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Mahesha Maiya

Bangalore,India

Summary

Professional Agile facilitator committed to driving team success and delivering high-value projects. Proven track record in guiding teams through Agile transformations and optimizing workflows to enhance productivity. Known for strong focus on collaboration and adaptability to evolving project needs, ensuring consistent achievement of goals.

Experienced with Agile methodologies, including Scrum framework. Utilizes effective communication and leadership to guide teams toward successful project delivery. Track record of fostering collaborative and productive team environment, ensuring project goals are met efficiently.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Software Engineer

Beckman Coulter India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2022 - Current
  • Our Automation system (DxA5000) is used in bigger labs for High Throughput, 1200 sample/hour, Convenient layout as per customer need or space requirement, can accommodate dual centrifuge system, connects to multiple/different analyzers (DTS and RBU), having option to setup output region in Input module as well at the end as output module
  • ECSD/Storage device/module can keep the sample in regulated temperature for certain days in case same sample needs to be reprocessed based on need
  • Capability to connect to 16 analyzers
  • Being scrum master, responsible for, Managing 2 scrum Teams Day to day activities, Scheduling the scrum calendar for 2 teams (Bangalore and Germany), Scrum Teams Process workbook creation and managing
  • Creating and Managing the Team in Project management Tool, i.e., Azure DevOps
  • Leading the scrum ceremonies, Guiding, and coaching the teams on agile process at regular intervals
  • Maintaining the team’s efficiency by unblocking the bottlenecks
  • Attending all scrum ceremonies and make sure team is following the process and unblocking the hurdles if any
  • Responsible for maintaining the Scrum board, Dashboard and Team KPI’s
  • Maintaining Team Leave Plan, Team Dependency Tracker, make sure draft Review Presentation is available, creating the Retro Board for each sprint, keeping the Retro Tracker UpToDate, update the Meeting Tracker upto date for next sprint planning, etc
  • Received constant appreciations from internal team as well as external teams

Scrum Master and Test Lead

Beckman Coulter India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - 10.2022
  • Aperio eSlide Manager LIS Connectivity Solution (Lab Information System) enables pathologists or other users of laboratory information systems to access digitally scanned slide images of a patient case from within the LIS system
  • Aperio LIS Connectivity offers a tightly coupled integration between Aperio eSlide Manager and LIS systems that enables the launch of Aperio eSlide Manager digital viewers through the LIS interface
  • Being scrum master, responsible for, Leading the scrum ceremonies, Guiding, and coaching the teams on agile process at regular intervals
  • Maintaining the team’s efficiency by unblocking the bottlenecks
  • Attending Scrum of Scrums and updating the team status, aging defect discussions and external teams’ dependency
  • Regular discussion with Field Service Engineers on latest issues and requirements and communication the same to team
  • Responsible for maintaining the Scrum board
  • Being Test Lead, responsible for, Release planning, Verification Planning, various release documentations, etc
  • Identify the scenarios and Review of Test cases
  • Documenting SRS and Traceability Matrix
  • Received constant appreciations from internal team as well as external teams
  • Received Spot Awards

Scrum Master

Philips Healthcare
07.2016 - 07.2018
  • Played role of Scrum Master (8 members team) and responsible for Quality deliverables from scrum team
  • Implemented agile sprints and Increased team productivity by facilitating effective sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint demos and sprint retrospectives
  • Developed high-quality user stories by collaborating with the product owner and organizing effective meetings to discuss and refine user stories
  • Enhanced collaboration between teams and increased knowledge sharing across development team by introducing new processes and systems
  • Monitored sprint progress, identified any impediments, and reported project updates to the stakeholders effectively
  • Come up with the detailed document for different flavors of migration in ICAP
  • Which is appreciate, approved and steps went into Installation Guidelines document
  • Came up with the Verification plan for different migration workflow w.r.t different hardware’s (Different Vendor Hardware’s and VM’s); which was concluded with higher management as per Hospital Scenario’s
  • Responsible lead for DB Migration verification execution across different BIU’s - ICAP, MR Apps and NM Apps
  • Given knowledge sharing session on DB Migration to MR Apps, NM Apps, ICAP Customer service team, System regression and ICAP CPE team
  • Received Take Ownership and Team up to Excel appreciation from Team

