PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with 7+ years of work experience in fast pace environment, with extensive knowledge in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like waterfall and agile techniques like Scrum,
• Confidential and Confidential within multiple domain such as Financial, E - commerce and Healthcare.
• Servant leader with skills in delivering projects by efficiently collaborating, facilitating and coaching scrum teams.
• Immense working experience in Confidential environment.
• Strong experience in Scaled Agile Framework ( Confidential ) two-day Program Incremental (PI) planning and facilitating team breakout.
• Expert in facilitating Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily stand-ups, Backlog refinement and Sprint Demos.
• Expert in driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Highly Efficient in tracking team s progress, including burn down chart, velocity and release forecasting for the product.
• Excelled in working with different Agile Project Management tools like Rally, Jira, Confluence for my defect tracking purposes.
• Strong knowledge in developing reports using MS- Office Suite (EXCEL, WORD, POWERPOINT, ACCESS) and provided analytical solutions to the higher management.
• Proactive, task and idea oriented and can quickly adapt to new technologies or processes or methodologies.
• Experience in coaching scrum and Confidential principles to team and product owner.
• Ability to prioritize along critical path and meet project milestones and aggressive deadlines.
• Proficient in ensuring that business goals are met throughout the product life cycle.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for Sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Prowess in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with good oral and written presentations and communication skills.
• Proficient in facilitating inspect and adapt to promote continuous improvement and help teams increase productivity.
• Ability to work independently or as a part of a team and succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• Competence in managing many projects simultaneously while working within strict deadlines and maintaining professionalism.
• Professional team player with track-record for consistently delivering results through detailed analysis, creative solutions, and maintaining strong relationships.
• Self-motivated and able to work in challenging environment. Take initiatives with a proactive approach in problem solving and providing best solutions.
• Quick comprehension with good analytical and communication skills, capable of managing and motivating teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, Confidential )

D Confidential bases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL server.

Ticketing Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Bugzilla

Documentation Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac

Business Modelling Tools: Smart Draw, MS VISIO, Gliffy, Erwin, Balsamiq

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
• Participated in Scaled Agile Framework ( Confidential ) two-day Program Incremental (PI) planning and facilitated team breakout for planning for five iterations.
• Led and facilitated in project iteration pre-planning and planning sessions.
• Engaged in Scrum of Scrum meetings and collaborated with other teams to analyze integration of various components into the application and identify inter-team dependencies.
• Worked with Senior Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning.
• Created learning environment for team members by brainstorming ideas through agile events and to have clear idea of the business.
• Collaborated with product owner and clients to prioritize requirements and to deliver Software Releases on time.
• Assisted with internal and external communication of team, acted as an information radiator to improve transparency Scrum team, Product owner and stake holders and scale practices.
• Worked closely with product owners for product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Created metrics for risk and issues tracking and reported in weekly basis.
• Monitored and maintained Scrum Artifacts like sprint burndown, burnup and velocity chart
• Worked with Product Owner to ensure that product backlog was updated.
• Made sure that team is following Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) for the teams.
• Worked with the technical team to ensure critical product requirements are translated into accurate functional specifications in form of user stories.
• Helped Product Owner to write well defined story and acceptance criteria.
• Removed team impediments to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Collaborated with testing support team to ensure full understanding of testing is performed.
• Facilitated smooth sprints by removing impediments, acting as an information radiator, and shielding from external influences.
• Facilitated iteration demos to present working software to business and make sure that is it met to their expectations.
• Proactively communicated any risks, design and quality issues required to ensure projects remained on track.
• Ensured JIRA tickets contain enough information with clarity and clear acceptance criteria.

Environment: Confidential, Scrum, Windows, MS Office Suite, JIRA

Confidential Scrum Master

Confidential, Jonesboro, AR

Responsibilities:

• Coached and guided the teams on the values and practices of Agile and Scrum.
• Worked with product owner, technical architects, development managers, quality assurance team to elaborate features and stories for the
• Program Increment (PI) in Scaled Agile Framework ( Confidential ).
• Worked with Product Manager, key stake holders and teams to prioritize requirements.
• Worked with multiple workstreams in ART level meetings like PI planning to align teams with Program backlog.
• Collaborated with cross - team scrum masters through Scrum of Scrums to identify the dependencies of each team.
• Facilitated Sprint pre-planning sessions and Sprint reviews with the team and product manager.
• Identified and removed team s impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed product backlog and helped in solving impediments that are discussed in Daily Standup Meeting and deliver Potentially Shippable Product Increments (PSPI) every sprint.
• Used Rally to write user stories, acceptance criteria and tracked the progress of each team member.
• Wrote down the requirements in the form of user stories and prioritized them in the product backlog.
• Worked with Subject Matter Experts to identify, understand, and document business needs for the d Confidential flow to create market risk and credit risk modules.
• Provided support and to end users in using applications.
• Empowered team and shield them from outside influences and distractions.
• Ensured that team is working effectively towards efficiencies and productivity to execute on business objectives being delivered with high quality standards.
• Recommended improvements in project deliverables through continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Coordinated with team and facilitated the Sprint demo for the Business.

