Sruti Vangala

Technical Scrum Master

Contact # 732-813-3694 Direct / 732-438-1906 x 114 Board – jagan@systechus.com

Summary
 Certified Scrum Master CSM –Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum product owner (CSPO), IBM- Agile development
and scrum fundamentals certification
 10 years of experience in the IT industry and 6 years lead teams with experience in driving software delivery
teams to Agile Transformation across multiple domains & projects
 Handled up to maximum of 2 Scrum teams of ~ 7- 10 development team members.
 Expert in inculcating Scrum Principles, removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and fostering team’s self-
management.
 Efficient in handling Co-Located, geographically distributed, and Hybrid of Offshore Onshore modelled teams.
 Seasoned in facilitating Scrum Ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews and Sprint
Retrospectives
 Adept at all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Requirements gathering, Analysis,
Design, Data Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Implementation, Quality Control, Deployment and
Product Delivery
 Proficient in using metrics in projecting Burn-Down Charts, Sprint progress, Velocity, and capacity planning.
 Excellent interpersonal skills dealing with stakeholders at various levels such as Vice Presidents, Directors,
Project, Program, Product and Client Managers, Lead Architects, and RTE’s in establishing collaborative bridge
towards fluid delivery pipeline.
 Advanced user of JIRA & Confluence in generating value centric reports & dashboards

Certifications & Education

 EMBA in Information Technology, Ottawa University –Kansas
 Advanced- Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) – Scrum Alliance, Certificate ID# 001314342
 Certified Scrum Master CSM –Scrum Alliance, Certificate ID# 001314342
 Certified Scrum product owner (CSPO) from Scrum Alliance
 Infosys Agile Developer certification
 IBM- Agile development and scrum fundamentals certification

Skills:
Frameworks Used: Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
Domains Worked: Banking, Fintech, Digital Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical
Knowledge Areas: Process Implementation, Stakeholder Management, Management Reporting,
Business Analysis, Entrepreneurial, Scrum Master/ PMO
Process Management Skills: Facilitating & Organizing, Scope & Schedule Management, Tasks & Defects
Triaging, Delivery Coordination, Dependency Mapping, Conflict Resolution
Tools and Technical Skills: JIRA, Smartsheet, Office 365, Atlassian Confluence, Bitbucket, Spinnaker, Jenkins

Professional Experience
Marsh McLennan (Marsh Digital) – Phoenix/AZ Nov 2022 - Current
Technical Scrum Master
Domain: Insurance| Teams Handled: Multiple| Frameworks Used: Scrum, Kanban, SAFE
Responsibilities:
 As a scrum master, Handling UI teams is always a great challenge depending on the project urgency,
accountability, transparency in the team.
 Attended PI Planning workshops and facilitated system demo, inspect, adapt workshops for future PIS and
Release Management meetings.
 Assisting the Product owner in maintaining, refining, and prioritizing the product backlog.
 Helping the team to write and split user stories and breakdown Epics.
 Used Jira to maintain product backlog, sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning,
tracking, and managing sprints, created scrum and kanban boards.
 Confluence was used to maintain project documents such as project plans, project scope, and status reports
and to assign tasks.
 Tracking team progress by creating sprint burndown charts and Release burn down charts.
 Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attended Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies
across various other scrum teams in Agile Release train.
 Created and published weekly status reports and weekly Dashboards.
 Initiating the regular meetings with offshore team to understand progress, challenges and remove blockers
for the team. Providing guidance and direction to offshore and onsite team.
 Led the performance testing team in completing the performance test strategy, Scripting, and test execution.
 Improved 20+ teams' processes and made sure they followed the Scrum framework to coach them to higher
levels of maturity.
 Spotted 10 or more complex obstacles and helped five or more teams find a way to carry out their sprint
commitments.
 50+ barriers/Impediments were removed, and risks were handled to increase team productivity.
 Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported.
 Making sure UX, front end and back-end Developers are always aligned together to have transparency
discussion and involving the PO to drive the discussion.
 Facilitating the scrum ceremonies like daily stand-ups, Sprint planning, Sprint review and Retros.
 Defining Acceptance criteria for user stories, using the information like use case, UX design- wireframe
 Making sure if we have a practice to write test cases, Align with Testers-to go thru functional and regression
test and have it documented in confluence.
 Driving team to create at least MVP in each increment and make them accountable.
 Aligning with PO when it comes to backlog refinement, priority, estimations with teams.

