SUMMARY

• Over 11 years of experience working with groups, teams and organizations that use Waterfall and Agile for delivering full life - cycle projects.
• Proficient in the application of agile software development methodologies in the development of robust systems that deliver true business value. Strong proponent of mentoring and lifelong learning.
• Equally proficient as an Agile or Waterfall Practitioner with 9+ years of Scrum Master experience working with executive leadership, business stakeholders, product owners, product managers improving process, thinking strategically and building teams with excellent measurable and valuable business results.
• Administered the role of Scrum Master and having expertise in conducting Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review Meetings when using Scrum Methodology. Successfully implemented changes to Business Processes, Systems and Technology, Job Roles and Organizational Structure.
• Supervised 3 Scrum Teams at a time and ensuring that team's success and progress are highly visible to Product Owner and Stakeholders. Managed Project Backlogs, release scheduling, project duration estimation and forecasting.
• Strong experience in working with agile lifecycle, and/or tracking, and process management tools like Rally and JIRA. Extensively used JIRA/Rally for maintaining User Story Hierarchy, Backlog Grooming, Updating Tasks, Connecting Rally with Jira and Planning Iterations and Releases.
• Business Analysis experience includes conducting JAD sessions, requirement gathering, documentation (Project Charter, BRD, and FRD), diagramming data, process mapping (Use Case and Activity Diagrams) compiled detailed project plan (to include resources, deliverable, milestones) and developed test plans and test case scenarios.
• Ensured engineering practices like Continuous Integration, TDD (Test Driven Development), Automated testing and Pair Programming. Also involved in creating and reviewing test plan and test cases; manual testing and conducting User Acceptance Testing.
• Proven experience in effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives
• Strong organizational Skills & client orientationResponsible for providing estimation for the project deliverables and resource allocation
• Involvement in full project life cycle (Requirements through Implementation) with delivery responsibility/ ownership.
• Managed mid to large projects, starting from Requirements gathering to Implementation phases.
• Customer Oriented with self-directing and self-motivating, technically competent and keeping abreast of technology/business changes to make sure that the formulated/implemented solutions are relevant to the Business.
• Superior team building abilities that help to unite, guide and lead team members towards individual and common work goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Programming Languages: C, Shell Script, Basic Python, Basic Java, C++

Database: SQL, Oracle

Agile Tools: Version one, TFS (Team foundation Server), Leankit, JIRA, Confluence, Rally CA Clarity PPM, Open work bench MS-Office, Visio, MS-Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Sr. Scrum master for two scrum Teams and helped them to transition from waterfall to Agile Scrum framework. Provided coaching to new scrum team members.
• Working closely with the Stakeholders to understand the business requirements, timelines & delivery.
• Facilitated the Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective.Present and discuss the burn-down chart and the release burn-down chart.
• Defining the project goals / objectives, critical success factors, milestones and estimated risks.
• Ensure the scrum/development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Assisting team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Lead the development and maintenance of team standards, tools and best practices.
• Assisting in the identification and removal of impediments for scrum teams.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Empowered the scrum teams to self-organize.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Produce project reports to Sponsor, Steering Committee and Management team through specified communication (Meetings, Dashboards).
• Project status conveyed on a weekly basis via Status reports to all stakeholders, and Issues list tracked on a weekly basis to close open items or report new ones.
• Ensuring project compliance as per the defined process with respect to audit findings

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
• Interact with business users for better understanding of individual subject areas and modified specifications to user needs.
• Discussed the open issues and statues with Scrum team.
• Developed the Epics and Themes for theScrumProject.
• Devised and prioritized the Product Backlog by conducting requirement churning sessions with various Business/Product Teams.
• Created and explained the User Stories to theScrumTeam and helped them design the tasks.
• Introduced, drive and continuously improved team delivery via technical best practices such as automated testing, refactoring, pair programming, test driven development, and continuous integration. Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Coach Agile values and principles to the team and business
• Train the team on Agile values; helping them realize the full value of Agile
• Facilitated Sprint Planning and Sprint review meetings for finalizing the Sprint Backlogs and Verifying the sprint outputs respectively
• Expedited good sprint planning, helping the team in making appropriate commitments through story sizing and task definition. Worked with the Product Owner to maximize ROI and attainment of project objectives Sprint reviews and planning knowledge.
• Created Release Tracking Document in order to track the necessary changes.
• Participated in Business Demonstrations and Decisions for the Release of the Sprint Output to production.

