Pavani Javvadi
Herndon,United States
Summary
Strategic leader in Project and Product Management with extensive experience in defining and implementing SDLC methodologies in large enterprises. Proficient in Agile SAFe, Waterfall, and Hybrid models, with expertise in creating process playbooks, operational manuals, and ensuring compliance. Demonstrated ability in cross-functional collaboration, Agile delivery, data migration, and cloud modernization. Recognized subject matter expert in SDLC best practices, training delivery teams, and maintaining adherence to organizational standards.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master
T-Mobile
06.2024 - 11.2025
- Led the definition, rollout, and governance of SDLC frameworks (Agile SAFe, Kanban) across migration and analytics projects.
- Developed end-to-end SDLC playbooks, operational manuals, and process maps covering intake involving development, QA, Release and Audit.
- Drove backlog refinement, sprint planning, and dependency mapping, reducing delivery bottlenecks and increasing sprint throughput by 20-30%.
- Led end-to-end data migration from on-prem systems to cloud platforms, overseeing mapping, ETL modernization, validation, cutover, and post-migration support.
- Managed cross-functional teams (data engineering, QA, infra, security, product) to execute multi-phase migration with zero business downtime.
- Led validation and reconciliation efforts between legacy and cloud systems, reducing data defects by 30% and ensuring accuracy for downstream analytics.
- Ensured all cloud environments met governance standards by coordinating vulnerability scans, remediation actions, and secure release gates.
- Managed risk and governance for compliance; created release-readiness checkpoints and audit artifacts to simplify compliance reviews.
- Work with Release Train Engineers (RTEs), System Architects, and other Scrum Masters to identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and blockers.
- Led vulnerability scanning cycles and coordinated remediation plans with engineering teams, ensuring security violations were addressed within required SLAs.
- Partnered with security teams to review Qualys/Splunk/Grafana reports, prioritize findings, and track closure through sprint cycles.
- Balanced Agile team leadership with traditional project governance, including financial forecasting, CAPEX/OPEX tracking, status reporting, and release readiness reviews.
- Owned budget forecasting, variance analysis, and resource utilization reporting for Agile product portfolios.
- Partnered with security and compliance teams to close findings or issues flagged during audits.
- Accelerated DevOps automation, cutting deployment time from 2 days to 5 hours and increasing release frequency.
- Built Power BI dashboards for velocity, release frequency, and compliance KPIs to enable leadership data-driven decisions.
- Experienced managing hybrid deployments integrating DevOps pipelines, automation, and monitoring (Grafana, AppD, Splunk).
- Managed role-based access management (RBAC) in Snowflake to ensure data security across business and engineering teams.
- Drove the migration of legacy on-prem datasets to Snowflake, reducing infrastructure cost and improving scalability.
- Coordinated go-to-market, vendor SLAs, and budget management with product, engineering, and marketing to ensure launch resource capacity and workload planning using Smartsheet and Power BI, optimizing allocation across concurrent projects.
- Integrated Agile delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, capacity) with enterprise-level PM dashboards to provide a unified view of progress to executives.
- Leveraged ServiceNow for incident, request, and change management, ensuring production issues and operational work were properly prioritized and aligned with sprint commitments.
- Environment: Agile, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, Postman, Azure DevOps (Boards, Pipelines, Dashboards, Workflows), Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Oracle, Grafana, AppD, Splunk, Snowflake
Scrum Project Manager
Southwest Airlines
09.2023 - 06.2024
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies while simultaneously managing project budgets, risks, vendor dependencies, and cross-functional timelines to ensure predictable delivery.
- Directed Agile delivery for mobile and web, aligning product goals with engineering and release governance to ensure on-time launches.
- Partnered closely with engineers to understand technical architecture, data flows, APIs, system integrations, and cross-team dependencies, enabling accurate sprint planning and risk mitigation.
- Centralized backlog refinement and defect management in Azure DevOps to standardize execution across distributed teams.
- Standardized Hybrid Agile/Waterfall SDLC models for mobile and web features, ensuring consistent stage-gates and governance alignment.
- Owned release planning and readiness reviews; coordinated dev/QA/analysts/UX to meet delivery milestones.
- Supported Product Owners with backlog prioritization, story grooming, and acceptance criteria refinement to ensure business alignment.
- Established CI/CD telemetry and Azure DevOps dashboards for real-time deployment visibility and compliance tracking.
