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PREETI SAINI

PREETI SAINI

Scrum Master
Chennai

Summary

Dedicated Scrum Master with 3+ years guiding agile teams through complex product development lifecycles. Specializes in facilitating cross-functional collaboration, removing impediments, and coaching teams on agile best practices. Improved sprint velocity by 27% through targeted process improvements and team-building initiatives. Thrives in environments where servant leadership transforms how teams deliver value.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4033
4033
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Scrum Master

Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2022 - Current
  • Led Agile delivery as Scrum Master for multiple cross-functional teams: Kanban team in Karlsruhe, Germany, and various Scrum teams in Chennai, India
  • Coached and Enforced Scrum principles, Agile best practices and Optimised Scrum/Kanban framework to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins
  • Orchestrated an enterprise-wide Agile transformation for a 150-person product organization, reducing time-to-market by 32% and increasing deployment frequency from quarterly to bi-weekly releases
  • Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives for multiple cross-functional teams, improving sprint completion rates from 65% to 89% within the first quarter.
  • Collaborated with Product Owners to refine the backlog prioritization process, reducing planning overhead by 6 hours per sprint while increasing alignment with business objectives
  • Established team working agreements and definition of done criteria that decreased QA rejection rates by 24% and fostered a culture of shared accountability
  • Redesigned the sprint retrospective format to focus on actionable outcomes, resulting in 41 process improvements implemented over 12 months and a measurable decrease in technical debt
  • Guided 4 development teams through a shift to remote-first collaboration during COVID-19, implementing virtual ceremonies and asynchronous communication patterns that maintained velocity while improving team satisfaction scores by 18%
  • Monitored and tracked project progress using different metrics to support timely completion.
  • Removed impediments, helped the team for quality improvement and continuous integration, while making sure delivering value quickly
  • Facilitated conflict resolution and empowered the teams to self-organize
  • Managed interdependencies between agile teams
  • Identified, scheduled and executed innovative sessions to increase team bonding and motivation
  • Engaged in Process Improvements along with Quality Professional
  • Exhibited ownership in leading and accounting for project deliveries from my teams
  • Managed regular stakeholder interaction- observations and feedbacks( PM, PO, RM)
  • Supported RM's in facilitating various ceremonies like - PI Plannings, PI level refinements and CCB meetings
  • Manage and update JIRA, RTC Jazz and Confluence to reflect the current status, team's capacity plan, Scrum/Kanban board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts
  • Active Participant and moderator for Community of Practice for Scrum Masters

Software Test Specialist

Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd.
10.2019 - 03.2022
  • Worked as an Automation Tester to develop and execute Automation Test Scripts for Desktop automation, Web browser automation and API automation.
  • Designed, Enhanced and Implemented Automation Test Framework.
  • Identified Test Scenarios and Constructed Test Cases.
  • Analyzed Test Results.
  • Reported Defects and created Defect Tracker.
  • Performed Regression and Sanity Testing.
  • Performed Occasional Build Validation and Test Script Maintenance.
  • Engaged in Process Improvements.
  • Exhibited ownership in creating and updating the quality documents and quality metrics for the team.

Intern

Tata Technologies
05.2017 - 06.2017
  • Developed a web application which books a conference room, basis the specifications and needs, for employees on a specific date and time.

Education

B.Tech. - Computer Science

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Bhubaneswar
01.2015 - 01.2019

Higher Secondary Education -

Hill Top School
Jamshedpur, India

Secondary Education -

Hill Top School
Jamshedpur, India

Skills

RTC Jazz, JIRA, Confluence and Conceptboard

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Implementation

Scrum, Kanban

Change management

Project and Risk management

Stakeholder management

Public speaking

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Certification

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

Interests

Active lead organizer of multiple events at Office – Hackathons, Cultural events and Regular team bonding activities Right from forming teams, leading them, coming up with innovative ideas, branding, sending communications, staging and hosting the events and taking end to end responsibility of the entire event

A keen Debater and Elocutionist

Former member of the Adult Literacy Project of Rotaract Club Coordinated and successfully spearheaded variety of events including fundraisers, literacy sessions and club events

Former Volleyball player

An absolute lover of Food and Dance

Timeline

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

10-2024

SAFe Scrum Master

02-2024

Professional Scrum Master(PSM) - 1

04-2023

ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate in Agile Software Testing

10-2022

Scrum Master

Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2022 - Current

PtU Certified Performance Tester with JMeter

06-2021

ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate in Software Testing

02-2020

Software Test Specialist

Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd.
10.2019 - 03.2022

Intern

Tata Technologies
05.2017 - 06.2017

B.Tech. - Computer Science

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
01.2015 - 01.2019

Higher Secondary Education -

Hill Top School

Secondary Education -

Hill Top School

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