HIRAN K


Certified Scrum Master targeting mid/senior level assignments in with an
organization of high repute in IT Industry


Profile Summary
• Enthusiastic Servant Leader with over nearly 11 years of experience in Software delivery.
• Expert in Agile Process; playing a Scrum Master role over 4 years for steering entire project planning,
scheduling, monitoring, and delivering solutions.
• Certified Scrum Master with in-depth understanding and knowledge on working in Agile with Scrum and SAFe
o SAFe Scrum Master (from Scaled Agile https://scaledagile.com/)
• Relentlessly focused on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer centric products and features.
• Excellent at facilitating the adoption of Scrum rules and best practices.
• Proficient in using HP ALM, JIRA and TFS.
• Significant experience in API testing from postman and mobile app testing
• Excellent knowledge in Banking and Financial domain
• Hands on experience in SDLC, Agile and Test Methodologies with rich exposure on Business Requirement Analysis.
• Extensive experience in managing testing effort, test deliverables, status reporting, issue escalations.
• Motivated professional with the capability to make things happen and adhere to deadlines.
• An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, leadership, planning, coordination and client relationship
management skills with ability to relate to people at different level of business and management.
• Resourceful team player, logical and has creative problem-solving and influencing skills.

Core Competencies
Servant Leadership Stake Holder communication
Team Management Agile Meeting Facilitations STLC
Knowledge Purview
• SAFe Agile and Scrum Methodologies
• HP ALM, JIRA, TFS, ADO
• MS Office tools
• SDLC, STLC

Professional Certifications & Awards
• Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master
• ISTQB certification in foundation level
• Received appreciations from my director and test manager for my work at All Cloud
• Received accolades directly from the customer in delivering tasks ahead of schedule in the Citi Group Project
• Received “BRAVO” award from Tech Mahindra, which was in circle level
• Received "STAR OF THE QUARTER" award from my Functional Manager in project
• Received “PAT ON BACK” award from Tech Mahindra, which was in circle level
• Promoted as a "Scrum Master" and as a "Test Lead"






Personal Details
Education
Personal Details
Work Experience



As a Scrum Master,

• Facilitated various scrum ceremonies like sprint planning meetings, daily scrum, sprint review, product backlog
refinement meetings and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Preparing cadence and WSR reports for each sprint to stake holders.
• Provided timely status reports to the stake holders, including sprint scope, issues, risks, mitigation plan and upcoming
activities.
• Enhanced Team skills relative to improving Sprint velocity by utilizing lessons learned from Sprint Retrospectives.
• Coaching the team with the Product Owner in understanding the vision and goals of the project with each sprint in
focus.
• Getting ready for each sprint and release planning meeting by working with the team to breakdown feature stories
into small deliverable User Stories that are appropriately sized for each sprint.
• Assisted Product Owner and Development Team in Backlog Grooming sessions.
• Coach and assist teams on prompt removal of impediments.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying and tracking
hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Facilitated events like system demo’s, Inspect and Adapt events, PI planning


As a QA Lead,

• Lead test team, including coaching and mentoring
• Coordinate test execution (facilitate activities across sites, communicate overall schedule, track status, etc.)
• Establish weekly team priorities, track work assignments, provide guidance and ensure availability of resources.
• Track measure of success, productivity of the team and report to Stakeholders.
• Provide functional support and assistance to the team and training new team members.
• Communicating with Clients with the status, issues and solutions on problems faced while working on the projects
• Interaction with onsite team for clarification on requirements and worked on Quality Review
• Documenting retrospective presentation and metrics for each month
• Run test cases in production environment and raise incidents in case of any deviations found



Projects Handled

• Citi Bank, USA
• Scotia Bank, Canada
• Bank Cloud
• Verizon

• BSC Computer Science
• Andhra University
• 2009-2012

Location: Hyderabad
Languages Known: English, Telugu
S.NO Company Duration Role
1 Cosette network April 2023-Present Scrum Master
2 Coforge Nov 2022-April 2023
Scrum Master
3 Infosys July 2022 – Present Scrum Master
4 AllCloud Enterprises Private Limited Jan 2020 – June 2022 QA Lead + Scrum Master
5 Tech Mahindra Oct 2012- Dec 2019 QA lead