EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Highly focused IT Professional with around 8.3 years of experience, demonstrating outstanding evidence of accomplishments in Business Analysis and Project Management/co - ordination that meet demanding time constraints and exceed expectations.
• ITIL V3 foundations certified and professional Scrum Master certified.
• Experience in Business Analysis & Design, Gathering Functional and Business Requirement Specifications, User Interface Specifications, Test Cases and Test Plan.
• Experience working in Agile Based and Waterfall projects and managing the team of Developers and QAs.
• Experience in prioritizing Agile stories from product backlog.
• Conducted review meetings with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME's (Subject Matter Experts) and Managers of various Business Units.
• Modeled requirements, managed and communicated requirements throughout the project life cycle, performed Impact Analysis against requirement specifications to determine fit.
• Proficient in performing Gap Analysis, evaluating the key differences between the actual and the potential performance of the system and identifying the key requirements for system re-engineering.
• Used MS Office extensively (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, Outlook, Project) for calculations, graphs, analysis, presentation and documentation throughout the project.
• Created documentation including Requirements, User Stories, Acceptance criteria, feature description PowerPoint decks, user guides, process flows and Test strategies, test plans, test case specifications and test procedures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse team (User Experience Group, Lead Engineers, Quality Assurance Team, Subject Matter Experts, Technical Product Managers and Project Manager).
• Experience working as a Project Manager for large development Projects
• Experience in transition of applications from other vendor and supporting through steady state and beyond.
• Participated in client requirement analysis, business and technical process analysis, translating into technical solutions for business requirements and problems.
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Estimation, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Software quality standards, configuration management, change management and Quality procedures.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

Domain Experience: Manufacturing.

Process & Methods: Project Delivery & Control, Quality Management, Information Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Management Experience: Customer Management, Development & application support team management, Planning and Onsite-Offshore coordination, generating reports using various toolsClient interaction and regular status meetings

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: TFS (Team Foundation Server)

SDLC: Waterfall, Agile

Version Control / Testing: User Acceptance Testing (UAT), HP Performance Load Testing and Network Performance testing on Application

Programing languages: Java, J2EE, struts, Spring

Business Analytics: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook), Microsoft Visio, SharePoint

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL

Core: Requirements Gathering, Business Definition, Gap Analysis, Competitive Intelligence Use Case Modelling / Analysis, Market Research Analysis, Process Mapping, Wireframes, Mock-Ups, Built Templates, Business Requirements Document (BRD)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Daily Srum meeting
• Sprint Review meeting
• Sprint Planning meeting
• Helped the Scrum Team by coaching them and ensuring that all Scrum processes are implemented correctly.
• Helped Product Owner in Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management
• Ensured the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
• Prepared Burn Down chart to track the remaining work in project
• Executed the project in Agile methodology which was made of 4 Sprints. Each Sprint had different timelines based on the Business Priority. This allowed the business to leverage the functionalities earlier than originally forecasted with a waterfall method.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems.
• SOW Management
• Defining and documenting High level and Functional requirements into Agile stories.
• Working independently with business stakeholders to define concepts and under direction of project managers
• Conducting sprint planning meetings and daily Scrum meetings.
• Reviewing Product backlogs and prioritizes Agile stories accordingly in every sprint.
• Preparing burn down charts to showcase progress and remaining work of the project
• Prepare business requirements specifications, use cases and other supplementary requirements documents that support a common understanding among users. Visio, Word and Excel.
• Acting as a liaison between functional business units and application team managers to assist in defining objective requirements, functions, and priorities for projects
• Obtain, document, communicate and maintain UAT sign-off as needed for assigned projects.
• Assist business partners with user training and documentation as needed.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepare business requirements specifications, use cases and other supplementary requirements documents
• Assist business partners with user training and documentation as needed.
• Assist project teams with implementation, and project closure tasks as needed for assigned projects.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Helping the Development Team to create high-value products;
• Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress;
• Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed; and,
• Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
• Review test plans and test scripts developed by development team and QA teams to make sure all requirements are covered
• Drive completion of UAT and Production validation with the different business teams

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering
• Business Requirement Document preparation
• Review Impact Analysis
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans, Supporting User Acceptance Testing.
• Preparation and tracking of Project Plans.
• Weekly Project Status reporting with Customer
• Training and knowledge transition to support team.
• Coordinate with offshore team

Confidential

Business Analyst, Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Smooth Transition from Vendor
• Took transition for almost 10 applications out of 160
• Supported all 10 applications in Steady State
• Enhancement in Existing system
• Co-ordination between onsite team, support team necessary support groups.
• Planning the project to be delivered by analyzing the complete requirement and preparing the Business requirement document and defining the timelines for the process and finally implementing it.
• Innovation and Suggestions to improve the existing application.