Abhishek Shivananda Nari

• Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
• Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
• Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Implemented continuous improvement initiatives through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.
• Mentored junior team members on Scrum best practices, fostering their professional growth within the organization.
• Identified potential risks early in the project lifecycle and implemented mitigation strategies accordingly.
• Assessed and reported progress to stakeholders regularly, maintaining transparency throughout the project lifecycle.
• Implemented key performance metrics to track team progress and identify areas of improvement consistently throughout projects'' lifecycles.
• Fostered culture of continuous improvement by conducting sprint retrospectives and implementing feedback.

As a Release Manager:

• Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules
• Planning release windows and cycles across components
• Communicating crucial release plans and changes
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards
• Coordinating processes between different teams (possibly in various locations)
• Communicating necessary release details to business teams
• Managing, planning, and negotiating release activities
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Validating release notes.

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Develop and strategize Verification and Validation activities for Cloud based reporting and subsystem reporting products.
• Drive software releases for platform products across sites. Drive processes (Ex.: Safety FMEA's) in the team.
• Develop test plans, and drive strategic improvements. Proficiency in ALM test management.
• Implement and drive Metrics in verification activities across global sites.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to a team of Test Leads and Test Engineers.
• Facilitate Risk management and safety activities.
• Facilitate cross functional team co-operation in a strong matrix structure.
• Develop batch scripts to create docker images and deploy them as docker containers.
• Develop batch scripts to run tests in regression pipeline.
• Develop automation test framework using Selenium C#.

• Develop and strategize verification and validation plans for the new product developments.
• Develop test automation strategy. Drive simplification in testing.
• Drive metrics and dashboards for verification progress tracking.
• Verification Lead and QA lead for driving process in the team.
• Implemented and suggested process improvements and standardization.
• Develop test plans, and drive strategic improvements.
• Ensured design controls are implemented successfully.
• Proficiency in ALM test management.
• Lead and driven automation using Selenium.
• Foremost Technical Authority and is responsible for the overall Quality of deliverables across all parameters, both functional and non-functional including performance, security, usability, etc.
• Program management experience in driving overall verification activities from start to end.
• Assimilate best practices. Increase productivity, avoid redundancy throughout, continues improvement.
• Implement and drive Metrics in verification activities.
• Interacting with global teams to promote consistency and maximize synergies across common software platforms

• Design test cases, peer review of test cases and plan test execution.
• Execute test cases & raise defects for product non-conformance.
• Prepare test setup and test data required for test execution. Participate in technical reviews & contributing to technical discussions.
• Contribute in decision making for make/stop a release.
• Analyze requirements & report out testable/non testable. Report out defects in product & design.
• Collaborating with customers in understanding the requirements.

• Design test cases, peer review of test cases and plan test execution.
• Execute test cases & raise defects for product non-conformance.
• Prepare test setup and test data required for test execution.
• Participate in technical reviews & contributing to technical discussions.
• Contribute in decision making for make/stop a release.
• Analyze requirements & report out testable/non testable.
• Report out defects in product & design.

• Execute test cases & raise defects for product non-conformance.
• Prepare test setup and test data required for test execution.
• Report out defects in product & design.