- Created project charters, roadmaps, and timelines in Smartsheet and MS Project to optimize resource allocation and vendor coordination.
- Identified and mitigated risks in Snowflake ETL workflows, ensuring alignment with performance SLAs and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).
- Partnered with infrastructure and DevOps teams to align release pipelines with cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, and network security best practices.
- Coordinated application deployment and monitoring within hybrid cloud environments, ensuring uptime, scalability, and adherence to change management policies.
- Oversaw creation of Power BI and Tableau dashboards connected to Snowflake, providing leadership with actionable insights into project health and KPIs.
- Experienced managing hybrid deployments integrating DevOps pipelines, automation, and monitoring (Grafana, AppD, Splunk).
- Collaborated with DevOps and infrastructure teams to run vulnerability scans on mobile, web, and cloud environments, validating remediation before release approvals.
- Implemented dashboards for security KPIs-open vulnerabilities, SLA breaches, and remediation progress-to provide leadership with real-time visibility.
- Environment: Agile, Kanban, Postman, Java, GIT, JIRA, Confluence, Charles Proxy, Android Studio, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Snowflake
UAT Manager/Scrum Master
AT&T
03.2022 - 09.2023
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies for global UAT teams to synchronize story readiness, test scope, and release gates with leadership.
- Acted as the primary liaison between engineering, product, QA, security, and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment across sprints and overall program goals.
- Actively managed team workflow, velocity, sprint commitments, and impediments, removing blockers through close coordination with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to maintain delivery momentum.
- Improved sprint predictability by implementing story sizing, capacity planning, and dependency mapping across multiple Agile teams.
- Developed playbooks and process documentation for UAT, test readiness, acceptance criteria, RCA workflow, and release quality.
- Facilitated training for cross-functional teams on test governance, SDLC handoffs, and quality checkpoints.
- Supported Product Owners with backlog prioritization, story grooming, and acceptance criteria refinement to ensure business alignment.
- Built QA dashboards for test coverage, defect leakage, and release quality to enable data-driven go/no-go decisions.
- Mentored QA engineers to increase automation adoption and standardize best practices across pods.
- Coordinated UAT environments, test data, and defect triage with development and release teams to keep schedules on track.
- Validated acceptance criteria with product and SMEs to ensure business continuity after deployment.
- Identified and mitigated testing risks and dependencies, escalating blockers early to preserve timelines.
- Partnered with product managers, engineering leads, and business SMEs to validate acceptance criteria and ensure business continuity post-deployment.
- Developed UAT project timelines, resource plans, and status reports, ensuring on-time completion of all test cycles.
- Demonstrated a servant-leadership and coaching mindset, influencing teams and stakeholders through facilitation, data, and trust rather than authority.
- Implemented test governance frameworks for consistent execution across parallel projects.
- Environment: Agile, Postman, Java, GIT, JIRA, Confluence, Oracle, Smartsheet, HP ALM, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Excel, Splunk
Agile Delivery Manager
Cisco Systems Inc
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Owned QA governance and Quality Management Plans to align projects with Cisco PMO and SDLC standards.
- Partnered with release teams to maintain regulatory and customer quality compliance.
- Facilitated all core Scrum ceremonies-daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives-to improve team collaboration and delivery consistency.
- Increased team velocity by removing blockers early, strengthening cross-team communication, and refining Agile workflows.
- Defined requirements and authored test plans and acceptance criteria for Webex Telehealth across iOS/Android.
- Authored SDLC-aligned Quality Management Plans, test strategies, and release documentation.
- Led regression and accessibility testing to ensure WCAG/Section 508 compliance using JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and WAVE.
- Validated APIs and network flows with Postman and Charles Proxy and worked with developers and system engineers to implement timely fixes.
- Coordinated Jenkins and Git for CI/CD test automation pipelines to support continuous testing.
- Performed RCAs on recurring defects, driving preventive actions that reduced production incidents by 25%+.
- Established Quality KPIs (defect density, release readiness index, rework effort) to monitor global program health.
- Environment: Agile, Postman, Java, JIRA, Confluence, Charles Proxy, Android Studio, WAVE, JAWS, NVDA, AppDynamics, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana
UAT Manager
Ventera Corporation
06.2019 - 09.2020
- Developed UAT timelines, resource plans, and status reports to ensure timely completion of test cycles.
