Samir Biswal Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Working as Scrum Master (Agile) Involved in Setting and Improvement of QA Processes and practice (Agile), Estimation, Resource Allocation, Risk/ Mitigation, Status Monitoringing, Release co-ordination and other activities.• Experienced in preparing the project objective, High level requirements/Epics, Raw Estimation, Analyzing Defect Trend etc.• Helps the Product Owner on Backlog Grooming: Elaborating, Maintaining, and Prioritizing.• Assisting the Product Owner on Release Planning by Identifying the Iteration, Scheduling, ' Definition of Ready', ‘Definition of Done’ etc. and organize backlog items into appropriate releases.• Empower teams to be comfortable, collaborative and help each other towards the Sprint goals and self-organize the Task board, Sprint Burn down Chart, Impediments etc. and grow in cross-functionality.• Efficiently organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies (Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, Release planning, Demos etc.• Worked with the other Scrum Masters to identify cross-team dependencies and ensure appropriate inter-team communication happens through "Scrum of Scrums".• Assisted the team to create and elaborate clear/concise epics/stories along with proper story selection, sizing and task definition. Ensure team volunteer for the tasks, do Pair Programming and Peer Review.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bangalore

• 16+ years in Software Testing and Quality Management activities.• Strong industry domain knowledge in Energy, Telecom, Healthcare, Insurance, Finance, and Manufacturing.• Working as Technical Expert & Scrum Master (Agile) - Involved in Setting and Improvement of QA Processes and practice (Agile), Test Strategy, Test Planning, Estimation, Review, Risk/Mitigation, Onsite team & Client communication, and coordinate the Testing activities like Test Execution, Test Reporting, Traceability Matrix, Status monitoring, Release co-ordination and other activities.• Experienced in preparing the project objective, High level requirements/Epics, Dependency Mapping, Raw Estimation, Test requirements etc.• Helps the Product Owner on Backlog Grooming : Elaborating, Maintaining, and Prioritizing.• Assisting the Product Owner on Release Planning by Identifying the Iteration, Scheduling, ‘Definition of Done’ etc. and organize backlog items into appropriate releases.• Empower teams to be comfortable, collaborative and help each other towards the Sprint goals and self-organize the Task board, Sprint Burn down Chart, Impediments etc. and grow in cross-functionality.• Efficiently organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies (Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, Release planning, Demos etc.• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and ensure appropriate inter-team communication happens through "Scrum of Scrums".• Assisted the team to create and elaborate clear/concise epics/stories along with proper story selection, sizing and task definition. Ensure team volunteer for the tasks, do Pair Programming and Peer Review.• Exposure to Automated Testing Tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), Selenium, Scimitar, Quality Center etc.• Worked in Agile, Water-Fall, and Spiral Model for Standalone applications, Client/Server Applications and Web Development projects.• Good knowledge on SDLC, STLC and processes on CMM.

Bangalore

• Gathering Business Requirements and Data Centre related engineering concepts. Helping Product Owner on Release planning and Backlog Grooming : Elaboration, Maintaining, and Prioritizing.• Organizing and Facilitating scrum ceremonies (Backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos etc.• Ensuring cross-team communication and minimizing the inter-dependencies.• Identify scenarios, Test Planning, Estimation, Review, Risk/Mitigation, Test Reporting.• Regular Onsite team & Client communication/coordination located internationally. • Coordinate the Testing activities like Test Execution, Traceability Matrix, Bug queue, Status monitoring, Release co-ordination and other activities.• Setting and Improvement of Agile Scrum practices and QA Processes.• Acts as Release Co-ordinator for smooth Build & Release.

Bhubaneshwar Area, India

Along with Sister concern companies Connectix and Dellsys

Cuttack Area, India

Bhubaneshwar Area, India

Masters Of Science, (It)

Masters, Computers/I.T.

Bachelor'S Degree, (B.J.B. College)