About

Prabhu Ramakrishnan is a seasoned Sr. Scrum Master, Lead Agilist, and Program Level Agile Coach with over 17.5 years of experience in the IT industry. He has a track record of successful strategic and tactical leadership in delivering multiple complex software development projects in a timely, controlled, and predictable manner. Prabhu has diversified experience in coaching, mentoring, teaching, and facilitation in various business domains like Health care, Insurance, Banking and Financial Service, Information, Media, and Entertainment. Currently, Prabhu is working as a Principal Agilist / Associate Director at Cognizant, where he is responsible for steering entire testing projects, project planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling, configuration, and working on real-time software application products/projects delivered. He has a deep understanding of agile metrics like tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories to analyze and improve planning. Prabhu is also capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm, awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused, and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Prabhu has worked with top-tier companies like Wipro and iSoft in the past, where he handled and monitored teams and was responsible for the delivery of good quality products. He has also been involved in Test Plan Preparation, Test Strategy Preparation, Preparation of Test Automation design, Test Effort Estimation, Test Cases Design, Execution of Test Cases, Performing System Integration testing, Regression Testing, and Performance Testing. Prabhu has a Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A) degree from Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, and a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Quality Management from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He also has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Physics from Bishop Heber College and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Physics from Thandhai Hans Rover Hr. Sec. School. Prabhu's tech stack includes test, SDET, Software Engineer, Integration, and QA. With 1.94 years of relevant experience, Prabhu is a highly motivated, result-driven, and goal-oriented professional who has cultivated and motivated high-performance business teams while nurturing consumer business and building momentum.