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Gayathri Selvam

Senior Scrum Master

Chennai

Summary

Situational Leadership, leading & facilitating Change. Enthusiastic Servant Leader with proven leadership skills in a cross-functional multi-cultural environments and over 9+ years of successfully motivating and coaching teams in Scrum framework. Demonstrated ability to strengthen relationships with team members, team, and stakeholders to deliver products, build trust and achieve commitments in line with the customers’ requirements on time. Comfortable in leading large teams in process and product development, coordinating complex high value. Diverse change management experience across multiple organizations, teams, products, environments, and technologies, capable of bringing energy and motivation to teams, while keeping them focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Possess exceptional transformational and re-engineering skills.

Enthusiastic and people friendly!

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Senior Scrum Master (R & D integration and Program Management)

Anthology Inc, (Formerly Blackboard Inc., USA)

02.2019 - Current

Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Story Points & Refinement, Retrospective) for estimation/prioritizing of User stories with Definition of Ready
Expertise to mentor, guide, and coach newly formed Agile teams to become self-organized, high performing teams
Create transparency and alignment on team speed, quality of deliverables and happiness
Assisted the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog & guided the team while facilitating a healthy, dynamic, regular refinement meeting with Acceptance criteria and prioritization techniques
Shielding the team & escalate impediments to maintain focus and encourage cross functional co-ordination
Communicate and manage risk and support relentless improvement
Collaboration, accountability, and integrity in practicing Scrum and SAFe in multiple teams across organization.

Scrum Master (R & D Department) and Senior Quality Analyst Specialist

Blackboard Inc.

02.2015 - 12.2018

Excellent experience in understanding the business needs and converting them into test cases
Designed and Reviewed of Test Scenarios & Test Cases
Responsible for build deployment in Test Environments
Performed Test Estimation, Test Planning, Team management, Reporting and Test Closure from the Test Management front
Been a key team player of Core Banking Migration in CUBI from Fiserv to Fidelity National Information Services, Inc
Worked with product teams & created Risk Analysis Report for various products
Assessed team’s performance standards and advising improvements
Conducting root cause analysis to identify skills gaps
Revived the Mobile Back-end API automation test cases along with the team
Experience in Automation testing frameworks, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing from the technical front.

Associate Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

10.2013 - 11.2014

Worked on building analytic reports on acquisition process where I gained knowledge on BFS domain
Contributed to streamlining the Business Process and enable customer to take right decisions using reporting and predictive analysis
Prepared reports on analysis of acquisition process on reporting tool Business Objects (BO) and developed Dashboards and various charts in OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition).