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Shikhar Singh

SAFe Certified Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager
Pune

Summary

Experienced IT professional with 17 years of experience and 5.0 years as a SAFe Certified Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager. Skilled in understanding and building complex systems, with a focus on removing team impediments and delivering customer-centric products and features.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Scrum Master

TATA Consultancy Services(TCS)
Pune
04.2022 - Current
  • Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in hitting 100% of project deadlines
  • Major Clients for transformation are VISA, HSBC, City Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, SAXO Bank, Westpac Bank, and worked as a Scrum Master.
  • Leadership for Agile Adoption & Best practices for implementing Agile. Coordinate Scrum ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. Radiate information and ensure that team's progress and successes are highly
  • Visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself. Support both onshore and offshore delivery team.
  • Activities including communicating updates and impediments as well as with backlog Refinement and release plan maintenance.
  • Provide visibility to team and help to eliminate impediments/risks Facilitate and guide the teams on the values and practices of Agile principles.
  • Promote volunteerism, team unity, and decisions based on consensus
  • Assisted in preparing and refining the backlog for program increment(large scale planning) as well as sprint planning.
  • Providing Scrum team progress reports as appropriate to top management and clients
  • Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features that reached maximum users
  • Play the role of Agile coach time by time to trained the scrum team about Agile important keys factor
  • Formulating & implementing plans for managing project scope, Extending support in executing projects and facilitating transition from Product backlog to retrospective meetings
  • Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
  • Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.

Scrum Master

IHS Markit pvt. ltd.
12.2020 - 04.2022
  • Worked as a Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager, have experience to handel two teams at time, as per Agile guidance each team have 8-10 members, rich experience to organise Scrum ceremonies, manage Product backlog, Sprint backlog, and also had experience to work as a Technical Project manager, in which have handel the all team activities from Project Initiation to get project Release.

Tech Lead

Wipro Limited
09.2019 - 06.2020

Tech Lead

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2017 - 03.2019

Sr. Software Test Analyst

Collabera Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2014 - 09.2017

Corporate Trainer and Software Engineer

DAMAS INFO LIMITED
07.2007 - 06.2014

Education

Master of Computer Application -

Uttar Pradesh Technical University

Bachelor of Science - undefined

Kanpur University

Skills

Agile Development and practices

Agile frameworks- Scrum, Kanban

Waterfall Model

Project Management

JIRA and Confluence

Client relationship management

User stories, TDD, BDD

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Certification

CSM Certified Scrum Master

Training

  • Attended two days workshop training of Scrum Master
  • Attended two days workshop training of SAFe Agile.
  • Completed training in French Language from Indian Institute of Technology (IITK) in 2013

Profile Summary

  • Experienced in handling E2E activity of the project like from start and release.
  • Facilitating to team to work smoothly into Waterfall process /Scrum framework.
  • Expertise into End-to-End delivery of whole Project like Team building, budgeting, Risk analysis, mentoring.
  • Helping & mentoring the teams on Practices Guiding and Helping the Scrum Team/Project team and organization to delivering successful project.
  • Practices and values to delight customers. Guiding and helping team on how to get the most out of self-organization
  • Higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
  • Right personnel to remove the impediment. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be resolve.
  • Guiding Team to teach how to use KanBan in Projects.
  • Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features
  • Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status and details of each project
  • Gained understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug life Cycle, Test driven development(TDD), Business driven development(BDD).
  • Assisted product owner in preparing and refining the backlog for program increment(large scale planning) as well as sprint planning.
  • Expertise in Tools like JIRA, TFS, Power BI, ALM, QC
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration & team-building skills with proficiency in grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilizing the same in a productive manner
  • Project Management
  • Analysing user needs and software requirements to determine test feasibility and
  • Scope; interacting with team members to ensure progress of project work Monitoring and ensuring customer delivery during the transition period; ensuring
  • Adherence to the quality norms throughout the implementation process

Personal Details

  • Date of Birth: 8th August, 1984
  • Languages Known: English, Hindi & French
  • Passport Details: Number: J2710154, Valid Till: 12th August, 2020

Timeline

Scrum Master

TATA Consultancy Services(TCS)
04.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

IHS Markit pvt. ltd.
12.2020 - 04.2022

Tech Lead

Wipro Limited
09.2019 - 06.2020

Tech Lead

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2017 - 03.2019

Sr. Software Test Analyst

Collabera Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2014 - 09.2017

Corporate Trainer and Software Engineer

DAMAS INFO LIMITED
07.2007 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Science - undefined

Kanpur University

Master of Computer Application -

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Shikhar SinghSAFe Certified Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager