Amruta Arvind Pawar

Senior Scrum Master and Project Lead with 12.10 years of total experience, including 6.5 years of relevant experience in Agile project delivery, Scrum leadership, and stakeholder management. Proven track record of driving Agile excellence through effective Scrum facilitation, team coaching, backlog optimization, and continuous process improvement. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, establishing Scrum and Kanban frameworks, managing delivery metrics, and removing impediments to support predictable project outcomes.

Adept at collaborating with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and development teams. Proficient in JIRA, Confluence, Rally, and Azure DevOps, with a strong focus on delivery transformation, team empowerment, and business value realization.

Project Lead - Senior Scrum Master at Atlas Copco Group (2025-05 – Present)

• Lead Agile delivery for a 20-member team structured into two sub-teams of 11 and 9 members.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Established Scrum and Kanban boards in JIRA and guided teams and stakeholders on Agile and Scrum practices.
• Partner with Business Analyst and Technical Leads to prioritize user stories and improve backlog readiness.
• Monitor sprint progress through Agile metrics and maintain JIRA dashboards for project visibility.
• JIRA workflow management, creation of filters for easy data access, team capacity management, and resource planning.
• Continuous coordination and alignment with management.

Program Manager - Specialist Scrum Master at LTIMindtree (2021-08 – 2025-04)

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for a 15-member development team and supported delivery planning.
• Managed resource capacity, work allocation, backlog grooming, epics, user stories, and JIRA administration.
• Coordinated with Product Owners and business stakeholders on priorities and release schedules.
• Removed impediments and collaborated with cross-functional teams to support delivery commitments.
• Prepared sprint and Agile metrics for Scrum of Scrums and management reporting.
• Coached team members on Scrum principles and contributed to process improvement initiatives.
• Planned onboarding and knowledge transition for new resources.
• Coordinated go-live and production release activities with delivery stakeholders.
• Worked with US and UK clients handling multiple stakeholders.

Technical Leader / Scrum Master at KPIT Technologies Ltd (2012-05 – 2020-03)

• Performed unit, functional and integration testing, including test execution and failure reporting.
• Contributed to requirement documentation and test-plan creation.
• Mentored team members and new joiners and facilitated daily stand-ups and team coordination.

MBA in HR – Pune (2022)

B.E. in E&TC – Pune (2011)

HSC in Science – Maharashtra (2007)

SSC – Maharashtra (2005)