Binu Krishnan Email & Phone Number

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Accomplishments as an Agile Coach / Scrum Master for SSW OSDU scrum teams - Coached and mentored Scrum teams, enhancing Agile practices and self-organization.Enabled teams to achieve PI deliverables, sprint commitments, and Go Live releases.Facilitated ART and Scrum ceremonies. Mentored teams on user stores, estimations, DoR, DoD.Addressed Scrum team dependencies and risks within ART via SoS and dependencies mapping. Ensured ADO completeness and metrics, presenting feature readiness, risks, and mitigations to leadership.Focused on sustaining continuous Improvements such as team agility and predictability, resulting in streamlined and consistent velocity.Coached leadership for SAFe, Agile methodologies, transformations & frameworks (Scrum/Kanban).Coached Scrum Masters on facilitation techniques, promoting productivity through Scrum Masters CoP and SoS.Accomplishments as an RTE:Managed E2E program planning, PI planning readiness (Vision preparation & Backlog), release planning, and CI, features so on in ADO and Kendis for all scrum teamsEstablished Annual calendars for Sprints, Program Increments and SAFe artifacts.Drove continuous improvement via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and Kaizen practices.Gained expertise in SAFe framework and working with highly distributed teamsExhibited strong conflict resolution skills, maintaining quality throughout ART.Scrum Master / Agile Coach (EPMR IDT for Finance teams - PTProjects, CPET, MCDR, Pacific_BI)Coached and mentored team towards self-organization and self-realization enabling them towards and high performance.Managed Scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, and backlog refinement.Introduced product backlog refinement and readiness with DoR & estimations.Followed up on retrospection, identifying CI items for improvement in processes, planning improvements, better product owner involvements, knowledge sharing sessions and logging them in CI tool.

Bengaluru Area, India

As a Scrum Master / RTE - Was responsible for Leading a Large Global train (across Bangalore and Eindhoven) comprising of around 12 Scrum teams. The Scrum teams work across multiple products and customers and as an RTE was responsible to ensure that the train runs smoothly to deliver maximum value benefit to stakeholders as per commitment.Responsible for complete end – end program planning, demo, inspection and adaption, synchronization, release planning and improvement planningEstablished and communicated the annual calendars for Sprints, Program Increments and all other SAFe artifactsFacilitated PI planning readiness - preparation of Vision and backlogs and pre and post PI planning activities.Was responsible for driving program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and constant demonstration of Kaizen mindEscalated impediments when necessary and sought help from portfolio teamMaintained proper communication with all the involved teamsGained expertise in SW development Practices, SAFe Agile MethodologyGood experience of working with highly distributed teams.Was able to drive and influence change in the train when requiredGained and exhibited Strong conflict resolution skills when neededAs an RTE maintained Quality mindset throughout train deliverables

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a scrum master for teams - Coached and mentored the HSDP Platform scrum teams at team level and the higher management level to influence the required transformation needs.Helped to Set up Agile Project Management Framework, Evaluation and implementation of Agile Tools.Prepared competency development plan, to enable understanding of the Agile Values, Principles, Scrum based approach (Rules, Roles, Artifacts and events) and conducted role-based trainings and designed Career Development Plan to help teams understand and get required skills as per their roles in Agile projects.Facilitated for defining & maintaining delivery best practices/ Lessons Learned.Supported and guided continuous improvement of the team through various learning sessions.Provided training and Coaching for SAFe, Agile Methodologies, Transformations and Implementation of Agile Frameworks – Scrum/Kanban.Conducted Scrum events for the team, mentored on Agile Project Management concepts.Worked with teams to facilitate sessions on prioritization, for release and iteration planning.Mentored on task decomposition (features to user stories), effort estimation (story points), DoD and closure.Coached the scrum master’s on Facilitation techniques for Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos and Sprint Retrospectives, on removing impediments in order to keep teams productive through Scrum Masters guild, SoS so onInvolved and coached in identifying problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution for scrum teams of the trainProvided metrics and status to senior management and accurately represent status of the Scrum Team(s)Ensured a collaborative culture exists across the team and promotes team building.Coached SM, PO and Teams (One-on-One and team) to mature in their new roles.Assessed the team’s maturity and helped them to perform better.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In the role of a Project Manager / Test Lead I was handling Daily stand ups, Communicate the updates and impediments of verification and quality aspects to PMO.Manage, track and own the project verification milestones such as RFV, EV, archive branching strategy, quality indicators, KPI dashboards, FCC, Verification planning, strategy and allocation of tasks, Resource planning and effort estimates.Defining, tracking and monitoring KPIs of project, Release management - of weekly, iteration and milestone releases, Metrics, dashboard depicting quality indicators of verificationManaging a team of 10, including their performance appraisals, competence development, work and resource allocations to projects.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As part of PMO / integration manager role also responsible for - Stakeholder management and communications for determination of scope and timelines, Part of the Quality Monitoring Control Board - Scanning and taking decisions on customer submitted Issues (PRs), chairing the meetings and communicating results and status, Contribute towards test strategy and testing techniques, review the test designs and test specifications, Maintained Hazard cross check document and level test specs for customer defects and process documents such as FCC, Project, product worklist so on, release notes

Bengaluru Area, India

Expertise in Test Planning using TPA, Test Strategy and Test Evaluation Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle, Testing methodologies. Good understanding in Test Design Techniques like Use case Technique, Control Flow Technique, Data Flow, Decision table, State Transition Technique.Good knowledge in Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking system and Bug Reporting. Involved in QMCB activities (managing customer defects)Experience in automation testing techniques using QTP, Test automation framework and Test Partner Test tools. Subsequent to deploying test design techniques in the project, also took part in test design clinic training sessions organized within the organization for test teams.

Bengaluru Area, India

Developing automation framework, scripts, verification and validation documents, user manuals FAQs,