SUMMARY

• Dynamic, results - driven, certified Scrum Master with more than 6+ years of Agile experience providing extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
• Team- driven, committed Agile expert with an expertise in developing high performing Co-located, Distributed, and Off-shore teams.
• Reviewing and documenting detailed business/technical requirements, providing full project lifecycle estimates, planning, and end to end project responsibility.
• Sought for superb analytical skills, out-of-the-box thinker who champions innovative technical solutions to address complex client needs and related business problems, ensuring superior outcomes.
• Sought for cross-functional expertise and superb communicator who builds productive stakeholder relationships while leading diverse teams to exceed all performance expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JIRA
• RTC
• XP
• SAFe
• RALLY
• Kaban
• Scrumban
• Confluence
• Software Development Lifecycle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Excellent facilitation techniques used to conduct the Agile Scrum ceremonies; Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives with team collaboration without coercion.
• Identifying and removing organization, team, and project impediments, or assisting team in doing so to allow team to enhance team productivity, achieve sprint goals and/or PI objectives.
• Manage and track risks and dependencies to help ensure value delivery, and drive relentless improvement .
• Guides the team to properly articulate and determine Acceptance Criteria as well as satisfactory conditions to determine READY and DONE stories.
• Collaborates closely with Product Owner on Backlog Grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, per the business value ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Able to facilitate the effective breakdown of epics into user stories, to attain high levels of sprint velocity within corporate constraints, to plan and execute against sprint roadmaps.
• Provide project team and organizational leadership by efficiently managing with local and distributed teams to track sprint stories and align road map to project tasks.
• Provide as need support to the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to include Product Roadmap Reviews, facilitating Breakout sessions providing visibility & transparency, as well as harmonizing PI Goals.
• Implemented and facilitated Scrum of Scrums (S2) Sessions geared towards addressing and resolving Risks, impediments and dependencies amongst the different Teams within the ART.
• Work with JIRA to create Scrum and Kanban progress boards to track team progress and facilitate Team Daily Standups.
• Understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics including backlog tracking, burn down metrics, release forecasting, velocity, and task definition.
• Experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & advocating for modern agile software development and organizational practices.
• Coach teams, including Product Owner, and managers in understanding the concept and values of the Scrum framework as well following the empiricism of the process.
• Experience and expertise in multiple agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Lean, etc.); ability and flexibility to adapt approach to fit team and product environment.
• Create and maintain team happiness, and demonstrate effective techniques for building happy teams.
• Assertive but friendly with first class interpersonal skills and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
• Strong writing, verbal, and presentation skills; Proficient in Microsoft 365 Suite.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created use cases specifications, use case diagrams, swim lane diagrams to define the workflow and segregate high-level and low-level requirements using MS Viso.
• Created use cases specifications, use case diagrams, swim lane diagrams to define the workflow and segregate high-level and low-level requirements using MS Viso.
• Responsible for defining business requirement using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.
• Wrote defect report, test plan and test execution. Performed Data validation running SQL against new data source- Teradata, integration and UAT testing.
• Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan.
• Developed SCRUM reports and artifacts to include User Stories, Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes.
• Planned and executed the product road map and ensured the overall Product vision delivery.
• Worked with data analysts to tackle technical challenges associated with building fast and interactive visualizations on large datasets.
• Worked with data analysts to tackle technical challenges associated with building fast and interactive visualizations on large datasets.
• Actively participated in scrum ceremonies, especially the product backlog refinement, sprint planning, and sprint acceptance ceremonies.
• Exemplified passion for analyzing complex datasets and converting them into information, which drives decisions.
• Adheres to compliance, operation of proper internal controls, and Company and departmental policies.
• Learns, develops, selects and effectively utilizes methodologies, tools, and processes to address business area issues and focus on continuous improvement efforts.
• Defines requirements and prioritized requirements; getting feedback and approval on requirements.