Udara Samarasinghe Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Key Responsibilities
• Developing detailed project plans, scheduling releases, tracking progress, managing changes to project scope, and prioritizing conflicting requirements.
• Leading and coaching multi-disciplinary teams to adopt and consistently apply Agile practices to achieve a high level of agile maturity.
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies and utilizing Scrum artefacts to ensure incremental value delivery.
• Conducting organization-level Agile/Scrum training sessions to help teams understand the Scrum fundamentals and pragmatically adopt an Agile mindset.
• Collaborating with product managers and US Product leadership to consolidate and maintain the program roadmap.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Contributing as a project manager, Scrum master, Scrum trainer, mentor, and overall contributor to organizational goals.
• Directing multiple cross-functional teams to successful project delivery using Agile.
• Facilitating and leading Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborating with product owners and engineering leadership to define project scope, goals, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with organizational OKRs.
• Tracking team performance and progress towards project goals using agile metrics and remediating deviations.
• Guiding development teams on Agile/JIRA best practices, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Sri Lanka

• Key Responsibilities:
• Directing multiple cross-functional Scrum teams to successful project delivery.
• Facilitating quarterly planning sessions based on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) which included program increment (PI) planning and dependency mapping.
• Leading Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborating with product owners, architects, and engineering managers to define project scope, and ensure delivery accuracy.
• Contributed to program-level roadmap refinement tasks.

Sri Lanka

• Key Responsibilities:
• Directing multiple cross-functional Scrum teams to successful project delivery.
• Facilitating and leading Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborating with product owners, architects, and engineering managers to define project scope, and ensure delivery accuracy.
• Tracking team performance and progress using Scrum metrics and reports.
• Guiding development teams on Agile/JIRA best practices, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Sri Lanka

• Spearheaded highly dynamic R&D projects (worth over $1.8M p.a.) for a top-tier retailer in the USA.
• Managed geographically distributed cross-functional teams comprising of engineers from SE, BA, UI, and QA disciplines, and liaised with SMEs, technology partners, and external consultants to ensure project success.
• Won company award for the “Best Customer Centric Innovation of the Year” (2017).
• Coordinated project resource allocations and monthly financial cost reporting (with VP of Sales).
• Coordinated and conducted multiple outreach programmes including university guest lectures, workshops and presentations to increase brand awareness for Zone24x7 and showcase innovation achievements.Other.

Sri Lanka

Performed duties in the role of Scrum Master, which included:- Ensuring that all work done in my team adhere to the development process,- Coordinating work and stakeholder engagement in relevant projects,- Proactively addressing impediments faced by my team,- Successfully introducing work processes to prevent product release delays- Effectively communicate.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Performed duties in the role of Scrum Master, which included:- Ensuring that all work done in my team adhere to the development process,- Coordinating work and stakeholder engagement in relevant projects,- Proactively addressing impediments faced by my team,- Effectively communicate with local and foreign stakeholder s,- Solving complex problems that.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Responsible for:- Bug reporting and verification- Test case creation- Test case execution- Regression testingTool competence:- JIRA v3.7 (Issue tracker)- TestLink 1.9 (Test management tool)- Serena Agile Planner (Agile project management tool)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction

Qualification awarded: Master of Business Administration with DISTINCTION Qualification award date: 23-Nov-2021 Level of qualification.

B.Sc. (Hons), Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Secretary - IT Student Community (2008/09)

Diploma, Management

Education record

Activities and Societies: Secretary - Leo Club of Ananda College (2003/04)

Education record

European Computer Driving License