GAYATHRI DEVI VARADARAJAN

Experienced Certified Scrum Master with over 10 years in IT industry, including 7+ years leading Agile Scrum ceremonies and navigating project challenges. Skilled in guiding cross-functional teams across roles in manual testing, release management, and deployment. Demonstrated success in improving team efficiency, implementing Agile best practices, and delivering enterprise-wide digital projects ahead of schedule.

• Certified Scrum master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance
• Certified from Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy as ‘Certified Application Tester’
• Certified from HP Professional for M15 HP Quality Center 9.2 Software and M16 HP Quick Test Professional 9.2 Software

• Tower, Telstra, Telecom, 05/2021, 07/2023, Scrum Master, Organized and facilitated all sprint cadences for the engineering team., Played the role of Scrum master for 2 teams of team size 10 ensuring planning and projection of work., Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and addressed problems through effective management., Removed team impediments to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables., Coached team members to be self-sustained and organized all the activities and follow various scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, daily stand-up, reviews, and retrospectives., Assisting the scrum team in creating user stories and their acceptance criteria., Facilitate the various scrum events such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective., Following up with the development team to ensure that a working software will be delivered after each sprint., Support and educate product owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog., Ensuring efficient communication between the scrum development team and the Scrum product owner, Ensuring the scrum team is always having a trust environment where issues can be raised without fear of blame or judgement with an emphasis on problem solving., Facilitating constructive discussions, effective decision making and practice conflict of resolution., Arranging scrum of scrums (SOS) when there are dependencies between development team’s sprints. Support and encourage collaboration and cooperation between the Scrum teams.
• Tower, Verizon Enterprise solutions, Telecom, 09/2019, 07/2020, Test Manager, Scrum Master, Coordinate the creation of release planning schedule., Responsible for managing multiple team’s deliverables., Responsible for sending weekly and monthly status for the releases., Responsible for delivering the sprint items on item., Assisting the scrum team in creating user stories and their acceptance criteria., Facilitate the various scrum events such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective., Following up with the development team to ensure that a working software will be delivered after each sprint., Support and educate product owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog., Ensuring efficient communication between the scrum development team and the Scrum product owner, Remove impediments for the scrum team to enable good quality outcome for each sprint, Ensuring the scrum team is always having a trust environment where issues can be raised without fear of blame or judgement with an emphasis on problem solving., Facilitating constructive discussions, effective decision making and practice conflict of resolution., Arranging scrum of scrums (SOS) when there are dependencies between development team’s sprints. Support and encourage collaboration and cooperation between the Scrum teams., Assisting the scrum team in creating user stories and their acceptance criteria.
• Tower, Healthcare Service Corporation, Healthcare, 11/2018, 08/2019, Test Manager, Scrum Master, Coordinate the creation of release planning schedule., Assisting the scrum team in creating user stories and their acceptance criteria., Support and educate product owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog., Ensuring efficient communication between the scrum development team and the Scrum product owner, Remove impediments for the scrum team to enable good quality outcome for each sprint., Ensuring the scrum team is always having a trust environment where issues can be raised without fear of blame or judgement with an emphasis on problem solving., Facilitating constructive discussions, effective decision making and practice conflict of resolution., Arranging scrum of scrums (SOS) when there are dependencies between development team’s sprints. Support and encourage collaboration and cooperation between the Scrum teams., Assisting the scrum team in creating user stories and their acceptance criteria., Facilitate the various scrum events such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective., Following up with the development team to ensure that a working software will be delivered after each sprint.
• Tower, Telarix (SaaS), Telecom, 02/2014, 11/2018, Test Lead, Scrum Master, Communicates issues and concerns for the specific module to the Onshore lead, Responsible for collating and sending Status, Responsible for assigning tasks to team, Responsible for Estimates, test case design and execution, Prepared WSR for the team and other team activities, Well versed with Software Testing Life Cycle, Agile process, Software Defect Life Cycle and Project Management, Customer Stakeholder management, Responsible for creating the Test Approaches Documents for Product test and User Acceptance Test Phase, Responsible for assigning tasks to team, Responsible for creating the Test Approaches Documents for Product test and User Acceptance Test Phase, Responsible for assigning tasks to team
• Genesis (Product Migration), Ladbrokes, Gaming, 11/2012, 12/2013, Senior Test Lead, Communicates issues and concerns for the specific module to the Onshore lead, Responsible for collating and sending Status, Responsible for assigning tasks to team, Responsible for Estimates, test case design and execution, Prepared WSR for the team and other team activities, Well versed with Software Testing Life Cycle, Agile process, Software Defect Life Cycle and Project Management, Customer Stakeholder management, Responsible for creating the Test Approaches Documents for Product test and User Acceptance Test Phase, Responsible for assigning tasks to team, Responsible for creating the Test Approaches Documents for Product test and User Acceptance Test Phase, Responsible for assigning tasks to team
• Legacy Asset Servicing Technology (Home loans and Insurance), Bank of America, Banking and Financial Services, 08/2008, 10/2012, Test Engineer, Leading a Team of 3 members, Communicates issues and concerns to Onsite leads and offshore leads, Responsible for providing the estimates to the Onshore leads for all the Efforts (Test Planning, Preparation and Execution), Responsible for creating the Test Approaches Documents for Product test and User Acceptance Test Phase, Involved in the estimation, creating and executing of cycles execution, Analyzed requirements and involved in preparing test cases, Peer review of the Deliverables which helps improve quality of the deliverable, Responsible for Functional testing, Regression testing, User Interface testing, Functionality, Regression testing and Defect Reporting
• Accenture Learning Services, Avaya, Unilever, AON, NBN, Levi Strauss & CO, Learning, 08/2008, 04/2012, Associate Test Engineer, Involved in the estimation, creating and executing of cycles execution, Analyzed requirements and involved in preparing test cases, Peer review of the Deliverables which helps improve quality of the deliverable, Responsible for Functional testing, Regression testing, User Interface testing, Functionality, Regression testing and Defect Reporting

• Date of Birth: 06/04/88
• Gender: Female
• Nationality: Indian