SUMMARY:

• In depth understanding of SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and SCRUM.
• Effective in high - pressure environment, tight deadlines, Risk Management and high production environment.
• Experience in Oil and Gas, Utilities, Technology, Logistics, Retail.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies; release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint kickoff, daily stand-up’s, sprint demos, sprint Retrospective.
• Risk identification, impediments escalation, scrum team shielding.
• Teach, estimate, coach, groom and prioritize scrum team and, business groups
• Converted product requirements, high quality user stories, story cards, written stories, populate backlog, and test accurately.
• Articulated artifacts, User Stories, Regression reporting details of Burn-up and Burn-Down charts.
• Understand environments, technologies (SAP, Information Security, CRM, Salesforce, Financial Analysis and Privilege User Management concepts for Client/Server, GUI, user interfaces, Java and multiple Web-based tools) in various projects.
• Excellent analytical communications and written skills.
• Project Manager experience in systems’ integration and tools like ArcGIS, Informatica, Web Methods, Siebel CRM, SAP (SD, PM, WM, FICO), VMS, CRM and MDM, ETL, EDI.
• Support UAT conceptual modeling, Demo to demonstrate Nonfunctional and functional requirements.
• Prepare graphical depictions of Use Cases, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Business Workflow diagrams.
• Broad knowledge on, security, risk, compliance while working on projects (IAM, DevOps, CI/CD, KPI, AWS, JIRA)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Documentation Repository: HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM), RequisitePro, SharePoint, HP Quality Centre (HPQC), Testlink, MEGA, Jbehave Database Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle RMS, SQL, PL/SQL Methodology Agile/ Scrum Framework, Water Fall, Six Sigma, PMBOK, Business Intelligence, Web Services Operating System Windows, Unix, Project Management Microsoft Project, JIRA, Primavera, BMC Remedy. User Manual/Help Guide Tools AncileuPerform, Tealeaf, JRF SAP (SD-Certified, PM-Certified, WM, FICO,LE, GTS), CRM Sales force, Zoho CRM Domain Utilities, Retail, Technology, Logistics, Supply Chain (SCM), Oil and Gas (O&G) Claims Management Underwriting operations Consumer Reports Management Modeling Tools Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML, Blueprint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

Scrum Master and Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Scrum Team, resolving impediments; ensuring team progress towards successful Sprint completion.
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies, daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint retrospectives
• Working with Product owner in identifying Feature List, Building Product Roadmap, Product backlog and creation of Sprint Backlogs and Release Backlogs with the entire team.
• Tracking and Reporting team performance using Task board and publish Sprint and Release Progress using Burn-down and Burn-up charts
• Identify, Monitor and Manage Risks using Risk Radiators and Risk Burn-down graphs.
• Mentor and coach team on Agile Practices, help teams to collaborate and establish clear communications channel within and outside.
• Guide team in aligning with Business Strategy and Project Goals
• Development of overall scope, timeline and execution strategy with key business and technical partners.
• Define, establish and communicate processes around Requirements, Technical Development and QA.
• Presenting Dashboard reports on a set frequency to the leadership team is updating the scorecards and program is on the right track in terms of Schedule, Cost, and Scope while maintaining the optimum quality of the product being delivered.
• Established strategic partnerships with the business units to develop a solid understanding of the business line; including the project plan, products, and process and revenue streams.
• Worked on SharePoint to communicate discovery questionnaires to stakeholders and lines of businesses to receive updated priority data.
• Streamlining the team’s development activities and conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility determination to prioritize resolution of outstanding defects and system problems and ensured accuracy.
• Implemented Risk Management and impact analysis, understanding and business perspectives on many remediation and operational requirements and issues.
• Conducted post-launch review meetings (Sprint Review) to revisit project strengths and liabilities, and to build out better processes for future projects.

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for communicating program performance to program management office - could include areas such as onboarding, training, sprint plan, deliverable signoff, monitoring velocity, backlog, coordinating cross-Scrum data tool/data updates, project cost management via clarity.
• Applied In-depth understanding of adaptive, iterative, and incremental development, backlog management, agile planning, agile metrics, velocity, Scrum roles and events, combined with a strong understanding of the software development process and procedures.
• Work with Product Owner and Business Owner during Sprint review to get feedback and plan next release.
• Guide the team in removing impediments by finding the right personnel to help resolve the issue.
• Worked with the teams to verify Integration functionality and by testing application.
• Continue in adopting and transitioning company to fully understand and embrace the agile scrum methodology
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency among divisions/teams/management
• Coordinated with the solution development lead, functional project managers, coach team on Agile Practices and product owners to do sprint and release planning for the solutions.
• Coordinated with other teams to identify risks and to clear roadblocks Manage defect backlog including working with product management to prioritize and defer defects using JIRA, HP QC ALM.
• Maintained platform backlog (non-project technical debt, refactoring tasks needed etc.) and track work against those tasks.
• Prepared and conducted periodic project status reports to update project governance teams and executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues using MS Project Management.
• Creating product road maps to continue to drive IT teams toward company goals

Confidential, WA

Scrum Máster, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress and maintained process documentation.
• Ensured the scrum/development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Assisted the customer as needed with backlog maintenance for scrum teams, internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Facilitated scrum teams with the methods to prioritize and resolve defects/bugs, making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Provided guidance for scrum team performing software development for Waterfall to Agile Engineering projects.
• Led the development and maintenance of team standards, tools and best practices, identification and removal of impediments for scrum teams and facilitate discussion and conflict resolution to empower the scrum teams to self-organize.
• Worked with Product Owner to ensure highest value features are delivered at agreed time.
• Actively participated in assisting the team resolving issues and escalate as needed. Worked with technical resources to coordinate outside part time resources as needed.
• Maintained and kept up-to-date periodic project status reports, burndown graphs to update project governance teams with the artifacts.

Confidential, VA

SAP SD PM, Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collected, understood, and transmitted the business requirements for the project, and translated these into functional specifications and detailed test plans.
• Documented workflow and results of business analysis and obtained sign-off from client on specifications.
• Documented the “AS-IS” processes and redesigned the optimal “AS-IS” processes “TO-BE” process, writing Use cases with different scenario taking into consideration.
• Drawn business model explaining each instance/ stage of business requirement into Use case.
• Designed in UML and executed test plans along with developer team to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications were tested and fulfilled.
• Involved in UAT testing strategies and plans for the releases.
• Responsible for the calculations of quarter end statistics for use in company budgeting and analyst earnings calls.
• Assisted the technical team in translating application functionality into application architecture and the production of a System Functionality document.
• Understood the long-term business objectives and suggested technical strategies to meet those objectives. Introduced innovation to business processes through technology
• Coordinated with ETL developers from offshore company reviewed the ETL for audit checks and validated the data against operational reports.
• Interacting with the development team to explain the domain requirements of the customer.
• Involved with Unit testing, System testing and Integration testing.
• Involved in functional, performance, reliability, deployment and User Acceptance Testing

Tools: SAP, MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access), MS Outlook, MS Visio, Adobe Photoshop, MS Project, Java, HP Quality Center, SharePoint