Swathi Pinisetty Phone: 508-***-**** Email:ad4fxu@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Ten (10) plus years as a hands-on Agile practitioner – Principal Agile Coach/Scrum Master. 18+ years in Technology – Software Engineer by training. Experienced working with multiple teams in moving from Waterfall to Agile and improvement of their Agile practices, standing up new teams teaching/coaching/mentoring Product Development/Software Engineering teams to higher levels of outcome-based value delivery. I bring Agile Scrum, Kanban, XP techniques and a Lean Startup mindset (build, measure, learn) to organizations. Seasoned Management Consultant, as comfortable engaging C-Suite executives as Software Engineers, polished facilitation skills. Advise/Coach leadership teams in the behaviors to successfully develop Teams, appropriate metrics, small batch sizes and achieving flow of value.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Agile Methodology

Scrum Framework

Project Management

Team Facilitation

Sprint Goals Planning

Risk and Dependency Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Continuous Process Improvement

Project Visibility Reporting

Cross functional Collaboration

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified SAFe 6 Agilist

Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner (CSM &CSPO)

EDUCATION

Master’s in Business Administration Osmania University Hyderabad, India

Bachelor’s in computer science Osmania University Hyderabad, India

Professional Experience

MathWorks Inc. Natick MA Nov ’21 -Till Date

Principal Project Manager/ Agile Scrum Master

Key Skills

Agile Work Practices

Owned the facilitation of the scrum framework via release planning, sprint planning (user stories/tasks), daily scrum stand-up, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

Identified challenges and emerging issues, helping to change the organizational culture by collaborating with senior leadership and staff to create solutions; implement micro habits and behaviors allowing for a more agile.

and productive environment.

Coached and mentored a development team comprised of senior and junior team members on adopting agile.

principles, aiding in career development resulting in high productivity, and strong team morale.

Facilitated planning meetings for effort estimation and prioritization of user stories using Planning Poker,

Fibonacci series as a measurement technique, and MoSCoW as a prioritization technique.

Refined and maintained the product backlog by working in tandem with the Product Owner along with working with the Development team to define standard practices for continuous integration and delivery using Jenkins.

Identified complex issues (impediments) such as backlog refinement, sprint goals, metrics delivery and assisted teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments.

Team Leadership

Lead and mentor a cross-functional Scrum team of 12-20 people to develop successful projects over a year.

Communicate with all stakeholders, including teams, clients, executives and web marketing and sales staff to ensure continued collaboration and effective product development. This included Agile quarterly reports, project reports, work distribution metrics and Multi release process documents every quarter.

Efficiency Improvement

Removed team impediments and made improvements to processes, resulting in increased efficiency of 80%.

Monitor progress and help teams make improvements by guiding them in Agile principles and scrum methodology and framework.

Spearheaded Agile ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives, Story Refinement and Release planning.

Reporting and Documentation

Prepare and present status reports to stakeholders, including teams, clients, and executive management on a quarterly basis (Agile Quarterly reports). These reports included data such as Epics in progress, Open issues age, team velocity, Sprint Issue balance, cycle time and sprint metrics.

Track and manage project tasks, processes, deliverables, and budgets.

John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Apr’15 – Oct’21

Boston, MA

Lead Scrum Master

Triage Team (Scrum Master/Agile Coach)

Working with multiple Teams making the transition from Waterfall to Agile as they assimilate into the organization’s Digital Transformation effort. Standing up cross functional Teams, teaching/coaching in the outputs & outcomes of the five Agile Events.

Advising Senior Management in the Leadership attributes in support of Agile embrace. Participating in the emerging DevOps within the firm with a ‘shift left’ objective.

Provided training and coaching to new team members on Agile best practices and facilitated sprint planning, daily standups, and sprint review meetings.

Developed and implemented guidelines, rules, and polices to manage sprint goals, staffing plans, KPIs, and sprint progress, resulting in a 20% reduction of project blockers.

Manage/Lead Triage team efforts in handling environmental issues for QA and UAT.

Maintaining Rally and Jira for Triage stories and prioritizing goals to help the team.

Web/Mobile Product Development

Manage/Lead web product development effort across all Agile teams for Participant Access and Client Access websites.

Provided guidance and training to team members on Agile practices and best practices.

Monitored and improved Agile processes based on regular feedback.

Generated project and sprint reports to provide visibility of the project’s overall performance.

Training/Coaching Jr. Scrum Masters/ year-ups, consultants as needed.

Ensure all program efforts are planned and coordinated and remove any impediments or blockages due to environments or issues.

New York Life, Westwood, MA

Quality Assurance Lead Apr10 – Apr15

New York Life Investment management offers a comprehensive array of retirement plan services to corporations and unions. Various products include 401(k) plans, pensions, executive benefits, investment only solutions, Taft-Hartley plans, and stable value solutions.

