SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience with solid understanding of gathering and managing Business requirements, Project Management, Client management, Leadership skills, Risk Management, Time Management, Data Analysis, Data Visualizing, Data Profiling, Data Mapping, Business Process Mapping, Translating Requirements into Specifications.
• Management experience of the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget , and facilitating project execution, deployment, and closure.
• Hands on experience in various project management methodologies like Waterfall and Agile Project Management.
• Practical experience of successful Scrum based development team management as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master.
• Expertise in various activities such as conducting interviews and surveys, obtaining sign - offs , reviewing requirements.
• Experience in Business Process Modelling, Process Re-engineering, Business Requirement Documents (BRD) gathering and System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
• Experience in data modeling for use case, activity, state and context behavioural diagrams through Visio, Rational Rose , and Enterprise architect.
• Walked through the scrum ceremonies ( Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming ) and tracked team velocity and sprint progress using Sprint burndown chart and Product burndown chart .
• Ranked product backlog with the help of technical information provided by the scrum team.
• Expertise in Rally, JIRA, Confluence, VSTS dev tool and Clarity Project Management tool.
• Proficient in Requirements Analysis working with techniques such as User Stories, Use Cases , Prototypes, and Storyboards and analysing all the requirements into functional specifications.
• Well-versed in managing requirements and requirement Traceability matrix (RTM) using Rally.
• Strong Experience in Object Oriented Design and Analysis, Iterative Agile Programming Methodologies and Test-Driven Development and Maintenance.
• Coordinating and tracking all projects for seamless releases using Project Management System JIRA, Source Code Management System SVN and Document Management System SharePoint.
• Utilized all Tableau tools including Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Reader and Tableau Public . Build better dashboards using techniques for guided analytics, interactive dashboard design and visual best practice.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal, Self-Starter and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Team L leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SDLC
• Agile
• Scrum
• Waterfall
• BRD
• FRS
• SRS
• Rally
• JIRA
• Confluence
• VSTS
• RTM
• Tableau
• MS Project
• MS Office
• MS Visio
• Confluence
• SharePoint
• Quality Centre
• Rational Requisite Pro
• GitHub
• Windows
• Time Management
• Trapshooting Skill
• Change Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with internal and external customers to develop software solutions using Agile methodologies , and oversee the design, development, and testing, and troubleshooting of applications.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review , and spring retrospective.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by a Sprint.
• Monitored the Product Backlog, Sprint Burndown and Release Burndown charts in JIRA . Updated the team homepage in JIRA Confluence with the recent developments and scrum artifacts to ensure transparency and visibility.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Managed release management, facilitated release planning activities , and risk to resolve issues and impediments .
• Plan, manage and deliver the infrastructure elements of the projects.
• Meetings with product owner/ architects, requirements gathering, build product backlog. eliminate any process overhead impediments. Maintain burndown chart.
• Issues & risks management, tracking defects to closure, root cause analysis.
• Ensure project deliverables are on time and budget, managing project cost for VPMO projects.

Confidential, NY

Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work ed with stakeholders to prioritize business and information requirements.
• Requirement Analysis, Design Reviews, Code reviews and Leading the team and support for analysis.
• Lead the internal and client (NYSDOH) facing meetings on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• As a Scrum Master I take care for project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum related meetings.
• Used Agile/SCRUM for development process for application life cycle.
• Participated in facilitation of business process review and developer breakthroughs based on business requirements.
• Develop, implement and manage team metrics, evaluate team metrics and make recommendations to teams and management for improvements .
• Work with program manager to manage, support or create project budgets and project plan.
• Identify, effectively communicate and resolve the project issue and risk with management.
• Taking care for Change Control document.
• Taking care for all Pear review meeting and cross functional training.
• Taking care for different agile metrics for sprint .
• Preparing Product back log priority with Product owner.
• Preparing Sprint Back log with priority.
• Participated in facilitation of business process review and developer walkthroughs based on business requirements.
• Worked as Admin of EDI transaction System, Data Reporting, CRM and Quality tool, 3M, Tableau Server including assigning access and maintaining the server, Data Governance.
• Extracted, compiled and tracked data and analysed data to generate reports.
• Support various testing phases like User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing etc. and fix the defects reported during each phase.
• Involved in full life cycle end to end application design, development, testing, integration, for Production Support, Defect Fixing, Root Cause Analysis, Change Management, and Monitoring and Ongoing maintenance tasks.
• Hands on Experience in development of interactive Reports and Dashboard in Tableau and MS excel.
• Conducted current state study which included data collection methodologies, data quality and data integration problems, data storage and infrastructure related issues.
• Performed data analysis on daily, weekly and monthly scheduled refresh of data based on the business or system change that have happened to ensure that the developed dashboards are displaying accurate and up-to-date live data and sent those into production after editing.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the Business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the Project Cycle.

