SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in IT, 5+ years as Project Manager cum Scrum Master and 7+ years as Lead Test Analyst.
• Extensive experience in organizing Scrum Ceremonies ( Confidential Planning, Confidential Retrospectives, Daily stand - ups Confidential Review, Backlog refinement, SoS, User Stories and estimates, numerous Burndown techniques, velocity, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.
• Hands on experience with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to help and facilitate Release Planning Events, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Team status reports and Gather and maintain team metrics
• Proficient with Agile techniques User Stories, ATDD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing, Agile Games (Planning poker)
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Proven record as Project Manager in developing plans for disaster recovery, change management, resource allocation, including budget creation, infrastructure and device readiness.
• Diligent project management skills offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects, finance and health domains experience.
• Business strategist plan and manage projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator, leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams
• Assisting team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards
• Coached and trained teams on Agile techniques and Agile / Scrum Values
• Expert at handling multiple client projects onsite-offshore project teams members including Developers, Business Analysts, QA and Release Teams
• Experience in a DevOps setting with agile project tracking tools, source code management, configuration management, build, deployment and test automation tools at enterprise level

KEY SKILLS:

• SAFe, LeSS, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP
• Agile framework for project management & Process Implementation
• Risk Assessment, Impact Analysis and Risk Mitigation
• Cross-Functional Team Building and Leadership
• Task Estimation/Effort Estimation
• Audits & assessments
• Onsite-Offshore Project Engagements
• Negotiation and Communication with Stakeholders
• DevOps, CI, CD, TDD, ATDD, BDD, FDD
• Client management
• Microsoft’s Technical Foundation Server (TFS)
• PMI standards based Project Management
• Training/Coaching/ Mentoring
• Change Control Management
• Process Change/ Improvement
• Process Management
• Problem/Incident/Change Management
• Quality Assurance
• Quality planning & Implementation
• Total Quality Management
• Continuous process improvements
• People/Resource Management
• IT Operations
• Lean/ Kanban, Agile, SAFe JIRA, Confluence, Sococo
• JENKINS, Maven, GIT hub, Puppet
• VersionOne
• Rally
• IBM RTC
• Systems Thinking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Scrum master for two Scrum teams
• Worked on breaking the Epics and Features into the User stories and loaded them into sprints in Jira.
• Worked on the Confluence tool in preparing impediments list and the retrospective items.
• Worked on the user story acceptance criteria refinement.
• Worked on the INVEST criteria for the user stories in the backlog and worked on prioritizing them.
• Responsible to include all the required specifications, links and wire frames in the user stories.
• Interacted with stake holders/product owners to gather the requirements and to map them with the User stories.
• Responsible for the matrix reports like burn down charts, burn up charts and the velocity graphs.
• Point of contact for any external dependencies or escalations for both the Scrum teams.
• Worked with the product owner in creating the Features and User stories.
• Responsible for conducting the Planning poker sessions to point out the user stories during the planning meetings.
• Updated the Confidential progress to the product owner/stakeholders on regular basis.
• User Story preparations as per the client expectations and help the scrum team to understand them.
• Ensured that the user stories in the backlog are prioritized and estimated, which includes scheduling and facilitating the planning poker sessions.
• Monitored the burn down charts on daily basis and removed the impediments to the team to maintain the pace of the scrum team.
• Established multiple scrum/agile teams, capable of handling multiple scrum teams - leading and coaching the teams
• Facilitating Confidential Planning and Estimations, Product backlog grooming, Retrospective and Confidential Reviews & Demos
• Reporting in scrum of scrums and highlight various dependencies, risks and issues; Highlighting the same in status reporting
• Removing impediments by finding the right personnel. Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Gathered all the points shared in the retrospective meetings and prepared the Minutes of Meetings and also the action items.
• Ensured to address the retrospective action items by the scrum team/respective members before the next Confidential planning.
• Facilitated getting the work done without force, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Helped the senior scrum master/RTE to facilitate the scrum of scrums and the Program Increment (PI) meetings as per SAFe.
• Gathered and reported the velocity graphs to the stake holders for both scrum teams before each Program Increment (PI) meeting.
• Helped the team in understanding the agile concepts and the agile practices to improve the team’s delivery.
• Reviewed the User Stories with scrum team to identify the gaps in the Acceptance Criteria and update them as required.
• Participated in the bi-weekly Production checkouts and releases along with the team and helped in UAT testing as required.
• Suggested few changes in communication process and data exchange between Offshore and Onshore which reduced the dependency or wait time between the teams.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Oracle,Mainframe, Hadoop,HIV,Jira, Conflunce, Sococo,Bamboo,GITHub

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led 3 teams each with 7- 8 members across US,UK,India
• Followed kanban whiteboard techniques leveraging jira
• Organized product backlog refinement and User Stories grooming sessions with product owner
• Facilitated product backlog review and prioritization meetings in partnership with product owners and to take an opportunity to refine user-stories and mentor product owners.
• Coach external teams on scrum and agile methodlogies to win acceptence across the company
• Instruct core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility and ensure consistent of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Chaired whereas Confidential ceremonies- Confidential planning, daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, working software demos.
• Worked with development and QA managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Update project stakeholders about the team velocity and teams daily and weekly status using numerous Burndown techniques and numerous Retrospective formats
• Ensured all users stories within current Confidential are properly documented and moved along the kanban board in jira
• Assisted team to make appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing, task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards
• Shielded Confidential team from any interruptions, change request, and external impediments thus ensuring the Confidential stayed on track
• Organized By weekly show and tell meetings at the end of each Confidential invited leadership, so that team can demo the developed stories in the Confidential
• Participated in monthly and quarterly enterprise release planning meeting in prioritizing and committing the Confidential user stories

