SRIKANTH SIDDAM

Conducted the SoS calls to get the updates from the cross functional teams working under MYSEE.

Worked with the Project Managers,Product Mangers, Functional Leads and Solution Architects to lay out the Release Plans.

Generated the Sprint reports with various charts to provide more insights to the management for a better planning.

Conducted the weekly Agile CoE meetings to work with the Scrum Masters and discuss about the best practices.

Facilitated the Scrum Ceremonies.

Conducted the deployment meetings and ensured the communication was sent to the respective parties after the deployment.

• 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.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Established team processes and onboarding for newly formed scrum teams while leading 2 large scrum teams of 12+ members each (NetSuite and Store).
• Built user story hierarchy including feature-based project capability within JIRA for over 5 development teams.
• Generated biweekly and quarterly reports which showcased the team's output. This in turn was used by the management for a better planning.
• Acted as a Servant Leader for the IT Departments Agile Transformation by rolling out processes and training in conjunction with product roadmaps and company goals.

• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
• Managed projects from procurement to commission.
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
• Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
• Played an active role in streaming the scrum teams to successfully move applications from traditional data warehousing into Azure cloud platform.
• Drafted the Project Milestones and shared with the respective teams and tracked the progress using Roadmaps in JIRA.

• Responsible for being the Scrum Master of two Scrum teams: a production defects team, and a Mobile API team that interfaces with an external Mobile App development team responsible for creation of a Mobile app.
• Facilitating all scrum ceremonies and coaching two scrum teams.
• Collaborating with Product Owners to groom and refine the product backlog.
• Taking an active lead in creating standardization of the agile process including the cadence of scrum ceremonies, agile metrics, etc.
• Involved in creating an Agile Center of Excellence to foster and promote Agile methodology throughout the organization.
• Using EazyBI (a Jira plugin and business intelligence (BI) tool) to retrieve Agile Metrics and distribute through dashboards.

• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
• Lead the successful delivery of functional enhancements to existing partner websites and internal support systems
• Proactively elicited and documented functional requirements based on meetings and interviews with project stakeholders
• Effectively managed requirements as well as project timelines and quality of deliverables through the project life cycle
• Worked as the primary liaison to clients and business representatives outside of the technology organization and keeps stakeholders aware of progress across multiple project timelines.
• Interacted with the User Experience Design team to clarify business requirements, which were translated into wireframes. Oversaw the development of wireframes to confirm business need.

• Acted as Scrum Master, Project Manager and Client Account Lead to optimize and align software development, customer support and account growth.
• Contributing to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organization’s Agile Project life cycle.
• Guided and mentored teams to achieve outstanding and sustainable performance via Agile ceremonies and practices.
• Working closely with developers, professional services team and product managers to define the automated testing components that will be used to validate requirements against developed software.
• Translated contracts and statements of work into backlogs, resource plans and subsequent Scrum activities. Converted Scrum activities back into actuals and invoices.
• Provided Account Management including establishing and managing annual budgets, seeking opportunities and expanding business and responding to operational issues.

• Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining Moodle, PHP, Apache and MySQL on AWS Cloud Servers.
• Establish and improve testing standards and guidelines and ensure that the standards are followed in the QA review process.
• Generate standard reports from the automation suite; work with other teams to develop meaningful metrics that can be harvested from automated tests and tools.
• Involved with the development team in estimating, planning and refactoring software development programs, projects and tasks.
• Executed the test plans on Mobile (IOS & Android) as per requirements using Appium.
• Extensively used JQuery Table sorter plugin as a data grid for sorting and freezing headers and footers for many tables which holds huge data related to vendors under specific Contract vehicle.
• Responsible to integrate Drupal with the existing web application. Page 5 of 7 REST API calls to fetch and create test data and to interact with SauceLab’s API.
• Direct database calls to fetch and create test data. Tests are run in continuous integration server (Atlassian Bamboo).
• Review product requirement documents, functional specifications, and involved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents.
• Interact with the Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Successfully tested 508 Accessibility on the application before it was launched into production.
• Proactively came with innovative methods to improve software quality, test coverage, efficiency and regression coverage.
• Provide on call support regarding production related problems, and work with IT Mangers and Work with automation leads throughout the company to implement standard test management procedures.

• Managed team members who were spread across the globe.
• Attended the DDS meetings.
• Attended the bug triage meetings to eliminate the issues which are not reproducible anymore.
• Took part in all the QE meetings and provided the weekly progress status to the QE VP

• Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands.
• Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function and performance.
• Trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in quality assurance standards, policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated new product features and functionality to clients, managers and team members.
• Worked in AGILE Environment- Participated in the Project Planning session for estimating the time and resources for executing the test cases.
• Responsible for various testing activities including the Build Acceptance/ Smoke, Functional, Negative and Regression testing on the lower environments before the build is moved into production.
• Designed test cases based on the use-cases and the complex business logic defined for each web service or a message.
• Planned and executed back-end testing using SWL queries to verify the data flow from the database.
• Created the data necessary for testing SOAP Webservices using SOAP and executed the scripts using the Data Driven concept.
• Logged defects using Clear Quest application and communicate the defect status updates to the responsible analysis and implementation teams.