Debasmita Nanda
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Australian 189 PR(✔)(immediate joiner)
Summary
I have around 9 years of experience working across different organizations.
As an experienced Agile Scrum Master/Iteration Manager, facilitated the transition of projects from waterfall to Agile for on/off shore teams(for teams located in Australia, United States, Europe and India). I am proficient agile practitioner with hands-on experience on practices & frameworks including SAFe, Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, LeSS and an expert in different agile tools including JIRA & Confluence .Primary focus was prompt communication with the stakeholders, coaching the teams on how to write good stories, order the work based on business value and how Dev teams create tasks. Facilitated adoption of Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, self-management, team empowerment.
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master-Scrum Alliance
Scaled Agile Certified SAFe 4 Agilist
ISTQB
ITIL
Tools
JIRA
Confluence
Microsoft Project Professional
HP-ALM
Bugzilla
HP-PPM
Bamboo
CORE COMPETENCIES
➢ Agile & SCRUM Methodology (Scrum, Kanban,SAFe)
➢ Project Management
➢ Stakeholder engagement
➢ Requirement Gathering & Analysis
➢ Release & Configuration Management
➢ Software Development Life Cycle
➢ Onsite Project Coordination
➢ PPM & Reporting Tools
➢ Resource Management
➢ Project planning and scheduling
➢ Project & Quality Analysis
➢ Service Delivery Management
➢ Team Management
➢ Business Coordination
➢ Project Management
➢ Domain knowledge in Healthcare, Banking, Semi-Conductor devices, E-Government, E-Commerce
Scrum Ceremonies:
Daily Stand-ups | Sprint Planning | Prepare / Run Showcases and Retrospectives | Backlog Refinement
Technical Knowledge
➢ Database Language - Oracle SQL
➢ Appian Cloud Platform
➢ PPM Tool
➢ JIRA Configuration and Reporting
➢ Confluence
➢ Sharepoint
➢ Testing - SDLC, Manual Testing (Desktop App and Mobile app), Automation (PAF tool)
➢Microsoft windows operating system and Android, Intel Products
Rewards and Recognitions
Best Team Award at IQVIA .
Letter of Appreciation at IQVIA for outstanding performance in the Project.
Rewards and Recognition for the best team member at UST GLOBAL
On the Spot Award at Tata Consultancy Services.
Experience
Scrum Master /Iteration Manager Mar 2019-Aug 13 2019
IQVIA healthcare
Project: SiteID Workflow
Description: The purpose of Site ID workflow project initiative was to replace manual Excel based review process to import Potential sites into Appian for Study Site Identification process. This new workflow system imported the Sites from different source initially from Excel and later from Site Optimizer (CTOS), distribute the list of Local Site ID Specialist, RSU Lead, and Strategic Relationship Manager to vet the list and automate manual tasks like creating Site in CTMS manually and reduce time taken to initiate the Site and industrialize Site Startup documentation workflow process.
Mentored the teams on agile methodologies and implemented scrum practices
Performed tasks central to program progress, including Scheduling, Budgeting , and resource management
Actively involved in Scope prioritization and negotiation with the stakeholder
Facilitated scrum ceremonies and tracked burn down, issues and progress in JIRA
Escalated and removed impediments, Represented in Scrum of Scrums
Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
Identified potential project risks, reported and tracked them for closure Empowered teams by guiding and educating them on how to sort through cross-team dependencies, inter-team coordination, and department / program level roadmap discussions with business and internal IT stakeholders
Actively interacted with Stakeholders, Product owner, Release Train Engineers and Development team
Leveraged scrum rituals and metrics to increase visibility transparency at the program level encouraged discussion among internal resources to resolve challenges in a self-organizing fashion.
Facilitated workshops and discussions to generate new ideas about development among Scrum masters via Scrum master Forum.
Observed rituals / scrum ceremonies daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Retrospectives, and release planning to provide feedback to scrum masters, team leaders and other stakeholders regarding facilitation strategies.
Helped team understand various Agile Metrics, Effective use of Burn-up and Burn-Down Chart, and other Agile Metrics that help team / PO improve every Sprint / Release.
Coached, mentored Scrum Masters, Teams and PO's on How to focus on Sprint Goals and effectively deliver high value every sprint by meeting the commitments, true Definition of Done and with zero defects.
Helped Enterprise with Agile community of practice and Agile Governance in IQVIA. Was instrumental in designing a course that fit's IQVIA Standards without compromising agile values.
Experienced with Kanban, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing
Coached Product owners understanding their Roles / responsibilities in an Agile world.
