SRIDEVI VARANASI

602-***-****

adp1v0@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master with 10 years of IT experience as Senior Scrum Master, Project Manager & coordinator in Agile & Waterfall methodologies in Financial, Insurance, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical & Gaming industries supporting their Enterprise Applications, Application Management Services, Support Optimization, etc.

Trained on Release Train Engineer and pursuing the SAFe 5.0 Release Train Engineer Certification

Managed multiple projects in parallel by leveraging Agile principles and practices to implement process improvements and enable teams towards continuous improvement using metrics.

Managed PI planning activities in absence of Release Train Engineer and handled the confluence board and train activities.

Good experience in managing teams globally with geographically diversified teams including managing offshore resources to provide Change/Release Management and Incident Management support on multiple applications across varied technology suite.

SKILLS

Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)

Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Communications

Windows

Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata

Quality, Jira, Informatica

Microsoft Office

EXPERIENCE DETAILS

Sr. Agile Scrum Master/Project Manager Bank of America, Dallas, TX

June 2020 – Present

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

Implemented agile methodologies using a scrum framework throughout the organization from executive to software teams.

Acted as Agile Coach to help various teams to transition from waterfall methodology to Agile methodology.

Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, daily scrum & backlog refinements resulting in on-time delivery and organized and facilitated all sprint cadences.

Define Project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value

Improved team performance by identifying managing and supporting resolution of team impediments.

Managed budgets for various teams by planning resource management, Projects prioritization.

Involved in annual project budget planning sessions.

Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work increasing the average time to deliver new Epics

Supported the product owners in managing customer expectations for project deliverables and managed internal stakeholder communications resulting in increase in customer engagement with new features.

Defined and managed a well-defined project management process and championed ongoing process improvements.

Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to manage and clarify the schedule, status and details of each project.

Served as the main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout all project phases reducing costs through streamlined communication.

Help manage and track all dependencies and risks

Scrum Master/Project Manager Anthem Inc, Richmond, VA

Feb 2017 – Mar 2020

Led team on all Agile ceremonies. Managed prioritization, application roadmap, sprint delivery and stakeholder communication

Led the daily stand-up meetings, review of committed work with the product owner, change adaption along the sprint journey and redefinition of roadmap/ priorities

Managed business unit testing and monitoring for the team, ensuring that the procedures were compliant and reducing the risk exposure

Led Lights On (LO) and PRC teams by driving Production Management enhancements to align with Organizational goals and changes

Provided project management support in core projects with multiple teams

Served as mentor for in-terns and other new recruits in the department

Managed the Jira (Kanban) board for all the Releases and tasks for the assigned DIM’s.

Successfully liaison between business team and Offshore team to ensure “Lights On” for Legacy applications

Scrum Master Kaiser Permanente, LA

May 2015 – Jan 2017

Defined and managed user stories for each sprint, release and backlog in JIRA following Agile Methodology, along with workflow management for effective tracking.

Worked collaboratively with business and technical teams and prioritized the ongoing issues and new issues according to the business needs to ensure minimal or no interruption to business.

Led various UAT teams to ensure all Products are tested thoroughly with various integration points before releasing into production.

Collaboratively worked with sprint team to ensure all the assigned tasks & deliverables are completed successfully as per the SLA’s agreed with the clients.

Managed the Quality Center (for UAT), Jira (Kanban) board for all the Releases and tasks for the assigned DIM’s.

Worked with Informatica, Teradata utilities like BTEQ scripts, Fast load, Multi Load, Fast Export.

Extensively used SQL for Big Data Analysis, Triage and Reporting and Importing and exporting data in Teradata, Oracle & SQL server.

Designed and deployed Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools stack using Control-M jobs.

Good knowledge of the business structure, process flows and business terminology in assigned area.

Possess working knowledge of the end-to-end applications supporting the business flow.

Managed Release implementation and post-release validation per Kaiser standard processes.

Good experience working in onsite & offshore project delivery model.

Business Analyst/Project Manager WMS Gaming Inc, Chicago, IL

Jan 2013 – Apr 2015

Key team member for major program Business Process Transformation as well as M & A project with Scientific Games as a main functional team member for implementation of Enterprise Applications.

Led stakeholders and SMEs to layout As-Is Process, laid out To-Be process after doing Gap Analysis

Gathered requirements and business process information by using elicitation techniques like user Interviews, focus groups, brainstorming and conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and involved Software development

Interacted with the stakeholders and program management to identify business needs, finalize the project scope, and help them to manage project per planned schedules.

Interacted with all Business stakeholders and successfully managed project life cycle with its workflow and activities to develop business process models

Developed test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing

Assisted the PMO in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the project plans, schedules and budgets accordingly and conducted project related presentations to key stake holders.

Project Coordinator HSBC, IL

Feb 2011 – Dec 2012

Gathered, analyzed and documented Business Requirements (BRD) based on the analysis of business process, workflow model and existing use cases

Created Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) and delivered within project timelines

Performed extensive requirement analysis including Data Analysis and Gap Analysis

Designed and developed project document templates based on Waterfall methodology

Communicated change request to Project managers and Change control board for approvals

Designed and developed Use Cases and UML diagrams using Microsoft Visio

Partnered with the technical team in the research and resolution of system and process problems

Worked on preparing project plans and managed changes to the scope of the project

QA Analyst Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals, IN

Jan 2010– Jan 2011

Involved in end to end testing.

Created and review test plans, test cases and test scripts.

Manage team schedule and work distribution.

Extensively worked on backend testing and has very good knowledge of writing SQL queries to verify data.

Performed basic testing of security features using manual testing.

Proficient in functional, negative, regression, system integration (SIT), acceptance (UAT), browser compatibility, and performance testing.

Worked extensively on Cross Browser, Functional, performance, smoke testing and regression testing against different WIFI.

EDUCATION

SAFe 5.0 (Scaled Agile Framework) Release Train Engineer (Pursuing) Scaled Agile Institute.

SAFe 4.0 (Scaled Agile Framework) Scrum Master Scaled Agile Institute

PG Diploma in Computer Applications Osmania University, India

Bachelor of Science Osmania University, India

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