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Accountable for the design, build & deployment of a single PM methodology across the entire organization for all domains of Program & Project Management. Manage and negotiate scope, timeline, quality & deliverables with the Product Owners/Sponsors and identify the backlog itemsProvide Servant leadership to the SCRUM Team including the Product Owner in the identification, management and resolution of technical Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAIDs).

Facilitate & support SCRUM ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint demos/reviews & sprint retrospectives Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching and mentoring the team to higher levels of maturityCreate and maintain the plans & metrics to track team progress and manage operational needs to improve productivity, quality and project budget (burndown, sprint & velocity reports) with status updates to various Stakeholders and ConsumersManaging the continuous service improvement program for the accounts to improve the automation rateEstablished the Agile delivery model for the teams of the newly built Automation Tower to ensure that the automation development is delivered using the SCRUM framework.Pioneered the CI-CD using Bitbucket with the integration with the GitLab to deploy the automation development Involved in the onboarding of 25+ accounts on the automation platform powered by artificial intelligence by providing technical assistance

Facilitate & support SAFe meetings: Program Increment Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Innovation & Planning SprintManaging multiple stakeholders e.g., Epic Owners, Program Portfolio Manager, Solution Architect, Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Developers, Testers etc. to ensure use cases, user stories and acceptance criteria are clearly defined, understood, and implementedExperience in managing contractual obligations, milestones and quality standards for the development center established in collaboration with vendor management office as an extension of the captive modelPlanned resource management of Pune employees and vendor staff in collaboration with the Resource Manager in US.

Developed SCRUM Master role competencies by working as Agile team member via coaching from the SCRUM Master of the Agile team.Created the roadmap for the QA activities (Test Estimation, Strategy, Plan & Execution) for the high visibility project to ensure regulatory complianceCo-ordinated with the Product Owners to provide the UAT sign-off for the project deliverables.Reviewed Test Artifacts, Test Execution and Reporting Status in Weekly meeting to effectively raise red flags, issues and concerns.Accountable for the QA sign-off, UAT, Post Production validation and PCM document Creation.

Performed the walkthrough of the Test Plan & Test Cases for Business Analyst, IT Lead and Business Stakeholders.Delegated the creation & execution of the test cases to the team members and reported the test execution status to the onsite counter-partImplemented the compliance project (LIMRA US Anti-Money Laundering training) which involved ETL/Data Warehouse testing

Acted as module lead for the reporting module with the offshore accountability for QA Prepared Automation test scripts in WATIR for performing regression testing.Prepared test cases and test scenarios from requirement specifications created by Business Analysts

Prepared Test Plans, Test scenarios, Test cases and accountable for setting up of Test EnvironmentPerformed bug Reporting and tracked defect on daily basis including Bug RegressionResearch Key Areas of Globalization, Localization and Compatibility Testing