Scrum Master Project Management

Executive Profile

An accomplished technocrat offering 10 years of overall experience, comprising 5 years of working as Scrum Master, Agile Coaching/Transformation, Project Management, People Management

Played a key role as Agile Facilitator & Scrum Master for steering the entire projects & project planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling & configuration; actively participated in applying scrum principles/practices/theory and coordinated for Agile adoption for teams across multiple

Excellence in gathering and understanding requirements of clients & other multiple stakeholders, followed by translation into functional specifications as well as provisioning of suitable software solutions

Proven expertise in spearheading entire gamut of sprint activities inclusive of sprint planning, release planning, backlog grooming, task management, scrum-of-scrum, retrospectives, sprint retrospective and sprint demonstration

Literature Search: SON Prior Experience as a GraduateAssitant

Conducted comprehensive literature searches using various databases, such as PubMed and Google Scholar, employing advanced search techniques including Boolean operators and citation chaining.

Developed expertise in systematic review methodologies, ensuring thorough identification and selection of relevant studies for evidence synthesis.

R Programming:

Proficient in R programming language for data analysis and visualization

Python Programming:

Demonstrated proficiency in Python programming language, utilizing its diverse libraries and frameworks for data manipulation, analysis, and automation

Career Timeline

Professional Experience

May’18-June-22 Legato Health Technologies

Growth Path

May’18-Apr’20 Legato Health Technologies as Team Lead

May’20-Jun’22 Legato Health Technologies as Associate Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

Project: Anthem Inc

Key Result Areas:

Acting as Scrum Master to assist various teams to undertake their agile journey. This journey facilitated by interacting with teams and conducting various training programs across organization

Key Skills

Education

Currently perusing Masters in Data analytics at University of Nevada Los Vegas (Jan 2023-Till date) with 3.88 GPA

B. Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from SRM University, Chennai

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Leading Safe Agilest (SA) -Scaled Agile Framework Certification.

ISTQB Foundation Level Certification.

AHM250 (America’s Health Insurance Plans) Certification

Soft Skills

Following project lifecycle methodology defined under the process framework; ensuring that Project Team understands all aspects of the prime contract relating to responsibilities

Planning & organizing scrum meetings, facilitating sprint ceremonies, sprint planning & review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings, sprint backlog, story estimation, daily stand-ups, iteration & release planning and reviews

Showcasing excellence in transforming the Project Teams from Traditional to Agile Way of working; establishing Agile practices and building culture within distributed scrum teams

Supervising and overseeing about 45+ associates in current span (Reviews,coaching & feedback,recruitment, staffing etc)

Trained new Team Members in the project on the Agile Framework

Collaborated between the Product Owner and the Development team

Front-leading delivery of projects from the stage of initiation till monitoring & control including planning, estimation & scheduling, integrating change control, planning risk responses and contingency planning

Exhibiting skills in empowering team to be self-organize and grow cross-functionally in terms of Technologies and Protect Team from over-commitment, sprint backlog and prioritize resolution of defects

Leading initiatives in managing the Agile testing process along with automated and manual software testing, writing and executing the test cases

Directing a wide variety of activities inclusive of risk management, conflict management and providing estimation by working in close coordination with the Development and Testing team

Supported the Product Owner through technical user stories

Effectively used the Version One tool to maintain the Brun down chart, Story Board, Task Board, Defects, and Sprints

Excellent understanding on Legato Process flow / Adherence to Compliance, as one of the early joiners to Legato

Possess Delivery management skills which include Risk & Mitigation Planning, Developing Self-sufficient teams

Met all deliverables and conducted quality audits to ensure process compliance.

Possess good reporting skills and maintained Daily/Weekly/Monthly Metrics for the ongoing projects

Conducted the dashboard/reporting in Excel / other reporting tools.

Stakeholder Management skills with frequent connects to understand the business need.

