SUMMARY

• Managed Scrum projects using Agile methodology and Scrum practices - , Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Daily Standup, Retrospective with JIRA / Version One.
• Maintained planning documents, like an Agile Product Roadmap.Provided Status updates and Project metrics - team velocity, burn down charts, Requirement Traceability matrix; Liaison between Dev Team, Product Owner, Stakeholders, SME, Vendors.
• Supported Product Owner to manage and track Product Features, Epics, prioritized user stories from Product backlog in coordination with other scrum teams
• Mentored and coached Dev teams and Business stakeholders with Agile best practices to raise standards.
• Facilitated working session meetings to discuss scope, schedule and requirements with product owners
• Managed product quality, releases and delivery.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to accurately report progress, risks, successes, and failures
• Maintained a close working relationship with the product owner, scrum team and other stake holders

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst / Scrum FDIC

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked within the project team and stakeholders to document the business vision and the project scope
• Facilitated status meetings, workshops and actively engaged in situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Managed Project using Agile methodology and scrum practices - Sprint Grooming, Planning, and Daily Scrum, Using Jira to keep track of the project and Prepared project metrics - burndown chart, project forecast, team capacity, and milestone.
• Conducted daily scrum meetings with Dev team to identify impediments and track progress.
• Conducted retrospectives, sprint demos and monitored health of sprints continuously
• Served as an effective Scrum Master, provided servant leadership, and provided key collaboration skills to cross-functional team, facilitate communication, and provide status reporting to senior management.
• Responsible for the completion of assigned AWS implementation within timeline
• Lead Tech team assigned for the duration of an AWS project
• Supported Product owner to manage and prioritize Product backlog to manage the upgrade of Financial Application
• Supported Product Owner through applying effective scrum principles for managing their product backlog for AWS implementation
• Managed Sprint Planning sessions - story writing, story sizing, Sprint backlog grooming, pre-planning activities and sprint retrospectives to improve the team performance with every sprint.
• Gathered requirements by interacting with the stakeholders, interviewing, preparing questionnaires and getting feedback
• Managed and support AWS accounts centralized continuous account management.
• Responsible in developing user stories for the requirements
• Participate within the Agile team to ensure that requirements are complete, consistent, concise, traceable, feasible and verifiable, and they conform to standards.
• Validate business and test requirements
• Performed Data analysis - writing and running SQL queries, checking triggers, reporting requirements to support business requirements
• Create and manage Epics, Subtask, analyzed defects, Raise Jira tickets
• Develop detailed test plans and test cases based on technical requirement.
• Executed and document test cases result to validate application functionality.
• Managed requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Worked on JIRA for defect/issues logging & tracking and documented all my work using Confluence.
• Managed changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools
• Performed UAT testing
• Intake issues from Various team and raise Jira tickets as needed
• Supported project documentation, on- boarding and training
• Actively trained Business Users involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and helped them understand UAT procedure

Environment: SQL Developer, Excel, MS-Office, MS Project Server, HP ALM, SharePoint, Jira, Track IT, Confluence.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Project using Agile methodology and scrum practices - Sprint Grooming, Planning, and Daily Scrum, Using Jira to keep track of the project and Prepared project metrics - burndown chart, project forecast, team capacity, and milestone.
• Conducted daily scrum meetings with Dev team to identify impediments and track progress.
• Conducted retrospectives, sprint demos and monitored health of sprints continuously
• Served as an effective Scrum Master, provided servant leadership, and provided key collaboration skills to cross-functional team, facilitated communication, and provided status reporting to senior management.
• Supported Product owner to manage and prioritize Product backlog to manage the upgrade of multiple projects
• Managed Sprint Planning sessions - story writing, story sizing, Sprint backlog grooming, pre-planning activities and sprint retrospectives to improve the team performance with every sprint.
• Communicated with project team to ensure processing requests meet all client specifications
• Analyze, document, offer solutions and work towards improvement the quality of the team's requirements analysis, elicitation, and documentation efforts of client deliverables
• Recommended information system solutions and policies and assists with integration through the SDLC.
• Developed web screen wire frames/mock-ups for business and operation review in balsamic
• Investigated, analyzed and resolves routine and advanced problems in selected functional areas by determining, gathering and evaluating client application requirements.
• Worked on suggesting components for basic systems integration of products and services in selected functional areas
• Created specification documents for solutions and enhancements to applications or systems within the program.
• Used Requisite Pro to document requirements and associated change requests with requirements

Environment: Jira, Clear case, Tableau, Balsamic, Data Studio, Visio, DB2

Business Analyst

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated work sessions, interfaced with clients and assisted them in business
• Assisted with UAT Test Script execution and defect re-testing as needed, articulated project goals and scope. Followed up with users for testing, making sure that testing is completed on time for Audit
• Worked extensively with the team in Agile environment from Project Initiation phase to Implementation
• Worked under Agile/Scrum methodology Facilitating Scrum Stand-ups, User Stories
• Documented project requirements using Version One for better visibility of requirements to the agile team
• Created UAT Conditions, Test Scripts, Kick-Off presentations, Testing Schedule, host daily Status Calls with Testers, track testing results and defects in HP/Mercury Quality Center/Test Director
• Assisted project manager with the creation of UAT plan covering Project Schedule, assignment of tasks, Risk management Plan and Test Strategy
• Customized financial data reports for managers. Performed data analysis and statistical auditing
• Conducted interviews with key business users, and Surveys and Brainstorming sessions with SMEs to collect requirements and business process information
• Generating weekly and daily reports and exporting to Excel and Access
• Used MS Office extensively (Word, Excel, MS Access Visio, Power Point, Outlook, Project) for calculations, analysis, presentation and documentation throughout the projects
• Acted as liaison between the Business Team and the SQA team during all phases of UAT process.
• Conducted Business Requirements walkthrough with the business owners as well as the Technical Stake holders
• Provided second-level support for Full Suite Application.
• Responsible for tracking of trouble tickets and resolution of escalated incidents.
• Works on cross-functional teams to proactively address support issues.
• Created and maintained documentation for Full Suite application.

Environment: SQL Server, Excel, MS-Office, MS Project Server, HP ALM, Sharepoint2013, PeopleSoft, Inquiry Framework.