Scrum Master And Data Integration Lead Resume
Linthicum, MD
SUMMARY:
- 15 years of overall experience in IT Industry with working knowledge on various roles and applications. 11+ years of experience as a Business analyst and Data Analyst.
- Hands on experience on Agile practices as Scrum master.
- Hands on experience on Agile ceremonies and best practices, conduct know how session for new users on agile practices within Confidential .
- Hands on experience with Agile practices and handing of multiple teams working for same product deliverable in agile.
- As project lead managed team and resource recruitment and trained on the process and methods followed at client place.
- As a PMO, managed multiple projects and dealt with different stake holder on project issue and deliverables.
- Provided regular update to client on project and team activities by being face of team.
- Managed SOX and Security Compliance Programs for multiple projects and established strong client relationship.
- As part of SOX Compliance, involved in Risk Management planning and analysis.
- Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR).
- Have worked on Data Quality Management for gathering more information for Business Analysis.
- Have experience in creating and testing reports in Financial Reporting Systems such as Cognos Finance, OBIEE, and Financial Data Quality Management application.
- Knowledge on SQL using QMF tool.
- Reconciliation of Financial reports for design of better business process.
- Working experience of Account reconciliation tool and handling financial statement Hierarchies for reporting
- Knowledge in all phases of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC).
- Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- As PMO have done e - Governance by managing process flow through internal Tools.
- Prepared accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.
- Regular Interaction with Application owner and Functional Users in determining the new process and application changes required to reduce process flow and increase efficiency.
- Analysis and process defining through different sources to Reporting application.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
BI Tools: Confidential Cognos, OBIEE, Financial Data Mart (FDM)
Languages: SQL, QMF
OS Windows: 95/98/2000/XP/NT/7/8MS Office MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel
Project Management Good: Understanding of Agile Project Management Methodology and PMO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Linthicum,MD
Scrum Master and Data Integration Lead
Roles and Responsibilities:
- As integration lead responsible for validation, mapping and data flow from legacy systems to CJAMS application.
- Responsible for leading the team and facilitate the validation of tables and data.
- As Integration lead responsible for discussing with the Business users on the application functionality during migration Process.
- As Scrum master responsible for prioritizing and identifying the stories and task for each sprint by discussing with business product owners for each of the modules.
- In Scrum master role work towards addressing impediments that team encounters during development process.
- Conduct demo to the business product owner after each sprint to get feedback on the MVP deliverables.
- Create stories for following sprints by discussing with Business Product owners and prioritize stories in alignment to business needs.
- Work with Business Analyst and participate in requirement gathering session with Business Users.
- Work with Business product owner for refining and keep up to date on product backlog stories.
- Conduct joint requirement session with different module functional owners for requirement gathering and UAT testing
- Co-ordinate with module leads for integration of different modules and data flow for validating end to end flow and functionality as per requirements.
- Work with testing team to ensure the deliverables and acceptance criteria are in sync with sprint tasks.
- Conduct agile awareness session for new team/s and team members.
- Work on Federal Mandatory report that are required for addressing financial aspects of CJAMS services.
Confidential, Littleton MA
Scrum Master and Business Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
- As business analyst, provided functional requirements and create adhoc and pseudo report format for development team usage.
- Test the performance and functionality of the report create and conduct work session with user community for sign off and feedback.
- Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and Software Requirements Specifications (SRS).
- In Scum Master role responsible for performing all Agile ceremonies for each sprint.
- Conducted back log refinement session with the Product owner to prioritize the task for future scrums.
- In the role of scrum master conducted Daily Scrum, Scrum planning session, retrospective session with teams.
- Presentation through showcase after each sprint for stakeholders on deliverables in sprint.
- Scheduled reports in cognos and promote the reports from test instance to Production and validate the same in production.
- Perform Agile Coach role in grooming teams on agile methodology
- Conduct agile learning sessions for teams on new practices and methodologies.
- Conduct quarterly Agile Maturity Assessment for the team.
- Analyze teams performance after each sprint and take necessary actions for improved performance on agile
- Make sure all the team members excel themselves in agile practices for the betterment of organization.
- Document best agile practices for team’s future reference and learning.
- Documented the complete design, development process
- Analyze report issue in cognos using SQL and validating against DB.
- Replicate functionality of the report using SQL queries at various stage of report development
- Work with developers in finalizing the logic and requirement to have necessary stored procedure as needed.
- Demo show case on the team deliverables after each Scrum to the stake holder and take their feedback.
- Provided adhoc and support as needed during Financial close.
- Prepare Show case for presentation to Stake holders after every sprint.
- Manage Sox Compliance and ASCA (Application Systems Control and Auditability) review on application access and accounts every quarter.
Confidential
Business Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
- As a Business Analyst, involved in requirements identification and analysis for the FastPass Application.
- Coordinated with other Stakeholder and teams for analysis of client business processes.
- Provided application support along with change migration for new requirements.
- Conducted performance validation for solution to requirements with end to end testing.
- Used Business Analysis Work Products for new requirements.
- Propose solutions to remediate issues and work with other team members to implement fixes.
