SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with more than 7 years of experience in leading IT service delivery, providing strategic businessplanning, and driving improvement initiatives to support corporate objectives and managing diverse teams.
• Expertise in understanding the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with emphasis on the Analysis and Design phases using UML and Use cases.
• Effective communicator adept at partnering with senior staff and cross - functional teams to achieve goals.
• Executed strong client leadership and project management to ensure customer delivery.
• Experienced in conducting Agile ceremonies- Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint backlog, Sprint Planning, Program Increment planning, Daily Stand Ups, Retrospective
• Proficient in driving organization wide agile adoption, TDD, BDD, Pair programming, removing impediments, fostering self-management and facilitating timeboxed Scrum ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Backlog grooming
• Experienced leader skilled in managing IT teams and developing staff to exceed expectations.
• Experienced in all aspects of building and leading high-functioning groups including staffing, resource planning, budget development, and training.
• Plan, deploy and lead all lean activities that will produce significant cost saving though productivity, quality, waste reduction improvements, and improving business processes.
• Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from development, QA and technical support teams.
• Experienced with Project/Program management tools like JIRA and Rally.
• Strong hands-on experience working with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, JIRA, Rally, Microsoft office suite.
• Creating tickets in Jira for reporting bugs and follow up bug fixes
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, able to comfortably converse with all facets in the client's organization.
• Organized and goal-oriented, Analytical problem-solver, able to anticipate issues and create new systems that streamline operations, resolve concerns and improve efficiency.
• Knowledge of security issues, techniques, and implications across computing platforms.
• Have good understanding of security awareness training to users and IT Personnel and Business Continuity plans and processes.
• Experience in Agile methodologies, Scrum, business process re-engineering, reviewing existing processes, conducting gap analysis, and making recommendations for enhancements
• Key contributor in the areas of Agile/Scrum methodologies, strategic planning, risk management, conflict management, scrum of scrums.
• Have ability to work with virtual teams (offshore/onshore teams), define process improvements, and manage stakeholder expectations
• Have good negotiation and interpersonal skills, analytical mind & comprehensive problem detection/ solving abilities.
• Highly motivated and self-starter with passion for excellence; have excellent organizational, time management, analytical and reasoning skills combined with good verbal and written communication skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for executing Scrum master activities in Agile SAFe environment
• Responsible for time-boxed sprint planning and execution
• Proactively tracked, recorded, removed and escalated impediments
• Involved in Business planning, data analysis and process analysis along with the team.
• Involved in huge data transmission form waterfall to Agile methodology.
• Facilitated and provide guidance to Daily Standup's, Sprints, Demonstrations & Retrospectives
• Experience working with multiple cross functional teams in handling the project.
• Facilitated team with Web services development project
• Supported Engineering and Professional Services teams in developing, maintaining and grooming the Product Backlog
• Experienced with Project/Program management tool like JIRA and Rally.
• Assisting Product Owner to author User stories in JIRA and create a backlog of the stories to be used for the Release Planning and Sprint Planning.
• Responsible for setting up and managing projects in JIRA including determining scheduling and resource requirements.
• Involved in the creation of complex JIRA workflows including project workflows, field configurations, screen schemes, permission schemes and notification schemes.
• Creating tickets in Jira for reporting bugs and follow up bug fixes
• Worked with the Product Owner (PO) on a regular basis to develop a comprehensive backlog of User Stories that define the work that have to be developed by the team;
• Facilitated the teams in identifying and managing dependencies with in Product development
• Served as mentor and coach for agile methodologies to members of scrum team, product owner and other Project leaders
• Shielded team from external interfaces during the sprints
• Managed cross functional team deliverables, setting and administering schedules and managed assigned projects according to plan
• Represented the team at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress.
• Participated in SCRUM of SCRUM in SAFe framework, conducted daily SCRUM in PI level, Sprint planning, Sprint review meetings, worked closely with other product owners to groom Product backlogs, maintain burn-down chart.
• Responsible for executing and managing scaled agile transformation effort (SAFe).
• Constantly assed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and mentored the team to higher levels of maturity and assisted Scrum of Scrums.
• Developed SCRUM reports and artifacts to include User Stories, Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential - Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with SME's to elicit business goals and define goal-level requirements.
• Creating detailed documentation containing business objective, vision and scope, preliminary estimates, infrastructure impact assessment and risk factors.
• Construct Data flow diagrams and document the AS-IS business processes
• Defined and implemented Change Management policies and procedures
• Performed QA on functional specifications for enhancements and interfaces authored by Design Team consultants.
• Co-ordinated with all developers and project stakeholders to lead a kickoff meeting.
• Defined and introduced the project, team member's roles, and key deliverables. Map out timelines, milestones, communication processes, question and answer session
• Directed the project using rational methodologies and acted as an RUP consultant for the whole project life cycle.
• Extracted, normalized, analyzed and review the report with respect to data efforts related to proactive fraud identification procedures.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML
• Designed and lead workshops using coaching and creativity to access and express values, vision and dreams.
• Involved extensively in Project Planning and Management in the areas of Scheduling, Team Building.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, also worked with risk management / operational.
• Worked closely with data conversion team for populating the system with master data such as functional locations, equipment, task lists, maintenance plans.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers
• Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.
• Developed System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing(UAT) plan for testing the upgrade and new modules
• Train teams in Agile Development including the use of Project Management Tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Scrum Master

