Mohamed Basheer ~ Agile Coach📈 Empowering Teams And Organisation Through Coaching Email & Phone Number

United States

Passionately working towards a vision and mission to improve the overall organization agile maturity, growth and advancements. Driving growth strategies, transformations & outcomes to improve the organizational agility.

Netherlands

Worked as an Agile coach for one of the world’s largest multinational banking and financial services company ( Via cognizant) in Netherlands who is a global leader in food and agriculture financing and sustainability-oriented banking. Responsibilities* Responsible for building high performance agile teams in order to produce the great results and maximise the organisation’s business values & will ensure the continuous improvement of the agile way of working at a team and organisational level. * Coaching teams on attitude and behaviour within agile working at both personal and team level with the aim of personal or professional growth & improving team performance. * Help teams to improve the velocity trend, Overall team’s performance, Team’s health index and the agile maturity level to meet the Product vision, roadmap & milestones.* Do continuous coaching to instill the Agile mindset, principles and Scrum values and to ensure that consistent practices are communicated across the squads, tribes and to our partners – Product Owners, IT leads , Area leads and Senior Management, etc.* Provide hands-on Agile coaching to Scrum Masters and their squads on all aspects of Scrum, Lean, and Kanban practices* Accountable for improvement in team measures of productivity and quality. * Coach teams and stakeholders in improving their Agile thinking and Scrum processes. Evaluate and mentor existing Agile feature teams, and deliver training classes for product owners and new teams to promote and improve agility* Capture feedback and continuously improve Agile guidance, training materials and content.* Asses the team’s agile maturity level and standard , Guide the Scrum Masters and teams to take action towards Agile maturity* Facilitates PBR , daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective. * Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance

Chennai Area, India

As Agile Delivery Lead , ensure the team’s delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban/etc.) to enable predictable, quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team.Optimize team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team.•Ensures team(s) maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery•Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments and progress•Be well managed – understand and coach the team on delivery controls/compliance to minimize operational/reputational risk•Understands and supports the product and technical strategies•Understands/stays current on domain architecture and targets to identify upstream/downstream dependencies and to support the team in risk management•Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)•Supports team’s automation (testing, pipelines, deployments)/DevOps journeyCoaching•Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practices and work products•Coaches PO/team on backlog refinement and prioritization•Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improvement.•Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery•Understands and encourages team's engineering innovation and improvement (XP engineering practices, Dev Ops, etc.)•Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization•Mentor/coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role•Agile & Technical Learning: Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community

Chennai Area, India

•Strategically focused across many teams (within a program or portfolio)•Own the agile processes and drives agile based best practices for agile/ scrum teams.•Facilitate all the Agile/Scrum events including Scrum of Scrum.•Guide Team on Scrum implementation.•Ensure impediments are removed (or guiding the team to remove impediments) , Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.•Effectively facilitate meetings & workshops for a variety of situations while also mentoring others to do the same.•Identify organizational impediments to agile adoption and work with the leadership team to help overcome them.•Create an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and predictability.•Mentor & coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners & Teams on the agile mindset and appropriate use of agile practices.•Foster continuous improvement & innovation through a transparent organization.•Responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed •Clearing obstacles, establishing an environment where the team can be effective, Addressing team dynamics, Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team and protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.•Facilitates Scrum of Scrums to ensure cross-team coordination.•Interact with the customer and stakeholders on daily basis and provide status and progress updates (delays, risks, challenges anticipated).•Manage conflicts of interests and opinion among the team members guide team to take course corrective measures.•Drive retrospection at the end of each sprint to identify best practices and guide teams under purview to implement them.•Author and manage project schedules including key deliverables, milestones, dependencies, resource allocation Release & Capacity planning.

Chennai Area, India

Responsible for guiding multiple scrum teams through the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values for the purpose of delivering quality software and solutions for the organization. Build trusted relationships with the team and with the stakeholders to ensure the needs of all team and the product goals are being metRoles and the responsibilities include: •Facilitates Scrum Team Success and Owns the Agile rules and processes; educate the team.•Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the team and promotes team building.•Ensures excellent retrospectives are run by the teams and leadership.•Ensures all agile ceremonies are run effectively, and participants are engaged.•Ensures all agile artifacts are refreshed every sprint, and are accurate•Works with Product Owner and stakeholders to ensure backlog is groomed to sufficient detail.•Works with Product Owner to get user stories accepted.•Tracks and communicates the overall progress of the release (using Sprint health , Burn-downs, burn-ups, Cumulative Flow, etc.)•Provides visibility on status and progress, particularly working with Engineering Manager and Product Owner.•Facilitates and ensures the removal of any obstacles by the team and shields team from external distractions

