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Agile Lead - Scrum Master

Yagna Narayana Sarma Alur , London, United Kingdom


Experience

15 - 24 years

Other titles

Scrum Master Scrum Master- Project Management Tech tech lead test lead

Skills

Scrum Integration testing Jira UAT Unit testing + 8 more

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Project Manager Scrum Master
Company NameHSBC Full-time
Dates EmployedApr 2017 – Present
Employment Duration3 yrs 10 mos
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Scrum Master @ Wipro HSBC - London (April-2017 - Present)
• Handling the migration of DigitalKYC to in house HSBC solution.
• Working as an Agile SM and PM.
• Facilitating product planning at different levels ie portfolio, release, sprint
• Providing and keeping alive Agile Project charter, Agile G&O
• Managing multiple teams across Line of Business along with charting out the ‘How’ strategy for the teams.
• Experience with Agile techniques like Story mapping, TDD, Pairing, XP, Agile Games
• Metrics include comparative Release Plans
• Work on Agile PM Auditing and provide reports to help teams become self-sustaining, self-organizing.
• Removes the barriers between the Scrum team and the Project Management team.
• Focus on improving productivity, increasing efficiency and on time solution delivery.
• Helping teams to understand and exploit on JIRA.

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Acxiom
Project Manager Scrum Master
Company NameAcxiom Full-time
Dates EmployedSep 2016 – Mar 2017
Employment Duration7 mos
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Scrum Master @ Wipro Acxiom - London (Sept-2016 – Mar2017)
• Working as an Agile Architect, Agile Transformation Consultant, Agile Coach, Scrum Master.
• Handling the delivery of the UPL and DWHTP program
• Providing and keeping alive Agile Project charter, BVIR, Agile G&O
• Defined and implemented a “Distributed Agile” model for UK DWHTP program.
• Maintaining and radiating key metrics to both upstream and downstream stakeholders
• Keenly observe and critically analyze and understand the situation of the team on the ground and take a decision on its continuation or not.
• Managing multiple teams across Line of Business along with charting out the ‘How’ strategy for the teams along with conducting Onshore-Offshore Agile workshops to identify and analyze key challenges and best practices.
• Coach Key roles such as SM, PO, DL to become more effective problem-solvers.
• Build a community of agile champions, practitioners and enthusiasts that promotes learning by sharing (CoP's and CoE's)
• Work on Agile PM Auditing and provide reports to help teams become self-sustaining, self-organizing.
• Focus on improving productivity, increasing efficiency and on time solution delivery.

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Wipro Limited
Company NameWipro Limited
Total Duration5 yrs 1 mo
TitleProject Manager Scrum Master
Full-time
Dates EmployedJul 2014 – Aug 2016
Employment Duration2 yrs 2 mos
LocationBengaluru Area, India
Scrum Master- Project Management @ Wipro Capital One - Bangalore(July 2014- Aug 2016)
• Started working as a Test Lead and then as a PM
• Worked as proxy RTE, Agile Transformation Consultant, and Scrum Master.
• Actively coaches Scrum roles and responsibilities, framework, artifacts, meetings and assists teams in adoption and evolution of agile techniques along with empowering cross-functional self-organizing teamwork.
• Managing and maintaining program backlog, product backlog, sprint planning, release planning.
• Facilitating Scrum teams located in different locations.
• Worked on efficiency improvement and was successful in maintaining on time delivery.
• Comfortably managed change management through influence, facilitative leadership and facilitation skills.
• Managing business expectation, negotiating with the client, handling multiple projects in an agile environment.
• Responsibilities include mentoring team and involvement in acceptance, functional and Integration testing.
• Managing and identifying change requests and analyzing impact of changes to the project for delivery, Project scoping and stakeholders management using PI matrix and conducting workshops.
• Articulated project and program goals and scope to team.
• Worked as a bridge between the two school of principles (Agile and the Traditional)
• Worked on recognizing and implementation on areas for internal improvement wit in and outside the team.
• Anticipated client needs on various occasion and proposed alternative business solutions.
• Led the team on ETL using AbInitio and Unix and Agile scrum tool Version One

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TitleMainframe Tech lead
Full-time
Dates EmployedAug 2011 – Jun 2014
Employment Duration2 yrs 11 mos
LocationBengaluru Area, India
Mainframe Tech Lead @Wipro RBS, Bangalore (Aug 2011- June 2014)
• Worked as a Tech lead and it is a 24x7 support handled the Problem management.
• Handled the project and provided the KEDB and problem resolution for the batch
• Worked on efficiency improvement and was successful in maintaining on time delivery.
• Managing business expectation, negotiating with the client, handling multiple projects in an agile environment.
• Worked on COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM for different projects modules.
• Supported 24 modules for RBS
• Managing and identifying change requests and analyzing impact of changes to the project for delivery, Project scoping and stakeholders management.
• Working as SPOC to provide the smooth communication between the internal customer, development team and third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle.

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Mindtree
Company NameMindtree
Total Duration3 yrs 3 mos
TitleTest Lead
Full-time
Dates EmployedJul 2010 – Aug 2011
Employment Duration1 yr 2 mos
LocationBengaluru Area, India
Test Lead (Agile PM, BI) @ Mindtree – PepsiCo Bangalore (July 2010 – Aug 2011)
• Managing business analysis in an agile (DSDM) environment for a complex migration project from Mainframe to TIBCO wire frame.
• Worked on product backlog, sprint planning, release planning as per scrum guidelines and kept track of the product development using TIBCO Wire frame.
• Worked on requirement gathering documents (functional specification and mapping/transformational document).
• Managing business expectation, negotiating with the client, handling multiple projects in an agile environment.
• Managing and identifying change requests and analyzing impact of changes to the project for delivery, Project scoping and stakeholders management using PI matrix and conducting workshops.
• Validating data movement and transformations while working in liaison with the business users for successful UAT and solution delivery.
• Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users.

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TitleSenior Engineer
Dates EmployedJun 2008 – Aug 2011
Employment Duration3 yrs 3 mos
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IBM
Legacy Mainframe Developer
Company NameIBM Full-time
Dates EmployedApr 2007 – May 2008
Employment Duration1 yr 2 mos
LocationBengaluru Area, India
DB2 Developer@ IBM D&B Bangalore (Apr 2007 – May 2008, Bangalore)
• Role includes designing, coding and testing of various small applications.
• Coding and Unit testing of modules independently.
• Worked on projects using Mainframe and predominantly DB2
Société Générale
Legacy Mainframe Developer
Company NameSociété Générale Full-time
Dates EmployedApr 2005 – Mar 2007
Employment Duration2 yrs
LocationBengaluru Area, India
RM COBOL Developer@ SGGSC Bangalore, HK, Cairo-Egypt (Apr 2005 – Mar 2007)
• Role includes designing, coding and testing of various small applications.
• Went to HK and set up the production support system
• Went to Cairo and worked in the transition of the program from SGGSC
• Coding and Unit testing of modules independently.
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