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Saisree Palreddy

Mississauga,ON

Summary

Certified Scrum Master with background in managing cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects within set timelines. Demonstrated skill in facilitating daily scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming while collaborating with product owners to align team efforts towards business goals. Committed to improving team efficiency, enhancing communication, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Successfully steered previous organizations towards agile methodologies by fostering an environment of transparency and trust.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Tangerine
09.2020 - Current
  • Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Participated in feature design discussions offering insights from an Agile perspective when necessary.
  • Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
  • Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
  • Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
  • Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.
  • Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
  • Encouraged continuous process improvement initiatives through retrospectives.
  • Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
  • Monitored costs and expenses with precision against the allocated budget

Senior Business Analyst

Tangerine
11.2015 - 08.2020
  • Developed business process models to identify and document customer requirements.
  • Analyzed existing systems and processes, identified gaps and recommended improvements.
  • Created data flows to illustrate the flow of information between various stakeholders.
  • Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, cases, and results matrices to validate system functionality.
  • Conducted interviews with subject matter experts to gather information on existing systems and procedures.
  • Created detailed process flows and user stories to document system requirements and design solutions.
  • Presented complex technical concepts in a clear manner suitable for non-technical audiences.
  • Developed reports using SQL queries to track progress against key performance indicators.
  • Facilitated brainstorming sessions with cross-functional teams for problem solving activities.
  • Facilitated design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution.

Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Northwood Mortgage
09.2013 - 10.2015
  • Successfully developed and executed UAT and PAT Testing for multiple legislative, process/procedural projects.
  • Various versions of the documents generated during the project were maintained and managed using Rational Clear Case.
  • Perform defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest.
  • Test the final application for usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
  • Work with Change Management to test enhancements, production incidents.
  • Research, analyze, and document issues.
  • Prepare preliminary analysis for process improvement opportunities.
  • Conduct Use Cases to confirm/identify requirements.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology

JNTU
Hyderabad, India

Skills

  • Agile Best Practices
  • Software process management
  • Resource Allocation
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Team facilitation
  • Scrum processes
  • Jira and Confluence
  • AML/KYC Knowledge
  • Transaction monitoring

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Scrum Master

Tangerine
09.2020 - Current

Senior Business Analyst

Tangerine
11.2015 - 08.2020

Business Analyst/Quality Analyst

Northwood Mortgage
09.2013 - 10.2015

Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology

JNTU

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