SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with successful experience track of executing projects end - to-end, within the constraints of budget, time, program roadmap guidelines and facilities
• Around 3 years of experience working as scrum master, hands-on experience with Kanban, confluence and Jira
• Extensive experience in IT Project delivery in Large Financial Institutions, including Banks in the domains of Retail Banking, Online Banking, Credit Cards, Regulatory and Compliance, Risk, Capital Markets and Telecom
• Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach teams towards the Agile Mindset of self management, efficient development methodologies like pair-programming, healthy conflict resolutions, regular project tool updates like Jira and test methodologies
• Collaborate with Product Owner to create Product Vision, Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and product roadmaps, liaison with vendors, Project and Program Managers to ensure that dependencies are identified and addressed and to actively identify and scout for impediments and resolution strategies
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies like Iteration / Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Stand ups, Sprint Demos, Sprint Retrospectives
• Facilitate Product Backlog refinement, grooming and prioritization
• Experience managing cross functional teams
• Coach scrum team to reduce Technical debt and foster Continuous Improvement
• Provide Status reports, organize and chair Senior Management Team meetings (SMT) and Steering Executive Committee meetings, establish governance
• Continuous monitoring of project’s progress and risk posture / mitigation strategies
• Track and manage product backlog, burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown, organize scrum boards
• Resolve various project issues including staffing shortages, technical issues, environment issues, divergent business and user needs
• Articulate project goals and scope, translate business needs into technical terms, prepare PMF Artifacts, work streams and work breakdown structures
• Execute projects End to End, from idea creation to Launch of the projects and handover to operations using Agile (Scrum) / SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)/ PDLC (Project Management Life Cycle)/ Iterative Waterfall / V model Methodologies
• Expert in using project management tools and processes like MIS, Jira, Rally, MS Word, MS Excel, SharePoint, MS Project, and PowerPoint
• Strong project financials management in providing estimates, tracking costs and setting up project governance
• Strong Adaptive Inter-personal skills towards challenging work environment and teams
• Proficient in various software development methodologies like Iterative &Agile development (Scrum) methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate creation of product roadmap by liaising with various stakeholders like sponsors, SMEs and Product Owner and focus on MVP to consolidate trade transaction Reports.
• Facilitate product backlog sessions and product backlog refinement sessions.
• Set up Scrumban (Scrum / Kanban) boards and update Jira regularly
• Conduct Sprint planning, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint demos, daily stand ups, sprint release and deployment plan.
• Organize regular product increments and liaise with build automation teams
• Provide weekly status reports
• Organize development team to adhere to coding standards, update Jira, adhere to defect logging guidelines and defect management framework
• Remove Impediments, Facilitate meetings for collective decision making
• Promote in-person conversations over emails for effective communication

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Organize project team to focus on current MVP of French FTT and shield the team from external requests and distractions
• Organize lift-off sessions to increase awareness and incorporate standard lingo across the project team
• Conduct requirement gathering sessions to collect Features and user stories
• Conduct Refinement sessions for Backlog grooming and user stories refinement
• Functionalities Implemented include Validation of trades with GPF Acronym, PSEDIT Report, include Buy Trades and Sell Trade Transactions by placing trades using 5 different source systems over 3 business days (T+3) to verify, Verified Results documented in daily csv files, monthly csv files and other output files.
• Streamlined development and build environments and organized release increments
• Coach project team to interact effectively, self-create tasks for the stories planned for the current sprint, document acceptance criteria and keep tab on technical debt maintained project documents on SharePoint and tracked defects in HP ALM

Confidential

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate creation of RRCO and MFCO applications’ product roadmap by liaising with various stakeholders like sponsors, SMEs and Product Owner and focus on MVP to consolidate Risk applications
• Facilitate focussed Business Requirements of Data Migrations to collect features and user stories
• Set up Scrumban (Scrum / Kanban) boards and update Jira regularly
• Conduct Sprint planning, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint demos and daily stand ups
• Functionalities implemented include consolidation of RRCO and MFCO applications into a new application
• Organized regular product increments and liaise with build automation teams
• Provide weekly status reports
• Organize development team to adhere to coding standards, update Jira, adhere to defect logging guidelines and defect management framework
• Promote in-person conversations over emails for effective communication

