PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• An experienced Scrum master/Project manager with servant leadership skills in Agile, Scrum, Kanban and a proven track record of successfully managing and delivering large software development projects while coaching the team, business stakeholders, executives on agile principles and values. Including continuous integration, pair programme, continuous testing, small release and planning game. Setting up Scrum ceremonies and create a friendly environment for the scrum team to easily collaborate on achieving sprint goal. Track burn down, issues and progress in visual tool. Assist product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
• Work experience as Scrum Master, Business Analyst in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirements Elicitation and Documentation, Waterfall and Agile Methodologies, Distributed (Remote) and Co - located Teams.
• Solution-driven expert with exceptional problem-solving, multitasking, and decision-making skills.
• Strong ability to work independently and in team environment to establish excellent relationships.
• Resolve Team conflict, motivate cross-functional teams to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Strong working knowledge in configuration and testing of FI modules - GL, A/P, A/R, AA, and Controlling - ML, CCA, MM, IO, PCA, PS. Including MM, SD and BPC.
• Strong knowledge of Agile Scrum techniques including application of User Stories, TDD, ATDD, BDD, Burndown techniques, Retrospective tools and Workflow testing.
• Project Status Reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Project Management Methodologies: Agile (Scrum and Kanban), Waterfall.
• Project Management Tools: SAP/HANA, Business Intelligence, ServiceNow, JIRA, Rally, Visual Studio, MS Project, MS Visio Core Competencies: Agile Principles, Agile Scrum Coaching, Business and Technical Requirements Documentation, Product Strategy and Design.

SKILL:

• Agile (8 years)
• Agile SDLC (7 years)
• Agile Coach (2 years)
• Project management (6 years)
• Waterfall (6 years)
• SAP (6+years)
• Testing (5+ years)
• Manual Testing (3+ years)
• Mobile Apps Testing (4 years)
• Quality Assurance (4+ years)
• Scrum Master (5+ years)
• ServiceNow (3 years)
• Jira (5 years)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Scrum Master Agile COE

• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Conducted Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Provide required supervision in ensuring the timely completion of software projects, including provision of technical expertise and leadership abilities to resolve issues.
• Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories
• Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Accountable for guiding, coaching, training in scrum methodologies and assisting the team in Scrum / Agile principles and driving process improvement.

Confidential, Angleton, Texas

Scrum Master

• Active participation in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.
• Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Facilitate the term in transition to scrum methodology through ETC (enterprise transition committee) engaging stakeholders during the process of waterfall to spring.
• Active participating in establishing and provide Vision of the term and gain consensus base on acceptance criteria
• Served as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery with some support from coach and coordinated the release plan, communication plan, risks and issues management plan.
• Provide adequate reports of executive summaries of project status, including presentation of significant developments.
• Actively participated scrum of scrum meetings with program manager.
• Encouraged self-organization, meaning that the team itself should remove issues wherever possible.
• Make recommendations on resource and staff allocation between projects when and where necessary.

Confidential, Houston, Tx

Scrum Master/Project Manager

• Facilitate team’s Agile Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective).
• Provide protection for team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability.
• Support the team as they go through their Agile transformation and enhance the team performance.
• Assessment of the Scrum maturity of the team and provide coaching of team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.
• Communicate the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team through the project management processes and provide all support to team using servant leadership style
• Maintain partnering with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Ensure there is effective internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Collaborate with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment.
• Participate in discovery sessions, interviews, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.
• Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.
• Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams

Confidential, Houston, Tx

Business Analyst

• Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules and ensure alignment with development teams.
• Create & review test scripts and perform UAT testing prior to deployment to production instance
• Involved in gathering the Business Requirement and interacted with the stakeholders to understand the existing functionality, current state processes, tools to get a better view of the Business Processes and functionality to document, support and configure.
• Assist the Scrum team in determining the suitable commitments for stories and tasks.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, functional requirements, user stories and documentation.
• Set up Sprint review in conjunction with the Development Team and Product Owner to collaborate on the Sprint.
• Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training saving the company lots of money.
• Identify and reconcile errors in client data t to ensure accurate business requirements.