Srinivas Chebolu

• Served as a Scrum Master for Teams at various Clients.
• Mentored, Coached and Guided the teams on Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework.
• Partnered with the Release Train Engineer to refine the existing development processes and practices.
• Collaborated across Business Units, Agile CoP, and Tech Dev for delivery.
• Helped the Product Owner in User Story slicing.
• Facilitated various Scrum ceremonies i.e., Daily Stand up, Weekly Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Retrospective and Sprint Demo.
• Actively participated in the Scrum of Scrums meetings, to ensure the Scrum Teams were in sync for the Product Increment delivery and the Scaled Agile Framework.
• Mentored Junior Scrum Masters wherever applicable.
• Actively participated in the Agile CoP to share knowledge and learn simultaneously.
• Utilized Jira to maintain Scrum boards for teams and reporting.
• Maintained various reports for the teams, to measure against benchmarks and provided guidance for improvements.
• Improved Teams’ predictability metrics.
• Led the end-to-end product lifecycle for a client-facing route optimization engine, driving improvements from conceptualization through to deployment, and increasing service efficiency for customers.
• Translated client requirements and needs into clear, actionable product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Led multiple cross-functional Agile teams delivering digital banking solutions, improving sprint velocity by 32% within 6 months through better backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives) that increased sprint predictability from 70% to 90% commitment reliability.
• Successfully groomed and built high performing Scrum Teams for client(s).
• Reduced defect leakage by 35% by strengthening Definition of Done and test collaboration.
• Coached Product Owners on Product Backlog Prioritization and Organizing Sprint Backlogs.
• Supported Product Owners with User Stories documentation.
• Key player in SAFe implementation at a major Banking Client.

Achieved successful project delivery for clients including Accenture CIO, T-Mobile, Bank of America, TIAA, and Cardinal Health through proactive management of cross-functional teams. Drove alignment on project goals, resulting in enhanced client satisfaction and project efficiency.

• Collaborated with various teams to promote the successful integration of agile and scrum frameworks.
• Guided and mentored Scrum Masters from existing teams.
• Provided weekly reporting at team level, on team performance against Agile benchmarks.
• Oversaw various Scrum ceremonies for teams and recommended corrective measures wherever required.
• Worked with Sr. Agile Coach on User Story Quality and effective writing.
• Helped Sr. Agile Coach in identifying Scrum Teams that needed Coaching and Mentoring.
• Collaborated with Product owners for Product Journey Mapping sessions.

Client: Walmart

• Worked closely with Sr. Scrum Master to define new processes and refine existing processes.
• Defined processes and Agile best practices to improve teams’ throughput.
• Helped Business Analysts/Product Owners in slicing user stories.
• Facilitated various Scrum ceremonies i.e., Daily Stand up, Weekly Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Retrospective and Sprint Demo.
• Coordinated and collaborated with Scrum Masters across the organization to improve Software development practices.
• Successfully groomed and built high performing Scrum Teams for the client.
• Helped Scrum Teams by removing impediments and Coached team members on Agile Principles and Practices.
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management using various information radiators.
• Coached Business Analysts/Product Owners to Prioritize and Organize Product Backlogs.
• Coached the management on Scrum principles and Agile practices for their transition from Waterfall methodology.
• Maintained Scrum Boards for the teams using Jira.
• Utilized Confluence to maintain the Sprint Retrospectives and other Sprint Documentation.
• Clients: Charles Schwab; J.C. Penny; Fossil

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Provided support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership style.
• Coached team members on Agile principles and provided general guidance on the methodology.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organization.
• Worked closely with Product Owners to discuss/examine requirements and gaps.
• Coached Product Owners on Product Backlog Prioritization and Organizing Sprint Backlogs.
• Effectively used and maintained Kanban boards to track work for the production support team.
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Efficiently handled releases and scrum related activities for two scrum teams- a Mobile applications team (3 onsite members) and an ecommerce team (5 onsite/2 offshore members).
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross functionally.
• Actively participated in the Scrum of Scrums meetings, to ensure the Scrum Teams were in sync for the Product Increment delivery and the SAFe Agile Framework.
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings to discuss/Update on daily work progress, Roadblocks etc.
• Collaborated with Product Owner and Business Analyst to ensure corporate wide understanding of project goals and timetables.
• Worked with scrum teams to discuss and measure team velocity for a particular sprint.
• Collaborated with Engineering Managers and cross-functional teams to manage scrum /technical team dependencies and ensure project goals are met.
• Coached and mentored junior team members and peers.
• Successfully coordinated releases with other Scrum Masters in the Organization.

• Reviewed project documentation to document Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Maintained Test Plans and Test cases in HP Quality Center.
• Attended meetings with customers to bridge gaps between requirements and design.
• Executed the documented Test cases in Quality Center and logged the defects using the same application.
• Generated custom reports in Quality Center, to track the testing cycle progress.
• Documented Test Plans to accommodate testing of various applications.
• Performed regression testing of different applications using QTP.

• Reviewed specifications and requirements to develop Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Often involved in defining the Lifecycle Approach within Quality Management.
• Developed and executed Test Plans and test cases (unit, functional, integration, regression, and system test plans), test scripts and test scenarios. Worked with business customers, software engineers, QA engineers, and project leads to ensure successful roll out of high-quality applications.
• Held meetings with the business to gather requirements and converted the gathered requirements to Test Cases.
• Develop test data using MS SQL and Oracle.
• Performed back-end testing/Database testing by writing and running SQL queries (both in MS SQL and Oracle). Used PL/SQL and Stored Procedures for the same.
• Often travelled to locations to meet with the business users to help perform UAT.
• Tested the data integrity in the database by reviewing HL7 messages.
• Used the terminal emulator (plugin for QTP) to perform regression tests on the vendor Mainframe application.
• Tracked and reported defects, issues or changes in the requirements and maintained them in Quality Center/Test Director, StarTeam.
• Actively participated in Web/Live meetings and telephonic conferences to resolve issues.
• Played major role in root cause analysis.
• Built MS-Access databases to link tables from the database, to determine the integrity between the same and the results obtained from the Renewals Project.
• Participated in data clean ups whenever there were discrepancies in the source data and the data Warehouse.
• Performed testing on the reports generated from Oracle Developer 10g.
• Validated reports generated for patient activity, Medication history etc. monthly (Crystal Reports).
• Used testing techniques to perform testing on various message triggering applications.
• Performed tests on applications built using Flex and Visual Basic .NET
• Performed automated data driven tests in Soap UI to analyze web services response.
• Environment: Windows 98, Windows 2000 Server, Oracle 10g, Oracle Discoverer 10g, Star Team 3.0, HP Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.5, JCAPS and Flex.