SUMMARY

• About 6+ Years of Strong techno - functional IT professional, experienced playing teh dual role of a Certified Scrum Master wif a passion for technology by established business objectives dat connect great customer experiences. Passionate about process management and improvement.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate wif clients, Stakeholders, Developers and teh management team leading to successful and swift movement of projects.
• Possess a strong understanding of Quality Assurance process definition, system delivery life cycle SDLC, Product Lifecycle Management, QA Methodologies and QA Validations.
• Experience in elicitation techniques like Interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming & focus groups.
• Knowledge of Business process management BPM, COTS & Change Management.
• Well versed in Business process reengineering techniques and efficiently prepared teh documentation related to As-Is GAP and To-Be phases.
• Ability to identify, track and report defects using teh Bug Management Tools like Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest and Rational Clear Case, HP ALM,JIRA,TFS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Requirements Gathering
• Working wif several Business Domains
• SDLC Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• Project Management
• Project Documentation
• Data Migration
• JIRA, RALLY
• Business Modeling Tools
• Worked on Reporting Tools
• Business Process Management
• Third Party Vendor Management
• Worked on Application Rationalization
• ITSD tools (Service Now, SDM)
• Operational Dashboards
• Reporting Tools
• Web Technologies
• Operating System
• Microsoft Office Tools
• Microsoft TFS
• End-User Training
• Offshore/Onshore Model
• SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Part of teh “scrum of scrums” in which more TEMPthan 80 people. Directly managing group of 11- Developers -6, QA - 4 Product Owner/ Business analyst -2 for a project on from teh scratch development.
• Bi-Weekly Team Sprint report, including: burn-down/ burn-up graphs, velocity, TDD (test driven development) code coverage reports & features test case run reports.
• Worked wif teh Business analysts on Functional specifications documents, business requirement documents and functional requirement documents.
• Worked on time box teh iterations for 500+ web applications, 150+ windows applications, and web services on three different phases of project.
• Establish project deliverables: Record detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions wif stakeholders in order to establish teh project deliverables, using requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups) and finalize project charter.
• Successfully driven complex transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology (Scrum, Lean/Kanban, Confidential, and DAD frameworks).
• Monitor and control project work: Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques in order to monitor teh progress of teh project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Facilitate Scrum process (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives).
• Develop and Document Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and documented product design utilizing TFS and teh UML.
• Provide real-time, accurate project task and issue management through “Visual Studio team server” VSTS/ TFS Cloud based technology.
• Design and implement basic SQL queries for QA testing and report / data validation.
• Use Rational Requisite data for managing teh requirements. Documented Use Cases and Use Case Models using Rational Rose.
• Interface wif developers to identify and resolve technical issues and bugs in teh software to validate end-user requirements. Helped in creating of data-mapping best practices document including visual processes and trained team members on data mapping process and tools.
• Perform Data analysis and data manipulation of source data from SQL Server and other data structures to support teh business organization.
• Perform UI Design and Analysis; Involved in GUI interfacing and prototyping, System Integration testing and created test cases and test scripts.
• Capture, prioritize, and track work wif backlogs and customizable Kanban boards based user story work progress.
• Achieve 25 percent efficiency improvement by identifying and removing impediments to prevent distractions and introducing new time management technique.
• Communicate ongoing vision, goals, and backlog content to teh Scrum team members. Help teh Scrum team promote clear story writing and concise backlog story grooming.
• Improved release planning practices by facilitated story-mapping, story writing and agile estimation workshops.
• Led sessions to aid co-creation of Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Team Values & Working Agreements.

Environment: Agile(Scrum), Kanban, XP, MS Visio, JIRA, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint),MS Project, MS SharePoint, IIS .

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Scrum Master /Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master, introduced Scrum framework & time boxes to teh business and newly formed Scrum team. Helped team in writing user stories, worked closely wif teh Product Owners to manage complex backlog of stories, continually kept sufficient set of stories defined and estimated for Sprints and aided Scrum team in determining suitable commitments.
• Managed multiple projects and responsible for planning teh project strategy and work in close coordination of individual PMs of multiple departments.
• Managing teh Sprint Planning process by assigning specific user stories to Iterations, sizing teh Epics and User Stories, determining and reporting teh Velocity of teh team using Burndown Charts.
• Conducting Daily Stand-Up meeting, removing impediments and ensuring dat teh team is on track for delivering teh Sprint commitments and meeting all Acceptance Criteria.
• Leading Sprint Retrospective Sessions, documenting Lessons Learned and applying teh retrospective knowledge to subsequent sprints wif a view to further fine-tune teh Sprint planning and execution.
• Facilitated a release planning meeting dat translates project vision into a very rough plan dat has buy-in from entire team; halped product owners in creating a product vision; creating a release roadmap via story mapping/ process mapping.
• Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint/release progress, sprint burnt down and other metrics dat halped business in release planning. Maximized resource utilization resulting in 40% increase in productivity.
• Setting up Meetings me.e. Kickoff/Close, Estimation, Prioritization and Elaboration meetings.
• Facilitated teh identification of resource needs to support teh project portfolio, and feed into teh overall resource planning process (including BSA, PM, Development, QA).
• Experience in working wifin a formal corporate PMO, which provided project governance utilizing standard project management methodologies.
• Developed and presented high-level roadmap and project plan in Steering Meetings using Jira and MS Project.
• Coordinated as needed wif other internal Project Managers and external vendors for teh delivery of components.
• Worked closely wif teh Business Users to develop requirements, receive sign-off, communicate wif development team and enable communication via regular stakeholder meetings.
• Responsible for regular analysis and tracking of budget between teh multiple development teams part of multiple vendors.

Environment: Agile(Scrum), Kanban, XP, MS Visio, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint),MS Project, MS SharePoint, IIS, GIT, JIRA, Eclipse.

Confidential

Jr.Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, functional and technical specification of teh product in a ScaledAgileEnvironment using " Confidential " methodologies, MS Team foundation server (TFS), & SharePoint.
• Analyzed and developed change requests from teh client.
• Managed development and Quality Analyst teams.
• Worked and implemented different agile frameworks including Kanban, scrum and XP.
• Involved in requirement analysis, and design of teh module meetings wif teh developers.
• Implemented Agile light weight approach Crystal in a project wif small deliverables and high people collaboration.
• Worked closely wif product owners in prioritizing teh work and their requirements.
• Involved in Product owner meetings, presentations, and testing and technical documentation.
• In collaborated wif teh Product Owner(s) on Release & Sprint planning techniques and on backlog creation & grooming; refining stories/cards/task to sprint-ready.
• Worked on sprint deliverables got delivered as to business/ product requirements by using teh team’s definition of 'done'.
• Worked on data Integration for teh triage tool project wif teh team and product owner on its specifications.

Environment: Agile(Scrum), Kanban, XP, MS Visio, JIRA, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint),MS Project, MS SharePoint, IIS, Tortoise .