Scrum Master Software Development

VEDAMATI UPADHYAY, PMP®

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Profile

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.

Core Competencies

-Agile coaching and mentoring, Collaboration and facilitation, Servant leadership, Team Empowerment and communication

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

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

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

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

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

Professional Experiences

Wells Fargo, NJ Dec. 2021 – till date

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

Data Cloud Analytics Platform

Following Agile Scrum and Kanban framework of software development life cycle in Data Controls and assessment framework

Strong experience in change management to prioritize and accommodate changing customer requests and data governance process

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

Coaching and Leading training sessions and workshops of teams in the organization for cross functional learning, agile mindset and best practices to support and enhance continuous learning for efficient delivery

Facilitating backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospective and sprint review/demo for successful progress towards incremental product delivery with built-in quality

Vanguard, Malvern, PA March 2018 – December 2021

Scrum Master

Data management system

Followed Agile Kanban framework of software development life cycle for the enhancement of the Data Management System

Engaged and worked with the stakeholders, product owners, teams towards the common goal with healthy team dynamics and positive performance

Collaborated with product owner and implementation team in the backlog refinement, decomp, planning and prioritization sessions to have clear understanding of requirements/user stories and their acceptance criteria

Established the practice of “learn-together” sessions with multiple distributed teams

TiVo, Wayne, PA April 2016 – Jan 2018

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Content management system

Worked in Agile SCRUM to customize the Content Management Application

Worked closely with the stakeholders and product owners in understanding the business needs and documenting and maintaining product backlog

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

Analyzed the current systems, processes and did feature/story/persona mapping for improving efficiency with needs, requirements identification

JP Morgan Chase, DE March 2014 – Sept 2015

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

PETRA (Project Execution Tracking, Reporting & Analysis)

Worked closely with users and product owners of the PETRA (Project Execution Tracking Reporting Analysis) tool; understood their needs of improvement/ enhancement and gathered requirements and wrote them as stories in Jira

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

Was leading the QA and assisting with UAT to ensure accuracy and compliance of 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.

Education

MS in Computer Science, West Chester University, PA

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

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