Srini Yadlapalli

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Lexington, SC,29072

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Total number of Scrum Master experience: 8 plus years

Professional Scrum Master Certified with 14 plus years of experience in project management, Agile methods, Leading Safe practices, and Scrums processes with a solid foundation and working experience in IT sectors. Possess solid leadership skills in managing, mentoring, and leading cross-functional teams to achieve high-reaching individual and organizational goals and objectives. Ability to successfully apply quantitative, analytical skills to evaluate data and recommend action plans. A proactive, analytical and self-organized Scrum Master with a strong technical background, with comprehensive years of experience in Quality assurance.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages and Platform: C#.Net, JAVA, Visual Studio, MVC,XML,SQL Server,IIS,JQuery,VSTS/Azure DevOps,AWS,SSRS,TSL,TestArchitect,WinRunner,QTP,JIRA,Rally,QualityCenter11,TFS,Support Client,Clearquest HTML5, CSS, UNIX, Adobe AEM,MS SQL,JavaScript,and VMware

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, 10 Mac OS X, UNIX, IOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox.

Methodologies: Scrum, Agile testing, ATDD, TDD, BDD, Kanban, XP, Lean and Waterfall.

Project and Agile Management and Tools: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook), MS Project, Rally, Jira, Confluence, Quality Center, TFS, Support Client, Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker.

Professional Experience

SCDHHS, COLUMBIA, SC

Job Title: Scrum Master

June 2020 – Jan 2021

Facilitate scrum ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews and daily stand-ups.

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog.

Meet goal of addressing and resolving issues

Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Coordinate and facilitate daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, release planning and sprint retrospectives for up to two cross-functional Scrum teams.

Help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the success in each sprint.

Provide visibility of team status and issues to senior management.

Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, innovation and commitment to objectives.

Work with Product Owner and other internal teams to resolve resource conflicts, clarify project priorities, understand features and team capabilities.

Facilitate getting work done efficiently by facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.

Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and sharing information.

Attend SOS meetings and provide updates on daily basis to upper management

HIRERIGHT/GIS, CHAPIN, SC

Job Title: Scrum Master

March 2013- April 2020

Working closely with Product Owner to coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Directs and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

Facilitate, coach, and empower self-organizing two onshore and offshore Scrum teams through DONE on user stories and iterations/sprints. Tracks and manage product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.

Facilitating and Organize Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, daily scrums, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Product backlog refinement meetings and Scheduling demos and facilitates the decision making process.

To speed up the product delivery, helping the team Cross functional coordination and Communication, Test case management, release management, requirement traceability, and defect tracking

Acted as Project Administrator utilizing Jira, Rally, and Confluence. Convene Scrum of Scrum meetings to analyze any impediments as well as itemized points of dependency between the various scrum teams. Use Lean-Kanban as necessary in a case of changing priorities in a sprint.

Manage and track project using JIRA and Confluence.

Knowledge of Pangea and other GIS products to Track and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all stakeholders and management.

Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality. Analyze business processes to identify functional gaps and points of external integration. Involved in series of decision-making meetings that set the pace for the overall development effort of the program.

With the help of my Quality assurance Experience, Optimize Queries and table design with knowledge of database performance and capacity to Identify and remove impediments.

Leverages escalation process to channel issues and concerns to appropriate parties. Facilitating getting work done via discussion, decision-making and conflict resolution. Serves as liaison between technical and non-technical departments.

Manages and maintain system integrity and security, researching and resolving problems, conducting internal audits to ensure accuracy, collecting and analyzing information, and preparing summary reports.

Performs in-depth analyses for business-optimization projects, key metrics, reporting tools, back-office programs and payment-processing applications.

Train users on system functionality & supported them during all phases of implementation (Application process).

Utilizes Teradata to provide project analytics solutions and implementation. Respond to inquiries concerning systems operations. Assists in facilitating the agile release train processes and program execution, escalates impediments, manages risk, and drives continuous, program-level improvement.

Adopt continuous improvement of the agile approach, testing tools, methods and effectiveness and efficiency of testing.

Automates and maintain the software build process. Deploy and scale infrastructure and solution on Azure DevOps for multiple build environments with cross-functional agile teams.

Understanding and Knowledge of Develops organizational structure and practices as such as CI/CD Pipeline implementation.

Working with different agile teams in practicing different practices like BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, DevOps.

Using my Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and user stories, deliver projects on time

Intermedix Staffing Inc. Augusta, GA

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

June 2008 to Feb 2013

Involved in define the QA process and Implement and support the test process, policies, procedures and best practices

Involved in writing Test Scenarios, Test plans and Test Strategies

Worked at multiple on-site client locations for installations and product support.

Develop test scripts and test software for iterative and incremental software development

Involved in Testing the complete Life Cycle

Responsible for performing objective assessments of ESi software and service products to enable developers and managers to make appropriate corrective decisions.

Communicate with customers regarding installation issues and software defects

Performed security testing in all the WebEOC products (Aspect security)

Performed Web Services testing

Tested the WebEOC and related products in all operating systems.

Tested all ESi products on Mobile

Tested WebEOC Mobi App

Support QA Manager to contribute to the success of the team and assist in improving the overall test process

Work closely with the Documentation team to ensure the content is meaningful and correct

DELL, ROUND ROCK TEXAS

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

Dec 2006 to May 2008

Engaged with the trading partner for implementation requirements and testing

Developed EDI mapping for X12 transactions and A2A mapping, upgraded the maps to version 4010

Perform all types of testing for a B2B data quality

Manage defect reports and logged the test cases via Quality Center

Involved in using the B2B Tools, WEB METHODS, B2B Mapping

Involved in giving directions to the Dell trading partners for AS2 communications using HTTP/S and in opening the ports.

Involved in creating the TN Profiles, TN Processing rules, exporting profiles and importing profiles in Web methods 4.6/6.5.

Performed Backend testing extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the Database

Performed Unit/System Testing on all EDI transactions for both inbound and outbound translations(850,810,996,834,XCBL,CXML,XML)

HARCOURT INC ORLANDO FL

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Jan 2006 to Nov 2006

Involved in writing Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on requirement documents

Prepared Test strategy, which specifies testing overview, testing approach, systems impacted, testing strategy, roles and responsibilities and scope of testing using req docs.

Prepared and modified sample data from production database to test the system.

Performing System test by executing the test scripts.

Testing the PeopleSoft application (Management and Human Resources ERP modules)

Responsibilities include UAT, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing and Load Testing the system

Using SPUFI and file master to verify the DB2 database by SQL queries

ARBITRON INC, COLUMBIA, MD

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Jan 2005 to Dec 2005

Analyzed user requirements and documented test requirements in Test Director

Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration, Database and Regression Testing using Win Runner and QTP

Participated in meetings and coordinated with the On-Site and Off-Site teams and helping them in solving their problems to maintain the work progress within the deliverable time.

Converted manual tests to automated test scripts in Win Runner, enhanced the scripts by adding user defined functions

Used verification points and conducted data driven Test with the Test Data sets and verified the contents of the website using Quick Test Pro Used check points to check properties of various objects using Quick Test Pro

Education

Master of Science(Earth Sciences)

Andhra University

India

Bachelor of Science(Maths)

Nagarjuna University

India

References

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