Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Tools
Timeline
Teacher

Preethi Koulagari

Scrum Lead
Hyderabad,Telangana

Summary

Have a total experience accounting to 11 Years & 2 Months, within IT industry. Of
which 10+ years of work experience is in Agile. Been in the role of a Scrum Master for 2 years. Living in the agile world, Have got used to being challenged constantly at
various instances. Responding to these challenges - trying to emerge with the right solutions, learning from the mistakes - made better with each assignment. Being a
certified profession scrum master, given a chance, would ensure to perform to the best of abilities, to leave an impact.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

Scrum Lead

Optum Global Solutions
Hyderabad , Telangana
2021.11 - Current
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
  • Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
  • Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

Software Engineer, Scrum Master

Optum Global Solutions
Hyderabad , Telangana
2019.09 - 2021.10
  • Teach Scrum to team and participate in teaching of Scrum to entire organization.
  • Support the team & eliminate any impediments to progress.
  • Coach team through Sprint Ceremonies and use of their related artifacts and terms.
  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies.
  • Avoid any deviation of the team/ product owner from the agile values & principles. This is to ensure that every sprint produces a potentially shippable product.
  • Make sure that team is updating whiteboard on a daily basis.
  • Create daily reports like Burndown charts, to circulate them amongst team.
  • Enhanced some of the features for the MVC 4.0 Dotnet Application using Jquery, MVC4
  • Experienced in Debugging, Error Handling and Deploying the SSIS packages.
  • Expertise in SQL (Tables, Views, Indexes, SubQueries, Joins, Constraints, Union Operators, Aggregate Functions) and T-SQL (Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Cursors, Tables, Views, Indexes, Sub queries, Joins, SQL Functions).
  • Experienced in Maintaining the code base in the Git Hub.
  • Acquired hands-on rich experience in Jenkins tool for Continous Integration
  • Experience On Automation tools(UFT and CodedUI).
  • Acquired hands-on rich experience in web Developments using Angular 4, .Net C#, MVC 4.0 and Teleric Controls.

Software Engineer

Optum Global Solutions
Hyderabad , Telangana
2013.04 - 2019.09
  • Enhanced some of the features for the MVC 4.0 Dotnet Application using Jquery, MVC4
  • Experienced in Debugging, Error Handling and Deploying the SSIS packages.
  • Expertise in SQL (Tables, Views, Indexes, SubQueries, Joins, Constraints, Union Operators, Aggregate Functions) and T-SQL (Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Cursors, Tables, Views, Indexes, Sub queries, Joins, SQL Functions).
  • Experienced in Maintaining the code base in the Git Hub.
  • Acquired hands-on rich experience in Jenkins tool for Continous Integration.
  • Experience On Automation tools(UFT and CodedUI)·
  • Acquired hands-on rich experience in web Developments using Angular 4, .Net C#, MVC 4.0 and Teleric Controls.

Program Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad , Telangana
2011.07 - 2013.04


  • Involved in conversion of DTS to SSIS Packages Developed Reusable transformations using corresponding transformations.
  • Worked with business team to implement projects and new enhancements.
  • Identified Bottlenecks in the Transformations and Involved in Performance tuning.
  • Involved in Code Review & Peer Review.
  • Developed Variables in SSIS ETL Packages.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

JNTU University
Hyderabad
05.2010

Skills

  • Organizing/ Facilitating all scrum ceremonies.
  • Closely work with the product owner on creation of user stories & maintain a healthy backlog and to define the DOD, DOR & Acceptance Criteria.
  • Keep track of project status, within defect management tool used (Rally).
  • Generate key metrics like Burn Down, Velocity & Capacity - to analyze on ground
    situation & act accordingly.
  • Coach/ Guide the team, on Scrum & see that they don't deviate from the set standards, while focusing on the delivery goal.
  • Understand the team's impediments & work towards clearing these.
  • Shielding/ safeguarding team from any disturbing factors - both external & internal, so that they stay focused on delivery goal committed to.
  • Work with Scrum Team to reach right estimations, through proper estimation techniques.
  • Closely monitor Burn-down charts, to understand project execution & avoid any scope creeps.
  • Maintain Rally board for project with relevant details for each of issue types.
  • Follow-up with respective stake holders, to get direction for dependencies/ blockers, if any.
  • Achieving handshakes on dependencies - to ensure timely delivery.

Accomplishments

  • Recieved many Bravo's from Development teams, Organizations, Managment for the effectiveness of role played as Scrum Master.


Certification

  • Professional Scrum Master(PSM 1).
  • Professional Scrum Master(PSM 2).

Tools

  • Rally
  • Confluence
  • Retrium/Idea Boards/Plan IT poker used for Scrum Cermonies

Timeline

Scrum Lead

Optum Global Solutions
2021.11 - Current

Software Engineer, Scrum Master

Optum Global Solutions
2019.09 - 2021.10

Software Engineer

Optum Global Solutions
2013.04 - 2019.09

Program Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
2011.07 - 2013.04

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

JNTU University
  • Professional Scrum Master(PSM 1 & PSM 2).
Preethi Koulagari Scrum Lead