SUMMARY:

• Scrum Master Business Analyst
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst and Scrum Master with expertise in Waterfall, Agile - Scrum, SAFe, KANBAN and XP.
• Transitioned and trained cross-functional teams from Waterfall to Agile.
• 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 that follow INVEST and SMART.
• Proficiency in presenting ideas and analysis results to a group of stakeholders and users.
• Coach and influencing the development teams in implementing and practicing agile principles and values.
• 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.
• Resolved the road blocks for the development team and helped to have transparent communication with the Business team.
• Collaborating with Product Owners all the time to make sure the Product backlog is ready and in good shape for upcoming Sprints.

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

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Leading three offshore teams and one onshore team.
• Followed SAFe framework when working on multiple Agile Teams and by closely working with the Product owner to come up with the Prioritized backlog.
• Facilitated 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 SOS (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 stakeholders on team-level progress.

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Serving as Agile Coach and Mentor for the 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 the 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 three teams ranging from 6 to 9 engineers including on shore, and offshore 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 to 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) walkthrough 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.