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Satheesh Kumar

Satheesh Kumar

Senior Agilist/Scrum Master
Chennai

Summary

Accomplished, committed and creative IT professional with relative 13 + years of experiences on various Agileprojects. Focused on Time & Quality, Improved Productivity, Performance, and Cost control. Achieved extensiveexposure with Onsite-Offshore model interacting directly with the clients and business users. Expertise inimplementing Scrum framework and migrating to Agile methodologies from Non-Agile techniques. Inheritexperience as an active Scrum coordinator sourcing, identifying, and securing project documents through JIRAtracking tool – Enterprise releases.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates

Work History

Senior Agilist

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
01.2021 - Current

• Currently working as a Scrum Master handling teams spread across multiple onsite, offshore locations.
Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking
hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Highly experienced in cross-functional Engineering environment.
• Facilitated Scrum Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
meetings. Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process that drives the
synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning events.
Work with the team to ensure process quality and continual improvement.
Create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint post the Sprint
Retrospective based on What went well, What could be improved , What went bad.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and
deliverables.
• Collaborated with Product owner & Business to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Exposure to Agile & Software Development Life Cycle including Requirement Analysis, Testing, UAT &
Production. Adapt at STLC and Manual, Functional, Sanity, Integration, Regression Testing. Established
risk-based testing and defect management process for offshore testing team.
• Jira dashboards and reports like Burn down chart, Velocity chart, Epic reporting, Stories and defect
management tracker. Create and track sub tasks. Hosting BRP events.
• As a business analyst, gathering requirements from the business team and stakeholders.
• Create detailed documentation of business requirements, processes, and solutions.
• Work with IT and other departments to implement solutions groom them and ensure they align with
business
goals.
• Communicate findings, recommendations, and project updates to stakeholders and executives.
Worked on resource consolidation and sourcing for VZ projects.

Education

Bachelor of Business Management -

Sri Krishna College of Arts And Science
Coimbatore, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Agile methodologiesScrum & Kanban FrameworkBusiness AnalysisRequirement AnalysisProject Planning & SchedulingProject Estimation & DeliveryUser Acceptance TestingPI Planning / Big Room PlanningART Backlog ManagementAgile Transformation InitiativesAgile Metrics TrackingAgile CoachingDocumentationsPresentationsImplementation Plan

Certification

SAFe Agilist

Timeline

Senior Agilist

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
01.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Business Management -

Sri Krishna College of Arts And Science
04.2001 -
Satheesh KumarSenior Agilist/Scrum Master