SUMMARY

• Certified Professional Scrum Master A scrum master is the facilitator for an Agile development team; I am responsible for managing the exchange of information between team members. Scrum is a methodology that allows a team to self - organize and make changes quickly, in accordance with Agile principles.
• Team-driven Scrum Master knowledgeable in task prioritization, risk management, and workflow optimization. Committed Agile expert with over 5 years.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java, Oracle, Windows, Linux, Oracle, Quality Center, HP Quick Test
• Agile, Process Improvement
• Automate, Progress
• Automation, Project Management
• CMM, Quality
• Case tool, Quality Assurance
• Continuous Improvement, Scheduling
• Customer satisfaction, Scrum
• Delivery, Scripts
• Documentation, Stories
• Features, Strategic Planning
• Functional
• GUI
• Java
• Team building
• Linux
• Mainframe
• Meetings
• PowerPoint
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Visio
• MS Word
• Multi-Tasking
• Jira
• AWS
• Scrum processes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.
• Use 100% Jira for all Scrum work .
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.
• Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.
• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
• Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.
• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.
• Capture & clarification of business requirements through a range of analysis techniques (data flow diagrams, sequence diagram, case tool analysis, gap analysis and work & process flow diagrams).
• Involved in creating Business, Functional, Technical Requirements by working with all the stake holders - Business team, Architects and Development team members at onsite & offshore.
• Involved in conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements sessions with stakeholders and able to articulate and create the requirements in User Story format.
• Worked with stakeholders, Product Owner for effectively scoping/user stories.
• Worked on creating business, functional, use cases, technical requirements artifacts.
• Involved in understanding business problems and transformed these into EPICs/Feature and User Stories.
• Involved in creating User Stories, prioritization, iteration / Sprint planning, Release planning, Scrum Retrospective by working with Scrum Master and Project Manager.
• Worked with Technical teams to identify options to meet business requirements.

TOOLS:, METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS: Agile, Jira, Gitlab, Github, MS Word, Confluence, Power Point, Wiki.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Run scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, demos, grooming, retrospectives, and planning).
• Empower the team to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs.
• Enable the scrum team to meet sprint goals by understanding and removing any impediments.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Coordinate and manage code releases.
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress, resource availability.
• Teach the team to create clear and concise epics/user stories.
• Create project timeline and budget estimation based on stakeholder's inputs.
• Prepare monthly project status reports for Steering Committee meetings.
• Coach junior BSA for requirement gathering and documentation.
• Document Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for different system features.
• Contribute to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management.
• Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Train new team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.
• Participate in iteration planning to create acceptance criteria and tests that define "done" for developed features.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop.
• Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Analyzed, prioritized and managed the requirements using Jama Contour.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Product team, SME for open and pending issues and participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements.
• Acted as a liaison between technical team and business team to accomplish application enhancement and production.

QA Tester/ Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Utilize abilities and skills of individuals and foster a feedback culture to support team building and development.
• Provide effective defect tracking and management to ensure highest quality software.
• Design and implement test suites that exercise and validate product functionality in the most efficient way.
• Provide test scenarios and feature files with detailed steps for automation to enhance testing efficiency.
• Proactively collaborated with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches across the organization.
• Responsible for UAT project planning like creating testing scenario, test plans, and test scripts.
• Handle the tasks of explaining UAT scope, criteria and entry/exit strategy to less train.
• Designed the efficient manual test cases based on analysis of Business Requirement documents, Functional Specs, Technical design documents, Use Cases, supporting documents.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure all conditions are covered in the Test Cases.
• Responsible for performing Functional testing, Regression testing and Sanity testing.
• Created and executed both load and functional tests for Web Services using Soapui.
• Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for each build for User acceptance testing.