Feb 2025 – Jul 2025 · 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Coaching and promote ENBD Culture.
• Ensuring agile practices are adopted by the team as per Agile Chapter guidelines.
• Budgeting and Resourcing supervision.

Oct 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Data center management and data governance.
• Worked along with release train engineer to facilitate program level processes and execution, driven continuous development, managed risks and escalated impediments while also worked as a full-time scrum master for 2 teams.
• Monitored project performance against plan using milestones, KPIs, and supporting metrics. Provided line-of-sight to Program and functional leadership to issues, risks, and required decisions across project workstreams.
• Maintained consolidated resource and timeline views across project workstreams, ensuring effective resource allocation and delivery of key milestones.
• Managed the tracking of top-level financials and provided guidance and structure for specific project cost management. Collaborated cross-functionally to identify opportunities to reduce costs, drive productivity, better leverage resources, and increase capital efficiency.
• Train other Scrum Masters and serve as a mentor to new joiners as well experienced (iAspire Ambassador Initiative in Accenture).
• Implement best Agile/SAFe Practices and decision maker on Project implementation with less guidance from management.
• Worked closely with product owner to ensure strategic business objectives alignment to maximize project value delivered.
• Improved Team visibility to build trust and win credibility with business stakeholders and leadership
• Accountable for system integration, platform upgrades and migration activities

Jun 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Coached 2 Scrum Teams; guiding team members in a smooth transition from traditional model of
• working to Agile.
• Handled Active Sprint from initiation to its closure.
• Generating and presenting multiple reports to stakeholders periodically which varied from the status update to the performance indicators of the team.
• Organized agile workshop for the team members as well as senior management in order to help them to imbibe agile values.

Apr 2020 – May 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Coordinated overall project management activities viz. scoping, estimation, tracking, change management, delivery management & post implementation support
• Significant contributions towards delivering one of the biggest automation project within 2 months
• Held review meetings to ensure timely completion and delivery of the project to the client; responsible for client interaction for requirement gathering, system study & analysis
• Dealt with stakeholders during the course of problem diagnoses, requirements gathering, detailed level design, development, system test and production implementation to ensure that optimal resolutions were achieved.
• Efficiently & effectively supported team of 12 through transformational testing changes

Apr 2014 – Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Plano, Texas, United States · On-site

• Worked in the capacity of Onsite Project Manager & Proxy Product Owner for 20+ US Projects, each year (2014-2019)
• Successfully Implemented NFC and Europay Mastercard & Visa Payments in JCPenney Stores across USA
• Successfully Implemented Special Financing Feature along with Synchrony Bank
• Oversaw onshore & offshore delivery management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects
• Ensure planned KPI’s of efficiency and performance are met or exceeded, optimized resource utilization by implementation of an effective delivery organization
• Also, conducted meetings with clients to determine project intent, requirements &budgets, extended support to clients with business analysis, documentation, and data modeling
• Facilitated Scrum Meetings, Backlog refinement Sessions, Scrum of Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Reporting, Release Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Showcase
• Conducted Periodic Demo’s / Trainings with senior leadership and Store Associates.

Sep 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mooresville, North Carolina, United States · On-site

• Worked in the capacity of Onsite Coordinator for 7+ US Projects; dexterously assessed business requirements and technical specifications for guiding QA Team to write comprehensive test cases. Reviewed test scripts for manual and automated testing
• Functioned as Subject Matter Expert for IMB Sterling OMS System
• Collaborated with project teams in order to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive; gathered requirements, defined scopes, prepared and presented Test Strategy & Plans
• Hands-on experience with computer networks, network administration and network installation

Jun 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Worked in close relation with multiple teams for different internal projects; successfully teamed up with development team for test data and execution
• Managed project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance
• Partnered with Project Lead &Managers to take the QA estimated schedule for the assigned task list

Mar 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Efficiently & effectively tested hardware and software within a tightly controlled sandbox environment for release to production
• Developed comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives
• Participated in reviewing test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements; leveraged skills in UFT Script Execution, Debugging and Reporting

Jan 2008 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Test Planning: Developing test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on project requirements and specifications.
• Test Execution: Conducting various types of tests, including functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, performance testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Defect Tracking: Identifying, logging, and tracking software defects using bug tracking systems. Collaborating with developers and stakeholders to resolve and verify bug fixes.

Sep 2006 – Aug 2007 · 11 mos