SUMMARY

• A seasoned professional with over 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master and a technical Business Analyst.
• Ability to establish realistic expectations, create accurate project schedules and budgets, resolve critical path issues, migrate risks and deliver quality results consistently.
• Oversee Product Delivery, Business Analysis, UAT and Test Architecture, Review Design and Research.
• Leading Business, Development and Testing teams and driving their goals.
• Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance.
• Developed expertise in transforming ideas to implementation, Road map planning, Journey maps, connecting different dots, Scrum, Assist Product owner in Backlog maintenance, Story or feature Grooming, Sprint Planning Sprint Reviews, Retrospective and poker planning.
• Guide and Elicit process for Requirements and Documentation needs, drive teams to adapt to Scrum, Monitor and Audit test plans, Traceability, Reporting, Defect tracking, escalate trends, Conduct and Coordinating with various teams and different stake holders of the project.
• Manage and monitor one or more teams performing highly complex projects either through team supervisors or by direct management.
• Served as liaison between managers of various departments in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.
• Skilled in business strategy, program/project management and development across geographically distributed teams.
• Coach and train management and teams on agile process (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• Managed full SDLC, from iteration, to discovery, to execution, then to deployment.
• Proficiency performing Impact Analysis, Gap Analysis, and SWOT Analysis to check project feasibility; designed and executed test plans and test cases to track and resolve defects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: ALM, HP Quality Center

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista 7/10 and UNIX

Databases: SQL Server, My SQL

Agile Methods: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban

Scrum Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Rally

PM Tools: MS Project, MS Visio

Release Tools: HP Service Manager, Octopus, HP Quality Center

Skills: SQL Queries, Risk Management, Business Strategy Planning, GAP Analysis, Documentation, Facilitating Meetings, Interpersonal Skills, Communication skills.

Utilities: SharePoint, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Intuit QuickBooks, Fax2Mail.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Scrum Master

Technology/ Tools Used: SAFe, CA Agile Central/ Rally, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements, coordinating with the tech leads and business on the discussed requirements.
• Leading teams in transforming business plans to technical implementations.
• Facilitate Scrum meetings as per the framework.
• Track the project using the CA Agile tool Rally, where the work progress and completion of tasks can be viewed to understand the status of the sprint.
• Create User Stories and functional design deliverables and submitted in sprints.
• Maintain task boards and produced daily burndown charts.
• Follow agile practices of time boxing, pair programming and Test Driven Development.
• Resolve impediments for the team by raising awareness appropriately, acting, building effective relationships with others, and bringing cross - functional teams together for process improvement.
• Plan capacity and slot projects for financial year per initiative.
• Prioritize and manage continuous changes and project scope, identify potential crisis and devise contingency plan.

Confidential, Plano,TX

Scrum Master

Technology/ Tools Used: JIRA, SAFe, PowerPoint, MS Excel, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Create Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Conducting Scrum Ceremonies like scrum calls, story grooming, story estimation, sprint demo, sprint closures, retro ceremonies etc.
• Review and manage the backlog, Users.
• Conducting and coordinating multiple teams, driving them to reach their goals.
• Assisted in implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in our organization and continue facilitating quarterly Program Increment Planning events across the org.
• Assist teams in in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD).
• Reporting the progress and status updates on a regular basis for higher management and to Scrum of Scrums.
• Coordinate with fellow scrum masters to clear impediments occurring due to dependencies.
• Managed a cross functional team of 12 with a deliverable sprint of 2 weeks.
• Assist the team in preparation of ART activities, including PI planning, System Demos and the Inspect and Adapt.

Confidential, Fort Mill, SC

Scrum Master

Technology/ Tools Used: JIRA (For Agile), Visio, PowerPoint, Confluence

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple cross functional teams of various sizes while managing system integration projects for the Financial Company.
• Managed all phrases of full life cycle implementation projects, including: initiation, planning, design, testing, user acceptance and deployment.
• Manage and assist Scrum team of 7 to 9 members with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition; participate proactively in Scrum of Scrums to develop and maintain team standards, tools and best practices.
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Standup, Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Driving agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, continuous improvement, pair programming, product visioning, acceptance test driven development (ATDD) and test-driven development (TDD).
• If needed Create required EPICs, Components and User stories for the Backlog, groom the stories with Dev and QA.
• Create and Manage Jira boards and Jira issues, generate reports, starting and closing the sprints.
• Create User guides. Create Presentations to different audience groups.
• Performing user acceptance testing
• Lead and manage onshore and offshore resources.
• Built and maintained excellent client partner relationships.
• Managed the insights and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.
• Resolve impediments for the team by raising awareness appropriately, acting, building effective relationships with others, and bringing cross functional teams together for process improvement.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Technology/ Tools Used: MS Project, PowerPoint, MS Excel, Rally

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements, coordinating with the tech leads and business on the discussed requirements.
• Acted as department Project Manager in PM’s absence.
• Manage project documentation, supported offshore for discussing requirements and coordinating the testing strategy and conditions to business requirements to test.
• Coordinating the testing strategy and conditions to business requirements to test.
• Plan and track the test data requirements and test strategy, user access requirements traceability.
• Conducted weekly meetings with management and client on all lab assigned projects, reporting project status, deadlines and service level agreement objectives.
• Coordinated with the team for the preparation of mockups as per the requirements.
• Facilitate and monitor project life cycles and versioning of documentation defect tracking.
• Serve as Point of contact to Project Managers and directors and tech leads and other business teams.
• Use MPP to Project management tasks and discussions.
• Create Minutes of Meeting for the meeting conducted and circulate and document the same.
• Participate in project Signoff discussions.