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end delivery of the Enterprise FATCA Engine that stores FATCA Status results in MDM as part of the customer profile, publishing the results back to the local systems using Party360 file format contract
• Deliver functionality based on extensive use of ETL tools to extract data from five heterogeneous data sources, transform large datasets comprising of calculated FATCA status for over 30 LOBs, and load data into MDM Data Warehouse
• Facilitate extensive creation of features and user stories for FATCA Business Rules including all FATCA customer data elements including Potential US Indicia to be sent to MDM in Party360 data feed file format
• Facilitate extensive integration among various source systems for daily delta feed files, and All Party 360 files to and from MDM to be transmitted via HUB Landing Zone
• Conduct Retrospection processes on full data extracts that will be generated in the same party360 file format
• Organize project team comprising of vendors, FTEs and contractors to deliver based on timelines as mandated by the FATCA regulation
• Facilitate design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance handover of the MDM FATCA foundation
• Streamlined development processes, automated build environments and organized release increments

Confidential

QA manager

Responsibilities:

• Design, Create, Review, execute, triage and report test scenarios and test cases using QC
• Liaison with Business, Project Manager and technical lead to organize test strategy, planning and execution Provide test execution results for management, and internal team consumption
• Organized testing team to adhere to defect logging guidelines and defect management framework and provide test execution result summary for both internal consumption

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed the test strategy, test plan, created schedules, provided estimates and managed the complete test effort
• Created test plans and executed tests, developed detail test cases, established test matrices as per BMO’s QA process and methodology
• Summarized test results for management, tracked testing results, categorized issues and created/distributed trouble reports, managed the defect lists as well as analyzing data to ensure data integrity
• Created test scenarios for business rules, requirements and testing business workflow/process by creating user scenarios working in conjunction with business teams
• Identified the test data requirements by organizing multiple test data review meetings and also created test data for specific test scenarios and test cases using SQL for Functionality, System Integration, Reports and end to end testing
• Organized lessons learned meetings to document what went well and what went wrong including things to do
• Participated in Enhancements meeting to distinguish between bugs and enhancements

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identify detailed requirements for the various report and create appropriate Test plans, Test Strategy
• Create Test Scenarios for Business Rules and Business Process by creating both positive and negative test cases according to the Business Reporting Requirements
• Develop and execute detail Test Cases, Establish Test matrices as per QA process and methodology also responsible for summarizing test results for management, responsibilities will include Tracking testing results, Categorizing issues and Creating/distributing trouble reports, managing the defect lists as well as analyzing data to ensure data integrity
• Perform End-to-End test management using HP Mercury Quality Center

Confidential

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end delivery of the Symphony application and its integration to various channels
• Direct the Project Team to focus on current MVP and create features and detailed user stories
• Functionalities implemented include loan origination department which provides for customer service and loan origination functionality and functionalities like account summary, applying payments and updating profile
• Streamline development and build environments and organized release increments
• Provide test execution results for management, and internal team consumption
• Organized testing team to adhere to defect logging guidelines and defect management framework and provide test execution result summary for both internal consumption

Confidential

QA LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the Requirement Documents, Design Specifications in each phase of the application through a series of meetings with developers, deployment engineers and Business Analysts requirements and functional requirements in scope
• Performed functional, Performance, System and Integration tests during different development phases and also Performed Regression testing upon receiving new builds
• Used Quality Center for test planning & execution. Generated defect and test execution summary reports using standard and custom report generating capabilities in QC
• Extensively used Test Director for test management and defect management

Confidential

QA LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Work in UNIX environment for script execution, data movement, SQL scripts and validation
• Prepare simulated XML data files to test different scenarios and updated the database to get the simulated data, Perform testing on both batch processing and real time processing, test EPCRs and defects in both Real-time and Batch-process, post validated the data after running the scripts in Batch and Real time processing
• Identified test data by organizing multiple test data review meeting and also created test data for specific test scenarios and test cases by creating SQL scripting
• Rigorously test the application with various product/s Checking, Mortgage, Home Equity Line or Loan, Credit Card, Savings etc. Focus of testing was on enrolment, De-Enrollment, Account Change Activity, Account Conditioning, Reward Summary etc.