gnanaprakasam kumaresan

Accomplished IT professional with 14+ years of progressive experience in Project Management, Scrum Master, Agile Product Management andBusiness Analysis.

Handing multiple scrum teams and also managing the project teams.

Accomplished IT professional with 14+ years of progressive experience in Project Management, Scrum Master, Agile Product Management    andBusiness Analysis.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Project Management | Scrum Master | Business analyst | Product Owner| Testing| Metrics Reporting| Process Consulting | ISO 9001 |ASPICE

Methodologies: Scrum | Kanban | Waterfall | Scaled Agile |PMP | CICD | QMS | Scrumban

Tools                : JIRA | MS Visio | TFS | HP ALM | MPP | MS Office | SVN | Jenkins | Sonar Cloud | DOORS |TestCraft|Trello|Kanbanflow

       CERTIFICATION:

• Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
• Certified SAFe 5 Agile Product Manager from Scaled Agile

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

• Master of Technology (M.Tech)specialised in RemoteSensing from Anna University, Chennai(India) – Full time
• Master of Science (M.Sc) Specialised in Physics from Periyar University.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• ELEKTROBIT INDIA PVT LTD, Bangalore April 2022 to Till now
• VALEO INDIA PVT LTD., Ireland & Chennai, from August 2018 to March 2022
• HEXAGON GEOSPATIAL INDIA PVT LTD, Hyderabad & Chennai, from July 2015 to July 2018
• AVINEON INDIA PVT LTD, Hyderabad, from March 2015 to July 2015
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WIND ENERGY, Chennai, from December 2014 to February 2015
• EMPOWER CONSULTANCY PVT LTD, Chennai, from August 2009 to July 2014
• TTK MAPS, Chennai, from December 2008 to April 2009

PROJECT DETAILS

Customer                     : French Multinational Automotive Company

Project                         : The project scope is to develop new requirements and provide maintenance    Support for the automotive AI integrated applications.

Work Location              : Bangalore India 

Designation &Role       : Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a project kickoff meeting with all stakeholders and explained the scope, customer expectations, testing approach, commitments, SLAs, & other contractual clauses.
• Managing 2 scrum teams. Protected development team from outside distractions, team conflicts, impediments and maintained team focus on continuous delivery of product increments.
• Managed and tracked Project Scope, burndown/burnup charts, metrics, defect preventions & project risks to closure.
• Organized and facilitated Scrum Ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, & other related meetings.
• Assisted the Product Owner with prioritization of defects & CR’s for the release planning.
• Coached Product Owner in creating and maintaining the Product Backlog.
• Periodic Product backlog health checkup conducted, and gaps were timely reported to Product Owner (PO) & Proxy Product Owner (PPO).
• Coached team member on the Agile principles, quality process & account specific information security controls.
• Created Agile Playbook to ensure common practices being followed multiple teams.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to bridge the gap by conducting the Scrum of Scrum.
• Acted as a servant leader to help the scrum team to achieve sprint goals.
• Preparing Weekly status report with key stakeholders.
• Setting up project for the team in JIRA and helping them in initiation phase.
• Managing 15 additional team members in a higher-level 
• Reporting to Team Manager with regards to team and individual performance
• Develop the team in both technical and Non-Technical aspects with Product and Domain Knowledge through Trainings.
• Ensured milestones are met and managed the billing details for projects.
• Conducted weekly status review & governance calls with customers to report the status and progress of the project.
• Responsible for overall improvement of the team’s performance.
• Escalations across stakeholders on issue and devise strategy to meet regressions with Timelines.
• Committed to Meet Timelines, Process Driven Improvements, and Devise metrics for Process Improvements and Team Improvements.
• Managing and ownership of all project plans, controls, and resource plans, Share Point Management.
• Conducting annual performance reviews for team members; developing mechanisms for resolving team conflicts, promoting a positive team environment & teamwork spirit, and resolving team issues.
• Constant Interaction with global leaders and Teams for technical discussions to adopt new process, new Strategy across Teams

Customer                     : German Multinational Automotive Company

Project                         : The project scope is to develop new requirements and provide maintenance Support for the automotive AI integrated applications.

Work Location              : Ireland (Till April 2021), From May 2021 in Chennai till now Designation & Role          : Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated the Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Review, Retrospective and other meetings.
• Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Created the Project Plan which includes schedule plan, communication plan, training plan, QA plan, Risk plan, and configuration management plan.
• Facilitated the sizing of user stories and assigning them to the sprints prior to PI planning based on backlog grooming done with PO and SME’s.
• Tracked the progress of the user stories along with monitoring the tasks in JIRA.
• Validated release documents & user guides during the completion of the development phase.
• Validated the quality of the deliverables by conducting the work product inspections.
• Assisted the Product Owner with prioritization of defects & CR’s for the release planning.
• Worked with DevOps architect to establish the pipeline for Continuous Integrations.
• Conducted periodic Product backlog health checkup and gaps were timely reported to Product Owner (PO) to keep it effective and transparent.
• Coached the team members on the agile principles, quality process & account specific information security controls.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to bridge the gap by conducting the Scrum of Scrum.
• Prepared & shared the agile cheat sheet with all team members as a ready reckoner for meticulously following the agile practices.
• Created Agile Playbook to ensure common practices being followed across multiple teams.
• Reviewed the DOD's and Acceptance criteria for all the user stories.
• Tracked the Agile metrics such as Sprint Residual Defect, Sprint Defect Closure Rate, Earned Sprint Value, Velocity, & burn down chart for tracking the progress of Sprint.
• Managed the project team members and taken care of resource pyramid, utilization, billings and trainings.

