Shilpa V S

About Shilpa V S

As a Scrum Master with 9+ years of experience in the IT industry, including 4+ years of experience in Agile transformation, I have developed a strong expertise in SAFe Agile, Kanban, and Xtreme Programming. My skills include facilitating ART and Scrum Ceremonies, protecting development teams from distractions, and ensuring focus on product backlog and project timeline. I am skilled in conducting team-building activities for creating a positive work environment and building highly productive Scrum teams. With my experience in team coaching, quality engineering, and test consulting, I have a good understanding of Securities & Capital Market and E-commerce domains.During my tenure at Bosch Siemens Home Appliances as a Scrum Master, I supported multiple teams and led the development team for an in-house e-commerce project. I have experience in collaborating with globally distributed teams and have implemented effective communication channels to ensure seamless collaboration. In addition, I have worked closely with agile coaches to improve agile ceremonies and have collaborated with development teams to design and implement automated testing and continuous integration practices.As a Scrum Master and QA Lead at Wipro Technologies, I facilitated Scrum ceremonies, mentored teams, and executed functional test cases, logged bugs found, and automated test cases using Selenium. I have strong skills in leadership, communication, and problem-solving and have mentored and coached team members to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution, and transparency.I hold a Master of Software Engineering from Bits Pilani and a Bachelor of Science from Mangalore University. I have also earned the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.With my strong skills in Agile development and best practices, Agile frameworks, Jira, Miro, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visual Studio, User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, and Automated Testing, I am confident in my ability to provide value to any organization as a Scrum Master.

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master

   Humana

   Jun 2023 — Present · TX, US

   Texas, United States

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science - MS

  2013 — 2016

• Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College, Ujire-574240, Belthangady

  Bachelor of Science - BS

  2009 — 2012