Vikraman Baskaran

Customer : Goldmansachs, Americas.

• 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.
• Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Assessed and reported progress to stakeholders regularly, maintaining transparency throughout the project lifecycle
• Identified potential risks early in the project lifecycle and implemented mitigation strategies accordingly.

Customer : USAA, Texas, Americas.

• Mentored multiple cross functional teams of 12 to15 members during mentioned tenure to delivery quality products that led to revenue of over 3 to 7 Million GBP.
• Agile champion in portfolio and coached 6 teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their deployment frequency from monthly to bi weekly and lead time to change from one month to two weeks.
• Facilitated test driven development on all projects increasing quality by 7%.
• Utilized Agile scrum practices to help the teams to increase the velocity within the first year of adoption by 20%.
• Facilitated PI Planning sessions, sprint planning and review meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Involved in business user workshops in addition helped PO in creating user stories and prioritizing features.
• Created 1000+ stories and 200+ features across the mentioned tenure.
• Created and managed dependencies on other teams across enterprise in Jira align.
• Have raised around 75+ dependencies and 50+ risks across the mentioned tenure.
• Well versed in the usage of Jira, Jira align and Confluence.
• Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
• Coordinated with multiple third party development teams to align to release timelines.
• Represented product in periodic synchronization meetings including ART sync at Program Level.
• Created JIRA dashboards for all stakeholders for status tracking.

Customer : USAA, Texas, Americas.

• Experience of handling integration testing involving more than 12 systems.
• Handled multiple test environments with different stakeholders ensuring 100% test coverage.
• Preparation and execution of test scenarios for system, system integration testing and support for UAT.
• Defect management - Managing defects via JIRA and Confluence.
• Provided status to stakeholders, and worked with technical resources to troubleshoot issues.
• USAA, Americas, Chennai