SUMMARY:

• More than 12 years of experience as an IT Consultant.
• Scrum certified Master. 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master.
• Several years of experience as a Release Manger, BA and QA.
• Proficiency in working successfully Clients, Product Owners, UX Designers, and Subject Matter Experts.
• Proficient in using Agile tools: Jira, Rally, Version One
• Followed agile team guidelines and best practices. Provided hands - on Agile coaching to teams on all aspects of Scrum practices.
• Experienced in Team Agile, Safe 4.5, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, RUP and Iterative RUP environments.
• Proficient in running Scrum ceremonies: daily stand ups, backlog grooming, planning poker, sprint planning, and retrospectives;
• Monitored team Velocity, created burndown charts, ensured no work overload within the team.
• Organized and managed in-sprint stories, continually checking in with the development team to increase productivity and ensure quality.
• Experienced in using CA Agile, and TFS for creating user stories, story mapping, acceptance criteria, test cases, and bug reporting.
• Experience in Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, built product backlog and remove team impediments.
• Flexible and agile; able to quickly adapt to changing situations and inputs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that fosters effective collaboration with clients and peers in-person or remote.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Product Owners, IT SME's and Architecture team to document requirements to implement Mobility based on agile methodology approach.
• Conducted daily Stand up Meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Backlog Grooming Meeting, Retrospectives to monitor the project for multiple teams.
• Used Kanban and Scrum to monitor and manage the Agile processes
• Regularly coordinated with onshore-offshore team to communicate time lines, to identify issues, track, report and co-ordinate to get issue resolved in a timely manner.
• Document all processes as required in the software development lifecycle (writing wikis, creating JIRA tickets, creating testing documents, compiling system quick reference and user guides). Provide any relevant documentation to the audit controls teams.
• Coordinated and Identified risks, triggers and mitigations & escalating issues.
• Participated in Weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings to coordinate the team level activity.
• Provided Agile coaching for following agile standards and best practices for onboarding new team members on the project.
• Facilitated Release management planning. Provided and created documentation and Change requests for all tracking purposes and follow up for release process.
• Frequently communicate the Team metrics to the stakeholders. Provide a vision on the team Velocity and Burndown to the management.

Confidential, MI

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Follow Agile framework methodology
• Work with Product Owner and scrum team to create user stories, tasks, grooming backlog
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Analyze teams commitment for a sprint, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Work with Program team and feature team to understand the intricacy of application
• Manage the lifecycle of development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Maintained the backlog and release plan with product owners and elicit information to ensure that all the stakeholders are fully informed about team’s successes and impediments
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Create wireframes of the UI for different modules of the application
• Create user stories in Rally to capture all requirements
• Help producing training materials for the business users
• Integrate business team with IT operations by creating process-driven documents
• Create flow charts to illustrate the data flow of the functionalities in the application
• Maintain and manage documents in the SharePoint site maintained the standards and training documents for the reservation agents in SharePoint
• Provided guidance to developers with respect to domain as well as technology

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC, such as requirement gathering and analysis, design, development, and testing.
• Lead a team of BA's and assigning new project to them looking at the bandwidths of each individual.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications
• Prepared user stories for gathering the requirement.
• Manage the online Master Data Management request tool for new requests ensuring proper decision-making on master data creation, data standardization, duplication checks, data field accuracy and completeness while meeting acceptable turnaround time. Complete large database cleanup projects to insure data integrity.
• Managed the team and tasks as well as schedule using Team Foundation Server
• Conducted JAD sessions, communicated and maintained strong working relationship with various business groups and owners in preparing the user Story.
• Conducted technical training session regarding agile development methods.
• Participated in meetings, technical discussion, reviews and release planning.
• Provided technical assistance during project planning and demonstrations.
• Formulated, implemented and maintained tools and practices.
• Prepared and coordinated project proposals and schedules.
• Evaluated information radiators and Scrum issues on daily basis.
• Generated periodic peer review reports for project managers
• Development of a reporting solution for data profiling, using MS SQL Server
• Prepared High Level and Detailed level requirements for Select Solutions
• Worked with the cross functional teams in gathering the requirements.
• Scheduled meetings to review the Detailed Level Requirement with the cross functional team for approvals.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the detail requirements, design and test cases to the HLR to track the requirements.

Confidential, CA

Sr. Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with the client as part of the Requirements Engineering team to finalize the project scope.
• Assisted the PM in developing the project plans and also managed changes to the scope of the project, and take daily updates from the cross functional team during the Scrum call.
• Conducted and gathered Requirements, analyzed the Requirements and managed changes using Rational Suite.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Documented and delivered Functional Requirement Document to the project team.
• Participated in the design sessions, assisted and developed high and low level design documents.
• Analyzed and documented business requirement, functional specification with use cases and scenarios and reporting data specification documents and converted them into technical design and data mapping specification
• Performed Data Modelling by creating logical and physical models of the database system.
• Wrote the SQL queries on data staging tables and data warehouse tables to validate the data results.
• Delivered Enterprise Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, and ETL Informatica solution
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing UAT.
• Employed Rational Clear Quest for effective Change Management Requirements Creep and bug tracking during the testing lifecycle.

Confidential, TX

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted extensively with various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop the Vision Document that is aligned with corporate strategic objectives.
• Documented the "AS-IS" Business Workflows adhering to UML standards.
• Managed the application support product backlog using JIRA cards.
• Conducted Monthly Business Prioritization meetings with the stakeholders, identified JIRA cards to be scheduled for the upcoming release.
• Documented User Story using JIRA to describe the business need.
• Conducted weekly sprint planning meeting with the developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respective sprint.
• Conducted JAD sessions to define requirements and finalize the Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Documented meeting minutes from JAD sessions and obtained sign-offs from JAD participants.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Identified use cases from the functional requirements, wrote use case specifications and created "To-Be Business Process Workflow" diagrams (activity diagrams) in MS Visio.
• Designed User Interface-level wireframes detailing interaction models and user experience using Axure.
• Conducted requirement workshops to verify and validate business requirements.
• Created use case diagrams using MS Visio to show interaction between the actors and the use cases as well as to demonstrate the relationship between the use cases.
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all functional requirements are addressed at the use case level as well as the test case level.
• Performed functional and GUI testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria is met.
• Co-coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on a daily basis with the SME's to make sure that all the business requirements are addressed in the application

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement workshops among all project stakeholders to verify and validate the business requirements for the migration of Credit Default Swaps from the Proprietary Positioning Business to Credit Risk Management systems to capture credit exposure with the rest of the firm's FX and Derivatives portfolio.
• Developed Functional Requirements (FRS) to meet the business requirements and communicated these to the IT teams.
• Collaborated with project resources and reported project progress to management across project life cycle to ensure coordinated requirements definition, coordinated user efforts, and execution of the development, testing and rollout phases
• Created test cases and test scripts, performed system and regression testing against future releases and presented testing status to internal and external audiences.
• Coordinated and participated in User Acceptance testing, and ensured that requirements documentation was easily translated into User Acceptance test cases using Traceability Matrices.
• Responsible for the system and regression testing of all enhancements to the trading platforms and logged defects into Clearquest for resolution.
• Interfaced with business users to prepare and update the Project Scope, Business Requirements (BRD) and Software Requirements Specifications (FRS) utilizing the iterative methodology for the Employer-sponsored Plan Online Enrollment system and Online Individual Retirement Annuity system.
• Managed project plan milestone deliverables and the Risk and Issues Tracking log