
Sindhu Pochareddy
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Toptal member since May 10, 2022
Sindhu is a Certified Scrum Master with over 11 years of experience in the IT industry. She has led teams within multinational organizations using Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies. Sindhu has a curious mind and always aspires to improve her skills. She enables her teams to be autonomous while enforcing the agile mindset with Scrum and Kanban frameworks. She maintains overhead expectations and facilitates scrum events, emphasizing process deviation to achieve success.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Sprints
- Confluence
- Jira
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Sprint Ceremonies
Work Experience
Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager
Comcast
- Joined Comcast in January 2022 as a scrum master/agile project manager. Proposed the introduction of Agile to the teams in a newly formed domain.
- Trained the team members and introduced scrum successfully, improving and evolving sprint on sprint.
- Replaced Excel with Jira tool for tracking the progress of the development.
Scrum Master
Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre India (RNTBCI)
- Joined the after-sales domain as a technical lead in automation and was selected as a scrum master during the agile transformation of RNTBCI.
- Contributed to the agile transformation journey from inception to adoption and finally to the desired state of transformation.
- Managed project delivery alongside the product owner.
- Handled four applications concurrently within the logistics domain.
- Organized and delivered training across the engineering departments after being selected as an active member of the Community of Practices – Core Committee.
- Proposed and migrated traditional projects to the agile environment.
Test Lead
Mindtree
- Started as a software test engineer and was promoted to team lead within six years.
- Owned complex and critical path functionalities in most of the projects.
- Built an automation framework and successfully promoted and implemented it to the account level.
- Led the delivery from inception for an internal product that monitors carbon emission levels and generates organization-level reports.
- Contributed as an active member in the testing community and provided training.
Test Specialist
Mindtree
- Took responsibility for the overall delivery (apart from quality assurance) of an internal product that helps monitor the carbon emission and sustainability Index.
- Worked on core financial reports of Harvard Business School's online courses platform. Received multiple appreciations on uncovering issues that could potentially result in a financial loss.
- Upskilled from manual testing to automation using Selenium. I was an active participant in the testing center of excellence and testing community of practice.
- Facilitated multiple training sessions on manual testing concepts and groomed and mentored five manual test engineers to automation engineers (SDET).
Project History
vCMTS
Proposed Agile and Scrum methodologies to replace the existing hybrid model; trained the team on Agile, Scrum, and Jira; adapted the Scrum framework; and successfully delivered a release within a quarter.
I adapted and transformed a traditional development project into Agile using the Scrum framework. I introduced Jira to the team after years of using Excel to track the development process, assisted the product owner in writing more optimal user stories and maintaining a healthy backlog, and resolved process and project impediments quickly within the team.
SAP – Parts Requisition (SAPPR)
Managed the SoH migration from Oracle DB by coordinating with eighteen upstream and downstream applications; helped the team analyze repeated incidents to reduce above-average incident rates; and reduced the cycle time by 50% over twelve months.
I managed over fourteen SAP developers with specializations in Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), and Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP). I facilitated and managed the SoH migration from Oracle to the EC6 system. My timely implementation of brainstorming sessions uncovered business problems and technical debts. The team built Kaizens through a regular focus on continuous improvement areas of the system with my support. I was involved in quarterly end-user and business calls based on requirements, facilitated release planning, and derived high-level estimates.
New Dialogys
Built the test automation framework using Page Object Model (POM) in Protractor, and succeeded in performing end-to-end test automation, including connectivity to the NoSQL database (Mongo DB).
Logistics - ALF
Managed end-to-end modernization of a legacy application to the latest technology stack. Successfully migrated ALF to GCP; this was identified as the pilot application to migrate to GCP versus AWS.
The product owner and I were accountable for the deliverables and the quality of delivery. I executed the technical and GCP migration in a hybrid framework, monitored project progress, set deadlines, and supported the team in achieving our common goal. I acted as a liaison between management, my team, and the interface teams during the entire tenure of the migration. I introduced Jira to the team for effort and progress tracking. I implemented a delegation board to clarify roles and responsibilities and determine the decision owner for each decision area.
Mindtree Ltd
Upskilled from manual testing to automation and developed an automation framework for the global use within an organization.
Managed a team of eight QAs, which included working on the manual, automation, and mobile application testing. Dealt with complex financial reports testing and database testing (SQL, Mongo DB). Participated in and led mobile testing—manual and automation. Delivered multiple training sessions on testing concepts—manual and automation.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Hyderabad, India
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Sri Venkateswara University - Tirupathi, India
Certifications
Certified Lean Agile Professional Outcome Management Level-1 (CLAP-OM-L1)
Lean Agile Audit University
Certified ScrumMaster
Scrum Alliance
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)
Indian Testing Board
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Excel 2016, Slack, Atlassian, HP Quality Center (QC), Excel 365, Excel 2010
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Software Testing, Manual Testing, Planning Poker, Testing, Servant Leadership, Waterfall Delivery, Design Thinking, Agile Leadership, Agile Project Management
Platforms
iOS, Oracle Database, SharePoint, Android
Other
Communication, Collaboration, System Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Automation, Community of Practice, Agile Sprints, Scrum Master, Sprint Ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Microsoft Teams, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Functional Testing, Interface Testing, Database Testing, Frameworks, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), JQL, Team Management, Engineering Software, Databases, Leadership, Selenium, Training, Mobile Device QA Automation, Project Management, Cross-cultural Communication, Protractor, MongoDB, Agile Coaching, Mobile Apps, Appium, Manufacturing, Software Development Management, Technical Project Management, Process Development, Digital Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Stakeholder Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Java, Media
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