Shalini Rawal

I am an enthusiastic Scrum Master always eager to work towards improvements which benefit the company and the employees.

My Professional experience is

Rich experience of over 16+ years in Information and Technology. 5+ years’ experience of Program and Project management across large complex IT projects.

• Experience in implementing Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Pre PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Inspect & Adapt and Sprint Retrospective.

• Experience in participating and handling Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.

• Experience in mitigating team and organizational level issues.

• Enabling teams to follow Agile principles and values.

• Preparing team for sprints by proper PI Planning and Sprint planning.

• Capacity planning, burn-down charts and sprint velocity reporting • Coached the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and effectively communicated, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.

• Worked with Scrum Team, internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.

• Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers for work product deliverables • Escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness at organization level • Resolved team impediments with other Scrum Masters and increased the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization by 50%.

• Experience in Kanban, Lean-Agile and tools like JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, etc.

• Improved Defect resolution process by 30% at organization level.

• Mentored and Coached teams using Scrum framework to deliver high quality products and services to customers. Team efficiency improved by 24%.

• Extensive experience in Banking and Retail domain as a Test and Project Manager.

• Delivered geographically distributed projects utilizing agile principles & practices, DevOps methodologies.

• Standardize and implemented best practices for test management including Test Estimations, Test Strategy, Test Planning, RTM, scenario creation and execution, Defect Life Cycle, and monitoring test KPIs.

• Experience across all phases of project management including Plan, Execute, Control and Monitor with hands on experience of estimation for large scale enterprise programs using Function point, Work Break Down, Story point estimations • Identified & Mitigated risks and dependencies for Banking & Retail projects for 30+ applications • Technical Consultant -Build and Deployment managed projects, continuous improvement initiatives and business-as-usual to ensure availability and reliable operation of IT systems.

• Test Automation technical trainer and trained 100+ engineers.

• Knowledge of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

I have Master's degree in Science. I have also completed Diploma in Computer Science and undergone various trainings and Certifications in Testing, Automation Testing tools, Test Management Tools and basic Computer tools.