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Nikhila Ravishankar

Phoenix,AZ

Summary

Enthusiastic Sr. Scrum master working towards becoming an Agile Release Train Engineer with 20 years of professional experience in the software space with 4 years as a Scrum Master. I harbor an innate passion to coach, guide, remove impediments, and I effectively manage my Scrum Teams to harness their fullest potential. I yearn to further expand my skill set and to lead team efforts in relentless improvement.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr.Scrum Master

Rockwell Automation
Cleveland , Ohio
11.2018 - Current
  • Manage and facilitate Agile Team meetings and processes, including Agile ceremonies.
  • Facilitated Train meetings including Agile ceremonies.
  • Facilitated Scrum of Scrums.
  • Worked closely with RTE's from different trains to help with Program level improvements. Eg: created dashboards, new way to handle dependencies between teams, provided inputs for program improvements and created power bi reports to view train data.
  • Worked effectively with RTE's and multiple Scrum teams .
  • Collaborate with Product owners, team members to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Foster information sharing by creating a collaborative environment.
  • Worked closely with teams to ensure prioritization alignment, resolve conflicts and establish a cross-team/ART- level impediments and risks.
  • Using Scaled Agile Framework.
  • Coach team leads, team members in Lean-Agile mindset and practices.
  • Track and report progress on stories, anomalies and inconsistencies using Jira, confluence dashboards, power bi and python.
  • Apply agile methodology to shorten cycle time and reduce WIP.
  • Manage team backlog and work in progress for Improvement initiatives.
  • Provide Metrics and Reporting to management .
  • Led sprint reviews, DSU's and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments to enable value delivery.
  • Facilitated Scrum Framework - Sprint planning, Backlog refinement, DSU, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospectives.
  • For each new team member provided a walk through of "What is Scrum".
  • Shield scrum teams from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.



QA Lead

Rockwell Automation
Cleveland, Ohio
08.2011 - 10.2018
  • Lead a team of 5 to 8 testers.
  • Collaborated with testers from Poland, China and Singapore.
  • Organized ans standardized test framework so that its easier for the team to consume it during test execution.
  • Worked with the team to prioritize their work and collaborated with them providing the guidance necessary for test execution.
  • Followed quality standards and procedures to minimize errors and maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Updated quality control standards, methods and procedures to meet compliance requirements.
  • Devised specifications for processes.


Software Engineer / Sr.Quality Assurance/QA Lead

Various Organizations
Cleveland , OH
07.2001 - 08.2011
  • Developed code using JSP to build website utilized for corporate companies.
  • Resource management, Analyzing projects, estimating, creating and executing test cases and test result validation.
  • Prepared Test strategy, Test plan, prototype design and facilitated in coordinating manual and automation effort.
  • Created Automation regression scripts using Progressive in-house took.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.


Education

Master of Science - Computer Applications

University of Madra
Chennai, India
05.2001

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Madras
Chennai, India
05.1998

Skills

  • Agile Methodology
  • Coaching
  • Mentoring
  • Team work
  • Creating Transparency
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Written and oral communication
  • Quality Assurance

Accomplishments

  • Used Confluence page to develop Dashboard for Teams and Program. Teams consumed the Metrics data represented here to get a clarity on where they are in their sprint / PI level execution.
  • Redesigned the dependency table data so its more clear demarcation between incoming vs outgoing dependencies.
  • Utilized the PowerBI report for a train to customize it for the team enabling live metric information related to story points, story progress, PI objectives status for the team.
  • Update train Power BI report on a weekly cadence.
  • Observe and coach Agile teams.
  • Collaborated with multiple teams to resolve impediments.
  • Achieved planned predictability by enabling the Scrum teams

Certification

  • Certified SAFE 5 Agilist
  • Certified SAFe 5 Advanced SCRUM MASTER
  • Certified SAFe 5 SCRUM MASTER
  • Certified CSM
  • HP QTP 9.2 Certified Professional , CSTE, CCNA , CSTP (expired but had it for a long period of time)

Timeline

Sr.Scrum Master

Rockwell Automation
11.2018 - Current

QA Lead

Rockwell Automation
08.2011 - 10.2018

Software Engineer / Sr.Quality Assurance/QA Lead

Various Organizations
07.2001 - 08.2011

Master of Science - Computer Applications

University of Madra

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Madras

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