SUMMARY:

• 13+ years’ experience in Agile Development, Design and development with a proven track record in directing deadline - driven environments.
• 5+ years of experience as Scrum Master for implementing Agile methodologies and transforming from Waterfall to agile.
• Experience in Requirements Gathering, Development, Testing, Implementation, Product & Domain Training and Post Implementation onsite-support
• Excellent knowledge of SDLC methodologies: Agile (scrum) & Waterfall.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Working with Product Owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum framework and methodology
• Excellent in gathering, drafting reviewing requirements with business for publishing as product backlog.
• Expert in drafting Business cases, Product Backlog and User Stories, UAT test cases and test data requirements, and Post production validation
• Strong business acumen with the ability to comprehend/anticipate evolving technologies and its impact on the product line and industry with customer focus mindset.
• A proactive planner with expertise in technology plan execution, product roadmap visualization.
• Well-balanced leadership skills to build and nurture high quality teams.
• Well versed with offshore - onsite models with various countries, India, US, UK, Australia.
• Expert in provision project/service delivery model while balancing risks and mitigation with engaging stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

DOMAIN: Health Insurance, Manufacturing, ERP, Mobility, P&C Insurance.

Tools: & Technologies: VSTS 2010/12, MS Project,, TFS Product Studio, Quality Center, Rally, JIRA MS Visio, Quality Center, MTM, C# .Net, Confluence, Release Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Monterey, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Ensuring Implementation TDD driven development
• Implementing ATDD based development.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner, Project Manager, and Technical Lead to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value, risk mitigation and timely delivery
• Helped the team stay focused by removing impediments, protecting them from distractions and keeping team meetings lean and efficient
• Coordinated software testing and deployment activities with other development teams
• Experience solving complex problems (Business and Technical) and identifying options for solutions.
• Mentoring team of implementing best agile practices
• Following release management process through confluence
• Conducting retrospective using STOP, START, CONTINUE methodologies.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with 5 different techno skills (Mobile App, Apigee, Sitecore, .Net, Forgerock) teams for implementing changes to Mobile App which was Fixed price project.
• Experience of Agile Metrics Reporting and capturing LOE’s - Burn down/up techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling defect.
• Working with OSS systems, gathering and monitoring data traffic.
• Conducting hardening sprint for defects and for regression testing.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Preparing support handover documents so that before release handover should go smoothly to production team.
• Mentoring Junior Scrum Masters.
• Tracking all scrum to make sure all scrum ceremonies are executed properly.
• Conducting SOS meeting with all other Scrum Masters.
• Track team velocity and sprint/release progress to make sure sprint is on track.
• Ensuring Implementation TDD driven development
• New scrum team formation, grooming and improving performance.
• Conducting daily stand ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Estimating backlog using T-shirt mechanism.
• Implementing Acceptance test based driven development (ATDD) development.
• Coordinating with TDM, BA for further backlog updates for different scrums.
• Discussion with all the stakeholders on architecture and Product backlog.
• Conducting SOS meetings with different scrum masters to resolve any impediments.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders for gathering requirements.
• Conducting daily standup, pre-sprint planning, and sprint planning meetings.
• Also responsible for conducting retrospective sprints and demo for the application against user requirements.
• Fortnightly call with Test lead to discuss any improvements in scrum.
• Act as Scrum master for the projects and Facilitated sprint planning as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams - TFS
• Facilitated daily standup meetings, set up sprint reviews, grooming sessions, sprint planning sessions and retrospectives - the entire sprint life cycle.
• Keeping TDM (Technical Delivery Manager up to date with progress of current sprint.
• Help team for any technical resolution in terms of coding or peer reviews.
• Responsible for implementing agile methodology throughout the project life cycle.
• Preparing Release documentation before release to make sure all components are going in production.
• Created and maintained information tools: sprint board, burn-down charts, burn-up charts, progress dashboards, etc.
• Managed and delegated production support team to resolve onsite and Online/live defects.
• Report project milestones and risks and manage bug tracking tool and production queues.
• Expert and well versed in running SCRUM, Triage meeting, Specification Review and SLA Documentations.
• Communicate effectively with Stakeholders on upcoming technologies by conducting Demos, UAT sessions, and SME working Sessions.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Track team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
• Resolve any conflicts if any within team.
• Worked with the Product Owner, Technical Delivery Manager, and Test Lead to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value, risk mitigation and timely delivery
• Coordinating with other scrums for different issues.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Updating share point site with up to date information about resources and VM details.
• Ensure that through regression testing happens for changes team has made for the release on pre-prod environment.
• Coordinated System testing and deployment activities with other development teams and environment teams.
• Escalation issues to Senior management as appropriate.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Product Owner, Technical Delivery Manager to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value and timely delivery
• Updating TDM’s with progress of the scrum and major road blocks if any.
• Conduct daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Escalation issues to Senior management as appropriate.
• Updating share point site with up to date information about resources and VM details.
• Coaching team for scrum related activities
• Maintaining artifacts about scrum like preparing Solution outline document.
• Preparing Presentation for Sprint Review meeting mentioning goals of current sprint.

Environment: VB.Net, C#, NUnit

Confidential

Developer/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working on production defect scrum in Kanban mode
• Conduct daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting
• Escalation issues to Senior management as appropriate.
• Updating share point site with up to date information about resources and VM details.

Environment: VB.Net, C#, NUnit, Java

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution
• Successfully handled coordination activities onsite.
• Assisting the onsite team during the pre & pro application release activities.

Environment: VB.Net, C#, NUnit

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designing of the Front End as per the Design Document
• Designing &Coding of the business logic for the system.
• ADO.NET programming.
• Designing of various reports using Crystal Report 9.0
• Working on System test as well as UAT defects.

Environment: C#, ADO.NET Entity Framework, Crystal Reports

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution

Environment: Visual Foxpro 9.0, SQL Server 2000

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution

Environment: Visual Foxpro 9.0, SQL Server 2000