SUMMARY

• Accomplished Scrum Professional and Enterprise Lean Agile Change agent helping teams build better systems through understanding and exhibiting the Lean Agile Mindset, Scrum Principles and Systems thinking.
• Delivered large - scale software projects on time and budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Proficient at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Actively involved in helping organizations transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology utilizing a framework of Scrum, Less, XP, Scaled Agile Framework and Kanban for Flow. In addition to being an active Lean Agile Change Agent I am also a Certified Software Test Manger (CSTM) and Business Process Manager (BPM) who has been actively involved in development of Test Schedule, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Tracking, Version Control, Defect Management.
• Proven experience with extracting, translating technical requirements into User Stories, Technical Spikes and identifying business process gapsprovide strategyguidelines for Confidential 500 Clients
• Experience as a Lean Agile Change Agent across various industries and domains
• Facilitate and Lead Workshops, Planning Meetings, Reviews and Retrospectives team members for various clients across Insurance, Automotive and Health Care domains.
• Participated in large Program Increment Planning
• Highly skilled in managing scrum teams In Offshore/Onsite model.
• Established best practices for requirements gathering and application validation
• Created a framework to manage and limit WIP & WSJF
• Knowledge of Kanban and Scrum XP Design Techniques
• Introduced Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development across scrum teams
• Deep understanding of SDLC - Project Management, Requirements Management, Analysis & Design, Quality Assurance (Testing), Implementation, Deployment, and Change Management.
• Experience with Jira, Rally and Confluence software for Project Management and bug tracking.
• Requirements engineering, analyzing and documenting business requirements Document (BRD) and system requirements in System Requirements Specifications (SRS) Document.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Jira, Rally, MS Project, PPM

Bug Track/Reporting: Jira, Bugzilla, TRAC, TESTLINK, HPQC

Design Tool: Microsoft Visio 2013.

Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 7, Mac IOS X, Vista, XP, NT, and UNIX.

Automation Tools: Java/Selenium/ Win Runner.

Testing: Manual and Automated testing, Test Case Development, Test Estimation

Databases: MSSQL Server 2012/2008R, Oracle 11i, MS Access, SQL, DB2.

Business Modeling Tools: BPMN, UML

Web development: JSP, Servlets, CGI, XML, XSL, HTML, CSS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Launch Agile Release Train(s) (ART): Identify value streams and launch ART(s) to ensure all teams are aligned within the same vision and deliver on the same cadence, and assist organizations to create and perform the other “ART Launch deliverables”
• On-going Adoption & Coaching Activities: Support Teams continued outreach to other applicable parts of the organization, so that Agile and SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) principles are adopted consistently. -
• Product Backlog Grooming, User Story Mapping and development of Use Cases
• Define reporting requirements in JIRA to ensure dashboards are created for data visualization
• Create JQL scripts in JIRA tool for data analysis and extraction-
• Conduct Development & Operations (Devops) workshop -
• Develop and display key information radiators to make visible Program and team level transformation progress and recommend course corrections
• Develop and help collect usable metrics for management and executives-
• Provide support and education for improving Agile, Scrum, Large Scale Scrum, Disciplined Agile development and Kanban practices-
• Develop a sustainable Agile working group, and internal Agile community
• Capture end-of-day metrics and prepare Burn-Down and Burn-Up Charts
• Review product backlog with the Product Owner in preparation for future release planning activities.
• Schedule and facilitate Release Planning sessions for future releases based on the team’s cadence
• Increase Business Value Predictability, Built in Quality and Product Visioning

