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Pune, Maharashtra, India

1. Agile SDLC Expertise• Requirements Gathering & Analysis• Backlog Management: Collaborate with the Product Owner to maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that the highest-value features are delivered.• Sprint Planning & Review: Actively participate in sprint planning, ensuring that development tasks are aligned with business priorities. Facilitate sprint reviews to capture feedback and refine requirements.2. Scrum Fundamentals• Facilitation of Scrum Ceremonies: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning sessions to ensure effective team communication and project progress.3. Resource Allocation• Resource Planning: Ensure optimal use of team members' skills by coordinating resource allocation.4. Project Management• Project Planning & Execution: Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, creating project plans that align with Agile practices.5. Cross-Functional Collaboration• Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers, testers, product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth collaboration.6. Process Improvement & Optimization• Continuous Process Improvement: Analyze existing processes and workflows.• UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Testing Deployment & Training: Create a testing environment at customer place and provide the functional training based on UAT Checklist.7. Post-Implementation Support• Go-Live Support: Provide support during the go-live phase, ensuring a smooth transition from development to production.• Post-Release Analysis: Monitor the post-launch performance of the product, collecting feedback for continuous improvement and future iterations.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

1.Requirement Elicitation and Gathering • Engage with stakeholders (customers, product owners, and end-users) to understand business needs.2.User Story Creation and Refinement • Define acceptance criteria for each user story to ensure it meets business needs and technical feasibility. • Continuously refine and prioritize the product backlog based on feedback and evolving project needs.3.JIRA Management • Utilize JIRA for tracking user stories, epics, and sprints. • Ensure all tasks and issues are logged, updated, and correctly assigned in JIRA. • Collaborate with the Scrum Master to monitor sprint progress and address roadblocks.4.Collaboration with Scrum Teams • Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and development teams. • Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, developers, and QA to ensure clarity in requirements. • Participate in Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.5.UI/UX Design and Prototyping • Collaborate with UI/UX designers to define user flows, wireframes, and mockups based on business requirements. • Ensure that the proposed UI/UX aligns with the user stories and business needs. • Gather feedback on UI/UX designs from stakeholders and incorporate necessary changes.6.Backlog Management and Prioritization • Work with the Product Owner to prioritize features and user stories based on business value and technical dependencies. • Conduct backlog grooming sessions to ensure the development team has a well-defined list of tasks for future sprints.7.Testing and Validation Support • Collaborate with the QA team to ensure test cases align with acceptance criteria. • Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate that the delivered features meet the business requirements.

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