Laljit Singh Suri
Airport West,Australia
Summary
IT professional with 17 years of experience in retail, banking and financial services. Agile practitioner with diverse experience in agile/scrum coaching, scaled agile methods, project delivery and software development. Led software development initiatives in digital platforms and technologies with budget up to $1 million with cross functional teams of developers, business analysts and testers. Experienced in coaching technical and business stakeholders at all levels in adopting agile methods and best practices. Proven track record in uplifting teams’ capabilities using Scrum, Kanban and SAFe methodologies. Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance and Certified SAFe Agilist. AWS Certified Associate – Solutions Architect, Developer and Sysops Administrator. Worked for well-known multinational and large organizations like NAB, ANZ, adidas, Mondelez international. Advanced technical skills in Web Technologies, Microservices, Databases, Cloud and Devops.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
National Australia Bank (NAB)
02.2018 - Current
- Enabled and led two new squads in NAB promoted scaled agile ways of working called as Tech Op Model
- Coached squads on the purpose and execution of Tech Op Model practices
- Helped Product Owners in elaboration and slicing of larger chunk of work (called as epics) into smaller and more granular features and stories
- Facilitated agile events – feature elaboration, daily catchups, backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint retrospective
- Facilitated release planning with product owners, service architects, development lead and testing leads
- Work with Release Train Engineer in maintaining future sprint backlogs and squad capacity plans in Rally (collaboration tool used in NAB)
- Represent squads in release train scrum of scrums
- Ensure squad features are adequately captured in Rally for dependent squads
Scrum Master
National Australia Bank (NAB)
02.2018 - 06.2021
- Led cross-team development of reporting tool for reporting LIBOR exposures
- The tool originally estimated to develop over period of one year was iteratively delivered in nine months with MVP features
- Agile consultant to multiple streams of work in the program
- Coached teams on agile and scrum practices and tools
- Helped project managers set up Jira and Jira Portfolio boards
- Coached product owners in creating initiative roadmap, maintaining backlog, iteration planning and user story writing
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies – daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, showcase and retrospectives
- Facilitated working groups with business stakeholders
- Defining agenda for working group as per program roadmap, align actions for business and track them
- Facilitated and promoted cross-team collaboration for integration specification, release planning and user acceptance testing
Iteration Manager
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
11.2008 - 02.2018
- Led delivery of Customer Annual Reviews feature with multi-vendor scrum team and the budget of $1 million
- Coached cross functional 15-member team comprising business analysts, solution architect, developers, and testers in scrum and scaled agile ways of working
- Helped program manager in story/epic allocation among different squads as per squad capacity and velocity
- Developed and maintained metrics for per squad per sprint velocity and capacity reports
- This relative estimation helped in 20% effort saving
- Facilitated sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospective sessions
- Represent team in Release Train events such as PI Planning and Scrum of Scrums
- Defined Definition of Done for different phases of different story types which helped improve quality of deliverables
- Facilitate collaboration with devops and component teams
- Planning for design activities with solution designers and BAs ahead of sprints to maintain architecture runaway
- Resource management and general well-being of team including conflict management within team members
Project Manager
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
02.2015 - 03.2017
- Delivered enhancements to CRM web services and delivery of Single Sign-On component
- Coached team in adoption of scrum and agile ways of working
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies, help product owner manage backlog
- Helped team learn and adapt continuous integration/deployment practices using Jenkins and Docker containers
- Release planning and co-ordination with operations team and dependent/third party teams
- Reporting sprint metrics for story points delivered, business value delivered, incomplete sprint scope and reasons
Operations Manager
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
07.2013 - 01.2015
- Led digital marketing platform support
Development Lead
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
07.2011 - 04.2013
Development Lead
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
11.2008 - 06.2011
Java/JEE developer
iSmart Panache India Solutions Pvt Ltd.
07.2006 - 11.2008
Java/JEE developer
Tavant Technologies
06.2004 - 07.2006
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology
Surathkal, Karnataka05.2004
Skills
- Scrum and SAFe ceremonies
- Product backlog
- Story mapping
- Agile estimation
- Capacity planning and forecasting
- Sprint/Release reporting
- Java
- JEE
- Micro Services
- Devops - CI/CD
- Jenkins
- Test Automation
- TDD
- AWS Cloud technologies
- Jira
- Confluence
- Sharepoint
- Microsoft Project
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Visio
- Project management
- Technical design and development
- Testing – functional
- Automated
- Performance
- Risk assessment
- Production support and operations
- Agile coaching
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
- Certified SAFe Agilist from Scaled Agile
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Associate – Solutions Architect, Developer and Sysops Administrator
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 07/11/82
- Marital Status: Married
- Work Permit: Australia Permanent Residency
Skills
Scrum and SAFe ceremonies, Product backlog, Story mapping, Agile estimation, Capacity planning and forecasting, Sprint/Release reporting, Java, JEE, Micro Services, Devops - CI/CD, Jenkins, Test Automation, TDD, AWS Cloud technologies, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project management, Technical design and development, Testing – functional, automated and performance, Risk assessment, Production support and operations, Agile coaching, Retail, Banking & Financial Services
Timeline
Scrum Master
National Australia Bank (NAB)
02.2018 - Current
Scrum Master
National Australia Bank (NAB)
02.2018 - 06.2021
Project Manager
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
02.2015 - 03.2017
Operations Manager
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
07.2013 - 01.2015
Development Lead
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
07.2011 - 04.2013
Iteration Manager
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
11.2008 - 02.2018
Development Lead
Infosys Limited (Consulting Company)
11.2008 - 06.2011
Java/JEE developer
iSmart Panache India Solutions Pvt Ltd.
07.2006 - 11.2008
Java/JEE developer
Tavant Technologies
06.2004 - 07.2006
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology
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