Shankar Jayachandran Email & Phone Number

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 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 met.Roles and the responsibilities:•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.•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

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.Roles and the responsibilities:•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.•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.

Banglore

As a Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager lead multiple projects from development through successful product launches. Ensured adaptation of Agile and Scrum practices, removing impediments, and fostering self-organized teamsRoles and Responsibilities:•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.•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• 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.

Chennai Area, India

Platform Testing is a Core team in Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM) primarily responsible for all Wealth Management Workstation (WMW) products which is actually used by more than 18000 real time Financial Advisors (FAs). WMW Base is a container with major products Book and Client Dashboard, Contact Management, Ask Merrill, Alerts Dashboard, Quote, PCOE, Snap Quote and Home Office Directory. Each product consists of various kinds of applications developed using various technologies (.Net, Mainframe, etc...).Using WMW Base container, FAs can post a new order for equities, Mutual Funds and Bonds. Add, Modify and view Client details using Book and Client Dashboard. Latest updates of Market details using Market Pulse application. WMW Base is an essential product in all derivative workstations. Some of the derivative platforms are RTG_NCC (Retirement Technology Group Non Call-Centre), Trust, MLSN, FAC, Cashiering, Bloomberg. Each Derivative platform workstations contains SCM products based on the derivatives. Desktop Evolution is an alternate and advanced version of WMW Base with additional features. Roles and Responsibilities:•Performing UAT for all Derivative applications and products (RTG_NCC, Trust, MLSN, FAC)•Responsible for WMW Base and Desktop Evolution releases•Regular interaction with Stakeholders and On-site functional team on workspace changes in Base and DE container•Preparation of Target test cases for each release•Individual contribution in performing Target Testing, Shakedown Testing and Regression Testing•Checking the vulnerability of Microsoft patches in Base, DE and Branch server workstations•Responsible for sending daily execution summary report to Stakeholders.•Executing Automated test scripts in QTP and Rational Robot•Preparation of Test Plan and Test Completion Report for various platform releases•Allocating task to internal team members and vendors

Advanced Diploma In Software Testing (Adst), Software Testing Tools And Techniques

* Black box and White box testing tools and techniques. * Manual Testing * Automation Testing * Performance Testing

Bachelor'S Degree In Computer Applications (Bca)

Mathematics And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: District level Kabaddi player and Athlete

Diploma In Internet And Client Server Technology