SUMMARY:

• More than 18 years total IT experience of which 13 years US experience working at direct client locations
• Has played client facing key roles with a progressive carrier growth in software engineering field
• A Certified Scrum Master, worked in Agile methodologies as a Scrum Master and implemented Scrum at organization level across different teams as an Agile coach and guided the team to adapt to Agile methodology and helped the teams to be self - organized.
• Have helped teams adapt SCRUM, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) frameworks in Development projects.
• Experienced in multiple ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tools including CA Agile Central (Rally), Confidential TFS (Team Foundation Server), Atlassian Jira, CollabNet Version One for managing requirements & tracking progress.
• Experienced in collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other Scrum Masters and document epic user stories, conduct backlog grooming, create user stories, conduct sprint planning sessions, and other Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, demo, retrospectives
• Conduct PSI (Potential Shippable Increment) Planning sessions, Release Planning sessions
• Drive Release status report, Sprint demo meetings, and present Business Value delivered from the Release & Sprint by the Scrum teams
• Drive Scrum of Scrum team meetings and provide high level status of the Scrum teams to Business and Project stakeholders
• Helped the teams be self-organized, emphasize on team collaboration, implement continuous process improvements by means of team retrospection
• Make the delivery teams understand the Sprint goals and establish team communication protocol, promote transparency, share Sprint progress with key stakeholders
• Highlight internal/external dependencies to shareholders and cross teams, resolve sprint impediments, resolve conflicts
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters, Program Managers, PMO to adapt organizational process, recommend process improvements, learn industry best practices and implement standards
• Implemented ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development), BDD (Behavior Driven Development), TDD (Test Driven Development)
• Experienced in Confidential Office suite products including MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio
• Have used a wide variety of team collaboration tools like HipChat, Slack, Skype for Business
• Have implemented and managed Scrum teams in a geographically distributed teams
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, team management skills. Quick learner, versatile, adaptable and process-oriented with high customer orientation.
• Domain experience include Healthcare, Travel & Hotel Industry, eCommerce, Digital Transformation, TechEd, Internet Advertisement/Marketing, Digital Archiving, Banking & Financial Institutions.
• Experienced as Scrum master working with teams delivering solutions in Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse, eCommerce, AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), Micro Services, Mobile App, Responsive Web, API/Web Services, MDM (Master Data Management), eCMS (Content Management System)
• Experienced in digital transformations of applications being developed for responsive web, mobile, cloud hosted and development/delivery using latest DevOps strategy including Containerization, CI/CD

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Java, Ruby, Groovy, XML, API, .NET

Business Intelligence: Confidential BI stack - SSIS, SSAS, SSRS

DevOps: Docker containers, Kubernetes, GIT, Jenkins

Cloud: AWS, Sauce Labs, bitbucket, GitHub

Test Automation: RESTAssured, Selenium, TestNG

Data Base: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MS-Access

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational Clear case, Rational Requisite Pro

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, SSRS, SSIS

ALM (App Lifecycle Mgm) Tools Jira, Ca Agile Central (Rally), MS TFS, Confidential, MS Project

Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

Processes/Technologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile

Utility Tools: Confluence, MS Office Suite, MS Project, TOAD, Adobe Photoshop, Azure, Adobe AEM

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process Analysis & Research, Use Case Modeling & Analysis, Technical Requirements Development, JAD/RAD Sessions, Requirements Gathering, Gap Analysis and Impact analysis

Documentation: Business Case Development, Process Flows & Navigation Maps, Wire frames / Storyboards, Test Plans, Test Scripts & Test Cases, Usability Analysis

Operating Systems: UNIX, Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows, MacOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners and help Product Owners prepare detailed product roadmap, help develop product backlog epic user stories
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, backlog grooming, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint demo, daily standup
• Help the teams being self-organized, remove impediments, mediate through conflicts
• Implemented ATDD process for development and testing that helped streamline delivery meets requirements.
• Planning, tracking & reporting of projects in Agile methodology using Ca Agile Central (Rally) tool
• Help the team create product information repository, information radiators
• Generated Burn down chart and tracked the status of each sprint cycle for that release
• Ensure PMO organization methodologies & processes are followed at project level
• Conduct PSI (Potential Shippable Increment) Planning sessions, Release Planning sessions
• Drive Release status report, Sprint demo meetings, and present Business Value delivered from the Release & Sprint by the Scrum teams
• Drive Scrum of Scrum team meetings and provide high level status of the Scrum teams to Business and Project stakeholders

Environment: /Tools: Ca Agile Central (Rally), Skype for Business, MS Project, MS Office, SharePoint, MS SQL Server, Oracle, XML, Java, Salesforce

