SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology
• Experienced in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile Lifecycle Methodologies
• Proficient in Agile frameworks and tools such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, Version One and Rally
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Mentored and coached the team in agile & scrum best practices
• Experienced in all aspects of SDLC, such as Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Quality Control and documenting end summary reports
• Experienced in authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD) by gathering Business Requirements and Expectations from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and defining business processes, identifying risks, performing Gap Analysis, feasibility and impact analysis, use case diagrams, elevated level and detailed process flow diagrams
• Proficient in Quality Assurance Life Cycle like developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts
• Excellent interpersonal dexterity with proven ability to converse, liaise, negotiate and relate with a wide range of personalities from diverse backgrounds

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Championed scrum adoption, by evangelizing its benefits and successfully applying it to 2 high priority projects related to Team involved with Inventory solutions for the company
• Work in collaboration with PO to build requirement logs (product backlog) with cost estimates, prioritize user stories and determine the Acceptance Criteria for the different sprints
• Conducted Scrum Daily standup, Sprint backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Captured and analyzed and Published metrics on regular basis to facilitate team improvementsand keeping stakeholders well informed with progress, timelines and blockers if any
• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis by facilitating dev huddle, team collaborations and inviting impacted team members and giving them safe environment to initiate and traverse through the problem
• Introduced and encouraged team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery
• Facilitated ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management within and outside the team as applicable.
• Coached Product Owner and mentored to get a goal based product backlog along with the understanding of the scope and priority of the Story
• Facilitated and actively participated in SoS meetings to make sure the goals of the sprint are achieved and is in alignment to other impacted or dependent teams
• Crafted the install plan for launching of ART’s for the responsible 2 team in alignment to other team’s delivery after discussion with PO, release engineer and Dev ops team
• Facilitated meetings and huddle required to eliminate any issues or concerns met during the product demo and delivery
• Acted as a bridge between the stakeholders, Product owner and Dev team during PI planning meeting to come up with product backlog with priority based story cards in it, making sure the scope and risk involved are clearly communicated and understood by the different parties involved
• Mentored Dev team to understand the scope and goals of the lined - up sprint for consideration during the PI planning Meets and how it fits up in with other dependent teams involved
• Taught and encouraged a balanced backlog within different streams that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the Project to improve communications between Engineering, Product Management and Business groups by conducting and facilitating scrum ceremonies and meeting as needed.
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 4 agile teams within the project
• Led team to develop a ‘One Project - One Team’ mindset, breaking department silos and improving team collaboration by keeping track of the dashboard which represented features impacting different group and giving presentations of same to the impacted group
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies, from Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Sprint Review, retrospective and Release Planning, meetings both onshore/offshore
• Worked as a subject Matter expert for product, tools and processes used within the team
• Constantly worked with team to identify, remove and escalate impediments daily while staying focused on achieving sprint goals and deliverables
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Instructed and mentored core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency to team members through backlog, sprint planning and huddle meetings
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team and standards, tools and best practices reducing time by 35%

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Authored Business Requirement Documents (BRD) by gathering Business Requirements and Expectations from Business group and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Assisted in entering and updating issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto Version one for development teams to break down large and complex user stories in to simplified version for execution
• Acted as a bridge between Stakeholders, Business Team, Development Team and DB/Environment team to resolve any issues regarding the data load, run, Test data, Execution, defect triage call and testing timelines as a part of Delivery group
• Trained the end users group and documented the functional instruction and user guidelines for the same application
• Responsible for handling RFQ, WAB preparation, Estimation, Impact analysis for CR, Test Plan Preparation, Test Requirements Analysis
• Authored progress and completion reports, which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis. Worked closely with management to keep track of the status of project
• Reviewed requirements and its traceability with test cases, Test Execution, Defects, and Dashboard reporting, Defect Management, Defect Analysis and prevention
• Created Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test Data and validated back-end data using SQL
• Well versed with ETL testing using Informatica Power center and data validations
• Implemented risk based testing delivered defect free product in 30% of the original time estimation
• Conducted UAT and regression testing, prepared process flows, reports and presentations to outline key analysis conclusions