Venkkat C

Venkkat Chinnasamy Contact: - | Email:- CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER Scrum Master (with around 12 years of total experience) having excellent skills in Facilitate teams planning and tracking activities while coaching in Agile Principles. Currently working as Scrum master in LTIMindtree, Chennai. EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS APR-2012 Bachelor of Engineering Sona College of Technology (Anna University - Chennai) 8.97 CGPA MAR-2008 Class XII (State Board of TN) Sri Vijay Vidyalaya Matriculation Hr. Sec School 87.8% TECHNICAL SKILLS Agile/Scrum Methodologies Prioritizing and Multitasking Product/Project Management Servant Leadership Interpersonal Skills Effective Communication and Time Management Project Methodology: Agile CERTIFICATION CERTIFIED SAFe 6.0 AGILIST CSM (CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER) CSPO (CERTIFIED SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACCENTURE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD, NLB SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED, MINDTREE LIMITED/ LTIMINDTREE LIMITED(Recent) Jul’2012 – Till Date Certified Scrum Master with 12 Years of professional experience in IT industry. Working in the agile environment as scrum master for 4+ years. Leading multiple teams that totals 27 members. Currently managing globally distributed 3 pods working on 2 different products with revenue of $500K+. Experienced in handling Scrum team and ensuring Agile ways of working. Expertise in SDLC,have good exposure towards Agile implementation, Scrum ceremonies,Sprint practice/Planning/Daily stand ups/Retrospective meetings Worked across Supply Chain, Insurance, Healthcare and eCommerce domains. KEY SKILLS Functional: SAFE implementaion, Scrum, Kanban, Scrum ceremonies, Coaching Agile Practices, Removing Impediments, Team Building, JQL, Sprint Reports, Quality control, Communication, Documentations, WSR/MBR/QBR, WO/Proposal. Tools: JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, Bit Bucket. PERSONAL DOSSIER Date of Birth: 17th Jul, 1989 Languages Known: English, Tamil Residential Address: Door No. 413, 13th East street, Kamaraj Nagar,Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai– 600041 Annexure of Projects MINDTREE LIMITED/LTIMINDTREE LIMITED (Feb’2021 till Date) Project: Dyson - An eCommerce Application build upon Magento Designation: Senior Specialist (P4) Role: Scrum Master/ Project Manager Technical Environment – Magento, MySQL, Java, Engage, AWS/AMS, Bitbucket Agile tools: JIRA and CONFLUENCE Responsibilities: Lead 3 Scrum teams consisting of 9 Members each to streamline a multifaced compliance project. Part of program co-ordination group, that handles 20 market’s that operates globally. Facilitate teams planning and tracking activities while coaching in Agile Principles WSR/MBR/QBR updates to Stakeholders. SPOC for ST/UAT/BVT and Warranty period support. Worked with the Technical Expertise and created Release Plan document for every release and ensure the Release proceeds as per the plan and track till the deployment into production. Helps in implementing the SAFE Agile Methodologies and Scrum Ceremonies to facilitate the ontime product delivery Adapt to the SAFE Release train approach in the current project and delivered on time. Facilitated the Scrum of Scrum calls to build synergies and bridge communication among various technology teams. Planned and facilitated the Scrum Ceremonies right from Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, PBR, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. As a Scrum master lead the Delivery of all sprints and interaction with Product owners. Monitor and track progress, Prepare Status reports, Resolve issues, Co-ordinate Tasks and activities directed towards completing the Project goals. Closely work with the Product Owners to ensure understanding of the User Stories by the Developers and keeping the Backlog groomed and prioritized to ensure Optimal delivery. Monitor the Sprint Burndown and conduct Daily Standup encouraging open communication within the team. Facilitate “Estimation Session” within the team to estimate Story points and measured Velocity to plan future sprints. Successfully Delivered Multiple key features to the customers such as Payment Integration, Version Upgrade and other Admin functionalities that has a high market demand. Work with the Product Owner to define project scope and objectives. Works effectively with others/concerned team to remove the Delivery team roadblocks. Guides the team through continual improvement process. Ensure the developers co-ordinate with the Devops team to effectively handle Continuous integration and Continuous Deployment which is accountable for the best Engineering practices. Ability to Engage and motivate teams towards a Common goal Strong interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills. Involved in the capacity planning for every sprint and ensure the total story points are picked according to the available capacity. Proficient in handling Sprint and Scrum related activities along with other Product Management (PM) and Scrum related activities. Assessed each Scrum Team member’s responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee’s workload. Closely collaborate with project members to identify and quickly address problems Good understanding of Business User tools to manage the content site and ecommerce online application. Raising risks/impediments in the Scrum of Scrum meeting for the iteration and PI well ahead of time with mitigation plans in place. NLB SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED (Sep’2020 to Feb’2021) Project: Entegris – An eCommerce Application build upon AEM and Hybris Description: Entegris, Inc. is a provider of products and systems that purify, protect, and transport critical materials used in the semiconductor device fabrication process. Approximately 80% of the company's products are used in the semiconductor industry. Role: Scrum Master/QA Lead Responsibilities: Handling a Complex project with an Agile approach to implement Empiricism and Lean thinking and help team in achieving Agile ways of working. Facilitate