SUMMARY

• Over 8 Years of experience in Financial, Insurance, E - commerce Domain working on cross functional teams/groups in a deadline-driven project-oriented environment.
• Expertise with all the phases of SDLC System Development Life Cycle right from Requirements gathering and business case development to implementation/rollout with understanding or Agile and other Methodologies.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, Sprint Demos and stakeholder meetings.
• Strong knowledge of Test-Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development
• Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories
• Conducted Grooming Session with the product owner and gather stories and analyze stories and assign points to the stories for the development team.
• Coach the development team to write a good story with details Descriptions, Acceptance criteria, Sub-task and Definition of Done.
• Strong knowledge of source code repository administration (GIT), build setup and administration (Jenkins and Jenkins Job DSL) and superior experience utilizing software build/configuration tools such as Make, Ant and Maven Designed and implemented different automation frameworks from scratch like Page Objects framework, Data Driven framework.
• Drive relentless improvement via inspect and adapt workshops; determine improvements to system capabilities and system delivery processes (hardware, software, architecture, automated deployment, training, etc)
• Involved in the Black Box Testing, Unit Testing, Integrated Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, UAT and hands on experience with the testing tools.
• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Coached development teams, Business Analysts, Testers, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Strong Problem-solving, and technical skills coupled with confident decision making for enabling effective solutions leading to high customer satisfaction and low operational costs.
• Mediating the general conflict of goals between the development team and product owner and acted as a servant leader.
• Manage dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially about items necessary for product release.
• Extremely well versed in performing User Acceptance Testing(UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis.
• Analyzed and reviewed various project module to provide traceability by creating testing artifacts, end-user support documentation and training materials.
• Ability to learn new concepts, technologies and methodologies rapidly with strong problem solving-skills.
• Ability to manage time and priorities effectively to allow for the timely completion of multiple tasks on concurrent project assignments.
• An efficient self-starter and quick learner with effective interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage time and priorities effectively to allow for the timely completion of multiple tasks on concurrent project assignments.
• Excellent Written and oral communication skills with ability to articulate requirements, process flows and relationships.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coached scrum teams in agile values and practices. Acted as facilitator / mediator between the teams and outside influence. Facilitated scrum events, removed impediment and kept team focused on the delivery of their commitments. Provided Agile Methodology training to new team members.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies for the team including discussions of complex, high value functionality.
• Influenced a cultural change by recommending an agile approach to deliver client needs
• Established a governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward an empowered team
• Collaborate with partners to transition the operating model to SAFe Implement processes, practices, and tools to enable multiple paths of delivery
• Guide the SAFe initiatives through coaching and mentoring
• Coach and mentor the organization to facilitate adoption and maturity
• Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business (encompassing everything from continuous improvement to new product and delivery innovation)
• Coached and mentored scrum teams to consistently achieve Sprint Goals
• Managed iterative product delivery on time and on budget within Agile/Scrum framework
• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies with teams: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Developed Product Roadmaps to manage expectations with Business Stakeholders
• Worked closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders to build consensus on ROI Ensured all project artifacts including user stories and business rules adhere to PMO standards
• Identified, resolved and managed project impediments, risks and issues
• Chaired regular Defect Resolution meetings to manage delivery of a defect free produce
• Ensured that all project artifacts up-to-date and organized in VersionOne
• Compiled, analyzed and visualized data to generate reports about Estimation Accuracy, Team Velocity, Burn down and Burn up Rate in VersionOne
• Utilized Trello to design a Kanban board for the team to track tasks and optimize the flow of work.
• Introduced a Retrospective tool that promotes continuous improvement which helped the team reflect on previous sprints and evolve throughout the hackathon.
• Coordinated with other Scrum Teams to ensure synchronized testing and rollout
• Formed close working relationship with DevOps team to facilitate smooth Integration and Delivery to QA and Production environments
• Maintained strong relationships with new hires and fostered collaboration between team member

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum meetings and team collaboration without coercion, assigning, or dictating work; remove impediments, or assist the team in doing so, in order to allow the team to achieve their sprint goals and/or PI objectives.
• Establish a trusting and safe team environment where problems can be addressed without blame or judgment with a focus on problem solving, and will foster a "learn by doing" environment
• Promoted continuous improvement by utilizing feedback from stakeholders and facilitating sprint retrospectives for the development team.
• Designed a scrum board for the team to track tasks and optimize the flow of work.
• Engaged stakeholders, team members and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations.
• Designed and Implemented information systems that optimized team efficiency through lean thinking process.
• Decoupled the system's domain model to help isolate the architecture layers and manage dependencies.
• Maintained responsibility for a regression test suite to ensure the continuity of business functions and system stability.
• Analyzed and implemented testing methods and equipment that aided to increase the team’s confidence in the system and highlighted the value stream.
• Strong leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Conducted the Scrum Teams for the finance basic and clarified the requirements by using Activity diagrams help visual how the system would work at each level.
• Provided required problem and Release burn down chart and Sprint burn down chart. Updated with the scrums Team until completion.
• Understanding of Data Models, Data Schema, ETL and created extensive store procedures, SQL queries to perform back end data warehousing testing.
• Coached scrum teams in agile values and practices. Acted as facilitator / mediator between the teams and outside influence. Facilitated scrum events, removed impediments, and kept team focused on the delivery of their commitments. Provided Agile methodology training to new team members.
• Track and prepare the reports of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, and required resources.
• Worked with enterprise sponsors and stakeholders to initiate and manage several medium and large projects.
• Analyzed project risk, Developed risk management plan and mitigated subsequent issues.
• Standardized policy and process documents related to Software Development Life Cycle SDLC project management.
• Worked with development teams in executing project and software development frameworks in Java, .Net and Oracle platforms.