SUMMARY

• Highly motivated professional with overall 18+ years of experience in the fields of IT.
• Expertise in driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self - management, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective in Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Engages with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders and delivery team to understand Business needs and work with the to identify appropriate solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and development practices ranging from traditional to Agile. Experience working at an organization going through an Agile transformation
• Capable of delivering large-scale software development projects on time by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading cross-functional teams.
• Worked with multiple Partners/Vendor acquisition channels for Confidential product initiatives and technical impact analysis
• Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints/iterations across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties
• Experience supporting Software implementations, enhancements, migrations and functioning as a liaison between stakeholders and IT development team.
• Excellent Communication, problem solving, critical thinking, conflict resolution, facilitation and documentation skills.
• A proactive and dedicated team player, with proven track record in producing high quality work under tight deadlines to meet business goals. Experience in negotiation and co-ordination with Developers, Application Architects, Subject Matter Experts, Business Users and Senior Executives.
• Drafting and finalizing project plans to ensure on budget, on scope and on time deliveries.
• Actively involved in conducting Quality Audit across the Confidential projects to maintain and improve the quality of software product and project deliverables.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies - product backlog grooming/refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, Retrospective.
• Led teams across technical and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked. progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Work with product owner to groom the user stories stacked in product backlog and prioritize them before the next sprint begins.
• Preparing the implementation plan and driving the release process by coordinating with other Scrum teams, front end and back end application teams.
• Work with release testing team and ensure all the functionalities are thoroughly tested and met business need.
• Identify gaps in business requirements and document those issues.
• Coached the development team in self-organizing and cross-functionality.
• Ensuring the scrum principles are followed in the team.
• Track team velocity and Sprint progress using Sprint burn down chart and Release burn down chart.
• Perform risk analysis and document assumptions.
• Worked at the portfolio level activities while aligning the priorities and analyzing the scope and schedule impacts/dependencies for other project/scrum teams.
• Identify the improvement areas and help team members to upskill themselves. Provide required guidance, training and time to team members without impacting the Project progress.
• Successfully assisted the development and testing teams in adoption of SCRUM as a process skeleton, so as to enable team deliver higher quality, higher value software faster thus, improving time to market.
• Instrumental in resolving the bottlenecks which hinder project progress by coordinating with appropriate stakeholders.
• Identify gaps in business requirements and document those issues.
• Worked with QA team in identifying Automation test suit, test data needs.
• SQL Queried to verify Test Case results. Randomly executed test scripts developed by Quality Analyst team to check main functionality of application.

Tools: & Technology: Agile-Scrum, Salesforce, Mainframe, Informatica, Java, SQL, Confluence, MS Office, Rally, JIRA, SharePoint.

Scrum Master

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Helps build high performing teams, build shippable product, and responsible for leading Agile project coordination to support various upstream and downstream teams.
• As a scrum master, diligently applied Scrum principles and best practices by employing agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Ensure Agile Ceremonies are followed including Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives with regular cadence.
• Responsible for creating Agile dashboard and metrics to report and manage health as well as providing routine communication and updates to senior leadership and management
• Participate and present the team on ART program level meetings, RCAs, production issues & deliveries
• Work with teams/SMs across train to identify and remove impediments, using agile practices actively monitor risks, escalate issues or concerns when appropriate to ensure business and project objectives are met
• Provide daily support to scrum team and train, support teams in Agile practices and principles. Promote positive team dynamics and good communication.
• Work with the team to create release plan/timelines, developing future milestones and deliverables based on the backlog prioritization and work items

Tools: & Technology: Agile-Scrum, SQL, JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, MS-Teams

Scrum Master

Confidential - Phoenix

Responsibilities:

• Planning and conducting the kickoff meeting with the Technology and Business teams and senior management team.
• Works in partnership with Product Owners, core and extended team to create and prioritize the product backlog.
• Escalate impediments, manages risks, dependencies and resourcing needs along with team engagements.
• Facilitate discussions to identify alternative or different approaches to solve problems, break down barriers and drive resolution of conflicts to ensure productivity of the team.
• Helping the team with agile methodologies and ensure they are understanding the definition of done, creation of tasks under each user stories and burning them on daily basis.
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, the backlog refinement meeting and the sprint planning meeting, daily standup, sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Managing scope, scheduling and budgeting.
• Coached and motivated the team to be self-organizing while enforcing best engineering practices thus, improving time to market and reduced defect count.
• Tracked team velocity and Sprint progress using Sprint burn down chart and Release burn down chart and conducted time boxed Daily Scrum meeting and resolved impediments.
• Maintain Project artifacts and team deliverables, tracking Features/user stories in Rally.
• Helping team to create clear and concise Features/stories along with Acceptance criteria & Assumptions.
• Work closely with Application architects, Tech leads and Business owners to determine cost effective, feasible and Business value driven solutions.
• Work on the sizing, estimation, change request, creating financial report and schedule status review meetings with leadership.
• Detailed documentation for Project Charter, identify impacts, process/data flowing, business & functional requirements, project plans & schedules, issues log, risk analysis, and Status reporting.
• Monitoring & Defect Management using Rally.

Tools: & Technology: Agile-Scrum, Java, Oracle, MS Visio, Use case, Confluence, MS Office, Rally, JIRA

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enable team to self-organize, self-manage & deliver via Lean-Agile practices
• Lead/facilitate agile scrum ceremonies including Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint reviews/demo, Retrospectives with regular cadence.
• Facilitate team progress toward daily team and iteration goals in support of Program objectives
• Ensure Definition of Done (DoD) is met for assigned Features & Stories
• Ability to identify and avoid or remove impediments using agile practices, actively monitoring risks, escalate issues or concerns when appropriate to ensure business and project objectives are met
• Foster collaboration and transparence between teams, internal and external to the ART
• Facilitate the discussions of complex, high value delivery projects that require the coordination of development work or technology work on multiple platforms to achieve desired functionality.
• Support Product Owner with backlog management and with intra-team dynamics with prioritization and scope
• Provide daily support to scrum teams and train to resolve dependencies across the teams.
• Ensure team data with JIRA is accurate and follows the program standards established
• Utilize project coordination expertise and tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Mural-white boards, MS-Teams, and MS-Project to support upstream and downstream teams throughout the process
• Track and produce key metrics (e.g., burndown, burnup across iterations, velocity/CVC chart, CFDs etc.)
• Support estimation guidelines established by the program and guide the team in estimation practices
• Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events/activities including Scrum of Scrums, PI (Sprint) Planning Events, System Demos and Inspect & Adapt.

Tools: & Technology: Agile-Scrum, JIRA, MS Office, MS-Teams