SUMMARY:

• Accomplished and a passionate servant leader with more than 7 years of Agile and 10+ years of progressive experience in delivering intensely complex software solutions supporting various lines of business in Information Technology along with HTML5, XHTML, CSS3, JavaScript, SASS, LESS, Angular Js, React Js, jQuery.
• Helped in improving process efficiency and process enhancements through retrospective meetings.
• Played a pivotal role in setting up Acceptance Criteria, Creating test plans, recording test result for all the user stories.
• Coordinated with Product owner to create WBS, manage schedules, deadlines, resources and the project tasks using JIRA /ADO/RALLY.
• Facilitated, Coached and trained all the SAF e (Scaled Agile ) process and ceremonies like Daily stand - up, Iteration Planning / PI planning Program Increment (T-shirt Sizing, Poker Cards, Affinity Mapping, Dot Voting), Program Backlog Grooming, Iteration review and Iteration retrospective .
• Generated Sprint Burn Down Chart s and Burn Up Charts to track the status of each sprint cycle .
• Developed and documented escalation process to effectively respond to customer issues; Collaboration with several support and operation teams.
• Ensured adherence to INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable) criteria and SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) model. Experienced with co-located and virtual teams with perfect collaboration and communication tools.
• Drafted the Definition of Done (DOD), Definition of Ready (DOR) and the Acceptance Criteria for the well-defined low-level functional and non-functional requirement specifications.
• Managed both on-site and offshore teams working on different time zones.
• Experienced on SDLC and various methodologies such as Agile (Scrum), Waterfall.
• Experience with E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Finance, Oil and Gas, Investment, Information Technology and Health Care domains.
• Well versed with Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming ( XP ), BDD, FDD, TDD Frameworks.
• Experience with Agile techniques: User Story workshops, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery
• Experienced Scrum Master who supported the teams on web applications and mobile apps based on different technologies.
• Well versed with multiple retrospective games, story mapping sessions and other fun agile game activities and exercises that builds team collaboration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Gained recognition for implementing Scrum in the portfolio within a quarter and converting the team into 100% Agile Team from Waterfall Model
• Facilitation of SCRUM Ceremonies-Sprint Planning, Grooming, Retrospective and Daily Stand ups, as per Agile Framework and delivered the results at fast pace.
• An impressive and effective communicator with people management, problem-solving, relationship management, negotiation and coordination skills.
• Provided visibility to team impediments/blockers/risks and helped them in eliminating by collaborating with respective members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software/Agile Methodologies: SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, XP, TDD, BDD, FDD, Waterfall

Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Rally, TFS, HEAT, ALM, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint

Operating System: Windows XP, iOS, Windows 7, Windows 10, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS

Testing Framework: Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Chai

Web/App Servers: Internet Information System (IIS), Apache Tomcat 7.0

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, Mongo DB

TaskRunner & Debug Tools: Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and Firebug, Chrome Developer Console

Version Control: Tortoise SVN, GitHub, Source Tree, TFS, and IBM Rational tool

Designing Tools: Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, Adobe Photoshop CS 6

UI Web Technologies: HTML4/5, XHTML, XML, XSL, XSLT, W3C 508 Standards, JavaScript, AJAX, D3, Angular Js and 2, WCAG, JQuery, JSP, RWD, Foundation 6, CSS 3, RoR, LESS, SASS, React. Js (Redux/Flux), Adobe Analytics, ES6, Micro services

IDE, HTML Editor: NetBeans, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Atom, Microsoft Visual Studio, Sublime

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Johnston, RI

Scrum Master (Financial Services)

Responsibilities:

• Involved with 3 teams under Finance Portfolio where two of them are into Scrum and the other one is into Kanban.
• Facilitated the transition of the applications (25+ members) from waterfall to Agile, while also acting as the Scrum Master of three mixed on/offshore teams.
• Delivered training and provided coaching/mentoring support for all my teams since they recently moved to Agile from Waterfall.
• Led workshops (Story Mapping, Affinity Sizing) and other knowledge sharing cross-team activities imparting knowledge and sharing of successful ideas/stories for team improvement.
• Communicated and managed project expectations for team members and stakeholders.
• Planned and facilitated all the ceremonies such as Review/Demo, Retrospection, Planning, Dailies and Refinements.
• Did experiments and conducted workshops for the better outcome of the teams.
• Educated teams on Scrum principles and values along with assisting various release activities.
• Worked on continuous improvement and continuous deployment via improvement backlog in Azure DevOps ADO, lunch-n-learns, presentations and discussions across teams in the Finance Portfolio.
• Tracked and reported all metrics such as team progress, SPIDER metrics, 5-point summary, features delivered, cost incurred on projects per team on a periodic basis to all the stakeholders involved in the portfolio.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls for seven different applications following Agile process.
• Coached teams, leaders, Product Owners and other Scrum Masters in Agile practices and mindsets.
• Worked with product owners to prioritize product backlogs and sprint backlogs. Facilitated backlog grooming sessions with product owner.
• Identified and tracked all dependencies across teams and discussed in scrum of scrums and other meetings to avoid delivery conflicts.
• Introduced one of the team to feature driven development (FDD), worked with the QA team for developing test scripts after the story mapping and grooming phase, encouraged team to start using automated acceptance testing and continuous integration principles to ensure high quality and tested code delivery. Assisted other Scrum Masters in various ceremonies of their teams.
• Did check the Team Health with the help of Tuckman Model - Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning. Did a few workshops with the teams on Business Value.

