Scrum Master Agile Coach
Resume:
Sravanthi Aitha
Certified Scrum Master
Willoughby Hills, OH
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PROFILE SUMMARY
A motivated and enthusiastic Agile Coach/ Certified Scrum Master with dynamic career of over 14 years.
Coached Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Teams, Mid and Senior-Level Managers to deliver product increments by removing impediments, fostering team self-management, and reinforcing Lean Product Management and Engineering Practices.
Over 9 years of experience as Agile Coach in coaching, training, facilitation and scrum master experience.
Diligent Scrum Master with proven record of success leading all phases of projects and business experience for web-based applications, API’s
Experience working in Agile Scrum environment and good familiarity with Agile methodologies
Excellent communicator, leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams
Strong collaboration, negotiation, conflict management skills, written, oral and presentation skills
Implemented agile principles, approaches based on project specifics, strategic goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans and schedules
Mitigated impediments encountered during analysis, defined processes and tools best suited to each project
4 years of Project and program management experience.
Hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
Areas of Expertise
Methodologies - Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Scaled Agile Framework, Waterfall, SDLC
Tools - Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, Eclipse, ALM, Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, MS office
Technical - ColdFusion, Java, Railo, SQL Server. AWS, Fusebox, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, AngularJS, CI/CD, SVN, VSS, TFS, Github, Windows, Linux
Others - Business process improvement, Change management, Project Management, Accessibility, Dependency, risk mitigation and management, Process optimization
CERTIFICATIONS
Scrum.org professional scrum master 1 certified (PSM1)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pitney Bowes, Omaha NE (Oct 2021 – Present)
Scrum Master
As the Agile coach and Scrum Master for two multi-disciplinary teams, coached scrum masters, team members and product owners (internal customer representatives) on agile software development techniques.
Coached and mentored other software developers relative to Agile Software Craftsmanship/Clean Coder principles and practices.
Facilitated regular meetings with the Scrum teams and the Product Owner to review developments (demonstrate functionality), plan for upcoming requirements (user stories) and commit to delivery in the forthcoming three-week sprint.
Conducted retrospective sessions in which all the members of a team could identify areas for improvement (within and outside the team), resulting in specific action plans; these were reviewed during and at the end of each sprint.
●Helping the product owner maintain the product backlog in a way that ensures the needed work is well understood so the team can continually make forward progress.
●Helping the team to determine the definition of done for the product, with input from key stakeholders.
●Coaching the team, within the scrum principles, to deliver high-quality features for its product.
●Brought in Agile best practices such as code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment, and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%
●Creating and conducting training courses for Scrum Masters and teams related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance
●Work with teams to better their engineering practices (Coding Standards, TDD, Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Refactoring, Pair Programming, etc... )
●To focus primarily on delivering product with high quality, low cost and within deadlines.
●Key role in researching, gaining approval for, and then using tools such as JIRA to successfully support Scrum implementations.
●Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove impediments to its progress, whether internal or external to the team.
●Facilitating team events to ensure regular progress.
●Educating key stakeholders in the product on scrum principles.
