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Profile Experienced Scrum Master with 3 years of focused experience in Agile

methodologies and 14 years of overall IT expertise, including software
testing, and project management.
Proficient in implementing SAFe principles, Scrum methodologies, and Agile
best practices to streamline processes, improve team collaboration, and
enhance project outcomes.
Demonstrated success in leading Agile transformations, facilitating sprint
planning, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Expertise in coaching Scrum framework and helping implement them with
interactive games and build strong scrum team.
Expertise in maintaining scrum board, Backlog management and capacity
planning.
Possess exceptional skills in SDLC and STLC. Worked on Web Based and
windows-based applications using Agile Methodologies.
Ability to manage large software development projects at enterprise level
that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations using SAFe
Agile Framework and lean Agile mindset.
*Exposure to Project Management, Certified PRINCE 2 Practitioner

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Technical Skills Tools used:
JIRA, HP- ALM, Rally, Bugzilla, Azure Devops

Databases used
DBSurfer, DBartisan, Microsoft SQL server, Sybase

Certifications:
CSM from Scrum Alliance 23 June 2019 – 23 June 2021
Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner

Agile Frameworks:
SAFe, Scrum, Lean

Project Management:
Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives, PI planning

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 Experience Simplify Healthcare Feb, 2024 – Nov, 2024
SAFe AGILIST Scrum Master
Facilitated iteration Planning meetings, Daily scrum, iteration review, product
backlog refinement meetings and retrospective meetings with 3 scrum teams
for Providers product USA clients.
Implemented cross functional team structure and limited it to 10 people with
varied skills for easy communication and interaction
Attended Pl planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect and
adapt workshops for future Pls and Release Management meetings.
Worked closely with the Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating
dependencies between various scrum teams. Worked on SAFe framework
with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate
dependencies across various other scrum teams.
Helped the Product Owner/product Management in maintaining, refining
and prioritizing the product backlog. Helping teams in deciding the sprint
backlog for every iteration.
Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks
Helping teams to write and split User stories, breakdown Epics.
Used DevOps tool to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to
create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints.
SharePoint was used to maintain project documents such as SOW, project
plans, project scope, and status reports.

Experience Cognizant India Pvt. Ltd May, 2022 – Sep 2023

Test Manager
Attending requirement walkthrough calls with P&C insurance domain USA
Client BSA and identifying gaps wrt to OOB functionalities.
Work and support agile methodology, defining test strategy and identifying
high level scenarios and reviewing with BSA.
Reporting daily & weekly statues to stakeholders with work progress.
Preparing training plan for new joiners.

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 Experience Accenture Solutions India Pvt. Ltd Sep, 2015 – May 2022
Scrum Master (January 2021 – May 2022)
Lead a team of 8 developers, testers, and business analysts to deliver high-
quality software in 2-week sprint cycles for P&C insurance domain USA client.
Implemented daily code checking by developers and supported it by writing
smaller user stories which can be completed in a day.
Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder
meetings and software demonstration
Tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release
progress to all affected teams and management
Work closely with Product Owners to define and refine user stories, manage
backlogs, and prioritize deliverables for each sprint.
Monitor team performance, remove blockers, and provide guidance on
process improvements to ensure consistent delivery of project milestones.

Experience Accenture Solutions India Pvt. Ltd

Team Lead (September 2015 – December 2020)
Getting into requirement walkthrough calls for P&C insurance USA client BSA
and identifying the gaps with OOB functionality.
Defining test strategy and identifying high level scenarios and reviewing.
Maintaining Test cases, Test results, Requirements and Defects in ALM.
Attending Defect triage call, stand up calls with business team
For support project working on recreating incidents on lower environment
and writing defects for permanent fix and meanwhile suggesting WAR for
prod policies if available.
Performing prod validation after every planned and urgent releases.
Monitoring production billing error queue and highlights the issues found
and suggesting data fixes wherever possible.
Leading Template update & circular update, Merge testing and prod rates
validation through XML and rating worksheet activity.
Timely delivery and tracking of the day to work progress.
Reporting daily status to the Stakeholders with trend analysis, risks and
mitigation plans.

Infosys April, 2013- Sep,2015

Test Analyst
Involved in daily scrum meetings, Review and retrospective meetings for
Investment Banking USA client.
Estimated User stories with story point estimator.
Worked on scrum of scrum framework having multiple modules team and
participated in daily scrum within sub teams.
Prepared test cases in Rally based on the user story.
Performed Database testing and feed files testing from UNIX

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 Maintained test cases and raised defect in agile based tool Rally.
Prepared Test plan and Test strategy documents
Baselined the trackers and processes as part of improvement process.

CGI Nov, 2010- April, 2013

Software Engg- Tester
Involved in analysis of digital media application and Insurance P&C
application for UK Client.
Worked on Tier 2 and Tier 3 requirements.
Performed cross browsers testing on IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome.
Provided estimates for change request and incident raised
Prepared high level scenrios for the tester to work on requirement.
Analysed client reported defect and provided required solutions
Highlight risks, if any, to the client prior to the UAT sign off for release

V2Solutions Pvt LTD July, 2009- Oct, 2010

Quality Analyst
Involved in Testing Digital media application for USA clients.
Prepared scripts for manual and automation test.
Worked with content team to validate the data.
Performed test on Mobile and Web based application and player.
Performed Regression testing manually and using automation tool QTP

Education Mumbai University 2006-2009

BE, Electronics and telecommunication

MSTBE University 2003-2006

Diploma, Electronics and telecommunication

SSC 2002-2003
Dhanamal High School

Languages English
Read, Speak, Write

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