Scrum Manager

Sachin Singhal

Present location: Noida, India

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** ***** ** ********** ** Scrum Master, Project Manager and Testing Expert.

Having around 4 year of experience in handling the entire gamut of activities pertaining to Scrum methodology which includes daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospective.

Practicing Agile Methodology since 2009.

Proficient in Audit Process

Rich experience of working with major banks – Barclays, Investec and TD Canada Bank, Morgan Stanley, Westpac on Capital Markets domain (Back office/Front office Trading, Forex, Futures and Options, Fixed Income, Equity).

Extensively worked in Agile, Iterative and waterfall methodologies.

Training, Mentoring & Coaching team on adoption & transformation to Scrum.

Guiding and Helping the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.

Guiding and helping team on how to get the most out of self-organization.

Knowledge of Product Engineering Cycle.

Helping the teams in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile or adoption of Scrum.

Having very good exposure to the KanBan Methodology.

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and helping the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be discussed.

Manage teams across time zones and regions. (Max Team Size – 32)

Expertise in IT/ Process Advisory and testing, Third Party Vendor QA reviews, test artifacts, Root Causal Analysis, Decision Analysis and Reviews etc.

Managed multiple clients with overall responsibility to ensure the successful completion of the testing and the quality of deliverable.

Effectuating client problem resolutions by risk management and controlling RAID items via mitigation and contingency planning.

Proficient in Test Strategies, Test Plan, Defect Matrix, Test Effectiveness & Effort Variance, Test Estimations, delegations, Test Strategies, test/resource/stakeholder’s management.

Responsible for Daily Status, Weekly Status & Monthly Status.

Accolades & Certifications:

SAFe Scrum Master

ISTQB/ISEB (Advance & Fundamental)

Automation Anywhere Advance RPA Professional

Give training sessions on Agile Scrum

Write Agile/Scrum Blogs

Mentor to Agile Community

Mentor to largest QA community

Skills:

Database

MS SQL server, Mainframe (Basic)

Testing Tools

JIRA,QC, ALM, Test Director

Operating System

MS Windows, Unix

Methodology

Agile, V-Model, Waterfall

Automation tool

Selenium

RPA

Automation Anywhere

Education:

B.Tech in CS from MJP Rohilkhand, Bareilly

XIIth, UP Board

Xth, UP Board

Major Achievements:

Star of the month in Genpact, Morgan Stanley India many times

Best Manager in Genpact Headstrong

Awarded by Senior Management for taking sessions on Domain Induction

Involved in Corporate Induction to train new joiners in organization

Knoldus Inc Dec 2019 – Till Date

Major Clients: 3 Tier Logic, Carbyne, Royal Ships, Awake

Role : Agile Coach, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

•Worked as Agile Coach/Scrum Master.

•Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.

•Assisting the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed.

•Ensuring cross-team coordination

•Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.

•Maintaining and communicating relevant metrics (velocity, burn-up / burn-down charts, Capacity Planning, etc.) that help the team see how they are doing.

•Actively contributing to the Agile and Lean Community within the organization

•Ensuring that sprints are meeting the expected velocity with quality expected by client

•Coordinate Scrum ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

•Educate team on agile/scrum principles and motivate them to be Well-Formed-Teams.

•Involved in test estimations, planning, Test Execution Report, Defect Report.

Genpact November 2013 – Dec 2019

Major Clients: Jefferies, Forgone, Westpac BT Financial Group, Morgan Stanley

Roles: Scrum Master/Delivery Manager/Business Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

•Worked as Scrum Master and Project Manager.

•Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.

•Assisting the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed

•Ensuring cross-team coordination

•Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal

•Maintaining and communicating relevant metrics (velocity, burn-up / burn-down charts, leave plans, etc.) that help the team see how they are doing

•Actively contributing to the Agile and Lean Community within the organization

•Ensuring that sprints are meeting the expected velocity with quality expected by client

•Coordinate Scrum ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

•Educate team on agile/scrum principles and motivate them to be Well-Formed-Teams.

•Involved in test estimations, planning, Test Execution Report, Defect Report.

•Tracking test coverage by preparing RTM and guiding reworks (if required).

•Requirement review and Test Strategy identification.

•Design walk-through with technology team and identify validation checkpoints.

•Base lining the preventive and corrective actions for future use.

•Status reporting and communications on test status to the stakeholders.

•Conducting Defect Triage Meeting and updating defect logs.

•Automate Test Cases.

•Leading test team of 32 members for task allocations, mentoring and monitoring.

•Coordination among Business, Development and QA team for requirement understanding and fill the gap.

•Requirements gathering, analysis, Prioritize requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.

•Creating and Testing Bots

•Drive continuous improvement, proof of concepts, and cost saving initiatives.

•Conduct annual reviews and career counseling, delivery timely feedback throughout the performance year

Zensar August, 2009 - October, 2013

Accenture September, 2006 – August, 2009

Major Clients: Investec Bank, Barclays, TD Canada, BT

Deals in Lending and Client Onboarding Life Cycle

Roles: Team Lead/ Individual Contributor

Responsibilities:

•Worked as Scrum Team Member

•Help Managing Daily Scrum

•Creating Scenarios on the basis of Use Cases, Business Rules and Business Requirement.

•Implementing Quality standard processes.

•Updating the test cases with the new/change requirements for the Testing releases.

•Prepare project estimation.

•Coordinate with consultant

•Conducting walk through sessions, Knowledge document creation and sharing the same with other projects, Knowledge sharing activities

•Working on Defect Reporting, Verification and Defect Analysis Reports.

•Sending Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports to stake holders

•Assignment of test case execution plan to team members.

Personal Dossier

Address: 211-C, Gulmohar Greens, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad - 201007

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-singhal-224a1921/

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