Scrum Master Project Manager

Location:

Princeton, TX

Posted:

June 04, 2025

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Aruna Duggirala

Dallas, TX 469-***-**** *****.***********@*****.***

Scrum Master Agile Project Manager www.linkedin.com/in/aruna-duggirala-0246b6253

Over 7 years experience as Agile Scrum Master within the Agile teams by ensuring they are able to work effectively within each sprint cycle. I effectively communicate challenges and project progress and strike a balance between focusing on project deliveries and implementing Agile best practices.

Working as Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master in LTIMindtree for HSBC client.

CSM,CSPO and SAFe Certified Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master

Worked at client location, Citi Bank-Germany for 24 months.

Over 16 Years rich experience in Agile,Scrum,SAFe, Agile Project Management,Datastage and Datawarehousing Technologies with strong Development skills.

Remove impediments for the scrum team and make sure every scrum team member has the right tools to get the deliverables met successfully

Works closely with the Product Owner in achieving sprint goals and delivering product features

Supports the Product Owner with grooming and maintaining the product backlog

Drives Continuous Improvement activities to improve collaboration, communication and efficiency in addition to reducing operational waste.

Ensures correct and timely execution of scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Release Planning,Backlog Grooming,Daily Stand-Ups,and Sprint Retrospectives.

Having experience Working in SAFe implementation, Invloved in PI plannings and Scrum of Scrums

Coaches the Team on Agile Principles and ensures accountability.

Conducting Agile Maturity assessments to other projects and providng the scoring to the projects

Providing monthly agile overview sessions to the team.

Identifies purposeful metrics and measures team progress .

Keeps the team focused on deliverables by removing impediments through Servant Leadership

Contributes to creation of onboarding and Agile training material as needed.

Expert in estimation and planning in Agile pratices

Good understanding of iterative and incremental development .

Deep skills in estimation, story slicing, grooming, and other Agile techniques

Good experience in Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills

Rich experience with JIRA, Azure Devops and TFS and its application in scrum.

Rich Experience leading multiple teams and distributed teams.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining backlog, burndown charts, velocity etc.

Capable of handling multiple initiatives simultaneously and executing to completion.

Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of the product, and help communicate to the team in partnership with the Product Manager.

Rich experience implementing DWH and ETL applications using Datastage,SAS.

Professional Experience

Working as Senior Scrum Master for JP Morgan Chase from Dec 2019 to till date.

Worked as Senior Scrum Master for Wipro Digital from June 2019 to Dec 2019.

Worked as Agile Scrum Master/Senior Consutant for Atos Syntel from Dec 2018 to May 2019.

Worked as Agile Scrum Master,ProjectLead for IBM India pvt Limited, from June 2012 to Dec 2018

Worked as Consulting Analyst for Steria India Limited, Chennai from March2010 to May2012.

Worked as Senior Software Engineer for Hexaware Technologies from Jan 2007 to March 2010.

Education Details

MCA (Master in Computer Applications) from Andhra University.

B.Sc., from Andhra University.

2022 May to till date LTIMindtree-HSBC Professional Experience Roles and Responsibilities:

Facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and review/retrospective sessions with team members.

Guide development teams toward higher levels of Agile maturity and help create a productive environment where team members take ownership of the product, fostering an appreciation for the Agile approach.

Good experience handling multiple Scrum teams at different locations.

Rich experience in Agile project management.

Proven experience in customer handling,collaborating Onsite/Offshore and cross functional teams.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining backlog, burndown charts, velocity etc.

Attends the Scrum of Scrums meetings to communicate team status, issues, and risks.

Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of the product, and help communicate to the team in partnership with the Product Manager

Partner with Product Managers to manage backlog and prioritize stories

Sound knowledge of end to end software development lifecycle

Agile Lifecycle Management tool expertise with JIRA,Azure Devops

Ensuring the collaboration is happening between the teams and also involving the leadership at right time to get required support on the project.

Partner with Product Managers to manage backlog and prioritize stories

Facilitates backlog grooming sessions to help the team break down Features into Stories and point them into story points using relative estimates and the Fibonacci scale

2019 Dec to 2022 May JP Morgan Chase Professional Experience Roles and Responsibilities:

Collaborating with implementation team to ensure completion of epic, story points and workstream tasks.

Conducting Scrum team ceremonies to enhance efficiency and eliminate backlog.

Promoting scaled Agile framework (SAFe) quality practices across teams, stakeholders, and projects.

Administering the Scrum board to visualize and manage workflows.

Removing impediments to progress.

Holding one-on-one meetings for Agile coaching.

Utilize Jira to assist the team in refining the sprint backlog, ensuring the creation and quality of Epics and Stories, and managing the workflow through the storyboard.

Manage the scope and timeline of each assigned project by coordinating sprints, conducting retrospective meetings, and leading daily stand-ups.

Coach the entire organization in Agile frameworks.

Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration, serving as the main point of contact for external communications from customers or stakeholders.

Work with product owners to manage backlogs, address new requests, and resolve conflicts.

Collaborate with technical managers and leaders to assist in removing obstacles, helping teams implement changes effectively.

2019 June to 2019 Dec Wipro Technologies

Professional Experience Roles and Responsibilities:

Facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and review/retrospective sessions with team members.

Involved in PI planning and Scrum of scrums.

Good experience handling multiple Scrum teams at different locations.

Rich experience in Agile project management.

Proven experience in customer handling,collaborating Onsite/Offshore teams.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining backlog, burndown charts, velocity etc.

Attends the Scrum of Scrums meetings to communicate team status, issues, and risks.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining TFS, burn down charts, velocity analysis.

Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of the product, and help communicate to the team in partnership with the Product Manager

Agile Lifecycle Management tool expertise with TFS tool.

Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of the product, and help communicate to the team in partnership with the Product Manager.

Partner with Product Managers to manage backlog and prioritize stories.

Facilitates backlog grooming sessions to help the team break down Features into Stories and point them into story points using relative estimates and the Fibonacci scale.

2018 Dec to 2019 May Atos Syntel

Professional Experience Roles and Responsibilities:

Coordinate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and review/retrospective sessions with team members.

Involved in PI planning and Scrum of scrums and identifying the WSJF.

Good experience handling multiple Scrum teams at different locations.

Rich experience in Agile project management.

Proven experience in customer handling,collaborating Onsite/Offshore teams.

Experience in bringing xp enegineering practices like TDD,BDD using Cucumber framework.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining backlog, burndown charts, velocity etc.

Attends the Scrum of Scrums meetings to communicate team status, issues, and risks.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining JIRA, burn down charts, velocity analysis.

Partner with Product Managers to manage backlog and prioritize stories

Sound knowledge of end to end software development lifecycle

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining backlog, burndown charts, velocity etc.

Attends the Scrum of Scrums meetings to communicate team status, issues,risks.

Provide visibility into progress by maintaining JIRA, burn down charts, velocity.

Agile Lifecycle Management tool expertise with JIRA tool.

Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of the product, and help communicate to the team in partnership with the Product Manager.

Partner with Product Managers to manage backlog and prioritize stories.

Facilitates backlog grooming sessions to help the team break down Features into Stories and point them into story points using relative estimates and the Fibonacci scale.

2012 to 2018 IBM India Limited