PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of experience as Scrum Master/Team Lead/Developer and an accomplished Scrum - Leader with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software on-time by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching scrum teams.
• Scaled Agile Certified Scrum Master (SAFe Certified SSM) and CSM.
• Expert in transforming and motivating teams to Agile/Scrum from Waterfall and other traditional methodologies.
• Expert in facilitating scrum ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and software demonstrations.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders and ensured the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability and transparency towards consistent delivery of a working product.
• Worked closely with product owner on grooming the product backlog. Assisted with product backlog maintenance, prioritization, resolution of defects/bugs and making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, definition of tasks and estimation.
• Direct and led development team from project initiation through delivery of final product. Effectively handled scrum team deviations, impediments and team conflicts to help team focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Expert in handling time boxed daily scrum with brisk and relevant discussions.
• Ensured retrospectives produced actionable tasks and ensured recommendations/feedbacks are implemented successfully and in timely manner.
• Highly experienced in tracking and communicating Sprint release progress through burndown charts.
• Ensured team followed the ‘The Definition of Done’ by completing all user stories, meeting acceptance criteria, passing acceptance tests, system tests, regression tests, NFR tests and end-to-end integration, fixing defects, completing documentation and making it acceptable by product owner/product manager.
• Experience working on Waterfall, SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Test Driven Deployment (TDD), Continuous testing, Automated testing and Continuous Integration Methodologies.
• Member of Continuous Improvement team working on Core Innovation, Process improvement and operational excellence.
• Active Member of Agile CoP, PMO and Innovation team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean-Agile Mindset, Waterfall, Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD)Continuous Testing, Automation, XP, Pairing.

Business Skills: Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, Interviews, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling.

Project Management Tools: Version One, JIRA, Rally, TFS, Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab, Confidential Rational Team concert RTC, RPM, Confluence, Stories Onboard, MS Project, MS SharePoint Server, MS Office Testing Tools, QA complete

Technologies: Html, CSS, Java Script, Mainframes, C#, Angular, CISCO, Java/J2EE, Node JS, Linux, SQL, Pl/SQL, Oracle, SAP, Liferay

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master/ Project Manger

Confidential, ST. Louis

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for multiple teams on Agile Release Train (ART). Confidential One train has 8 agile teams working in synchronization each PI (10 weeks) with a shared business and technology mission of delivering continuous flow of value to the end-user.
• Coached, mentored and trained the teams on core Agile principles of collaboration, team accountability, visibility, creating/updating Epics, Stories, Bugs and walked through burn down charts.
• Ensured that teams understand current Program Vision, identify risks, dependencies and draft team’s initial PI objectives in in PI planning sessions.
• Facilitated ART Program Increment (PI) planning story workshops and helped the team to breakdown features into user stories.
• Facilitated Innovation and planning (IP) workshops for continuous education, training, pre-PI Planning feature and story writing, team building collective ownership, pair work etc.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, daily stand-ups, grooming etc. in every 2-week sprint.
• Worked closely with Release Train Engineer for the ART in coordinating and resolving dependencies between various scrum teams.
• Coordinated across the ART teams and facilitated regular meetings with PO, stakeholders to ensure dependencies are addressed and milestones are met.
• Worked with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.
• Key member of Confidential ’s Agile Community of practice (CoP).
• Removing impediments and/or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel/channel/method to remove the impediment.
• Encouraged the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination.
• Project planning, tracking and coordination using Version One Tool.
• Performing gap analysis between product expectations and current features.
• Coordinating with cross functional teams including the management, design, development and testing teams to ensure that any gaps in understanding the business requirements are closed.
• Provided administrative and operational support for the PMO regarding making sure project data is easily accessible, tracking project metrics and distributing project information as needed.
• Used problem-solving skills, including identifying root causes and taking corrective actions to meet short- and long-term product and project needs.