Confidential, NY

Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing application delivery adhering to industry best practices for various phases of SDLC and Agile methodology.
• Interfaced with business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements ( BPR ) and Software System Requirements ( SSR ).
• Creating and Maintaining user stories for the ASR Application (Admin system replacement) in JIRA, while working in accordance with Business requirements.
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements.
• Ran daily stand-Up meeting with the team to review current state of development; review burndown on efforts and working on estimates for new requests.
• Hosted monthly steering committee status calls to provide status to senior management and PMO.
• Responsible for promoting team accountability and mitigating team productivity issues.
• Perform quality reviews, manage operations, and triage operational issues
• Own and manage virtualized test environments supporting development
• Established and maintained Work Breakdown Structure, release plans and schedule.
• Coordinated the release definition, deployment criteria and guidelines, seeking business and information technology sponsor approvals and the resources necessary to successfully roll-out all module’s projects and enhancements
• Created and drove the resolution of issue log; including description, ownership and action plan.
• Tracked scope changes (i.e., change management) and release acceptance procedures.
• Ensuring project processes are followed; projects and their phases closed with reviews and summarization, incorporating feedback and lessons learnt to enhance effectiveness in future sprints/phases.

Confidential, Indianapolis

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work ed with managing leadership to prioritize business and information requirements.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the Business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the Project Cycle.
• As a Scrum Master I take care for project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum related meetings.
• Client facing presentations discussing the current status and discussing the business needs.
• Used Agile/ Kanban for development process for application life cycle.
• Involved in full life cycle end to end application design, development, testing, integration, for Production Support, Defect Fixing, Root Cause Analysis, Change Management, and Monitoring and Ongoing maintenance tasks.
• Taking care for Change Control document.
• Taking care for all Pear review meeting and cross functional training.
• Taking care for different agile metrics for sprint.
• Preparing Product back log priority with Product owner.
• Hands on Experience in development of interactive Reports and Dashboard in Tableau and MS excel.
• Using Tableau Desktop created Interactive reporting dashboards by combining multiple views.
• Published views and dashboards in Tableau Server for Auditor Review.
• Meeting with the business users and stakeholders to gather requirements and translating these business requirements into technical specifications.
• Extracted, compiled and tracked data, and analysed data to generate reports.
• Performed data analysis on daily, weekly and monthly scheduled refresh of data based on the business or system change that have happened to ensure that the developed dashboards are displaying accurate and up-to-date live data and sent those into production after editing.
• Participated in facilitation of business process review and developer breakthroughs based on business requirements.
• Support various testing phases like User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing etc. and fix the defects reported during each phase.
• Co-ordinated with different venders and make sure business and IT both are on same page.
• Created and updated the Data Profile Questionnaire through various phases of the project life cycle.
• Worked extensively with Microsoft Excel, Pivot Table, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Access.
• Performed Business Process Mapping and performed AS IS and TO BE analysis.
• Created and managed Project Templates, Use Case Project Templates.
• Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were catered to by the application.
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules, and baseline the Test Plan with the help of project meetings, walkthroughs.
• Interacted with users for verifying User Requirements, updating existing Documentation.
• Participated in weekly meetings, reviews and user group meeting as well communicating with stakeholders and business groups.

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master/Sr. Business Data Analyst (Tableau)

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the primary liaison between the Business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the Project Cycle.
• Extensively involved in every phase of the RUP process starting from Inception to Transition
• Interacted with users for verifying User Requirements, managing Change Control Process, updating existing Documentation
• Worked for a project to customize and integrate a Business Process Management (BPM) solution.
• Created Functional design, Swim lane Diagram and other required documentation for converting requirement into Understandable form for Developers.
• Assist other project teams with data analysis, data mining and data profiling as needed.
• Assisted in creating wireframes for web interface with the GUI design team.
• Conducted status report meetings with the business and the IT team on a weekly basis, as the most important aspect of the project was Data Mapping.
• Participated as a core team member of a Clinical Development initiative to create an architectural business end-to-end solution for clinical trials as a standard for all remote data capturing clinical trials.
• Involved in designing and developing Data Models and Data Marts that support the Business Intelligence Data Warehouse.
• Liaison between business units and IT Department to ensure the delivery/enhancement/maintenance of Asset Backed Securitization management system
• Worked with key members from various cross-functional teams to analyse various third-party CRM solutions to make a ‘buy vs build’ decision. Conducted cost/benefit and impact analysis.
• Conducted Joint Application Development ( JAD ) sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them
• Developed and Documented timelines for Project Delivery, and managed Projects and Resources to successful completion.
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database.
• Created and updated the Data Profile Questionnaire through various phases of the project life cycle.
• Conducted current state study which included data collection methodologies, data quality and data integration problems, data storage and infrastructure related issues.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Extensively worked on the ETL mappings, analysis and documentation of OLAP reports requirements.
• Used Data warehousing for Data Profiling to examine the data available in an existing database.
• Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Business process diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio .
• Worked on data modelling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation
• Used Informatica to extract and transform data from various DB2 database to the data warehouse.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing, gathered and documented User Manuals and Business Rules.