Scrum Master Product Owner

Mallikarjuna

Mobile No: +1-945-***-**** Mail ID: ***************@*****.***

Professional Summary:

Experienced Scrum Master with 12+ years of experience and a proven track record of raising revenue and cutting costs and Boosted earnings from $1.5M to $2.3M in 2 years at Solifi worldwide and delivered 3 products at avg.10% under budget with distributed teams and organization by adapting agile principles and practices.

Skill summary

•Facilitating Scrum events including Daily Stand-up, Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, sprint review, backlog refinement and PI Events includes PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt System Demo, SOS and Release planning.

•Identifying and applying agile framework such as SCRUM, SAFe, Kanban to the teams based on workflow and output

•Coaching/Teaching the Product Owner, with respect user story writing, Grooming,maintaining the healthy product backlog and short term/long term release planning

•Extensive Implementation of Agile techniques like TDD, ATDD, BDD, CICD,Pair Programming, Continuous Testing, and Automation Testing Effectively with Shifting left approach

•Foster collaboration between cross-functional teams, breaking down silos and promoting open communication and Continuous Improvement culture

•Helping the teams in resolving conflicts within the team to make sure teams having collaborative and productive working environment.

•Identifying and removes Impediments that hinder the team's progress by working with other teams or stakeholders to address issues outside the team's control.

•Extensive experience in implementing Scrumban for teams for the critical release

•Empower the scrum teams and shields teams from outside influences and distractions

•Coaching team on understanding agile, ensure adherence and help being flexible with changes when required

•Build dashboard to show case team velocity and impediments in Agile development tools such as Jira, Jira Align, Rally and Azure ADO

•Experience the release planning and forecasting, aligning delivery expectations with all stakeholders by working with RTE

•Developed a comprehensive Project plan for Project life cycle, including schedules, budgets, resource allocation, Execution, Reporting and closure activities

•Identify the risk and mitigate risks to ensure project success and minimize potential issues by Monitor project progress, track milestones, and report status to stakeholders

•Actively contributed to the Agile CoPs to establish to follow and sharing the best practices for the cross functional teams

•Involved in implementing the cross functional models such as ITAM, ITSM and Architecture

•Developed a change management plan that included stakeholder analysis, communication strategies, and training programs.

Educational Qualification

Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Information Technology from SRM University, 2011.

Professional Experience

Organization

Location

Designation

Duration

NCR Voyix

Irving, Texas, USA

Agile Coach

June/2023 - Till Date

LTIMindtree

Hyderabad, India

Associate Director

December/2021 - June/2023

Solifi India Pvt Ltd

Bangalore, India

Scrum Master

June/2016 - December/2021

Capgemini

Bangalore, India

Senior Engineer

May/2012 - May/2016

Ramco Systems

Chennai, India

Software Developer

June/2011 - April/2012

Technical Skills

Programming Skills

Java,Unix, SQL Server, Jenkins, Bamboo, GIT hub, Docker

Agile Frameworks

Scrum, Kanban, Scrum ban, SAFe, XP, Lean

Agile Skills

Meeting Facilitation, Collaboration Skills, Servant Leadership, Forecasting, Removing Impediments,Conflict Resolution, Agile Planning, Agile Estimation,Time Management, Agile Coaching, Empathy, Shielding the Team, Adaptable, Decision Making, Agile Cops

PM activities

Budget & Resource management,project planning, initiation, execution and reporting in tool and Risk management

Testing Skills

Selenium, API Testing and DB Testing

Cloud Technologies

Azure and AWS, Azure Data Factory, synapse, Data Bricks

PM Tools

Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, ALM, Version One, Azure ADO

Domain

BFSI, Healthcare, Capital Markets, Leasing and lending

Projects undertaken in NCR:

Project Title

Remote Teller

Role

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Duration

June 2023 to Till Date

Domain

BFSI

Location

Irving Texas

Client

NCR Voyix

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Facilitated scrum events and PI Events including daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, backlog refinement, PI planning, system demo, SOS and PI retrospective.

•Proactively removed impediments to team progress, resulting in smoother development cycles and timely product releases.

•Coach team members in Agile frameworks, primarily Scrum, and foster an understanding of Agile principles and practices

•Working with distributed teams across multiple locations, promoting cohesion and alignment towards common project goals

•Resolving the conflicts promptly maintains a harmonious working which lead to improvement in morale, focus on task, efficient work flow and team productivity

•Working closely with product management and stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status

•Managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness

•Initiates and manages risk assessment process to completion, which includes risk documentation and risk mitigation controls

•Managing project Initiation, Planning, resource availability, Reporting, documentation and closer activities along with stakeholder management.

