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Madhava Rao - Scrum Master

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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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Madhava Rao Parimi 15082176551 [email protected] ________________________________________ Scrum Master | Project Management | Agile Delivery Lead | Business Analysis | Content Management Experienced and highly skilled IT professional with over 17 years of experience, including 9+ years as a Certified Scrum Master in improving processes and delivering complex products by implementing Agile environments. Proficient in facilitating cross-functional collaboration among IT and QA teams to ensure the timely completion of project deliverables. Well-versed in Waterfall/Agile methodologies, Scrum and Kanban frameworks and Product Development Life Cycle. Excellent experience in using project management tools like JIRA, Rally, Trello and GitHub to deliver quicker solutions and ensure project success. Additionally, equipped with knowledge in Power BI and SQL, enabling seamless integration of cloud solutions into project workflows. PROFILE SUMMARY Organized and facilitated Scrum Ceremonies (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings. Strong Knowledge in SDLC-life cycle developing methods. Facilitate removal of impediments, blockers and distractions that interfere with the team s abilities to progress and deliver the agreed Sprint goals. Experienced in utilizing tools and reports, such as JIRA and Confluence to collect, develop and analyze Agile data and metrics and track progress on daily basis. Maintaining relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in alignment with stakeholder expectations. Work closely with Product Owner to aid in the understanding of backlog management, optimizing the value with prioritization and maintain backlog health. Collaborate with the Product Owner and team members to write dynamic user stories and create spikes when necessary. Collaborate with Product Owner, Stakeholders, Vendors and necessary of parties to assist in understanding of Agile principles and practices. Improve quality and reduce defects by supporting best quality practices and implementing effective processes. Continuously co-ordinate dependencies, visibility of team progress through Scrum of Scrums (SoS) Strong communication and presentation skills substantiated in past assignments with developers, project managers, subject-matter experts, stakeholders, and application end-users. Coach for organizational adaption, transformation of projects and teams to Agile practices. Experience in facilitating agile practices and managing multiple scrum teams in the delivery of enterprise applications through multiple release sprint cycles Strategically Implement project roadmap planning, oversee the lifecycle of stories, velocity calculation, identify potential bottlenecks and maintain a well-refined backlog. Co-ordinating with stakeholders and involved in requirement gathering and future scope and resource planning. TECHNICAL & ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLSET Agile Development and Best Practices Agile Frameworks Scrum and Kanban Atlassian Jira and Confluence and Waterfall methodology Project Management Software: Microsoft Project, Rally Software & Trello MS Office Suite (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) Business Intelligence technologies Project management Capable of thinking out of box Identify areas of improvement Complex Negotiations Willingness to learn new technologies. Analytical and problem-solving skills Customer service and Risk identification Team player and Application Oriented approach Training material development & Quick Learner Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams and Analyze test results. Strategic planning & execution, process optimization, change management and release management. CERTIFICATIONS Professional Scrum Master (PSM-1) | TQM (Total Quality Engineering) | Six-Sigma WORK EXPERIENCE Con Forms, Wisconsin, USA Feb-2024 to Till Date Role: Senior Scrum Master Responsibilities: Worked as a team-based servant leader and prioritized the team's requirements, ensuring their needs were met and their voices heard throughout our endeavors. Through continual refinement and evolution of agile processes, we achieved predictable and rapid software delivery, boasting a 99% success rate in meeting project deadlines. Facilitated collaboration among both internal and external teams, adeptly resolving conflicts, removing impediments, and minimizing external dependencies to streamline our workflow. Facilitates all Scrum ceremonies, including Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos, our product features reached millions of users. Conducting weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings enabled us to track overall sprint progress at the project level effectively. Prioritized the tasks, facilitated daily standup meetings, and encouraged collaborative problem-solving to swiftly address impediments. Leveraging Scrum and Kanban boards, we monitored project progress, visualized workflow, limited work in progress, and maximized efficiency. Collaborating with the Scrum team, prioritized the product backlog requirements based on value, capacity, feasibility, and delivery timelines. Proactively scheduling working sessions with cross-functional teams ensured swift issue resolution and support. Establishment of Team capacity plans, Delivery metrics, and Operational metrics enhanced our project management efficiency. By driving Scrum Retrospective meetings, we continuously learned and improved from past and current