SUMMARY

• Highly motivated IT Professional wif proven skills having almost twelve years of versatile experience on various levels in SAFe Agile coaching, Change Management, Project Management, Scrum, Business Analysis, and Quality Assurance.
• Strong hands on experience in leading success driven teams in achieving project goals, meeting deadlines, and releasing quality product wifin a derived and planned release phase.
• Expertise in developing and implementing Plans, Scenarios, and ensure proper business compliances along wif managing fast paced project teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, coaching and communication skills wif the ability to remain highly focused and self - assured in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Mentor and coach best practices and Agile methodologies to the team for fast paced complex work environments
• Work closely wif teams and Scrum master for creating and grooming Product and sprint backlogs
• Manage various different functional roles and best practices during Agile transformation
• Specialty in Enterprise IT implementations and understanding and implementing best engineering practices
• Work closely wif Scaled Agile project team and release train conductors/engineers on the planning and scheduling of releases and meeting product deadlines
• Facilitate in release and sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, demo and sprint retrospective
• Create and maintain project artifacts, team velocity, and BVIR (Big visible information radiator) for burn up and burn down charts
• Identify, resolve and remove impediments during the sprint cycle
• Evaluate and recommend various appropriate tools and their optimal usage
• Expertise in using standard agile tracking tools like JIRA, Rally, etc.
• Train teams for Scaled Agile Frameworks, DevOps, BDD, TDD, ATDD and test automation frameworks
• Create, evaluate, and timeline testing strategies
• Create SRS, sequence diagrams, DFD, Activity diagrams, requirements gathering, decision making, business and technical team interaction, and overall documentation.
• Conduct Sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, elicitation and facilitation, perform and time daily team cadences, and communicate important messages across the team

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Scaled Agile Framework 4.0 (SAFe), Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, RUP, V model, Waterfall, Project Management, BDD, TDD, ATDD, Agile Modeling, XP, RAD, Change Management Modeling

Operating Systems: Windows 7/2K/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, iOS, Android

Tools: Quality Center, QTP, JIRA, Eclipse, Appium, Testrail, Rally, Crashlytics

ERP: SAP CRM, SAP SCM, Oracle, Oracle Dataload, Access, Firebug, ChromeDriver, SOAP UI, Loadrunner, SAP, J2EE, Web Sphere, ETL

Languages: C, C++, XML VB Script, Java Script, HTML, Java, UNIX, json, SQL Developer, Python, XHTML, CSS, PHP, C#, .net, JSP, EJB, VCMS, VBIS, JDBCDatabases My SQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DataLoad, PowerPivot

Others: MS-Office, MS VISIO, MS-Project, PowerPoint, Paint, TextEdit, Image Capture, Fiddler, Android file transfer, iOS image capture, Healthcheck, Snipping tool, Beyond compare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Coach/Enterprise Agile Transformation lead

Responsibilities:

• Coach the team for Team Agility wif SAFe 4.0, Scrum, Kanban and Lean
• Act as an embedded team coach, and train Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development team to be effective and efficient Agile team members.
• Guide and assist the testing team wif testing strategies, BDD and ATDD, provide guidelines for automation testing, and agile testing cycles.
• Inspect, monitor and report bi-weekly coaching progress to various stakeholders, including Polaris and Confidential Management
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the teams for SAFe practices, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrum-Ban, and Paired Programming, project management, PI Planning, release trains, value stream mapping, team building, teamwork, team cadence and progress.
• Participate in team cadences and scrum ceremonies, advice the Scrum Master for team capacity and velocity, and suggest facilitation technique. Train the Product Owner to gauge stories, story length, dependencies, and define functional and business acceptance criteria.
• Focus the coaching on SAFe training for management and team members, track individual team member progress, highlights, lowlights, impediments, risk-impact-mitigation analysis, team target achievements, and suggest improvement strategies.
• Present the overall team progress during the coaching and communications meetings and training guilds, highlighting work in progress, successes, impediments and failures.
• Guide the team to analyze the stories dat meet the Definition of ready, and successfully close stories after achieving the definition of done.
• Work wif the assigned teams to track team transition progress, maintain team transition, and update project progress charts, and perform risk and SWOT analysis.
• Act as the team Scrum Master for the newly created teams, assign a team member to be the team Scrum Master, and train the Scrum Master in facilitation, estimation, and successfully running Scrum ceremonies.
• Provide feedbacks during the Team retrospective meetings, analyze individual and team commitments, and guide the teams to improve their upcoming Scrums
• Focus on individual stakeholder coordination in tracking the progress, receive stakeholder/management feedback to in achieving the goals, and coach the team on how to achieve goals in striving the team’s success.

