Venkata Gannavarapu

• Managed and coached multiple teams through Agile transformation.
• Leveraged JIRA to implement Scrum and Kanban.
• Worked with Product Owner to align teams with product vision and goal.
• Empowered teams to self-manage and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
• Ensured team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value.
• Creating dashboards for enabling transparency on agile metrics to the leadership and to the teams.
• Facilitated all the scrum events and PI planning.
• Estimate the capacity and protect the team from over-commitment.
• Created the Team Charter following the SCRUM principles.
• Planned and delivered resource allocation to the teams.
• Managed relationships with key stakeholders to ensure smooth project deliveries and overall satisfaction.
• Enhanced team performance by providing regular feedback, coaching, and training opportunities.
• Collaborated closely with other departments to ensure seamless integration of processes and systems, enhancing overall efficiency.
• Facilitated cross-functional meetings to address challenges, share best practices, and strategize plans for future growth.
• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement through employee engagement initiatives such as recognition programs and open forums.
• Established performance metrics to track progress towards goals, allowing for adjustments as needed to ensure success.

The goal of the project is to develop a product where auto-loan applications are analyzed and processed. This product verifies the system and provides data for Credit Review.

• As a Scrum Master, act as a Servant leader to the team by facilitating clear communication to management and the team.
• Coaching and guiding team in Agile best practices.
• Coordinating and facilitating in all Scrum events.
• Working closely with the Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of the features.
• Managing the backlog in JIRA and aid the team in determining suitable commitments for backlog items and sprints.
• Conducting the daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team.
• Effectively track team's progress, including burn-down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Proactively identifying impediments and resolving them.
• Escalate and manage the vulnerability remediation.

The goal of the project is to re-engineer the Tibco application and direct the e-physicals for pre-employment check to either Formfox or Escreen.

● Worked as a Scrum Master to monitor and track the progress of the Scrum Team.
● Worked directly with Scrum Team and the solution architect for project related items.
● Leveraging JIRA for issues.

● Facilitating the scrum events.
● Profound knowledge in developing SOA processes in TIBCO BW5
● Coordinating and working with Vendors for 3rd party application issues.
● Extending Production Support activities using Oracle PL/SQL and providing support activities to Business users.
● Responsible for investigating issues / reported bugs, identifying the cause and analyzing impact and providing best possible solution.
● Meeting the SLAs for response time to events and incidents.
● Documenting and providing the training based on the requirements.

● Worked on Scrum framework for delivering the project requirements.
● Backlog maintained in JIRA.
● Worked with the product owner to understand the prioritized backlog.
● Worked on confluence for documentation purposes.
● Developed applications using ASP.NET, C# and SQL server Database.
● Designed and developed user interface for several modules in the application using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
● Used C# for construction of business logic for developing various abstract classes, interfaces and classes.
● Extensively involved in writing client-side code using Java Script.
● Wrote several stored procedures, SQL statements, functions and triggers to access data from SQL Server.
● Performed duties as assigned in debugging and fixing the issues by submitting ad-hoc scripts.
● Involved in solving user report production issues. (Product: Morning Hopper).

• Worked on Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) starting from Requirements, gathering, and performing object-oriented analysis, design and implementation.
• Developed applications using ASP.NET, C# and SQL server Database.
• Used C# for construction of business logic for developing various abstract classes, interfaces and classes.
• Extensively involved in writing client-side code using Java Script.
• Wrote several stored procedures, SQL statements, functions and triggers to access data from SQL Server.
• Performed duties as assigned in debugging and fixing the issues by submitting ad-hoc scripts.
• Involved in production support.

Royal Mail Group uses a user-friendly web-based software application ICMS that enables the call center operations to follow the norms and handle the customers effectively capturing and providing the required data.
● Involved in all phases of project (Design, Develop, Test and Deploy)
● Designed version-controlled project requirement documentation.
● Designed user interface screens and navigation for the functional flow.
● Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
● Wrote ASP.NET web services to return XML results.
● Implemented UI design using HTML and CSS.
● Developed web forms using ASP.NET server controls and validation client side using Java Script.
● Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.
● Involved in the UNIT, smoke & integration testing.
● E2E testing of the application.
● Collaborate with team members.

● Worked on multiple clients in the banking domain for Capital One, Wachovia, HSBC, American Express and Chase.
● Was involved the analysis, design and development of a Private Card Industry to migrate the sensitive information through the data vault to the clients on Mainframes and was involved in all phases of the development life cycle.
● Have worked on COBOL programming for the file load process.
● Have written jobs in JCLs and worked on VSAM files.
● Was also involved in scheduling the jobs on CA7 and OPC tools for the projects.