Gireesh Kumar. N

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Professional Summary:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with an overall IT experience of 10+ years which includes 4 years of experience as a Scrum Master. Expert in delivery by fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement in the team.

Experience summary:

Strong work experience in conducting Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Enabling high performance effective operation of Agile to make the Scrum team is Self-managed and cross functional.

Sound knowledge of measuring and analyzing KPIs (Sprint Burn down chart, Velocity etc) in every sprint.

Have been a strong Servant Leader to my team by not being one simply delegating tasks

but being one who additionally ensures team achieves their tasks by removing impediments

that get in their way.

Crisp and clear communication to the stake holders on the progress of the project with the

help of dashboards.

Facilitating discussions, decision making and conflict resolution within and outside the team.

Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in hitting 99% of project deadlines.

Work experience in coaching entry level Scrum Master who acted as backup across other teams.

Good understanding of CI/CD/DevOps

Work experience in Healthcare Billing, Claims and EDI transactions.

Having experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and Strong exposure in a diverse set of testing procedures: Black Box - Functional, Smoke Test, Integration, Regression, Exploratory testing, Acceptance, User Interface.

Skills

Core Competencies

· Agile scrum

· Scrum master

· Planning poker estimation

· Servant leadership

· Rally, Confluence, JIRA, TFS, SharePoint

· QA Team lead

· Team management, Problem solving, Wise decision making and Critical Thinker

· CICD/DevOps

· Work experience in Health care and

e-Learning domains

· Medial Billing, EDI components

· SQL, API testing (Swagger, Postman)

· Jenkins, Selenium WebDriver, Core Java

EDUCATION: BTech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad- 2008

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Scrum Master at Referral Answer [Task flow Answer Pvt Ltd], Bengaluru, India

October 2019 - Present

Enforced Scrum principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in delivering 20% additional

user stories thus increasing team's throughput in less than 2 months after taking over the project.

Organizing scrum ceremonies Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Performed backlog grooming, sprint planning and user story estimation using planning poker.

Facilitating the team's progress toward team goals by eliminating impediments, Dependencies.

Shared significant RIDAs (Risk, Impediments, Dependencies, Assumption) with the stake

holders.

Preparing Weekly/Sprint reports and sharing metrics such as (Commitment reliability, Defect leakage, Velocity and Burn down chart) with Deliver managers and stake holders.

Conducting weekly and Monthly meeting with the Management team and stake holders in solution development and implementation.

Making sure that team follows Scrum values and scrum team is self-managed.

Scrum Master at Med Impact Direct [EVRY INDIA Pvt Ltd], Bengaluru, India

May 2016 – June 2019

Facilitating all the Scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, Review, and retrospectives)

Coaching and leading the team in practicing Agile principles, identify team training opportunities and engage necessary resources to facilitate

Helping and ensuring that team achieves their tasks by removing impediments and dependencies.

Tracking and communicate engineering metrics -not only about agile (such as team velocity, sprint progress/burn down chart, Commitment Reliability etc.) to the team, management, and any impacted stakeholders.

Reviewing reports on problems, risks, and recommendation for resolution periodically with the leadership team

Coordinate with clients and other stakeholders for delivering the right solution during the development and implementation phase.

Help the team to focus on the delivery of high-quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence, aligned with the company expectations and making sure that team in self-managed.

Scrum Master/QA Team lead at Transamerica [EVRY INDIA Pvt Ltd], Bengaluru, India

January 2015 – April 2016

Served as first point of contact to Product Management, Project Development Leads and Quality Assurance Manager to create Road Maps and project schedules.

Developing test plans and collaborate with other team members to devise test strategies and scenarios.

Handling a team of 5 members and helping the team in Barnstorming, Use Case design, Test Case design, Testing and Defect management.

Worked with BAs to define user stories, performed ambiguity review of the requirements.

Organized review meetings with various stakeholders and preparing the Business Requirement Document

Attending daily scrum meeting, Sprint planning, Sprint grooming and Sprint retrospective meetings

Preparing weekly QA report and Sprint sign off report and sharing with stake holders and Handling escalations

QA Team lead at Pegasus [Excel soft Technologies Pvt Ltd] Mysore, India

July 2012 – November 2014

Analyzing User stories and Communicating with BA and Product Owners

Estimating User story points using Planning poker

Attending daily scrum meeting, Sprint planning, Sprint grooming and Sprint retrospective meetings

Mentoring the team and make sure deliverables are met.

Reviewing test cases and conducting training sessions on QA improvement areas.

Performing Regression Tests and acceptance testing before handing over Product management team

Always encouraged and implemented process improvements in the team and project level.

Preparing weekly status report and sharing result with Project managers.

Test Engineer at Pegasus [Excel soft Technologies Pvt Ltd] Mysore, India

November 2008 – June 2012

Attending FTR meeting and analyzing requirements

Involved in Peer Review and fixing the Review Comments

Performing Functional, Integration, Regression Tests, Exploratory Testing and acceptance testing before handing over Product management team

As a Test Engineer, was involved in Test Strategy, test estimation, test Planning,

executions, generating weekly & daily report for the project.

Attending barnstorm meetings and preparing use cases and test cases.

Coordinating with development & design teams for quick defect fixing of the defects found

Handling Escalations and communicating with the client counterpart in investigating the production issues

Place: Bangalore Signature

Date: Gireesh Kumar. N

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