PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified Profession Scrum Master with 4+ years’ experience in Agile Software Development with Dynamic, hands - on managing large enterprise software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations in a DevOps CI/CD environments.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a verifiable record of of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations.
• Ability to manage many projects at once while working within strict deadlines and maintaining professionalism.
• Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills.
• Excel at turning individuals into teams that work efficiently and exceed expectations.
• Highly dedicated, self-motivated team player, leader, and demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills in delivering high quality products and services.
• Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.
• Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Worked with Scrum Masters across four sites to prepare for and facilitate potentially shippable increment planning sessions.
• Expertly promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Take responsibility for the planning, management and delivery of all Quality related activities, including Quality.
• Planning, Health checks, Stage Gates, Post Implementation Reviews, Continuous Improvement and Root Cause.
• Analysis for assigned projects, programs or work items as appropriate.
• Participate in program/project review meetings, Perform internal quality audits, and risk assessments.
• Maintaining and measuring maturity level following CMM, Agile, IDP and Scrum.
• Make recommendations to the Senior Quality Manager on the improvement of Quality Assurance processes and practices.
• Revise and review Standard Operating Procedures and documents related to Quality and PM.
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing.
• Initiated and owned customer satisfaction survey and engaged with PMO to derive information from accumulated data.
• Expertise in developing Test Plans, estimations, Risk Analysis/mitigation plans, Test Strategy, Test reports/metrics.

CORE COMPETENCIS:

• Product/Project Management
• Strategic Planning
• Process Documentation
• Agile/Scrum Methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Quality Assurance
• Prioritizing/Multi: Tasking
• Project Budgeting
• Process Improvement
• Streamlining Efforts
• Documentation Skills
• Project Status

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Proficiently organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Work with Scrum Masters across four sites to prepare for and facilitate potentially shippable increment planning sessions.
• Scaled Agile RTE
• Expertly promote continuous improvement and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Capture & clarification of business requirements through a range of analysis techniques (data flow diagrams, sequence diagram, case tool analysis, gap analysis and work & process flow diagrams).
• Involved in creating Business, Functional, Technical Requirements by working with all the stake holders - Business team, Architects and Development team members at onsite & offshore.
• Involved in conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements sessions with stakeholders and able to articulate and create the requirements in User Story format.
• Worked with stakeholders, Product Owner for effectively scoping/user stories.
• Worked on creating business, functional, use cases, technical requirements artifacts. Involved in understanding business problems and transformed these into EPICs/Feature and User Stories.
• Involved in creating User Stories, prioritization, iteration / Sprint planning, Release planning, Scrum Retrospective by working with Scrum Master and Project Manager. Worked with Technical teams to identify options to meet business requirements.
• Involved in features functional testing and conduct POC.
• Coordinated UAT & Production releases and managed project team resource utilization
• Performed demos to users, executives and Stakeholder’s.

TOOLS: Agile, Jira, Gitlab, Github, MS Word, Confluence, Power Point, Wiki, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus OSS

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the Product Owner to write user stories, refine the product backlog, and answer questions.
• Ensured on-time software delivery by monitoring Scrum team progress using tools such as sprint burn down charts and release burn up charts.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, demos, grooming, retrospectives, and planning)
• Empower the team to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Enable the scrum team to meet sprint goals by understanding and removing any impediments
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Coordinate and manage code releases
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress, resource availability
• Teach the team to create clear and concise epics/user stories
• Create project timeline and budget estimation based on stakeholder’s inputs
• Prepare monthly project status reports for Steering Committee meetings
• Coach junior BSA for requirement gathering and documentation
• Document Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for different system features
• Contribute to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management.
• Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Train new team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.
• Participate in iteration planning to create acceptance criteria and tests that define “done” for developed features.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.
• Developed flow diagrams for Business process of the company, UI Wireframes and Mockups using SnagIT and Microsoft Visio. Analyzed, prioritized and managed the requirements using Jama Contour.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Product team, SME for open and pending issues and participated in the identification, understanding and documentation of business requirements. Acted as a liaison between technical team and business team to accomplish application enhancement and production.

TOOLS:, METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS: Version One, Rally, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Jenkins, SonarQube, Gitlab, Nexus OSS, WIKI

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

LTE Drive Test Engineer/Project coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Drive Testing using JDSU, Agilent E6474A and NEMO Outdoors wireless network optimization software
• Performed individual sector tests, single site verification (SSV), cluster baseline drives, inter-radio access technology (IRAT) exit route tests, inter-frequency hand off (IFHO) exit route tests and cluster re-drives
• Analyzed and Measured LTE parameters like RSRP, RSSI, RSRQ, SINR and CQI Measurements
• Collect both scanner and UE data (SC, RSCP and Ec/No, RSSI) for all the detected cells
• Performed Stationary test at the cell sites to check and verify the download/upload throughput
• Performed attach tests, detach tests and ping tests
• Experienced using Street Atlas and Microsoft Streets and Trips tools for the navigation of drive routes
• Perform CSFB testing to verify LTE call success rate and call drop rates, speed tests and E911 Drive Testing with non-emergency PSAP calls to collect and report the required information
• Performed Stationary test at the cell sites to check and verify the throughput (DL/UL)

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Tester and Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with the lead RF Engineering Team to monitor and record cell site signal strength
• Assisted the RF Engineering Team in cell site troubleshooting including dropped calls, poor coverage and overloaded circuits
• Experienced with CW and CCW testing, TEMS and Agilent equipment
• Completed CDMA, IDEN, EVDO and GSM drive data collections, documentation and analysis
• Performed coverage, capacity and performance activity modulations
• Evaluated existing sites to improve network coverage through site modification with antennas and azimuth changes
• Supported engineering and technical staff as well as providing engineering support to sales and customers by responding to customer and employee network complaints