SUMMARY

• Results - oriented, highly productive technical Scrum Alliance certified and practicing professional with over 11 years of success in applying strong problem solving skills to clarify ambiguity and resolve highly complex issues within the tightest timeframes managing multiple Projects.
• Act as a key member of the team influencing a clear vision for success with an aptitude to establish goals. Expert communicator with the proven ability to synthesize complex information and win the loyalty of clients and team.
• Possess in-depth, hands-on experience with multiple technology stacks, have strong learning capacity, can-do mentality, and keen eye for details. Foster an atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration with an emphasis on goal attainment.
• A Dynamic & Competent IT professional with 11 years of experience; A Self-Motivated and Achievement oriented professional with Strong Scrum Master and QA Manager Skills as wells as Business Acumen.
• Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Act as a key member of the team influencing a clear vision for success with an aptitude to establish goals. Expert communicator with the proven ability to synthesize complex information and win the loyalty of clients and team.
• Possess in-depth, hands-on experience with multiple technology stacks, have strong learning capacity, can-do mentality, and keen eye for details. Foster an atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration with an emphasis on goal attainment
• Responsible for developing Agile Methodology in Project Management Community.
• Worked as Agile Coach and inspired change, culture and behaviors
• Advised teams on most effective Agile Methods.
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to maintain product and sprint backlogs and to facilitate team's interaction with them for Story Estimations.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Assisted team to remove impediments, internal and external communication and improved transparency.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met and took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks of my teams.
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product, sprint backlogs and sprint progress.
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Extensive experience in QA Standards and Artifacts, Software Development Life.
• Well versed with testing activities, Bug Life Cycle and Testing Life Cycle with various types of testing
• Highly organized & dedicated with a positive attitude. Self-motivated; able to set effective priorities and handle multiple assignments under high pressure within tight deadlines; adapt easily to new concepts and responsibilities.
• Excellent verbal written, inter personal, communication Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages and Tools: Team foundation Server (TFS), UML, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, SQL, PL/SQL, SharePoint, Jira, Rally

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, MS SQL Server, MS Access, VSTS

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile development using Scrum, UML, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, SQL, PL/SQL, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master/AGILE COACH

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for the development and conversion of a legacy-based criminal case management system to a web based system.
• Act as deputy project manager, develop project scope and plan future releases.
• Responsible for assigning and overseeing the duties of approximately 4 Business Analysts.
• Implemented and trained the team in the agile scrum process, which significantly increased productivity and enabled the team to meet aggressive deadlines and fulfill the customer’s requirements.
• Act as liaison between product development teams and stakeholders.
• Gather, assess and manages requirements from various stakeholders to deliver clear and concise product requirements.
• Own the product backlog for close to multiple projects that team works on.
• Work with business owners to prioritize the project’s product backlog.
• Facilitate all scrum meetings including backlog estimating sprint planning, daily standup, sprint demo and sprint retrospective.
• Consistently ensure that all requirements and specifications are available and complete when required in order to keep the agile process of the team continually moving forward allowing the team to produce accurate working software on an ongoing basis.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers and testers to identify the needs for maintenance of ongoing productivity. Work closely with the other BA's to ensure the necessary materials are delivered.
• Articulated and created both hand-drawn digital wireframes to the stakeholders and process owners with the progress.
• Developed many interactive prototypes, mock UI’s and process diagrams using MS Visio.
• Clarify business requirements through the sessions with stakeholders and process owners and communicate the project status on regular basis.
• Ensure that all data is available when it is time to estimate the product backlog.
• Actively remove any impediments to keep the project moving forward.
• Coordinate with the project manager to maintain an up to date product backlog that captures current requirements of the project.
• Keep dashboards up to date reflecting the current status of the project.
• Develop project timelines and project scope delivery based on defined priorities and team capacity.
• Consistently evaluate team performance, implement best practices and process improvements.
• Support development of testing plans, scenarios and scripts, participated in UAT sessions.
• Responsible for creating and overseeing the release plan used to successfully deploy the system to production.
• Responsible for coordinating any necessary updates to the production functionality and ensure that necessary enhancements are made from time to time while subsequent releases are under development.

Confidential

Brand Manager / Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Gathering Requirements from the business people to produce Business and Functional Requirements.
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) in RUP framework.
• Worked extensively on the Web applications, online portals and User interfaces.
• Involved in analysis for wide range of Six Sigma and Web-based initiatives, including user requirements
• Participated in meetings with the management team and the Subject Matter experts (SME).
• Created various mockups to indicate the changes to the current receipts as a result of the enhancements.
• Participated in meetings with the technical team to gauge a better understanding of the scope and the limitations of the project.
• Migrated Data from MS Excel to SQL Server Reporting Service Using DTS and SQL loader utilities.
• Used Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) as source control tool to store all code, as well as a record of all changes and current check-outs in a SQL Server database.
• Developed detailed ERDs and DFDs using various modeling tools and developed databases based on the system model following the techniques in SDLC (software development life cycle).
• Created the Functional Level Specification documents to address the functionality of the new system.
• Created the As-Is and To-Be process flows using MS Visio for the project.
• Planned and defined Use Cases created Use Case diagrams, Scenarios and Use Case Narratives using the UML methodologies.
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database
• Update and Maintain the Regression test suite in VSTS.
• Requirements Elicitation, Analysis, Communication, and Validation according to Six Sigma Standards.
• Worked on requirements, analysis and design, project management, testing (functional and user acceptance tests)
• Converted Business Requirements to the Functional Specification and Conducted JAD Sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests.
• Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements
• Assisted with user testing of systems (User Acceptance Testing), developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.
• Presented discovery documents to the IT activities for acceptance into the integrated and point releases via Statement of Business Requirements documents using MS Word, MS Excel, Telelogic DOORS, and Visio tools.
• Monitored and assisted in designing and development of Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Preparation of Test Plans and execution of business testing, preparation for and delivery of application.
• Participated in various vendor selection processes and conducted Cost-Benefit Analysis of COTS products and comparison between COTS and In-house developed components.
• Full knowledge of phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Performed Defect Tracking and Change Control Procedures using Quality Center.

Confidential

Business Analyst Lead / Marketing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 12 energetic individuals and created new business opportunities for the project.
• Managed and developed 2K+ key large accounts, captured 75% of the market share in India.
• Successfully converted leads into clientele, increased customer base by building trustful partnerships.
• Hired, trained, developed and evaluating new hires.
• Achieved Award of Excellence for Outstanding Performance in the years 2007 and 2008.
• Awarded for the Highest Paid Brand Campaigns in the Zone, 2008.