Brindha Balasubramanian

• Led and coached three Scrum teams in Agile best practices, ensuring alignment with business goals and continuous delivery of high-quality products.
• Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
• Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint planning, Daily Syncs, Sprint reviews, and Retrospectives, fostering transparency and team engagement.
• Partnered with Product Owners to refine and and prioritize the product backlog ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Drove cross functional collaboration across development, QA and business teams to enhance workflow efficiency and reduce delivery bottlenecks.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.

· Served as the Scrum Master for multiple teams, providing coaching, guidance, and leadership in the implementation of agile methodologies.

· Coordinated and facilitated SAFe ceremonies, including PI planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to ensure alignment with program and portfolio goals.

· Identified and resolved impediments to the team's progress, escalating issues as needed to ensure timely resolution.

· Maintained project artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, and release plans, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

· Collaborated with Product Owners and stakeholders to define clear and achievable project goals and prioritize deliverables.

· Coached and mentored team members on agile practices, promoting self-organization, accountability, and continuous improvement.

· Fostered effective communication channels among pod members and stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.

· Collaborated with other Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and stakeholders to share best practices, drive consistency, and promote the continuous evolution of the SAFe implementation.

· Conducted training sessions and workshops on agile methodologies, SAFe 6 practices, and Scrum framework.

· Coached 3 teams to a higher level of agile maturity by organizing various workshops, mentoring, and teaching.

· Assisted Product owners with backlog grooming and maximizing the value using data-driven approach, leading to removal of 20% backlog items.

· Inspected & Adapted reports/metrics to monitor and improve the team's performance and product delivery.

· Cultivated a culture of transparency, psychological safety, and collaboration, where team members to freely challenge each other and progress towards self-organization.

· Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined and ready to be worked on by the team.

· Planned and organized regular 'Inspect and Adapt' sessions of Sprint Review, leading to increase in the stakeholder satisfaction from 60% to 90%.

Conducted training sessions for newcomers on Agile and Scrum across the organization

· Conducted requirements gathering and design analysis for customer contact history for

customer relationship management.

· Designed and implemented data profiling and data quality improvement solution to analyze, cleanse and consolidate data before uploading into the database.

· Worked on data that was a combination of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, cleansing it using Excel.

· Designed, developed, tested, and maintained Tableau dashboards based on user requirements.

· Created various Key Performance Indicator(KPIs) using Table calculations, calculated key figures, aggregation options and logical functions.

· Performed exploratory data analysis to find trends and clusters.