PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 9+ years of Information Technology professional with extensive experience as Scrum Master, Project Manager, Tech lead and developer.
• Experienced project manager/Scrum master offering 6+ years of success and known for high - quality deliverables and leading multiple teams involving Application development, Product Development, re-engineering project and Infrastructure Uplift projects.
• Plan and manage multiple medium to large-scale technical, business and strategic projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage.
• Strong working knowledge and accumulated good working experience on the various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in software methodologies like agile, waterfall and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Hands on experience in preparation of project artifacts like Hours Estimations (Work Breakdown Structure), Requirements Gathering, Requirement prioritization, Requirements tractability matrix, Analysis & Design document, Unit Test specification and Unit Test Results, System Test Plan during each phase of development.
• Good experience in Quality Assurance methodologies for 5+ years with extensive knowledge in manual testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, End to End, Usability, Ad-hoc and Regression. Actively involved in preparation of test strategy, test plans, test status reporting and test scenario matrix.
• Proficient in delivery of regular progress, status, defect, projected and actual execution, risk assessment to the members of management and other stakeholders.
• Experience in Managing offshore/onshore Team models
• Resourceful team player and capable to work independently and multi task without negative impact to timelines or quality

TECHNICAL SKILLSET

Tools: and Technology: Oracle CPQ, Siebel CRM, HP Exstream, COBOL, JCL, DB2, HTML, PHP, UNIX, WINSCP, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, Smart TS, Tableau, Jenkins, Git, SVN, Chef, Puppet, BitBucket And Workflow Management System(WMS).

Database: MSSQL, Oracle, Access and DB2

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, Control D Reports, Cognos, Sales Audit and CA View.

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, Team Track

Project Management tools: Agility, Jira, Rally, Clarity, MS Project, MS Office 365, SharePoint, Clear case and MS Visio.

Methodologies: SDLC, Kanban, Agile, Waterfall and Dev Ops.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern, Philadelphia

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing 2 team one with Scrum and other with Kanban.
• Use Jira for bug tracking and project management.
• Use Jira to create Epics, Story, Acceptance criteria, sub tasks.
• Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint retrospective.
• Maintain daily scrum boards, by to leading daily cross-functional meetings with developers, testers in-house and off shore resources.
• Track and managed product backlog, burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Follow a release Calendar and coordinate with multiple team to plan the release for my team based on the upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Work closely with project team and business team to develop a detailed release plan which has list of task to be performed, what time to perform and who will perform.
• Partner with stakeholders and performing Front running session to understand, analyze and document business requirements documents (BRD).
• Lead decomposition meetings with the technical team to clarify the requirement which will help the IT team for estimations.
• Promote CI/CD and automation processes across all teams.
• Intentionally and incrementally deliver software solutions that promote effective DevOps.
• Provided technical assistance for development and integration of DevOps tools.
• Manage team’s supporting all prod releases including enterprise release, weekly releases and special projects.
• Identify, resolve project issues and effectively communicate risks to project sponsor, stakeholders, team members and external team.
• Lead requirements gathering, future state design and fit-gap analysis workshops with business stakeholders.
• Design future state of the CPQ application by analyzing requirements, constructing workflow charts and diagrams, studying system capabilities.
• Monitor and manage approvals within CPQ application using the Workflow Management System (WMS)
• Managing issues resolution, change management, deployment activities, project closing & lessons learned sessions.

Confidential, Philadelphia

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Use Rally and Clarity to create Epics, Story, Acceptance criteria, sub tasks.
• Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint retrospective.
• Maintain daily scrum boards, by to leading daily cross-functional meetings with developers, testers in-house and off shore resources.
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management/refinement for continuous delivery of features.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Partner with stakeholders and performing Front running session to understand, analyze and document business requirements documents (BRD).
• Lead decomposition meetings with the technical team to clarify the requirement which will help the IT team for estimations.
• Prepare the project plan to ensure all the activities are planned to meet organizational goals and milestones.
• Identify the resource needs and prepare the resource plan for entire project duration.
• Identify and work towards mitigating risks across the product development life cycle.
• Ensure that all the dependencies and impediments have been taken care to ensure timely development.
• Ensuring that all the documentation is as per defined SDLC and Audit standards
• Conduct acceptance test to the application to make sure business requirements are met with no defects.
• Track the Defects identified during Testing in a defect log and follow up until the problem is resolved and verified.
• Managing issues resolution, change management, deployment activities, project closing & lessons learned sessions. Achievements
• Got appreciated by business and stakeholders for successful migration of Ecommerce workflow from mainframe & JCL to Java & UNIX technology without any major issues.
• Got appreciated by clients for successfully implementing of the project using agile methodology.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a lead driver of the project success, facilitating the resolution of day-to-day business, technical and general project issues
• Developed and implemented detailed Process Re-engineering plans to maximize the results of the new system.
• Facilitate reviews and status reporting.
• Assessment of Code of 130 programs of Authorizations module.
• Gap Analysis for Non Standard Codes and provide Recommendations for EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) Compliance and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliance to reduce fraud losses.
• Involved in creating the final presentation having the assessment outcome and recommendation.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the functional Design/Detail Design Review meetings.
• Created Functional Designs from the Business Requirement Documents.
• Feasibility study of the system and Impact Analysis.
• Technical support to Development and Testing.
• Create new feature or modify existing feature in statements using HP Exstream tool.
• Preparing test scenarios for Unit testing, System Testing, Regression and E2E testing.
• Done Code review to make sure the development has technical and functional programming standards
• Track the Defects identified during Testing in a defect log and follow up until the problem is resolved
• Facilitate management reviews and status reporting.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering.
• Feasibility study of the system.
• Developed, designed, unit test and performed integrate testing of the functional modules.
• Assessment of Assembler Codes for finding the list of programs having office number hard coded.