Basker Ananth R R

IT & Technology professional with 22 years of overall experience, including 17+ years in core IT delivery and approximately 9 years in Scrum Master / Agile Coach roles. Experienced in enabling high-performing teams, driving SAFe-aligned program execution, improving delivery predictability, and leading Agile transformation across enterprise environments.

Senior Scrum Master - EPAM

(2025-10)

• Coaching and supporting multiple Scrum teams to improve Agile maturity and delivery effectiveness in SAFe-aligned environments.
• Improving delivery predictability by monitoring velocity, release forecasts, and Program Increment (PI) commitments.
• Facilitating cross-team coordination, dependency management, and transparent stakeholder communication.
• Mentoring Scrum Masters and Product Owners to strengthen Agile practices and team maturity.
• Promoting DevOps collaboration, CI/CD adoption, and test automation practices to improve delivery quality.
• Proactively managing program-level risks, capacity planning, and impediments to ensure smooth increment delivery.
• Leveraged Atlassian Rovo AI within Jira, along with ChatGPT and approved AI assistants, to streamline sprint reporting, meeting summaries, action-item tracking, risk/impediment capture, and Agile documentation.
• Applied AI-assisted insights during Scrum ceremonies and retrospectives to identify improvement themes and follow-up actions, reducing selected recurring reporting/documentation effort from ~3 hours to ~1 hour while retaining human validation.

Scrum Master / Project Delivery Lead - Mphasis Ltd.

(2022-11 - 2025-06)

• Led a 20+ member cross-functional Scrum team and facilitated all Scrum ceremonies to ensure consistent delivery of high-value increments.
• Drove SAFe 6.0-aligned Agile adoption across enterprise programs and synchronized team execution with Program Increment (PI) objectives.
• Spearheaded Agile transformation initiatives including onboarding frameworks, reporting optimization, and maturity enhancement across multiple teams.
• Managed complex, interdependent enterprise programs spanning multi-vendor platforms and product suites.
• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to capture business requirements and aligned deliverables with defined quality benchmarks.
• Formulated and monitored effort estimates, sprint forecasts, release plans, resource allocation, and budget adherence to ensure delivery predictability.
• Partnered with Product Owners in defining MVPs, prioritizing roadmaps, and decomposed epics into actionable user stories using INVEST and MoSCoW techniques.
• Drove backlog refinement sessions to strengthen sprint readiness and long-term planning (N+1, N+2 cycles).
• Implemented Agile metrics dashboards including burndown, burn-up, velocity, and predictability reports to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Engineered customized JIRA workflows and real-time dashboards to enhance transparency and governance.
• Promoted Agile engineering excellence practices including CI/CD, TDD, BDD, and pair programming to improve quality and release stability.
• Facilitated risk-based capacity planning, dependency management, and proactive impediment resolution at the program level.
• Provided continuous stakeholder engagement through structured communication, executive reporting, and transparent progress tracking.
• Offered post-deployment governance, scalability oversight, and continuous improvement facilitation.
• Mentored team members, conducted structured performance evaluations, and mediated conflicts to cultivate high-performing, self-managed teams.

Scrum Master - Boston Harbor Consulting

(2021-08 - 2022-05)

Client: Applied Materials Inc.-US

• Environment: Java, JIRA, Python

Senior Lead Engineer - SSG Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

(2021-03 - 2021-06)

Client: Mortgage Industry-US

• Environment: .NET, VB, SQL Server, JIRA

Scrum Master; TL / QA Manager; Sr. Technical Architect - Hexaware Technologies

(2007-10 - 2021-02)

Growth Path: Scrum Master (May 2017 – Feb 2021); TL / QA Manager (Dec 2007 – Apr 2017).

• Key project: Airline Cargo Platform (UK, Philippines, Singapore), Mar 2019–Feb 2021. Environment: Java, JIRA, Confluence, SQL Server, Jenkins.
• Key project: Health CARE PARAXIAL & IMS -US, May 2017–Feb 2019. Environment: Java, JIRA, Confluence, SQL Server, Jenkins.
• Key project: Toll Collection System, Conduent– Florida, US, Jun 2016–Apr 2017. Environment: Unix, Oracle, Siebel CRM.
• Key project: Manpower Workforce App – US, Jan 2016–May 2016. Environment: Android, iOS, Windows Mobile.
• Key project: Investment Banking Platform – Germany, Apr 2014–Dec 2015. Environment: Java, Mainframe, SQL.
• Key project: Toyota Financial Services – US, Jan 2013–Apr 2014. Environment: .NET, Oracle, HPQC.
• Key project: Vector Product-Toll collection- ACS – USA, Dec 2007–Dec 2012. Environment: Forte, VMS, MS-SQL, UNIX, Siebel CRM.

Software Engineer - Gfox Labs

(2004-06 - 2007-10)

• Client: Leading ERP Provider – Gulf. Period: Jul 2005 – Oct 2007. Environment: VB 6.0, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports.
• Client: Healthcare Service Provider-Europe. Period: Jun 2004 – Jun 2005. Environment: VB 6.0, SQL Server 2000.

Faculty - Sapthagiri College of Engineering

(2001-11 - 2004-05)

Trainee - HCL Info Systems

(2000-07 - 2001-07)

B.E. - Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Dharmapuri (1999)