SUMMARY

• 6+ experience as a Scrum Master with experience as a Business Analyst with a solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Trading, Translating Requirements into Specifications, Application Design. .
• A Certified Scrum Master with strong business analysis skills and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) utilizing Agile methodology, Hybrid Waterfall - Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall.
• Adept in facilitating Scrum Ceremonies such as Daily Stand up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming Events.
• Proficient in Capacity Planning, Issue tracking and resolution, Cost estimating, Scheduling, Scope management, Prioritization and handling team dynamics.
• Experienced in Managing BI Projects and multiple life cycles from Requirements gathering to Go Live
• Supported finance team and business units in analyzing revenue drivers, customer forecasting/ planning, special projects, financial reporting, product P&L reporting, and ad hoc analyses .
• Expertise in Project Management i.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.
• Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.
• Collaborated with clients in planning and coordinating multiple projects to include: analyst relations campaigns, product development roadmaps, go-to-market product strategy, and IT investment and portfolio management.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills, technically sound, Result-Oriented with strong Problem solving skills, Innovative & efficient, Capable of working as a Team Member or Individually with minimum supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux.

Databases: MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, DB2Utility Tools Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project Professional, ProjectAssistant, Visio Professional, GoToMeetings, JIRA, Webex.

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reports (SSRS )

Data warehousing Tools, : Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy, Erwin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and facilitated agile ceremonies, daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo & Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Created self-organizing and high-performance teams that execute their tasks, manage their processes, and monitor progress.
• Helped team to overcome impediments as a top priority and ensure relevant team members meet to overcome impediments before doing regular work.
• Coached team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Facilitated the removal of impediments for the team by targeting the issue internally in the team or escalating to the right company personnel.
• Communicated risks, issues, dependencies and program increment status in Scrum of Scrums.
• Along with the product owner, prioritized product backlog items
• Groom user stories on JIRA with product owner.
• Effective communication with my team to make sure they always have what is needed to get us a successful sprint.
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership approach whenever possible, and developed team building events
• Protected team from outside distraction and interference.
• Used Agile SDLC model to deliver products in increments.
• Increased the team's productivity by facilitating Three amigos meetings
• Assisted in Defect tracking.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with a team of 5 developers and 2 QA analysts..
• Coached and mentored team members in agile methodology.
• Used JIRA to create the user stories.
• Assisted Product Owner in clarifying the scope of the stories.
• Troubleshoot and provide support related to the technical issues on the reporting tool
• Facilitated the daily stand-up to get an update on the progress of the sprints from developers and QA analysts.
• Worked with IT resource to come up with estimates and created the project plan based on the feedback
• Accountable for project delivery by keeping project sponsors and stakeholders aware of project status.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analysed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with technical lead.
• Removed impediments for the development team.
• Work with Scrum Masters from different team to work on the dependency that our team had.
• Facilitate status meetings with leads, program staff, customer, business team, and Leadership team.
• Facilitated JAD Sessions and gathered Business Requirements
• Facilitated the scrum ceremonies.
• Created Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirements documents.
• Created the mapping document from source to Data Warehouse reporting schema.
• Worked on designing the Universe and Webi Reports for reporting.
• Facilitated the UAT sessions with different business users.
• Developed Webi Reports based on the user requirements.
• Performing and supporting QA when needed.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project life cycle.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered Requirements, analysed the requirements.
• Conducted interviews with end-users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Performed extensive Requirement Analysis including data analysis and gap analysis.
• Conducted review sessions on regular basis with QA and development teams for preparing status, delivery report and client reporting.