SUMMARY:

• Certified Professional Scrum Master/Professional Scrum Product Owner with over 6 years of experience in developing and project management/servant leadership with onsite/offshore scrum teams involved in multiple projects.
• Prior experience in leading development teams for large scale projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows (10, 8, 7, Linux, Unix.)

Languages: C, Java, Java script, HTML, CSS, Robot framework scripting.

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle.

Data visualization: Excel (Pivot table), Microstrategy, Tableau.

Bug tracking tools: JIRA, HP ALM - QC, TFS, Rally.

Document management tools: Fuel, SharePoint, Confluence.

Tools: MS Visio, Office, Power Point, Project management, Word.

Data analysis & reporting tools: Microstrategy, Pivot Table, Tableau.

Methodologies: Agile, Iterative, Test Driven Development (TDD), waterfall.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of migrating processes from waterfall model to agile.
• Trained development team as an agile coach about the agile process flows and adoption of scrum framework.
• Created high performing, self - organized teams that can’t wait to get into the office
• Challenged assumptions about, how to work together/develop product & collaborate for finding a better way.
• Acted as servant leader/built consensus through collaboration & gained ability to influence without authority.
• Established scrum teams, facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review/retrospectives
• Managed as a JIRA admin to accommodate project’s needs/workflow transitions by creating projects and Kanban board configurations and settings.
• Managed multiple projects in parallel including hot fixes and patches.
• Created shared queries to highlight the user stories in the current sprint
• Provided management with project report/burn down charts & velocities to make decision on projects.
• Sent surveys to scrum members and conducted retrospectives.
• Handled high pressure situations closure to the release dates to meet the project deadlines.
• Partnered with project manager and IT delivery owner to guide on agile release train(RT).
• Coordinated with release train engineer (RTE) and managed the content of agile release train (RT).
• Established program level cadence & drive program level ceremonies (scrum of scrums, release train retro).
• Coordinated with product owner & development teams with regards to release train schedules & follow ups.
• Coordinated with team to follow the TDD standards to make the process more efficient utilizing scrum.
• Successfully manged release schedules by following scrum framework extensively to overcome conflicts.
• Co-ordinated with build engineers & development teams to address deployment issues/smoke test blockers.
• Worked regularly with offshore team leads to ensure that projects are on track.
• Reduced dependencies by facilitating scrum of scrums between scrum teams after daily scrums.
• Worked closely with development team to make them recognize that, its team’s responsibility to be self-organized with regards to how the work performed and reduction of dependencies in between teams in a Scaled Agile framework environment (SAFE).
• Implemented SAFE agile practices within scrum teams to improve teams self-organizing practices & reduce dependency.
• Worked with fellow scrum masters in Scaled Agile environment (SAFE) to implement common practices in Organization.
• Was responsible for assigning urgent production issue to the responsible resources.
• Evaluated ROM’s for user stories and coordinated with product owners for Project planning, prioritized product backlog with user stories in JIRA, Kanban board based on business priorities & created subtasks.
• Created user story transition KanBan board from design to done phase for visualization & transparency.
• Protected the development team from distractions of organization changes and addressed the impediments.
• Co-ordinated with product owners, for user story/product backlog refinement during backlog grooming.
• Found inconsistencies in application & created defects for development & testing teams using JIRA as tool.
• Lead team agile development cycle CICD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Enabled the Scrum teams to perform at the highest level by instilling Scrum values, coaching the team, removing impediments and protecting the team from disruption.
• Trained teams in agile best practices across organization to maximize Scrum team performance & effectiveness.
• Coordinated with team to follow the test driven development (TDD) standards as part of the product discovery and thereby improving efficiency of the product with improved transparency of increment.
• Organized and facilitated team backlog management, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other Scrum-related rituals.
• Created dashboards in TFS to track progress of the sprint and maintain the product backlog for transparency.
• Assisted Product Owner as needed with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency, and disseminating information.
• Trained teams, individuals/organization in collaboration/transparency/iteration and being customer focused.
• Improved efficiency of workflow deliverables by addressing impediments & issues b/w offshore/onsite teams.
• Lead team agile development cycle CICD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).

Confidential

Lead Application Database Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the code through presentations layer using HTML, CSS and JSP for the e-commerce application.
• Developed back end stored procedures and triggers using SQL.
• Developed Controller components using Spring MVC framework.
• Written unit tests using JUnit framework.
• Worked with AJAX data consisting of JSON/XML/JSONP responses, parsing the same and presenting on the UI layer.
• Designed and implemented PHP MySQL solutions as per project specifications.
• Managed and maintained development of PHP backend for the dynamic database driven website.
• Created data dictionaries to run for validating data by running reports.
• Actively involved in code reviews and also in bug fixing.
• Developed the application using SCRUM agile methodology.
• Used SVN as version Control.