Environment: Confidential, Windows, MS Office Suite, Rally.

Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Confidential, Oscelo, AR

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Scrum Practices while handling teams and facilitated Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Scrum,
• Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Protected team from internal and external distractions to help the team to focus on their goals.
• Ensured that the respective scrum artifacts were visible to the product owner and the team.
• Involved in resolving impediments that affected the performance of the Scrum Development team.
• Assisted product owner in creating product backlog and sprint backlog to generate release schedule.
• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Liaised with business and functional owners during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines, and standards.
• Performed Requirements Analysis along with the creation of Use Case Scenarios.
• Responsible for Documentation in each phase of the SDLC.
• Involved in GAP analysis both at the time of the requirement gathering and later after development with the testing team to identify areas and scenarios that might have been overlooked.
• Prepared user stories by breaking down the features.
• Followed the UML based methods using Gliffy to create Business Flow Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams.
• Used SQL to access the information on project status, client history and team schedules.
• Validated test cases for QA testing.
• Assisted product owner in re-prioritizing the product backlog during the sprint review meeting and velocity calculation.

Environment: Scrum, Windows, MS Office Suite, JIRA, Gliffy, SQL Server.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked towards research and business analysis for client services and system enhancement by continuously interacting with the business users.
• Gathered Functional and D Confidential Requirements, analyzed workflows and created Use Cases,
• Requirement Specifications, Report Specifications, D Confidential Requirements, D Confidential Mappings and D Confidential Flow Diagrams.
• Created pivot tables, BI dashboards and PowerPoints to present the information to stakeholders and higher management.
• Performed GAP analysis and traceability matrix to trace missed requirement and variations in the actual results (As - Is) as against the expected (To-Be) software product states
• Documented Use cases and created Use case diagrams that described the behavior of the system.
• Helped in converting client requirements and functional specifications to technical design with effort estimation.
• Identified, organized, and documented the changing requirements of the project using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Performed d Confidential validation testing using SQL queries to validate d Confidential .
• Dedicated a good portion of time with the QA team in front-end, back-end and Regression testing.
• Responsible for D Confidential base testing using SQL Queries with multiple D Confidential bases and SQL Server.
• Coordinated with the business partners in conducting the User acceptance testing and Regression testing.

Environment: Windows, Confidential Office Suite, HTML, SQL Server.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE in the existing architecture and created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Identified Use cases from the functional requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications and created business process workflow diagrams.
• Analyzed the different use cases and recommended changes in the user interface of the application.
• Managed offshore and onsite resources, schedule tasks and provide status updates to the management.
• Assisted and managed varied dynamic enterprise consulting programs with focus on business improvement,
• Organizational transformation and transition like customer communications, experience management and information technology.
• Worked on defect tracker by creating defects. Closely involved with the Quality Analyst (QA) team and assisted them to deploy quality test cases by referring use cases.
• Identified the deliverables at the end of the inception and elaboration phase of the product life cycle in terms of business modeling and requirement analysis.
• Worked directly with Testing Team and assisted in testing effort.
• Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track the development and QA process.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Developed and maintained custom reports and dashboards.

Environment: Windows 7, Confidential Office Suite, Confidential Visio, SQL Server, HTML

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using waterfall methodology.
• Responsible for d Confidential entry, d Confidential analysis and business analysis functions, documentation and implementation.
• Involved in writing test cases/test scenarios and test plans based on the Business Requirement Document.
• Developed and documented Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) across the deliverables of a project.
• Conducted one on one meetings with the business users and gathered requirements.
• Developed test plan and test cases for all phases of testing.
• Communicated with Leads and programmers for client requirements analysis and for accurate translations.
• Worked with project manager to analyze the vision of the product, while prioritizing and developing the software release planning.
• Tested applications in real and virtual environments in accordance with the test plan.
• Documented bugs and communicating with development team to get them fixed.
• Participated in the detailed requirement analysis for the design of d Confidential marts.
• Verified and maintained D Confidential Quality, Integrity and Business logics.
• Determined the future of the process and TO-BE process.

Environment: Waterfall Methodology, Windows 7, Confidential Office Suite, Confidential Visio