Bhavana Chowdary

adah4x@r.postjobfree.com

916-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PSM Certified Scrum master, Business Analyst and Manual Database Tester with over 6 years of experience supporting business solution software, Software development life cycle (SDLC) and analyzing business operations.

Extensive experience in gathering, managing and documenting business requirements, communicating effectively with management and Clients.

Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Requirement which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a product.

Knowledge of SQL queries for fetching the data and Analyzing the outcomes.

Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes

Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information

Guided large development team including Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Retrospectives, Management Reporting, and presentation of sprint results to the customer

Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects

Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them

Work with the Human Resources department in hiring business and technical personnel. Screened resumes and applications for and department different level positions and ensure that the, application process meets company requirements and standards.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Scrum Tools: JIRA, Rally, Asana, MS Teams, Pivotal Tracker.

Technical Tools: DB Visualizer, T-SQL, Talend, Putty, WinSCP, FileZilla, UNIX.

Project Management Tools: Share Point, Microsoft Project, MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DXC Technologies, Dublin, Ohio March ’18 – Present

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents

responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team

Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives

Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning

Using Share point for document management and automated workflow.

Conduct 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify the client’s needs are met.

Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.

Involved in developing utilization reports that were presented to management at monthly meetings.

Worked with various department managers to integrate company needs into the computer network.

Provide input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.

Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.

Responsible for notifying the Vendor Management team of any critical call notifications that may impact The Hartford's offshore users for various lines of business

Responsible for developing a repeatable process for handling multiple tasks for the Steady State BPO Workstreams

Meet with key business owners to review their document management needs, SharePoint needs and then create project plans on how to meet those needs

Coordinated the User Acceptance Testing phase with the business users

Responsible for notifying the Vendor Management team of any critical call notifications that may impact The Hartford's offshore users for various lines of business

Created and implement communications plan and outreach strategy for communicating governance changes, business efficiencies, and other SharePoint features

Added and coordinated test cases and business Requirements into Test Director

Nielsen, Tampa, Florida June ’15 – Feb’18

Scrum Master/ UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes

Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams

Liaising between developers and project stakeholders, fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 7 agile teams across 3 states.

Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs

Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

Assisted in generating regular reports to management that spoke to the utilization of company’s technology resources.

Responsible for maintaining all monthly reports and making them accessible to management.

Involved with updates to Business Requirements in development stage of project

Review Business Specifications to ensure all system requirements have been captured.

Added and coordinated test cases and Business Requirements into Test Director

Worked with the Human Resources department in hiring business and technical personnel. Screened resumes and applications for and department

different level positions and ensure that the, application process meets company requirements and standards

Provided support assistance to all functional business components.

Bodh Tree Consulting, Hyd, India June’13 – August 14

Scrum Master & Database Tester

Responsibilities:

Coached team members on agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burn down charts.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team

Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos

Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions

Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met

Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings

Education:

Master’s from California State University.

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