Scrum Master Project Manager
Resume:
SHASHI SAHU
Sr Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager/SAFe Practitioner
CERTIFICATIONS
• 70% increase in velocity for 3 teams by having me as a scrum master
• Successful transformation of 4 teams from waterfall WOW to Agile
• Reduced delivery time up to 50% led to successful reduction of product cost.
• Reduced defect count by 70%.
• Increased team collaboration for a multi-cultural team
• Increased commitment reliability
• Optimized all sprint events.
• Driven dozens of improvement initiatives
• Formed Agile COE
• Designed Full end-to-end Agile WOW for feature and support teams
CAREER SUMMARY
Professional Scrum Master,
ScrumOrg
Certified SAFe® 6 Advanced
Scrum Master - Scaled
Agile, Inc.
*******.******.****@*****.***
Chicago, United States
• Scrum/Kanban/SAFe Implementation
• Bringing Agility/Transformation
• Coaching, Mentoring & Training
• Facilitation, Servant leadership
• Agile Project management
• Product & Sprint Planning
• MVP & MMF
• User Stories, BDD/TDD
• Estimation & Prioritization
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile Risk Management
• Process Improvement (Project
• & Program Level)
• Coaching for XP & Engineering
Practices
• Analytical & Problem-Solving
• Online collaboration tools - Atlassian
Jira, confluence and Miro
• Metrics and Data Analysis
• Technical skills (SQL, Testing, Data
Migration, Front end/Backend)
• Coaching for Transparency,
Inspection & Adaption
• Dashboards in JIRA/Confluence/
Azure DevOPS.
• Release management
• Jenkins, GIT
Shashi Sahu
Passionate Scrum Master & Agile Project manager with over 16+ years of experience and 6+ years of experience as Scrum Master/Agile Project manager in delivering high-quality software products, driving end-to-end continuous improvement, cross- functional collaboration, and ensuring product quality throughout SDLC with software and business technology teams in large program.
Seasoned Coach & facilitator for solving analytical complex problems, improving communication & collaboration, and building high performing teams & leadership, to drive agile project success with tools like JIRA and Confluence.
Worked on domains – Telecom, Automotive, Insurance, Retail etc. Helped, Guided and coached multiple teams on Agile Mindset, improving productivity, better estimations, correct prioritizations KPI/report generation, software testing, E2E Testing, Sanity, Load/Stress, UAT Testing.
Highly experienced to transform teams and organization into Agile WOW to foster a culture of transparency, adaptability, and excellence.
Work Permit – H4 EAD
ACHIEVEMENTS
SKILLS
• Coached, Helped and Guided cross-functional team of 10 Dev+QA professionals for development of new product involving all aspect of the project from requirement to deployment phase.
• Collaborated closely with multiple cross-functional teams – product managers, product owners, developers, and stakeholders to help and coach them on product requirement gathering, making a cross functional team from starting, and advocate for a g i l e p r o c e s s & quality improvement in each phase of SDLC, with alignment with ART PI objectives.
• Acted as a servant-leader, focusing on making team empowered to handle impediments and driving changes to removing impediments with RCA techniques like 5-Why, fostering self-organization, and promoting continuous process improvement.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospectives, enhancing team communication, coordination and continuous improvement.
• Introduced agile principles into teams WOW, teams working agreement, incorporating Scrum and Kanban(team & program), XP practices such as Pair Programing to improve project visibility, identify issues in flow, optimize delivery speed, and increase quality.
• Spearheaded the integration of Agile principles with a focus on system thinking into every process and WOW, improving responsiveness to changing requirements and reducing time-to-market.
• Introduced and coached team on CI-CD, automated testing tools, decreasing manual testing efforts by 30% and increasing test coverage also resulting in quality improvement and defect reduction.
• Assisted RTE & collaborated with PO-PM for PI planning preparation focusing on creating transparency and best practices for program backlog refinement and linking vision-strategy.
• Coached PO for MVP identification, US mapping and US writing using INVEST criteria.
• Delivered multiple trainings and workshops for various teams to inculcate Agile Mindset, educate teams and leaders the importance of Agile WOW, and help them to set correct leading-lagging indicators and used JIRA, Rally & Mural teams to track performance.
• Coached and worked with teams to improve their agile maturity. SCRUM MASTER Kelly Services Chicago JUN 2020 – MAR 2022 (2 year 9 months)
• Successfully transformed waterfall team to agile and focus on making team mature self-managing team.
• Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for an Agile team.
• Influenced continuous improvement values for existing processes while promoting innovation of new product development.
• Used Jira and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics (burndown/burnup, velocity, capacity, CFD) to help deliver committed work.
• Assisted PO with effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria.
• Used the Scrum of Scrums event to coordinate cross-team dependencies and collaboration.
• Coached team to identify gaps in security architecture and recommended best practice processes and solutions in large and complex enterprises.
• Establish and run governance to ensure sufficient capacity availability to meet forecasted work. Sr. SCRUM MASTER Farmers Insurance Chicago MAR 2022 - Present (1 year 4 months) WORK EXPERIENCES
BA/SCRUM MASTER Wipro Aug 2017 – DEC 2020 (3 year 4 months)
• Collaborated with stakeholders to refine & expand the implementation service model
• Designed and implemented processes to enhance productivity, quality, and client satisfaction
• Ensured comprehensive documentation of risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions related to process integration Developed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement
• Documents (FRD) using UML and MS Vision
• Facilitated Daily Standup, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint Review Meetings, documenting meeting minutes
• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology to lead cross-functional teams in the successful delivery
• of multiple software development projects.
• Collaborated with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize and refine product backlogs,
• resulting in on-time delivery of high-quality products that met customer requirements. SOFTWARE ENGINEER Wipro AUG 2010 – AUG 2016 (6 year)
• Manage and execute multiple projects using onsite and offshore model.
• Understand Application Architecture thoroughly and come up with test strategy document.
• Identifying the test scenarios for Functional testing/Regression testing.
• Involved in Automation Test Framework enhancement.
• Creation and Execution of test scripts using Eclipse IDE using Python language.
• Understand project milestones and create testing schedule which fits as per the needs.
• Creating Test Plan, Strategy document and Reviewing Test Artifacts.
• Raising the defects by using JIRA tool
TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER Indian Telephone Industry AUG 2007 – AUG 2010 (3 year)
• Worked Analysis, Programming and Debugging for Ethernet port.
• Involved in writing test cases from use cases.
• Uploading of test cases in Web site.
• Written the automation script in TCL/TK in Solaris
• Involved in GUI unit testing, integration testing
• Successfully delivery of code.
• Electronics & Telecommunication Bachelor of Science Ravishankar Shukla University 2006
EDUCATION
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