OBJECTIVE:

Seeking an opportunity as Senior Scrum Master /Agile Project Manager.

SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in SDLC with Applications based on both Unix/Linux, Windows OS. Delivery process included both Agile (JIRA, RALLY, TDP, CLARITY) and Waterfall methodologies.
• Key Responsibilities: Agile Project Management / Coach, Scrum Master, Metrics Reporting, Business / Functional Requirements, Data modeling, Application Development, Testing and Automation.
• Documentation: Technical Documentation, User Guides, Functional Design & Master documents, LDMs, and MOPs
• Core Skills: Agile Project Management, Agile coach, Offshore Team management, Mentoring and Multi - tasking . Cross-team coordination, problem solving and conflict management. Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Java, C, C++, ORACLE, XML, WS (APIs), SOAP UI, SQL, PL-SQL, MS Office, MS Visio.

Tools: SAFe (Training) Rally, JIRA, TDP, Kanban Etc. Web Services, SCCS, GNATS, HP Quality Center, Mercury Tools (QTP, Test Director, Quality Center), Rational - Clear Quest and ReqPro, UNIX utility tools (SED, AWK, Shell etc)

OS: Various UNIX OS (HP, AIX, Solaris etc), Linux, Windows.

Job Roles: Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager, Agile coach / mentor, Business Analyst, Technical Team Lead / Manager (onshore and offshore), Developer

Industry: Telecom(wire line and wireless), Health Care.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Technical Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business and Systems Requirements reviews by Product / Business Owners and T2 System architects.
• Hosted various Agile ceremonies - User Story Reviews, User Story Grooming sessions (prioritization of backlog). Hosted calls to evaluate Application dependencies with external applications and align the user stories (for specific sprints) with other applications for getting approvals on DMAs. Scheduled the Iteration based on Project Template dates.
• Hosted calls with external application to align dependency user stories and schedule dates for D2D / Pair Wise Testing (PWT).
• Hosted Daily stand-ups, Retrospectives, and Sprint end demos with both onshore and offshore teams. Prepared daily progress reports and burn-down charts and helped the application teams to rectify any shortfalls for set goals.
• Evaluated / developed Team capacity and Velocity models to achieve optimal results, organizational goals and to enforce team commitments. Coordinate with external teams in removing the impediments.
• Worked with Scrum of Scrums in resolving external application blockers / defects and hosting calls as necessary.
• Coached / mentored the new team members and Business team about Agile methodology, principles and practices, benefits and constraints.
• Trained on user story points, User Story selection criteria for each iteration, daily task Estimates and updates, burn down charts on various Agile tools including RALLY and TDP. Worked with the team to make sure Agile project criteria is met and to pass the audits.

Technology: Linux/Java / Oracle/ Web Services (SOAP UI) / RALLY / TDP/PRISM / VIDUR.

Confidential, NJ

Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coaching / Mentoring the team of 12 developers and 5 testers on Agile practices, writing user stories and uploading to backlog, deriving the Iteration schedule (2 week sprints based on project Template dates), getting the dependency approvals.
• Reviewing the user stories with stakeholders and getting their approvals. Aligning the schedule with external applications.
• Grooming / Prioritizing the User stories with Dev / ST team members and assigning User stories to team members, assigning the story points.
• Hosting daily stand-ups (both onshore and offshore teams), monitoring daily burn-down charts and preparing daily status reports. Adding / deleting the user stories based on business directives, re-prioritizing the user stories for each sprint.
• Hosting sprint-end Retrospectives to discuss things that went well and those that did not and come up with a mitigation plan. Hosting sprint end Demos with Business / product stakeholders and get their approvals. Helping team to remove impediments.
• Evaluated / developed Team capacity and Velocity models to achieve optimal results, organizational goals and to enforce team commitments. Coordinate with external teams in removing the impediments.
• Worked with Scrum of Scrums in resolving external application blockers / defects and hosting calls as necessary.
• Coached / mentored the new team members and Business team about Agile methodology, principles and practices, benefits and constraints.
• Advising in preparing resource and time estimates, Developing Approach Documents for external applications.
• Coached Business / Product owners and the Application team on Agile methodology, principles and practices, benefits and constraints. Held presentation sessions to demo Agile lifecycle management.
• Agile was implemented using JIRA. Guiding team through for removing the impediments Clarity tool used for the Lifecycle Project Management

