Project Scrum

PREETI DESHPANDE

San Jose, CA ***** 774-***-**** *****************@*****.***

Scrum Master

Solution-driven Certified Scrum Master and an enthusiastic Scrum Master with experience managing software testing and development projects. Ability to motivate, organize, lead Scrum Teams across multiple locations. Ability to manage multiple projects at once and the timely deliverables. Skilled in providing effective leadership with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Strong background in Technology and Management, seeking opportunities where I can leverage these skills to determine market trends to help businesses maximize profit and facilitate growth

Skills

• Project/Product Management

• Quality Assurance

• Technical Skills

• Project Budgeting

• Prioritizing/Multi-Tasking

• Agile/Scrum Methodologies

• Documentation Skills

• Strategic Planning

• Project Status

• Agile Estimation & Planning

• Automation/Manual Testing

• Performance Testing

Professional Experience

Infinity Technologies LLC, Project Coordinator, USA Oct 2019-Present

• Conducted Scrum Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings

• Organized and facilitated the sprint planning meeting

• Facilitated collaboration and communication with cross-functional teams and customers

• Mitigated team risks and impediments on daily basis and communicated the progress to senior management

• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology

• Determined the team capacity, created user stories and task UMass Lowell, Examination Management Co-Ordinator, USA Jan 2019- May 2019

• Managed project management life cycle of conducting examinations for graduate and undergraduate departments at UMass Lowell North Testing Center

• Assisted and scheduled exams based on the availability of students and space in examination hall

• Liaised between professors and students for scheduling the exams

• Prepared project communication plan

• Prepared necessary materials for the exams and organized project activities as per the examination schedule

• Analyzed risks and updated risk register

Software Quality Systems, Technical Project Coordinator, India Feb 2015- Sep 2016

• Co-ordinated to get insights about project requirements from foreign team, Austria and effectively communicated with Project Managers at local team, India

• Analyzed client’s quality requirements and communicated them to the testing team in India

• Attended meetings and marked important points about specific edge cases and sent Minutes of Meetings to the Project Managers at SQS

• Co-ordinated and collaborated with multiple employees at SQS to find the right skillset to work on the project and successfully could build a team of 6 people

• Reviewed software requirements and prepared test case scenarios

• Prepared test plan for each quarter and ensured project deliverables are met

• Identified defects, documented the results and prepared defect reports for mobile application testing

• Worked with Project Manager’s to conduct project planning meeting

• Track Project Progress

• Assessed project risks and maintained issue logs Academic Projects

Predicting Bank Term Deposit Subscriptions:

• Analyzed bank deposit subscriptions to predict the success of a term deposit in banks

• Performed data cleaning, descriptive analysis, feature selection, validated using K-fold Cross Validation

• Awarded Best Project [https://www.uml.edu/News/stories/2018/MSB-research-symposium.aspx] Preparation of Risk Management Plan for A Job Fair:

• Identified and Analyzed the risks that could occur while organizing the job career fair

• Prioritization of risks and application of strategies to solve risks

• Secondary Analysis were performed, and the risk register was prepared and reported Education

University of Massachusetts - Lowell, MA Master of Science in Engineering Management, Sep 2017-May 2019 Concentration: Project Management & Analytics

Relevant Courses: Engineering Project Management, Financial Accounting, Business Financial Analysis, Engineering Process Analytics, Global Supply Chain Management, Decision Analytics, Statistics for Predictive Analytics, Marketing fundamentals, Operations fundamentals

Visvesvaraya Technological University-Karnataka, IN Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Sep 2010-July 2014 Relevant Courses: MIS, C, C++, Java, Data Structures, DBMS, Operating Systems, HTML, CSS, Scrum Alliance, CSM Certified Scrum Master

International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Technology Summary

Analytics & Project Management Software:

JIRA, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Tools, ServiceNow, MS Visio, Tableau Technical Skills:

Programming Languages & Databases:

Python, R, Tableau, SPSS, SQL, SIMCA, MATLAB

Python (NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn, Keras), R, SPSS, MySQL, NoSQL Extra-Curricular Achievements

• I love playing table tennis (ping pong) and have won many table tennis tournaments in state and national level in India. Two notable awards I received in my college: “The Most Prominent, Inspiring Player” and “Smart Captain”

• Served as Sport’s Secretary for three consecutive years in my undergrad and successfully managed all the sports activities of our entire university

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