SUMMARY

• Transitioned and trained cross - functional teams from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Proven success eliciting requirement, GAP analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis.
• Applied Agile Test Practices SCRUM, Scripted Test Cases for Test Driven Development (TDD) and developed test cases for story card based on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD).
• Solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, Use Case Modelling using (UML), Data Modelling (DM), Software Development Methodologies (SDM), Business Process Modelling (BPM), and Business Intelligence (BI).
• Have transitioned gathering requirements to writing User Stories dat follow INVEST and SMART.
• Proficiency in presenting ideas and analysis results to a group of stakeholders and users.
• Coach and influencing teh development teams in implementing and practicing agile principals and values.
• Extensive involvement wif 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 teh source tables, columns, data types, transformations required and business rules to be applied.
• Involved in accelerating teh delivery of secure, reliable modern applications using HP application lifecycle Management.
• Collaborating and analyzing wif all teh strategic business units to define teh 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

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE: Aviation, Airlines, E-Commerce, Finance, Insurance, Health Care, Banking, Infrastructure, Mortgage, Telecom/wireless

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCRUM MASTER

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 wif Product owner to come up wif 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 wif teh team from teh beginning of teh SPRINT to pick backlogs for teh two-week cycle ahead. This involved coming up wif 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, Des Moines, IA

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 wif 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 dat help teh team see how they are doing.
• Failures were openly shared by creating a learning and collaborative perspective on teh 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 wif clients and other stakeholders to understand current and future businessneeds as they relate to teh 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 teh processes and procedures for teh agile methodologies.

BUSINESS ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint ApplicationDesign (JAD) sessions by communicating wif 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.
• GatheirdBusinesses and Functional Requirements and elicited them in teh 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 teh 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 wif developers, architects and teh QA team to ensure comprehension and feasibility of requirements.
• Assisted in teh development of test plans and test case.
• Closely worked wif QA on organizing Test Plans and training rollout, prepared Test Cases and UAT scripts.

BUSINESS ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif Users and Stakeholders to identify business system needs, evaluated solutions for business problems.
• Worked wif SME’s of different groups to gain detailed noledge of Investments and Capital Market and to understand teh cross impacts of teh system.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements.
• Performed extensive Gap analysis to identify teh business rules and determine teh risks and assisted teh PM in budget and resource planning.
• Studied teh Business Requirement Document (BRD), supporting documents containing essential business elements, detailed definition and description of teh relationship between teh actors
• Designed and developed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define teh Business Process, analyzed teh data entity relationships and worked on multiple short term projects.
• Responsible for organizing teh Quality Analyst (QA) walk through to explain proposed changes.
• Performed system and regression testing by creating test plans and test cases to ensure all teh functional requirements are met and valid.
• Conducted UAT wif stakeholders and business users for teh validation and got system approvals by conducting UAT sessions.