitigated sprint risks through prioritization, planning and escalating.

Empowered teams for self-organize, self-manage and deliver via effective Agile practices.

Participated in Scum of Scrum meetings, help the team to co-ordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART).

Participated in Scrum Master community of Practice within the organization.

Implemented an efficient and productive process as a QA Lead for 5 years for a group of 6 to 12 testers working under multiple products and projects at onshore\offshore locations supporting multiple software versions.

Set Testing team goals, Testing Metrics to improve product quality and efficiency.

Coordinated QA/QC activities on various projects\products\releases\service packs within the application, working collaboratively with varies departments across the organization and on client sites.

Performed End to End testing which includes functional, regression, adhoc, white box, black box, integration, User acceptance and many other types of testing across varies projects and releases.

Objectively evaluated processes and products against applicable standards, and procedures.

Wrote Specflow Scripts as a feature files used by Development\QA team to capture Test scenarios.

Provided a detailed report on defect prioritization, quality metrics, identified defects/errors, system issues and recommended fixes and possible solutions. Provided constructive feedback, addressed quality status and product defect concerns.

Projects assigned to:

Sunrise Emergency Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise ePrescribe,Sunrise Clinical Documentation Form builder,Patient Portal\SHM

QA Testing Associate (3/2006 – 8/2006) Octagon Research Solutions, Wayne, PA

Performed ad-hoc testing for Viewpoint, Viewer and Validator.

Reported and tracked software defects and issues.

Verified functional specification documents for requirements.

Created test data as xml files to test each requirement specified in FRS for viewer and validator.

Created and maintained functional testing test scripts for Viewer and Validator.

Projects assigned to:

ViewPoint 3.5, eCTD Viewer 2.0, eCTD Validator 2.0

Quality Assurance Analyst (2/2006 – 3/2006) Wilmington Trust, Wilmington, DE

Manually validated accounting statements and reports for report format, report structure, pie charts, graphs and account summaries on Printed documents and on PDF’s.

Responsible for documenting, maintaining, administering defects.

Actively involved in Integration, Regression and User acceptance testing.

Projects assigned to:

Moore Wallace Processing, Accounting Statements client Experience

Test Engineer (6/2005 – 12/2005) Health Market Science, King of Prussia, PA

Identified, established and document quality assurance Standards, Guidelines and Templates.

Defined and documented software testing methodology and strategy to be used by the company.

Documented and maintained test plans, test cases/test scripts, test data and test results.

Performed Manual regression testing by executing test scripts.

Developed test summary report and test matrix.

Wrote XML scripts for data validation.

Projects assigned to:

Data Bench, Strategic Simulator

Software Engineer (7/2001 – 9/2004) Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA

Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing of Soarian - Nursing UI, Clinical Documentation, Document Builder and Medication modules.

Developed Web pages using HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, JSP, JavaScript, Servelets, Java

Design, Development and testing of the Entity EJBs and JSTL tags.

Automated module Integration testing test scripts using Test partner 5.2.1 in VBA

Projects assigned to:

Electronic Patient Records - Clinical Documentation, Soarian Common Clinical MedSeries4® Assessments,

Soarian Clinical Team - Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Engineering, Concentration in Computer Science Kuvempu University, India 2000

Profession Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1 ) Scrum.org 2018

SAFe Scrum Master (4.5) Scaled Agile 2018

ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching(ICP-ACC) 2018

Tableau 10.0 /Tableau 10.3 Server Administrator ONLC 2017

Master of Project Management for IS/IT Professionals (Certificate) Villanova University 2013

.Net certification PENN STATE 2007

Programming for the Web and Java Programming DCCC 2000

Awards and Recognitions

Spot Award (two awards) for outstanding achievement in leading client critical projects, Allscripts

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