SUMMARY

• 6 Years of Experience in Data environment, IT Business Analyst, Project Management and Scrum Master.
• Prepares and presents the Statement of Work and proposals for identified clients in conjunction with account management.
• Work closely with the Technical Development team to identify and communicate critical paths.
• Development capacity planning and support in the release scheduling.
• Extensive Experience in reviewing Business, Data Requirement Documents and preparing Test Cases, Test scripts and Execution.
• Support/Collaborate with team members to implement Agile/Scrum best practices Provide and support the implementation of business solutions.
• In - depth knowledge of project planning techniques and automated project planning tools
• Manage or work as part of a team dependant on the work loads.
• Proficient in SQL, Experience in Performance Tuning of SQL and Stored Procedures.
• Experienced in writing SQL queries using T-SQL and PLSQL for joining multiple tables across schemas, using self-referencing joins and correlated sub-queries.
• Extensive Experience in handling different feed files like XML, Flat files and fixed length files.
• Efficiently used VBA for MS Excel for planning/reporting and creation of test data.
• Managed and ran the daily scrum meetings for multiple teams.
• Developed, monitored and enforced established Agile management processes including daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Well versed with various types of Software Development Methodologies- Waterfall, Agile and Iterative.
• Experienced in conducting JAD sessions and creating data blue print and mapping documents based on business rules.
• Extensive Experience in Functional testing, Integration/System testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Experience in Data Profiling and performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on the defects.
• Experience in HP Quality Center ALM for maintaining requirements, RTMs, test scripts and defect tracking and logging purposes.
• Extensive experience in Test Data Management, Creating Test Data Suites and Regression testing.
• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.
• Speaking to details of the project to both the business and technical teams from beginning to end of all projects.
• Experienced in Source Data Quality Analysis, Defining of Quality Criteria and Data Governance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Project Manager / Scrum Master role- Good experience in halping other team members to communicate, coordinate and cooperate in assisting the team in meeting delivery goals and assuring the team TEMPhas all of the information necessary without undue roadblocks.
• Team-based management proxy and servant leader in halping self-organize, self-manage, and deliver IT products via effective Agile practices.
• Also halp in the team coordination dependencies with other teams on the Agile Release Train, communicate status and generally step in to assist in removing roadblocks and assuring work is proceeding without delays.
• Communicated with the Business in gathering the requirements and building up the documentation for the team to initiate a project.
• Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, data mapping requirement specifications, and responsible for documenting functional requirements
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with good working knowledge of testing methodologies, disciplines, tasks, resources and scheduling
• Ability to create various data models using the Power designer tool by reverse engineering various objects
• Extensively worked on Teradata in building many DDL’s and changing them as per the requirements.
• Worked on HP ALM to log defects and track resolution till the closing of the defects.
• Worked on various Post install activities like updating Metadata through Enterprise metadata hub (EMH).
• Experience in developing, documenting, updating the release notes information once the project is installed.
• Provide technical support to Business Owners to implement the new products/services.
• Responsible for migrating the code changes to various environments like Development, SIT, UAT and Production.
• Experience in AWS storage and database tools like S3, RDS and EMR.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• Performed verification, validation and transformation on the input data before loading into target tables.
• Strong in writing SQL queries and makes table queries to profile and analyze the data.
• Worked collaboratively with multiple business entities and successfully implemented new business processes.
• Presented various walkthrough’s to various developers in halping them to understand the FSD’s or TTD’s

Environment: ALM 12, Data Assure Tools, Agile, SQL, Windows XP, SAS, MS Office Suite, HP ALM 12, Training, Project Management, PL/SQL, TOAD for Oracle 11g, Organising.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Documented Business and Functional requirements in the process of building or enhancing reports for Management and Loan Servicing.
• Served as a liaison between Stakeholders and Developers to create Business Requirements and translated them into Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Creates Scrum plan, Sprint Plan, Release Plan, and QA plan for the scope dat TEMPhas to be developed and released.
• On boards the Feature Development Cycle with proper kick off, feature backlog with a clear sprint plan.
• Monitor and track status of iterations/releases and ensure work progress visualization on the scrum board.
• Work with architecture and engineering teams in distributed locations to drive planning, issue resolution, and development on platform & project specific technical topics
• Solving business problems and furthers business success by applying industry, applications and technical knowledge through the definition of high level solutions.
• Work proactively with the business to define new product developments.
• Responsible for communicating to program team members across workstreams and coordinating cross-scream team communication, issue resolution, and integration defect triage.
• Expertise in Agile Scrum Methodology to implement Project Life Cycles of reports development and generation.
• Worked with Lookup, Date, Aggregation and Logical functions in Excel to clean and prepare data.
• Creating complex SQL queries using joins and where grouping and scripts to extract and aggregate data in order to meet business needs and daily reports.
• Exported data to AWS Storage tools like S3 and saved to the buckets.
• Used SAS Enterprise Guide for loading data from Excel, CSV and Text files into SAS Data sets and then into Teradata tables.
• Worked on loading data from flat files to Teradata tables using SAS Proc Import, Export and Fast Load techniques.
• Created Source to Target mappings and Data Migration documents for smooth transfer of projects from development to testing and then to production environment.
• Used SAS ODS to generate reports and created tabular reports using Base SAS & SAS/Reports procedures.
• Created and maintained spreadsheet with all the production issues/solutions as part of lessons learnt and to halp form FAQ for the maintenance team.

Environment: ALM 12, Data Assure Tools, Agile, SQL Assistant Teradata 12, SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD for Oracle 11g, MS Office, TABLEAU 9.3.

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing the necessary tools and reporting to manage program delivery.
• Oversee the day-to-day progress of Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid based development project(s) and release initiatives with regard to time, budget, scope and quality.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Responsible for management of program workstream progress and execution against agreed upon objectives.
• Work with architecture and engineering teams in distributed locations to drive planning, issue resolution, and development on platform & project specific technical topics.
• Responsible for monitoring and managing Core Program Management expectations and coordinate/execute corrective action to address gaps
• Coordinate with the platform dev lead, project managers, and product owners to do sprint and release planning for the platform
• Escalated critical issues, risks, and conflicts dat could impact scope, timeline, resources and/or costs.
• Monitor burndown charts, track progress and maintain velocity statistics using Jira.
• Assisted Product Owners in the execution of their respective Agile Projects.
• Conducted and participated in sprint planning, task estimation, and sequencing, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Coordinate with release management & QA to ensure smooth release processes are maintained.
• Responsible for communicating expectations and milestones for Clarity updates to Resource managers.
• Responsible to implement and execute disciplined Change control process including communication, estimation and impact on scrum teams and testing.

Environment: Windows XP, SAS, MS Office Suite, HP ALM 12, Training and Project Management.