SUMMARY

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of various well - documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Knowledge of Agile approaches: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Crystal, etc.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Applicable knowledge of software engineering requirements development, software development and testing.
• Knowledge of Object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience using Rally, Jira, Confluence and Version One.
• Experience working in CMMI Level 3 or higher environment
• Experience working with CI/CD Pipeline to deliver bug free code at high velocity
• Experience in Financial Services Domain, Healthcare Payer Domain, Health Insurance Domain, Manufacturing Domain.
• Able to work in a team environment and proficient in MS Office applications, including Word and Excel.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize and multitask

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAFe Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software.
• Initiate and facilitate Agile and Scrum ceremonies comprising of: Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily stand Up, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review, and Sprint report.
• Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective. Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.
• Coordinate activities, proactive in resolving issues, managing risks, identifying opportunities and implementing them.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Held Pre-grooming sessions with the Product Owner to prioritize Product Backlog.
• Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team - allowing them to self-organize.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
• Understand and can articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them.
• Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
• Coach and support the Product Owner in maintaining a healthy backlog via backlog refinement and guide the team to complete Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Introduce and coach the team, experienced in waterfall, new to Scrum Framework and Agile practices of delivering iteratively

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software.
• Attend SoS (Scrum of Scrums) meeting across various project team and maintain transparency for infrastructure dependencies and have break out session if needed for work.
• Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective. Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Track progress and Performance Indications using scrum metrics like Visual Studio, Burndown Charts, velocity, Release progress and so on.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
• Understand and can articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them.
• Work as a strong servant leader able to lead and work with multiple diverse personalities.
• Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
• Help teams remove Roadblocks and Impediments, Risks and Backlog grooming.
• Facilitate and deployed Agile training to development teams through coaching and mentoring.
• Collaborate diligently with stakeholders and technical team to identify, document detailed requirements and process flows
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
• Track and report progress to key stakeholders via Release/Sprint Burndown, velocity target updates, schedules, risks, dependencies and other activities.