SUMMARY

• Experience Scrum Master offering 7+ years of total experience with an impressive record of delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines in support of DME and O&M Government and Commercial clients. Experience in Enterprise Agile SAFe, Scrum/ Kanban and DevSecOps best practices with strong business results.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, Sprint Demos and stakeholder meetings.
• Conducted Grooming Session with the product owner and gather stories and analyze stories and assign points to the stories for the development team.
• Work with AWS Cloud Watch to create a dashboard for the developers.
• Strong knowledge of source code repository administration (GIT), build setup and administration (Jenkins and Jenkins Job DSL ) and superior experience utilizing software build/configuration tools such as Make, Ant and Maven Designed and implemented different automation frameworks from scratch like Page Objects framework, Data Driven framework.
• Drive relentless improvement via inspect and adapt workshops; determine improvements to system capabilities and system delivery processes ( hardware, software, architecture, automated deployment, training, etc)
• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
• Coached development teams, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Strong Problem - solving, and technical skills coupled with confident decision making for enabling effective solutions leading to high customer satisfaction and low operational costs.
• Strong knowledge of Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development
• Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories
• Mediating the general conflict of goals between the development team and product owner and acted as a servant leader.
• Manage dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within theScrum Master network especially about items necessary for product release.
• Coach the development team to write a good story with detail Descriptions, Acceptance criteria, Sub-task and Definition of Done

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Test Director), TOAD, PVCs Tracker, IBM Rational Robot, Clear Quest, BMC Remedy, Rational Manual Tester(RMT)

Defect Tracking Tools: HPQuality Center/ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, Bugnet

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS DOS, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 95,Windows 7, Windows 8.

Database: MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle10g, 11g, 9i, MS Access

Microsoft Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Works, and Outlook, MS Visio, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Outlook express, IBM Lotus Note

Application Server: Web Logic, IIS, Apache, JBOSS.

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum meetings and team collaboration without coercion, assigning, or dictating work; remove impediments, or assist the team in doing so, in order to allow the team to achieve their sprint goals and/or PI objectives.
• Establish a trusting and safe team environment where problems can be addressed without blame or judgment with a focus on problem solving, and will foster a "learn by doing" environment .Collaborate with partners to transition the operating model to SAFe Implement processes, practices, and tools to enable multiple paths of delivery
• Guide the SAFe initiatives through coaching and mentoring
• Coach and mentor the organization to facilitate adoption and maturity
• Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business (encompassing everything from continuous improvement to new product and delivery innovation)
• Coached and mentored scrum teams to consistently achieve Sprint Goals
• Managed iterative product delivery on time and on budget within Agile/SCRUM framework
• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies with teams: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Developed Product Roadmaps to manage expectations with Business Stakeholders
• Worked closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders to build consensus on ROI Ensured all project artifacts including user stories and business rules adhere to PMO standards
• Identified, resolved and managed project impediments, risks and issues
• Chaired regular Defect Resolution meetings to manage delivery of a defect free produce
• Ensured that all project artifacts up-to-date and organized in Version One
• Compiled, analyzed and visualized data to generate reports about Estimation Accuracy, Team Velocity, Burn down and Burn up Rate in Version One
• Utilized Trello to design a Kanban board for the team to track tasks and optimize the flow of work.
• Introduced a Retrospective tool that promotes continuous improvement which helped the team reflect on previous sprints and evolve throughout the hackathon.
• Coordinated with other Scrum Teams to ensure synchronized testing and rollout
• Formed close working relationship with DevOps team to facilitate smooth Integration and Delivery to QA and Production environments
• Maintained strong relationships with new hires and fostered collaboration between team members

Environment: Windows XP, Linux, Unix, JAVA, Oracle, SQL Server Junit, Web Server, Warehouse, weblog 11c server, WSDL, GitHub, Visual Studio, Jira, Confluence

Confidential, Washington DC

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Servant leader and facilitated the development team member and Supervise a team member for the testing period and couching the team to practice Agile.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies for the team including discussions of complex, high value functionality.
• Influenced a cultural change by recommending an agile approach to deliver client needs
• Established a governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward an empowered team.
• Promoted continuous improvement by utilizing feedback from stakeholders and facilitating sprint retrospectives for the development team.
• Designed a scrum board for the team to track tasks and optimize the flow of work.
• Engaged stakeholders, team members and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations.
• Designed and Implemented information systems that optimized team efficiency through lean thinking process.
• Decoupled the system's domain model to help isolate the architecture layers and manage dependencies.
• Maintained responsibility for a regression test suite to ensure the continuity of business functions and system stability.
• Analyzed and implemented testing methods and equipment that aided to increase the team's confidence in the system and highlighted the value stream.
• Strong leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, and presentation skills

Environment: Windows 10, JAVA, Oracle, ALM, UFT, J unit, Web Server, J2EE, Jenkin, Data Warehouse, weblog 12c server, WSDL, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Apache, SharePoint 2013

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Guided the team towards understanding the scrum process by effectively leading daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
• Ensured team feedback is captured within action items during retrospectives to help identify areas of opportunity and allow the team to evolve and continuously improve.
• Identified, tracked and helped remove impediments in the duration of a sprint to ensure a smooth workflow and protect the sprint goal.
• Facilitated and attended Sprint planning/backlog grooming sessions to ensure user stories are estimated and approved by all team members.
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to learning new Agile practices such XP to help increase the velocity of the scrum team.
• Supported solicitation of input and feedback from stakeholders and users after each Sprint
• Ensured transparency of team progress and impediments across the program and stakeholders by exploiting feedback and key metrics.
• Tracked and produced metrics using burn down/burn up charts, velocity charts and sprint reports.
• Demonstrated new functionalities during Sprint Demos to the client and product owner.
• Maintained a strong and successful co-operative relationship with the client, team members and leadership in a dynamic environment.
• Evaluated test results and recommended changes in procedures to validate implementation against requirements.
• Created and executed test scripts and provided automation support for integration and system testing..
• Provided support to the end users of the system and addressed their concerns in preparation of the team's new deployment

Environment: Windows 10, Linux, Unix, JAVA, Oracle, SQL Server Junit, Web Server, Jenkin, Data Warehouse, Apache, WSDL, GitHub, Jira, Confluence.