SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with more than 10 years of experience in Coaching and Facilitating Scrum Practices to the team in end - to-end software development life cycle using Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Active Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Expert in motivating agile transitioning teams to adapt agile methodologies and self-organizational traits
• Creating matured teams by motivating them to ‘Being Agile’ than Just ‘Doing Agile’
• Focusing on tailoring the framework to fit the needs of organization than just copy pasting the framework
• Expert in doing Root Cause Analysis for identifying and resolving team’s performance hurdles and suggested fool-proof techniques for successful completion of agile sprints; effective utilization of the sprint retrospective meetings
• Expertise in conducting Story mapping & Story Boarding practices for illustration of the vision of the project
• Expert in using various techniques to refine the product backlog with Business value and Effort estimates by facilitating product refinement meetings
• Empowering the team to knock blockers out themselves and build trust to communicate clearly and objectively
• Expert in handling time boxed daily scrum calls with brisk and relevant discussions
• Experience in Encouraging teams to actively contribute for Inspection and adaption of the team activities in sprint retrospective meetings
• Highly experienced in tracking and communicating sprint progress through various metrics like burn-down charts
• Expert in evaluating User Stories from epics and refining Backlog list with Business owner and Product management
• Able to work with multiple projects of high complexity and various stakeholders simultaneously with little guidance.
• Excellent servant leader skills being able to build strong relationships with coworkers and managers across multiple divisions, including legal, management, research, sales, and trading.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum)

Modeling Tools: UML, MS Visio, Erwin, Power Designer, TFS, Balsamiq, Mockingbird

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, JIRA, Crystal Reports, MS Office Suite

QA Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, Bugzilla, Clear Quest

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, UML, ASP, JSP

Databases & OS: MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, DB2

BA Tools/ repositories: Rally Dev, JIRA, TFS, SharePoint site

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and facilitated Sprint planning, Daily stand up, sprint retrospective, stakeholder meetings and Sprint demonstrations .
• Shielding scrum (development) team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project time lines.
• Engaged in agile program management and created product concepts based on the company strategy to align with various scrum teams
• Involved in breaking down the concepts into epics and in turn to user stories and streamlined the daily delegation of incoming issues using Issue tracking system for the scrum team
• Work closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of business value in scrum projects
• Actively contributed and engaged the team throughout the scrum/agile process in daily standups, product backlog refinements, Sprint planning, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective sessions.
• Facilitated effective Sprint Planning sessions with Sprint goals and Sprint backlog as outcome
• Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams and communicated with Business people from various LOB’s like Marketing, Finance, Supply chain and other teams.
• Conducted coaching and training sessions regarding Agile development cycle and encouraged team to engage in Scrum ceremonies, technical discussions, reviews and release planning.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimation and development.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within stipulated time and managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Communicated with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Worked with the dev team and the Product owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery.
• Assisted in defect triaging and coordinated with developers to quickly resolve the defects associated with them.
• Effectively coordinated offshore and onsite testing team in defect triaging, analyzing and resolving the bugs earlier in the product development

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Being a servant leader coached the team to improve continuously using agile principles.
• Organized Product backlog refinement , Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective
• Acted as Agile Coach, Scrum Master and Servant Leader for technical cross functional teams implementing Scrum
• Educated Agile teams on the use of Kanban and flow to optimize the team’s work
• Mentored and empowered teams towards making appropriate commitments through story selection, establishing acceptance criteria, story sizing and task definition
• Ensured a faster flow of value to end user using mechanisms for tighter integration of development and deployment operations (DevOps)
• Facilitated use of Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Pair programming for robust code development.
• Educated the team in how to manage an overall release plan, velocity forecast with agile metrics through standard agile tooling such as JIRA
• Protect scrum team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project time lines.
• Delivering Minimum Viable Product to the Business owners from where the consumption got production able
• Involved in breaking down the concepts into user stories and streamlining the daily delegation of incoming issues using Issue tracking system
• Resolved impediments/roadblocks to re-create the focus on accomplishing the sprint goal.
• Conducted retrospective meetings to inspect the team’s performance and adapt new changes
• Negotiating with Product Owner in backlog management for scope creeps and continuous delivery
• Tracking and Radiating team metrics through burn-down charts to higher executives
• Actively contributed throughout the scrum/agile process in daily standups, functional and technical grooming sessions.
• Steer the team to stick to short answers to the three questions; steer them away from discussing problems or details during the daily scrum

Confidential, Mason, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review and Product review meetings.
• Conducting effective Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the of the team.
• Involving users actively in User Acceptance Tests (UAT) between development team and the end users from the business team
• Facilitating in daily stand-up meetings and sprint review meetings.
• Gathering business, system, and functional requirements by conducting detailed meetings with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SME's).
• Conducting story mapping and story boarding session to elicit high level features and goals from the Product owners
• Developing user stories and grooming them with product owners throughout the agile lifecycle
• Facilitating for Grooming sessions for creating well developed user stories with user acceptance criteria and mockups if required for developing a good product backlog
• Creating data flow diagrams and business process flow diagrams for better understanding of the business needs by the scrum team
• Creating the Gap analysis document by analyzing the as is process and understanding the future need
• Negotiating effectively with Product owner on the release priorities and exceptional scope creep.
• Significant contribution to stories development in product backlog, sprint backlog and release backlog meetings.
• Developing Business requirement document and responsibly taking the signoffs at each stages.
• Documenting functional requirement documents, use cases, mockups and roles documentation as needed
• Checking the integrity of the newly added features and their effect to the existing ones with integrity testing and regression testing
• Conducting smoke test, black box test, alpha test and beta test along with Quality Assurance teams.
• Coordinate development activities by managing the technical requirements in a requirements traceability matrix.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users and Stakeholders to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems.
• Worked with SME’s of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Investments and Capital Market and to understand the cross impacts of the system.
• Created user stories based on the features and epics provided by the Business stakeholders and Product owner
• Create the Business Requirement Document (BRD), supporting documents containing essential business elements, detailed definition and description of the relationship between the actors
• Designed and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process, analyzed the data entity relationships and worked on multiple short term projects in between.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated group discussions to elicit requirements by communicating with internal users and stakeholders.
• Worked as a team with other business analysts to make an object orients model of the applications
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at early stage
• Created the Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and use cases to support Business requirements
• Created Business Requirements Document (BRD) for developers, for clear understanding of the systems on both Technical and Business perspectives.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Requirements brainstorming sessions to elicit business requirements
• Creating Functional Requirements by meeting various technical leads and conducting design meetings
• Analyzing and documenting use cases and process flow diagrams to support the functional requirements.
• Creating wireframes to depict the business needs
• Creating test cases for the business requirements and executing and documenting the test results
• Creating RTM to track the business requirements to functional requirements to use cases and test cases.