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Sai S Pavuluri

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adzekm@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly skilled professional with more than 16 years of experience managing large-scale Scrum and traditional Waterfall projects.

A certified SAFe, PMP, and PSM individual with more than 8 years of Scrum Master experience.

Proficient in utilizing various Agile methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, Lean Agile, Kanban and Waterfall.

Acted as a servant leader for numerous scrum teams/members and delivered complex Agile projects in Enterprise Release Environment.

Worked seamlessly with Product Owners and Business Analysts to prioritize backlog.

Experienced in project management, planning, scheduling, managing dashboards, change requests, issue

escalations, resolutions, and mitigation to deliver a quality product.

Well versed in facilitating scrum ceremonies like grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and reporting for all releases.

A Skilled team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who collaborates efficiently with different stakeholders, third party vendors, and senior business and IT management.

Experience in coaching the agile scrum team members. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DEVOPS, Confluence, Figma and Rally.

Product Management Tools – SharePoint, MS Office.

Software Development Methodologies - Agile, Waterfall.

Databases - MS SQL Server, Oracle 12c/10g.

Operating Systems - Windows XP/Vista.

Test Management Tools - HP Quality Center, ALM, Clarify, Bugzilla, MS-Excel. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Certified - Project Management Professional (PMP) – 2020.

Certified - Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.0 Agilist – 2016.

Certified - Professional Scrum Master (PSM) – 2016.

Certified - Professional, Academy for HealthCare Management (PAHM) – 2014.

Certified - ISTQB-ISEB Foundation Level, Testing Board, United Kingdom – 2011.

Masters in Tele Communication Engineering - La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia – 2006.

Masters in Electronics - Nagarjuna University, India – 2003.

Bachelors in Electronics - Nagarjuna University, India - 2001. EMPLOYEMENT HISTORY

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. Mar 2023 to Till Date

Designation: Senior Scrum Master / Project Manager Client: Jack Henry & Associates

Working closely with the Client & the team on daily basis.

Expertise in identifying the risks, having mitigation plans.

Make sure team is having healthy backlog.

Monitor and report the committed work on daily basis. 2

Involved in all types of Scrum ceremonies like Release planning, refining (Open to Ready for Release), Maintaining healthy Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Product Demos, Retrospections, Updating JIRA on regular basis, Show and Tell, Scrum of scrums, SIT Demos.

Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.

Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.

Build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.

Sending out sprint reports with high level status on accomplishments, blockers, next sprint deliverables. Pyramid Consulting, Inc. Mar 2022 to Mar 2023

Date

Designation: Senior Scrum Master

Client: Macy’s Technology

Managing 2 different scrum teams at one given time.

Manage each project scope and timelines.

Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.

Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.

Being the point of contact for external communications.

Collaborate with Digital Business partners and Vendors to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment. Icon Technical Group Inc. Jun 2017 to Feb 2022

Designation: Senior Scrum Master

Clients: CareFirst – Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem and Touro College

Key player in building the Agile team from scratch and delivering high quality products.

Driven Scrum team having max of 15 in size and successfully coached the product owner and the teams to come up-to-speed, as they are new to scrum.

Acted as Agile Coach at enterprise level when team is in transformation from Waterfall model.

Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Hybrid model, Safe.

Experienced in participation of PI Planning, Work closely with the Functional team, Business Analyst along with Product owners as part of user story refining.

Translating functional and business requirements into accurate user stories, with acceptance criteria.

Assisting the Product Owners in prioritizing and maintaining healthy Product backlog.

Making sure that stories and tasks are being updated and moved on the board appropriately.

Oversee the day-to-day progress of project(s) and release initiatives regarding time, scope and quality.

Identify and suggest process improvements/changes to current practices.

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs.

Be the interface with the testers and developers and ensuring cross-team co-ordination with other Scrum Teams.

Track JIRA updates with right status/assignee, burn down charts in RALLY (day-to-day work), Defect tracking, report impediments and work towards closure, and make sure sprint’s commitment (points) delivered.

Ensuring cross-team co-ordination with other parallel Scrum teams.

Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information.

Communicate/Report progress to the Product Owner / PM, and leadership team on how the iteration is tracking, resolving any blockers with the PM.

Optum / UnitedHealth Group Nov 2012 to May 2017

Designation: Scrum Master / Sr. Engineer

Lead Scrum team with a focus on guiding them towards improving the way they work. 3

Work with team leads at a Project and Portfolio level to review the Backlog of work and package into Iterations and Releases.

Communicating with project stakeholders on project issues and status.

Providing training, coaching, mentoring and handling performance reviews to QA team members.

Working with on shore / offshore team, attending daily and monthly review calls.

Responsible for Metrics data collection for Defects at the end of each release.

Responsible for Requirement analysis, Test Plan development, Test Scenarios, Test case preparation, Test Execution, Test Summary Report, Traceability Matrix and analyzing the test results in both AGILE & WATERFALL models.

Developing robust test strategies and test case suites to validate the sound operation of interdependent business critical systems.

Decreased the QA testing/validation time to support budget constraints, while maintaining 100% defect free releases until UAT.

Design, Review, and Execute and Analyze test cases using tools like HP ALM, Quality Center, Clarify, Bugzilla and JIRA. Experience in DB Testing by writing SQL Scripts. Satya Technoid Pvt Ltd. Jul 2010 to Sep 2012

Designation: Senior Software Analyst

Manufacturing Intelligence is a series of dashboards that show summarized fields for records that meet the user’s selection criteria or administrator applied security filters. This interface joins Dell’s many data systems into a single flexible. MI collects and displays data from multiple databases. Key Features in this application are Filters, Manage Fields, Views, Excel Report, Sorting, and Security which available in EMEA, DAO & APJ regions. All reports are INTRADAY only.

Cegedim Software India Pvt Ltd. Mar 2007 to Jun 2010 Designation: Quality Control Sr. Specialist

This is the first and biggest implementation of the Mobile Intelligence 5.1 upgrade. It mainly deals with the complete upgrade of the Sanofi systems from 1.7.1, 4.2, and 4.4 to 5.1. It includes the testing of the new data stage and jobs for the export and import process for the data files from the client and third parties after upgrade, entire Sanofi world can see all the users.

TechnoTrak India Ltd. Apr 2003 to Jun 2004

Designation: Software Developer

The electronic trade is web-based application. This is to take the orders from customers of different locations and make a bulk purchase to gain more voluminous margins/discounts from the main distributors. The application where in all the details of products is existing and upcoming customers and buyers. TechnoTrak has multiple enterprise-wide systems in place, and we have integrated IDM solution to manage the identities of employees and vendors.

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