Manager Scrum

Praveen Krishnakumar

Madison WI 608-***-****

Email *******.****@*****.***

SUMMARY

A serviced-focused and result-oriented professional with profound experience and expertise in managing multiple projects with cross-functional teams that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations. Over 12 years of IT industry experience in roles ranging from Scrum Master, Project Manager, Test Delivery Manager, Business Analyst and QA Lead has molded my technical & leadership skills, teamwork, customer service skills. I’m looking for an organization that will fully utilize my drive and ambition whilst providing career advancement opportunities.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CMG - Madison WI

Test Manager/Scrum Master Jun 2015 to Present

Project planning, facilitation & team management

Contribute to product road-map planning project scheduling and release planning.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity within the first year of agile adoption.

Prepare Job Description for new resource requirements and conduct yearly performance appraisals and authorize promotions for team members.

Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications.

Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and successfully guided the teams through the transition from waterfall to agile development.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

Participates in Scrum of scrum meetings to collaborate with other scrum masters

Prepare key metrics and communicate the same to key stake holders

Stakeholder collaboration & project relationship management

•Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

•Prepare mapping sheets for the web services and review with the product owner

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

•Manage and track account level Billing, Revenue Forecasting and Customer Profitability Index calculations

•Pioneered in coordinating and leading global teams within the Global Delivery Model (Onsite and Off-shore model).

DOMAIN: Lending.

TOOLS: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Microsoft SQL server management studio, Swagger, SoapUI

Cognizant Technology Solutions, LFG - Coimbatore, India

Test Manager / Scrum Master Apr 2012 – May 2015

Test strategy planning, execution & progress monitoring

•Successfully managed multiple projects which follow Waterfall & Agile Methodologies.

•Track and prepare the report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.

•Review project plans, test strategy & estimates, track & maintain plans against actual.

•Conducting Estimates and Test plan walk through with stakeholders

•Conducting Defect Triages with Development and Business teams.

•Suggests appropriate test optimization approaches & tools to program management based on the requirements.

Project coordination & stakeholder management

•Understand customer’s expectations and prepares the delivery plan and facilitate test delivery until implementation.

•Map quality measurements to Customer satisfaction goal. Determine effective quality metrics, Establish quality criteria/release criteria.

•Monitors and tracks work allocated and have checkpoints for measuring the project's progress to ensure everything is on track as per the project plan

Work progress improvements & Leading test teams

•Identify challenges in the existing test process and workflow.

•Suggest & implement improvements in knowledge management, change management, Governance model areas.

•Evaluating & Managing resources in the team with work allocation, performance goals, and appraisals

•Balancing resource loading in different projects at the account level to meet organizational structure-hierarchy goals

•Organize project-specific training and internal certification exams as per need.

•Ensure continuous learning and development, track performance goal settings etc. for the entire account.

DOMAIN: Retirements

TOOLS: HP Application Life Cycle Management, SmartDesk

Cognizant Technology Solutions – Chennai, India

Business Analyst / QA Lead Dec 2007 – Mar 2010

Stakeholder communication & business requirement gathering –

Liaise with the software development team and the business owners in the waterfall environment.

Elicit test requirements from user stories, technical specification and requirement gathering sessions with BAs and Pos.

Analyzing and creating mind maps in accordance with business requirements for a holistic approach.

Test planning, design, and implementation –

Responsible for design and implementing end-to-end system testing, integration testing & back-end API testing.

Planning and Implementation of both manual and automated tests to cover existing projects.

Creation of the test scenarios based on new requirements and change requests.

TOOLS: HP Quality Center

EDUCATION

MBA (Finance): School of Distance Education, Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu

B-tech (Instrumentation & Control Engineering) – NSS College of Engineering, Calicut University, Kerala.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)

ISTQB

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