SUMMARY:

An Information Technology professional of 12 years of experience with high energy, result driven program/project manager who has managed and delivered multiple portfolio of projects (of different sizes) using agile and waterfall methodologies. I have worn many hats in my career - Scrum Master, project manager, Project Lead, business analyst, Selenium Tester, SAS Programmer and Data Analyst. As a result, I have a unique ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects and navigate through complex challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Language: Java, SQL, C

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle 11g

Project Tools: Rally, Jira, HP-ALM, Selenium, Postman, Soap UI, SAS Base 9 and Share point

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, V Model, SCRUM, KANBAN,SAFe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings for 3 agile teams.
• Coach team members on agile principles and provide general guidance on methodology.
• Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management, providing updates to scrum dashboard.
• Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Work with the product owner and team to manage the backlog of development issues and help PO to create the user stories in MVP.

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted successful requirements gathering meetings with key business users and clients for better understanding of the model
• Organizing and facilitating project planning, Project Kick off Meeting, Weekly updates reviews, release planning, demos, and other Project related milestone.
• Coach team members on agile principles and provide general guidance on agile methodology.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Working with the Business owner and team to manage the project milestone deliveries.
• Collaborate with various level of management within the areas of responsibilities, including the functions within the 1st line of defense.
• Manage presentations and status reporting for direct team and senior leadership.

Confidential, Riverwood, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the project requirements, identified the automation scenarios and prepared the test execution plan.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Coach team members on agile principles and provide general guidance on methodology.
• Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management, providing updates to scrum dashboard.
• Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Communicated and took the part in the project meeting with the clients.
• Prepared and reviewed of Test Cases / scripts for the project in selenium tool.
• Facilitated resolution of any project issues (e.g. potential delays) and risks including attempted resolution by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate
• Introduced and practiced In sprint automation for Agile team
• Reviewed and contributed to implementation tools and documents used both internally and by customers.
• Prepared strategies for Regression testing, Smoke testing, Production testing, API testing and GUI testing.
• Managed overall project communications, including presentations and status reporting for direct team and reported to senior management

Confidential, DEERFIELD, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assembled the scrum team (which included the Product Owner (business SME), Architect, developers, UX specialist; testers); used 3 week sprints; product backlog and sprint planning (assigned user story priority and defined the acceptance criteria); helped to determine the testing criteria - manual and automated test scripts using quality Center and Selenium), backlog grooming, daily stand ups, sprint and release retrospectives, velocity and work burn down charts and backlog grooming/prioritization with product owner and team members.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress. Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
• Coach team members on agile principles and provide general guidance on methodology.
• Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management, providing updates to scrum dashboard.
• Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Work with the product owner and team to manage the backlog of development issues.
• Assess testing programs designed to evaluate compliance risk and control environments.
• Collaborate with various level of management within the areas of responsibilities, including the functions within the 1st line of defense.

Confidential, DEERFIELD, IL

SAS Programing and Quality Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Team in defining Test Plans, Test Cases and automation of Test Scripts. Facilitated them in performing Unit, Integration and System Testing. Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure whether all the User Requirements were met by the application
• Coordinated all implementation tasks and other Pharmacy Digital project work, as part of a team including consult ants and other roles
• Created and maintained detailed project plans, test design, test execution, monitoring project progress and managing scope, risks and escalations for PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management) project migration.
• Prepared strategies for Regression testing, Smoke testing, Patch testing, and GUI testing.
• Involved in Database testing using SQL along with developers and coordinated to solve the problems encountered in the application
• Performed analysis on the data arrived from client side and generated customized reports according to the requirements
• Used SAS for generated code which can give output to the desired formats
• SORTING, MERGING and summarizing the SAS datasets using SAS tools
• SAS Graph is used to generate the monthly graphs
• Effectively and efficiently communicate important information about the project including, but not limited to, project status, key decisions, issue resolutions, and scope, budget, and schedule changes throughout the life of the assigned projects .

Confidential

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Requirement Analysis and created clarification documents. Provided Project Estimates of costs and time to implement.
• Created Test Plan and Designed Test Scenarios. Reviewed Test Cases and Test Scenarios written by other team members.
• Developed Execution System and Regression Test Cases. Performed Defect Reporting and Tracking. Participation in Defect Review meetings to track progress.
• Coordinated Weekly Status meetings with clients and defined project specific metrics and their collection.
• Certified the product for production and mentored and provided technical guidance to new resources to the team.
• Loaded Data into Input Files and Verification of Log Files and ran Service jobs and carried out tests of critical services..

Confidential

Data Analyst and SAS Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Audited and validated data reported by 1st tier and selected 2nd tier partners. Provided data to be used for compensation of Sales Representatives
• Performed clerical accounting duties for Finance/Accounting department. Prepared financial documents such as checks and invoices, as well as financial reports
• Used SAS for generated code which can give output to the desired formats
• SORTING, MERGING and summarizing the SAS datasets using SAS tools
• Verify classify, post, and reconcile financial records. Maintained appropriate records and filing systems. Identified accounting issues and recommended solutions to supervisor