sprints. Collaborating with other Scrum Masters, we optimized Scrum application across the organization, fostering cross-scrum collaboration. Utilizing the OKR methodology, I drove Quality Improvement workflows to enhance our deliverables. Ensured seamless Scrum processes by leveraging Application Management Lifecycle tools including JIRA, Rally, Trello, GitHub, and Azure DevOps. Facilitating weekly touch point calls with management and the team facilitated proactive issue resolution. Worked closely with business and management principles, helping with strategy planning, resource allocation, and coordination. Provided coaching to new teams, guiding them in understanding agile processes and terminology to accelerate their integration and productivity. Vilas Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Sr. Consultant Feb 2015 Jan 2024 Role: Scrum Master Client: GHSP, USA Responsibilities: Facilitated scrum ceremonies Sprint planning, Daily stand ups, Sprint review, Retrospective, Sprint demos and Backlog refinement. Prepare capacity sheet ahead of Sprint planning based on team s availability for the upcoming sprint an socialize across in daily stand up as post scrum topic. Used Scrum and Kanban boards to monitor and track project progress and help team and stakeholders visualize workflow, limit work in progress and maximize efficiency. Served as a POC for addressing cross functional team dependencies by running scrum of scrums meeting between teams. Created dashboards for teams to help understand the work load and road map in a given quarter. Actively monitored teams release calendar schedule and worked closely with Dev team to ensure necessary check points are met before the production release. Helped/trained team in understanding the agile process and set the expectation and importance of agile processes. Generated bi-weekly reports of the project progress and submitted it to management. Closely worked with the delivery management to understand the road map and make sure the project road map is on target. Coached new teams in understanding the agile process and terms and bring them up to the speed. Participated in PI planning for the project. Prepared quarterly plan for the teams with the help of product owner and business. Aligned the team work with project road map and guided the team to work towards the committed project goal Facilitated product backlog grooming and estimation of user stories using techniques planning poke. Tracking & Reporting of team progress and velocity through use of Agile-centric reporting including Burn-down/burn-up charts and velocity charts. Maintained active communication with team members to resolve impediments and improve productivity. Develops and maintains relationships with technology vendors to meet business needs. Manage hardware and software support agreements with the vendors. Vilas Business Solutions Pvt.Ltd., Consultant Feb 2012 Jan 2015 Client: Freddie Mac, USA Responsibilities: Acted as a liaison between the client and technical teams. Ensured that the business requirements were clearly and unambiguously communicated to the IT teams. Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress & prepare status reports for use in communication to stakeholders. Execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Participated in testing the product at the development stage to ensure that it has been developed as per the business rules specified. Provide online Support & resolution to the tickets and issues raised by end users post release & solving critical issues in a time-sensitive environment. Managed project schedules to deliver on time and ensure high quality and on -time delivery of application features by tracking and managing project metrics Support multiple cross-functional and cross-product teams across product development, operations, sales, marketing, and support teams to help deliver on release commitments and ensure corporate readiness for each release. BOFO Solutions Pvt.Ltd., Quality Analyst May 2009 Jan 2012 Responsibilities: Checks whether a product complies with the requirements Monitor system and software functionality. Check whether Software compiles after Acceptance testing Unit testing, Accessibility testing and regression testing. Ensure Offering is entirely functional and provide quality assurance for software products. Collaborating with fellow software QA leads to develop test plans and new. Approaches for seeking out bugs and exploits in end-user facing applications. Create logs to document testing phase and defects. Report Bugs and Errors to development Teams. Tests software User Interface (UI) to detect bugs and errors. Composite Design Support Limited, Birtley, U.K., Software Engineer March 2007 April 2009 Responsibilities: Communicate with other departments to obtain information so that they can respond to clients requests. Maintain contact to get updates on the progress of the progress of the clients requirement. Communicate details of any complaints or problems so that other departments can take action to deal with the issues Conducting on-site and off-site analysis of web SEO (Search Engine Optimization) competition. Using google analytics to conduct performance reports regularly and maintain contact with clients. Creating high-quality SEO content. Assisting with blog content. Leading keyword research and optimization of content. ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS Master s in science Engineering Design and its Management Nov 2006 From University of Huddersfield, London, U.K. Bachelor of Engineering April 2003 From Madras University, Chennai, India. Keywords: quality analyst user interface business intelligence information technology microsoft Colorado