Projects Worked:

Website Authentication:

Worked on website authentication project for rewriting the existing logic, in securing participant information. As a part of this project new Database schemas are designed to store encrypted data(passwords) and a new middleware service has been created as a middle tier to store data while it gets rendered to the web application service level.

Worked on New York Life web application. This project was to redesign the existing New York Life Investment Management website for retirement services. New content management system, Sitecore was integrated into the current web infrastructure. As a part of this project worked on multiple web tiers, SOAP U/I, Web servers, CMS(Sitecore).

Responsibilities:

Worked within an Agile Environment, reviewed business requirements, IT technical documents and prepared test plans for all assigned project releases.

Manage Offshore Team in India

Lead QA team in delivering projects on time.

Overall responsibility for defect management using Quality Center.

Communicate Management reports for testing purposes that includes weekly QA project status reports.

Assisted offshore teams in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Beds, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.

Performed GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Data Testing, Regression Testing.

Assisted and performed testing wherever necessary for accuracy and storage of data in the database and Integration testing for the flow of data.

Environment: .Net, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server, Windows XP/2K, Quality Center,

State Street, Boston, MA

Senior QA Engineer Jan 09- Apr 2010

State Street is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors. Its broad and integrated range of services spans the entire investment spectrum, including research, investment management, trading services and investment servicing.

Projects Worked:

Worked on State Street’s Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) application. This is a conversion project in which fund accounting related data flows from the legacy IBT accounting platform to the ETF database. The solutions support timely transition of the legacy IBT ETF funds to the corresponding State Street Fund accounting and custody platforms.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed business requirements, IT technical documents and prepared test plans for all assigned project releases. managed,

Overall responsibility for defect management using Quality Center.

Performed Feasibility Analysis and Risk Analysis on vendor/third party tools.

Assisted testing teams in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Beds, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.

Involved in designing and documenting Test Scenarios, and Test Strategies using Mercury Quality Center.

Environment: Java, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server, TOAD, Windows XP/2K, UNIX, Test Director.

Bain Capital

Sr. Business/ QA Engineer Apr’08-Dec’08

Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private alternative asset management firms. Sankaty Advisors, LLC, the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, LLC, is one of the nation's leading private managers of fixed income, credit instruments and Hedge Funds. Sankaty invests in a wide variety of securities and investments, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed/stressed debt, mezzanine debt, structured products and equities.

As a part of Sankaty’s department, I worked on various projects which included Trade Allocator that allows users to see a list of allocations done/pending and a link to the respective allocator.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed the business requirements and functional requirements for writing Test strategy documents.

Tested application utilizing the Scrum (Agile) methodology.

Participated in Daily Scrum to triage the defect tracking process.

Involved in writing Requirement Tractability Matrix (RTM), detailed Test Plan and Test scenarios using Quality center.

Environment: WinNT, SQL Server 2005, ASP, ASP.Net, C#, QTP 9.2, Quality Center

State Street, Boston, MA Jan’08-Apr’08

Sr. Business/QA Analyst

State Street is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors. As a part of State Street’s Business Technology (QA) department I worked on testing their newly acquired Global One application. Global One is a multicurrency system for international securities lending that SunGard’s supports both brokers and lenders. Designed for international securities lending, the system allows for a different user to confirm/authorize trades, via real-time settlement messages, file upload, auto-settlement default or entry of settlement confirmation.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed the business requirements, business process and functional requirements for writing Test plans.

Executed Test cases using Sun guard’s Global One application and generated Test scripts.

Conducted data driven testing to test the application.

Involved in the Trade Entry cycle from manually inputting trades, Authorizing, and generating settlement instructions.

Generated SWIFT instructions for settlement of trades.

Environment: WinNT, SQL server, Java, Web sphere, SQL Server, Clear Quest

Massachusetts Financial Services, Boston, MA May’07- Oct’07

Business Systems Analyst

MFS is a leading investment management firm headquartered in Boston, MA. As a part of MFS QA department, I worked on MOM (MFS Order Management) and MOM Maintenance Application. MOM (MFS Order Management) is an equity trading platform and MOM Maintenance Application has been designed to interface with multiple systems to allow for the normalization of data and facilitate trading set up and data maintenance.

Fund Quest, Boston, MA Jan’06-Apr’07

QA Engineer/Test Analyst

FundQuest designs, develops and operates investment programs to enable financial institutions to take advantage of the growing evolution of fee based financial services FundQuest partners with banks, brokerages, insurance companies, financial learning firms and third party investment marketing firms in creating proprietary fee-based advisory services to meet the specific needs of the institution, its sales force and its target markets.

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