Reecha Sinha B.E., MBA, CSM

Atlanta, GA 762-***-**** ad3k42@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/reecha-sinha

CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER & AGILE DELIVERY LEAD

PROCESS DRIVEN SCRUM MASTER SCRUM COACH SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DELIVERY EXPERT AGILE TRANSFORMATION DELIVERY LEAD

Dynamic, hands-on and Certified Scrum Master / Delivery Lead offering around for 12 years of experience in software development using adaptive, iterative, and effective frameworks viz. SAFe, Agile Scrum, Kanban and LEAN methodologies, helping teams self-organize, self-manage, and deliver value thru Agile practices. Proven experience in delivering high quality Migration & Modernization software projects and Agile Transformation and observed up to 40% increased delivery quotient and consistent Time to Market for feature releases. Demonstrated ability to lead, manage, motivate, organize and coach Scrum teams, and have proven successful working with cross-functional teams. Active promoter of continuous improvement, assisting teams increase productivity and foster innovation.

Scrum Master Agile Kanban SAFe LEAN CI/CD Cloud Development Software delivery lifecycle management (SDLC) DevOps Trend Analysis Process Improvement Project Management Training & Development

Confluence JIRA Version 1 MS Project SharePoint Draw.io Lucid chart MS Visio MIRO Waterfall RUP SAP HRM HP ALM Oracle CRM Taleo Oracle SQL Server MS Access Advanced MS Excel Macros

CURRENT ROLE OVERVIEW

PYRAMID CONSULTING INC January 2023 – Present

Agile Scrum Master Lead / Delivery Lead/ Delivery Consultant (Team size: 12)

Client: Delta Airlines

Managed two pods and lead the delivery of Backend Migration and modernization project from Legacy code base to AWS, where the team delivered the application AWS in frame of 1 Year. Major Deliverables: 2 x Scrumteams, responsible for deliverable of the migration project, were task was to move entire application from on-prem to AWS Cloud and transition from onshore to offshore model. Both teams together achieved a milestone in delivery when the entire application was moved to cloud and was having 100% traffic.

Managed and lead the delivery of the project for two Scrum teams with total of 18 members

Responsible for the transition to offshore model and building up the offshore team

Facilitated & educated the teams on scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews/Demos and Grooming sessions

Coordinating with multiple cross-functional upstream & downstream teams to address dependencies/blockers identified by the team

Involved in Enterprise Planning to define and plan the features and epics which the team would work on for the next quarter in alignment with the other dependent teams & organizational deliverables

Co-ordinated and communicated with the Product Owner maintaining health backlog for the upcoming Sprints based on the prioritization and delivery roadmap.

Worked as Release Co-ordinator by maintaining Release Backlog for the upcoming release and co-ordinating with team for the smooth Release process based on predefined steps

Coached the teams, Product Owners and Stakeholders on Agile Software development principles, helped in creating safe environment, guided teams towards self-organization, enabled process improvements captured during sprint retrospectives

Co-ordinated the transition from KANBAN to Scrum Framework

Helped teams in implementing and following agile estimation (Planning Poker techniques, T-shirt sizing, and estimation templates), identifying blockers & dependencies in grooming sessions, reducing Total Turnaround time by 30%

Maintained and published Agile metrics like burn-down, velocity reports, predictability, productivity, status dashboard and presented to Business Leadership weekly/bi-weekly

Hands of experience in both intra team and inter team conflict resolution

Increased on-time delivery by 70% through removal of impediments faced by team

oSetting up working agreement with the client

oCreating Operating model and setting processes

Managed new resources hiring and end-to-end Client onboarding process

PAST ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

LEVIO CONSULTING April 2021 – December 2022

Sr. Scrum Master (Team size: 12)

Client: CSAA

Managed two scrums teams that help the Client to reach the goal of having below 100 Production Defects at the end of year, and moved the team to feature works, where the team delivered couple of features every release. Major Deliverables: 2 x Scrum teams, responsible for the Defect Backlog of 650+ defects, were tasked to reduce the defect counts to under 200 in 24 x Sprints. Both teams together achieved a milestone in delivery when we reduced the backlog to under 200 defects by end of 16 x Sprints.

