SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Professional with proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem - solving environment.
• As a Business Analyst experience of working in a collaborated environment of Business and Technology strategies.
• Extensive expertise in the area of requirement gathering and service desk tickets, and recurring problems
• Excellent knowledge on AGILE and concepts like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Experience in SOAP UI. Used SOAP UI to validate the WSDL by calling APIs.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to limit projects exposure to unforeseen changes Adept at managing stakeholder expectations from initiation till implementation of project.
• Conducted multiple interviews to clarify requirements in order to identify and prepare use cases and document UC Specifications
• Tactful at handling difficult stakeholders to get consensus on requirements.
• Proficient in customizing already existing business practices, workflows, activities and deliverables.
• Efficient in performing Data Mapping and preparing Mapping documents. Also worked in the area of data management, this includes data modeling, metadata and data analysis.
• Well experienced in incident management, defect resolution, code fixes, enhancement, and impact Analysis.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, consulting and facilitation skills.
• Owned the project end-to-end delivery, removing bottlenecks, figuring out dependencies faced by development and publishing teams.
• Coordinated with QA Team for Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Trained, Coached and Developed Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Team members as well as C-Level and business executives
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown
• Certified Scrum Master.
• Worked as a Project Manager.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Coached and Assisted teams in Agile methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Skills: C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, CSS, SQL Server (2005/2008), Photoshop

Platforms: Windows 2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000, Mac OS

Software: Microsoft Office Suite (Including Visio and Project)

Finance: GAAP Principles, Compliance and Regulation of accounts,Negotiation

Modeling: UML, MS Visio

Web Services Tool: SOAP UI, Eclipse

Methodologies: Joint Application Development (JAD), Rapid Action Development (RAD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Waterfall Model, Agile model, SCRUM

Documentation: Business Requirement Document, Use Case Specifications, Functional and Non-functional Specification, System Requirement Specification, UML Diagrams (Use case, Class and Sequence), Traceability Matrix, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Master Test Plan Review (Integration, System and Acceptance).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Coordinate with the teams located in different geographical places.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them.
• Coach and Mentor Agile team members and provide constructive feedbacks.
• Work with stake holders / Product Owners to prioritize the requirements for a sprint.
• Track and report status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis.
• Coordinate with the IT Project POCs on setting up the required environments.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by on-time delivery.
• Utilized dashboard using Jira and shared the metrics with management on time to time basis.
• Production issues ready for testing were assigned to me on a regular basis.
• Provided knowledge transfer and mentoring to the test team (new hires).
• Analyzing and reviewing User stories and mapping them to Test Cases.
• Attending daily Scrum meetings to present an update of QA efforts, challenges and progress etc.
• Responsible for Defect Management, which includes reporting, prioritizing and coordinating with developers to locate and assist in identifying and resolving software defects.
• Responsible for establishing root cause of defects which was mandatory for closing defects.
• Author test cases, test procedures and test reports when necessary
• Generated and maintained test metrics, and reported progress against the metrics.
• Managed and coordinated Off-shore team.

Confidential, Houston TX

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analysis of the specifications provided by the Business users/clients.
• Guiding estimates of Development work and sizing of user stories along with the development team.
• Responsible for assuring the deliverables are at high quality.
• Closely working with RTE and Agile Coaches for the PI planning.
• Attending the Scrum of Scrums meeting to understand the Impediments and dependencies
• Attending the PI meetings, making the Scrum teams to get ready for the PI Planning Meeting.
• Checking every sprint release to see whether the Sprint is matching the PI Objectives committed
• Coordinated with CAB and Release of Stories to production.
• Monitor the Burndown charts to understand the progress and escalate if needed.
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members
• Facilitated creation of the Collaboration plan and Team Building Plan.
• Organized and facilitated release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos, stakeholder meetings and other Scrum-related meetings

Confidential

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating the Statement of Work (SOW) and proposal documents that define project specific activities, deliverables and timelines.
• Worked with the clients to gather multiple data sources and worked closely with each Point of contact to get the requirements sorted out properly.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Leading and coaching a 6 Person team as Scrum Master to organize and facilitate daily stand-up
• Used Jira tool for Scrum and Kanban, Creating burn down and other artifacts.Led development of a Power BI reports.
• Scheduled frequent meetings with the client and had show and tell sessions to make the development more transparent.
• Worked closely with development team to ensure requirements are accurately mapped and suitable for development.
• Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations.
• Excelled at gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusion.
• Standardized all the processes and documents for development and BA team.
• Update client with the progress made every week
• Resource planning to not exceed the budget.
• Managed and accepted the timesheets.
• Facilitate the Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective Coordinate with the teams located in different geographical places.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them.
• Coach and Mentor Agile team members and provide constructive feedbacks
• Coordinated system training for users required by the business area

Confidential

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Working with Product Owner on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional.
• Used Jira Tool for Scrum and Kanban, Creating burn down and other artifacts.
• Facilitating sprint planning as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Managing projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.
• Kept the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Migrating the Projects from Waterfall to Scrum is major responsibility.