Scrum Master (safe) Resume
Seattle, WA
SUMMARY
- Extensive involvement with Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Mapping, and Data profiling.
- Created data flow diagrams, data mapping from Source to stage and Stage to Target mapping documents indicating the source tables, columns, data types, transformations required and business rules to be applied.
- Involved in accelerating the delivery of secure, reliable modern applications using HP application lifecycle Management.
- Collaborating and analyzing with all the strategic business units to define the areas for implementation of Business re - engineering.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
TOOLS: Version One, Jira, Rally, Confluence, MS Project Management, MS Share Point Server, Rational Rose, MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Wireframes, HP QC, HP ALM, Load Runner, Selenium, Fiddler, Hedgehog, IOS XCode, Android Studio, Xamarin, MS Excel Functions & Pivot Tables, Informatica, Data Stage, Teradata, Tableau, MS Office Suite, HTML, XML, SQL, C#, JAVA, MYSQL, MS Access, Oracle, SAP CRM, SOA, API, WSDL, Soap, HTTP
BUSINESS SKILLS: Change Management, Risk management, Finance management, Impact Analysis, SWOT Analysis, GAP Analysis, Root - cause Analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, Project Budgeting, BRDs, SRS, UCS
Agile: Scrum/XP/Kanban/Safe
DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE: Aviation, Airlines, E-Commerce, Finance, Insurance, Health Care, Banking, Infrastructure, Mortgage, Telecom/wireless
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SCRUM MASTER (SAFe)
Confidential, Seattle, WA
Responsibilities:
- Leading three offshore teams and two onshore teams.
- Following SAFe framework when working on multiple Agile Teams and by closely working with Product owner to come up with Prioritized backlog.
- Facilitating daily standups, Release Planning, Monthly Reviews meetings, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.
- Working with the team from the beginning of the SPRINT to pick backlogs for the two-week cycle ahead. This involved coming up with Task and Testing activities.
- Representing team in S2 (Scrumof Scrums) and PI (Program Increment) planning sessions.
- Meticulously analyzed complex data, staffing plans and task assignments using SharePoint and MS Excel.
- Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items and upcoming change orders.
- Modeling agile metrics providing visibility to Management and Business teams on team-level progress.
SCRUM MASTER
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Part of 3 teams Agile Transformation.
- Serving as Agile Coach and Mentor for team, JuniorScrumMaster, Executive Management, and Product Owner.
- Facilitating Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective, stakeholder discussions and Sprint Reviews.
- Creating and presenting Project Plans for stakeholders to identify project deliverables, goals and milestones.
- Working with team to prepare compliance deliverables: Business Workflow and process analysis, user requirement documentation (Use Cases, Features, User Stories).
- Helping team to coordinate defect triage and prioritization until it became a standard team common practice.
- Participating in Enterprise Agile Community of Practice where successes and challenges were openly discussed.
- Maintained burn-down charts that help the team see how they are doing.
- Failures were openly shared by creating a learning and collaborative perspective on the 20 Scrum teams.
SCRUM MASTER
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as a Scrum Master for as many as 3 teams ranging from 6 to 9 engineers including on shore, and off shore resources. Interacted with clients and other stakeholders to understand current and future businessneeds as they relate to the applications supported.
- Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives) and other related meetings.
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.
- Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintained focus on product backlog and project timeline.
- Coached, mentored and trained team members in the processes and procedures for the agile methodologies.
BUSINESS ANALYST
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint ApplicationDesign (JAD) sessions by communicating with internal users and stakeholders, documented scope definition, functionalrequirement documents.
- Mentored and empowered teams towards making appropriate commitments through story selection, establishing acceptance criteria, automated test driven development (ATDD) and test driven development (TDD), story sizing and task definition.
- GatheredBusinesses and Functional Requirements and elicited them in the form of Use Cases using Visio.
- Participated and contributed in daily Scrums, Sprint meeting and Sprint review meetings.
- Assisted in modeling UI wireframes, mockups and documenting the end-user's AS-IS workflow and TO-BE business processes.
- Lead cross-functional development teams of more complex initiatives, coordinating external and internal resources to support on-time delivery.
- Worked with developers, architects and the QA team to ensure comprehension and feasibility of requirements.
- Assisted in the development of test plans and test case.
- Closely worked with QA on organizing Test Plans and training rollout, prepared Test Cases and UAT scripts.
BUSINESS ANALYST
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with Users and Stakeholders to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems.
- Worked with SME’s of different groups to gain detailed knowledge of Investments and Capital Market and to understand the cross impacts of the system.
- Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements.
- Performed extensive Gap analysis to identify the business rules and determine the risks and assisted the PM in budget and resource planning.
- Studied the Business Requirement Document (BRD), supporting documents containing essential business elements, detailed definition and description of the relationship between the actors
- Designed and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process, analyzed the data entity relationships and worked on multiple short term projects.
- Responsible for organizing the Quality Analyst (QA) walk through to explain proposed changes.
- Performed system and regression testing by creating test plans and test cases to ensure all the functional requirements are met and valid.
- Conducted UAT with stakeholders and business users for the validation and got system approvals by conducting UAT sessions.
