SUMMARY:

• Experienced in working with clients to implement requirements and in providing Team leadership for development support teams comprising company as well as client and third - party contract staff.
• Experience in conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis and ROI Analysis, NPV, conducting feasibility studies, scope.
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC methodology, project life cycle, and project management.
• Expertise in analyzing project requirements and document business requirements and functional specifications.
• Expert in using Clarity for project management, MS Office applications (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point, MS Project).
• Team player, comfortable working in fast paced, changing environment and ambiguity.
• Successfully overcame the challenges of working with an off-shore scrum team.
• UtilizedScrumto lead the project teams through the SDLC (Software development life cycle).
• Use analytical abilities to help organize resources, work under tight deadlines, coordinate simultaneously occurring tasks and shifting priorities, control project change and generate maximum team performance.
• Experience in agile methodologies, including Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Maintain detailed progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to making feature and product development decisions that will impact the overall success of the product.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Project Management, Servant Leadership, Decision Modelling, Business Forecasting, Project Planning, co-ordination and scheduling, Business Development

Analytic Tools: Tableau, SPSS Modeler, SPSS Statistics, R-Analytics, Power BI, SAP Business Objects

Utilities: MS Visio, Share point, MS office, Remedy, Workday

Project Management Tools: MS Project, CLARITY, WorkLenz, SharePoint, WIKI, EPIC, JIRA, Confluence, Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), Dynamics 365

Development Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, SAFe Framework

Programming languages: SQL, C#, Python, HTML, CSS, JQuery

Cloud: Amazon web services, Microsoft Azure

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master Associate

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• As a scrum trainee, I adhere to the Scrum framework, including all roles and ceremonies that practice agile methodology.
• Ensures that sprints are not started until all stories have adequate definition of ready - descriptions, acceptance criteria, and point assignments and other elements as identified by the team.
• Promotes and educates the development team to understand agile principles.
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning ceremony, where teams size stories, and have questions answered by product owners and engineering managers.
• Assists the product owner and business analyst to create effective Epics, Features, User Stories and Technical Stories.
• Tracks sprint progress to the baselines and report status to the manager.
• Ensure that Agile tools (JIRA Agile & Confluence) enable teams to use them diligently and to lead them to self-organize
• Experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, and Automated Testing.
• Participated in Story authoring sessions along with the BA to create effective stories.
• Executed Agile Scrum Methodology to enhance the communications between the development team and Business and provide more transparency between the departments.
• Provided support to the project manager in resolving any crisis situations both technical and non-technical.
• Understands cross team dependencies and helped the teams in mapping the dependencies.
• Removing impediments daily to allow teams to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Ensure development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Maintain the burndown chart to understand the pace and velocity of the development.

Environment: Agile Scrum, MS Visio, VB Script, Peoplesoft General ledger, Jira, Confluence, MS Excel.

Leadership & Agile Management trainee

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Managed project scope along with product owner to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Conducted workflow, process diagram and GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Facilitated internal and external communication promoting end-to-end project leadership and successful transition to Operations.
• Facilitated meetings, technical discussions, review, and release planning.
• Facilitating all ceremonies throughout Program Increment, including but not limited to Daily Stand Up, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Team Demo, and Retrospective.
• Interacting with clients for system study, requirements gathering and analysis.
• Generated the Project level reports and matrices - Velocity Charts to provide the team performance in every sprint, Capacity Planning, Gantt Chart and Work Breakdown Structure.
• Interacted with Business users to understand Business Requirements, propose options and deliver technology solutions.
• Drove improvements to 3 Tableau dashboards covering staffing, KPI, and Agile metric data.
• Escalating at-risk business objectives and timeline concerns to the Program Management, Solutions Architect, and Release Train Engineer
• Experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, and Automated Testing.
• Working closely with other Scrum Masters to ensure alignment of shared goals and collective Team-of-Teams effort towards deploying working code
• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology for SDLC
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible.
• Implement user acceptance testing (UAT) with a focus on documenting defects and executing test cases.

Environment: Java, Hibernate, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, DevOps, SQL Server 2010, XML, SDLC.

Agile Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Roadmap & Backlog of Work Port products by participating in scrum meetings, tracking the delivery, validating the requirements and implementing to the end users.
• Use Cases, activity diagrams according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Models.
• Manage timelines, deliverables and schedules. Create and update project plans.
• Createdbusinessprocess flow diagrams and charts using MS-Visio.
• Supported the team in deploying tested code every two weeks for a high-volume customer service application.
• Gathered requirements from the product owner and prioritized the product backlog.
• Acted as the liaison between the product owner and the dev team. Conducted daily scrum meetings and managed all impediments.
• Facilitated the sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Maintained the story boards in TFS to maintain visibility. Managed the testing effort.
• Conducted walkthrough of Use Cases to the development team and other team members and resolved their queries.
• Analyzebusinessrequirements and segregated them into high level and low level.
• Involved in project management, developing project plans, setting project schedules and milestones, scheduling tasks and activities using MS Project.
• Played a key role in the planning User Accepted Testing and implementation of systemenhancements and conversions.
• Created product documentation, including online help, printed user manual, and materials.
• Documented Business Requirements, Functional requirements, Business Rules, Data Elements, Use Cases managed in JIRA
• Prepared miscellaneous documents and databases for internal use, client bulletins, and otherpurposes, summarizing and/or interpreting industry markets, competitor activities regulations, enforcement practices, and standards.
• Created initial technical specification documents for each functionality to develop.
• Developed many database tables using Ms SQL.
• Reviewed the Test cases and providing feedback to the QA team
• Experience in setting team development environments with GITHUB and Virtual Box.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new software applications and products.

Environment: Share point 2007, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project MS Visio, MS Outlook, JIRA, Confluence, Github, Ms SQL, IBM SPSS Modeler, Agile Scrum, TFS.