Ranjitha Kolanginathan

Job Title: Lead Consultant

Client : Dental Insurance

Role: Scrum Master

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Identified and resolved an average of 5 team impediments per sprint, reducing delivery delays by 20%.
• Optimize Scrum events for enhanced effectiveness, productivity, and strict adherence to timebox guidelines.
• Cultivate strong communication and collaboration among team members, and stakeholders.
• Direct the team in self-organization, cultivate cross-functional capabilities, and adopt Agile methodologies.
• Facilitate team comprehension and application of Scrum practices, and guidelines.
• Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Identify and resolve obstacles that hinder the team's progress.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders to address and resolve challenges.
• Shield the team from external disruptions and distractions.
• Maintained up-to-date project documentation, enabling clear communication and transparency among stakeholders.

Client: Health Plan Services.

Domain: Health Care

Role: Scrum Master

• Spearheaded conflict resolution and empowered teams to reach decisions through the creation of a 100% inclusive environment.
• Partnered with Product Owners to clarify, streamline, prioritize, and communicate features and user stories across Agile team members.
• Collaborated with the Product Owner to prioritize the user stories.
• Regularly partnered with the team to ensure daily updates of stories on JIRA.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Agile practices, including Scrum and serving as a Scrum Master.
• Proven expertise in transitioning teams from waterfall methodologies to Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Skilled in setting up request intake and approval workflows in JIRA Cloud.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with an organized, disciplined approach, and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Proficient in delivering project status updates to senior and executive management, emphasizing key initiatives.
• Demonstrated leadership in IT delivery, with a track record of building and maintaining high-performing teams.
• Thrives in fast-paced, rapidly evolving, and highly complex environments.

Client: Alight Solutions

Domain: Insurance

Role: QA Lead

• As Team Lead, I manage resources and testing activities to ensure timely deliveries across functions.
• Elicited information from customers to create requirements, use cases, application specifications, and test plans.
• Bugs Tracking & Preparing Bug Report Document.
• Reduced regression testing time by 70% by implementing Selenium-based automation framework
• Improved customer satisfaction with thorough validation of user requirements during the testing process.

Client : Standard Bank

Domain : Banking

Role: Test Engineer

• Writing test scenarios for test cases against features, product backlog items.
• Prepared test data for functional and integration testing. Interactions with the BA and Dev teams to resolve issues.
• Managing a set of junior resources. Being back up for the lead in their absence.
• Improved test feedback loop by collaborating closely with developers and business analysts, reducing rework by 20%.
• Contributed to cross-functional teams, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference, or audits.