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SRIVANI EMANI

SRIVANI EMANI

Fairfax,VA

Summary

Dynamic Senior Consultant with 15 yrs Experience and Agile Coach with a proven track record at Deloitte, enhancing team productivity and sprint velocity through expert application of Scrum and Agile methodologies. As Senior Scrum Master , Excelled in stakeholder engagement and team building, significantly improving project delivery timelines and process efficiency.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Consultant / Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Deloitte
Bangalore, India
09.2021 - 04.2023
  • Company Overview: Deloitte is a multinational professional services network providing audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk, and financial advisory services
  • Managing the Teams to acquire the deliverables, handling Test estimations, project sizing, Triage calls representation, Scrum calls representation and reporting to delivery managers
  • Applied advanced Scrum knowledge to maximize team velocity and productivity
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for 6 teams, and resolved conflicts, leading to stronger team harmony.
  • Supervised Scrum and Agile practices across multiple teams, achieving a consistent and increased sprint velocity.
  • Led the successful delivery of 5 enterprise-wide projects ahead of schedule
  • Resolved 100% of process impediments, ensuring continuous delivery pipeline
  • Implemented Scrum and Kanban methodologies, increasing productivity drastically and appreciated by clients
  • Coached and trained teams in Agile concepts and principles, improving team performance
  • Facilitated agile ceremonies including daily scrum, sprint planning, and sprint demos
  • Held stakeholder meetings to set project goals and prioritize product backlog
  • Led 6 cross-functional Scrum teams.
  • Trained 15 new scrum masters and assisted in their certifications
  • An Individual QA deliverables Contributor / QA Lead.
  • Worked on Automation skill set of NO CODE Approach using TOSCA.
  • Testing using SOAP UI, POST MAN, Axway, GIT, Jenkins.
  • Development of hybrid frameworks for API Automations for Integration testing.
  • Used Confluence and version-one for project management
  • Follow up with Implementation/support/DEV team on queries and track them to closure
  • Preparing Execution reports [daily status report, weekly status report, Monthly status reports], Regression Test Suite & Defect Report
  • Extensively using SQL queries as part of database testing
  • Involved in Sanity, Regression, Functional, system testing and web-services Testing
  • Coordinating with onshore/Offshore team members in understanding the requirement and workflow
  • Training/Mentoring and helping the team members according to requirement and Involved in daily scrum calls, Production check outs with the onshore team
  • Preparing test cases from the user stories.
  • Preparing KT plans
  • Collaborated with stakeholders from different departments to ensure successful delivery of projects.
  • Promoted cross-functional collaboration among different teams working on related projects or initiatives.
  • Delivered results using strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards.
  • Maintained project schedules by managing deadlines and adjusting workflow.

Senior QA Lead / Scrum Master

Deloitte
Bangalore, India
02.2019 - 08.2021
  • Company Overview: Deloitte is a multinational professional services network providing audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk, and financial advisory services
  • Preparing Test cases from the User stories
  • Involved in Sanity, Regression, Functional, system testing and web-services Testing
  • Preparing Execution report, Regression Test Suite & Defect Report
  • Follow up with Implementation/support/DEV team on queries and track them to closure
  • Database Testing using SQL and oracle DB.
  • Coordinating with onshore team members in understanding the requirement and work flow
  • Preparing Decks, Org charts, KT plans and also DSR, WSR, MSR reporting works
  • Worked as JIRA and ALM Admin.
  • Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.
  • Developed metrics to measure team performance, identify areas for improvement and track progress over time.
  • Worked collaboratively across departments and with various stakeholders to deliver comprehensive, effective training sessions.
  • Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
  • Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives and reviews for Scrum teams.
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
  • Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
  • Collaborated with product owners to ensure that user stories were well-defined, detailed and testable.
  • Created and offered additional materials to enhance training.

QA Lead / Scrum Master

Peopleworks
Bangalore, India
04.2018 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: PeopleWorks is a technology company offering immensely successful flagship product
  • Managing the Teams to acquire the deliverables, handling BMC estimations, project sizing, Triage calls representation and reporting to Senior PM.
  • Mobile automation and Geo App maintenance
  • Work on change requests as part of mantis and Bugzilla tickets
  • Follow up with Implementation/support team on queries and track them to closure
  • Preparing Execution report, Regression Test Suite & Defect Report
  • Involved in Performance Testing and generating virtual users for testing purposes
  • Involved in Black and white Box Testing
  • Training/Mentoring and helping the team members according to Sprints and Involved in scrum Ceremonies along with Production check outs
  • Worked collaboratively across departments and with various stakeholders to deliver comprehensive, effective training sessions.
  • Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
  • Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives and reviews for Scrum teams.
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
  • Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
  • Ensured compliance with Scrum processes by conducting regular audits of development teams.
  • Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.

