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Saurabh Sinha

Saurabh Sinha

Westmead,NSW

Summary

Professional Scrum specialist with deep expertise in facilitating Agile frameworks and driving high-performing teams. Strong focus on optimizing team collaboration and delivering impactful results. Reliable in adapting to evolving project requirements. Proficient in Agile methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. Known for effective communication and leadership skills.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Accenture Australia
04.2022 - Current
  • Servant leader and coach ensuring adherence to Agile principles and practices leading 2 agile teams for NBN Australia in Digital Services domain following SAFe framework delivering awesome products.
  • Organize and facilitate all the scrum ceremonies i.e. sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Manage change management process and production releases to optimize business value.
  • Perform the release management activities for the teams by identifying the scope, scheduling the changes, creating deployment run sheets, coordinating with different stakeholders during deployment and sending relevant communications.
  • Participating in Scrum of Scrum Meetings to provide progress update, communicate impediments and understand dependencies.
  • Participating in Pre-PI and PI Planning activities to plan the PI with Business and other stakeholders.
  • Helping Product Owners and Business Analysts in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
  • Coaching team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on inculcating agile culture.
  • Monitor team performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to enhance productivity and efficiency.
  • Performing Forecasting and finance invoicing for the team.
  • Resolved impediments to team progress by proactively identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions.
  • Championed change management initiatives, guiding teams through successful transitions to new methodologies and techniques.

Scrum Master

Fidelity India
05.2020 - 03.2022
  • Working as a dedicated Scrum Master for 3 agile teams within Cybersecurity unit working on data security and detection space.
  • Participated and facilitated Tribe and Squad Lift Off process.
  • Work with Squad Leaders with Squad Vision, Mission and Mission Tests aligning to Tribe vision statement.
  • Work with squad leads to prepare Product Road Map and plan the releases aligning to Product Goal.
  • Organizing and facilitating release and sprint planning meetings, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Removing impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  • Coaching Squad Leaders in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
  • Coaching team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on inculcating agile culture.
  • Capture and present relevant agile metrics to the team as well as management to maintain transparency and ensure continuous improvement.

Scrum Master

JP Morgan Chase, India
04.2017 - 03.2020
  • Actively contributed in the agile transformation within the org. Audited projects on Agile practices and agile standards. Helped the teams to fill the gaps and to perform at the desired level of agile maturity in the transformation journey.
  • Working as a dedicated Scrum Master for 3 agile teams working on different technology platforms like Java, .Net and Pega.
  • Organizing and facilitating release and sprint planning meetings, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Removing impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  • Coaching Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.
  • Coaching team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on inculcating agile culture.
  • Participate in the Demand Management Estimation process for each change within the bank
  • Ensure that the forecasting project efforts are aligned to the sprint goal and within the capacity of the team.
  • Capture and present relevant agile metrics to the team as well as management to maintain transparency and ensure continuous improvement.

Assistant Manager

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, India
11.2010 - 04.2017
  • Working as the Project Manager and Managing end to end delivery of AMPM project including project resourcing, budgeting and scheduling.
  • Leading and supervising the team of Automation Engineers. Responsible for creating the roadmap, performing feasibility analysis, planning the automation activities and delivering the automated suites to the manual testing team.
  • Managing the testing activities within the channel. Performing resource allocation, test estimation, test planning and scheduling, creating test strategies for different projects/releases, reviewing test artifacts, lead the defect review board meetings and provide Test Sign-Offs.
  • Deriving project metrics, identify gaps and implement process changes to improve metrics.
  • Mentoring and guiding team members to achieve their goals.
  • Analyzed, designed and implemented test automation framework using QTP/UFT and RFT tools to automate smoke and regression test suites for 14 applications which includes both third party products as well as in house web applications.
  • Automated smoke and regression test suites for 5 applications using UFT & RFT.
  • Achieved around 80% coverage in smoke testing suites and 70% automation coverage in regression testing suites and reduced the effort execution by around 50% across applications.
  • Awarded Outstanding Performer of the quarter for effectively managing the ARIS 7 to ARIS 9 product migration testing which included testing for 250+ clients.

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India
08.2006 - 11.2010
  • Worked as a Senior Test Engineer on Brokerage and Advisory applications of Deutsche Bank, Germany.
  • Performed Functional, Smoke, Sanity, Integration and Regression testing of web and mainframe applications.
  • Analyzed the requirement, estimated the effort, derived test scenarios, created test cases, prepared RTM.
  • Executed Tests, reported defects and tracked them to closure.
  • Test Status reporting to all the stakeholders.
  • Coordinating with clients, project BA and developers on project queries.
  • Performing peer reviews of test scenarios and test cases & Mentored junior team members.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

VTU
09-2006

Skills

  • Servant leadership
  • Agile coaching
  • Product backlog management
  • Scrum framework expertise
  • Risk identification
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Scrum processes

Certification

· Certified SAFe 6.0 Agilist

· ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching

· Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Master

· Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner

· Certified Agility Health Facilitator

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Accenture Australia
04.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Fidelity India
05.2020 - 03.2022

Scrum Master

JP Morgan Chase, India
04.2017 - 03.2020

Assistant Manager

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, India
11.2010 - 04.2017

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India
08.2006 - 11.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

VTU

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