Shiva G.

Currently managing project planning, estimation, control, and tracking of project health through defined metrics, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. • Actively collaborating with Product Owners and Stakeholders to define primary goals and objectives, creating Product Roadmap documents to guide project execution. • As a Scrum Master, presently creating dashboards using MS Azure, engaging closely with stakeholders to understand requirements, identify key metrics, and establish a clear vision and scope for each dashboard. • Continuously tracking metrics to ensure project success and proactively taking steps to address challenges; regularly sharing key metrics with the Leadership Team and stakeholders to report project status in a timely manner. • Leveraging Scrum frameworks to support teams in achieving goals. Tailoring the approach to each team's specific needs, promoting agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Currently managing project planning, estimation, control, and tracking of project health through defined metrics, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. • Actively collaborating with Product Owners and Stakeholders to define primary goals and objectives, creating Product Roadmap documents to guide project execution. • As a Scrum Master, presently creating dashboards using Jira, engaging closely with stakeholders to understand requirements, identify key metrics, and establish a clear vision and scope for each dashboard. • Continuously tracking metrics to ensure project success and proactively taking steps to address challenges; regularly sharing key metrics with the Leadership Team and stakeholders to report project status in a timely manner. • Leveraging Scrum frameworks to support teams in achieving goals. Tailoring the approach to each team's specific needs, promoting agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Currently implementing an agile methodology that has resulted in a 23% increase in productivity, leading to the delivery of 11-16 more stories per production cycle. • Actively creating agreements with various teams to define the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, ensuring clarity and consistency in project execution. • Currently utilizing tools like JIRA, Confluence , Excel for saving documents and tracking initiatives, EPICs, stories, defects, tasks, change requests and so on. • Extensive experience in Product Vision and Roadmap development, backlog refinement, feature prioritization, effort estimation, user stories, business process flows, gap analysis.

• Project Planning, Estimation, Control and Tracking projects’ health through the defined metrics. • Work with Product Owners and Stakeholders to define primary goals, objectives create PI Planning and Product Road map documents. • Responsible for supporting and executing all the scrum ceremonies (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews) for ongoing project. • Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team in their focus on meeting product delivery commitments and providing business value to customers. • Track metrics to ensure the success of the projects by taking proactive steps. Also, share key metrics to the Leadership Team and all the stakeholders to report the status of the project in a timely manner. • Leveraged Jira to its fullest potential, optimizing its features to streamline workflows, track progress, and enhance collaboration among team members. • Effectively balancing resources and workloads to ensure optimal team performance and delivery through capacity planning. • Extensive experience with Product Vision and Roadmap, Backlog Refinement, Feature Prioritization, Effort estimation, User stories, Business Process flows, Gap Analysis. • Demonstrated exceptional team building capability which ultimately leads to employee satisfaction. • Guiding the Team to ensure the design and implementation are met as per the proposed solution • Supporting and/or mentoring the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog or Scrum Product rituals. • Removing impediments that are hindering to accomplish team goals. • Excellent verbal communication, e-mail etiquettes and strong problem solving skills. • Support the Product owner by providing updates on impediments/issues. • Aligning teams goal with the Product backlog. • Engage with Scrum Team on delivery related activities and ensure stories are executed within the overall release plan aligned to MVP.

• Lead the end-to-end project delivery associated to internal benchmarking applications for leading consulting brand. • Worked on business proposals for costing and resourcing needs of enhancements. • Prepared Product Release plan to define the scope of work for the MVP of Internal Search engine feature. • Closely worked with Sales team to support the Request for Proposal (RFPs) and technical feasibility assessment for multiple projects. • Created Functional Scope and Specification documents, Use Cases, Wireframes and Data/Process Flow Diagrams, User guides. • Coordinated with Quality Assurance team for validating defects, reviewed the test plans and coverage from functional perspective. • Devised business flows for the change requests / enhancements for the existing product; identified gaps and impact areas due to change requests. • Prioritized requirements, sprint planning & grooming, prepared User stories, defined tasks and subtasks, prepared prototypes for UI changes and estimated function points. • Lead the JAD sessions for eliciting and scoping the user requirements. • Worked in onsite offshore model with experience on both sides. • Review and validation of existing processes to overcome the challenges. • Organize workshops for business managers to introduce & review new features and functionalities. • Closely work and provide deep dive analysis to marketing team to support their strategy plan. • Train the onshore operation team on new features, functionalities and support. • Understand and refine client requirements for better functioning of the application and team processes.

• Drove the Requirements Gathering initiatives for client. • Gathered business requirements and break down into functional and non-functional requirements. • Prepared Use cases and related artifacts such as traceability matrix, test cases, gap analysis sheet. • Effort estimation for enhancements and re-engineered workflows.

• Executed the project in capacity as a Test engineer. • Cooperated with developers to design 50+ test cases for regular maintenance and enhancements for internal applications. • Bug tracking and reporting on Jira and external Database. • Generating Test Summary Report and EOD Report. • Creating test reports and updating the client regarding the product quality. • Coordinating testers and testing activities within multiple projects simultaneously. • Pre-vetting/reviewing the tester's defect before documenting it on external database. • Creation of Standard Guidelines for User Interface Testing. • Creation of Test case writing Formats for GUI, Unit Testing, Functionality. • Testing, Integration Testing and Compatibility Testing.