Scrum Master Software Development

VEDAMATI UPADHYAY, PMP®

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Profile

PMP certified and experienced Scrum Master with hands-on experience facilitating and collaborating large enterprise high quality software development projects in fast paced environments, with multiple cross-functional teams, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills being always on my toes to exercise and enhance the servant leadership skills.

Core Competencies

-Agile coaching and mentoring, Collaboration and facilitation, Servant leadership, Team Empowerment and communication

-Project Management, Business & IT Planning, Cross-Functional Team Building and Mentoring, Client Relationship, Vendor Management

-SDLC: Waterfall, Agile - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

-Microsoft Tools: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power point, MS Visio, Smartsheet

-Quality Assurance/ Testing: ALM, Quality Center, TestRail, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, QTP, Postman, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin

-Technical skills: Java, .NET, Oracle, SQL, Splunk, AWS, UML, Azure Devops(ADO)

Professional Experiences

CleanEarth, PA

Feb 2025 - current

Senior Scrum Master

Databricks and Reporting

●Working on project and task plan, scoping, scheduling, communication, resource management and assignment and workflow management to ensure project alignment with organizational goals and priorities

●Coordinating with multiple impacting systems and applications, stakeholders, vendors and tracking and monitoring the task and project progress by identifying and addressing the risks, issues, impediments and shifting priorities effectively

●Collaborating with Development, QA, UAT and Release management for successful deployment and project closure

S&P Global, NJ

Nov. 2024 – Jan. 2025

Senior Scrum Master

Ratings Analytical Platform

●Following Agile SAFe framework of software development life cycle in Ratings Analytical Platform

●Working with multiple stakeholders, distributed teams, Product owners, RTEs to coordinate successful process enhancement and project progress

●Working on the project plan, stakeholder management and building relationship with very effective communication strategy

●Facilitating backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospective and sprint review towards incremental product delivery

Wells Fargo, NJ

Dec. 2021 – Dec. 2023

Senior Scrum Master

Data Cloud Analytics Program

●Following Agile Scrum and Kanban framework of software development life cycle in Data Controls and assessment framework

●Worked with multiple stakeholders, distributed teams, Product owners, Release Managers to coordinate successful process enhancement and project progress

●Worked on the project plan, stakeholder management and building relationship with very effective communication strategy

●Managed project scope, schedule, budget, quality, changes, and monitored and aligned the time and budget continuously with the baseline

●Developed and delivered project status and reports with project progress, risks, issues and mitigation plans to project sponsors, IT and business leadership and stakeholders

●Coaching and Leading training sessions and workshops of teams in the organization for cross functional learning, agile mindset and best practices to support and enhance continuous learning for efficient delivery

●Facilitating backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospective and sprint review/demo for successful progress towards incremental product delivery with built-in quality

Vanguard, Malvern, PA

April 2018 – December 2021

Scrum Master

Data management system

●Followed Agile Kanban framework of software development life cycle for the enhancement of the Data Management System

●Engaged and worked with the stakeholders, product owners, teams towards the common goal with healthy team dynamics and positive performance

●Worked very closely with project sponsors and stakeholders in understanding and defining the scope and objective

●Coordinated with Project implementation development team for achieving and completing task by establishing a shared project vision

●Designed the project plan with quality and risk management and mitigation strategies; worked closely and managed multiple cross-functional teams during project execution and monitoring

●Collaborated with product owner and implementation team in the backlog refinement, decomp, planning and prioritization sessions to have clear understanding of requirements/user stories and their acceptance criteria

●Established the practice of “learn-together” sessions with multiple distributed teams

TiVo, Wayne, PA

April 2016 – Dec 2017

Business System Analyst/ Scrum Master

Content management system

●Collaborated with IT and business stakeholders to identify scope, schedule, skills and resources of project

●Defined the project plans and sprint scopes, objectives, staffing, resources, roadmaps, milestones and deliverables

●Helped in tracking the project budget with risk evaluation and impact analysis related to requirements implementation and testing processes

●Monitored and communicated project analysis, status, progress, issue management and mitigation to various levels of management

●Each workflow implementation ensured operational efficiencies and scalability, gained the business savings average 25% per phase

●Worked closely with the stakeholders and product owners in understanding the business needs and documenting and maintaining product backlog

●Facilitated daily scrum stand ups, backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning meetings, sprint review and retrospective meetings

●Analyzed the current systems, processes and did feature/story/persona mapping for improving efficiency with needs, requirements identification

JP Morgan Chase, DE

March 2014 – Sept 2015

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

PETRA (Project Execution Tracking, Reporting & Analysis)

●Worked closely with users and product owners of the PETRA (Project Execution Tracking Reporting Analysis) tool; understood their needs of improvement/ enhancement and gathered requirements and wrote them as stories in Jira

●Worked in Agile environment, facilitated scrum ceremonies and prioritization of product backlog with the product owners

●Was leading the QA and assisting with UAT to ensure accuracy and compliance of acceptance and validation of stories

●Maintained Requirements traceability matrix throughout the application development lifecycle.

Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., Malvern, PA

May 2012-Nov 2013

QA Analyst

●Performed E2E functionality testing, regression testing, backend testing and managed defects in different applications such as TrackWise Application and Oracle R12 Apps (E Business suite) Upgrade Project.

Education

●MS in Computer Science, West Chester University, PA

Certifications

●PMI Certified Project Management Professional PMP®

●Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master, SSM – Scaled Agile

●Certified Scrum Master, CSM - Scrum Alliance

●Advanced Certified Scrum Master, ACSM - Scrum Alliance

●Certified Scrum Product Owner, CSPO - Scrum Alliance

●Project Management certification, Penn State Great Valley

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