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

•Lead & Support the organization on agile transformation and Implement agile practice for multiple teams and at program level •Facilitate the Scrum ceremonies -Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Reviews, PI Planning events and Scrum of Scrums.•Partner with Product Owner(s), SAFe project teams and stakeholders, assisting with internal and external communication to improve transparency•Ensure impediments are removed by guiding the team to remove impediments•Manage project workflow in Jira, ensuring team compliance with Jira usage and standards•Keep an eye on Confluence usage and organization for team transparency•Monitor, track, and report daily sprint status and health to the product owners and team•Drive to increase awareness and adoption of SAFe practices and customized scaled agile framework•Support SAFe Release Train Engineer planning across teams for a single value stream•Coach teams on the basics of Scrum•Foster a motivating culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement to uphold Agile values and principles•Radiate confidence in a fast-paced and large scale project•Inspire others to adopt the new processes and improvements based on program retrospectives

United States

Working as part of organization global Agile/DevOps practice, responsible for executing key engagements with our clients – helping them to embed Agile and DevOps best practices as part of their day-to-day delivery activity to help ensure the highest quality solutions and outcomes are delivered for our clients.As a Scrum master / Team Coach working with agile teams on large and complex delivery engagements. working in both a co-located and distributed agile delivery model, with a solid understanding of how to apply agile principles to achieve improved business agility. Passionate about coaching agile teams to improve by adopting tools and techniques from different agile frameworks including: Scrum, LEAN, XP and SAFe. with experience of technical delivery leadership right through to Live deployment. and helping teams to adopt DevOps practices and principles As a pragmatic Servant leader, able to work under my own initiative, are great problem solvers and are comfortable with a high degree of uncertainty. provide focus and direction, resolve ambiguity and uncertainty and to baseline and achieve projects goals.Provide objective & practical guidance and coaching to teams, implement delivery disciplines, and build ownership for high-quality outcomescontribute to overall program governance & management, including identification of right value-focused agile metrics & measuresDrive with great team leadership , mentor and motivate agile teams and willingness to step forward and take accountability

Chennai Area, India

•Own the agile processes and drives agile based best practices and Guide Team on Scrum implementation ,Drive and oversee the work of the assigned agile team WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF guiding agile teams to deliver high quality project deliverable WITHIN THE LIMITS OF delivery timelines, security, quality and performance guidelines.•Participate on the Agile maturity assessments and Implement the Assessment recommendations •Implement agile practices suggested by the coach / agile coe.• Understand the overall product road map as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate road map into team specific release planning and sprint planning• Identify the training programs for the team members; coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, self-organization etc.; explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team•Maintain oversight on the work of the scrum team under purview• Resolve any issues that may arise; escalate critical issues to relevant stakeholders for resolution• Guide the teams towards improving the scrum way of working including ensuring cross team coordination; facilitate backlog refinement, daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos• Support the Product Owner at client and Cognizant to keep the backlog, communicate updates, communicate impediments and maintain release plan(s); review scenarios, product features etc.• Drive and support the team by removing impediments; liaise between the team (inclusive of developers, testers) and other practices to ensure focus on each release; identify dependencies and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.• As sprint progress, track metrics ( e.g. sprint health and progress, sprint report, burn down , burn up charts . velocity, code quality, defect density across all phases, code review metrics, testing metrics) for each sprint and communicate the status and progress to customer sponsors and management.

United Kingdom

•Monitor execution of multiple projects, ensure stakeholder management, build team capabilities, design technology roadmap for the client and provide guidance for solutioning WITH the objective of developing the testing business and delivering projects as per client WITHIN the limits of the organization and practice set benchmarks•Promote Agile values, principles and practices within the teams•Grow Agile practices in all roles in the organization, striving to build a foundation of Agile supporting end to end product delivery.•Schedule, manage and facilitate Scrum events.•Facilitate and mature Kanban ideals and best practices.•Leverage lean thinking in building processes and metrics.•Facilitate meetings and communication between product owner stakeholders and development team members to ensure the highest value work is top priority in the backlog.•Facilitate collaboration on a daily basis to remove impediments and reduce risk.•Grow Agile maturity within development team members as well as product owners, scaling best practices.•Foster an environment of trust and collaboration within the team.•Build information radiators to ensure proper visibility and transparency between development teams, stakeholders, and the org.•Manage development team backlog, work prioritization, assignment, and tracking in Jira.•Create, manage and publish team metrics and reporting from Jira.•Assist in the administration of JiraOther Key Areas of ResponsibilitiesPre sales activitiesProject Proposal-Customer Visit Management-Project Formalization-Project Control, Management and Review / Program delivery-Stakeholder Management-Metrics Analysis & Reporting/ Account Operations-Alliance & Vendor Management-People Management-Audit-Knowledge Management-Business & Technology Research and Research Based Technical Writing-Process Optimization-

