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Divya Lakshmi

Dubai,UAE

Summary

With 6+ years of experience in IT industry, I bring expertise in leading agile teams and delivering strategic Quality product. Certified Scrum Master and SAFe ® 6.0 Agilist. Seeking the role of Scrum Master to share my expertise in facilitating Agile frameworks and fostering collaborative, self-managed and high-performing teams.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

SCRUM MASTER

NEO Tech Labs
Dubai
05.2024 - Current
  • Facilitated the adoption of Scrum and Agile principles to key business partners, PO and multiple teams, resulted to transition to an Agile mindset which increased transparency and enabled team deliver high quality value.
  • Handled Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, sprint review/demo, sprint retrospective, scrum of scrums).
  • Engaged with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure clear communication, alignment on priorities and maintain a healthy backlog.
  • Helped the Agile teams by conducting workshops to gather requirements from business and document them in Confluence and JIRA.
  • Implemented Scrum and Kanban board in a effective way for the team to have Visuals on Their own progress.
  • Improved delivery cycles by using performance metrics (velocity, burndown charts, etc.) and continuous feedback.
  • Supported and empowered team members to learn new technologies and take up certifications
  • Encourage transparency and trust, fostering a positive working environment resulting in innovative thinking.
  • Implemented capacity plan and effort estimation of the resources.

SCRUM MASTER

LTIMindtree
Bangalore
05.2021 - 11.2023
  • Working with the team to define new user stories and tasks, updating sprint planning, and coordinating with stakeholders who may have specific related requirements.
  • Facilitated all scrum events (Ceremonies): Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo and Sprint Retrospective.
  • Facilitated collaboration between product owner, tech lead and development team, managing teams dynamics to promote a productive environment.
  • Utilized Confluence and Jira to streamline team's collaborations and facilitated agile project management processes
  • Lead and guided teams in sprint planning sessions to identify risks, address dependencies and resolve conflicts as well as coordinated and improved communication with other Scrum Masters and teams
  • Tracked project progress against goals using agile methodologies such as burndown charts, velocity tracking task boards.
  • Organized one to one sessions to ensure team members understand user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Regularly assessed the teams and organization's Scrum maturity and conducted training sessions for teams to improve understanding of the Agile, Scrum and Kanban practices.

SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEER

Mindtree LTD
Bangalore
09.2018 - 04.2021
  • Enabled Requirement traceability metrics for critical Test cases by standardizing a Test Case construction method leading to a 25% increase of test coverage.
  • Handled in all Test the practices such as Test Requirement Analysis, Test Scenarios identification, Test case Design,Reviewing test cases, Test data creation, Test case Execution.
  • Restructured utilities & improved the process documentation leading to a 40% reduction in client support tickets.
  • Performed Exploratory testing, Ad-hoc testing, Compatibility Testing, Retesting, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression and System testing in UAT and PDT environments.
  • .Monitoring, tracking ,reporting defects and maintained defects report in HP ALM and JIRA-Xray.
  • Involved in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo and Sprint Retrospective.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Sapthagiri College of Engineering
India
08.2012 - 05.2017

Skills

  • Scrum Framework
  • Kanban
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • ALM
  • MS-Office
  • Zoom
  • Slack
  • JAVA
  • Eclipse/IntelliJ
  • Quality Analysis
  • BrowserStack

Certification

  • Certified SAFe® Agilist
  • Certified ScrumMaster®
  • Cucumber BDD with Java and Selenium
  • Software Testing

Core Competencies

  • Agile Methodologies
  • User Story Development
  • Sprint Performance Metrics
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Adaptability & Problem Solving
  • Backlog Prioritization
  • Retrospective Analysis
  • PI Planning
  • Continuous improvement
  • Servant Leadership
  • Risk management
  • Conflict management

Timeline

SCRUM MASTER

NEO Tech Labs
05.2024 - Current

SCRUM MASTER

LTIMindtree
05.2021 - 11.2023

SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEER

Mindtree LTD
09.2018 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Sapthagiri College of Engineering
08.2012 - 05.2017
Divya Lakshmi