•Implemented models ITAM, ITSM and Architecture for cross functional teams

•Brainstorm with fellow scrum masters to understand the impediments on a large and exchange ideas to curb the same

•Contributed to the Agile communities of Practice by introducing the best practices for cross unctional teams

Projects Undertaken in LTIMindtree

Project Title

System One Cloud Migration

Role

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Duration

December 2021 till June2023

Domain

BFSI

Location

Hyderabad, India

Client

Lincoln Financial Group (LFG)

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Coach team members in Agile frameworks, primarily Scrum, and foster an understanding of Agile principles and practices

•Facilitated scrum meetings (Daily stand-up, Sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, backlog refinement)

•Identifying and applying agile framework to teams based on workflow and output

•Improving the approach of conducting scrum meetings by adapting to requirements and changes in the organization

•Coaching team on understanding agile, ensure adherence and help being flexible with changes when required

•Maintain project objectives and set expectation for project teams

•Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques

•Managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness

•Managing project Initiation, Planning, resource availability, Reporting, documentation and closer activities along with stakeholder management.

•Work with management during defect blast for generating metrics and graphs for the progress

Project Title

Commercial Proof Of Mail

Role

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Duration

December 2022 - June 2023

Domain

BFSI

Location

Hyderabad, India

Client

P&G

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Facilitated scrum meetings (Daily stand-up, Sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, backlog refinement)

•Involved in helping in Automated processes from both development and production environments. Automating the tasks using web recorder and scheduled tasks to repeat as per Automation Anywhere.

•Coach team members in Agile frameworks, primarily Scrum, and foster an understanding of Agile principles and practices

•Involved in scheduling, Task scheduler to exchange data between XML and PAS application.

•Work with management during defect blast for generating metrics and graphs for the progress

•Involved in writing the written user stories

•Managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness

•Initiates and manages risk assessment process to completion, which includes risk documentation and risk mitigation controls

•Managing project Initiation, Planning, resource availability, Reporting, documentation and closer activities along with stakeholder management.

•Mentoring team members, assign task and tracking up to closure

Projects undertaken in Solifi

Project Title

InfoLease / Rapport

Role

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Duration

June 2016 to December 2021

Domain

BFSI

Location

Bangalore, India

Client

Wells Fargo, US Bank, JP Morgan Chase

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Facilitated scrum events (Daily standup, Sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, backlog refinement)

•Identifying and applying agile framework to teams based on workflow and output

•Improving the approach of conducting scrum meetings by adapting to requirements and changes in the organization

•Coaching team on understanding agile, ensure adherence and help being flexible with changes when required

•Coach team members in Agile frameworks, primarily Scrum, and foster an understanding of Agile principles and practices

•Managing resource availability, budget and cost effectiveness

•Contributed to the Agile communities of Practice by introducing the best practices for cross functional teams

•Managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness

•Initiates and manages risk assessment process to completion, which includes risk documentation and risk mitigation controls

•Implemented Kanban to one of the teams, was a equal learning experience

Projects undertaken in Capgemini

Project Title

Accounting Portfolio / Credit Card Application

Role

Scrum Master

Duration

December 2015 to May 2016

Domain

BFSI, Capital Markets

Location

Bangalore, India

Client

Royal Bank of Scotland

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Facilitated scrum events (Daily standup, Sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, backlog refinement)

•Worked on the scrum reports, budgets metrics submission

•Involving in the user stories to make sure all the requirements are aligned with stories.

•Worked with teams on the working agreements to make sure on delivering the sprint goals

•Worked with product and project management team about the sprint deliverable.

Project Title

Accounting Portfolio / Retail Banking application /Credit Card life Cycle

Role

Software Developer

Duration

May 2012 to December 2015

Domain

BFSI, Capital Markets

Location

Pune, India

Client

Royal Bank of Canada

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Developing the new functionalities as per the Business requirements

•Coding, Unit testing and building the application and merging to SIT

•Leading team that consists of resources from multiple vendors geographically spread.

•Subject Matter Expert for Transaction team and offshore Point of Contact.

•Taking care of entire STLC including TC Creation, Execution and reporting in ALM

•Communicate progress, project risk, solutions and project status report to different stake holders.

Certifications:

Certification Name

Governance Body

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

Kanban System Design (KMP1)

Kanban University

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Scaled Agile

Agile Coach (ICP -ACC)

ICAgile

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