Confidential

Project Team Agile Mentor/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Train and coach mentees on various IT processes, coordinate learning efforts and provide coaching and mentoring the trainees on various different processes like SAFe practices, PI Planning, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrum-Ban, Waterfall, Lean, XP, RAD, and Paired Programming.
• Inspect and monitor the progress of the trainees, and report the progress to the end client ( Confidential ), suggest and implement individual team member improvement strategies, and perform a one-on-one meetup wif the mentees.
• Coach the mentees on various different processes like project management, roles of a scrum master, business analyst, testing processes and strategies, releases, documentation, team building processes, team-work, business relationship management, process cadence, and overall team progress tracking.
• Report weekly progress of the team members to stakeholders, focus on the highlights of the individual team member progress, lowlights, impediments, risk-impact-mitigation analysis, and discuss improvement strategies.
• Present the mentee team progress in the overall progress review meetings and highlight on the hits and misses of the individual mentees in the team.
• Coordinate wif the stakeholders on an individual basis to track and monitor the individual mentee’s progress, receive stakeholder feedback to achieve the goals, and closely work wif individual mentees coaching them on how to achieve the goals for individual/team success.
• Working wif teams in maintaining team and project progress charts, performing risk and SWOT analysis.

Confidential

Agile Transformation Coach

Responsibilities:

• Overlook team agile transformation and follow Kanban methodologies, create improvements in the impressions wif accordance to necessary business results and Business/IT based implications. Provide and equip solutions in accelerating the bidding process on project technical architecture. Create and update the project portfolio strategy management based upon statuses collected from project teams and management updates at the end of 4 sprints.
• Assess the project management plans and schedules, staffing needs, execute and schedule all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assess the business implications for the project phase and constantly monitor the progress in detail per the project deadlines and milestones, thus meeting standard and cost targets.
• Resolve project issues, staffing shortages, tactical matters, divergent business and end user needs, and scope creep. Create PERT diagram, cost benefit analysis, SWOT analysis, ROI (Return of investment) assessments, decision making and strategy discussions, and propose the project IT implementations.
• Guide and articulate the technical teams in agile transformation, create and update project guide, excel in guiding technical teams for the highest throughput, prepare a detailed works structure, Releases Gantt chart, and instill the accountability in achieving the set project go-live dates and releases thus maintaining the project timeline.
• Train the team wif SAFe best practices, and track individual team member progress

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coaching and mentoring the team on various agile practices like Scaled Agile and Scrum, drive the improvements in impressions according to the required business results and IT implementations, Equip solutions for accelerate the process of bidding on project technical architecture, create and constantly update the project portfolio strategy management based upon statuses collected from project teams and management updates.
• Assess the project management plans and schedules, execute and schedule all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assess the business implications for the project phase and constantly monitor the progress in detail per the project deadlines and milestones, thus meeting standard and cost targets.
• Resolve project issues, staffing shortages, tactical matters, divergent business and end user needs, and scope creep. Create cost benefit analysis, SWOT analysis, Return of investment assessments, decision making and strategy discussions, and propose the project IT implementations for the projects.
• Provide guidance to the technical teams in SAP CRM implementation, excel in guide technical teams for maximum throughput, prepare a detailed WBS (work breakdown structure) and instill the accountability to achieve set project milestones and releases
• Set forth higher standards for the project team. Review/modifyexisting Timelines, suggest changes. Participate in daily onsite offshore meetings, onboard team meetings, participate in weekly QA staff meetings, bi-weekly Sprint planning, scrum of scrums, sprintretrospectivemeetings, etc. Assist in improving existing QA testing procedures, and integrate/suggest new testing processes.
• Prepare daily, weekly and sprint progress reports, and actively participate in the current QA testing progresses. Maintain defects triaging/opening/closure/reopening as per pre-release/release to the Project Management team using JIRA.
• Participate in QA testing strategies, provide QA support for post “go-live” activities, defects testing, etc.Create test data/test scripts for cross browser and cross platform testing. Provide QA status to the QA Manager Leads, also provide QA support to user testing teams (UAT) and Development teams. Perform sanity & smoke tests on different environments, verify expected results, and participate in defects testing life-cycle.