Helped business understand on How to write User Stories, Acceptance criteria, Story Acceptance and value of being part of the team. Helped PO's understand agile metrics for Reporting purpose and how to plan an Agile Release effectively using Story points
Experience working with various Devops tools-Bamboo and Jenkins.
Scrum Master Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
TEK Systems (Client:IQVIA healthcare)
Project:Next Gen initiatives
Description: The Next gen workflow imported the Sites from different source initially from Excel and later from Site Optimizer (CTOS), distribute the list of Local Site ID Specialist, RSU Lead, and Strategic Relationship Manager to vet the list and automate manual tasks like creating Site in CTMS manually and reduce time taken to initiate the Site and industrialize Site Startup documentation workflow process
Built Scrum Teams and helped in recruiting Scrum Masters, each team consisted of Developers, Testers, and a Product Owner
Assisted teams with understanding definition of ready and definition of done
Worked closely with Product owners and Development Teams
Facilitated scrum ceremonies (i.e. Daily stand-ups meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, meetings/Demo, retrospectives, backlog refinement meeting etc.)
Experience with Scrum, Kanban, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing
Experienced with Kanban, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing
hands-on experience on practices & frameworks including SAFe, Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, LeSS and an expert in different agile tools including JIRA & Confluence
Guided Scrum teams in removing impediment, identifying potential risks, tracking
Organized and facilitated sprint planning, Daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
Agile Scrum Master Oct 2015 - Jul 2018
UST Global (Client: JP Morgan(Banking), Intel(Semiconductor/Digital)
JP Morgan- Finance:Project: Operational Analytics project: The entire objective of this project was to generate reports which can find violations (Procedures and Policies) which the bankers were doing
Led the team of 10 people in JP Morgan operational analytics project responsible for end to end ownership and delivery of monitoring reports over few sprints
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for multiple teams as a Senior scrum master
Facilitated Scrum of Scrums for multiple projects under a program.
Working with Product Owner on Release planning, creation of Business stories and their prioritization
Creating the iteration plan for the team and monitoring the health of iteration using various tools like iteration burn down/up charts
Working with the Technical team to resolve road blocks and improve the iteration velocity and product quality
Coordinate with Quality testing and Performance testing team to lay out the test plan and improve the quality of software.
Facilitate iteration review meetings and iteration retrospective meetings
Reporting the project status to senior management team periodically.
Significantly contributed in people development and ensuring their career enhancement through regular interaction with the team members.
INTEL Digital:Project: User Experience project: The entire objective of the project was related user satisfaction of the software’s or products developed by Intel . This included True Key and WiDi : Truekey:Face enabled User authentication app to Store and automatically fill in your passwords and enjoy convenient access to your apps, websites and devices WiDi: Wireless Display for casting audio/Video from devices.
Built the Intel User Experience team agile team
Built Scrum Teams and helped in recruiting Scrum Masters, each team consisted of Developers, Testers, and a Product Owner
Assisted teams with understanding definition of done
Worked closely with Product owners and Development Teams
Facilitated scrum ceremonies (i.e. Daily stand-ups meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, meetings/Demo, retrospectives, backlog refinement meeting etc.)
Guided Scrum teams in removing impediment, identifying potential risks, tracking
Organized and facilitated sprint planning, Daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
Junior Scrum Master and TesterNov 2009 - Oct 2015
Tata Consultancy Services
Project 1: I- Carnation ecommerce: The project’s objective was building an Ecommerce website for buying and Selling of New and Used cars of different Make and Models.
Project 2: E-governance: The projects goal was developing applications for maintaining Birth and Death information of citizens and different Welfare Schemes launched for the betterment of the society.
Project 3: Lilly healthcare: The projects main objective was to develop websites for different drugs which helped in curing health ailments and implementation of Online ordering of medicines thereby notifying the Heath Care Providers.
Acted as Scrum Master for teams in health care, e-commerce, Government domain with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.
Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.
Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily
Scrums or Stand ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements.
Involved in System testing of E-commerce website in the initial days of joining using HP ALM and TCS-Smart Test Manager.
Education
Institute Of Technical Education and Research
Bachelor of Technology – B.Tech, Information Technology
2005 - 2009
References
1. Name: Anandita Pattadar Saha
Current Position: Project Consultant at NBN Australia
Working relation with me: Managed me directly at Tata Consultancy Services
Contact: Ph- -
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandita-pattadar-saha-57a13a20/
2. Name: Bagmita Pahi
Current Position: Senior Manager at IQVIA
Working Relation with me: Senior at IQVIA
Contact: Ph- -
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bagmita-pahi-7a259184/
