Pawan Kumar G.

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2006 - Mar 2018

  - Educated Development teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. - Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes. - Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders of Thomson Reuters to facilitate team's interaction with them. - Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog. - Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology. - Facilitated getting the work done without assigning and helping the team to solve problems rather than provide solutions. - Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews,retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings. - Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management. Show less - Inspiring, motivating and moving the testing process forward- Building a path for successful cooperation between testers of different levels- Controlling and managing difficulties that arise in different projects during manual testing, automated testing, and related activities- Increasing the popularity and attitude to testing and testers across the company- Hiring testers who will quickly blend into a team and be able to work independentlyAnticipating and calculating the need for test resourcesMentoring and coaching testersOrganizing training courses and programs for testers Show less 1) Attend sprint-planning sessions2) Attend daily stand-ups.3) Don’t save all the testing for the end; test throughout the sprint.4) Meet with developers for short hand-off demonstrations.5) Attend sprint retrospectives6) Document Test cases- Understanding the User Stories created by Product Owner form Customer perspective - Design and writing of test scenarios and execution of test cases in HP ALM - Defect reporting- UAT Testing- Post Deployment Activities Show less UK Regulatory Reporting in JPMC involves Financial Reporting Database (FRD), R-Frame, SECAM applications. We served as the support team responsible for taking care of daily jobs and batches for these applications. All the applications have several overnight and intraday autosys batches running for five different entities Securities Limited- SL, Market Limited- ML, London Branch- CB, Europe Limited- EL, Investment Banking-IB in production environment which are monitored and any issue faced are resolved to ensure smooth functioning of the application within client SLA Automation of daily and monthly tasks using Scripting and UNIX tools. The key responsibilities involved are : - Regular communication with clients to ensure the availability of application and meeting their business requirements. - Coordinating with different application teams/Feed Suppliers for smooth the functioning of batches to minimize business impacts. - Analyzing and resolving the issues reported during User Acceptance Testing, business with the help of tickets generated in Peregrine. -Working for the changes in Production and UAT environment through ITSM for permissions and implementation -Taking care of responsibilities of backup jobs, a monthly analysis of batches (Volume Reports) -Preparing fresh environments in UAT for new releases/testing for development teams -Finely tuned application jobs in various batches to improve the overall performance and reduce the total time for completion of batches. Show less Autosys batch support team is responsible for taking care of all autosys jobs for various applications in US & EMEA regions. All the applications have several overnight and intraday autosys batches running in the production environment which amounts to more than 8000 autosys jobs. The problematic jobs were fine-tuned and new jobs were created as per the requirement. Any issues with the autosys batch were resolved to ensure smooth functioning of the applications. Key Responsibilities involved while working for Blackrock client: - Redesigning scripts for each job identified for tuning. - Regular communication with clients being at onsite. - Coordinating with different application teams for the smooth functioning of batches. - Performing unit and batch testing. - Analyzing and resolving the issues reported during User Acceptance testing. -Took care of additional responsibilities of Blackrock Nitejobs along with autosys batches. -Preparing Weekly Status Report -Mentoring new Joinees on Application and Batch knowledge Show less

  • Scrum Master

    Jun 2015 - Mar 2018

  • Agile Test Lead

    Dec 2014 - Jun 2015

  • Agile Tester

    Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Support Lead

    Oct 2012 - Oct 2013

  • Production Support Engineer

    Feb 2008 - Oct 2012

  • Quality Analyst

    Jun 2006 - Feb 2008
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  FactSet

  Mar 2018 - Apr 2021

  - Educating Development teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.- Assisting the team to remove impediments by having an understanding of the control and release processes.- Built a relationship with the Product Owner and other stakeholders to facilitate the team's interaction with them.- Coaching Product Owners in the creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.- Coaching team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.- Facilitating getting the work done without assigning and helping the team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.- Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.- Tracking and effectively communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.- Providing Performance Appraisal to the team members See less Show less - Educating Development teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. - Assisting the team to remove impediments by having an understanding of the control and release processes. - Built a relationship with the Product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate the team's interaction with them. - Coaching Product Owners in the creation and maintenance of Product Backlog. - Coaching team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology. - Facilitating getting the work done without assigning and helping the team to solve problems rather than provide solutions. - Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings. - Tracking and effectively communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.- Providing Performance Appraisal to the team members Show less

  • Associate Content Developer (Scrum Master)

    Sept 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Senior Technical Supervisor (Scrum Master)

    Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
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  Cognizant

  Apr 2021 - Jun 2022

  Sr. Agilist

  Agile Implementation:Implemented agile practices for two teams as suggested by the Client.Product Roadmap:• Understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning.Coaching & Facilitating:• coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities, selforganization etc by explaining the benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team.Process Improvements:• Facilitate retrospection at the end of each sprint and filter the learning for the next sprint by documenting the outcome of retrospection notes.Facilitation:• Maintain oversight on the work of the scrum team under purview.• Collate metrics to track progress and provide status updates to relevant stakeholders.• Resolve any issues that may arise.Facilitate all interactions that the team has with the Product Owner to gather and prioritize the requirements.Escalate critical issues to relevant stakeholders for resolution.Facilitate all the Scrum Ceremonies to ensure Transperancy, Inspection & Adaptation.• Guide the teams towards improving the scrum way of working including ensuring crossteam coordination.• Support the Product Owner at client and Cognizant to keep the backlog, communicate updates, communicate impediments and maintain release plan(s).• Drive and support the team by removing impediments.Identify dependencies and ensure no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.• Track metrics and leverage scrum artefacts (eg backlogs, burn down charts etc) to communicate progress to customers.• Guide Agile team in coming up with a size based on the requirements / features gathered.• Guide the team to break the tasks and assign hours into tasks. Show less

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  IBM

  Jun 2022 - Mar 2024

  Agile Coach

  • Teaching and mentoring Agile teams • Makes the transition smooth by teaching them to develop the agile mindset • Train Scrum Masters, Kanban Leads, and Product Owners • Train teams to adopt the agile working practices • Draft governing policies/Working Agreements to aid agile-based practices • Helping in identifying the correct metrics needed for the teams to ensure a standard measurement is achieved. • Enabling change in working ways • Implement Systems thinking to uncover problems • Assessing and suggesting the use of agile methodologies/frameworks appropriate to the teams. • Recommending various ways to get into a contract with vendors and customers • Mentor teams on Agile approaches to estimation, planning, and story mapping. • Build Agile maturity Show less

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Mar 2024 - now

  Vice President

  Teaching and mentoring Agile teams • Makes the transition smooth by teaching them to develop the agile mindset • Train Scrum Masters, Kanban Leads, and Product Owners • Train teams to adopt the agile working practices • Draft governing policies/Working Agreements to aid agile-based practices • Helping in identifying the correct metrics needed for the teams to ensure a standard measurement is achieved. • Enabling change in working ways • Implement Systems thinking to uncover problems • Assessing and suggesting the use of agile methodologies/frameworks appropriate to the teams. • Recommending various ways to get into a contract with vendors and customers • Mentor teams on Agile approaches to estimation, planning, and story mapping. • Build Agile maturity Show less