Coordinated scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews/Demos and Grooming sessions.

Participated in PI Planning to define and plan the features and epics which the team would work on for the next quarter in alignment with the enterprise objectives.

Supported the Product Owner and Release Train Engineer (RTE) in maintaining the release roadmap based on the health and priority of the stories of the backlog.

Captured dependencies and constraints thru daily scrum and coordinated with team-members, multiple teams to remove blockers and manage dependencies for successful sprint deliverables.

Assisted the team with story mapping/pointing, story splitting in each individual Sprint, entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, bugs and Tasks) in JIRA application.

Mentored teams to inspect and adapt to increase transparency, helped in creating safe environment, guided teams towards self-organization, to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospectives and continuous improvement

Worked closely with the Product Owner /Business Analyst to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized and have 2 sprints of work ready for the team.

Maintained and published Agile metrics like burn-down, velocity reports, predictability, productivity and presented to Business Leadership after every Sprint.

Resolved conflict, improved decision making, emphasized on building relationships across departments, assisted the teams in establishing clear team and Sprint goals.

Hands of experience on resolving the conflicts and removing impediments and make the Client deliverables every Sprint.

Increased on-time delivery by 50-60% through removal of impediments faced by team in time bound manner to ensure planned completion of committed items every sprint

Coached team members and product owners on agile software development practices and terminologies

Initiated and co-ordinated the onboarding process of the new hire.

Represented the team on Scrum of Scrum, inter dependent team meetings, sprint review meetings, etc.

AARORN TECHNOLOGIES March 2018 – April 2021

Scrum Master (Team size: 10)

Client: Centennial Bank

Lead two scrums teams that designed and developed middle-tier shared services responsible for data curation and accessibility over Rest APIs internally across multiple front-end and downstream middle-tier applications on AWS as development and deployment platform. Two major deliveries – 1) Core Calculation Engine served over Rest APIs 2) Data Curation system thru interlaced microservices.

Facilitated teams scrum ceremonies, viz. backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Sprint retrospectives and Scrum of Scrums.

Spearheaded the migrated of development process from conventional SDLC methodology to Agile

Captured dependencies and constraints thru daily scrum and coordinated with multiple team to remove blockers and manage dependencies

Collaborated closely with product owners to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized

Triaged requirements for On-Premise to AWS Platform Migration initiative (Cloud Migration)\

oUsing cloud native services to improve turnaround time and reduce support/maintenance

oCost optimization using AWS service best practices, viz. lambda, SNS, beanstalk, etc.

Generated burn-down and velocity reports end of sprint as part of sprint deliverables

Improved on-time delivery by 18-20% through removal of impediments faced by team in time bound manger to ensure planned completion of backlog items.

Helped teams in implementing agile estimation (Planning Poker techniques, T-shirt sizing, and estimation templates) for Sprint planning that reduced requirements-to-implementation time by 15%.

Provided Sprint reviews reports, project retrospectives and regular snapshots of project burn-rate to executives periodically by actively participates in SOS (Scrum of Scrums) and collaborate with other scrum masters in a Scaled Agile framework (SAFe).

Provided extensive guidance to highly effective teams on how to use Scrum processes.

Mentored teams to inspect and adapt to increase transparency, helped in creating safe environment, guided teams towards self-organization and continuous improvement.

Coached team members and product owners on agile software development practices and terminologies.

Ensured 100% compliance towards definition of done for every user story.

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES September 2014 – November 2017

Scrum Master (Team size: 10)

Client: SunTrust Bank

VISA Credit Card Rewards Program, Web-based Credit & Checking Account setup System hosted on AWS Cloud platform using Cloud native services viz. EC2, S3 and SNS.