Worked in Agile teams and having good Safe Agile knowledge

Highlights:

Conducted hiring for Different Roles – Extensively supported hiring and took close to 2000+ interview across multiple locations (Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderbad, Pune) for multiple roles (ASEs, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, SE, SSE, Leads, ADMs) using different platforms(Growth, Bench, Campus, IJP, Employee Referrals)

Executed the on boarding and acted as Primary POCs for all the new hires to the core teams

Imparted trainings and managed all mandatory/ functional / technical trainings for all the new joiners

Emerged as SPOC for all the PPM related queries. Tracking, Monitoring, and reminding all the associates to ensure 0 non complaint from E&B

Previous Experience

Mar’17-Apr’18 Wipro Ltd as Sr. Software Engineer

Aug’12-Dec’16 Accenture India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore as Software Engineer Analyst

Please refer to annexure for details on projects:

Annexure

Duration: May’18-Jun’22

Name : Anthem Inc

Role: Associate Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

Highlights:

Streamlined the Agile Transformation & implemented Scrum and Kanban framework across Enterprise Systems

Mentored different teams on Development practices like TDD, Pair Programming, ATDD and also Lean Requirement & Modelling techniques like Spec by Example, Domain Modelling, and Story Mapping etc.

Worked with Scrum teams on their Agile Maturity and making sure the disqualifiers are addressed

Liaised with the Higher management in gauging the Agile transformation and suggesting necessary steps for expediting the change

Facilitated the Agile Community of Practice

Name : GST (Goods and Services Tax-Indian Govt)

Duration: Mar’17 – Apr’18

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Description:

Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an upcoming system of taxation in India which will merge many individually applied taxes into a single tax. It was introduced as The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act 2016.

GST is the integrated indirect tax which is levied on the Supply of Goods and Services. There will be dual GST with the Center and State simultaneously levying it on the common tax base. The CGST and SGST will be charged on intra-state supplies whereas IGST will be charged on inter-state supplies The Commerce and finance graduates can become GST Return Preparer to file return on behalf of taxpayers

Highlights:

Acting as the single point of contact between the testing team and the Client BA’s

Analyze and identify gaps in functional/business requirement.

Duration: Aug’12 – Dec’16

Name : Well Point Common(Anthem Inc)

Role: Software Engineer

Description:

Well Point is the largest American Health Insurance Company founded in 1940s. Managed Health Care Company in Blue Cross and blue shield Association. It was formed When Anthem Insurance Company acquired well Point health networks, Inc. Anthem Blue cross and Blue Shield Association was created as part of merger of associated group with community mutual insurance.

Key Result Areas:

Liaised between Bangalore and Richmond, hence communicating details to Onsite team via Conference calls and emails

Managed all business and functional requirement documents

Took part in various meetings including Business Analysts, Development, and QA. Meetings

Wrote Test Scenarios & prepared test cases for module, integration and system testing

Formulated the test data’s for the test cases as per the release

Took part in regular client call and discuss the status with the stakeholders

Acted s SPOC between the testing team and the Client BA’s; identified gaps in functional/business requirement

Met new requirements / enhancements/critical requirements/user comments of the project

Monitored the testing progress with team members to meet the given timeline

Conducted knowledge transfer session to new team members

Prepared TESD (Test Evaluation Summary) at the end of each release for the Client

Highlights:

Bagged appreciated with recognitions from clients and ‘Star of the Month’ Award from Supervisor/Manager for taking up ownership in module and leading the team in the yearend release successfully

Received the Team Award (ACE Award), received Appreciations for the Macro creation in a well explained manner from Accenture Leadership

SENIOR LEVEL PROFESSIONAL

A multi-faceted professional accustomed with proven technical and management skills; targeting challenging and rewarding opportunities as Scrum Master/Project Manager with an organization of repute

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BALAJI VARTHALA

~ Scrum Master ~

Scrum Master/Agile Coaching/ SAFe 5

2018-2022

2012-2016

2017-2018

Project Delivery Management

Team Building & Leadership

Requirement

Gathering

Software Development/ Testing Lifecycle

Project Planning & Management

Management Reporting

Client/Stakeholder Management

Analytical and Interpersonal

Mentorship

Vision-oriented

Executive-level Communicator

Soft Skills

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 3rd July 1991

Passport: U8166594

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Telugu & Tamil

Address: Bangalore

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