Dipika Hadiya

Responsibilities

• Coaching cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to consistent successful project deliveries
• Conducting daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective top-down and bottom-up communication among team members
• Managing product backlog effectively, prioritising high-value items for faster completion
• Resolving conflicts and facilitating open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment
• Mentoring junior team members on Scrum best practices, fostering their professional growth within the organisation

Responsibilities

• Led diverse team of talented ATO and External Vendor staff including Business Consultants, Configurator and Testers across multiple workflows
• Organised and facilitated handovers with Scrum Team
• Managed relationships with Foster Moore as per MBR business vision and strategy
• Delivered quality MBR - Verne products including Service Features, API, UI as per the delivery schedule
• Worked with Product Owners, RTL to ensure team is delivering value on time while raising any blockers to ensure team productivity
• Managed personal and team's workload and ensured team is highly successful and energised at the same time
• Coordinated Agile Ceremonies such as Daily Stand-ups, Sprint refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retro, Desk Checks and Sprint Demos
• Initiated continuous process improvement in TFS Reporting, Verne Upgrades, Process simplifications

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Programme Increment Planning, sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, scrum of scrums and software demonstrations
• Worked closely with the product owner in backlog management, requirements/design issue resolution and continuous delivery of features
• Identified / resolved impediments and escalating to the Release Management and work with the dependency team to resolve them in a timely manner
• Acted as scrum coach for the team by educating and reinforcing scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
• Ensured that team members are following ATO standards to design, build and test digital technology solutions
• Conducted reviews to ensure the components delivered meet the requirements, quality, consistency and performance required by the ATO
• Reviewed detailed design documents and guided the scrum team to extract requirements and develop test scenarios from those requirements, ensuring scenarios are targeted to test the function and interactions of our system

Key Achievements

• Received a certificate of appreciation from Assistant Commissioner Michael Heath for taking initiative while my manager was on extended leave
• Performed higher duties for scrum master role
• Recognised and awarded for STP Agile Most valuable personnel (MVP) for PI15

Responsibilities

• Planning and preparing test requirements and test cases, followed by internal reviews and external review, to establish confidence in test coverage
• Creating an Execution Plan detailing the percentage of execution to reach throughout the Build Drop cycle
• Strategically developing a daily plan considering the different time zones of the testers to ensure the maximum number of testers across all projects are able to execute at all times
• Reviewing and authorising test scripts before and after execution in ALM
• Providing support for Integrated Core Processing (ICP) client refreshes, batch runs and mid-range system date changes using Mainframe server
• Building relationships across many programs within EST to stay connected with external stakeholders
• Coordinating shakedowns of test environments following deployment of new code to ensure project deliverables are met in line with established timelines
• Ensuring that any defects, environmental issues and project risks are identified and presented to stakeholders such as Build, Design and Project Management
• Creating Test Closure Memos for management. These documents detail what was tested, the results of the testing and at the completion
• Managing team members and their day to day tasks and their performances through compass discussions

Key Achievements

• Received positive and encouraging feedback from my direct supervisor, Project Manager and Test Manager for my ability to learn quickly, technical skills, collaborative work management
• Timely delivery of Quarterly release for project
• Opportunity to act on Higher Duties

Responsibilities

• Prepared and executed FT scripts and reported results in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Identified and resolved defects/change requests (CR) from the functional testing
• Developed and executed test automation scripts (in Unified Function Testing (UFT)) for Shakedown and regression test
• Communicated to a range of stakeholders to prepare, execute and circulate the FT results
• Continuously maintained system documentation for process improvement
• Supported new team members in setting up tools such as Client based Rules and Formatting Header Utility (RFHUtilc), UFT, ALM

Key Achievements

• Nominated to learn and initiate Test Automation for STP Test Teams
• Achieved permanent position within Function Test Team following graduate program