Confidential - Durham, NC

Scrum Master (Health Care)

Responsibilities:

• Taking care of Squad 1 team (Angular Js) who works on Blue Connect Project who is building the new iOS app based on Vue Js .
• Setting the standard building and managing agile teams from 10 - 20 staff using SCRUM and SAFe methodologies.
• Co-led Program Increment planning meetings to ensure all scrum teams are aligned with the release train priorities and goals.
• Defined, implemented tracking and delivery of key metrics resulting in improved asset reporting to executive management
• Oversee creation and approval of critical process flow documents and project plans for new projects using SAFe
• Exposure to Content Management System (WCMS) to look for the versions of the code base which developers may have deployed on Pstage.
• Ensured that all stories are tracked and planted in JIRA.
• Evaluate risks, trade-offs, benefits; ensuring the right things are worked the right way, at the right time working with cross functional teams and executives to remove obstacles impeding productivity
• Responsible for facilitating the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing Sprint goals and Sprint Backlog during the Sprint Planning Phase.
• Facilitate daily Standup to measure Sprint progress. Remove any impediments and re-prioritize Sprint Backlogs as required.
• As part of Sprint Review, demonstrated success/failure of the Sprint to all stakeholders using Version One generated Project and Sprint Reports (Cumulative Flow, Burndown charts, etc.), and by demonstrating functionality achieved by the Sprint.
• Coordinated timely response and support to production line customer issues, when escalated. Helped the team to solve problems rather than providing solutions
• Encouraged continual improvement in engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery
• Tracked and communicated to project the team the project status and progress as well as provide any information to ensure smooth completion of the project.

Confidential - Framingham, MA

Scrum Master - (Consumer Electronics)

Responsibilities:

• Encouraging multiple teams to work vigorously to their full potential, but also protecting them by preventing over-commitment to what is truly achievable within any given time-boxed sprint cycle.
• Scheduling, coordinating, and facilitating sprint planning, daily scrum huddles, backlog refinement, story grooming, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Ensured the teams demonstrates principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility as well as the agile values of feedback.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting on team progress using sprint reports, velocity charts, burndown and burndown graphs, control charts, and commitment/completion percentage trend diagrams to help team focus on incremental improvements
• Observation of team dynamics, to recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach them to improve.

Confidential - Ewing, NJ

Scrum Master / Lead Front End UI Developer - (Financial Mortgage)

Responsibilities:

• Sole responsible for branding and changing look and feel of whole careers for Cenlar along with managing the team using Scrum.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• Facilitating demo’s bi-weekly and Standups on daily basis is a part of everyday work and met the deadlines whenever required. It’s an Agile environment with two-week sprint.
• Lead the team which includes mentoring, peer to peer code reviews when required.
• Worked with third-party tool called “Taleo”. Used XHTML, HTML 5, CSS 3, and bootstrap for good look and feel and also to make it responsive.
• Worked closely with Marketing and HR Department to know the business requirements.
• Facilitated the organizational learning, change management, and process adoption of Agile via metrics, benefits realization, outcomes, and retrospective findings.
• Worked on Best practices as the organization is moving from Oracle Taleo Business Edition to Enterprise Edition. Experience with ATS (Application Tracking System) which needs to be tested and deployed for branding when required.
• Developed, implemented, and promoted the Agile best practice standards including the use of boards and tools where appropriate.
• Protected the team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
• Re-designed the whole Careers Website into a new look and feel as per the business requirement. Also, Worked on External, Internal and Mobile versions of the application in-order to be user friendly.

Confidential - San Mateo, CA

Scrum Master / Front End UI Developer

Responsibilities:

• Re-designed the whole Careers Website into a new look and feel as per the business requirement. Worked for ATS (Application Tracking System) Portal.
• Vigorously tested and applied the branding on a step by step procedure.
• Establishing Sprint Schedule, Ceremonies (namely Demos, Retrospective); evaluating and introducing sprint execution velocity and coordinating corresponding activities for the same
• Ensuring to schedule and facilitate the scrum process (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives).
• Converting PSD and VD's into static & dynamic HTML 5, CSS 3 and LESS whenever required.
• This is a project which includes the teams in U.K and U.S.A and India. So, well versed with offshore and onshore model.
• Used JIRA as a bug and project tracking tool and go with stories with in there.
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively contributing to design discussions, issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met.
• Effectively used JavaScript to make sure every functionality is working correctly and showing up a meaning message whenever required.
• Tested the web pages of application using WCAG 2.0 Guidelines with JAWS and NVDA.
• Provided feedback to developers using WAI-ARIA Techniques so that developers can fix them easily.
• Developing dependency plan between planned sprints/iterations across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties; working with the team to ensure delivery as per the given schedule

