SUMMARY

• Over 14+Years of experience in IT Industry with Expertise in Delivering, Leading and Managing Applications across AWS, Mobile, Cloud, Web, Platforms and Firmware.
• Certified Scrum Master with more than 5 years of experience in Coaching and Facilitating Scrum Practices to teams in End - to-End Software Development life cycle using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Developing matured teams by continual motivation towards Being Agile than Just Doing Agile.
• Experienced in Planning, Refinement/ Grooming, Demo, Iterative work cycles, Story writing (Do, Done), Sizing, Weighting, Tracking Sprint Velocity, Documenting and Maintain Project Artifacts (Backlogs and Burndown).
• Actively participate in Retrospective and negotiating Review Meeting.
• Highly skilled and successful in coaching, mentoring and leading technical projects and leadership teams in adopting Agile / Scrum, Kanban, and Agile best practices with strong business results.
• Expert in handling time boxed Daily Scrum meetings with brisk and relevant discussions.
• Handling multiple teams and Projects, Onsite - Offshore teams.
• Handling multiple releases and Platforms across futures.
• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies, Demos and Scrum of Scrums.
• Making sure each Sprint starts with will versed Grooming with agreed weight for each story committed.
• Prepare and update Sprint Backlog, Update Product Backlog, Prioritize Backlog items in align with Business requirements.
• Follow-up on the Implementation Items’ and Storys’ as and when required.
• Coordinate with Multiple Teams for End Product Result.
• Experience in Products, Firm-wares, Application Certifications and End to End Validation.
• Interact with developers to resolve problems and managing the process.
• Experience in leading Larger Teams with ease.
• Update Customers & Stake Holders on deliverables and Progress.
• Daily Report Generations, Product Validation Updates and Trainings required.
• Good in communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Adaptive and able to perform as individual and as Team.
• Maintaining Project and Individual Team Inventory.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

IOT Devices: Pool Systems (AWS & Cloud Implementation)

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Zephyr, QC, Mantis, Bugzilla, I Source, Direct CR, CRMDB….

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Expert in handling time boxed Daily Scrum meetings with brisk and relevant discussions.
• Helping the Team in Staying Focused, acting as a Buffer between External distractions.
• Making sure team maintains all the Scrum tools healthy (Story Board, Action Board, Charts, Backlogs, etc.)
• Motivate Team towards Collaborative approach in Sprint Planning.
• Facilitate sprint planning in order to ensure that the discussion is effective and that there is agreement to the sprint goal and that the appropriate product backlog items are included in the sprint backlog.
• As a Scrum Master present to the stakeholders what as a collaborate team has been achieved in the Sprint.
• Encourage teams in actively contribute for and adaption of the team activities in sprint retrospective meetings and Take suggestions on what can be done Better as a Team.
• Expert in evaluating User Stories from epics and refining Backlog list with Business owner and Product management.
• Worked with the Product owners and other Leads to ensure a successful flow of information into the team and shippable increments Delivered.
• Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.
• Helping the PO to Write & Split User Stories with the Team for the ease of work.
• Plan along with PO in Ordering the Backlog Items. Product and Store Release Planning.
• Expert in using various techniques to refine the product backlog with Business value and Effort estimates by facilitating product refinement meetings
• Highly experienced in tracking and communicating sprint progress through various metrics like burn-down charts.
• Report Manage and Communicate the Status to PO, Stake Holders & Directors on Multiple Project lines across Geography’s.
• Facilitate & Monitor the Teams closely for impediments.
• Track User Story Updates on timely manner.
• Motivate team to deliver by setting clear expectations on objectives and timelines.
• Good Understanding of Organizational Business, Firmware and Integrated Goals.
• Work allocation and maintenance across Offshore and Onshore teams.
• Acting as a Bridge between Dev, Product, Platform, Firmware and QA Teams.
• Regulating the Issues and floating it to the right team.

Confidential

Technical Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Protect scrum team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project timelines.
• Engaged in agile program management and create product concepts based on the company strategy to align with various scrum teams.
• Breaking down the concepts into Epics and into User Stories.
• Streamline daily delegation of incoming issues using tracking system for the scrum team.
• Work closely with Product Owner in Backlog Management and continuous delivery of business value releases across projects.
• Actively contributed and engaged the team throughout the scrum/agile process in daily standups, product backlog refinements, Sprint planning, Sprint review and Sprint Retrospective sessions.
• Resolved impediments/roadblocks to re-create the focus on accomplishing the Sprint Goals.
• Conducted retrospective meetings to inspect the team’s performance and adapt new changes.
• Negotiating with Product Owner in backlog management for each Sprint.
• Reminding the Team of their Arguments and Conflicts, towards agreed resolutions .
• Work a Long side with PO & Stake Holders on the CR’s for the Ongoing Products.
• Conducting the Triage Meeting hours and monitoring data for both Dev and Production.
• Taking a call on Fix now or later Issues and Change Requests.
• Managing Live Stream and Data Validation Teams across Multiple Platforms and Locations.
• Owner for all Production Issues flow across Pre-Prod, Dev and QA Environments.
• Finalizing the Production Issues with the appropriate resolutions and Prioritize for Delivery.
• Creating Client facing reports and User guides for Store analyses.
• Conducting cross Functional Scrum Sessions.
• Helping the PO & other Stake Holders on the Release Planning and Store Release Schedules.
• Encouraging the user of Agile Engineering Practices within the Development Teams.
• Bringing together different Platform leads together and keeping in touch with the Stake holders regularly.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Story Mapping and Story Boarding session to elicit high level features and goals from the Product owners.
• Developing User Stories and Grooming them with Product Owners throughout the agile lifecycle.
• Facilitating Product backlog Grooming sessions for creating well developed User Stories with user acceptance criteria and mockups if required for developing a Good Product backlog.
• L ead in g Testing Team s (On/Offshore and Clients), Wh ic h In c lud e w o r k allocations b as ed o n iteration bu ild s, User Story’s, Accessibility Testing and Target Products.
• Man ag e v ariou s artifacts l ik e Test P lan, Test Cases, Result Analysis and Reports .
• Man ag e all th e Resou rc es, Estim ation s & P lann in g o f QA- Tea m .
• Conducting daily Scrum - QA Teams.

Confidential

Software Test Lead (COE)

Responsibilities:

• Leading Testing Teams, Which Include daily work allocations based on daily builds, Work areas and Products.
• Man ag e v ariou s artifac ts ’l ik e Test P lan, Test Cases, Result Analysis and Reports .
• Man ag e all th e Resou rc es, Estim ation s & P lann in g o f QA- Tea m .
• Requirements gathering and Test case Creating.
• Planning functional area testing based on target releases for Multiple Projects.
• Freezing Client requirements’ and CR’s.
• Prepare Traceability (Requirements vs Scenarios’ vs Test Coverage)