Aswathy Raghunath

• Coached and guided the scrum team to follow a disciplined scrum process.
• Facilitated and lead all the Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Review and Daily Stand-ups along with Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Prepared Project Timelines, Managed project scope, risks, issues, constraints and pre-requisites.
• Worked closely with Business Verticals inside DIB to manage the product map and backlog and priority.
• The product owners were to new Agile, Scrum, Jira and Confluence where clear guidance and support was provided through the learning curve to ensure POs could keep track of the product progress at every sprint.
• Actively managed risks and external dependencies for the Scrum Team to function efficiently.
• Well-honed project management skills including scheduling and event planning, preparing reports, administering records management systems and preparing Excel spread sheets and PowerPoint presentations for Demo and MS Vision.

• Worked closely with DOH and ADDA Business Product Owners to manage the product map and backlog.
• Ability to analyse a full range of business concerns, needs, and requirements to identify and recommended processes, products, and solutions to meet goals and objectives.
• Spearheaded a project initiation prototype & delivery including request for proposals, prototypes and contracts/statements of work) of the digital solution. The project was approved for actual implementation, being a seamless journey for stakeholders.
• Built strong relationship with Product Owner and stakeholders and took the initiative to present business cases and analytics to ensure appropriate process improvements could be implemented.
• The product owners were to new Agile, Scrum, JlRA and Confluence where clear guidance and support was provided through the learning curve to ensure POs could keep track of the product progress at every sprint
• Documented all the project artifacts into Confluence: TRD - Blueprint, Data Mapping, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and FRD - Functional Diagrams, Use Cases, Process flows, Project Timelines, Traceability Matrix, and Product Map to maintain a common repository.
• Helped in preparing UAT test cases and scenarios to ensure successful roll out of the solution.
• Well-honed project management skills including scheduling and event planning, preparing reports, administering records management systems and preparing Excel spread sheets and PowerPoint presentations for Demo and MS Vision.

• Facilitated and lead all the Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Review and Daily Stand-ups along with Product Backlog Refinement meetings.
• Actively managed risks and external dependencies for the Scrum Team to function efficiently.
• Managed themes, epics and backlog of 1, 000+ user stories and their prioritization in JIRA to create a trusting and safe team environment.
• Liaised with the product owners to groom and define User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and BDD/What-If Scenarios in JIRA. The product owners were to new Agile, Scrum, JIRA and Confluence where clear guidance and support was provided through the learning curve to ensure POs could keep track of the product progress at every sprint.
• Worked closely with other dependent teams like UX, QA and Business users to ensure successful roll-out of features which are reliable and scalable. (with a sound knowledge of additional program features, initiated the concept to upscale a 2D map for airport navigation to a 3D model).
• Initiated various project documents to be collated into one file these were the likes of: Data Mapping, Application Blueprint into Confluence to build a common document repository

• Coached team members in scrum and its 3 pillars: transparency, inspection and adaptation and have extensive experience with managing project scope, risks, issues, constraints and dependencies. Guided a team of over 30 people to use scrum in order to facilitate efficient delivery of projects.
• Requirements gathering from subject matter experts, requirements specification, technical design and development of Integration Application layer which will communicate between Easy Jet Kiosk System and UK Border Authority to approve Passenger Booking.
• Operated with UK Border Authority Team to define the Business and Functional Flow and supported product owners and development team in backlog grooming and release planning.
• Managed themes, epics and backlog of 1, 000+ user stories and their prioritization in JIRA.
• Removed and escalated impediments and shield the team from external distractions.
• Promoted and fostered effective communication and collaboration between stakeholders and team members in order to enhance productivity and demonstrated the working software to all stakeholders and incorporated their valuable feedback in Sprint Review.

• Was instrumental in setting up the Scrum team in transition from Waterfall to develop an ETL Web application which follows a Micro Service Oriented Architecture which is a $1M+ portfolio combined with Web service to process data for 6 clients with 900 GB of market data.
• Created JIRA Scrum Board and extracted reports in JIRA like velocity tracking and release burn down charts for the application project.
• Improved product owner concept maps along with release timelines and assisted product owners to write User stories with proper Acceptance Criteria following INVEST rule.
• Handled all impediments within and outside the Scrum Team effectively by initiating online and offline meetings to discuss feedback and gap analysis.’
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and other Scrum-related meetings: took part to discuss team’s dependencies and impacts as well as to incorporate other business team’s dependency
• Ensured the application delivery is running as per the schedule along with coordinating development activities with other dependent teams.
• Instigated Knowledge Transition sessions and Product Handover to Service Delivery Team for UAT and Production releases.

• Designed and developed ETL Framework for AC Nielsen which will ingest Fact and Retail data from different Legacy Data Sources, load it into Hadoop HIVE tables and transform it into User Defined Format.
• Hands on Experience on Big Data components like oozie, HIVE, Map Reduce.
• Performed Data mapping of RAW Input Files to Multi-Dimensional Normalized tables which can be used for Market analytics by running algorithm to predict the sales.
• Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing of change requests following the software development life cycle and frameworks.
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions for inter project teams, newly joined team members and prepared training material for Service Delivery Team.

• Received a promotion to Senior Software Engineer as a result of high performance and consistent diligence.
• Initiated the development of P&G Fem-care GUI application in Java and JSP and successful deployed to Apache Tomcat Server.
• Implemented risk mitigation strategies by tracking, monitoring and gave closure of problem tickets associated with the incident using Team sites such as CMS tool to standardize and embed data in the P&G Templates.
• Published Automated Emails using Dream Mail for P&G Customer subscribers and resolved and closed ticketing issues for tracking and monitoring.
• Developed P&G Fem-care GUI application in Java and JSP and deployed to Apache Tomcat Server and initiated the concept of CMS tool to standardize and embed data in the P&G Templates; enhancing the company websites for various geographical regions which optimized traffic, click rates and brand awareness.
• Conducted over 50 product audits of the deployed product before the final release.