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Ashish Kulkarni

Scrum Master | Agile Coaching | Transforming Teams

Pune Division

12+ years of work experience

Deutsche Bank
Oct 20232 yrs 10 mosPresent

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Convera
Mar 20221 yr 8 mosOct 2023

Western Union
Aug 20194 yrs 3 mosOct 2023

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Tata Consultancy Services
Apr 20172 yrs 5 mosAug 2019

Pune

- As a servant leader manage and facilitate Agile/Scrum practices and disciplines in cross-functional Scrum Teams - Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove internal and external impediments to their progress, by finding the right personnel or resources. - Managing and prioritize backlog, conducting various scrum ceremonies like DSM, Sprint planning, Retrospective with Product Owner, Scrum team and other stakeholders to enable the team to execute the plan effectively and make each scrum and scrum of scrums a success. - Maintaining all the information related to ongoing project releases in Rally tool and make it visible to the team and stakeholders. (e.g. Burndown charts, Sprint Reports, Velocity Tracker, user story tasks etc.) - Communicate sprint/release progress, highlighting the risks and mitigation plan with the client and key stakeholders periodically. - Identify and provide ideas to correct gaps in Agile/Scrum practices and improve delivery of projects. - Promoting self-organization within the team to enable the team to execute the plan effectively and deliver the projects within promised timelines and budget - Excellent Experience with continuous delivery processes and tools.
Tata Consultancy Services
Apr 20161 yrMar 2017

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Involved in understanding and analyzing user's business needs and designing software solutions to address those needs. Documenting system requirements specification to enable project implementation by the software development team. Facilitating communication and resolution of issues between the users and the project team. Providing project oversight and reporting project progress to all the stakeholders. Managing day to day communication with the client and acting as a primary point of contact for the client. Role and Responsibility : • Collaborated closely with Sales users to identify and analyze core requirements and key features for CRM Applications used by Sales users. • Gathered detailed requirements and scenarios through regular calls and virtual meetings with Sales users. • Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product Backlog and User stories. • Led the development team that created the web user interfaces and Mobile user interfaces for multiple applications and demonstrated the application features to User . • Led Release planning meetings to develop team strategies and define Release goal, Scrum planning meetings to decide What functionality will deliver in the Increment and How will the work achieved, Daily stand-up meetings for to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours and Sprint Retrospective to to inspect Scrum Team and create a plan for improvements. • Worked closely with QA to coordinate testing efforts. Involved in developing test strategies, test plan, test cases and tracking all the test scenarios and issues for the application. • Provided training to team members and assisted them in accomplishing results
Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 20122 yrs 6 mosJun 2014

Powai,Mumbai

worked as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer responsible for System/Functional Testing of Business Applications for client - Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Role and Responsibility : • Responsible for Manual/Functional Testing deliveries of Business Applications in every release • Analysed requirements and provided efforts and cost estimations based on complexity of the requirements to client • Written a Test plan for the given Application requirements and conduct Testing. Also written Test - Summary report to explain all tested functionality and reported defects. • Understood the functionality of the application with the help of Business Requirement Document and wireframes. • Used HP Quality Centre for Test Management which includes Execution results of Test cases, Defect logging, Mapping of defects etc. Also used HP Service Center for tracking progress of the ticket. • Performed different types of testing like System Testing, End to End Testing, Regression testing, Retesting of Defects, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing

Ashish’s AI Stack

Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot

Education

Balaji Institute of Modern Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), System Specialization

Balaji Institute of Modern Management

20142 yrs2016

Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science

SVERI's Colleg of Engineering , Pandharpur, Solapur University

20074 yrs2011

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Headline

Scrum Master | Agile Coaching | Transforming Teams

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

AVP - Scrum Master at Deutsche Bank, Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Scrum Master at Convera, Mar 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Scrum Master at Western Union, Aug 2019 - Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Scrum Master at Tata Consultancy Services, Apr 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Pune, - As a servant leader manage and facilitate Agile/Scrum practices and disciplines in cross-functional Scrum Teams - Helping the scrum team to avoid or remove internal and external impediments to their progress, by finding the right personnel or resources. - Managing and prioritize backlog, conducting various scrum ceremonies like DSM, Sprint planning, Retrospective with Product Owner, Scrum team and other stakeholders to enable the team to execute the plan effectively and make each scrum and scrum of scrums a success. - Maintaining all the information related to ongoing project releases in Rally tool and make it visible to the team and stakeholders. (e.g. Burndown charts, Sprint Reports, Velocity Tracker, user story tasks etc.) - Communicate sprint/release progress, highlighting the risks and mitigation plan with the client and key stakeholders periodically. - Identify and provide ideas to correct gaps in Agile/Scrum practices and improve delivery of projects. - Promoting self-organization within the team to enable the team to execute the plan effectively and deliver the projects within promised timelines and budget - Excellent Experience with continuous delivery processes and tools.

Product Owner at Tata Consultancy Services, Apr 2016 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Involved in understanding and analyzing user's business needs and designing software solutions to address those needs. Documenting system requirements specification to enable project implementation by the software development team. Facilitating communication and resolution of issues between the users and the project team. Providing project oversight and reporting project progress to all the stakeholders. Managing day to day communication with the client and acting as a primary point of contact for the client. Role and Responsibility : • Collaborated closely with Sales users to identify and analyze core requirements and key features for CRM Applications used by Sales users. • Gathered detailed requirements and scenarios through regular calls and virtual meetings with Sales users. • Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product Backlog and User stories. • Led the development team that created the web user interfaces and Mobile user interfaces for multiple applications and demonstrated the application features to User . • Led Release planning meetings to develop team strategies and define Release goal, Scrum planning meetings to decide What functionality will deliver in the Increment and How will the work achieved, Daily stand-up meetings for to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours and Sprint Retrospective to to inspect Scrum Team and create a plan for improvements. • Worked closely with QA to coordinate testing efforts. Involved in developing test strategies, test plan, test cases and tracking all the test scenarios and issues for the application. • Provided training to team members and assisted them in accomplishing results

Quality Analyst / Manual Testing at Tata Consultancy Services, Jan 2012 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Powai,Mumbai, worked as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer responsible for System/Functional Testing of Business Applications for client - Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Role and Responsibility : • Responsible for Manual/Functional Testing deliveries of Business Applications in every release • Analysed requirements and provided efforts and cost estimations based on complexity of the requirements to client • Written a Test plan for the given Application requirements and conduct Testing. Also written Test - Summary report to explain all tested functionality and reported defects. • Understood the functionality of the application with the help of Business Requirement Document and wireframes. • Used HP Quality Centre for Test Management which includes Execution results of Test cases, Defect logging, Mapping of defects etc. Also used HP Service Center for tracking progress of the ticket. • Performed different types of testing like System Testing, End to End Testing, Regression testing, Retesting of Defects, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), System Specialization, Balaji Institute of Modern Management

Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, SVERI's Colleg of Engineering , Pandharpur, Solapur University