ICAgile (ICP - CAT, ENT, BAF & ACC ) Certifications
Kiran Saripella
Toronto
Summary
An Agile Coach & Portfolio Lead/Program Manager, with over 24 years of IT experience, facilitating organizations' transition to Agile by teaching, mentoring, facilitation, and professional Coaching to foster successful Agile Transformations and enhance team performance. Trained in Agile delivery use and negotiation. Known for goal-oriented mindset with Product Agility and Business Agility. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
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4
3
3
Scrum Alliance (CSP-SM, A-CSM & CSM) Certifications
25
25
years of professional experience
2
2
Kanban University (KSD & KSI) Certifications
3
3
SAFe (SPC6,LPM, RTE) Certifications
Work History
Agile Coach/Portfolio Scrum Master/Program Manager
BMO Bank
05.2021 - Current
- Working with Business Product Owner(s) and Portfolio Stakeholders for the Roadmap planning and Portfolio Kanban
- Working on Lean Portfolio Management and budget guardrails along with the Product Management team, Agile CoE and Portfolio Stakeholders
- Working with senior management on budget planning and clarity for forecast, budgeted cost etc
- Coaching the team in Agile best practices including self-organization and cross-functionality in an organization that has yet to fully adopt the Agile framework
- Coordinating the Release train for Engineering & Platform in Cloud Services with PI planning
- Facilitating Scrum of Scrums ceremonies for tracking and working on cross dependencies
- Enacting change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and the quality of deliverables
- Utilized JIRA and Confluence to write user stories and acceptance criteria
- Working with the solution management team to plan the solution demo and integrations with planned estimates with proper milestone tracking using the dashboards
- Working as lead Scrum Master coordinating with multiple project issues and risks at a sprint, project and release levels.
Agile Coach/ Regulatory and Compliance
Scotia Bank
12.2017 - 04.2021
- Working with Business Product Owner(s) and IT Delivery Manager(s) for the business every release
- Coaching the team in Agile best practices including self-organization and cross-functionality in an organization that has yet to fully adopt the Agile framework
- Coordinating the Release train for Compliance projects with PI planning
- Assist in establishing product roadmap, story map and release plan
- Ensure agile product delivery for Compliance project for the CASL Phase – 1 & Phase – 2 implementations with project budget 11 M CAD, the first Compliance & Regulatory project in Scotia Bank in Agile methodology
- Planning and facilitating Scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc
- Customized the switch between SCRUM, KANBAN and SCRUM-BAN using Jira for different project requirements
- Enacting change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and the quality of deliverables
- Used Jira and confluence as ALM tools for version Control
- Worked as CBT level Sr
- Scrum Master for with Scrum of Scrums involving 12-15 teams (Agile teams and Traditional teams) with 2-3 Release Trains to deliver the AML – PCMLTFA & FINTRAC New Regs and Strategic initiative stream budgeted 11 M CAD with large multi-geography programs
- Working with the solution management team to plan the solution demo and integrations with planned estimates with proper milestone tracking using the dashboards
- Working as lead Scrum Master coordinating with multiple e-project issues and risks at the sprint, project and release levels.
Agile Coach/Scrum Master / Regulatory and Compliance
Scotia Bank
01.2016 - 12.2017
- Pioneered advocating and teaching Agile (scrum) processes, ensuring that the team is always following the framework and looking for opportunities for continuous improvement
- Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a team
- Coaching multiple teams for Regulatory & Compliance project teams
- Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, Story Boards, Task Boards, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and sprint demo prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Circulated reports from ALM tools like JIRA and confluence on team velocities
- Empower the team to self-organize and minimize/resolve impediments and prevent distractions
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, deliverables & demos
- Facilitated sprint planning, helping the team make appropriate commitments through story sizing and task definition e.g
- Planning poker
- Collaborated with Product Owner to maximize ROI and attainment of project objectives, creating user stories and formulating Acceptance criteria
- Demonstrating Sprint/release progress via burn-down charts
- Accountable for release, demos & sprint planning based on capacity/velocity.
QA Lead / Manager
Scotia Bank
09.2012 - 01.2016
- Managed a group of testers to help deliver high-quality products with a very low number of production defects
- Created test plan, test data, test case identification, test result, Test case execution, and test case creation and reviewed and sign off testing documentation Conducted and participated in the walkthrough, and peer reviewed testing documents
- Administration of ALM applications for the project
- Used ALM tools like Jira and Confluence for version control and documentation
- Reviewed and analyzed Business requirement documentation, System requirement documentation, all functional, project charter, and system design documents
- Analyzed Business requirements and related documents to plan on the testing scope
- Reported progress of testing including a representation of software quality to leadership teams, project managers, and stakeholders as required
- Promote team performance by liaising with cross-functional teams in an agile environment in line with Scrum Framework.
