Preena A

Scrum Master/Project Manager

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510-***-****

SUMMARY:

●Senior IT professional with over 10 years of experience supporting complex projects in the areas of software and web development.Successfully delivered large scale IT projects through coaching,team building,effective collaboration,facilitation,servant leadership and process management.Led the development and implementation of numerous high visibility projects utilizing both Agile and traditional methodologies.Recognized by stakeholders for the team's leadership capabilities, effective project management skills, collaborative process,and the ability to develop and maintain exceptional stakeholder relationships.

●Demonstrated experience in full life cycle project implementation with Waterfall and Agile methodologies and production support.

●The ability to explain the business impacts of technical issues and concerns to non technical teams and executives.

●Ability to identify project risks and develop mitigation when needed.

●Excellent communication and organizational skills with ability to interact in a professional environment and experienced in coordinating,negotiating and motivating teams in support of timeline and project deliverables.

●Ability to lead cross functional teams, SDLC, STLC and project management methodologies.

●Effective project tracking of tasks and costs of deliverables and reporting.

●Quality assurance/testing efforts, test plans, test cases and iterations, requirements traceability matrix, test readiness reviews.

●Conducts regular assessments of a team’s Scrum Maturity and uses the results to guide them to improved performance.

●Leading testing team and testing activities like test strategy, test plan,risk mitigation plan,requirement traceability matrix,maintaining test frameworks for automation execution,writing scripts etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

●Scrum

●Saas

●Selenium Webdriver

●Maven

●CI/CD pipeline

●Git

●RESTAssured

●Kubernetes

●Smartsheet

●BDD, TDD

●Microservices

●API

●MS Excel Powerpoint

●Cucumber framework

●Microsoft Project

●Smartsheet

●Docker

●Kanban

●HTML, XPATH

●JIRA

●Microsoft Azure Devops

●Atlassian-Confluence

●Postman

●Java

●Mockito

Areas of Expertise:

●Agile Mentoring

●Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

●ETL Transformation

●Agile Project Management

●Database technology

●Strategic planning

●Quality Management

●Agile Scope

●Agile techniques

●XP

●E-Commerce/Hybris

●Cyber Security

●Networks

●Conflict Management

●GoogleCloud Platform

●Agile IT Profiles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Google Mountain View CA, USA July ‘22 – March ‘23

Role: Scrum Master/Project Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

●Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

●Helping scrum teams transition into SAFe Agile environment, by positively introducing it to the team to help ensure the program delivering more Value as one team/ Train

●Lead the team efforts towards continuous improvement and conduct scrum of scrums (sos)

●Ensures Definition of Done (DOD) & Definition of Ready (DOR) are met consistently in scrum teams.

●Participated and supported capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software development in conjunction with end-users and department managers. Brings ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.

●Used Key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, Lead Time,Defect logs,) to help deliver committed work.

●Managed upwards 3 Scrum teams at a time, both on and offshore.

●Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.

●Hands-on experience in QA/Unit Testing, TDD,BDD.

●Drives System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans for testing the upgrade and new modules.

●Tracking,escalating and removing impediments and mitigating risks identified.

●Report project status and issues on a regular basis to PMO

●Update stakeholders/business managements on project status, risks, issues, lessons learned and project metrics.

●Ensure that the team prioritizes and completes work in alignment with stakeholder needs and program timelines.

●Facilitate and coach to draft, track progress and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs)

●Lead Project teams form scope analysis to production deployment working closely with Business/Technology and multiple vendors and support groups.

●Ensure Scrum teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization,team accountability and visibility.

●Approves team member timesheets and conducts 1-1 with team members to organize their goals .

●Experience in defining the project’s strategy through business analysis, stakeholder management, requirements gathering, contract management, risk management, functional design, and change management.

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Client: Munich Re, CT/ India Oct’21 – Jun’22

Role: Agile scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

●Helping the RTE identify dependencies across teams, prepare for PI planning, also helping the PMO to identify budgets and allocations.

●Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

●Coaching and mentoring other scrum masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.

●Guided product management teams in their role, defining MVP's and MMP’s, developing product charters, product community maps, product roadmaps, story mapping and release plans.

●Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.

●Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and facilitating continuous improvement of existing processes

●Coordinate all scrum ceremonies including sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming and Release Planning/deployment.

●Facilitate intra-team communication and owning project burn up/metrics (velocity tracking/forecasting).

●Facilitate retrospectives (team alternates each retro) to promote team building/team accountability.

●Coordinating with the testing team and track defect resolution.

●Involved in code review activities.

●Experience in handling data migration project teams and helping teams to transform from traditional waterfall to agile for continuous delivery and continuous improvement which saves time and cost and delivers high quality products to customers.

Client: Nokia India Sep’19 to Oct ‘21

Role: Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Run daily stand up, Sprint planning, Sprint retro, project status meetings, and project team meetings.

●Scripted and executed integration test cases for web applications.

●Performed smoke testing, system testing, end to end testing and all functional testing for the web based UI applications.

●Run the existing test cases and troubleshoot/debugged test failures and update the tasks.

●Managed offshore and onshore testing teams and planned testing tasks for their daily activities.

●Collaborated with offshore and onshore teams for the testing activities.

●Being a test lead, responsible for working with stakeholders, POs to understand the customer requirements and product design to create project documents, test strategy and test scope.

●Work with product stakeholders to understand the current test scope and backlog items.

●Resource management by assigning tasks and defining delivery deadlines.

●Responsible for Project delivery, Project Reports, Project schedule, Sprint Planning, RTM Sprint demo, Task tracking, Test status reports and Risk Mitigation.

●Maintain product backlogs, performing Risk assessments for the different modules.

●Involved from Test plan creation to review and release sign off on QA tasks.

●Conducted Bug review discussions for effective bug tracking and bug report status.

●Helped with debugging and triaging bugs with priority.

●Train and mentor the team with testing activities, test execution and help stakeholders with test case documents for UAT.

●Responsible for hiring new resources based on the project need.

●Responsible for evaluating Automation savings every sprint and sending it to the Project management team.

Client: StaffPoint HRM India March’16 to Sep’ 19

Role: Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Led a team of software developers and testers and coordinated release planning and actual release project schedules for multiple releases on a continuous delivery cycle.

●Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 70% within the first year.

●Facilitated change management and continuous improvements by increasing quality deliverables.Coordinated and managed code releases with other IT groups and international groups and set targets for defect resolution.Communicated with stakeholders issues and helped in removing roadblocks.

●Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of cycle time and increased teams throughput .

●Managed risk mitigation and risk contingency plans for the different projects.

●Interacted with senior technical personnel on significant technical matters frequently requiring coordination across organizational lines.

●Experienced in keeping team motivated and on track to achieve sprint goals,resolving bottle neck issues and publishing impediments to product owner stakeholders.

●Making sure complacency does not set in team, at same time avoiding over commitment to stakeholders.

●Championed the cause for continuous design and refactoring to minimize code duplicity,complex logic, poorly named identifiers etc.

●Facilitating mid sprint checkup to review the acceptance criteria of committed product backlog items.

●Encouraged the team to adopt pair programming, peer review and preparing reusable components.

●Representing the team to report overall project status, tracking milestones and publishing team's progress.

●Resolving internal team conflicts and keeping the team motivated.

●Training new members in Agile principles,scrum process.

Client: Loreal USA India Dec’12– Mar ‘16

Role: Test Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for evaluating Automation savings every sprint and sending it to the Project management team.

●Created detailed release plans and delivery schedule.

●Facilitated visioning sessions with clients to develop the product roadmap and vision.

●Present periodic reports to the client on the progress and risks.Reported weekly status of consolidated sprint activity .

●Review test scripts,test cases and coordinate with the QA team for regression and automation testing.

●Conducted bug reviews and triage meetings for the product quality.

●Understanding customer needs and help in elaborating stories,story based development acceptance criteria and working with product owners and business analysts on artifacts like product backlog,sprint backlog,release burndown.

●Identified gaps and impact analysis of change requests by working closely with business and communicating to teams.

●Work with component teams to resolve issues and conduct daily scrum meetings.

●Empowered team to self organize and grow cross functionality.

●Enforcement of scrum rules,removing impediments and fostering self management in teams.

Certifications :

● Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Education :

● Bachelor’s of Information Technology Engineering June ‘12

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