SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with over 8+ years of experience facilitating agile practices, in the delivery of enterprise applications through multiple release cycles.
• Work experience as a Scrum Master and Quality Analyst with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) projects
• Served as a scrum simultaneously for multiple scrum teams (Up to 3), facilitating Agile ceremonies & meetings such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand - ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Extensive JIRA, Rally, TDP user for Agile Boards, product backlog user stories, bug tracking, team velocity, and deadlines.
• Exceptional ability to simultaneously manage technical and business requirements as well as supervising documentation and reporting
• Proficient at Business Analysis, Project Management, Software Design, Development, Implementation, Testing and Quality Assurance with hands on experience with the Software Development Life Cycle and the Quality Assurance Life Cycle.
• Strong Project Management skills including Planning, Project Scheduling, Work Breakdown Structures, Size Resource and Effort Estimate, Monitoring and Reporting.
• Proven success in Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flows (As-Is and To-Be), JAD Sessions, UAT, Cost Benefit Analysis and Workflow Management Tool.
• Extensive experience in producing documents like Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Creating Request for Proposals (RFP), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience in creating Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Functional and Non-Functional testing.
• Understanding of Data Warehousing and ETL tools.
• Sound Oral and Written Communication Skills enabling the transformation of the needs of various Stake Holders into Functional Requirements.
• Proficient in preparing, authoring/reviewing different requirement artifacts like Business Requirement Document (BRD), functional specification Document (FSD), Software requirement specification (SRS), and graphic user interface (GUI) and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Adapt at creating and designing business models using UML diagrams, Use case diagrams, activity diagrams.
• Good Understanding of Project Management activities, proficient with Project Management Tools, testing tools and defect reporting tools.
• A proactive and dedicated team player, with proven track record in producing high quality work under tight deadlines and multi-tasking to meet business goals. Experience in scheduling meetings, negotiating and co-ordination with Developers, Application Architects, Subject Matter Experts, business users and senior executives.
• Extensive experience in conducting different kinds of tests such as Unit Testing, Integration, Regression, Functional, System Testing, Black Box, UAT, Sanity Testing, GUI, End-to- End, load/performance, security, browser compatibility testing of the application through test automation and manual testing processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM, XP), Hybrid (SCRUM-Waterfall)

Operating Systems (OS): Windows XP/8/10/Vista, Linux, Mac OS

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Mock-up screen, Erwin, Enterprise Architect

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center, QTP, SOAPUI, WSDL, Altova XMLSPY, ACH ProTool, ControlM (batch jobs) TFS web, MTM and Visual studio 2015

Test Reporting Tools: Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Jira, TFS web and MTM, Target process, Rally, HP ALM and Visual studio 2015 Jira and confluence

Web Technologies: XML,XSD XMLSchema, WSE Tool kit HTML,VB Script and Xpath (though firepath)

GUI Tools: Visual Basic, Developer 2000 Visual studio 2015

RDBMS: Oracle11, DB2, MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Toad and MS- Access 2000.ControlM and ACH pro tool

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 9X, XP, 2000, Windows NT, ASP.Net and UNIX.

Languages: C, C++, VB.NET, C#.NET, core java and Java scripts - (Environments)

Others: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, Internet Explorer, Netscape, MS Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project Viewers.

Build Technologies: Ant, Maven, Grid (Build.xml and Pom.xml), Git and Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCRUM Master/ Agile Transformation Coach/ Project Manager