Confidential - Topeka, KS

Scrum Master / Front End GUI Developer - (Railroad Corp)

Responsibilities:

• Project is all about Transportation & Bidding (Imports & Exports).
• Organize and facilitate Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Retrospectives, Reviews and stand up's every morning to check about the status of the work.
• Developed pages using React Js, Flux and customizing the developed pages using CSS.
• As a n initiative, I use to take challenges during bug fixes and defects tracking and support the team on it. Create d fun and motivation environment to promote team building .
• Maintain relevant metrics to include Sprint and Release Burndowns and Roadmaps leveraging metrics to continuously improve the teams efficiency and performance
• Attending business meetings and take over the reviews of the business people during meeting to make sure the things are fixed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for developing the mockup's into static and dynamic HTML's and styling issues.
• As a Developer, following the best practices and programming standards as per organization guidelines. Focused on Cross Browser compatibility issues.
• Transformed design mock-ups into cross-browser compatible HTML/CSS layouts and implemented dynamic Elements and reusable libraries with JavaScript.
• Communicated with UX Designer and Architect effectively to get the desired output.
• Involved in JavaScript coding for validations, and passing attributes from one screen to another. Used GitHub and Source tree as version Control Systems Tools.
• Maintained JIRA and Confluence team boards and spaces allowing for organizational transparency.

Environment: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Waterfall, React JS, Flux, Groovy on Grails, Java, Adobe Analytics, WCAG, JEE, EJB, Web Services, GitHub, Source Tree, Bootstrap, Rails - 4.2.3 .

Confidential - Houston, TX

Scrum Master / Front End UI Developer - (Oil & Gas Industry)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall layout design of the application using Foundation 6 for responsiveness. Converted PSD and VD's into static & dynamic HTML 5 and CSS 3.
• Involved in complete SDLC/Agile - Development, Requirement Analysis, System and Integration Testing. Initiated Stand Up Scrum Calls every morning and evening to get the status since it is Offshore/Onshore model.
• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents
• Created and developed Pop-Up Pages that are related to corresponding home page using Jquery functionality.
• Since the project is involved with AGILE Methodology, We followed bi-weekly sprint and daily scrum calls to discuss the design and work progress.
• Coordinated all the Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Exposure to Angular 2 & Typescript since application was migrated from Angular 1.5 to Angular 2.
• Communicated with Business Analysts, UX Designers and Visual Designers effectively to get the desired and expected output.
• Faci litated Sprint Demo sessions and design discussions to enhance the designs, provide input on the layouts and every sprint retrospection meetings as what to do, what not to do, what can be done to make it better.

Environment: HTML5, Visual Studio, JavaScript, JQuery, Bower, SASS, Adobe Analytics, Foundation 6, Angular 2 , Gulp, Node Js, AJAX, TFS, IIS, JSON, Adobe Photoshop, Typescript.

Confidential - Houston, TX

IT Scrum Master / Web Developer - (Oil & Gas Industry)

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint planning, daily standup calls, Sprint review and retrospective and Backlog grooming sessions.
• Protect team from external interventions. Reminding and helping the team stay focused on daily and Sprint Goals.
• Focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Ensure team is well-informed on internal and external initiatives and activities.
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are performing and leverage retrospectives to continuously improve.
• Used Knockout JS for building rich internet applications, Backbone JS to optimize in-browser use and to load the module and to improve the Speed.
• Support the Product Owner in their efforts to manage and prioritize the backlog and ensure that his priorities are clearly communicated to the team.
• Created SPAs using HTML5, CSS3, Angular JS, JQuery, Bootstrap and Font-awesome.
• Work closely with the team and removing any impediments for the team which are stopping them to deliver / perform to their best.
• Attending the SOS meeting reporting completions, next steps and impediments on behalf of the team and radiating the information back to the team.
• Experience on working with CSS Backgrounds, CSS Layouts, CSS Preprocessors (SASS, LESS), CSS Animations.
• Involved in localization and internationalization of the web pages using JSON, XSL and Angular.js.
• Ensure that team is following scrum rules and other agile practices, process rules that team has agreed upon.
• Challenging the team to improve performance in the areas of quality, team velocity.
• Implemented Web services (SOAP) for transmission of large blocks of XML data over HTTP.
• Involved in AGILE Methodology process which includes bi-weekly sprint and daily scrum to discuss the design and work progress.
• Used AJAX and JSON to make asynchronous calls to the project server to fetch data.

Environment : HTML4/HTML5, CSS2/CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Sql, WordPress, Section 508 Standards, Jasmine, Angular.JS, Backbone.js, Node Js, GitHub, AJAX, JSON, Firebug, Ember JS.