Fiserv, Omaha NE (August 2020 – Sep 2021)
Scrum Master
•Leading daily scrum meetings, iteration reviews and maintaining backlog of prioritized work items in collaboration with PO and engineering lead
•Providing coaching, mentoring team members on agile practices and processes
•Assisting engineering team with internal and external communication and improving transparency
•Knowledge of code compilation, packaging, building, automated code deployment through CI/CD pipeline to servers through Git, GitHub
•Good understanding of various development, build platforms and deployment strategies
•Contributing in PI planning and providing inputs on epic creation, delivery timelines and engineering team capacity
•Managing and reporting on agile metrics, efforts using Jira and documenting dependencies, risks and ownership on confluence
•Providing relevant metrics to leadership team on regular cadences depicting delivery status and scrum teams delivery performance
•Collaborating effectively with other scrum masters, agile coaches in establishing best practices facilitating learning across engineering team
•Partnering with other cross functional teams (design, engineering, product) in solution identification and business requirements classification
•Keeping external stakeholders and other involved parties informed on progress and delivery team activities
•Initiates engineering team focus on delivering high quality product delivery and continuous improvement
Accenture, Hyderabad, India (DEC 2013 – Jul 2020)
Application Development Team Lead and Scrum Master
Conducted daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, iteration reviews, iteration retrospectives and contributed in project planning
Supported product owner with documentation of user stories and refining acceptance criteria
Monitored team backlog daily and ensured it accurately reflected current state of the sprint
Ensured user stories are properly described, estimated, and managed as per definition of done
Coordinated with other scrum masters to synchronize cross team integration dependencies, data exchange areas and code merging points and code review sessions
Removed team impediments by raising issue to stakeholder, leadership which helped in early issue resolution and smooth iteration completion
Collaborated with engineering team for CI/CD pipeline in all deployment environment
Involved in code reviews, build, package deployment through Git repository and GitHub with engineering team for automated deployments
Prepared and maintained iteration cadence, iteration backlogs, issues and risks, mitigation plans, change management, support plans and stakeholder approvals
Implemented issues tracking in Jira to effectively track bugs, impediments against user stories
Configured scrum boards and started iteration, assigned user stories to iterations as per scheduled, prioritized releases and roadmaps
Managed team conflicts, member aspirations, technical choices and intra team coordination
Value Labs, Hyderabad, India (Sep 2010 – NOV 2013)
Senior Software Engineer
Created interactive UIs that surpassed client objectives and improved user experience.
Involved in development of Admin Modules and maintenance of the application.
Manage the different phases of project & integrations.
Providing task estimation details based on the requirement analysis.
Performing root cause analysis for the production and project issues.
Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design and Implementing various business requirements.
Developing CFCs that are complex in nature, technically and functionally.
Involved in writing CSS for styles on web pages and importing them in Cf pages.
Developed web pages using Ajax and jQuery to improve User interaction with web applications.
Developed applications using jQuery features such as Date Picker, UI tabs, Auto fil select box and implemented jQuery and Ajax post back.
Used SVN as Source Code management tool.
Developed Components and Custom tags for the Application.
Managing ColdFusion administrator and other web server functions.
Used JavaScript Validation wherever necessary in the application.
Followed AGILE methodology and Participated in SCRUM Meetings.
Created a detailed Requirements, Test plan for Application Testing.
Worked on XSS and SSO on different clients of the application.
Developed Application using ColdSpring and Modelglue (MVC Framework).
Extensively worked on debugging the application for bug fixing and Production Support
Translate customer business requirements into functional requirements, prepare detailed design documents to establish effective solutions and provide development and test support based on new requirements.
Performing requirement gathering & clarifying the gaps in understandings.
Environment : ColdFusion 10/11, ColdFusion(Lucee), ColdBox,ColdSpring and ModelGlue, Microsoft SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, IIS, Agile Scrum
Etisbew Technologies, Hyderabad, India (AUG 2008 – Aug 2010)
Software Developer
Involved in development and maintenance of multiple applications.
Developing CFCs that are complex in nature, technically and functionally.
Involved in writing CSS for styles on web pages and importing them in Cf pages.
Developed web pages using Ajax and jQuery to improve User interaction with web applications.
Developed applications using jQuery features such as Date Picker.
Used SVN as Source Code management tool.
Developed Components and Custom tags for the Application.
Managing ColdFusion administrator and other web server functions.
Used JavaScript Validation wherever necessary in the application.
Followed AGILE methodology and Participated in SCRUM Meetings.
Created a detailed Requirements, Test plan for Application Testing.
Developed Application using Fusebox.
Extensively worked on debugging the application for bug fixing and Production Support
Environment : ColdFusion MX7/8/9, ColdFusion(Lucee), Fusebox4/5, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, IIS
EDUCATION
Graduate in Engineering from JNT University in 2008
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS
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