SUMMARY

• Over 16+ years of experience delivering multiple projects for a large insurance company with distributed teams adopting various software development practices.
• Knowledge about Software Development Life Cycle, having thorough understanding of the phases such as Requirement gathering, Designing, Building/Development, Testing, Deployment
• Extensive work experience in Agile and Waterfall frameworks.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Experienced inSystems Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)and Training, Documentation and implementation in a business environment.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum practices such asSprint planning, Backlog grooming, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective, Velocity, Estimation
• Good knowledge ofRally and its use to track status and deliverable
• Experience in working with end users and the QA team for developing test cases and test plans
• Assist Product Owner in writing user stories, prioritizeProduct Backlog Items(PBI)
• Support team by removing impediments, identify scrum best practices and tools needed
• Support product owner by addressing issues, and as well protecting the team from external distractions.
• Act as a servant leader to ensure team is functioning and is maturing in agile journey
• Generate report detailingteam velocity and burndown chart
• Enable the teams achieve faster delivery through industry adopted CI/CD practices that guarantees high code quality
• Experience in working with Release Management and Dev Ops team in planning and implementing the code in Production by coordinating with more than 10 development teams and external teams across different time zones
• Experience in working with performance engineers in creation and execution of performance tests and in defining KPIs and measuring it against baseline
• Participating in company audits as well as setting up disaster recovery plan and its execution
• Driving productivity through innovation and creating an environment that drives innovation.
• Expert in Agile based delivery in Scrum, SAFe and Kanban.
• Experience in transforming enterprise delivery methodology to SAFe.
• Passionate about team building and collaboration in combination with strong client orientation.
• Focus on delivering business value and speed to market strategies.
• Agile Certified Scrum Master, Kanban Practitioner, Rally certified Product Owner and Certified SAFe Agilist.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development Technologies/Practices: .Net, .Net Core, Angular, C#, TypeScript, Microservices, Cloud, Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Design, Rabbit Mq, TDD, Xunit

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, UCD, Git, Grafana

Code Analysis: SonarQube, BlackDuck, Resharper

Database: SQL, Mongo DB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Project Manager / Sr Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile SAFe at enterprise level across teams and scaled it to support 6 teams.
• Continuous improvement in lowering defect density across SIT & UAT - not a single Critical production issue in 2 years.
• Projects delivered in Distributed Agile model with onshore tech leads who maintain the code quality along with coordinating the work for each team.
• Ramping up associates to accelerate the delivery at offshore by finding best talents in the industry and scaling them up quickly by targeted KT in order to make them productive faster and effectively.
• Played a crucial role in getting Polaris project into Steady State - Green rating for Co-sourcing model for 15 consecutive Months.
• Developed excellent relationship with Client partners. Worked on the 3 in the box approach with Client and offshore leaders which have been recognized and appreciated both at client & Confidential .
• Effective Release Train launches with Program planning in line with roadmap.
• Quarterly Release level planning and Sprint Base lining.
• Effective RCA & implementation of the feedback into the Sprints.
• Proactive and Effective Risk Management - POCs and strategies for risky items.
• Reduced estimate differentials due to analysis on the differentials during the Retro and focused grooming, Variance tracking.
• Well organized grooming structure for effective backlog refinement & iteration/PI loading
• Using Kanban boards for Priority & Pipeline
• Managed teams both onshore and offshore

Delivery Lead/ Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successful execution and delivery of $4.8 M Bond Polaris GR Projects from offshore
• Creating an offshore delivery roadmap by prioritizing project deliverables to be in sync with client’s overall strategic plans for the program
• Handle resource allocation and staffing requirements for projects at offshore
• Identify all risks and document a mitigation plan for onshore and client managements attention.
• Review weekly project health, reports and present monthly, quarterly reports.
• Handle Revenue forecasts and bottomline
• People Management: Managed multiple projects with more than 36 resources involving career guidance, annual appraisals/Promotions, leave /Timesheet/expense management.
• Identify training requirements and work with Confidential training department for effective throughput in the project
• Provide guidance to project leads/Scrum masters on process streamlining by reviewing quarterly product release level metrics (Code quality, Velocity, Defect reopen, Leakage and effort variance) and report the same to Confidential account management team
• As a certified Agile Scrum and Kanban specialist mentor the teams on Agile Methodology and its concepts
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet velocity (productivity), defect leakage (Quality) as per the SLA’s
• Won Advanced Solutions Group’s Associate of the Year award for successful delivery of projects.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall quality and timely delivery of software modules.
• Participated in all the agile ceremonies.
• Worked with architects in coming up with design and implemented proof of concepts as part of feasibility study.
• Worked with architects in bringing new tools that increased productivity and code quality.
• Review code and work with the developers and QA is making sure that the testing covers all aspects of the functionality.
• Lead the way to implement test driven development approach in the project which was highly successful and this was adopted as a standard in that BU.
• Worked with BA and Product owners in coming up with acceptance criteria for the user stores.
• Participated in refining the user stories to make sure that these are ready to be picked up.
• Acted as a mentor for other associates to guide them through their professional career.
• Conducted several technical and domain trainings.
• Worked with architects in creating standards and best practices documents.

Team Lead - Offshore/Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall quality and timely offshore delivery of software modules that meets the SLA.
• Participated in all the agile ceremonies and lead the sizing and technical discussions.
• Worked with architects in coming up with design and implemented proof of concepts as part of feasibility study.
• Implemented some of the complex modules on time with high quality.
• Review code and work with the developers and QA is making sure that the testing covers all aspects of the functionality.
• Worked with BA and Product owners in coming up with acceptance criteria for the user stores.
• Participated in refining the user stories to make sure that these are ready to be picked up.
• Acted as a mentor for other associates to guide them through their professional career.
• Conducted several technical and domain trainings.