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple cross-functional teams operating in a SAFe Agile environment.
• Work with three teams of developers, architect, testers, BA’s and quality engineer to create unique applications for the manufacturing plants.
• Strategic Agile coach leading coordination for multiple product management teams supporting digital framework and new generation application on web/android/ iOS.
• Involved in several transformation strategies from PI planning/ day to day coaching teams/ management reporting and overall developing a high-efficiency Agile transformation teams.
• Involved in reviewing agile metrics via Jira reports and Agile Health meters.
• Building a robust architectural runway with teams progressing for a mature predictability.
• Coaching value steam leaders in generating epics for each value steams. Coach the team using full SCRUM. (Planning Meetings, Stand-ups, Refinement Sessions, Sprint Reviews/Demo’s and Retrospectives)
• Organizing cross-functional planning events to encourage better team coordination and working directly with Team Members to gather requirements to build applications
• Presenting team performance to C-level management on EPMO (Enterprise Project Management Offices) and business areas. Involved in budgetary planning and projections across value steam partners.
• Ensure the applications are of high quality and tested appropriately and assist with writing procedures and training plant employees on the new applications.
• Manage issues, risks, and dependencies and provide statuses to all levels of management.
• Assist with UAT and deployment of the applications. Transition applications to the support team.
• Coordinate weekly meetings with other SCRUM Masters to discuss Agile Best Practices.
• Assist with gathering information for prospective new projects. This includes determining ROI and prioritizing upcoming work for the teams.
• Maintained a physical story wall and utilized RTC (Rational Team Concert) for burndown charts and velocity, which is an open multi-platform tool for my team collaboration.
• Updated statutes and assist with resource allocation and budgeting.
• Assisted in coordinating work with Offshore Teams.
• Worked with a business team to implement project work through excellent communication, risk mitigation, and teamwork.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into project requirements.
• Coordinated with other teams and participates in the Scrum of Scrums meeting with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to define, reinforce and maintain a consistent practice across the organization.
• Maintained team efficiency pertaining to average velocity and optimal velocity for each sprint helping the team to deliver consistent story points for each sprint.
• Facilitated PI planning meetings along with program management and RTE to make teams understand PI objectives necessary for the release.
• Facilitated the use of WSJF, which is a process that is used base on the fact that our PBI has been prioritizing, or better still if we are thinking of using a PBI with more business value and time, over that which has less value business.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated Release planning, Sprint planning, Daily stand-up, Sprint Reviews/Demos, Sprint Retrospectives & and other Scrum-related meetings
• Worked with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown
• Responsible for helping product owners maximize productivity by maintaining the backlog, release plans and radiate Scrum artifacts as required
• Created metrics such as Burn-down, defects by state and Velocity charts for each Sprint and tuning the subsequent Product Backlog/development/Release Plan to meet feature delivery deadlines
• Ensured the development scrum teams practice the core Agile principles so the team moves toward becoming a self-organized and self-managed
• Educated management and development team on significance of automation and continuous Integration in delivery of quality software
• Made sure the Agile/Scrum process is implemented effectively and provide coaching and training at the team, department, and company levels to maximize its benefits
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offsite Scrum teams in US states
• Responsible for writing user stories and ensure that all prioritized user stories have defined acceptance criteria (Definition of Done)
• Involved in facilitating estimation sessions for epic and theme level user stories for planning releases and mapping the releases to roadmap
• Supported, educated and mentored Product Owners, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Tracked and reported Agile Scrum project metrics through daily burn downs and release plans through release burn downs
• Publicized the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owners and stakeholders
• Worked with the PMO team and senior leaders to help practice and spread waterfall project management standards, disciplines in conjunction with Agile framework
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of the Scrum in the organization
• Interacted with Program Management Office to ensure Project goals and requirements are being met
• Provide transition report to the stakeholders based on demo and Product Owner acceptance at the end of every sprint

Environment: Rally, MS SQL Server, XML, MS-Office Suite, HP ALM, Eclipse, Share point

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Highly involved in Scrums, project Dash Board maintenance, sprint retro and planning meeting.
• Organized and maintained Best QA practice within company
• As a Test Lead in Scrum project, involved in creating test strategy artifacts for achieving the milestones for Manual and Automation testing team
• Performed qualitative QA testing/Analyzing of Handheld device applications in an AGILE methodology environment. Highly Involved in in Agile based projects, maintained overall Project board - Story points based on requirement complexity, provided Release Hand-Offs - QA to App Ops production users, Provided QA Estimation, Creating Test plan, Test strategy /Release plan, Deployment plan, Readiness Report/GoNoGo meetings.
• Leading Daily Scrum/Standup meeting, closely watched Kanban board each day (Stakeholders updating their task in timely manner and responsible for sending reminders to team to update their remaining hours left for each task assigned to them) sprint review and executed sprint review in the end of each sprint using confluence sprint report in confluence and signed offs notes
• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in agile methodology.
• Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team. facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process including: Sprint planning - using poker cards for estimation, daily standup - encourage and coaching team how to move stories to read for qa or uat then done which reflects in burn down chart
• Work with Product Owner to prioritize Epics, Features and User Stories
• Have created and written user stories since there is no BA available
• Testing included API, UI and Backend testing
• Gathered requirements from product owner and documented requirement in stories.
• Maintained backlog in Jira
• Have performed UAT testing in stg environment and certified code review.
• Daily standups, grooming sessions, Estimation, test planning, test case Review, Test execution Using MTM
• Daily updating task in Jira for each task assigned and move accordingly
• Lead offshore team for automation test project (team include 10 people)
• Lead Onshore QA group, review QA team test plans, test cases, QA performance and daily test execution status
• Participated in testing as well including functional, E2E, Integration and regression.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated collaboration of team from different locations.
• Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams.
• Successfully guided one development team through transition from waterfall to Agile development.
• Worked with product owner, technical architects, development managers, quality assurance team to elaborate features and stories for the upcoming Program Increment (PI) in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Calculated team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into Iteration planning sessions.
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on a daily basis.
• Managed offshore and onshore teams in different geographical locations.