SUMMARY

• A Certified scum master with over seven years of I.T. experience and more than four years’ experience as a Scrum Master who focus on continuous improvement, accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple scrum teams.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediment and fostering self-management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering shippable increment, adding business values, return on investment, customer satisfaction etc. which bring success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environment. Specialties: Project Management, Program Management, Project Planning, Stakeholder management, IT strategy, Risk and issue management, team leadership, Business Transformation, Business change management, Workflow & Business Analysis, Project Governance, Agile Project, web/mobile/digital/online technologies, Off-shoring& Certified Scrum Master.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile principle Iteration/ Sprint planning Meeting.
• Relative Estimation Conflict Resolution.
• Communication Task Meeting/ Retrospectives
• Story -based Development Project Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Project/Product Management
• System/Software Implementation
• Technical Skills
• Quality Assurance
• Risk Mitigation
• Conflict Resolution
• Business Analysis
• Scrum Master, HTML, CSS, XML
• VersionOne, JIRA, Rally, Rational ClearQuest, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, MS Office, MS Visio, SharePoint
• Technical specifications creation
• Project documentation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product owner in backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features, goals and milestones.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.
• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies; Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Managed and prioritized team member's daily tasks based on deliverable.
• Collaborated with development team to ensure they first understand the customer's requirements and deliverable for each Project and Maintenance Request.
• Delegated action items to each team member based on request deadlines
• Managed ongoing communication with customers to ensure their expectations are aligned regarding the development, delivery, and timely completion of their requests.
• Managed and tracked project using JIRA
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off - shore.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit the Scrum team.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing Scrum practices and rules and ensures the process is followed.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings.
• Document, implement, monitor & enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Identify and remove impediments for Scrum team and leads the teams' efforts towards continuous improvement.
• Analyzed business processes to identify functional gaps and points of external integration.
• Embrace, coach, and evangelize agile values and principles.
• Developed a successful flow with the scrum team that promoted collaboration, shorter feedback loop, minimized dependencies, improving completion ratio, customer satisfaction, and team dynamic.
• Build team cohesion and foster open and honest team communication.
• Collect, report, and refine agile metrics to quantify and communicate team performance.
• Catalyze continuous improvement of process and practice through collaboration with team and organizational leaders to identify and implement improvements.
• Ensure that teams are effectively executing against the highest value priorities.
• Design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the software/ web application.
• Studied Business process of client corporations to suggest improvements to be included into To - Be system.
• Conducted user walkthroughs, documented customer concerns and communicated to project management teams.
• Reviewed test cases and scenarios and met all project data deliverable and deadlines.
• Requirements documentation using Microsoft Office suite and Visio.
• Conducted walk-through, requirements gathering meetings and worked with the stakeholders to ensure the right solution.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Built and maintained close relationships with internal customers and retail systems vendor to ensure efficient development processes are being followed and that Business priorities are met, and that projects/development are on schedule.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Established a configuration knowledge base to support functionality by developing a system application overview.
• Performed competitor bench marking analysis and identified savings opportunities and potential product enhancements.
• Derived Functional Specifications Document (FSD) based on User Requirement Specification URS.
• Reviewed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications to ensure the quality of SDLC deliverables.
• Assisted with the system testing/user acceptance testing (UAT)of the functional enhancements as needed.
• Used MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and SharePoint for project tracking, documentation, presentation and managing the documents.
• Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by QA team.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Use Cases using UML modeling tools such as MS Visio.
• Ensured completed activities meet project specifications, requirements and Jumia Standards.
• Understand and articulate Business requirements from user interviews and then translate requirements into technical specifications.
• Facilitated and conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders, Business users, the system architects, developers, database developers, quality testers during the entire project to assure that the critical as well as the minute details of the project were discussed, and issues were resolved.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the QA effort to produce an excellent application that meets all customer's needs.
• Coordinated and performed UAT testing for multiple projects.
• Created Quality Assurance timelines, milestone documents, assignment sheets and status reports.
• Conducted test strategy walkthroughs with analysts and developers.
• Closely interacted with development and project teams to understand business requirements and create user stories with the Scrum Team.
• Responsible for overseeing all task activities assigned to the Scrum team and making sure that they are performed in a timely manner with minimal technical debt, while maintaining the highest quality of performance.
• Led a Scrum team to perform planning, development and testing on a large software development, implementation and integration project.
• Interfaced with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.
• Applied scrum estimation techniques to software development efforts, using strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills.
• Performed data verifications using SQL queries.
• Worked with release management to create and implement change requests and develop project release timelines.
• Conducted daily stand ups with the core scrum actors, to monitor the project status and manage any roadblock.