Rani Shanmugasundaram

Techno-functional professional with 8+ years of experience in IT sector, including experience in Agile Project Management, Scrum master and Testing roles. Independently leading, managing large enterprise software development projects by understanding the requirements, design, development and providing go-live support across various verticals such as Banking, Insurance and Audit trails sector.

• Proficiently organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, backlog refinement etc. Plan, track, report and control the component projects progress, interfacing with stakeholders at various levels.
• Collaborated closely with product owners on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for estimation.
• Effectively tracked the team's progress including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Worked with multiple Scrum master's to prepare for and facilitate potentially shippable increment planning sessions.
• Expertly promoted improvement by continuous integration and continuous delivery that helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Contributed to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management.
• Identified and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Trained new team members and transitioned teams to agile framework with Scrum to enhance team skills levels.
• Monitored and managed dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.
• Experienced in working with distributed and collocated teams.
• Understood clients' business and provided inputs for effective architecture & technology plans; defined technical architecture considering real time constraints and functional & non-functional requirements.
• Drove, developed, managed, and maintained the major incident process and associated procedures.
• Facilitated with end-to-end delivery of the program, met internal and external objectives.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Integration testing, Functional testing, Sprint testing, Ad-hoc Testing and Regression Testing
• Estimation, risk, scope, time, resource, quality, change management, Value-adds, continuous process and productivity improvement.

• SAFe
• Scrum
• Kanban

• JIRA
• Confluence
• Jenkins
• GIT
• Postman
• Experitest
• Ready api

• Certified Scrum master (CSM)
• Certified safe practitioner