SUMMARY

• Excels at project time planning and iterative development.
• Talented Scrum professional specializing in leading high - performing and multi-disciplinary teams from product development through successful product launches. Accustomed to managing multiple teams and priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Work with the Development Team and Product Owner to maintain the Product Backlog and facilitate transparency to reduce risks and mitigate loss.
• Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution and consensus among the team members and dependent teams.
• Embrace a servant-leader role across scrum teams and support them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies, internal to the team as well as external, dealing with cross-functional teams as appropriate.
• Coordinate Scrum Events, and make sure that all parties adhere to the time frame.
• Used Jira and Rally for tracking and managing multiple projects.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily meetings, reviews and demos, retrospectives and release meetings

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scripting Languages: JAVA, PERL, CSS, SQL, PL/SQL, and JavaScript.

Mark Up Languages: XML, HTML, DHTML, XHTML.

Technologies: JAVA, J2EE (Servlets, JSP).

RDBMS: Oracle 10G, SQL Server 7, My SQL, MS Access7.0

Servers: IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, IIS.

Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 2003/XP/2000, RHEL6, UNIX.

Version Control Tools: TS version control, Visual Source Safe.

Project Management Tools: Version one, Rally, Jira, MS Project 2010, MS Excel, and Power Point.

Other Tools: Adobe Omniture Site Catalyst, Jenkins, Bugzilla, GIT & GitHub, Translation tools such as SDL, Content Management Systems Such as Team site, Open Deploy, LSCS, LSDS, HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate program increment (Pi) planning readiness, training, inspect and adapt, facilitation support, retrospective etc
• Work with development team and product owner to maintain the backlog and facilitate transparency to reduce risk and mitigate loss
• Set up workshops two times a week to coach team about agile, get their views and also Empower the team to self-organize
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Co-ordinate scrum of scrum with other scrum masters to give team update and discuss team impediment
• Manage scrum board and Kanban board (physical & virtual)
• Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, and monthly metrics for leadership review.
• Co-ordinate multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
• Enable process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
• Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
• Transformation of team from waterfall environment into Agile methodology, conduct Daily Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
• Help team inspect and adapt process.
• Communicate timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to Development team.
• Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
• Proactive identification & escalation of risks to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder appreciated for managing and contributing to project from different angles - Process

Confidential, Naperville, IL

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos
• Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress
• Empower the team to self-organize
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives
• Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals.
• Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, and monthly metrics for leadership review.
• Co-ordinate multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
• Enable process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
• Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
• Coach team into agile adoption.
• Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
• Help team inspect and adapt process.
• Communicate timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to Development team.
• Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
• Proactive identification & escalation of risks to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder appreciated for managing and contributing to project from different angles - Process

Confidential, Westmont, IL

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.
• Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.
• Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.
• Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.
• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners priorities.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.
• Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.
• Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.
• Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles

Confidential, Nashville

Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies like grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Ensure team practice Agile and facilitate scrum ceremonies as a servant leader
• Introduced new retrospective approaches producing more participation and better team improvement.
• Maintain accurate source of project records for project approvals
• Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, monthly metrics for leadership review
• Trained new product owners in the concepts of velocity, grooming and providing adequate acceptance criteria for the delivery team.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage and prioritized backlog
• Customizing the product, create mapping document, coordination for integration testing and follow up.
• Experience estimating, identifying projects risks, constraints and dependencies, root cause analysis, impact analysis, conflict management and managing improvement initiatives from inception to completion.
• Managed end user needs at all phases of systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.
• Developed User Stories for a new rollout and for some of the minor enhancements.
• Analyzed the business and user needs, documenting requirements and revising existing system logic difficulties.
• Partnered with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit business requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, client relations, presentation and negotiations with creative
• Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with all levels of User Groups.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business and functional requirements and technical specifications of the application.
• Assisted in writing test plans, with detailed testing scope, automation strategy, hi-level test requirements and necessary resources.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Tested (that includes unit, integrated, regression) .NET application which uses Microsoft Visual Studio under the Agile Methodology.
• Worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems.
• Organized and managed user requests and bug review meetings.
• Created, developed and executed test cases and test scripts manually and using automation tools.
• Used QTP to provide automated testing for the current application, Involved in testing of GUI by inserting checkpoints in QTP scripts for single or multiple objects and text, wrote test cases and automated test scripts for the Functional testing.
• Participated in implementation of patches and other code fixes with Production Support, Change Management and IT Operations.
• Provided clear concise feedback to development team on recurring errors both on an individual and team basis with aim of long-term reduction of defects found in final release.