RAKESH REDDY

• Responsible for leadership, mentoring, instilling agile best practices, building a culture of continuous improvement, and learning within the Pre-Dev (Business Analysts) and delivery/Development teams
• Assist Product & Project Management in defining & executing strategies for delivery of projects through Iteration Planning with targeted release road-maps
• Develop a deep understanding of the internal business processes, plans & objectives of SF ASP and translate to actionable plans & deliverables from product/stakeholder management perspective
• Facilitate agile practices, scrum ceremonies with Azure DevOps project management/administration for Web & Mobile Apps
• Ensure Stories/features/scenarios are accurately documented,logically split with detailed Acceptance Criteria, wireframes
• Effectively assisting the scrum team in identifying and managing dependencies in product development, monitoring team's sprint progress using agile metrics, manage CI & CD deployment pipelines, configuration management, & releases
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Working collaboratively with the cross functional teams, Product owner, BA, UX Designer, business stakeholders to create user stories, build product backlog, as well as with SMEs to elicit business goals and define sprint goal-level requirements
• Help the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value increments that meets Definition of Done (DoD), remove impediments to team's progress
• Carrying out a range of duties related to strategic planning, risk management, budget management, infrastructure impact assessment, conflict management, and project release management, consistently working towards company goals

• Accountable for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, control and completion of various projects such as the Overseas Health Cover Migration Agent Portal - New Health, Member Portal, and Partner Portal
• Facilitating relevant Agile ceremonies and rituals such as backlog refinement, daily stand-up, iteration or release planning, showcases or sprint review, and retrospective, consistently providing improvement initiatives to reach desired outcomes
• Accomplishing various tasks such as managing Jira workflows, creating and linking Confluence pages to Jira, performing QA on functional and non-functional specifications, as well as reviewing test plans and test cases with the QA Team
• Participate in systems requirements definition, ensure requirements are understood and accurately defined and made into a workable PBI
• Effective communication between the product, wider business areas, external vendors, consulting partners, and Dev teams

• Recognized for increasing customer satisfaction on agile-led projects by 23% in the first quarter, and driving the agile team to improve its throughput by 15% using high-collaboration approaches
• Facilitating and monitoring scrum practices in the planning and execution of WIB ETL Batch Integration, Enterprise Information Gateway, and Group Customer Master APIs projects
• Showcasing expertise by coaching community stakeholders on agile best practices, whilst supporting team members in utilizing various technologies including Splunk events monitoring, search analytics, and visualizations
• Organizing program increment, innovation planning, and release train planning sessions, additionally liaising with the product owner, business analysts and team members in refining the backlog
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Managing multiple project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

Notable Projects: Student Administration, Student Management Systems, Admissions, Student Registrations, Fees, Enrolments, Graduations,Scholarships,Library,Marketing,Research,Exams & Time-Tabling, Course Progressions & Completions, Leganto, Interruption of Studies, SA-HELP,OS-HELP, Student Results, Student Connect, Student Portal, Ellucian Banner 8 & 9.

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Collaborated with development teams, internal customers, and product line management to verify delivery of desired quality requirements to distributors.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

Notable Projects: RadDesktop, Universal Viewer, Crescendo, Allegro, and Qualibria – Serviceability Foundation.

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