PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Bilingual and articulate Scrum Master and Project lead, promoting 5+ years career in Agility. Demonstrated ability to coach and build a cross functional scrum team to meet deadlines in Agile development environment. Energetic individual with advanced programming skill and a hardworking mentality, seeking to apply expertise and extensive experience of Scrum Framework, Agile principles and values to take on challenging new role with a growing Agile team.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Effective customer communication
• Communication and good listening power
• Flexibility and Persistence
• Partnership with Product owner
• Project Lead/Team oversight
• Risk identification
• Presentation
• Task prioritizing
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Kanban
• SDLC
• Agile methodology
• Devops /Black box testing
• Scrum Processes/Methodology
• Staff

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Visio, Power Point, Outlook, Excel, Microsoft Word, Version Control, Quality Assurance's Server, Confluence, Test manager, One Note, FileZilla, WinSCP, Sentinel, Wireshark, Microsoft Project, TFS, Java, HTML, Jira, virtual box,GPP, Linux, team city, MongoDB, Xp, Scrumban, TDD,Deltek Costpoint 7, AWS, Azure Devops.

WORK HISTORY:

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Davie, FL

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and facilitate Scrum processes and team meetings for product development.
• Coaching, cross functional team members on scrum process as a mentor/facilitator.
• Facilitates the team's adoption of story points, definition of done, used at the end of each sprint.
• Help identify, remove impediments and block external distraction from teams, to allow the team to focus on achieving sprint goals
• Partnered with Business staff to manage and deliver customer projects on time and within budget.
• Managed major internal product enhancements improving internal processing as well an internal business process.
• Developed and established Agile development within the department, while initiating peer - to-peer reviews.
• Gathered functional specifications from the clients
• Managed and set client expectations.
• Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
• Coordinate reviews, product grooming, product backlog refinement, sprint planning meetings, sprint retrospective meetings for multiple software and hardware teams.
• Updating and monitoring sprint progress daily and monitored team velocity at the end of the sprint or iteration.
• Delegate and prioritize workflow for programmers, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, and diligently maintain company's response tracking database
• Lead in the establishment of Agile team guidelines and best practices
• Deliver classroom presentation to stakeholder, team members and newly hired to enhance productivity, transparency, accountability, quality product and increase self-sufficiency.
• Coaching and the teams and leaders on Agile methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, KANBAN, Alongside Devops, Continuous Integration/Deployment using Cucumber, Gherkins statements
• Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
• Conducted release planning (SAFe) involving multiple component teams, to plan for 5-6 weeks. Aligned teams’ objectives with strategic objectives and displayed progress using release and burndown charts.
• Innovated new processes and workflows that realized 85+% improvement in efficiency of delivery team.
• Worked with teams in facilitating their decision in adopting different agile frameworks such as SAFe, SCRUM,KANBAN and XP which best suit their projects.
• Assist the product owner in converting high level requirements features into small user stories.
• Facilitate team for playing Planning Poker to help team define story points for the user stories during the sprint planning session.
• Managed multiple internal and outside scrum teams at times partner (different company) teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
• Confirmed team followed Definition of Done protocols as described in the Scrum guide.
• Extensively apply the best use of TFS features in keeping track of User Stories, Tasks and work progress by tracking the Velocity and team Capacity, also constantly monitored Burn Down and Burn Up Charts for evaluation.
• Work with Product Owner on artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint and Release Burnup/Burndown charts.
• Play a pivotal role in setting up Acceptance Criteria, creating test plans, recording test result for all the user stories.
• Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
• Increasing process efficiency and process enhancements through retrospective meetings.
• Ensure enough resources allocation to execute the project within deadlines and under budget
• Facilitate team access to documents and s in Confluence
• Organize meetings with developers to identify interfaces and sort out confusions
• Conduct sprint planning, create agenda, prioritize and estimate stories pints (with development team), plan what needs to be done within the sprint, update the same in TFS and assign the tasks
• Conduct sprint review/demo to show increment to business and product owners
• Take complete responsibility of sprint success/failure and keep the team collaborated
• Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.

Devops/Manual testing

Confidential, New York, New York

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business Analysts, developers and users of the application team to resolve usability issues and gather defects or feature requests and logged them in TFS.
• Analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, Business Requirement Documents, Data Dictionary, functional specifications and design documents.
• Executed manual tests to verify results with expected results for different portals and provide detailed feedback for functional bugs or usability issues.
• Developed Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data and Test Matrix.
• Worked with the team Manager and technical Leads in developing Responsibility Matrices for Team Members, Executed Test cases and participated actively in smoke testing, system testing, functional testing, GUI testing, Ad-hoc testing, End to End testing and regression testing for the windows application.
• Conducted End-to-End, Manual Testing of the system and prepared and managed test cases using TFS.
• Attended design review conference meetings with on-site and off-site team.
• Prepared timely test reports and status update documents for management.
• Performed Sanity, Regression, Cross-Browser testing to ensure consistency.
• Collaborated with BA and App Dev Group to determine requirements and timelines for new projects
• Smoke testing on all production update in various environments
• Worked closely with team Lead in testing requirements from the BRD, Data Dictionary and communicated daily progress/ deviation on testing.
• Executed test cases and reported defects in TFS.
• Organized bi -weekly team meetings with the Business Analyst, Development Team, and management to review team members' progress, list of open defects and to go over any deviations in respect to the application.
• Prepared manual test cases for automation based on usability. executed automation scripts.
• Responsible for Resource assignment and providing expected test completion dates to management.
• Task with preparing Integration Data for testing. presented a bug status to management on daily basis.
• Developed and Executed Test Cases in TFS.
• Used TFS to track, report, and manage defect throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status
• Setup and maintain a continuous delivery pipeline in team city.
• Setup Selenium Testing with Serenity for developers to validate code before pushing to build agents.
• Administer CI/CD tools such as Team City, Confluence
• Collaborate with teammates to provide facilitate the understanding of build server, Confluence and Team city
• Automate manual tasks such as password update across multiple servers.

Java Developer

Confidential, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Developed 3-tier web application using Spring MVC Framework.
• Used Agile / Scrum Methodology for the application to produce quality deliverables within he expected time frame.
• Used core Java features such as Collections, Generics, Exception handling, Multithreading in enhancing daily customer transaction while developing a more user-friendly system.
• Used Spring IOC and DI features to design and implement UI, Service and DAO layer. The three layers are wired together using spring's Dependency Injection.
• Used Spring Security to provide authentication, authorization, and access-control features for this application.
• Used Hibernate framework to implement Object Relational Mapping of the POJO classes to the MySQL database.
• Used Hibernate Query Language (HQL), Session Class, and Criteria to implement CRUD operations.
• Configured Hibernate cache to increase application performance and reduce the rate of database hits.
• Involved in front-end development using frameworks such as JSP, JQuery, HTML, and CSS.
• Used MVC design pattern in the application.
• Used SOAP web service with WSDL to facilitate communication over the web with other services.
• Used Java Mail API to generate and activate messages when transactions occur in the system.
• Used Apache Log4j to record the system log.
• Deployed the application on Tomcat server.
• Used Jira for work flow and defect tracking.
• Used Eclipse Mars IDE to develop the application.
• Involved in Unit testing (Junit) and Integration Testing of the application.