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners and help Product Owners prepare detailed product roadmap, help develop product backlog epic user stories
• Help Product Owners prepare software release plan
• Implemented agile methodology, helped scrum teams to groom product backlog user stories, conduct scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, demo, retrospectives, daily stand-ups
• Implemented ATDD process for development and testing that helped streamline delivery meets requirements.
• Used SharePoint for collaboration
• Planning, tracking & reports of projects in Agile methodology using Jira tool
• Generate Burn down chart and tracked the status of each sprint cycle for that release.
• Negotiate with business to arrive at workaround solutions where technical implementation not feasible in current sprint cycles
• Ensure PMO organization methodologies & processes are followed at project level
• Coordinate with QA & UAT teams to review test plan, test strategy
• Coordinate with Security Testing teams to schedule Security Testing as part of the product development life cycle
• Coordinate with Security Testing teams to ensure software code is reviewed and tested to meet security guidelines laid down at organizational level
• Coordinate with IT Infrastructure teams to ensure availability of QA, UAT Test environments during testing cycles
• Coordinate with Dev and IT Infrastructure teams to ensure test environments are closely resembling Production environments on infrastructure, OS, software code baseline
• Coordinate with Dev, QA, UAT teams to ensure test environments have the production codebase before start of every major test cycles and that the code deployments happen at predetermined intervals
• Coordinate with Dev and Performance Engineering teams to schedule Performance Testing into product development cycle, ensure software product meets Performance requirements laid down by business
• Coordinate with QA, Business and Test Data teams to ensure Testing is carried out using correct test data points
• Conduct Bug Triages with Dev and QA to prioritize defects and help team focused on high impact areas
• Coordinate with Dev, DevOps, IT to plan production rollout, database backup, code deployment, verifications & rollback procedures
• Ensure product meets all functional requirements, security, performance guidelines laid down at organizational level. Review Design Documents, review Unit Testing and integration test coverage.

Environment: /Tools: Jira, HipChat, Oracle, XML, MS SQL Server, MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, SharePoint, XML, REST API, Selenium

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners and help develop product backlog epic user stories
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions with Product Owner, Dev Lead
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint demo, daily standup
• Help the teams remove impediments, mediate through conflicts, identify risks and mitigate with help from project stakeholders
• Implemented ATDD process for development and testing that helped streamline delivery meets requirements.
• Planning, tracking & reporting in Agile methodology using MS TFS tool
• Coordinate with Test Data team and QA, UAT teams for obtaining correct test data

Environment: Confidential TFS (Team Foundation Server), Skype for Business, Confidential Office, MS Visio, Adobe AEM, SQL Server Management Studio, MS SharePoint.

Confidential, South Lake, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Product owner in grooming sprint backlog
• Conducted sprint planning, daily standup meetings (scrum), demos, retrospectives, release planning and other Scrum-related activities
• Planning, tracking & reporting of projects in Agile methodology using Confidential tool
• Help the team create product documentation repository
• Generated Burn down chart and tracked the status of each sprint cycle for that release.
• Conduct PSI (Potential Shippable Increment) Planning sessions, Release Planning sessions
• Drive Release status report, Sprint demo meetings, and present Business Value delivered from the Release & Sprint by the Scrum teams

Environment: Confidential, Java, Jenkins, CVS, SOAP, XML, SQL, SharePoint

Confidential, San Francisco

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners and help Product Owners prepare detailed product roadmap, help develop product backlog epic user stories
• Implemented agile methodology, helped scrum teams to groom product backlog user stories, conduct scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, demo, retrospectives, daily stand-ups
• Help the teams being self-organized, remove impediments, mediate through conflicts
• Implemented TDD process for development and testing that helped streamline delivery meets requirements.
• Planning, tracking & reporting of projects in Agile methodology using Ca Agile Central (Rally) tool
• Help the team create product information repository, information radiators
• Generated Burn down chart and tracked the status of each sprint cycle for that release

Environment: /Tools: Ca Agile Central (Rally), Skype for Business, MS Project, MS Office, SharePoint, MS SQL Server, Oracle, XML, Java, Salesforce

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Business Intelligence Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business needs, gather and document Business requirements, Data Requirements, Reporting Needs
• Understand source data systems, source data formats, understand source data refresh frequency, understand source data refresh methods
• Understand duplicate data, understand de-dupe process, understand stale data, understand data conflicts
• Identify and document source data fields, document data transformation rules, document data mapping
• Define Data Model, define fact table, dimensions, SCD (Slowly Changing Dimensions)
• Review design documents for Extraction process, Transformation and Loading processes, review Staging database schema, review Data Warehouse database schema, review Fact table Snowflake schema
• Analyze and validate ETL jobs, validate data in staging tables, validate data in Data Warehouse tables and validate data in OLAP cubes
• Develop custom reports and validate standard Reports and validate custom Reports
• Identify and manage Risks, Issues, and Dependencies in a dashboard and tracked the status after assigning ownership and target dates.
• Prepare meeting minutes and upload to the SharePoint for Collaboration with the Project Team.
• Prepare weekly/monthly status report, conduct status meetings with stakeholders.

Environment: MS TFS, MS SQL Server, MS SSIS, SharePoint

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Effort estimation, budget and time estimation
• Managed shared resources and scheduling
• Planning, task allocation, coordination with business team, requirements understanding, development of features, testing, test automation
• Status tracking, Issue and Risk management
• Conduct Bug Triages, Status reporting

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planning, task allocation, coordination with business team, requirements understanding, development of features, testing, test automation
• Status tracking, Issue and Risk management
• Bug Triage, Status reporting

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Effort estimation, budget and time estimation
• As a Project lead, was responsible for Analysis, design, development of planned features
• Developed project tools for sour code compilation, source code extraction from MS Visual Source Safe
• Implemented Change control process and acted as Configuration Manager

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a product lead, was responsible for Analysis, design and development of hospital management system.
• Developed project tools