Joined as Scrum Master for 3 teams  and the below are the few initiatives taken up to improve the productivity and quality:

• established the Process of 'pre-scheduled' / Published Calendar for Backlog Grooming meetings (which was not available before)
• made 'Code Review' as one of the tasks in each user story so that it cannot be overlooked or skipped by the Developer. àthe user story won’t be accepted unless the Code review task is completed.
• encouraged the Team and the Product Owner to discuss and publish the agreed DoR (Definition of Ready) and DoD (Definitioin of Done).
•  Mandated to have ‘DoD’ as one of the tasks in the user story so that the PO cannot accept the story unless all the criteria of DoD is met.
• Team and the PO prepared a checklist with the criteria for the DoR so that the Sprint backlog can be validated for the readiness before starting the sprint work; during Sprint Planning
• Mandated that the Test Cases must be reviewed by the PO before QA starts the functional testing.
• Had challenges with Functional Silos – resolved by experimenting Pair programming;
• Taught the team about task breakup and sharing the stories
• Mandated that the results of the Test cases are attached in Rally to the user stories for future reference.

• Identify & recommended process improvements & best practices
• Implemented techniques to deliver code with high quality.

Role                             : Project Lead for Testing project

Itron is a France based company which builds applications in Energy & Utilities domain. The objective of the project is to test the Client application for functional errors in UI & Reports. The reading of the energy meters is to be simulated with test data with scheduler. This was a critical application in ‘Energy Management’ domain with huge efforts on Analysis and Reporting the Electrical parameters.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to execute the testing project in Agile Methodology with a team of 6 test engineers.
• Trained the team in Energy Management domain
• Facilitate Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Review & Retrospective meetings.
• Writing test plan, reviewing the test cases and Milestone Tracking
• Analysis of the data stream in the application as a Domain specialist in Energy Management
• Set up Test environment, perform Unit, System and Integration Testing phases.
• Single point contact for customer escalations for any delivery related issues
• Interacted with the client to discuss about the risks involved in the test cases

Role: Module Lead

• Designed and developed the proprietary communication protocols
• Worked as a developer in Scrum team
• Analyzing the user requirements and preparing technical specifications
• Responsible for designing, coding and testing and implementation of Code Changes
• Set up Test environment, perform Unit, System and Integration Testing,
• interactive planning meetings as required by the project team

Role: Project Lead

• Project execution and Application development in Energy Management & Utilities domain
• responsible for end-to-end execution of Front-end applications for Embedded Systems
• Requirement gathering, Analysis, understanding the functional specifications
• Design of architecture and estimations of Delivery.
• Providing technical guidelines to the team, Code Review and debugging.
• Interacted with the Client from requirement specification till Product release.
• Negotiating with critical stake holders for the requirement freezing.
• Involved in phase-wise reviews for seamless delivery.
• Coordinating with testing team for bug fixation.
• Designed and developed Hand Held Unit software in ‘C’

Role: Project Manager

• Managed an offshore team of 20 members for DataCash customer and delivered Gatekeeper project with continuous interaction with onsite team.
• Responsible for the Deliverables and Project management activities.
• Coordinated the deliverables of the project with the team distributed in different geographical locations
• Closely worked with teams to understand the issues and support them to resolve
• Responsible for leading and coaching teams

Role: Scrum Master

Technologies: SFDC, Pega 7(Cloud); Database: Oracle; App Server: Tomcat

• Facilitating Grooming calls with challenging task to coordinate with 12 functional owners in different Time Zones across the Globe.
• Coached the team to understand the agile process.
• Train the product owners to help understand the importance of backlog, use stories, acceptance criteria and prioritization.
• Stabilize the process across all the tracks and improve the agile awareness within the teams.
• Make the Team aware of impediments and facilitate efforts to resolve them.
• Coordinating with 2 Product Owners and 12 Functional Owners across the Globe.
• Generate the different metrics like burn down, velocity, Release Summary, Capacity utilization etc.
• Identify & recommended process improvements & best practices.

Role: Developer

Technologies: C#.NET with NUnit, SQL Server

• To develop an application to communicate with Ships of Navy.
• Understanding the functional specifications and prepare the software requirement specifications
• Designing the Communication module and develop the communication module & protocol