VEDAMATI UPADHYAY, PMP®

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Profile

PMI certified Project Management Professional and Certified and experienced Scrum Master with hands-on experience facilitating and collaborating large enterprise high quality software development projects in fast paced environments, with multiple cross-functional teams, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills being always on my toes to exercise and enhance the servant leadership skills.

Certifications

−PMI Certified Project Management Professional PMP®

−Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master, SSM – Scaled Agile

−Certified Scrum Master, CSM - Scrum Alliance

−Advanced Certified Scrum Master, ACSM - Scrum Alliance

−Certified Scrum Product Owner, CSPO - Scrum Alliance

−Project Management certification, Penn State Great Valley

Core Competencies

-Project Management, Business & IT Planning, Costing & Budgeting, Cross-Functional Team Building and Mentoring, Client Relationship and Vendor Management

-SDLC: Waterfall, Agile - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

-Agile Planning, Agile coaching, Meeting facilitation, servant leadership and communication

-Microsoft Tools: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power point, MS Visio

-Quality Assurance/ Testing: ALM, Quality Center, TestRail, JIRA, Confluence, QTP, Postman, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin

-Technical skills: Java, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL Server, AWS, UML

Education

−MS in Computer Science, West Chester University, PA

Professional Experiences

Signature Consultants/ Wells Fargo, NJ Dec. 2021 – till date

Senior Scrum Master

Data Cloud Analytics Platform

Working in Enterprise Data Lake for Data Security Controls, Data Retention and Data Management.

-Following Agile Scrum and Kanban framework of software development life cycle

-Working with multiple stakeholders, distributed teams, Product owners, Release Managers to coordinate successful process enhancement and project progress

-Managing resoursces, budget, schedule and communicating the status and progress to leadership

Capgemini America Inc./ Vanguard, Malvern, PA Sept. 2020 – Dec. 2021

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Check Printing Automation System

Checks with various corporate trust data had been getting generated and printed from the Sungard Charlotte Navigator system manually. The manual process was impacting the business adversely with low reliability, scalability and not able to meet the demand of time.

-Followed Agile Scrum framework of software development life cycle

-Coordinated and managed multiple distributed teams

-Responsible for kicking off the project with client, stakeholders, business partners and vendors

-Worked directly with Tech lead and the development team for the technological development environment and infrastructure set up

-Worked with the product owner and stakeholders to collect requirements and define scope

-Collaborated with the teams for various scrum ceremonies and Scrum of Scrum sessions

-Successfully delivered the 1st phase of project within budget and schedule

Entech/Vanguard, Malvern, PA March 2018 – August 2020

Scrum Master

Data management system

In the Data Management System, the global data about various securities and index are acquired from various sources/providers; validated, managed and distributed to various consumers.

-Following Agile Kanban framework of software development life cycle

-Engaging and working with the team towards the common goal with healthy team dynamics and positive performance

-Collaborating and participating in various agile ceremonies and team meetings including daily stand up, iteration refinement, iteration planning, iteration demo and iteration retrospective session

-Participating in Scrum of Scrum (SoS) to coordinate inter dependencies with other teams

-Coordinating with the team in preparation for agile activities including planning, demos, and the retrospectives

-Participating in the backlog refinement, decomp, planning and prioritization sessions with the product owner and team

-Working on the test strategy and leading design and implementation of a detailed systems test plan

-Ensuring the BehaviorDrivenDevelopment (BDD) approach, for every functional requirement/story, is captured in the Feature Files in Given, When, Then format.

-Supporting the team to automate testing at the lowest possible level (unit, integration, or End-to-End)

TiVo, Wayne, PA April 2016 – Jan 2018

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Content management system (Business process Management)

The objective is to create a business process management framework for the Content management workflows so that creating, editing and curating data collections in metadata operations will be managed effectively globally with minimal manual intervention.

−Defined the project plans and sprint scopes, objectives, staffing, resources, roadmaps, milestones and deliverables

−Monitored and communicated project status, progress, issue management and mitigation to various levels of management

−Implemented Agile SCRUM framework in the project

−Supported the product owners in maintaining the product backlog and scheduling next release

−During sprint planning session, guided the development team to break down large and complex user stories into multiple simplified sub tasks for easy development and execution

−Facilitated daily scrum stand ups, backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning meetings, sprint review and retrospective meetings

−Monitored quality assurance by facilitating the QA and UAT efforts to prepare QA/ UAT Test plan, test script, executing them and managing the defects

JP Morgan Chase, DE March 2014 – Sept 2015

BA/ Scrum Master

PETRA (Project Execution Tracking, Reporting & Analysis)

PETRA application offers complete end-to-end project tracking for all the active initiatives within the organization. This tool allows performing in-depth analysis and robust reporting upon the projects all through the lifecycle. This tool was used within several financial Line of Business including Consumer Card, Retail Banking, Credit Card, Debit Card, and Insurance.

−Worked closely with users and product owners; understood their needs of improvement/ enhancement about the Petra tool and gathered requirements and wrote them as stories in Jira

−Worked in Agile environment, actively facilitated scrum ceremonies and prioritization of product backlog with the product owners

−Prepared the Functional Specification document; Created UML diagrams, including use cases diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, and webpage mock ups

−Prepared the test plan; wrote and executed Test cases/ scripts in ALM for each iteration during system testing, logged and tracked defects in ALM and Jira

−Collaborated closely with front-end developers to develop different GUI business requirements - conducted code reviews, issue investigation, code debugging and front-end testing

−Was leading the QA and assisting with UAT; Prepared the test plan, strategy and test cases. tested the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure acceptance and validation of stories

−Maintained Requirements traceability matrix throughout the application development lifecycle

Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., Malvern, PA May 2012-Nov 2013

QA Analyst

Performed E2E functionality testing, regression testing, backend testing and managed defects in different applications such as

−TrackWise Application and Oracle R12 Apps (E Business suite) Upgrade Project

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