K Manikandan

Scrum Master with 9 years of overall experience with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focusing relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer centric products & features. Led teams of 8-15 people across technology, business & design departments. Promoted to Scrum Master role from Software Test engineer role due to strong performance and organizational impact

• Proficiently organized and facilitated Daily scrum, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives, Sprint, and Release planning.
• Highly motivated professional with experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Development team members, Architects, and other Scrum Masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Proactively identified ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keeping projects on track.
• Managed Product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily scrums, Sprint reviews, and Sprint retrospectives.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments which in turns helps increase the productivity.
• Led Sprint reviews, Daily scrums and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement.
• Supported test review, defect control, and configuration management within the delivery pipeline
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical and business product managers. Have ample experience in working directly with client directors.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - Apr2012-Apr2015, 

Hindustan College of Arts & Science.