SUMMARY:

• A Certified; (PMP), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) & Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals having over 8 years of experience in IT managing large - scale projects. Lead exercises such as sprint planning and team standups. Kept the team on track to meet project deadlines on budget. Communicated with management and clients to keep them updated on the status of projects.
• 8+ years of experience as a scrum master and project manager.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies with emphasis on the Analysis, Design, Testing phases, and its documentation.
• Interface with, manage and engage cross-functional teams, including global and third-party resources.
• Experienced in working with business analysts, development groups in analyzing business specifications and in working with other testers to resolve technical and end-user issues.
• Developed and implemented project roadmaps and milestones, led key stakeholder engagement and accountability, and communicated project status with relevant stakeholders
• Identify and communicate project risks to key stakeholders.
• Worked as a Scrum Master, driving the team's level cadence by facilitating Scrum ceremonies (e.g. daily standup, sprint planning, Story Grooming, refinement, demo, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc.), along with coaching team with Agile principles. Fostering team on self-organization and self-management and growing cross-functionality.
• Created defects for the issues using automated bug tracking tools like JIRA, Bugzilla and reported to the developers.
• Addressed users and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements, identify Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
• Ability to work independently, internally, and externally with minimal supervision Team player with strong communication and writing skills and a self-motivated individual.
• Good knowledge of RDBMS and SQL programming with databases like Oracle, MYSQL.
• Good team player and quick learner in participation in meetings with the testing and development teams and Clients.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment & meet stringent deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 7, LINUX, UNIX

RDBMS: SQL Server 2008 R2, 2005

Languages: Java (Selenium), SQL

Cloud: Azure Cloud Fundamentals

Tools: Confluence, Jira, Kanban

Testing Tools: Selenium, Junit, QTP, Soap UI, HP Quality Center.

Methodologies: Agile /Scrum, Waterfall.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile and Scrum Methodology to produce high-quality software.
• As a project manager involved in planning, scheduling, and controlling projects based on schedules and requirements outlined by thebusiness.
• Liaised between project sponsors, stakeholders, developers, and analysts; established strong professional relations with external IT vendors via internally integrated applications
• Developed and implemented project roadmaps and milestones, led key stakeholder engagement and accountability, and communicated project status with relevant stakeholders
• Managed vendor relations, contract negotiations, project budget, and deadlines, and focused on maximum cost savings in tracking project expenditures and costs of materials, labor, and services
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (story points for backlog items).
• Collaborate with Product Owners for iteration grooming and planning to ensure the teams adhere toScrumschedules using backlogs to bridge communication gaps during the development of technical solutions.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, software demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Facilitated economic decision making and managed budgeting
• Monitored the progress of projects and released the information to stakeholders.
• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Established a more trusted and collaborative team environment where my team can bring up problems without the fear of being blamed or judged.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Follow Agile methodology which involves scrum meetings and sprint meetings (planning, Review, Retro) to meet deadlines and expectations.
• Worked with Product Owner in prioritization and transparency of user stories to facilitate the development team's job.
• Organized thescrumceremonies (Sprint planning, Daily stand up, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective) and made sure the development team participated.
• Mastered backlog tracking, Burndown/Burnup metrics, velocity, and task definitions in all projects.
• Developed and documented database architectures, schemas, physical structure, functional capability, security, backup, and recovery specifications.
• Preparation of detailed test case document by specifying description, input data, and expected value.
• Attended weekly meetings and walkthroughs for project updates.
• Performed smoke tests for each new build and was responsible for Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in Business Requirement walk-through.
• Explained Business Requirements and coordinate with Developers for New Requirements/Issue Resolutions/Change Requests.
• Lead the team to commit to a sprint goal with the product owner and decompose all stories and defect work into tasks with owners and estimates.
• Lead the team report to each other on their progress every day and uncover issues that may be slowing them down. Resolve those issues immediately.
• Lead the team review their sprint's work with each other and the business and update the product backlog with any new things learned by the team and the business throughout the sprint.
• Lead the team to inspect its work practices and team culture and to identify incremental improvements that will help them be more successful.
• Lead the team and product owner keeps the product backlog relevant and prioritized, making sure acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing. Help the team size their stories for planning and forecasting purposes.
• Worked with clientScrumMaster to prepare for and facilitate quarterly cross-team planning sessions
• Encouraged communication between product owner and development team to increase productivity and efficiency.
• Resolved conflicts between team members and explained the benefits of working as a unit.
• Guide the team and organization using Agile/Scrumpractices and values.
• Provided feedback timely basis on project and testing status and any risk foreseen during testing execution.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating the Release planning, DailyScrumMeetings, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Project-specific onboarding with new associates
• Facilitated Scrum of scrums across teams and coordinated with other Scrum Teams for identifying, tracking, and resolving dependencies
• Collecting and analyzing project metrics data and working with the Product Owner and team to identify and in corporate corrective actions when needed
• Work with stakeholders, PMO and PO to prioritize user stories and formally plan sprints
• Hold regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate team s