Customer                     : A leading multinational conglomerate Engineering and Technology Company Project : The scope is to provide a Testing as a Service(TaaS) model which includes

manual testing, automated regression testing, usability testing, compliance testing, Mobile testing and Extract Transform and Load Testing in SIT & UAT Round 1 environment.

Work Location              : Chennai – India Designation & Role       : ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Effectively facilitated all the scrum ceremonies (Refinement, Sprint Planning, Review,Retrospectives and Daily Stand-ups) across all sprint teams.
• Coached teams, Scrum Masters,Product Owners, and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in Scrum practices.
• Conducted a project kickoff meeting with all stakeholders and explained the scope, customer expectations, testing approach, commitments, SLAs, & other contractual clauses.
• Defined detailed WBS & identified the appropriate life cycle activities based on the scope and release calendar provided by the customer.
• Created a One Pointer reference story to do the Planning Poker estimation effectively.
• Managed the resource grade mix pyramid & leaves and arrived Capacity planning for every sprint and improved the velocity sprint on sprint.
• Interacted with Management, Engineers, Product Owner and Support Specialists on the product issues.
• Developed the Test Plan and arrived at the testing approach to effectively deliver the defect free product.
• Reviewed the test cases and found out the scope for automations, reviewed the test results, analyzed the rejected defects, and used the 5Y & FURPCS concepts to find the RCA and shared with the customer.
• Created and maintained project collaboration spaces and repositories (Jira/Confluence) for project artifacts as needed.
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships.
• Identified the right talents and staffed the project roles with necessary skills.
• Conducted the Senior Management Reviews and Governance call and reported the project progress, open risks, metrics, KPIs, resources skill matrix, utilizations, value additions & support required.
• Established and tracked the DoD’s, DoR’s, Communication Plan, Escalation Protocol,Sprint

Reports & training plan.

• Identified & tracked risks and appropriate mitigation and contingency plans were taken based on the risk weightage.
• Ensured Independent Technical Reviews conducted for all the work products& conducted Work Product Inspections before arranging the demo.
• Participated in the internal & external audits and improved ProjectHealth Index.
• Conducted weekly status review & governance calls with customers to report the status and progressof the project.
• Ensured milestones are met and managed the billing details for projects.
• Managed 3 scrum teams with overall 21 members testing team which includes manual testing, automated regression testing, usability testing, compliance testing, Mobile testing and Extract Transform and Load Testing in SIT & UAT Round 1 environments.

Customer         : A North American based multinational Technology Company Work Location: Hyderabad

Role                 : Scrum Master and Business analyst Responsibilities:

• Conducted sprint demonstrations with various stakeholders in the organization which includes the client leadership team.
• Resolved impediments in the scrum team and kept the team focussed on achieving the sprint goal.
• Increased the deliverable rate and proved the agile values by transitioning the project from waterfall to agile model.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, & quality review meetings.
• Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Executed the detailed planning, evaluated the product backlog evaluation, user stories, tasks, scrum board and sprint progress.
• Reviewed the Impact Analysis document effectively for every change by establishing a bi- directional traceability Matrix.
• Established the code review guidelines and enforced the usage of the checkpoints.
• Reviewed the bug, post shipment defects and helped the team to arrive at the right root cause.
• Test driven development practices implemented in the scrum teams to ensure QA/defects are captured early in the lifecycle.
• Closely monitored the key Agile metrics such as SPrint Injection Ratio, Sprint Velocity, Sprint Burndown, Sprint residual defect & ESV to improve the quality of the application & customer satisfaction.

Customer         : A leadingTechnology Communication Companyin Europe WorkLocation : Hyderabad – India

Role                 : Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders
• Analyze the impact of new features
• Identify the steps or tasks to support the implementation of new features
• Planning the project scope, understanding and implementing requirement of project, identifying resources required for the project
• Responsible for gathering product specific requirement through close interaction with customer.
• Responsible for understanding of customer requirements and implementation of the design.
• Installed the tools and trained the customers within our product.Based on customerrequirement modified the tools and algorithms.
• Budget planning and sharingof quotation estimates.
• Responsible for the delivery plan.

Customer         : National Institute of Wind Energy Work Location : Chennai, India

Role                 : ProjectConsultant

Responsibilities:

• Defining the structure of a project, its goals, and resource requirements
• Implementing a solid project management strategy for task interdependency
• Consulting issues associated with a project with the project management team, clients, and other interested parties
• Identify and managing project risks, contingency and mitigation plans
• Coordinating with relevant stakeholders, both inside and outside the organisation
• Allocating tasks to the project management team and providing regular guidance to team members

Customer         : An American consumer electronics and telecommunications companyWork Location : Chennai, India

Role                 : Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Provided information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and serviceissues.
• Responsible to manage the project along with the group leads.
• Responsible to lead a team and developthe team with high technical skills.
• Planned and scheduled the training for the team with the updated technical skills.
• Task Planning, timely escalation & risk mitigation plan.
• Involved in the review of work product.
• Involving the qualityassurance for the data deliveryand responsible for the qualityaudits & otherquality activities within the team.

Customer         : American multinational technology company Work Location : Chennai,India

Role                 : SoftwareEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement systems and databases for geospatial data.
• Standardized geographic data as per the customerrequirements
• Performed geospatial modeling and spatialanalysis
• Reviewed GIS data for accuracy.
• Timely sharing of statusreport to the customer
• Provided training on the application to the customer
• Organized demo for the business stakeholders.

• Master of Technology (M.Tech)specialized in RemoteSensing from Anna University, Chennai(India) – Full time
• Master of Science (M.Sc) Specialized in Physics from Periyar University.