Zakriya Pamidi

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Mobile: 502-***-****

San Antonio TEXAS.

Working Status: U.S (Citizen)

Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master

SAFe®5.0 Scrum Kanban SSM Certification Servant Leader Agile Transformation Agile Methodologies Facilitation Certified Scrum Master Agile tools JIRA/Agile Central Servant Leader

Summary/ Experience

Certified Scrum Master (SSM) with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) working 8+ years of strong fundamental of (SDLC) software development life cycle. Coaching Agile/Scrum practices for Agile transformation.

Scrum/Kanban practices by provided guidance and coaching to be self-organized and self-sufficient teams.

Facilitated the scrum ceremonies (daily Stand-up, backlog refinement, Iteration Review, Retrospective) using radiators to understand team matrices and burndown charts for team’s velocity and capacity.

Ensured Iteration Planning and execution are well structured follow a consistent for Agile practices as a team. Guide and coach the product owner for the value-based prioritization for product backlog reviews.

Managed the team backlog refinement sessions with scrum team and for sprint planning sessions.

Leading the collaboration efforts with pre-planning sessions for the PI (program Increment) Experienced with Agile management tools JIRA, Confluence, CA Rally. Working alongside RTE and facilitate for (PI) planning.

Encourage teams for innovation and foster Agile. Furthermore, managing the dependency with across functional teams for team collaborations. Being a Servant Leader by protect and shield the teams from external distractions Keeping all members of the team intact as one on being Agile. Empower the teams to (IA) Inspect & Adapt.

Collaborations of all team members by conducting team retrospective reviews for Agility Health to remove conflicts and created a healthy team environment.

Key Competencies

Excellent strengths are my Interpersonal skills. Effective communication, adaptability, and organization skills by working in well diverse business settings. Exposure to Agile/Scrum process and principle.

Strong analytical/communication skills to work on multiple projects in well diverse business settings, thrives in a fast-paced challenging environment. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Professional Experience

USAA (contractor). Aug 2019 – Feb 2021

Scrum Master /Agile Coach

Support and enforce the Agile practices with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as Agile Coach, fulfill the role of Scrum Master by being a servant leader to project and shield the team from external distractions.

Support the team throughout the iteration and facilitating scrum ceremonies. Leading Agile practices to guiding the software development teams with critical deliverables. Planning for the release as per the enterprise release engaged with the better engineering practices for TDD, test driving development for testing efforts and release.

Scheduled and Facilitated meeting sessions with the PO (product owners) to streamline and prioritize work.

Prepared the scrum teams for the pre-planning sessions in Preparation for the PI planning (Program Increment).

Worked alongside with RTE for communicative development as it pertains to adhering to continues feedback and constantly look for improvements with continuous flow for relentless improvement.

Prepared the teams and product owners for Sprint review Demo Sessions.

Tracking the team velocity/capacity for each sprint in (JIRA) tool. Managed features and EPIC in (Rally)

Participating in SOS (Scrum of Scrum) for Inspect and Adapt by working alongside scrum teams.

CG (CAPITAL GROUP)

(Investment & Mutual funds) Jan 2019 – Aug 2019

Scrum Master

Conducting daily scrum ceremonies, improvements over all transparency and help team on the Agile transformation. Being a servant leader and protecting the scrum teams from external distractions.

Improve transparency, build a safe and trusting environment and increased team productivity.

Preparing the progress management reports to be updated for leadership sync for stakeholder’s review.

Prepared the IT team and product owners for System Demos as scheduled by business.

Tracking the team velocity/capacity for each sprint in (JIRA) Actively participating in SOS (Scrum of Scrum) community session to inspect and adapt.

USAA- San Antonio

Scrum Master Oct 2013 – Jan 2019

Excellent industry practices of Agile. Providing guidance to the team on all of scrum process help the team perform at their highest level by facilitate meetings and removing impediments.

Tracking team’s velocity/capacity for team’s progress throughout the sprint, working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is well groomed. Encourages the team to self-organize teams.

Encourages other team members to facilitate Captures progress and summarize as sprint planning input. Helps Product Owner prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size the team backlog. Providing overall guidance as a on a day-to day process and goals. Ensures the team is fully functional and proactive for the entire iteration.

Building successful Agile techniques and best practices throughout the sprint and identify all level of effort to associated with team. Assist with prioritization of defects/bugs to be worked into the sprint for team capacity.

Working with release management for release and continues test-driven development, continuous integration engineering practices to leverage the team.

Empower the team to self-organize. Remove impediments and build a safe and trusting team environment.

USAA- San Antonio

Scrum Master/Systems Analyst.

Coordinated with offshore teams as Lead and managed majority of the on-site/offshore model to assist them in all aspects for a quality and efficiency from testing to defect tracking process with tools (QC).

Supporting software development teams with user story mapping, mapping features to business requirement for visual management and configuration management; application SDLC tools and workflows to manage the process from requirements to development to testing and deployment.

Resolved issues and concerns related to the testing and deliverables. Participate in system testing and release testing validations. Coordinate the testing to determine the scope of testing.

Review the project deliver dates for sign-off and coordinated the UAT testing procedures with the business team. Oversite the offshore work in progress. Worked with QA team for test plan, review test cases, test scenario and execution of test scenarios for continuous testing of automation.

INFOSYS- UBS– New York. Nov 2010 - Sept 2013

QA Analyst

Creating and preparing test cases/test scenarios as per the functional requirements. Preformed integration testing. Co-ordinate with development team, to ensure the functional aspect of the application is tested and completed in testing.

Coordinate with offshore QA as a lead to provide guidelines on testing procurers and business process for financial applications. Created Test Strategy and review test plans, track of all testing validations, testing evidence to ensure the functionality of the application as expected as per the business for approvals. Performed back end testing for database instance. Creating new defects and maintain the defect strategy and conduct defect review meetings to resolve all outstanding and existing defects with offshore team.

Deutsche Bank – New Jersey Oct 2009 - Sept 2010

Test Analyst

UAT testing support on the go-live weekend. Creating release check-out list for production go live.

Manage the defect prioritization process involving the business and development team to identify all tasks in UAT procedure and prepared test schedules.

Created test cases and detail test scenarios as per the functional requirement specifications, for GTB global transaction banking application. Testing and reporting defects, tracking issues, and managing UAT test cycle. Preformed integration testing of Flexible Security Framework.

WebMD/Medscape - New York Sept 2008 – Oct 2009

QA Analyst-

Analyzed and provided testing estimates and successful completing testing to with the deadlines. Focused on completing the test matrix for media/campaign compatibility on multiple browsers.

Performed UAT/Implementation testing and integration testing and usability testing. Ensure the quality of out-going email invitation, newsletters and speaker series educational programs.

Data scope patient monitoring- Mahwah, NJ. Feb 2008 – Sept 2008

Test Analyst

Performed system testing using non-invasive medical devices. Performed manual testing on “Panorama” equipment’s for approval with FDA. Performed system testing on embedded systems. Creating of test approach for the verification and validation of software and equipment as per the FDA regulation.

College Graduate: (Internship) Jun 2005 to Feb 2007

Create test scenarios. Interacted in team meetings with application development team, followed QA procedures properly according to the technical specifications. All testing efforts for functional, Integration and regression testing, writing test scenarios and test cases.

Education & Certification

Ottawa University: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management 2005.

SAFe® 5 Scaled Agile Framework

(SSM) Certified Scrum Master.

Agile Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally

Documentation: CMI, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Projects, SharePoint.

Defect tracking tool: HP Quality Center ALM.

Operating Systems: Windows with IE, Firefox, Mac OS, VISTA.

Data base: SQL Server. DB2, JQL (JIRA)

Defect tracking tool: HP Quality Center ALM

Mainframe, client-server, web-based,

databases DB2

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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