Coordinated scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Retrospectives,

Sprint Reviews/Demos and Grooming sessions.

Lead the scrum team in taking corrective steps towards continuous improvement

Assisted the team with story mapping, story splitting in each individual Sprint, entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, bugs and Tasks) in JIRA application.

Guided scrum team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospectives

Worked on cost optimization on AWS services using AWS best practices with the team thru specific stories

Captured dependencies and constraints thru daily scrum and worked to remove blockers

Managed sprint backlog epics, stories and tasks and Scrum boards, both physical and online

Coordinated with Product Owner in formalizing user stories with improved clarity on requirements through high quality detailed use cases.

Resolved conflict, improved decision making, emphasized on building relationships across departments, assisted the teams in establishing clear team and Sprint goals.

Fostered agile testing methods like BDD and TTD using test automation to support iterative testing process

Explored Kanban Method with the team for net-new and PoC-based requirements accounting for technical unknowns

Scrum Master (Team size: 5) Business Analyst

Client: ICICI Bank

Implementation of Online Learning Management System

Facilitated teams scrum ceremonies, viz. backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Sprint retrospectives and Scrum of Scrums.

Managed sprint backlog epics, stories and tasks and Scrum boards, both physical and online

Assisted the development team adopt Agile to transition over from conventional Waterfall SDLC

Served in Product owner capacity as needed- i.e. prioritizing backlog, making priority decisions, approving completed work based on Definition of Done ensuring work meets Definition of Ready to be brought into Sprint etc.

Supported Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog and scheduling next release in with Release and Change management team.

Coordinated with Product Owner in formalizing user stories with improved clarity on requirements through high quality detailed use cases.

Conducted discussions and JAD sessions with stakeholders to understand business requirements.

Designed test scenarios & test cases for performing UAT and end user testing per the Requirements traceability matrix (RTM), RACI Chart, Use case diagrams, Activity diagrams and sequence diagrams using MS Visio, Lucid Chart, Draw.io.

Created Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), project documents and associated planning documents, system requirements (SRD's) and User Stories and business process flows.

Documented Impact and Gap Analysis to find out the root cause of the problem. Designed and executed the business use cases, process flows, UML diagrams in Visio. Reviewing the defects and coordinating with the developers for the solution.

Assisted in business process modeling, business process flow, elicitation techniques and experience in management of business requirements using SDLC methodologies and RUP processes, UML modeling, Prototype design, RAD and JAD sessions.

Designed UX /User Interface mock-ups, wireframes to improve the accessibility for users and make it more user friendly per the client’s need.

Documented business processes, procedures, Business/use cases, facilitating and supporting change management, User Acceptance testing, User Stories, BRD and epics and acceptance criteria.

Worked with QA teams to prepare Test Plans and Test cases for SIT and UAT

IONIDEA ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS March 2012 – September 2014

HR Business Consultant

Worked with HR Department to capture business use cases and business rules

Worked closely with business teams to document functional and non-functional Requirement

Designed complex data models using joins and blending in Tableau and MS SQL Server

Liaised with HR Services, Payroll and Talent Acquisition on daily basis

Analyzed existing HR processes and identified opportunities to streamline, outsource or eliminate

Developed and presented interactive HR training workshops throughout the organization

Documented Process flow, Activity and Use Case diagrams for transition to HRMS System

Worked on standardization of HR functions communication to business team

Created visual graphic PowerPoint presentations for managers and executives

Prepared ad-hoc business reports and, conducted comprehensive analysis with written summaries providing recommendations to senior executives.

EDUCATION & ADDITIONAL CREDENTIALS

Visveshwaraya Technology University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Aug 2005 – July 2009

Jain University

Master in Business Administration - HR & Marketing

Oct 2009 – Aug 2011

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master® by ScrumAlliance, 2019

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