Gourav Agarwal

Responsible for driving major projects from inception to completion via cross team agreement, planning, pilot, and deployment phases. Ran projects through Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid methodologies via Azure DevOps, Word, Excel, and Google Drive tool sets. Gathering & understanding requirements in alignment with the business process, analyzing the same & suggesting recommendations on the same. Mentoring new team members on Agile principles and Scrum practices. Conduct all Scrum event like Daily standups, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Retrospective, Scrum of Scrum. Working with the Product Owner on Defining Product Backlog Items (PBIs), Splitting up of PBIs into Epics, User Stories, Tasks, Estimation of PBIs & Sprint Backlog Items, Capacity Planning, Scheduling Release/Delivery Planning Meetings.

Spearheading the functions pertaining to Client/User interaction for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of technical architecture, discussions for effort/cost/time estimation and client co-ordination & reporting. Ensuring delivery within the stipulated time, budget & quality parameters. Developing reports & presenting it to senior management for review. Identifying opportunities for improvement in quality deliverables & optimizing & streamlining process for continuous improvement. Aligning the QA procedure with the IT strategy & managing defects through-out the project lifecycle. Experience in delivering IT Projects on-time and under budget. Developed and implemented IT plans and disaster recovery. Managed onsite vendors and consultants who provide support and maintenance for Information Technology projects. Managed projects to implement database and system security/redundancy/failover.

Built internal tool for installation using WIX. Worked with Module owners to implement APIs.

Worked with Scientist to implement software that help in research work.