Technology: Linux/Oracle/ Web Services (SOAP UI) / Clarity/JIRA/ MS Visio/ HP QC/ SharePoint.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Lead LTE Network Data / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily scrum calls, Developed and updated daily tasks in RALLY. Developed various use cases and uploaded to Rally backlog. Did story / task estimates for each Sprint.
• Prepared and presented sprint-end demos for Business / Product Owners to get user story approvals. Participated in Sprint-end Retrospective calls.
• Developed test case documents to test network aggregation data, Configured the scripts for LTE network data elements to generate traffic in 3GPP, 4G and LTE networks (Both IPv4 and IPv6). Used IXIA and IXLoad. Analyzed data using Wireshark and Tshark (for UNIX) tools. Automated data comparison and generate report logs.

Technology: RALLY/LPRISM/inux/Oracle/IXLOAD/BreakingPoint /GNATS/Wireshark/Tshark.

Senior Systems Engineer / Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business level Epic user story reviews and approvals, Developed Application level user stories, Reviewed them with Business users, system architects and application team, Groomed them with the application teams and helped teams for user story / task estimates, external application dependencies and to align impacted user stories with external applications.
• Participated in daily scrum calls Developed and updated requirement tasks in RALLY and helped in prioritizing the user stories in backlog for a given iteration. Participated in Team capacity / velocity evaluation meetings
• Participated in Iteration-end Retrospectives, Helped ST team to Prepare and presented sprint-end demos for Business / Product Owners to get user story approvals.
• Participated in PIF, JRD (JAD), Business process review sessions and SRS reviews with Product owners and SMEs.
• Designed / developed T3 High Level Design (HLD)/ Functional Requirements and AIDs based on BR and SRS requirements.
• Developed Data mapping / modeling documents to map data between Confidential UI applications and external interfaces.
• Prepared Detailed Time-Cost Estimates for developing HLD and AID documents.
• Hosted various HLD and AID review meetings to baseline HLDs and AIDs.
• Developed various project quality Artifacts such as Design review defects, Review check lists, Traceability matrices Etc.
• Trained / Coached new team members both onshore and offshore.

Technology: PRISM / RALLY/AIX/JAVA/ORACLE - SQL/HP QC/Rational Req Pro/ Visio/ Agile/ Web Services (SOAP UI).

Confidential, NJ

Senior Technical Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Hosted calls between Business / Product owners and application team to Facilitatethe gathering of high level business requirements and discuss business objectives, project goals and the project schedules.
• Coached Business / Product owners and the Application team on Agile methodology, principles and practices, benefits and constraints. Held presentation sessions to demo Agile lifecycle management. Gave PPT sessions to demonstrate the benefits.
• Created / updated product backlogs with user cases/stories based on changing priorities using JIRA.
• Hosted Daily Status calls, design document review sessions, Helped the application team to get final stakeholder approvals.
• Worked on removing impediments, conflict management, resolving cultural misunderstandings.
• Managed weekly grooming and sprint end demo sessions.
• Coordinated with development and database teams to resolve testing defects.

Confidential, NJ

Programmer / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and Feature requirement specifications, Developed Feature Detail Design / QA test procedure and test strategy documents.
• Developed and unit tested new features.
• Automated Regression and functional test runs and data setup . Configured the test bed environment for each software release.
• Performed Unit, Functional, Regression testing, UAT and Performance testing for of VOICE, SMS, DATA of various wireless communication protocols in 2G/3GPP.
• Lead and Managed an offshore test team including Training/ Mentoring, Setting up work assignments, milestones, priorities, goals and expectations. Hosted daily status meetings. Did performance reviews and presented the reports to upper management.

Technology: Unix /C++/ SHELL/QC/ORACLE SQL/SS7/3GPP/GPRS/CDMA/GSM/SIP/VOIP/Agile/Business Process.