SUMMARY:

• Experienced lean Agile Scrum Master with over 4 years leading organizations in lean Agile transformation, by fostering an environment of continuous learning and improving and helping teams internalized the core values and principles of Agile and ensuring that the agreed process is being followed.
• A servant leader who understands that his growth comes from the growth of his teams, and willing to go above and Confidential to ensure they stay focus and reliably deliver high - value solutions to the business
• Experience working with distributed team.
• Good team leader, Player and can work alone with minimal or no supervision.
• Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to adapt to new and dynamic environments.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work with time constraints while paying attention to details.
• Good problem solving, judgment, and decision-making skill.
• Highly organized, functions well in a high-intensity, and constantly changing environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application lifecycle Management tools: JIRA, Zephyr, Rally, Confluence, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Client server, Windows, Android

Web Technology: XML, HTML, .Net, JAVA, C#,VBS

Other: MS Office suite, Outlook, Facets, Amisys Advance 6.4 and 6.4.4

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Regularly analyze key metrics impacting the velocity/performance of development teams and produce and share status reports that highlight any issues/blockers.
• Coaching and mentoring teams and the organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices to deliver value, maintain quality and continuously improve with predictable outcomes.
• Promoting team self-organization and leading best practices for distributed development teams comprised of local and remote employees and offshore partners.
• Support and works with team product owners to facilitate a healthy intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.
• Foster adoption of Safe values and principles.
• Assist PO in preparing and refining the backlog for PI and iteration planning.
• Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and Release Train and Engineer in the scrum of scrums.
• Assessing and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable for the team and organization.
• Removes impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint and release goals (internal and external to the team).
• Building a trusting, transparent and safe environment in which problems can be raised without fear of blame, or judgment, with an emphasis on learning, problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Facilitating effective, open collaboration through discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by the team and across stakeholders.
• Creating, maintaining, reporting and instilling organization-wide use of Agile metrics as indicators of success and measures for improvement and course correction.
• Assisting with internal and external communication by improving transparency and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlogs.
• Delivered a number projects and individual features and enhancements in a mixed Scrum / Kanban / SAFe environment.

Scrum Master

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Define Agile productivity KPIs with assigned team(s), and ensure continuous progress
• Partnering with the Product Owner, ensure assigned team(s) understand the objectives/goals and (changing) priorities of scope.
• Provide constant guidance to the team(s), fostering the continued growth of the Agile mindset.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on continuous improvement.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Support and educate Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming, user story definition and backlog health.
• Ensure team is confident about user story intent and their ability to deliver.
• Manage external dependencies impacting story sprint planning readiness.
• Maintains and evolves definitions of story completeness and works with Product Owners to ensure efficient use of backlog grooming sessions.
• Provides estimation, planning and metrics to create useful, reliable and practical plans for feature development and delivery.
• Helps team and/or individuals to clarify, action on and achieve goals.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity.

Software Quality Analyst

Confidential, Beach, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with the Business Analyst in reviewing and analyzing the business requirements documents.
• Creating Test Plan and Test strategy document as per Business Requirement Document and Design document.
• Worked and leaded onshore and offshore team.
• Create requirement traceability matrix documents, Defect reports, Daily and weekly status reports, and Test.
• Summary reports.
• Created the test matrix document.
• Executed test cases found errors reported defects and determined repair priorities in Rational Clear Quest link.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to track bugs analyze results and generate daily and weekly test reports.
• Perform Functional, Regression, Positive, Negative, Security and integration testing.
• Responsible for performing integration and UAT Testing.
• SIT AND UAT testing.
• Maintained test matrix and requirement traceability matrix.
• Performed GAP Analysis.