in handling the Scrum ceremonies for a team of 8 members. Analyze and address the roadblocks faced from the Developers and help them in the removal of the impediments. Coordinate with the Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog items as per the Business needs. Participated in PI planning to understand the overall Objectives and the Roadmap on the Product Increment and individual team’s responsibility in achieving towards the same. Involved in the Go/No go calls and provided inputs on the open issues which could be a potential blocker or not. Project: UPS Healthcare – An eCommerce Application build upon AEM Role: Scrum Master/QA Lead Responsibilities: Facilitate in handling the Scrum ceremonies for a team of 6 members. Monitor and track progress, Prepare Status reports, Resolve issues, Co-ordinate Tasks and activities directed towards completing the Project goals. Ensure the responsibility of the developers to achieve the Sprint goal and Definition of done for every sprint and each stories. Prepare the Status reports and share with the onsite manager for every sprint. Ensure the End to End testing flow is completed for every sprint. Involve in the Desktop and View port checks for the different parameters of testing. Check the UPS application for the content/design/font and complete workflow. Defect tracking and closure. ACCENTURE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD (Jul’2012 to Aug’2018) Project: UMGI - Digital Global Scheduling and Digital Supply Chain Description: Universal Music Group (UMG) is the global music leader with strong market positions in recorded music, music publishing, and merchandising across different countries, wherein we have involved in the scheduling team where the Product release is being managed by our Scheduling team. Role: Web Application – QA Lead Responsibilities: Functional & Performance Testing (Browser Compatibility Test). Module Owner for the Application, accountable and primary POC. Logging and tracking defects in JIRA. Development of Test Plan, Test cases, Test scenarios, Expected results and prioritized tests. Analyze the business rules and testing the New Functionalities Worked on Test scenarios for Functionality, Regression testing. Attend the Test case review meetings and requirement walkthroughs. Reporting the status and Test management in Qmetry. Attend the client huddle meetings on a weekly basis to update the status of the Project. Regression and Sanity Test Suite Creation/Execution for various releases. Handling the production Bugs retesting it and ensure its proper closure. Handled multiple CRs at the same time and tested with proper quality. Prioritizing work and completing on time. Accountable and involved in managing the CDART activities for the entire team on weekly basis. Validating the request and responses which are used to communicate to the web application using SOAP UI. Test Lead / Module Lead for the Application and led the test team in managing 7 Resources. Has involved in the Automation of the DSC Test scripts using the Selenium Web Driver and Automated around 50 Test cases in the DSC application for which the effort savings are now calculated Defects Triage for Sprint/SIT defects and Test Escape Analysis for UAT defects. Ensure Team coordination and more specific towards the product goal deliverables. Accenture (Sep’2018 to Nov’2018) Project: Mobile – US and Canada based Insurance App for iPad Description: Insurance company based in North America which sells supplemental insurance, wished to go digital and sell their products/policies to customers through e-paper policy, thereby reducing paper effort and lot of manual interventions. There are 9 products overall falling under 4 major categories, namely Accident & Health, Cancer, Life and SickPay Plus. Role: Digital Mobility – QA & Test Lead Responsibilities: Following Agile Methodology by having daily scrum updates and testing on Sprint basis. Lead the Test team to coordinate and complete the tasks on time. Extensive Testing on all products and key areas like Shopping Cart, Payments & Reports. Regression and Sanity Test Suite Creation/Execution for various releases. Bulk/load testing by creating multiple policies in various iPads/Logins and syncing simultaneously. Reviewing actively the Test Cases for each Scripts which are created by peer team members and junior resources. Defects Triage for Sprint/SIT defects and Test Escape Analysis for UAT defects. Prioritizing work and completing on time. Supporting flexible work timings during late night/ weekend whenever required. Updating the status to Scrum master and Senior Managers regularly and escalating critical/high issues. Accenture (Dec’2018 to Dec’2019) Project: Mobile – US Food Chain App for iOS and Android Devices Description: Wendy's is an American international fast food restaurant chain which is World’s Third Largest Hamburger fast food chain with 6711 locations. The chain is known for its square hamburgers, sea salt fries, and their signature Frosty, a form of soft serve ice cream mixed with frozen starches. Role: Digital Mobility – Test lead / Proxy Scrum master Responsibilities: Actively participate in Daily Scrum Calls and gather & segregate tasks among the team members Analyse the User Stories and Suggesting the Story Points during the Scrum call. To carryout the Testing across all the available mobile devices Monitor and report the end to end Mobile testing activities across various mobile devices (iOS8, iOSx,Samsung S6,Nexus, Google Pixel, etc…) To create a Test Plan and create the test cases for all the US, involving in Peer Review. Demo with the Onshore BA’s to ensure all the functionality has been covered as a part of the testcases. Identify the Gap in the Regression suite and Optimize the same for every sprint by including the insprint cases. Actively execute and reporting the status on the inSprint User Stories to the Onshore PO’s Actively involving in the Sprint Retrospective meeting inorder to give the suggessions on what went well and what can be the impediments and on the Action items needs to be addressed. Consolidating the Test metrics and reporting the same to the Managers and the Onshore leads Date: Place: Chennai