SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience in IT in the Roles of Scrum Master and Business Analyst supporting areas of Web - based and Server-based applications with demonstrated leadership abilities.
• 7+ years of experience as Business Analyst in a Waterfall and Agile-Development methodology.
• Proven ability to analyze requirements, create backlogs, review wireframes, maintain velocity chart for domains such as Health-care Domains, Financial Domains, and Web Content Management application.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, release planning, demos, and other scrum related meetings.
• Experience in protecting the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline. Track and communicate team velocity and other development metrics with, and to all affected teams and management. support ALM data fidelity, support Program metrics & KPIs.
• Ensure that teams are following core agile principles and mentored as needed.Update agile tracking systems such as Jira, Kanban board, VersionOne, confluence, knowledge about SAFe and Scaled framework.
• Experience in writing use cases, acceptance criteria, system guideline, test-case, tasks, bugs, and descriptive tickets.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensive knowledge on writing business requirements in confluence and convert into user-friendly Cucumber feature file.
• As a BA Analyst, worked closely with Project Manager, QA Lead, Development Team, Product Architect, UX Architect . Involved in Developing Test Incident reports/Test Metrics. Good understanding of Database Management Systems (Oracle, SQL Server).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence and Kanban

RDBMS: TOAD, SQL Server, Oracle

Programming Languages: JAVA and SQL.

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Office, Balsamiq.

Interface Testing Tools: Postman and SoapUI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Investment Banking Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mentoring the team transitioning from waterfall to Scaled Agile framework. Acting as a servant leader and coach with SAFe methodologies for two teams at the same time. explained the team members about agile manifesto and principles so that there s a thorough understanding of agile methodologies and scrum.
• Collaborated closely with the product owner, Product Architect, UX Architect on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Facilitated the daily stand up meeting, therefore, the development team members are aware of productivity status and impediments. Helped scrum teams by removing blockers that may be impeding their work to make sure potential increment of a product is deliverable by the end of each sprint. Guided development team members and product owner during sprint planning using velocity chart to navigate the progress.
• Created Scrum boards and Kanban boards, product backlog items/tasks and PBI estimates using Atlassian JIRA and tracked progress.
• Proficiently organized and facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives and release planning.
• Participated in product backlog refinement meeting facilitated by the product owner with involvement from the development teams.
• Mentored teams to be self - organizing and kept teams focused on continuous integration and continuous delivery and/or continuous deployment. Sprint priorities, business values, and protecting team from over-committing.
• Knowledge of Agile techniques such as TDD, FDD, CI, CD, user stories, continuous integration, continuous testing, agile games and so on.
• Encouraged team members to document better practices, new-hire installation guide and release notes in the confluence page. Have attended the Sprint meeting with different PMOs and obtained requirement as per the concerns.

Environment: Oracle SQL, JIRA 6.4, MS SharePoint, Kanban, Confluence.

Confidential, Virginia

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a full time Scrum master for 3 teams in scaled agile environment (SAFe), was responsible for running the Daily Stand-ups, the Iteration Planning and Estimating Sessions, the Iteration Review and Demo and the Retrospective.
• Executed on established program level processes, execution and continuous improvement of Agile process for the team and project.
• Supported and helped develop and groom epics and stories, will identifying, track and resolving blockers, coordinated with the core team, multiple stakeholders, product owners and numerous extended team members, and produced weekly and ad-hoc reports to include both sprint and product backlog and burn down charts.
• Helped with product Release plan, product plan, document, and track the completion of Epics, Stories, Tasks, and Bugs. quarterly plans and impacts
• Communicated with other Scrum masters, program leadership, customer, and development teams to report on status, blockers, etc.
• Immensely knowledgeable of SDLC, STLC process and different methodology.
• Acted as the point of contact between the business units and IT team. Developed and implemented quarterly plans to suit business plans and objectives.

Confidential New York, New York

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Monitored project progress by identifying project milestones; tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; and recommending actions.
• Created and maintained system documentation supporting all application patches and upgrades, creation of tests cases and performing full cycle testing
• Determined operational objectives by business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements; analyzing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
• Performed data analysis and documentation through various mechanisms such as claims system, queries; and review of the system; identify potential areas of automation and reengineer the underlying business process. Reporting of all system issues (bugs) by clear documentation
• Served as a liaison for IT Manager(s), development staff, and the project stakeholders.

Environment: ASP, VB.Net, SQL, Windows 2k/XP, Manual Testing and Quality Center