- Delivered UAT dashboards displaying test progress, defect density, and release readiness to senior management.
- Analyzed post-UAT results to drive root cause analysis and improve testing efficiency and product quality.
- Oversaw design and execution of test cases across workstreams for comprehensive coverage.
- Conducted accessibility audits (WCAG 2.1) using WAVE and ANDI; trained teams on accessibility testing.
- Facilitated UAT sign-off and production readiness reviews to secure prompt release approvals.
Sr. Quality Assurance Lead
Capital One Services
10.2015 - 06.2019
- Led QA for data ingestion and ETL pipelines, ensuring reliable delivery of analytics platforms.
- Owned QA as risk owner; established test strategy, schedules, and release criteria for card/home loans platforms.
- Drove Agile QA lifecycle to achieve full functional coverage against requirements.
- Designed data validation frameworks for batch and real-time workflows using Informatica and Spark.
- Executed ETL on UNIX and validated data with SQL/Teradata and Snowflake on AWS.
- Integrated nightly ETL regression runs into Jenkins and Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Built automation with Gherkin/Cucumber and executed API tests in Postman; validated journeys using Tealeaf.
- Compared data results across Snowflake and Teradata to validate transformation rules and detect discrepancies.
- Established test governance and defect triage integrated with CI/CD and Agile delivery.
- Environment: Agile, QTP, Cucumber, Eclipse, Android Studio, IBM Tealeaf, JIRA, JavaScript, SQL Server, Teradata, Snowflake, UNIX, Ab Initio, Informatica, Git, Charles Proxy, Postman
QA Lead / Analyst roles
Fannie|Capital One|UDSA
01.2010 - 01.2015
- Executed comprehensive test plans and traceability matrices across Agile and Waterfall projects, achieving 100% requirement coverage.
- Developed automation frameworks with Selenium, TestNG, and Cucumber to enhance regression reliability.
- Established end-to-end traceability from requirements to test coverage, integrating CI/CD hooks in Jenkins and Git.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to analyze requirements and define acceptance criteria early in SDLC.
- Conducted root cause analysis for production issues, implementing preventive measures for future releases.
- Enhanced automation frameworks with Selenium and Java, reducing manual regression execution time by thirty percent.
- Delivered QA status dashboards and KPI reports in Power BI, improving visibility into defect density and release quality.
- Utilized tools such as JIRA, Quality Centre, SQL Server, and Postman in an Agile environment.
Education
Master of Science - Civil Engineering
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, OH05.2008
Bachelor of Technology - Civil Engineering
KL University
India05.2005
Skills
- Agile Methodology
- Waterfall Methodology
- Kanban
- SAFe
- PI Planning
- Risk & Compliance
- SDLC Governance
- SDLC Playbook Creation
- Process Mapping
- SDLC Intake Release Lifecycle Standardization
- Audit & Compliance Readiness
- Release Management
- Change Control
- Documentation Governance
- WCAG 21
- Section 508
- WAVE
- JAWS
- ANDI
- POSTMAN
- CHARLES PROXY
- Cucumber
- Selenium
- JMETER
- JAVA
- ORACLE
- SQL
- SNOWFLAKE
- TERADATA
- AWS
- AZURE DEVOPS
- GIT
- JENKINS
- CI/CD
- Project Governance
- IT Security Awareness
- Agile Delivery
- Risk Mitigation
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Process Optimization
- Stakeholder Management
- Time & Resource Management
Certification
- CERTIFIED SAFe 5 PRODUCT OWNER PRODUCT MANAGER, Scaled Agile Inc
- CERTIFIED SAFe 5 SCRUM MASTER, Scaled Agile Inc
Timeline
Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master
T-Mobile
06.2024 - 11.2025
Scrum Project Manager
Southwest Airlines
09.2023 - 06.2024
UAT Manager/Scrum Master
AT&T
03.2022 - 09.2023
Agile Delivery Manager
Cisco Systems Inc
01.2021 - 03.2022
UAT Manager
Ventera Corporation
06.2019 - 09.2020
Sr. Quality Assurance Lead
Capital One Services
10.2015 - 06.2019
QA Lead / Analyst roles
Fannie|Capital One|UDSA
01.2010 - 01.2015
Master of Science - Civil Engineering
Cleveland State University
Bachelor of Technology - Civil Engineering
KL University