Uma Devi Selvaraj Email and Phone Number
- 13+ years of experience in enterprise IT industry working for multiple projects in both waterfall and agile methodologies across UK, US, and Australian Banking Clients.- Managed ETE timely deliveries of projects worth upto 15m within budget working with Stakeholders and Vendors adhering to the Governance requirements for stage gate exits. - 5+ years(2+ years in Sydney) of Scrum Master experience in collaborating large engagements with notable success delivering high-complex digital projects across Retail Banking and Investment Banking.- Adept in Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Spotify and SAFe. Proven expertise in Agile Delivery working within distributed teams using Java/Big Data Technologies..- Coached various platforms on Agile ways of working for a transformational project to migrate from waterfall to Agile delivery.
News Corp Australia
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Senior Delivery ManagerNews Corp AustraliaSydney, Nsw, Au -
Scrum Master - Data And DigitalNews Corp Australia Sep 2021 - PresentSydney, New South Wales, Australia -
Scrum Master - Digital And Marketing Domain (Westpac, Sydney)Infosys Jul 2020 - Oct 2021Sydney, New South Wales, Australia• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder review meetings, and software demonstrations. • Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint goals for the squads.• Work closely with product owner in effective backlog management, Clarity allocation across initiatives to ensure within initial estimates, setting up of DOR and DOD and continuous delivery of prioritized features.• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product.• Drive self-organization & cross-skilling within the Squads.• Leverage metrics to inform continuous improvement opportunities that increase the effectiveness of Squads.• Guided the Product owner and stakeholders to define and track Release Road map and backlog prioritization along with RAID maintenance and action plan.• Taken additional ownership of helping resolve the organizational impediments for smooth delivery.• Been instrumental and worked with agile coach for PI planning , identifying the squads agile maturity level through diagnostic sessions. -
Project Lead/Scrum Master- Fixed Income Currencies And Commodities (Goldman Sachs , Sydney)Infosys Aug 2019 - Jul 2020Sydney, New South Wales, Australia• Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.• Implemented Quarterly Agile Maturity Assessment for the scrum teams as part of Key Value Measures (KVM) - ensured continuous improvement to the processes implementing the assessment outcome of the team.• Represented the projects in Steering committee meetings; acted as primary contact for Account reports reconciliation, metrics.• Managed project scope of macro business from Traders and Sales for Forex and Interest Rates to build better supportal tools and ensured delivery was compliant with scope commitment.• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.• Facilitate the scrum of scrum meets for constructive resolution of conflicts which may arise both internally & externally to the Squads. -
Project Manager/Scrum Master - Retail Telephony Ctios To Finesse Migration (Royal Bank Of Scotland)Infosys Jan 2018 - Jul 2019Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India• Organized requirement elicitation meetings with key stake holders to understand the current system-CTIOS and new system-Finesse requirements for migration.• Teamed up with the SME and developers to build a prototype of MVP for migration and obtained sign-off from the stakeholders.• Analyzed the practicability of and developed user stories, identified the portfolio epics, project epics, stories and prioritized the same for new Finesse migration across releases.• Involved in project management and Governance activities including resourcing, finances, SOW extensions and weekly status updates for all projects within the account.• Fostered high collaboration and communication between the Virtual teams distributed across multiple sites through various tools.• Increased predictability of software builds delivery by 60% with the implementation of CI/CD/DevOps.• Developed effective high visibility communication radiators of the team’s progress in project wall as well as digital dashboard using Jira.• Participated in Scrum of Scrums for Telephony platform for quicker resolution of issues and dependencies and resolved contention for non-production testing.• Act as the Leader of a team by providing Servant Leadership and Agile coaching. -
Project Manager/Scrum Master - Retail Security Application Migration (Royal Bank Of Scotland)Infosys Apr 2015 - Dec 2017Chennai, Tamil Nadu• Organized requirement elicitation meetings with key stake holders to understand the current system-2Factor Authentication, Core Web Security and Security &User Access Management and migration requirements for Rainbow project.• Planning and facilitating the key Scrum ceremonies and events – Sprint Planning, Scrum Stand-ups, Showcases, retrospectives, Release Planning and Backlog refinement sessions.• Formed a team to deliver the Business requirements for migration and involved in management activities to plan ETE delivery.• Guided the teams with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Test Automation increasing the quality of deliverables by 55%.• Create a collaborative environment for the geographically distributed teams to successfully migrate all the security applications. -
Technology Lead-Multi Channel Sales (Royal Bank Of Scotland)Infosys Jan 2013 - Mar 2015Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India• Lead two teams of 5 members to design, build and test application services/DB layer and expose them to be consumed by the process teams/consumers.• Facilitated discussions with Business team to close gaps on mapping requirements/WSDL and accountable to implementation planning, walkthrough of the same with production support team.• Write Business requirements, Functional Specifications and define architecture and ensure fulfilment of Regulatory and IS Compliance.• Built stubs to enable testing to flow until the actual services are ready for use.• Involved in daily status reporting on progress to the client counterpart and reviewed the team’s code for promoting to the higher environments.• Co-ordinated with test managers and release team for testing strategy and planning for releases.• Additional responsibility of Financial, Resource and Risk Management for the account; Budgeting & Reconciliation, billing, and tracking.• Taken additional responsibilities in setting up the SVN server for repository management of Configuration items. -
Project Lead - Security Towers( College Of American Pathologists)Infosys May 2011 - Dec 2012Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India• Project Lead for 3 towers – INFRA, Security and GRC and aided team in production support activities.• Involved in RASCI discussions along with SMEs to finalize the scope of work as we transitioned from another Vendor.• Managed the transition activities from another vendor by facilitating KT’s and building repository from the Handover for new team members in the future.• Worked closely with onsite coordinator and shared reports on the tickets handled -P1/P2/P3 and enhancement -
Information Technology Consultant(General Motors)Hewlett Packard Global Soft Pvt Ltd Oct 2010 - Apr 2011India• Lead a team of 5 members and provided SME support for production support and incident handling.• Interfaced with the users to resolve issues in APM and CRAPPA applications.• Provided support by monitoring batch jobs and fixing in case of batch failures. -
Senior Associate Programmer(Hoya Corporation)Srm Technologies Jul 2007 - Oct 2010India• Developed modules using the NXG Framework designed using JSF to build screens.• Requirement gathering for the modules assigned from SME/Senior developer.• Mentored the new joiners and built a team with lessons learnt.• Interacted with onsite coordinators to understand the requirements and develop as needed.
Uma Devi Selvaraj Education Details
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Uma Devi Selvaraj attended Easwari Engineering College(Srm Group).
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