QA Lead / Manager
Tech Mahindra
09.2008 - 09.2012
Sr. Test Lead/Project Lead
Aztecsoft Ltd. (Mindtree Ltd.)
10.2007 - 08.2008
Assistant Manager
Keane India Ltd
05.2005 - 10.2007
Test Lead
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Mahindra Satyam)
01.2004 - 04.2005
Member QC
UEC SAIL Information Technology Ltd.
05.2002 - 12.2003
Software Team Member
Taruni Technovision Pvt Ltd.
03.2000 - 04.2002
Education
Master of Computer Science (MSc – CS) -
JJ College of Arts and Science affiliated to Bharathidasan University
01.2000
Bachelor of Computer Science (BSc - CS) -
Shadan Degree College for Boys affiliated with Osmania University
01.1997
Skills
- Lean QA- Six Sigma
- Software Testing Life Cycle
- Planning & Estimation
- Scrum/XP Framework
- SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
- Defect Management
- Waterfall & Agile methodologies
- Project Lifecycle & Management
- Resource Management
- User Training
- Risk Mitigation Planning
- Client Support
- Release Management
- Performance Evaluation
- Continuous Improvement
- Servant Leadership
- Scaling Agile
- Lean Thinking
- Agile Estimation Techniques
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Scrum Mastery
- Organizational Agility
- Value Stream Mapping
- Agile Training
- Agile Metrics Analysis
- Backlog Grooming
- Emotional Intelligence
- Agile Framework Expertise
- Agile Tool Proficiency
- Adaptive Planning
- Product Owner Support
- Agile Risk Management
- Sprint Planning
- Team Facilitation
Certification
- SAFe : SAFe Process Consultant (SPC6) , Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- ICAgile : ICP - Coaching Agile Transformations (CAT), ICP - Enterprise Agile Coaching (ENT), ICP - Business Agility Foundations (BAF) & ICP - Agile Coaching (ACC)
- ScrumAlliance : Certified Scrum Professional - SM (CSP-SM), Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) & Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Kanban University - Kanban Systems Improvement & Kanban Systems Design
Languages
English
Professional Working
Timeline
Agile Coach/Portfolio Scrum Master/Program Manager
BMO Bank
05.2021 - Current
Agile Coach/ Regulatory and Compliance
Scotia Bank
12.2017 - 04.2021
Agile Coach/Scrum Master / Regulatory and Compliance
Scotia Bank
01.2016 - 12.2017
QA Lead / Manager
Scotia Bank
09.2012 - 01.2016
QA Lead / Manager
Tech Mahindra
09.2008 - 09.2012
Sr. Test Lead/Project Lead
Aztecsoft Ltd. (Mindtree Ltd.)
10.2007 - 08.2008
Assistant Manager
Keane India Ltd
05.2005 - 10.2007
Test Lead
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Mahindra Satyam)
01.2004 - 04.2005
Member QC
UEC SAIL Information Technology Ltd.
05.2002 - 12.2003
Software Team Member
Taruni Technovision Pvt Ltd.
03.2000 - 04.2002
Master of Computer Science (MSc – CS) -
JJ College of Arts and Science affiliated to Bharathidasan University
Bachelor of Computer Science (BSc - CS) -
Shadan Degree College for Boys affiliated with Osmania University
Tools Technologies
- Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS (Operating Systems)
- SharePoint (Team Collaboration)
- HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, QTP, UFT (Test Tools)
- Microsoft VSS, Microsoft TFS, Microsoft Test Manager (Document Mgmt. Tools)
- MS Visio (Process Development products)
- Oracle, MS SQL Server (Databases)
- KANBAN, SCRUM (Agile Methodologies)
- Planning Poker, Task Board (Scrum)
- MS Office, Beyond Compare, FileZilla, FTP (Misc.)
- Web Application
Tools Technologies
- Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS (Operating Systems)
- SharePoint (Team Collaboration)
- HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, QTP, UFT (Test Tools)
- Microsoft VSS, Microsoft TFS, Microsoft Test Manager (Document Mgmt. Tools)
- MS Visio (Process Development products)
- Oracle, MS SQL Server (Databases)
- KANBAN, SCRUM (Agile Methodologies)
- Planning Poker, Task Board (Scrum)
- MS Office, Beyond Compare, FileZilla, FTP (Misc.)
- Web Application
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