SUMMARY

• Diversified experience in IT industry for 9 + years in Agile and Scrum projects.
• Experienced in requirements gathering, business process improvement, and software testing including planning, execution, reporting, resource administration and quality management.
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), quality management systems and project life cycle processes.
• Prepare and compile project metrics to measure the progress and deliverables of sprint, release and overall project progress to program manager.
• Review sprint metrics like velocity, sprint burn down, release burn down and test metrics to improve the overall product quality, project status and deliverable timelines.
• Mentored and educated team members to adhere scrum values & practices of scrum towards self - organizing teams.
• Work closely with product owner in backlog management (grooming, prioritizing) and continuous delivery of features.
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies - Sprint planning, Daily Standup, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, help eliminate impediments and resolve team conflicts to maintain focus on the sprint goal.
• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within time, scope and budget.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Ensured high visibility of team progress to product owners, program managers and stakeholders.
• Experienced in test cases, defect reporting & tracking defects to closure using JIRA.
• Experience in estimating/submitting the project budget, resource hours, Analysis and Field Study of the Project.
• Worked with project stakeholders, onsite engineering manager while leading offshore teams.
• Lead the Deployment Activities for the major release successfully. Experience in using version control tools Auto-Rabbit & SVN tool.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Requirement Elicitation, Requirement Analysis and Documentation, Solution Assessment, Release Management and validation, Enterprise Analysis, Business Process led AM, Use Cases, User Stories
• Software Development Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban
• Objects, Relationships, Page Layouts, Record Types, Email Templates, Workflow Flows and Approval Processes, Validation Rules and Report Types creating Apex Triggers, Apex Classes and Visual force Pages

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bridgewater NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Coached leaders and teams through the transformation from waterfall to agile scrum and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques including Qlik Sense and Tableau.
• Ran daily standup and retrospective meetings to correct any issues with current rollouts to fix future sprints and correct any issues or impediments.
• Assisted the program manager in implementing agile methodologies within the pod model to facilitate alignment for all projects, scrum masters, and product owners in order to ensure all are acting in the best interest of the projects, the program and the company.
• Conducted all ceremonies for each of three concurrent projects and creatively trained our teams and product owners in proper story writing and its estimation, agile delivery and most importantly, working as one.
• Created Technical spec and data mapping documents by analyzing the data connect XML files in absence of s
• Facilitated the bi-weekly scrum of scrums to resolve the dependencies between teams and to improve the relationship among both the teams.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Ensured transparency on project risks and issues upfront with the team and identifying dependencies with other teams and third party vendors.
• Co-ordinated and spoke at Janssen/ Confidential & Confidential Agile Workshops having a global audience.

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing & understanding the requirements for development.
• Worked closely with BA to get clarifications on the requirements document.
• Ensured the successful delivery of a solution according to business requirements on time and to the appropriate quality bar.
• Identified and implemented process improvement workflow to better coordination among team members and project manager.
• Prepare and present deliverable report from JIRA to onsite and offshore management on weekly basis to know the progress of the project.
• Ensured the code commits did by other developers in the bit bucket and merged it to the release branches.
• Drive daily scrum call with onsite team on daily basis to report the overall progress.
• Work closely with test team to know the progress of the work assigned.
• Reporting bugs in JIRA.
• Ensured the successful delivery of a solution according to business requirements on time and to the appropriate quality bar.
• Drive daily scrum call with onsite team on daily basis to report the overall progress.
• Worked on the legacy system data migration to salesforce platform.
• Analyzing and writing BDD test scenarios for user stories.
• Deploying and Executing test scenarios on test environment.
• Actively involved in Iteration planning meeting, retrospective and bug backlog.
• Good knowledge in using Kanban dashboard.
• Good experience in generating team burn down chart and task estimation.
• Acting as an interface between customer and other teams.
• Prepare and compile project metrics to measure the progress and deliverables of sprint, release and overall project progress to program manager.
• Review sprint metrics like velocity, sprint burn down, release burn down and test metrics to improve the overall product quality, project status and deliverable time-lines.
• Mentored and educated team members to adhere scrum values & practices of scrum towards self-organizing teams.
• Work closely with product owner in backlog management (grooming, prioritizing) and continuous delivery of features.
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies - Sprint planning, Daily Standup, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, help eliminate impediments and resolve team conflicts to maintain focus on the sprint goal.
• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within time, scope and budget.
• Preparation of Design and Functional documents.

Confidential

Team Lead/ Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide impact analysis and possible solutions, Involved in Daily Production Support activities.
• Updating the Design and Functional documents.
• Experience in Upload activities using Data loader and Work bench,
• Lead the Deployments team in deploying the changes from Lower environment to production Using tools like Change Sets, Force.com IDE & ANT tool.
• Worked on Development which included creating Apex Triggers, Apex Classes and Visual force Pages.
• Worked on data validation rules, public groups, Permission sets, Roles and profiles.
• Responsible for writing Triggers and Visual Force Pages.
• Responsible for fixing Bugs.
• Responsible for customizing Objects, Page Layouts, Record Types, Email Templates, Validation Rules, Report Types, Workflows.
• Responsible for creating Users, Profiles and Roles.
• Reported the Bugs in Jira Tool.
• Lead the Deployment Team in deploying the changes to Production.
• Responsible for building Reports and Dashboards.
• Creating Knowledge Articles for both the repeated issue and user guidance.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scope of responsibilities span the entire project lifecycle from planning to initiation through deployment
• Conducted release planning meetings with Product Owner & prepared Capacity Planning
• Infrastructure Projects included server and storage installations, environment upgrades and data center migrations.
• Manage Dev / Test Amazon AWS environments deployment, configuration
• Facilitating Sprint planning meeting, sprint reviews (demos) and user story acceptance and signoff
• Responsible for managing storage requirements, server remediations, contingency testing, server builds, moves and decommissions, data center consolidations and budget forecasting.
• Provide AGILE project management controls, project plans, timeline schedules.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Performed project management including planning, project scheduling, providing project estimates, analysis, risk management, issue tracking and resolution, change control, status reporting, and quality assurance to ensure delivery.
• Provided guidance and managed cross functional dependencies and help negotiate resolution for conflicts arising out of task priorities
• Facilitated backlog grooming, daily stand up meetings, sprint planning, demos, review and retrospectives.
• Train IT team and IT management on MS Active Directory best practices
• Perform vulnerability assessment and risk analysis for network architecture.
• Responsible for the protection and defense of the organization from attacks resulting in extraction of data or infiltration of corporate information assets. Responsible for documenting security controls in software and hardware development.
• Used EPIC for Patient Engagement, Clinicals, Managed Care & other services
• Managed multiple projects involving each with a team of approximately 8+ members simultaneously including project estimates, resource availability, planning & training, onsite test resources, virtual teams and coordination with offshore resources for issue resolutions, escalation, etc.
• Responsible to manage and support the Enterprise SharePoint environment