Senior Test Engineer

Emids Technologies
Bangalore, India
03.2015 - 04.2018
  • Company Overview: Emids Technologies is a healthcare technology services company that provides IT services and solutions to healthcare organizations
  • Involved in black and white box testing along with API and DB Testing
  • Extensively using SQL queries as part of database testing
  • Worked on change requests as part of Mantis tickets.
  • Extensive knowledge in using RALLY and JIRA for Project Management
  • Documented, triaged, and managed defects in software and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions.
  • Preparing Execution report, Regression Test Suite & Defect Report
  • Coordinating with onshore team members in understanding the requirement and work flow
  • Training/Mentoring and helping the team members according to requirement and Involved in daily scrum calls, Production check outs with the onshore/offshore teams.
  • Worked with Agile and Scrum methodologies to accomplish project milestones and meet demanding timelines.
  • Documented processes and procedures for repeatable use by QA team members.
  • Monitored bug resolution efforts and tracked successes.
  • Developed and implemented test plans, strategies, schedules, and standards for software testing.
  • Participated in peer reviews of test cases and other related artifacts.
  • Identified, documented, and tracked defects in defect tracking system.

Senior Test Engineer /Scrum Master

M-Power
Bangalore, India
08.2012 - 02.2015
  • Company Overview: M-Power is a technology company providing various IT services and solutions
  • About client Iron Mountain : . A global leader in storage and information management services along with information and assets
  • Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the Project
  • Identified Test Scenarios required for testing
  • Participated in designing the Test cases and maintained RTM
  • Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements and reported the execution status to the Onsite management on a daily basis and sending the Weekly status reports
  • Participated in SIT, UAT for individual components in DRCi
  • Performed various black box testing Methodologies like Functional testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Regression testing
  • Extensively performed Manual Testing and automation testing process to ensure the quality of the application
  • Collaborated with other scrum masters across the organization to share best practices and lessons learned from previous projects.
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
  • Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress, impediments and plan for the day's tasks.
  • Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
  • Developed retrospectives after each sprint or milestone to identify areas of improvement for future projects.

Software Engineer

Sutech
Bangalore, India
12.2008 - 08.2012
  • About Client Apollo Hospitals : Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited is an multinational healthcare group.
  • This Application is developed to manage both Diagnostic Division and Pharmaceutical Division.
  • Involved in Analysing the Requirements of the Project.
  • Identified high level Test Scenarios required for testing and Participated in designing the Test cases.
  • Uploading the test cases in to QC and getting them ready for execution
  • Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements and review testcases developed by peers,Logging defects, reporting daily execution status to Team lead
  • Performed Functional , Integration and Regression testing.
  • Involved in identifying Automation test Scenarios.
  • Converted manual test cases to Automation test Scripts.
  • Defect reporting
  • Participate in daily and weekly status call with clients
  • Test cases maintenance for various modules.
  • Maintained requirement traceability matrix.

Education

Masters(MSC) -

GITAMS College of Engineering
Andhra Pradesh

Graduated -

SIR.CRR Womens College
Andhra Pradesh

Skills

  • Agile Methodology
  • Scrum Framework
  • Project Management
  • Team Facilitation
  • Sprint Goals Planning
  • Risk and Dependency Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Continuous Process Improvement
  • Kanban
  • Process Documentation
  • Training and Coaching
  • Time Management
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Meeting Facilitation
  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Building
  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
  • XP
  • Safe Agile Implementation

Certification

  • A Certified ACSM
  • An ISTQB Testing Professional
  • HP Certified Automation tester
  • Certified from NIIT in Testing tools using IBM rational tools such as Rational Manual Tester, Test Manager, Rational Robot, Functional Testing, Performance testing and Quality assurance.

Accomplishments

  • Received Multiple SPOT awards and outstanding awards from clients

Languages

English
Professional
Telugu
Professional
Hindi
Professional
Tamil
Limited

Timeline

Senior Consultant / Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Deloitte
09.2021 - 04.2023

Senior QA Lead / Scrum Master

Deloitte
02.2019 - 08.2021

QA Lead / Scrum Master

Peopleworks
04.2018 - 01.2019

Senior Test Engineer

Emids Technologies
03.2015 - 04.2018

Senior Test Engineer /Scrum Master

M-Power
08.2012 - 02.2015

Software Engineer

Sutech
12.2008 - 08.2012

Masters(MSC) -

GITAMS College of Engineering

Graduated -

SIR.CRR Womens College
SRIVANI EMANI