Deepak Budaguppe

Deepak Budaguppe; Chief Scrum Master (Release Train Engineer)
 (Previous Experience as Product Owner / Sr. Business Analyst / QA Lead)

EDUCATION:
MBA in IS (NJIT, USA), May 2014;
Master of Science (ITS) (NJIT, USA), May 2005;
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, (Mysore University, India), Dec 2001

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified AGILE LEADERSHIP (CAL)– by Scrum Alliance
• Certified SCRUM PROFESSIONAL-Scrum Master (CSP-SM)– by Scrum Alliance
• Certified ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER (A-CSM)– by Scrum Alliance
• Certified SCRUM MASTER (CSM)– by Scrum Alliance
• Certified SCRUM PROFESSIONAL-Product Owner (CSP-PO)– by Scrum Alliance
• Certified PRODUCT OWNER (CSPO)– by Scrum Alliance
• Certified Scaled Agile Framework Product Manager/Owner (SAFe PM/PO)  – by Scaled Agile Academy
• Experienced Scrum Master / IT Program Manager with experience performing as Scrum Master, Product Owner and Lead QA roles at various institutions such as Financial, Telecom and Insurance domains.
• Successfully coordinated with Multiple Stakeholders and lead more than 20 distributed teams that was onsite and offshore with different time zones, different sprint cycles and different backlogs.
• 18 years of Total IT experience with 6 years as Scrum Master; 4 years as Product Owner and Business Analyst and 8 years of Lead QA Experience.
• 10 years of Agile Methodology experience and 7 years of Waterfall Methodology experience
• 8 years of SQL Experience
• Hands on Experience in MS Visio for creating Flow charts and MS PPT.
• Co-ordinated with Management on creating Charters.

As a Chief Scrum Master (Release Train Engineer):

• Coached Scrum Masters and Product Owners with best Agile practices.
• Facilitated ceremonies such as S2 (Scrum of Scrum), Roadmap reviews and ART level PI sessions.  
• PI Objectives and Team progress was communicated to teams, leadership and business to ensure transparency on the progress of PI objectives.
• Created metrics in Rally and Excel that helped track individual team performance and Project progress with plans on how the project course should be corrected if the findings are showing risks.
• Helped in Program level processes and execution, managed risks and Impediments were escalated.
• Coordinated and helped Product Owners to organize and prioritize their backlogs to match Vaue delivery at ART level coordination and helped track features and capabilities throughout development.
• Facilitated Retrospectives on ART level to improve roadmaps, analyze activities and actions that have previously been performed to find ways to improve each process.
• Initiated COP (Community of Practice) for the ART level Scrum Masters, Product Owners and pushed for developers and testers to start their own COP to ensure great ideas can be shared.

As a Scrum Master:

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups) and also attended Scrum of Scrum Meetings (S2).
• Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Instrumental in getting the ‘Agile Delaware’ meetup group organized at BARCLAYS.
• Have been coaching and mentoring BSAs, PO, and other Scrum Masters.
• Successfully worked with Enterprise team to migrate more than 8 teams from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months.
• Deep knowledge and experience using proven Agile practices and methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and iterative delivery
• Coordinated with other teams during steel threads and impediments and helped the team resolve the same.
• Worked collaboratively with Product Owners, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery.
• Assist the Product Owner in User story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirement elicitation while supporting overall organizational goals 
• Experience using VersionOne / Jira / Rally as Agile tools for tracking, maintaining and reporting.
• Situational awareness with an understanding of when to listen and when to be assertive.
• Coordinated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Walkthrough, Brainstorming and interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SME), Stakeholders and development team for Requirement gathering and to understand the GAP Analysis and Risk Analysis.

As a Product Owner / Business Analyst:

• Prioritized Stories each Sprint and created Roadmaps every Quarter for Management.
• Wrote Functional and Non- Functional requirements (NFR).
• Experience in writing Stories, conducting Grooming Sessions, Prioritizing Stories, Conducting Pre-UAT approvals, Daily Scrum Standup and Sprint planning.
• SharePoint usage for document and file storage management.
• Knowledge of Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Specification Documents (FSD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Business Process Management (BPM), Use Cases, Sequence, Activity, Data and Business Flow diagrams, UML Modeling and Microsoft Project..

As a Lead QA:

• Writing SQL queries with various databases like Oracle, PL/SQL Developer.
• Reviewed and coordinated Test strategies, Test plans, Test cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT), interacted with team members in analyzing and fixing bugs.
• Experience in both Manual (QC, ALM, Version One) and Automated Testing (QTP – VB Scripting).
• Report Generation in Quality Center/ALM related to defect report.
• Hands on Knowledge in SOAP UI (WSDL, XML).
• Validated defects after bugs were fixed and performed Regression, Browser and Mobile App & Web Devise testing.
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, Negative Testing, Batch Testing, Multi Provided Training, mentoring and guidance to Team members.

Professional Experience:

CLIENT                 : CIGNA Group Insurance, Philadelphia, PA

DURATION           : Jun 2020 to Till Date

ROLE                    : Chief Scrum Master (Release Train Engineer)

CLIENT                 : CIGNA Group Insurance, Philadelphia, PA

DURATION           : Jan 2019 to Jun 2020

ROLE                    : Scrum Master / Agile Coach

CLIENT                 : BarclayCard US, Wilmington, DE

DURATION           : Sep 2015 to Jan 2019

ROLE                    : Scrum Master

CLIENT                 : JP Morgan Chase, Newark, DE

DURATION           : Mar 2015 to Sep 2015

ROLE                    : Scrum Master / Backlog Owner

EMPLOYER          : CAPITAL ONE, Wilmington, DE

DURATION           : Aug 2012 to Mar 2014

ROLE                    : Designated Scrum Master / Sr. BA (Product Owner)

CLIENT                 : ING-Direct (Division of Capital One), Wilmington, DE

DURATION           : Feb 2011 to Jul 2012

ROLE                    : Designated Scrum Master / Sr. BA and Lead QA

CLIENT                 : JP Morgan Chase, Whippany, NJ

DURATION           : Oct 2009 to Dec 2010

ROLE                    : QA Lead

CLIENT                 : Vanguard Mutual Funds, Charlotte, NC

DURATION           : Aug 2008 to Sep 2009

ROLE                    : Sr. QA Analyst

CLIENT                 : VERIZON BUSINESS, Warren, NJ

DURATION           : Sep 2006 to Jul 2008

ROLE                    : Sr. QA Analyst

CLIENT                 : AIG; New York, NY

DURATION           : Jul 2005 to Aug 2006

ROLE                    : QA Analyst

EMPLOYER         : Hexagon Engineers Ltd, Bangalore, India                   

DURATION           : Jan 2003 to Jul 2004

ROLE                    : Jr. QA Analyst

EMPLOYER         : Byte Media, Mysore, India

DURATION           : Aug 2001 to Dec 2002

ROLE                    : QA Analyst