Bala Lakshminarayan

Biography

My name is Bala Lakshminarayan. I have a B.S Degree in Mechanical Engineeting (Honors) from Guindy Engineering, India, and a M.S Degree in Mechanical Engineeting from Ohio University. I have 14 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, Build/Release, and 6 years of experience as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach.

• Experienced Agile Coach, Scrum master and an Engineering professional with strengths in Portfolio, Program and Team level management.
• Conducted Enterprise wide hands-on coaching for multiple cross-functional distributed teams on Agile framework and all aspects of Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and XP.
• Helped teams become high performing by leading by example, and demonstrating effective agile techniques to technical team members, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, functional manager and their executives
• Delivered many classroom format training for teams on Agile, Scrum Master and Product Owner skills.
• Demonstrated Leadership skills in coaching cross-functional teams on technical subjects through business value based analysis for “Agile Adoption”.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills influencing key stakeholders and customers across organization.
• Designed and Delivered Agile Rollout plans for successful adoption.
• Certified Scrum Master www.scrumalliance.org (Advanced Scrum +), SAFe Certified Consultant (SA).  Certified SA www.scaledagileacademy.com
• 14 years of experience in testing, building and managing QA teams, both Onshore/Offshore, globally distributed (up to 34 + QA engineers) in well-known silicon valley companies. As a “hands on’ technical QA director, built automation frame works  (QTP, Selenium), and Load testing (Loadrunner) and other commercial and open source QA tools.