- Responsible for creating instances using Amazon Wed Service (AWS EC2).
- Application data validation using different integrated tools such as Operational Data Source (ODS) and SAP which are main source system for FastPass.
- Monitored application availability and user access related issue as part of Support.
- Data Validation through different systems such as Rapid SQL, Confidential data warehouse, SAP integration systems, FastPass reporting application.
- Analysis of reporting issue by verifying the data availability and logic through SQL queries against the DB.
- Monitored and addressed access related issues and refine process flow.
- Cod legacy access process to a better and efficient work flow process by eliminating unwanted work flows to speed up the process
- Demo show case on the team deliverables after each Scrum to the stake holder and take their feedback.
Confidential
Integration Lead & Business Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding the existing MARS (Management Analysis Reporting System) GL source system, its data structures and formats.
- Excellent conceptual and technical skills in preparing BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD (Functional Requirement Document) and Worked on getting approval on the BRD/FRD documents from stakeholders and presented the same to the development and testing teams.
- Thorough understanding of functionality and intend of check and report that exists in MARS.
- Designed and documented the project plan.
- Interacted with Functional users and finalize the approach to be followed.
- Interact with Technical Team and do feasibility study on the migration plan with no impact to existing functionality.
- Tweaked or consolidated multiple functionalities that can be handled in the proposed application.
- Acquired requirements for documentation and presented to functional owners for sign off on requirements.
- Co-ordinated with different application technical leads to get the requirements implemented.
- Co-ordinated with different team for status updates and address any issues faced during implementation.
- Acted as liaison between technical team and Functional user throughout the project migration.
- Involved in functional testing for the application at different phases of the project.
Confidential
Process Lead & Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with the Business users and gather the required information for converting the legacy system to integrate with FDQM and align it to target ERP system.
- Worked with Business users to define and streamline the existing process and initiate new process flow to make work process flow more efficient.
- Responsible for understanding the source/target systems, their data structures and formats.
- Responsible for design and documentation of the technical architecture and integration models.
- Configured rules for validation of data from the source systems inside FDQM.
- Analyzed and understand the inbound and outbound interfaces.
- Developed interfaces between third party systems and ERP using FDQM.
- Developed new interface and coordinating with technical resources.
- Explained Process and functionality to the technical team.
- Configured and created data extracts from Legacy system to the ERP systems.
- Involved in reconciliation as part of testing post migration.
- Analyzed Data quality for better reporting.
- Communicated the project progress to the concerned Management Team within Confidential and expedite decision to ensure meeting the project schedule.
- Troubleshoot data issue fail during validation and Processing stage (Event Creation and Accounting) with in FDQM.
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- As a Business Analyst, involved in various business requirement gathering and facilitated the organization to achieve cost reduction in creating customized reports suiting various business requirements.
- Created/updated documents required as part of the system development lifecycle, as well as documentation necessary to support business processes.
- Involved in documenting the business process by identifying the requirements, also involved in finding the system requirements.
- Incorporated new process to enhance performance and value add to business.
- Worked with the client in proposing solutions for the overall stability of the application.
- Implementation of new systems for the project like IDM, SOX and integration with other systems.
- Led the project in making SOX compliant by implementing the SOX defined process.
- Performed project review and report to client at regular intervals.
- Regular interaction with the client’s Technical Managers, Database administrators, Network Administrators, Application Users - all belonging to different departments and divisions of client to ensure the smooth running of the application.
- Created application training documentation and conducting formal training for end users.
- Worked with Technical teams making them understand and getting the requirements implemented
- Worked on custom and seeded stored procedures to execute scripts with test parameters and review the output
- Worked on table level triggers to maintain audit data and execute an action based on insert, update, and delete on the table. ..
- As project lead responsible for resource management and task assignment and review.
- Guide team members in career growth and knowledge enhancement.
- Handled Production releases from end to end. This includes testing, communication to users, educating users about new changes, preparing user manual as required. etc.
- Processed monitoring - On going process monitored after deployment using impacted production data, bug-fix or data-fix execution if required for successful implementation of requirement in the live system.
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Extensively involved in business functionality of the system, understanding source systems and requirement analysis.
- Interacted with functional analysts and Business users to document reporting and analytical requirements.
- Created Adhoc reports using Cognos finance application for various levels of users.
- Prepared Documentation for Cognos Report requirements.
- Involved in various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements.
- Provided and Monitored application during quarter and year end close activities.
- Provided required guidance on the tool functionality for new users
- Prepared quarter close and year end close support plan and assigning tasks.
Confidential
Business Analyst
Role & Responsibilities:
- Enabled Internal Business Reviews through Reports Dashboards by collecting and collating data from various sources.
- Registration and Tracking of the Projects. Reporting the GDC Level revenues to Confidential Corporate.
- Facilitated Improvements to the Project metrics and Management Process.
- Provided dashboard reporting of projects status and progress.
- Involved in Data analysis for Project/Business performance.
- Worked closely with Finance team to ensure timely invoicing and tracked outstanding collections of the projects.