SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master for over 5+ years and over all 9 years of experience in IT.
• Experienced Scrum Master with a proven track record of continuously delivering high - quality software, on-time and within budget.
• Facilitating Scrum activities like Release planning, Sprint planning, daily Scrum meeting, Sprint review and retrospective. Conducting Scrum coaching and ensuring good practices be carried out.
• Experienced in leading large and distributed Scrum teams.
• A true servant leader, strong communicator with the ability to serve multiple scrum teams simultaneously.
• Involved in entire, Testing Life Cycle, which includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire Test Process. Documentation of Test plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for the database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Lean, Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) Continuous Integration, Servant Leadership, Sprint Ceremonies: Planning, Backlog Grooming/Refinement, Daily Standup, Retrospectives, Reviews; Burn Down Metrics, Velocity, Facilitation, Retrospective, DCO (Directly Capture Objectives), Pega Systems, Program Increment (PI) Planning, Maturity Assessment, Scrum of Scrums.

TOOLS: Jira, QC/ALM, Version One, MS Office, SQL, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Confluence, Hip Chat, Share Point, Clarity, Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore MD

SAFe Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Servant Leader, helped Infrastructure team to self-organize and self-mange using Kanban principles and board to track their work for installing 3000 conference rooms with one-touch dial-in for WebEx, Skype and Microsoft Teams.
• Participated as part of an Agile Release Train (ART), during PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and System Demos, by helping my teams identify dependencies and risks, resulting in all teams understanding the PI goals and planning Features and stories for the next quarter.
• Added WIP limits to the Kanban boards to help the teams visualize the work, resulting in teams no longer over committing to work and completing the work faster.
• Recommended the team build in quality when they discovered defects and received unfavorable feedback from users, resulting in conference rooms that were easier to utilize.
• Collaborated with Program Manager to setup 16 Jira projects, boards, structures and confluence team pages and dashboards for new Scrum Masters, resulting in new Scrum Masters being able to start working with their teams faster.
• Facilitated coaching for all Product Owners on agile principles and Scrum ceremonies, writing User Stories, and keeping a healthy backlog, resulting in Product Owners being prepared to help their teams keep their work flowing.

Confidential, Dundalk, MD

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached the team on Agile values so that the team were in agreement on how we would interact with each other and during the sprint, thereby reducing members from multi-tasking during meeting and members asking the same questions about discussed details of the work.
• Coached teams toward self-organization, by encouraging the team to come up solutions when member’s code kept getting overwritten while promoting to QA environment, resulting in members selecting one person to merge all code and utilize version control.
• Promoted collaboration between cross-functional development teams, by working with SLA, TPOs to create a process to planning ahead 2 sprints for database and API changes. This stopped the dependency on dummy data.
• Worked closely with Product Owner to ensure there is a healthy backlog with refined stories prior to sprint, by, reviewing what makes a story complete, comparing to Definition of Ready, utilizing Poker Planning to understand all the work to be done, and taking time to answer all questions about the story, resulting members not is wasting time during the sprint, figuring out the work to do.
• Held teams accountable for meeting iteration/sprint commitments by encouraging the team to be honest about the work they could complete and to stop over committing during sprint planning. This stopped the team from rolling over stories and allowed the team's velocity to increase.
• Enable team to adhere to the process framework ceremonies by holding 5 time boxed ceremonies on a regular cadence, thereby reducing other meetings team members were being pulled into.
• Coached and supported teams in estimation and release planning, by incorporating poker planning so that team members could talk and get a better understanding of all work for each story and agree on the story points; resulting in stories including Development and QA work.
• Mediated, arbitrated, mitigated and facilitated impediments with the team members, by creating an impediments board and discussing all issues during Daily standup, resulting in attention being driven to issues and getting them resolved quicker.
• Facilitated methods for the team to seek higher productivity levels, by encouraging the team to ask questions during refinement and to work with tech leads to get more understanding before giving story points on the user story. This allowed the team to start on time for the sprint and complete all committed stories.
• Awareness of other development teams overall roadmap plan, by attending Tetris planning with team, ensuring all dependencies are identified by Delivery manager, encouraging the team to get understanding the EPICs and MVPS that are planned for the release, and to speak up about any possible impediments about commitments.
• Encouraged and helped to achieve transparency by widely reporting/publicizing team progress/success to a varied group of stakeholders, by encouraging the TPO to invite all users and stakeholders to the Sprint Review, having the team demonstrate the completed work, displaying the burn down and discussing the learning that took place, gathering the feedback and reprioritizing the backlog based on that feedback for the next sprint.

Confidential . Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Created a learning environment for team members during the Retrospective, by brainstorming ideas on improving the organizations, resulting in an annual fundraiser event.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, by reviewing business goals in the backlog, selecting stories for the month, sizing the work effort(story points), defining ‘done’ for completed products(DOR), determining who could do the tasks (assignments), and how much could be done in the month (release), resulting in the team committing to the work for the release.
• Facilitated Daily Standup, by meeting with volunteers, vendors, and members to understand and communicate the work daily, what was completed, what was being worked on, and any obstacles that needed resolving.
• Reviewed obstacles and requested help from the Steering Committee, when team could not resolve, resulting in a focused team and completed tasks.
• Facilitated Sprint Reviews, by meeting with customers to present ‘Done’ programs, gathered feedback, and learned about the customer and what they want. Also discuss progress with customer(s) and upcoming events (iterations), resulting in happy customers who will come back.
• Facilitated Sprint Retrospectives, by meeting with the team, vendors, and volunteers to discuss how to improve the process for the next (Sprint) and to monitor how the team feels and what they need; resulting in building trust with the team and celebrating the successful Sprint.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in gathering user requirement and online system specification.
• Designed Data Warehouse and data mart with snowflake schema.
• Developed and maintained Test Plan, Test scripts, Test Conditions, Test Data and Expected results for the Performance tests.
• Tested the OLTP transactions for the Inbound and Outbound Data.
• Identified Test cases based on the requirements, participated in development and implementation of Test Cases, Test Plan, Test Data, Test Script according to the Business Requirements, System Requirements
• Identified Test cases based on the requirements, participated in development and implementation of Test Cases, Test Plan, Test Data, Test Script according to the Business Requirements, System Requirements etc.
• Involved in the Database Testing of the Application like checking all the Tables in the Database and checking whether the data is moving in their Respective Tables.
• Designed the future state testing to be implemented in the next phase of this effort.
• Enhanced database structures as per the business requirement, which is applicable for contract accounting (CA) in an efficient way.