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsibilities:

• Successfully handled role ofScrummasterand having expertise in conducting story estimation, Sprint planning, DailyScrum, Sprint review and Retrospective meetings when usingScrum Framework.
• Moderate Agile retrospectives, making them most pleasant for team members and focused on results, to bring teams to an even higher level of performance.
• Managed all aspects of end to end release process.
• Successfully managed Project Backlogs, Release Scheduling, Project duration estimation and forecasting.
• Worked closely with Agile teams to understand their needs and make sure that the Rally tool meets those needs. Provided guidance to the Agile teams on the Rally tool so it is used to maximum their efficiency.
• Coaches and mentors Agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback.
• Trained and coached multiple development teams of 6-8 and management team to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
• Assisting Product owner’s with various activities including communicating updates and impediments as well as with backlog grooming and release plan maintenance.
• Passionate about Scrum and helping organizations realize their agile potential. Building effective Scrum teams.
• Responsible for all facets of Scrum adoption and transformation while driving ongoing aggressive Scrum software development schedule
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Scrum Master

Confidential, CO

Responsibilities:

• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them
• Facilitating sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Dev validation/ Story estimation, defect prioritization, retrospective as Scrum master
• Work with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the user stories for sprint
• Allow the stories into the sprint based on team velocity and individual capacity
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the TDD, test automation and Peer review
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint burn up / Burn-down, and Release Burn up / Burn-down.
• Help the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Manage offshore team members in different geographical places.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional
• Co-ordinate with release team to align the sprint stories with release schedule
• Conduct Story estimation meetings on epic level as well as story level

Scrum Master

Confidential, Greater Philadelphia Area

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums for all time.
• Facilitated the Daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
• Provide visibility to team impediments, risks and helped them in removing.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.
• Coaches and mentors team members and provide constructive feedback.
• Worked closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders to prioritize the requirements in a sprint.
• Drew strategy of Release plans for product backlogs, created sprint back logs according to the release cycles and estimated hours of work for user stories, reviewed the Burn down chart to target the delivery dates for each sprint, and facilitated daily stand up meetings.
• Designed Solutions as per Business needs that included Designing Site Architecture, Site Navigation, Reports, Dashboards, Views etc.
• Motivate the team to come up with quality shippable product at the end of each sprint.
• Tracks and report team velocity, team capacity and software quality and other metrics against goal on ongoing basis.
• Performed requirement traceability to ensure all the planned requirements are developed and validated and documented.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solution about it.
• Facilitating sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, defect prioritization, retrospective as Tester/Scrum master.
• Conduct the agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Retrospective and Backlog grooming.
• Preparing functional and regression test cases and executing test cases.
• Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases based on Business Requirements Document Responsible for writing Test Summary Report.
• Worked with Project Owners to review, triage, and prioritize all new Jira items into corresponding queues and escalate issues and update stakeholders as appropriate. Own JIRA issue tracking tool, including workflow customization and reporting. Produced and communicated Sprint and issue-related metrics.
• Managing teams toward implementation of two or more successful releases to production each month across verticals.
• Timely reporting of the major impediments/blockers to Product owners and other scrum masters in SOS and leadership meetings.
• Coach and guide Product Owner and team members through the agile ceremonies.
• Demonstrate expertise in Rally while measuring velocity and identifying achievable challenges for Scrum teams.
• Foster positive relationships with team members and managers within highly matrixed organization.
• Build project wiki pages using Confluence and provide training to managers and colleagues.
• Create Work Item for every release and update milestones with the planned and completed status of that cycle.
• Follow key metrics such as burn up, burn down, cumulative flow and velocity.
• Involved in system testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and provided UAT testing support.
• Generated defect reports, weekly status reports etc
• Ensure that the testing done is compliant to quality standards.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.
• Ensure that the testing done is compliant to quality standards.
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines.