Venkata Villa

Ten years of IT experience in Healthcare, Education, Networking, Supply Chain Management, and E-commerce sectors. Expertise in business planning, project management, and software development using Waterfall, Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban methodologies. Proven track record as a Product Owner/Manager, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, and QA, delivering critical projects on time.

• Certified Scrum Master
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• SAFe 6.0

• Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
• Tools: Adobe XD, Axure, Balsamiq, Lucid Chart, MS Visio, Erwin, Power BI, Tableau, JIRA, Rally, Asana
• Languages: SQL, Python
• Web Technologies: API, CSS, HTML, RESTful, SOAP
• Testing: Cucumber, Selenium, Postman, RPA
• Cloud: AWS, Azure

• Worked in Data analysis, mapping, integration, and warehousing projects, delivering key Data insights to stakeholders.
• Drafted QA Strategy methodology and documented test plans and test case development in QC for functional integration and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to troubleshoot UI & back-end to diagnose the application bugs & defects. Understanding technology, including databases, APIs, Webservices, and integration approaches.

• Assist Product Owner in Grooming Product Backlog. Ability to manage backlog for multiple teams across the organization.
• Conducted release planning meetings and business analysis activities, coaching team members on Agile principles.
• Facilitate estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques. Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics, burn down charts, and team velocity.

• Responsible for leading organizational change management, strategic planning, and project management for corporate growth and excellence.
• Designed Change Management methodology/framework and authored training plans for clients.
• Experience managing budgets and overseeing financial operations over the years, working in both the corporate sector and non-profit organizations.

• Responsible for discovering, writing, and managing project requirements for software and IT projects from inception to completion.
• Ability to articulate different strategies and implement execution strategies to tackle business prioritization conflicts using the 4DX method.
• Created BRD, FRD, SRS, Use Case Diagrams, Activity, Class, and Sequence diagrams. Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) to resolve conflicts between developers.