RESUME

Name: Rahul Deshmukh

E-mail: deshmukhr09@gmail.com Mobile: 9561787645

PROFILE SUMMARY

Over 10+ years of rich, end-to-end Project management experience in the IT as Certified Scrum Master/QA Lead and
hands-on experience on various project management methodologies like Agile, Waterfall etc. Expertise in managing
full software life-cycle implementation, using project management tools like JIRA, TFS have domain experience in
Banking, Telecom & Healthcare, E-commerce, and Life Science, holds expertise generating the metrics & run the
engineering team sprints effectively. Strong experience in working with building and managing the applications on
variety of platforms like Desktop/Mobile web, Android & IOS.

Excellence in project planning, story writing by working with product managers & good in stakeholder management.
Proficiency in planning the sprints for multiple agile scrum teams follow different project management
methodologies. Expertise in facilitating the sprint ceremonies like Spring planning, Daily scrum, Sprint demo &
retrospective. Proficiency in managing the sprint artifacts like product backlog, sprint backlog etc.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 Working as a Scrum Master/QA Lead in Persistent, Pune from Nov 2021 to till date.
 Worked as Scrum Master/QA Lead in Sakon, Pune from June 2014 to Nov 2021

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Issued date: Exp date:

30st
master(CSM) December 2020 30thDecember
September 2023

Current Organization: Persistent. (Nov - 2021 to Till Date)

JOB TITLE DURATION TOTAL PERIOD

Scrum Master QA Lead Nov 2021 - Till date 1.10 years

Key Result Areas:

 Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.).
 Assists the team towards continuous integration (CI) and Continuous delivery after every sprint.
 Assist Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning.
 Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs. ·
 Assist the team as servant leader or programs information radiator, representing the team or program to
senior management, stakeholders and sponsors.
  Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data driven decision making at
the team or program level.
 Hands-on experience in using JIRA in managing the sprint backlog, sprints for multiple teams, burn down
chart generation and sharing with management
 Managing multiple agile scrum teams to work on Desktop/Mobile web, Android & IOS platforms
 Responsible for maintaining the velocity for each team & sprint releases
 Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.
 Responsible for managing multiple agile scrum teams work on Desktop/Mobile web, Android & IOS platforms
 Responsible for stakeholder management like working with product, business, operations, marketing teams
to collect the requirements & feedback items.
 Responsible for using JIRA effectively in managing the sprints & sharing the reports
 Responsible for team to have clear understanding on the tasks they take up, work with them on daily basis to
resolve the dependencies, roadblocks and make sure that they get completed in the given time

Accomplishments:

 Trained Junior scrum masters and Facilitates the multi team events like Scrum of Scrums and story mapping
 Good experience in Feature driven development
 Worked with product team effectively in having healthy product backlog and Sprint Backlog
 Worked with teams working on building and managing the applications on variety of platforms like
Desktop/Mobile web, Android & IOS
 Help teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them. Shield the team from outside
distractions, context switching and interferences and Track and remove impediments.
 Point of contact for complete ownership of maintaining the healthy sprint backlog before each sprint
 Point of contact for complete ownership of stakeholder interaction on the product feedback & issues/bugs
 Worked with Engineering manager, Product manager, Business analyst and leadership team on regular basis
for feature releases as planned
 Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress and self-organize and grow cross-
functionality
 Having good knowledge on User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair programming.
 Participated in internal and external project management sessions as part of self development& to analyze
and improve the current followed sprint processes

Previous Organization: Sakon. (Jan - 2014 to Nov 2021)

JOB TITLE DURATION TOTAL PERIOD

QA Lead Jan 2014 – 19 Nov 2021 7.10 years

Key Result Areas:

 Analyzed user requirements, performed impact analysis and generated test scenario & case documents
 Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.).
 Supervised quality and completeness of test scenarios & cases created by my team members
 Worked closely with product team and engineering team manager to signoff test cases
 Responsible to follow scrum processes by all sprint teams
 Actively participated in scrum processes discussions with all sprint teams
 Hands-on experience in using JIRA in managing the sprint backlog, sprints for multiple teams, burndown
chart generation and sharing with management
 Responsible for maintaining the velocity for each team & sprint releases
 Responsible for running sprint ceremonies like sprint planning, demo, retrospective, backlog grooming
  Responsible for team to follow the sprint process and use JIRA everyday
 Responsible for day-to-day development/testing by team members & smoother sprint releases
 Good experience in Test driven development and feature driven development.

Accomplishments:

 Managed multiple sprint teams as a Scrum Master

 Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release
planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
 Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories.
 Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability
and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
 Involved in different stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), STLC (Software Test Life
Cycle).
 Performed QA Smoke, Acceptance, Regression, Function, Integration and Compatibility Testing.
 Creating and managing automation scripted components and automation resources.
 Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-
team tasks
 Managing Defect Life Cycle and Identified bugs in systems by regular tests and resolved all issues
and defects
 Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task
definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and
best practices
 Worked in generating the project management reports for Executives and for higher-level management
 Worked in producing the QA status report of feature undertaken in the respective sprint for team &
management

KEYSKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Platform

Technologies: Java, PL/SQL
Database: MySql
Tools: Jira, TFS, Bugzilla, Zephyr

Personal Profile:

Father’s Name : Mr. Uday Deshmukh

 Mother’s Name : Mrs. Sarita Deshmukh
Sex : Male
Date of Birth : 09-05-1987
Nationality : Indian
Language known : English, Hindi, Marathi.
Education : B.E (Computer Engineering form Nagpur University)

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that all the information stated above are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and
belief.

(Rahul Deshmukh)