CITI bank- Irving TX Jul 2020 - Nov 2022

Agile Scrum Master Lead
Domain: Banking| Teams Handled: 2| Frameworks Used: Scrum, Kanban
Responsibilities:
 Worked on an Agile (Scrum) Development Team to deliver regular updates to business team and project
managers.
 Aa a Scrum Master, I have been facilitating the team via Scrum framework by arranging the scrum events like
Sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospective and product backlog
refinement as well.
 Being a scrum coach, I have been empowering the team to build cross functional skills to create a value from
each sprint and ensure team that events take place in productive and completed in within time frame.
 Helping in resolving or removing any impediments which arises in between scrum team.
 Serving the product owner (PO) in order to prioritize the product backlog and serves him in ensuring the
product backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
 Coaching the team members in self-management and cross functionality and helping the Scrum Team focus
on creating high value increments which meets the Definition of Done.
 Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Teams progress and ensuring that all Scrum events takes
place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timeframe.
 Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its scrum adoption and planning, advising scrum
implementations with the organizations.
 Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work and
clear the obstacles between stakeholders and scrum teams.
 Facilitating the Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Daily stand-ups, Sprint review
meetings and sprint retrospectives and backlog refinement is an ongoing activity based on teams’ availability.
 Make sure by using JIRA tool, one of the project management tools for suing metrics in projecting Burn-Down
and Burn-up Charts, Spill overs, Sprint progress, Velocity and capacity planning.
 Using JQL Queries, Plug-ins and Filters, I am responsible to generate all the value centric reports and
dashboards.
 Using confluence, I need to make sure all the documentation, reports are created and maintained.
 Making sure that teams enabled thru DevOps and CI/CD Capabilities and some of the engineering practices lie
Unit Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development.
 Collaborate with DevOps team to create automation pipelines for Ci/CD using Jenkins and spinnaker.
Using INVEST principle, I help PO to breakdown user stories and make sure all the user stories are prioritized
based on Business value, Urgency, Opportunity enablement, Risk reduction and development effort.

NFP Health- East Providence, RI Jun 2017 - May 2020

Scrum Master
Domain: Health care| Teams handled: single | Frameworks Used: Scrum, Kanban
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for Leading a Team of Resources in Agile (Scrum) Methodologies for the delivery of Major
Business critical & Billing releases.
 Facilitate and lead daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, story sizing, sprint planning, sprint reviews and
retrospectives and Sprint report generation.
 Resolve impediments and protect the team from changes during sprint execution.
 Trained New Scrum Team Member in adapting & improvising on SCRUM practices to meet the execution
deliverables in their Projects.
 Participate proactively in maintaining teams engineering best practices such as code reviews, test
automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
 Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example
 Tracking Performance Indicators/Metrics (Velocity, Burndown charts, Release progress, etc.) and addressing
any issues as they arise.
 Assist Scrum teams with User Stories generation and managing their progress.
 Report progress to key stakeholders through Release/Sprint Burn-Down, velocity target updates, schedules,
risks, dependencies, etc.
 Work with other scrum masters in identifying cross dependencies during Scrum of Scrums.
 Maintained and monitored projects' schedules and progress. Coordinated activities, resolving issues and
proactively managing risks and opportunities.

Evolgence –Hyderabad, India Jun 2013 - Nov 2016

Front-end developer
Technology: Java| Frameworks Used: JavaScript, CSS, JQ
Responsibilities:
 Implemented the Graphic User Interface GUI by coding in HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, React JS, jQuery,
and jQuery UI .
 Created prototypes in HTML, JS, CSS for different UI pages.
 Involved in design discussions and understanding of business requirements and identify the relevant
functional and technical requirements.
 Developed interactive cross platform web application using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM
scripting.
 Implemented design patterns like Session Facade, Singleton, Factory, Service Locator and DAO.