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Oracle 11.0, Java, Jenkins, Maven, GIT Hub, Tomcat Server, Puppet, Linux, logs4j, Unix, Artifacts, Putty, SQL and Jira

Confidential

PM / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple Agile teams on SAFe methodologies with knowledge of embedded SDLC process
• Scrum master for ( Confidential Trading and Release) teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards project and release goals
• Chaired multiple client projects onsite-offshore project India, UK & USA teams members including Developers, Business Analysts, and QA Personnel
• Facilitated and Conducting demos and retrospective meetings.
• Facilitated meetings for the agile team that's held to come up with work agreements and sees the team follows all work agreements.
• Facilitated and Helping teams to understand and follow Agile techniques and agile/scrum values
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to led teams across broad technical, financial, business disciplines clients and to produce high-quality deliverables that meet timeline and budgetary targets.
• Managed project resources including procuring project staff, developing, motivating, coaching and advising
• Lead or partner on end-to- end project planning, risk, issue identification, dependency tracking, escalation, and change management on all assignments.
• Contributed to Confidential Trading and Release Scrum Team in improving the way there work Organized
• Initiated scrum teams for better creativity and to improve the efficiency of the development team.
• Managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
• Expert in removing the impediments for the scrum team.
• Expert in facilitating Confidential planning meetings, daily stand-up meetings, schedule meetings and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Helping product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next Confidential .
• Executed wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for updating project stake holder about team valocity, teams daily and weekly status using numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats and handling bugs.
• Assisted closely Development, QA and Release managers to identify cross-team impediments, dependencies and resolve them
• Expert in using widely successful Agile techniques User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Testing and Automated Testing
• Involved of transforming team members into Agile/Scrum from waterfall methodologies
• Acts as servant leader and safeguarding the team from internal and external distractions
• Organized and executed Agile team training, SAFe and Agile Confidential Ceremonies
• Build end to end process to link Software and hardware from requirements to deployment to UAT, Production
• Expert in setting up scrum teams in organizations which have moved from waterfall to agile fully
• Involved in SOS meetings under RTE

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Oracle 11.0, Data warehouse, ASP.Net, Java, Jenkins, Maven, GIT Hub, Tomcat Server, Puppet, Linux, logs4j, Unix, Artifacts, Putty, SQL and Jira

Confidential

Scrum Master / Lead Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead 6 members testing team.
• Lead multiple agiile teams as Scrum master for ( Confidential Trading and Release) teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards project and release goals
• Facilitating and Conducting product backlog refinement (PBR) with producat owner (PO)
• Facilitating and Conducting stories grooming sessions, Confidential planning meetings, daily standups meetings and Confidential Demos meetings
• Holding Retrospective Meetings and Increase Productivity of Development Teams and Organization.
• Expert in using agile tools like JIRA for better planning and tracking.
• Keeping Team Focused on Current Confidential Requirements.
• Facilitating and Helping teams to understand and fallow Agile techniquies and agile/scrum values
• Worked closely with Developement, QA and Release managers to identify cross-team impedements, dependencies and resolove them
• Produced test estimates, test plans and delivered test preparation/execution across multiple projects ensuring that agile methodologies were implemented where possible.
• Expert in using widely successful Agile techniques User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Testing and Automated Testing
• Part of transforming team members into Agile/Scrum from waterfall methodologies
• Acts as servent leader and safeguarding the team from internal and external distractions

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Oracle, ASP.Net, Data warehouse, Java, SQL, Jenkins, Tomcat Server, Linux, Unix, Artifacts and Jira

Confidential

Lead Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and reviewing the technical, BRS and application design documents
• Participating in strategy meeting and periodical business meeting with product owner, BA and all the stake holders
• Testing methodology, processes and procedures are implemented throughout the life cycle of the project
• Identifying priorities in consulting with the client and changing the schedules.
• Project coordination and Requirement gathering
• Planning project execution and Involved in Emergency process for the last minute deliverables.
• Organized project timelines by considering the number of resources, tables involved, files involved, lines of code involed.
• Prepared Software Builds and release documentation for production deployment
• Facilitated and Coordinated to make sure to have transparent communication between onsite/offshore team members.
• Facilitated quick meetings within the teams and cross-functional teams at the time of emergency/production issues.
• Training and mentoring new team members.
• Timesheet management/Leave management of the team members.
• IR(Incident report) management using Jira

Environment: Oracle, ASP.Net, Java, Jira, Putty, Tomcat Server, Linux and Unix

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the user Requirement Specifications (SRS) and design documents.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and STLC
• Reviewed and analyzed the system requirements, program design, coding, and testing.
• Prepared Test scenarios, Test Cases, Reporting bugs and analyzing reporting bugs using QC
• Performed System testing and UAT testing based on the functional requirements and product specifications of the application.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing manually
• Reported defects with reference to severity and priority.
• Interacted with developers to discussed technical problems, reported bugs and support the development team
• Initially tested the application manually and later automated the testing process using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed End-to-End testing from the On Demand to the Answers Reports which involves backend as well as front end testing.
• Scheduled jobs to run the backend processes using Unix commands through Putty.
• Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional and Regression testing.
• Interacted with developers and System Analysts to discuss technical problems, functional requirements and supported the development team.
• Coordinating with all teams to make sure they understand the deliverables, scope of the project and project deadlines.
• Prepared Software Builds and release documentation for production deployment.

Environment: Oracle, ASP.Net, Java, Bugzilla and QC