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KIRAN VEMPATI

Australia

Summary

  • Experienced Iteration Manager with a proven history of understanding and building complex systems and coaching Scrum Teams towards Agility through frameworks like Scrum, SAFe® 5 & Kanban.
  • 9 years of experience working as a Scrum Master in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) domain, with over all 15 years of working experience in IT industry.
  • Excited to continue expanding skillset by working in IT industry focusing on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer- centric products and features.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master

NSW Health
09.2021 - Current
  • Coached 3 teams to higher level of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum framework
  • Spearheaded 90+ Agile Scrum Events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives, Story Refinement, and Release Planning
  • Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross- functional teams
  • Used Agile methods and processes to coach 4 product owners through complex problem-solving and solution strategies
  • Identified 10+ complex impediments and assisted 3 teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments
  • Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure 7 teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum practices
  • Well-versed with implementing Scrum Events with required Artifacts using Microsoft Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence and providing to management on need basis
  • Ensured Product Backlog Items & user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team
  • Supported Product Owner in slicing User Stories using Techniques such as INVEST & MVP
  • Well-versed with implementing T-shirt size and Fibonacci Series format of Effort Estimations techniques using Azure Dev-Ops as a tool and ensuring teams follow it
  • Supported Product Owner in Prioritizing User Stories using MOSCOW Technique
  • Well-versed with Capacity Planning & defining DOR and DOD

SAFe® Scrum Master

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia, CBA
08.2018 - 08.2021
  • Coached Scrum teams towards Agility by ensuring to follow Scrum Methodologies and Standards
  • Uplifted the Scanning Capabilities and enhanced the CBA Remediation process for Patching
  • Vulnerabilities and transformed the whole portfolio towards SAFe Scrum Agile
  • Spearheaded 100+ Agile SAFe Scrum Ceremonies such as Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration Retrospectives, User Story Refinement, and Iteration Review
  • Tracked and communicated 10 projects' progress to 12 stakeholders and management staff
  • Responsible for helping the team embrace SAFe® core Values, adopt and apply SAFe® principles
  • Responsible for promoting SAFe® quality practices
    Interfaced with 3 product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities
  • Removed 50+ obstacles and managed risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness
  • Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported

Scrum Master

Transport For NSW
04.2014 - 07.2018
  • As a Scrum Master responsible for exhibiting behaviours of Lead Agile leader with Lead Agile Mindset
  • Responsible in guiding team in establishing normalized estimates and helping the team to understand how to estimates the Features and Capabilities
  • Responsible for demonstrating and making visible for the progress of Sprint goals and deliverables under Jira
  • Responsible for managing technology delivery squads in an agile model
  • Responsible for facilitating the team’s progress toward Sprint goals

Project Lead

Westpac Banking Corporation, WBC
09.2008 - 03.2014
  • Responsible for signing off the SIT for UAT and never has a SIT missed defects to UAT
  • Responsible for test process adherence to SOX compliance and reporting Westpac standard metrics for test planning, test effort and test progress.
  • Responsible for Test Strategy and Test Plan for Website redesign, internet banking and mobile banking redesign

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Jawahar Lal Technological University (J.N.T.U)
India

Skills

SKILLS & TOOLS

Agile Frameworks - SAFe® ,
Scrum & Kanban
Agile Development and Best
Practices CBA Group Delivery framework
Azure DevOps, JIRA, Miro &
Confluence MS Office 365 Professional
Application Lifecycle Management ALM (V125)
PEGA PRPC V718 PEGA CASE MANAGER

METHODS & FORMATS

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)

Behavior Driven Development Approach (BDD) Test Driven Development Approach (TDD)

Refinement Form Of V-Model

Waterfall Model

MOSCOW

MVP

INVEST

Accomplishments

  • Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master
    (SSM)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Quality Centre Certified Professional by H.P

Timeline

Scrum Master

NSW Health
09.2021 - Current

SAFe® Scrum Master

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia, CBA
08.2018 - 08.2021

Scrum Master

Transport For NSW
04.2014 - 07.2018

Project Lead

Westpac Banking Corporation, WBC
09.2008 - 03.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Jawahar Lal Technological University (J.N.T.U)

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