SUMMARY

• Manage overall Scaled Agile organization framework release trains, by working with various Engineering teams.
• Experience in E - commerce, Infra, Business Intelligence, CMS platform, Tibco, Siebel
• Lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple simultaneous projects with competing priorities.
• Identify & manage Cross functional dependencies.
• Identify Risk, impacts and share with Leadership with mitigation plan
• Work with business stakeholders, Product Management Teams, Software Engineering Teams, Network Teams and IT Teams to create and maintain the Software Release roadmap. Ensure that software release planning and alignment is done effectively
• Provide technical facilitation for the setup of IT-Network Infrastructure, physical & virtual Servers that will host application software and databases
• Experience in leading complex, large scale, IT/technical/engineering programs
• Managing Agile projects (Kanban/Sprints), using Atlassian Confluence/JIRA
• Certified PMP & Certified Scrum Master on Scaled Agile organization

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• PMI - PMP certified
• End to End Quality Delivering
• Mentoring Team
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Project Management
• TDD, CI & CD Implementation
• User Acceptance Testing
• Test Planning
• Agile Kanban/Scrum & Waterfall Methodologies
• Software Development (SDLC)
• Third Party Vendor Management
• Automation Quality Assurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation-Tools (Mobile & Web): Selenium Web Driver, IDE, QTP, Jenkins CI & CD, GIT & Node JS, Cucumber

Test Management Tools: Atlassian-Tools - Confluence, JIRA; HP Quality Center

CMS/Product-Information-Management (PIM): Hybris, Adobe-CQ-5 & 6, Tridion, Site core

Cross Browser Cloud Platform: Sauce Labs

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, python, SQL, HTML

API Testing Tool: REST API, SOAP UI

Agile-Development Practices: Scale Agile TDD, BDD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Scrum /Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage overall Scaled-Agile Framework release trains, by working with various Engineering teams.
• Identify Risk, impacts and share with Leadership with mitigation plan
• Work with business stakeholders, Product Management Teams, Software Engineering Teams, Network Teams and IT Teams to create and maintain the Software Release roadmap. Ensure that software release planning and alignment is done effectively
• Track and align cross-functional Test Environment & Test-Plans for all phases of Software Development Lifecycle, including Unit Test, Regression Test, QA, End-to-end Systems Integration Test (SIT) & User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Provide technical facilitation for the setup of IT-Network Infrastructure, physical & virtual Servers that will host application software and databases

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Sr. Agile Technical Program Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Own program communications at all levels across Technology and Business stakeholders.
• Coordinate work across development teams, across the Technology organization, and across Brands.
• Work product owners to ensure team backlogs are groomed and ready.
• Work with engineering to maintain/improve coding, automated testing, and release standards.
• Coach the team - seek to unlock the energy and potential of the team to be the best it can be.

Confidential

Agile Technical Program Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Salesforce cloud, CRM integrated with Business Intelligence (BI) on Tableau Software
• Established processes and advocate for improving processes for tracking and performance on quality initiatives or product improvements
• Organized and facilitated backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, demos, daily standups, and other project related activities
• Work with engineering to maintain/improve coding, automated testing, and release standards.
• Identified, managed and mitigated risks, impediments, and dependencies on time with scrums of scrum.

Confidential

Scrum Master/ End to End Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coached a Scrum team of 15-20 members to deliver test results with 95% automation using Selenium Web driver, Jenkins for Continuous Integration, GIT, cucumber for Behavior driven development.
• Led retrospectives, sprint planning and review events, improving team effectiveness by making it safe to speak up, and accelerating learning.
• Guided the scrum teams on Agile / Scrum Practices and facilitated Scrum events including daily stand-ups, planning, backlog grooming, demo meetings, and retrospectives.
• Improved sprint velocity by 200%
• Hands on End to End Testing platform for all Sprint Releases

Confidential

Scrum Master/Agile End to End Agile

Responsibilities:

• SAP, PIM-DAM, Hybris platform
• As an Agile coach, performed the team assessment and noted that the development team in India had significant experience in waterfall methodologies but none in Agile processes. Developed a step by step plan to transform the team to Agile/Scum for new development and Kanban for customer support and enhancements.
• Conducted training sessions on Agile/Scrum methodology, processes and events. Coached the team in Scrum techniques, events and best practices. Used backlog grooming, scrum planning, daily stand ups,
• Implemented TDD, automated testing and continuous integration-continuous delivery (CICD) mechanism so that the new features and functionality was made available to the end users on weekly basis. For customer support requests, Kanban board was established to manage the workflow smoothly.
• Identified, managed and mitigated risks, impediments, and dependencies on time with scrums of scrum