Ratnesh Kumar Gupta

Played a key role in creating an infrastructure for the product and automating the process for deployment.
Set up the user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams.
Developed Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
Initiated Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management process.
Prioritized the backlog, and created, and accepted user stories.
Led a cross-functional team of internal employees and external contractors.
Developed, maintained, and re-prioritized the Program Backlog into stories for implementation based on user value and time.
Conducted individual and group (JAD) sessions with business and technical units including directorial leaders.
Followed up with the concerned stakeholders in ensuring compliance with the project SLA parameters.
Ongoing early feedback and support to the development team during sprints/iterations, resulting in a 15% decrease in rework and improved overall sprint efficiency.
Successfully collaborated with the product, design, and development teams to deliver new features and functionalities.
Collaborated with the development team to introduce new features and functionalities to the platform.

Assisted the Project Manager in ensuring seamless implementation of the project phases, and implementing the time machine for the booking system.
Functioned as a Lead and Scrum Master involved in grooming a distributed cross-functional team on Scrum best practices and continuous improvement.
Focused on resolving bottlenecks and guiding the team to find the right people.
Assisted the Product Owner with refining the product backlog.
Facilitated discussions and team ceremonies, including the daily scrum, product backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and sprint planning.
Coordinated with the team in deploying tested code every two weeks for a high-volume customer service application.
Catered to the Scrum Master Community of Practice.
Worked on the user story title standardization effort that defined content and format standards to enable automated reports.

Successfully automated the process for insertion of records in jobs.
Worked with the overseas personnel on transition plans for various legacy products and applications, and with the Development and QA teams in the definition/ implementation of project scope.
Assessed product architectures.
Enhanced product awareness for team members through various training sessions.
Implemented process reengineering concerning the development and support of products.
Worked on account-specific project change review process and submitted project change requests.
Highlighted relevant issues/ risks in compliance with Project, Issue, and Risk Management Procedures and account specific Processes.

Functioned as an individual contributor to the project development using Frameworks life CakePHP & Codeigniter.
Planned and implemented the program strategies.
Worked on Waterfall Development Life Cycle, Core PHP, and MySQL, and implemented themes for the websites based on the project requirements.
Interacted with the client for collating and evaluating requirements and rendering customized solutions.
Updated project status to the clients to enable effective decision-making.

Rolled out an Android Mobile app for the company to provide livestock updates to clients.
Worked as an individual contributor to the project development using Frameworks life CakePHP
Prepared and maintained updated project documentation and managed the phases using Waterfall Development Life Cycle