Scrum Master

Philips Healthcare
07.2012 - 06.2016
  • Data server SS integration with Ultrasound, LOBI integration for ISP9 and DXR Juno Eleva
  • DXR Adapter: We converted all existing issues/defects to manual test and validated in customer environment to make sure issue not occur after integration
  • Also, for every release we ensured those tests were executed to know the impact
  • Ultrasound delivery: We have come up with Test Design for the key features to be delivered (Functional and NFR), came up with around 400 use cases for CDB and USR feature and performed exhaustive verification to make sure we quality is not compromised
  • In Logging 2.0, being a new module, single handedly worked extensively with development team to make the feature robust with the better quality
  • Came up with test Design/ scenarios to uncover many issues (along with other day to day CTP verification activities)
  • ISP7 Integration of PF2.0 – Extensive and robust verification of DB Migration for ISP7 integration
  • Come up with PPT for different Migration scenarios which helped development team to come up with tools for migration
  • Received Spot award for the work done towards quality deliverables done towards Ultrasound delivery
  • For DXR Juno Eleva release we received appreciation from customer for the quality delivery we made
  • Logging2.0 presentation given to best team and received appreciation from team

Scrum Master

Philips Healthcare
02.2011 - 06.2012
  • Worked with CT Platform development team (15 Dev+1Test) for 1.5 years mainly responsible for teams quality deliverables to ISP project towards ISP4 & ISP5 milestones
  • Majorly worked towards quality deliverables from CT platform team to ISP project- USP (Connectivity and Basic Infra) and System Application (Patient Directory, Reporting, Film, Prefetch, PACS Plugin)
  • Carried out Performance Tests on ad-hoc requests and completed/stretched for the delivery towards important milestones
  • Created Quality Gate Test to ensure quality is not compromised from platform team deliverables and no deviation from our modules
  • In between day-to-day work supported System Integration Team and ICAP verification team as stretch to meet the milestone objective
  • Ramp up new members as and when new member joins the team
  • Received spot awards and many appreciations
  • Received 'BSW Best global associate' from parent company same year
  • During Performance Issue spent sleepless nights and took reports from multiple Systems and proving that, there was no major degradation
  • Ensured good quality of releases in ISP 4 RfLD finding few critical defects proactively
  • Smooth migration of Test Systems during the Location movement

Education

MBA - Master of Business Administration in Total Quality Management

Sikkim Manipal University

BSc - Bachelor of Science (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics)

Bhandarkar’s Arts and Science College

XII -

Viveka Pre-University College
Udupi, Karnataka

X -

Viveka Primary School
Udupi, Karnataka

Skills

  • Facilitate sprint planning
  • Daily stand-up meetings
  • Sprint reviews
  • Retrospectives
  • Backlog refinement
  • Managing stakeholder expectations
  • Coaching development teams
  • Agile practices
  • Scrum principles
  • Monitoring team progress
  • Removing obstacles
  • Continuous improvement
  • Process agreements
  • Product Vision
  • Product Backlog
  • Root cause analysis
  • Corrective action plans
  • Team velocity metrics
  • Quality metrics
  • Communication with senior management
  • Bug tracking
  • Test case writing
  • Test execution
  • Agile methodology
  • SDLC Methodology
  • Independent work
  • Team management
  • DB Migration Release activities
  • Test approaches implementation
  • Knowledge repository building
  • Preparing presentations
  • Client communication
  • Debugging
  • Documenting investigations
  • Requirements ownership
  • Effort estimation
  • Test Plan preparation
  • Multi-cultural team collaboration
  • Work allocation
  • Problem analysis
  • Resolution skills
  • Documentation skills
  • Leadership qualities
  • Motivational skills
  • Agile metrics tracking
  • Agile coaching
  • Sprint planning
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Agile best practices
  • Scrum framework expertise
  • Risk identification
  • Kanban knowledge
  • Backlog grooming
  • Stakeholder management
  • User story creation
  • Presentation skills
  • Retrospective analysis
  • Adaptive leadership
  • Scheduling
  • Meeting participation
  • Resource allocation
  • Scrum processes
  • Backlog management
  • Leading scrum meetings
  • Team facilitation
  • Team leadership
  • Scrum methodology
  • Project team coordination
  • Risk management
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Status reporting

Certification

  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • ISTQB Foundation

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Technology Tools

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Spira, HP Quality Centre 9.2, HP Quality Centre 11/ALM, MTM, VM/DM Board, Rally, TFS, Fog Bugs, CQ, Bugzilla, Version One, Caliber, Mingle, ALM, Excel, SVN, Ruby Script, WATIR (open source)

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer

Beckman Coulter India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2022 - Current

Scrum Master and Test Lead

Beckman Coulter India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - 10.2022

Scrum Master

Philips Healthcare
07.2016 - 07.2018

Scrum Master

Philips Healthcare
07.2012 - 06.2016

Scrum Master

Philips Healthcare
02.2011 - 06.2012

BSc - Bachelor of Science (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics)

Bhandarkar’s Arts and Science College

XII -

Viveka Pre-University College

X -

Viveka Primary School

MBA - Master of Business Administration in Total Quality Management

Sikkim Manipal University
Mahesha Maiya