Scrum Master/ Project Manger

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, daily stand-ups, grooming etc. for Confidential project for over 2 years.
• Agile coaching, mentoring and training the teams on core Agile principles of collaboration, team accountability, visibility, creating/updating Epics, Stories, Bugs and walking through burn down charts.
• Worked with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.
• Removing impediments and/or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel/channel/method to remove the impediment.
• Creatively and proactively communicate all the risks and issues to the management.
• Reporting on work in progress (WIP) items to avoid any blockages during sprint.
• Handled Release planning and execution with configuration and production support teams.
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination.
• Project planning, tracking and coordination using Confidential Rational Team Concert(RTC)
• Performing gap analysis between product expectations and current features.
• Coordinating with cross functional teams including the management, design, development and testing teams to ensure that any gaps in understanding the business requirements are closed.
• Provided administrative and operational support for the PMO in regards to making sure project data is easily accessible, tracking project metrics and distributing project information as needed.
• Used problem-solving skills, including identifying root causes and taking corrective actions to meet short- and long-term product and project needs.
• Played an active role in developing the Agile community.
• Tracker used for better team collaboration and communication.

Team Lead/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacted at various levels (team, Program, Portfolio, and senior executives & management levels) to create a transparent environment and identify change behaviors that were in the way of teams and leadership adopting an agile mindset.
• Facilitate daily stand ups, grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Track Confidential RTC team board updates and ensure data accuracy.
• Generate Burndown charts and other reports showing sprint progress.
• Developed acceptance criteria and test cases for the sprint product backlog.
• Assured that all artifacts are in compliance with corporate agile policies and guidelines.
• Working with product owner on Artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint burndown and release burn down.
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%.
• Publishing the teams progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner/stakeholders.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional team.
• Creatively and proactively communicate all the risks and issues to the management.
• Agile coaching, mentoring and training the teams on core Agile principles of collaboration, team accountability, visibility, creating/updating Epics, Stories, Bugs and walking through burn down charts.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Creatively and proactively communicate to management all the risks and issues.
• Empower teams to self-organize, maintain team standards, tools and best practices.
• Producing status reports on multiple Iterations for senior management’s reviews.
• Experience in resource management through allocations and iterations.
• Accountable for decision of shifting priorities and responded with new approaches as required by changing portfolio demands and conditions, to more efficiently support client expectations.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily stand ups for the Kanban team.
• Track Confidential RTC team board updates and ensure data accuracy.
• Coordinating with team and Confidential users on analyzing the real-time user issues (Analysis IURs).
• Worked on permanent fixes to reduce and avoid the abends in the system.
• Production support, monitoring system from offshore, and adhere to the online SLA ensure the smooth flow of the batch.
• Worked on various scheduling request, created new applications in OPC, added new run cycles, made changes to the existing run cycles to existing applications based on requests.
• Coordinate and communicate with team members. Trained new members about various tools (OPC, QM tool, PM tool) in the project. Performed the role of mentor to few new joiners in the project and guided them in Confidential .
• Involved in Analysis, design, coding and testing
• On call shift work for 24x7 Application Support during the critical Quarter end and Year end flows. Ensuring SLA/SLO to users.
• Reviewing codes, JCL Skels and JCL’s created by development team
• Responsible for the fixes (in JCLs) and batch flows in UAT and production region. Fixing Production issue and dealing Real Time User data.
• Awareness of Delivery Excellence disciplines - 100% compliance to mandatory training's and QPACE certification requirements.
• Create, execute and track appropriate backup plans for each of the resources.
• Identify skill gaps of the team and work in resolving them.

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Study the Business Requirement and provide High Level Estimate (HLE) and Detail Level Estimate (DLE) for the efforts required.
• Develop High-Level and Low-Level Documents based on the Business Requirements Document.
• Design and code new Jobs, and Programs in corporate new functionality and or modify the existing System as per the Business Requirement.
• Perform unit testing and develop test cases for the newly coded functionality
• Perform peer review.
• Make Health Checks on the system so as to confirm that system is up and running and hence, avoid any potential High Severity issues.
• Major contributor for preventive maintenance activities as well as automation activities.
• Worked on incidents/tickets and Adhoc request raised by the users in Remedy.
• Automated the system to process the tasks to be done when the user raises the incidents/ tickets. Hence, reduced both the incident/ticket count as well as it enhanced the quality of work delivered to the customer.
• RPM Coordinator (Rational Portfolio Manager) in maintaining its integrity and help team setup and store all documents, keeping it up to date and performing internal audits (bimonthly) and made it a success in our Team.