SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master, ITIL Certified& Microsoft Professional with experience in Wealth Management, Risk Management, Insurance, USA Mortgage, Corporate & Investment Banking & Finance.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM),6 yrs. of experience as a Scrum Master&implemented Scrum / Kanban in various projects.
• Good understanding of product owner, an expert in creating/prioritizing the product backlog, sprint planning, sprint team, sprint backlog, sprint review, sprint retrospective, daily scrum, test - driven development (TDD)& behavior-driven development (BDD).
• Embody servant leadership & partner with the development team & the Product Owner to drive the delivery of working software.
• Serve as a liaison between stakeholders the development team. Shared weekly-monthly status with the client, maintaining RAID register & escalating potential risk with mitigation plan, defined roadmap & release plan.
• Delivered projects in Scrum/Agile & Waterfall methodologieswith various roles as a Development&Release Manager, Project Manager, QA Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Lead& Mentor. Distributed project teams in on Onsite/Offshore model to meet timeline & budgetary targets.
• Executed& managedmulti-million-dollar projects using various technologies, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage & bottom-line gains.
• Committed with Senior Leadership, Business stakeholders in defining the business/account objectives & delivery roadmap.
• Proficient in using JIRA, Confluence&Azure DevOps (VSTS) & experience on version control tools Github, Azure DevOps (VSTS), SVN, Visual SourceSafe&TeamCity.
• Workeddirectly with client/product owner to translate requirements& acceptance criteriainto high quality, timely deliverables & produce clean, unit-tested& refactored code.
• Highly articulated, demonstrated excellent presentation, relationship building, continuous improvement, communication& interpersonal skills across all levels including management&employees.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Management: Scrum Master, Development& Release Management, Project Management, Servant Leadership, Strong Decision making, Complex Problem Solver, Conflict Resolution, Team Builder

Tracking Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Git, VSTS, Source Offsite, MS Visual SourceSafe (VSS), HP Quality Center, TortoiseSVN

Concepts: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, OOPS, UML, RUP, OOAD, Software Engineering

Technologies/ Languages: MS Project 2007/ 2003, MS Visio 2008, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, T - SQL, SQL, C, C++, Oracle, MS SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Service, HTML, NUnit

Others: Business Objects 4.0, FIX Protocol 4.1/ 4.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master / Delivery Head - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Executed Scrum Ceremonies - Release Planning, Sprint Planning,User Stories Grooming, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos&adoption of best practices.
• Scheduled work& mentored team in self organization work items for development, providedguidance& resolved problems to meet technical performance & financial objectives
• Managed multiple cross functional scrum teams across different locations. Guiding &coaching the team to refine, estimate & plan work in the backlog & program increment
• Used key metrics like Burndown, Burnup, Velocity, productivity metricsin delivering committed work items, manage sprint backlog items & all Scrum boards, Sprint Scope
• Worked with product owner in finalizing/prioritizing product backlog to minimizes delays & manages dependencies,made ready for upcoming sprint.Actively contributing to the refinement of work in the backlog by analyzing requirements & acceptance criteria.
• Brought ideas from professional facilitation, conflict management,coaching&decision making to help the team become a high-performance& self-organized
• Defined& developed new product development processes & in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
• Project resource loading & communicatedpotential risks with mitigation plan, managedhealth of the team &was a single point of contact for the project
• Worked with Business Owner to define project scope & objectives & worked effectively with others to remove development team ’ s roadblocks
• Project involved usage of different agile methodologies like TDD and BDD to cover Test Driven & Behavior Driven development.
• Used Azure DevOps (VSTS) for Code repository, branching, release & build management activity.
• UsedJira extensively for Application Lifecycle Management / User Stories, Epics, Features, Task& Bugs tracking& Confluence for document management

Confidential

Scrum Master /Project Head - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• ImplementedScrum processes &conducted daily stand-up meetings, facilitate &schedule meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo,Sprint Retrospective & decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection
• Created Sprint Review report &Weekly status report, shared it with the product owner, sponsor.
• Extracted business requirement from Product Owner, came up with estimates (ROM) for deriving release roadmap.
• Managed multiple cross functional scrum teams across different locations. Guiding &coaching the team to refine, estimate & plan work in the backlog & program increment, removed impediments.
• Identifiedpotential risk & shared it with respective stakeholder & maintainedRAID register with mitigation plan, maintained sprint scope.
• Worked with product owner to finalize/prioritize theproduct backlogs, minimizes delays&manages dependencies& keep ready for the next sprint. Actively contributing to the refinement of work in the backlog by analyzing requirements & acceptance criteria
• Agile methodologies like TDD & BDD were used to cover Test Driven & Behavior Driven development in the project.
• Used Azure DevOps (VSTS) for Code repository, branching, release & build management activity.
• UsedJira extensively for Application Lifecycle Management / User Stories, Epics, Features, Task & Bugs tracking& Confluence for document management

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Project Head - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple projects:
• ARM Live - iPhone Application in native iOS & Website - C#, ASP.NET MVC 4.0, WCF REST Web Services, Macro ORM& MS SQL Server 2012, JIRA&Confluence
• Confidential Robot 2.0 - Crawler using Crawler4j, JAVA, EJB & Website - backend application using Java, Spring MVC, MySQL, JIRA&Confluence
• Confidential Monitor 3.0 (Defect Fixing & Database Migration): Drupal, PHP, MySQL, JIRA& Confluence
• AAWS-UI: .NET MVC & MS SQL Server 2012, JIRA, Confluence
• Implemented Scrum process &conducted daily stand-up meetings, facilitate &schedule meetings, Sprint demo, Sprint Retrospective & decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection
• Involved in requirement analysis, application architecting, development, QA& delivery of all applications
• Managed project plans & established project/delivery milestones & progress tracking, managing the allocation of work & resources planning & balancing
• Constantly interacted with the client to ensure that requirements were met in product delivery.
• Managed customer relations including the development of training programs & liaison with managerial echelon within our customer base

Confidential, Chicago, IL.

QA Head - Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Engaged with QA Director, Product Owners& Program Manager at Confidential for strategic planning & execution, organizational leadership, budgeting & estimation, operations management, interdepartmental collaboration, time management, team management & development, policies & procedures compliance, mentoring& quality orientation
• Prepared project management reports & ensured the quality of project work conform to the specifications & requirements, maintained records of conformity with product quality requirements& processes & standards
• Designed&implemented project plans, established project & delivery milestones, including production release.
• ManagedQA efforts, capacity planning, estimation, resource allocation for system testing, functionality coverage, data validation, regression test management.
• Identified& assessedpotential risks, constraints & implementation of mitigation plans
• Collected measurements-metrics &performance monitoring, setting goals, scheduling training programs, recruiting team, talent management& project assignments
• Interacted with client ’ s infrastructure team in configuring & creating QA & Build Servers for QA & Build - Deployment team