Confidential - Spartanburg, SC

Responsibilities:

• Product documentation, roadmap and execution from concept to deployment for clients/ traders
• Mapped customer's requirement in the form of product backlog, divided to use cases, functional flow charts and data flow charts
• Analyzed user-behavior and implemented data-driven initiatives for staple requirements and future sales
• Managed role of Scrum Master and leveraged expertise while conducting product backlog refinement, daily standups, scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meetings, target setting, and defined the Sprint backlog and burn-down chart
• Coordinated the test procedures to ensure minimal impact to the production environment
• Monitored progress against business functionality, requested objectives to ensure that projects meetthe specific release criteria.
• Captured and clarified business requirements through a range of analysis techniques (data flow diagrams, sequence diagram, case tool analysis, gap analysis and work and process flow diagrams Captured and clarified business requirements through a range of analysis Verified Business, Functional and Technical Requirements, Use cases, test cases by working with all the stake holders - Business team, Architects and Development team members at onsite and offshore
• Involved in understanding business problems and transformed these into EPICs/Feature and User Stories
• Involved in conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements, sessions with stake holders, articulated and created the requirements in effective User Story/scopes
• Monitored progress and completion reports on a weekly basis, utilized creative problem solving, negotiation skills to resolve issues, manage timelines, and deliver a quality product
• Helped UI team with the mock-ups clarification and worked with all departments to ensure UI proposals satisfy business, rating, compliance, legal, performance, technical and other needs
• Reviewed system changes requested by other departments to ensure requirement validation and documentation
• Performed end-user acceptance testing of site changes to confirm deployment.

Scrum Master

Confidential, -Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Specialized in IT product and project implementation framework such as Agile (SCRUM, XP), Lean Kanban, Agile project management, SDLC.
• Focus on business value, timely delivery and quality software.
• Ensure clear communication and organization of all development team Program Increment(PI) objectives.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies.
• Identify and remove impediments for development teams. Protect teams from both internal and external distractions.
• Support and educate the Product Owner on scrum best practices, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure user stories are fully vetted and include all necessary requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Work with stakeholders, PMO and PO to prioritize user stories and formally plan sprints.
• Hold regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate team achievements.
• Support a culture of continuous process improvement through sprint retrospectives and metrics analysis.
• Encourage adoption of a truly Agile mindset, including ownership, self-organization and empowerment.
• Work with Delivery Management team to coordinate the release to production result of QA manual testing and certification.
• Proficient in release and project planning, risk management, contingency plans, reporting, communication alignment, self-managed and cross-functional teams coaching, quality control processes.
• Broad experience in Offshore resource coordination and management.
• Experience in research, introduction and implementation of new tools and solutions including outsourced, offshore development process.
• Worked with DevOps team to coordinate the release to production result of a continuous integration.
• Used JIRA and Confluence to manage sprints, documentation and product road map.