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Vijaya Murthy

Wethersfield

Summary

Dynamic Agile Product Owner at Travelers with a proven track record in driving strategic initiatives and enhancing team performance. Skilled in risk management and stakeholder engagement, I successfully led cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions, achieving significant improvements in customer value and project outcomes through effective coaching and continuous process enhancements.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Product Owner

Travelers
Hartford
01.2004 - Current
  • Scheduling strategic initiatives based on business priorities in the iteration and leading TMVS QA team
  • Responsible for the system team in property circle
  • Coach and mentor teams to adapt to Agile working model to drive the teams to achieve maturity
  • Work closely with Circle leads, Cross functional teams and other scrum masters across the board to understand risks, dependencies and mitigate them
  • Partnering with Business, Technical leads and Architect to be a Liaison between them to achieve the business value
  • Identify opportunities for the team to deliver the customer value, quality and achieve the business objective through continuous improvements
  • Driving the accountability, Transparency, and ownership with the teams

QA Lead

Travelers
01.2004 - Current
  • Planning and strategic resource allocation, Execution, and delivery to production
  • Plan and onboard team with the right skill set based on Project requirements and timelines
  • Coordinate with Design & Development team deliveries by engaging teams and stakeholders from multiple locations including onsite and offshore
  • Identify risks, issues, dependencies, response planning strategies, and proactively taking steps to track and resolve any outstanding items until closure
  • Encourages team to achieve their best and provides necessary support to help them complete their tasks
  • Worked with automation team to build automation framework and build smoke and regression automation scripts
  • Proactively identify best practices, lesson learnt from peers and incorporate them to the current effort
  • Provides regular and ad-hoc status reports to customer leadership teams and desired stakeholders
  • Mentoring and imparting business & technical knowledge to the team members
  • Planned agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity
  • Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
  • Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
  • Lead a team of 40 QA engineers offshore / 2 onshore leads providing direction for end-to-end Test planning and strategy
  • Reviewing the Test scenarios and the risk based approach methodology
  • Working closely with Business users and technical teams and Participating in UAT
  • Co-ordinate between Technical teams and vendor stakeholders across different Time zones
  • Involved in automation initiatives across the enterprise and Building the Regressions Beds
  • Played a key role in stake holder and sponsor meetings out laying the program status updates and reporting out the measurable targets
  • Provide QA metrics on the Productivity, through put and data analysis
  • Responsible for managing all software testing various Strategic Projects
  • Setup of Project in Rally, Defect triage using Rally
  • Status reporting to senior leadership team on a weekly and daily basis
  • Provide QA metrics on the Productivity, through put and data analysis
  • Involved in architecting for an automation frame work for a PI application
  • Created resource planning and detailed estimates for the QA phase
  • Resource planning and estimates for the QA projects
  • Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center
  • Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline

Developer

Mass Mutual
  • Cobol, Visual Basic and Java – Coding, Fixing defects
  • Code Reviews
  • Deploying packages into QA Environments and production

Education

BSc -

Bachelor of Sciences

Skills

  • Results-oriented
  • Agile methodologies
  • Quality assurance
  • Automation frameworks
  • Risk management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Project coordination
  • Analytical
  • Organized
  • Highly motivated
  • Software development lifecycles (SDLCs)
  • Leading teams
  • Customer Focused
  • Detail Oriented
  • Automation
  • Drafting
  • Meetings
  • Program planning
  • Project management
  • Servant Leadership
  • Software Quality Assurance
  • Consultative
  • Deadline Sensitive
  • Approach
  • Leadership
  • Policies
  • Strategic
  • Risk identification
  • Risk mitigation planning
  • Visual Basic
  • Crystal Report
  • Net
  • Java
  • SQL-Server 2000
  • SQL-Server 2005
  • Oracle
  • MS-Access 2000
  • Net Web Services
  • COM
  • DCOM
  • IIS
  • WebSphere
  • Cobol
  • Windows
  • Windows 7
  • Win XP
  • Win 2003 Server
  • UNIX
  • Mainframe
  • Test management
  • Requirements elicitation
  • Product backlog management
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Feature prioritization
  • Sprint planning
  • User story creation
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Release planning
  • Team facilitation
  • Agile framework expertise
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • User acceptance testing
  • Story planning
  • Use case study generation
  • Problem identification
  • Risk assessments
  • Product metrics tracking
  • Agile methodology
  • Product planning
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Problem resolutions
  • Conflict resolution
  • Effective communication
  • Multitasking capacity
  • Project tracking

Certification

  • PSM 1
  • SAFe Agilist

Hobbies and Interests

  • Love Running
  • Exercising
  • Travel

Timeline

Agile Product Owner

Travelers
01.2004 - Current

QA Lead

Travelers
01.2004 - Current

Developer

Mass Mutual

BSc -

Bachelor of Sciences

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