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Nayreen Sayyed

Nayreen Sayyed

Toronto,Canada

Summary

Accomplished Project Manager offering 10 years of experience IT Industry. Successful when leading high-performing teams to sustain product vision, roadmap and business goals. Exceptional technical expertise, leadership and talent for driving stellar, on-target results.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Project Manager

Infosys Ltd.
06.2022 - Current
  • Demonstrated strong leadership skills by effectively managing diverse teams and maintaining high levels of motivation, even during challenging periods of significant change or tight deadlines.
  • Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
  • Successfully delivered multiple high-profile projects on time, ensuring client satisfaction and fostering long-term relationships.
  • Spearheaded process improvement initiatives that resulted in significant time savings and reductions in errors across multiple projects.
  • Ensured all projects adhered to quality standards by implementing rigorous testing procedures and closely monitoring progress reports.
  • Managed 3 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Managed various IT projects to meet deadlines and customer requirements.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
  • Ensured alignment between business goals and technical requirements by working closely with stakeholders during sprint planning sessions.
  • Improved overall project efficiency with effective coordination between development, testing, deployment, and support teams during release cycles.

Scrum Master

TeamWare Solutions
06.2021 - 06.2022
  • Coached/Mentored a cross functional team of 12 resources to deliver quality products which led to over $3.5M in revenue
  • Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 40% within the first year of Agile adoption
  • Implemented a monthly release schedule that increased the number of work items released by 25%
  • Functioned as Scrum Master for 10 releases, each delivered on time with no critical bugs released to production
  • Worked with the product owner & Development Team on breaking the Epics and Features into the User stories, acceptance criteria refinement,as per the client expectations and help the scrum team to understand them and loaded them into sprints in Jira
  • Proficient with Agile techniques User Stories, ATDD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing, Agile Games (Planning poker)
  • Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.

Application Development Team Lead

Accenture Solutions Private Limited
12.2020 - 06.2021
  • Led 3 teams each with 7- 8 members across US,UK,India
  • Followed kanban whiteboard techniques leveraging jira
  • Organized product backlog refinement and User Stories grooming sessions with product owner
  • Facilitated product backlog review and prioritization meetings in partnership with product owners and to take an opportunity to refine user-stories and mentor product owners
  • Instruct core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility and ensure consistent of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
  • Chaired whereas Sprint ceremonies- Sprint planning, daily stand-up, Sprint review, Sprint retrospectives
  • Worked with development and QA managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
  • Update project stakeholders about the team velocity and teams daily and weekly status using numerous Burndown techniques and numerous Retrospective formats
  • Participated in monthly and quarterly Sprint release planning meeting in prioritizing and committing the user stories.
  • Designed best practice documentation for development.
  • Promoted knowledge sharing within the team by leading workshops on relevant topics such as new programming languages or frameworks.
  • Identified opportunities for process improvement within the development lifecycle, implementing changes that led to greater efficiency.

Application Development Senior Analyst

Accenture Solutions Private Limited
02.2019 - 11.2020
  • Part of transforming team members into Agile/Scrum from waterfall methodologies
  • Worked closely with Development, QA and Release managers to identify cross-team impediments, dependencies and resolve them
  • Worked closely with business users to gather requirements, define project specifications, develop implementation and test plans based on test strategy
  • Produced test estimates, test plans and delivered test preparation/execution across multiple projects ensuring that agile methodologies were implemented where possible
  • Created data mapping documents mapping Logical Data Elements to Physical Data Elements and Source Data Elements to Destination Data Elements
  • Maintained documentation related to difficulties, complexities and anomalies that may arise during the ETL process
  • Ability to analyze the root cause of a problem and demonstrate good sense when handing the problem over to development
  • Developed complex SQL queries for data validation for verifying the ETL Mapping Rules
  • Responsible for Import and Export databases between Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Text, or SQL
  • Used SQL tools to run SQL queries and validate the data loaded into the target tables
  • Created ETL execution scripts for automating jobs
  • Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
  • Developed SQL scripts for verification of data at extraction phase to ensure ,transformation phase and loading phase of the data to ensure correctness of the data and also verifying the ETL mapping rules
  • Assisted the UAT sessions with the users which were not just limited to flow of transactional data, through the system, performance test and updating the defect tracking list for with UAT feed backs
  • Defects identified in testing environment were communicated to the developers using defect tracking tool HP ALM

Software Engineer

Birlasoft Ltd (ErstWhile KPIT Technologies Ltd)
09.2014 - 02.2019
  • Enhanced application performance by identifying and resolving technical issues in a timely manner.
  • Conducted root cause analysis on recurring incidents to identify opportunities for improvements in application design or support procedures.
  • Documented procedures for troubleshooting common issues, contributing to a more efficient support process.
  • Managed incident tracking system, ensuring accurate records and timely follow-ups on outstanding issues.
  • Developed custom scripts for automating routine tasks resulting in increased efficiency within the team''s daily operations.
  • Streamlined support processes for improved end-user experience and reduced resolution times.
  • Maintained strong relationships with stakeholders by providing exceptional service and communication throughout issue resolution process.
  • Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
  • Optimized system performance through routine maintenance tasks such as database backups, log file reviews, and server health checks.

Education

Master's of Computer Application -

Pune University
Nashik, India
05.2014

Bachelor's of Computer Science -

Pune University
Nashik, India
05.2011

Skills

  • Team Management
  • Release planning
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Project Planning
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Backlog Grooming
  • Technical Debt Management
  • Product Owner Collaboration

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance)
  • PG program in Data Science, Machine Learning and Neural Networks (In Collaboration with IBM)

Awards

  • Manager Recognition, Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd, 02/11/2021, Awarded for job well done
  • Client Recognition, Accenture Solutions Private Ltd, 05/22/2020, Recognised by client for being incredible
  • Apex Award, Accenture Technology, 08/23/2019, This is being awarded for contributing to successful delivery and higher contract profitability
  • GROUP WOW AWARD, KPIT Technologies Ltd, 07/2016, Awarded for hardwork, commitment & dedication towards work to achieve deadlines
  • WOW Award, KPIT Technologies Ltd, 02/2016, Awarded for quick grasping and ownership of tasks
  • WOW Award, KPIT Technologies, 07/2015, Awarded for exemplary learning, commitment & contribution to the project

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual

Software

Azure Devops

Jira

Servicenow

Microsoft Project

Timeline

Technical Project Manager

Infosys Ltd.
06.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

TeamWare Solutions
06.2021 - 06.2022

Application Development Team Lead

Accenture Solutions Private Limited
12.2020 - 06.2021

Application Development Senior Analyst

Accenture Solutions Private Limited
02.2019 - 11.2020

Software Engineer

Birlasoft Ltd (ErstWhile KPIT Technologies Ltd)
09.2014 - 02.2019

Master's of Computer Application -

Pune University

Bachelor's of Computer Science -

Pune University

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