Confidential January

Agile Transformation Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyze app user’s requirements, suggestions, complaints, etc. implementbusiness procedures and best practices. Coordinatewif teams about expected product functionality, set forth expectations, and suggest changes.
• Open daily scrum meetings, give regularupdates,strategizefuture plans based on current vs planned team status, prioritize team tasks, and routinely inform status to the team. Participate in weekly meetings, open bi-weekly Sprint planning andretrospectivemeetings, outline improvements, protect confidential materials (including credit card information, integrate new testing and product development processes dat are ready for implementation.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthlyteam progress reports, current progress, and defects status per release to the Management team. Analyze/suggest strategies to reach the go-live goal, and meet post go-live expectations.Organize, assist & conduct Defects Triage meetings, maintain defects list per sprint plans, create/maintain defects list, and analyze and update defects.
• Validate network performance under various degrees of pressure, report network scalability using network scalability matrix and threshold.

Confidential

Project Manager/Sr. QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Improve the impressions according to the required business results and IT implementations, provide solutions to accelerate the process of bidding on project technical architecture, constantly create and update the project portfolio strategy management referring to collected statuses from project teams and management.
• Constantly assess the project management plans and schedules, execute and schedule all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations.
• Assess the business implications for the project phase and constantly monitor the progress in detail per the project deadlines and milestones, thus meeting standard and cost targets.
• Resolve project issues, staffing shortages, tactical matters, divergent business and end user needs, and scope creep.
• Create cost benefit analysis, SWOT analysis, Return of investment assessments, decision making and strategy discussions, and propose the project IT implementations for the projects.
• Articulate and guide the technical teams in project guide, excel in guide technical teams for maximum throughput, prepare a detailed WBS (work breakdown structure) and instill the accountability to achieve set project milestones and releases
• Create Test Plan and test timelines, back end testing, GUI testing, coordinate Onsite-Offshore testing, analyze user requirements, implement testing procedures, and perform ETL testing using Oracle and MS SQL server for data validation.
• Train QA team about product functionality, set forth expectations for the QA team in testing those functionalities, review analyzed test, and suggest changes if necessary.
• Participate in daily, weekly, and bi-weekly sprint and retrospectivemeetings, maintain QA sprint backlog, update sprint backlog commitments, devise improvements to current procedures, retain and protect confidential material, prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports, present the current QA testing progress and defects opening/closure/reopening per release to the Project Management team.
• Analyze and suggest testing strategyfor go-live, participate in defects triage meetings, maintain and update defects list using JIRA, report defects progress, and participate in problem resolution wif the management.
• Write/execute module and sprint based test cases, UAT test cases, perform smoke and sanity testing, build release and defects testing, and end to end testing. Perform full regression testing, and analyze report wif project team and project stakeholders.

Confidential

Project Manager/Business Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assess the business implications for the project phase and constantly monitor the progress in detail per the project deadlines and milestones, thus meeting standard and cost targets.
• Drive the improvements in impressions according to the required business results and IT implementations, Equip solutions for accelerate the process of bidding on project technical architecture.
• Create and constantly update the project portfolio strategy management based upon statuses collected from project teams and management updates.
• Assess the project management plans and schedules, execute and schedule all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations.
• Resolve project issues, staffing shortages, tactical matters, divergent business and end user needs, and scope creep. Create cost benefit analysis, SWOT analysis, Return of investment assessments, decision making and strategy discussions, and propose the project IT implementations for the projects.
• Articulate and guide the technical teams in project guide, excel in guide technical teams for maximum throughput, prepare a detailed WBS (work breakdown structure) and instill the accountability to achieve set project milestones and releases
• Createsequence and activity diagrams,system requirements document (SRS), SDD, and create test plan document. Provide and maintain a weekly report to the team about the testing progress, defects logged, test planning, test progress reports, etc.
• Participate in defects triage meetings, verify progress reports, review and modify SDD, integrate and suggest new processes and procedures, prepare progress reports for sprint retrospective. Prepare/update/review daily, weekly and sprint endprogress reports, actively participate in the current QA testing progresses, and defects triaging/opening/closure/reopening as per pre-release/release schedules.