United States

•Lead and manage large, complex, BFS Digital engineering-wide projects consisting of multiple agile teams, often requiring integration with external teams and vendors.•Managing Functional & Non functional testing teams and responsible for the overall QA delivery. •Ensuring visibility, traceability, and control of testing process to deliver high-quality software.•Facilitate scoping and planning work needed for requirements (provided by Product Owners) for features/products/projects. •Act as a change agent, identifying process improvement opportunities both internal and external to optimize overall delivery.•Guiding the team on using Agile/Scrum and Testing practices and values to delight customers.•Enabling team to self-organize, Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.•Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. •Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the team and third parties and / or other scrum teams.•Assist in developing and managing budgets, Forecasts, Invoicing and staffing•Leading large, agile test organizations operating in the Agile DevOps BDD software development-Test model•Partner with automation CoE Teams and external vendors in identifying optimal QA Automation frameworks, tools and applications, assuring maximum automation return-on-investment.•Manage all the Test activities like Test planning, requirements analysis, estimation, test design, reviews, execution, test results & status reporting, Defect management, production support, metrics preparation, project tracking & monitoring and Ensure 100% compliance to quality assurance norms and guidelines in all the in-sprint Agile STLC process.

Chennai Area, India

•Define, Execute and follow effective Agile BDD Automation test processes.•Design the API Automation Test Strategy & approach to ensure our software products/Web services match specifications and meet or exceed market and customer needs.• Lead the project from the plan to closure , involved in all the automation test process and life cycle: Acceptance Test Scenario prep , Test data preparation and data setup for data driven testing , automation test scripting , dry run , debugging and refactoring of automation test scripts, automaton test execution, test results and status reporting, defect management, daily Heath check - CI/CD continues testing and monitoring. •Develop detailed project plans; work towards meeting key milestones, project schedules, and quality standards. •Design, develop, and execute functional test cases & use cases.•Work closely with agile test engineers Involved in Functional & non Functional Testing across scrum teams.•Responsible for web usability test planning, staffing user participants & Coordination of usability Testing sessions and Reporting.•Contribute to project success while simultaneously completing individual tasks and goals. •Work with development and customer support engineers to resolve issues. •Actively participate in all the scrum events Backlog refinement , planning & Estimation (Planning Poker), daily scrum, Review & Retrospective Meetings.•Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions•Removes barriers and impediments. •Shields the team from external interference.•Risk identification and mitigation planning.•Actively Participate in retrospective meeting and Prepare action plan for Test process improvement areas.•Identify any spike and learning opportunity & organize the Knowledge sharing sessions across scrum teams•Prepare & report the QA Weekly and monthly status reports to the Management and all the stakeholders.•As a Quality gatekeeper, ensuring only highest quality code makes it to production

Chennai Area, India

Worked as part of UK govt’s National Programme for IT(NHS) (Lorenzo Health Management System) organization's global Agile Testing CoE and executing key testing engagements with our clients.• Responsible for defining the Automation Testing strategy and defining optimal test plans in line as appropriate to the overall testing strategy in order to ensure comprehensive, end-end testing of the product life-cycle. •To conceptualize and put in place a powerful automation testing framework for the products, so that all aspects of the testing are managed well throughout the various stages in the development cycle. Has the overall ownership for delivering high- grade, fault-tolerant, shrink-wrapped, user friendly product.•Ensure that every test effort is effectively planned, monitored and executed, and that core activities required by the Test Strategy are completed in a structured, consistent and efficient manner.•Provide clear and ongoing input to the line project teams regarding the results of testing so as to enable them to take appropriate corrective action to minimize defects and enhance product quality. Will work in collaboration with the line project teams to address and resolve issues on product quality.•Lead, motivate and guide team members. This may include coaching to enhance performance levels; identifying and addressing development needs and working towards successful goal accomplishment.•Collate and provide relevant metrics to internal stakeholders and the management on critical performance and testing parameters such as Test metrics, defect density, defect trend , defect analysis metrics ,defect ageing , defect leakage data etc. •Proactive in addressing problems and in advancing solutions•Work with counterparts to help plan, build, operate and maintain the testing environment.•Develop new ideas and action plans for innovation within the test organization.•Have passionate commitment and burning desire to attain the targets & team objectives.

