Shyamala G

Houston, TX

945-***-****

adtja5@r.postjobfree.com

Profile Summary

Has 15+ years of total IT experience, 8+ years of experience in Scrum Master, Agile project Transformation and Software Development. Good expertise as Senior Scrum Master and an Agile Project Manager working with multiple teams in Digital Transformation engagements.

Provided regular reporting using reports Azure Dev ops and Jira.

Lead the Agile transformation with many simple yet engaging initiatives i.e., ‘Agile Workshop’ for new joiners, Agile Coaching for specific coaching benefits and Agile Gaming (Poker Planning, Agile Scrum –Build a city etc.).

Agile / Scrum workshops for development teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners.

Coaching / Mentoring scrum masters, product owners, scrum development teams and management to nurture Agile mindset.

Experience in scaling scrum from smaller group of individuals into big product development team.

Experienced with scaling framework SAFe and experienced as Release Train Engineer.

Experienced in performing agile maturity assessment to troubleshoot and streamline the projects to achieve client business values.

Prepare and present the assessment outcome results and recommendations to the leadership team.

Experienced and hands-on in Agile enabling ALM tools like JIRA, Agile Central (Rally), TFS/VSTS

Trained the team members on agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban and SAFe

Enabled engineering teams for setting up Scrum practices from beginner level and then further evolve in their agile journey.

Responsible to conduct agile ceremonies like Sprint, Release planning and effort estimations, Demo & Retrospectives.

Identification of team risks and Risk Mitigation.

Track progress of user stories through daily stand-up scrum meeting.

Execution and delivery of projects on time using Agile methodology.

Maintained Product backlog with relevant User Stories/Release/Iteration using JIRA.

Conduct Retrospective meetings at the end of each Sprint for improvement of agile teams.

Provide weekly sprint report to delivery management.

Provide Monthly Agile Metrics Report to DM and ensure all the Agile Metrics are within the specified norms.

Handled multiple agile teams in both Scrum and Kanban (SAFe)

Technical Skills

Languages

Java 5, HTML, J2EE (JSP, EJB, Servlets), java script

Scripting Languages

Java script, jQuery, HTML.

Database

Oracle 11g, Sybase, DB2

Version Control Tools

Tortoise SVN, Synergy 7.1.,TFS, SVN,

Tools/Other(s)

Tomcat 5.5, RAD, WebSphere, Toad, Synergy 7.1, Glassfish, EazyBI, JIRA.Azure Devops

Education

B.E – Computer Science Engineering with an aggregate of 78% from Tiruvallur College of Engineering, Anna University, Tamil Nādu, India.

Professional Experience

Client Name Advantasure - USA Jun 2022 - Present

Team Size 23

Position Senior Scrum Master/ Agile coach

Responsibilities

Provide Bi-weekly product wise status report to Agile Delivery Head.

Provide training to new team on Scrum & Kanban Agile values and principles.

Responsible to resolve team conflicts to improve team performance.

Help team to self-organize on Sprint planning and provide proper commitments during release planning.

Responsible to organize and conduct agile ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Grooming, Release planning, Triage, Demo & Retrospectives.

Responsible to conduct agile ceremonies as per schedule.

Responsible to identify team impediments and resolve.

Provide training to new team on Scrum & Kanban Agile values and principles.

Responsible to resolve team conflicts to build high performing team

Help team to maintain happiness index above 4.5 for the scale of 1-5.

Identification of team risks and Risk Mitigation.

Track progress of user stories/tickets through daily stand-up scrum meeting.

Execution and delivery of projects on time using Agile methodology.

Maintained Product backlog with relevant User Stories/Release/Iteration using JIRA.

Conduct Retrospective meetings at the end of each Sprint for improvement of agile teams.

Provide sprint wise metrics report to Agile delivery management.

Tracking day-to-day impediments/blockers with respect to sprint, resources, timelines, critical issues.

Maintained Burn down and burn up chart for each Sprint/Release.

Provide Monthly Agile Metrics Report to DM and ensure all the Agile Metrics are within the specified norms.

HCL Technologies June 2017 – May 2022

Client Name Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Team Size 11

Position Senior Scrum Master & Agile project Manager

Responsibilities

Responsible to organize and conduct agile ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Grooming, Release planning, Triage, Demo & Retrospectives.

Responsible for execution and delivery of projects on time using Agile methodology.

Responsible to identify team impediments and resolve.

Responsible to resolve team conflicts to build high performing team

Identification of project level risks and Risk Mitigation.

Track progress of user stories through daily stand-up meeting.

Maintained Product backlog with relevant User Stories/Release/Iteration using JIRA.

Conduct Retrospective meetings at the end of each Sprint for improvement of agile teams.

Provide sprint wise metrics report to Agile delivery management.

Tracking day-to-day impediments/blockers with respect to sprint, resources, timelines, critical issues.

Capgemini Mar 2012 – June 2017

Client Name Synchrony Financial, USA

Team Size 50+

Position Agile project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities

Creating and updating a document with rules and guidelines (Agile SDP) to execute agile projects.

Work with team to answer all the questions on the agile process during the project execution

Provide training to the team on the agile process, training will continue all the time during the project executions in agile

Involving in user story estimation using story points concepts for all sprints

Responsible to Plan all agile ceremonies, Backlog grooming/Preplanning, Sprint planning, Daily stand up, Review/Demo and Retrospect

Strong attention to ensure that team is following agile processes in each sprint at user story level as per the Definition of Done (DOD) and testing are done as per the acceptance criteria

Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.

Motivates and build high performance team

Good conflict management and prioritization skills.

Manage technical process and resolve technical issues.

Tata Consultancy Services Dec 2004 – Feb 2012

Client Name Morgan Stanley

Team Size 5

Position Technical Lead and Developer

Responsibilities

System analysis and design based on requirements from Business.

Preparing estimation and project plan.

Reviewing code design with architecture team.

Establishing Technical and Business process Induction plan and execution.

Identifying risks for this program and conducting risk management sessions with the onsite and offshore teams to come up with the risk mitigation plans.

Prepare testing plan and carry out UAT and system testing.

Responsible for the smooth coordination of activities and work between onsite and offshore teams.

Monitoring the project progress and providing timely and informative updates to the Project Manager and Client.

Provide transition to the team on the details of the modified software components

Client Name Citi Financial

Team Size 5

Position Developer

Responsibilities

Preparation of impact analysis and analysis document.

Preparation technical design document.

Preparation of project estimation (L1 and L2)

Code development and Preparation of unit test cases and test data

Preparation of Quality Audit (QA) test cases and test data.

Coordinate the testing activities.

Communication between Offshore and Onsite.

Client Name SegaIntersettle (SIS).

Team Size 5

Position Developer

Responsibilities

Performing requirement analysis.

Carrying out Impact analysis.

Preparation of High-Level Design document (LLD).

Preparation of Low-Level Design document (HLD).

Preparation of document standards.

Code development in Mosaic And CDS

Preparation of test plans and test specification.

Carrying out Unit Testing activities.

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