APIs and Microservices are transforming the way organizations do business in the digital world, and testing them is becoming more critical than ever. * Responsible for Automated API Functional and Non Functional Testing with SoapUI Pro/Ready API for complex validation of REST, SOAP, GraphQL, microservices and other back-end services With Artificial Intelligence support.* Ensure End-To-End Quality For All The Web Services which developed for one of the largest health care system - Lorenzo NHS , UK* Create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests* Accelerating API quality by Create tests by importing API definitions like OAS (Swagger) or WSDLs, testing and recording live API traffic, or virtualizing web services to remove pipeline dependencies.* Design powerful test framework and solution to create, run, and analyze complex tests on REST, SOAP, & GraphQL APIs, JMS, JDBC, and other web services. * Drive continous quality of the web-services with support of Docker and TeamCity.* Generate load, stress, and spike tests to validate whether your API can handle real-world traffic conditions using LoadUI Pro* Load Testing for REST & SOAP APIs,Databases, and Microservices . Create, manage, and execute load, stress, and endurance tests right inside your CI/CD pipeline * Automated API Security Testing for the Ultimate DevSecOps by Shift the security left with powerful security scans and tests against the most vulnerable services. Identify vulnerabilities before your application gets a formal security scans using secure pro. * Fit security testing right into our DevSecOps or Agile development workflow. With integrations up and down the pipeline, store your test cases in a Git repo, commit new code, and have the CI server run those stored tests during every build on nearly any environment.* Virtualizing critical APIs and microservices to reduce dependencies and delays during the delivery pipeline by using ServiceV Pro

Chennai Area, India

• Lead a result oriented teams in Functional UI , API , Mobile , Usability, Compatibility, Accessibility, Performance, Security ,Pen Test, Regression, Requirements / Documentation/ Content testing.• Defining the Testing strategy. Responsible for defining optimal test plans in line as appropriate to the overall testing strategy in order to ensure comprehensive, end-end testing of the product life-cycle.•Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects. •Forecast / Estimate the Project future requirements. •Develop and implement test plans. •Send the Status Report (Daily Weekly etc.) to the Client and other project stakeholders •Frequent status checks meetings with the Team. •Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for iterations testing and deployment activities. •Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and resolve issues if any. •Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained. •Document implement monitor and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization. •Check for timely delivery of different milestones. •Organize and Conduct internal trainings on various KPA.•Review daily/weekly Test' status reports and take necessary actions•Involved in sourcing new hires and conduct training & mentorship Programme to new joiners, •Monitor and effectively track each and every testing activities to ensure that the quality in every activity without any non conformity by adherence to the company's quality processes and procedures.•Continuous motivating, monitoring, and mentoring of testing team members and continuously work for the process improvement.•Ensure processes are followed as laid down.

Chennai Area, India

•Responsible for Test Planning, Estimation, QA schedule and Timelines, Strategy Preparation.•Actively participate in the Sprint Planning & Analysis Meeting, grooming sessions, daily scrum calls, stand-up calls, and Retrospection meetings and update the project status to all the project stakeholders effectively.•Requirement understanding & Scope Management •Coordinating with Development, Infrastructure, IT, Testing teams for timely deliverable •Managing the project Risks and Issues; escalations •Managing & delivering projects with tight schedule and budget•Client & Team Management •Communication and reporting to the Project Steering Committee •Leading testing team –Both Functional - Manual & Automation and responsible for the QA delivery.•Managing Post Implementation support •Proposal Preparation (effort estimation, planning & strategizing) •Allocation of work and Responsibility•Review of project deliverables•Prepare Test planning & Strategy Documents •Involved in Capacity/ resource Planning, Resourcing & Staffing •Project Co-ordination •Identify the training needs for the team & organize the training to facilitate the projects activities. •Monitor & manage Test Execution •Prepare Test summary reports. •Prepare daily & weekly Status reports •Prepare Project Closure report •Contribution to Process improvements •Actively involved in all Test activities & process like Test planning, Requirements analysis, Estimation, Test designing, Reviews, Execution, Test results & status reporting, Defect management, Production support, Project management, Status reporting, Metrics preparation, Project Tracking & monitoring and Ensure 100% compliance to quality assurance norms and guidelines in all STLC phases.•Effectively handle & lead the projects from plan to closure & ensure the quality deliverables.

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Master Program In Business Administration (Mba), Agile Project Management And Software Quality Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science, Specialization- Software Quality Management And Rpa -Machine Learning

Activities and Societies: College Sports Secretary & Volleyball Team Captain - Participated in TIES and Represented Interstate Volleyball.

Advanced Diploma In Software Testing & Quality Management (Adst)