Confidential

Agile Team Coach

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Product Owners Stake holders, Director of Operations and internal teams to define product road map of multiple annuity products.
• Introduced agile culture to the team of 25.
• Led Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up and Sprint Retrospective Sessions
• Grooming Product Backlog, Team Backlog, Program Backlog.
• Introduced teams to agile tools like Team Foundation server, JIRA, Rally instead of traditional requirements tools like spreadsheet and traceability matrix
• Agile Team Coaching: Work with Scrum Masters on a Daily basis to remove impediments improve Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration
• Protect team from over-commitment, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Coaching on Agile Process Tools and Methodologies
• Track the project progress through Burn up and Burn down charts.
• Coordinated Offshore/Onsite Delivery Model
• Performed quality management to meet acceptance criteria of project deliverables.
• Established agile release trains at team and program level
• Established INVEST and SPIDR approach for the User Stories
• Created value stream flows and established connection between portfolio level and program level
• Participated in program increment planning and established roadmap for the delivery of the product
• Usage of Devops and Continuous Integration best practices
• Conduct System Demos
• QA Representative for different releases as a part of Scaled Agile Development (Safe).
• Risk Planning and Mitigation of risks through Risk Management cycle
• Published Agile metrics and Test Management metrics to senior leadership

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 25 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 10 months.
• Reviewed Roadmap requests from the Development Centre Managers and created Epics
• Created Backlog based on Roadmap requests; created Epics and sliced into user stories that can be estimated in story points.
• Instructed and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.
• Introduced the Ideas of War Rooms and Steering Group to effectively resolve software defects.
• Conducted Agile Iteration Planning, Grooming, and Review/Retrospective meetings.
• Coordinated and Managed the Capacity Planning Meetings.
• Worked with Senior Directors and VP in order to implement and deploy strategic measures to instill corporate vision and develop a teamwork atmosphere focused on meeting corporate objectives, increase profitability, productivity and overall customer satisfaction.
• Established Service Level agreements for Defect Management, Incident Management.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Release Train Engineer for distributed Scrum Team (Development, BA, UX Team, Functional Testing and UAT Test Team) using the Scaled Agile Framework
• Involved in facilitating Sprint Planning, Retrospective, daily stand up meetings
• Involved in risk and issue management by monitoring potential risks and issues that impact the testing and documenting them for follow up till they are resolved.
• Presented a White Paper on Defect Management Trends and Challenges at the confluence

Confidential

Scrum Master - Program Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the daily stand-up and monitor the Velocity burndown chart.
• Organize sprint planning sessions sprint retrospective and demos.
• Coordinate with product owners on both functional and technical user stories.
• Mediating through conflicts, prioritizing product backlog.
• Acted as a servant leader in bringing change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 10% and the quality of deliverables by 20%.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.
• Involved in Creating User Story Analysis Document.
• Lead requirements (stories) discovery working sessions with an audience of customer and systems Subject Matter Experts
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Analyze current processes and recommend solutions and improved processes
• Established delivery methodology standards in the creation of solutions, understanding client tactical plans and goals and expressed business requirements in terms of the function to be performed by the solution.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Planned and monitored project budget/spending.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Introduced teams to Kanban and Created Value stream flows.
• Introduced Lunch and learn sessions and established Communities of Practice.
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.
• Performed Requirements Analysis and Management using DOORS.
• Architected Test Case Development related to Voice Recognition and Text to Speech.
• Feature based Test Case Development using Test Builder.
• Designed Test Strategy, Requirement Specification, Traceability Matrix.
• Identified potential risks in the project and provided a proper risk mitigation plan.

Confidential

Junior Scrum Master-Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings
• Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items
• Develop and document as-is/to-be business processes from end user requirements.
• Develop Use Cases based on best practices for a particular business community.
• Defect reporting using HP QC,
• Performed Defect Management in Quality Center, track defects to closure
• Interacted on weekly basis with the vendors who provide the wireframes
• Designed and Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Process Flows, Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Developed communication plans. Provide timely, accurate communication of project plans and status to stakeholders.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with developers in creation of Test Cases for Smart Campus System.
• Ensured that all Artifacts were in compliance with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Used Test Link to store, schedule, execute and track test cases and reporting.
• Prepared detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report, Comparison Chart.
• Developed User Acceptance Test Cases and completed User Acceptance Testing.
• Develop project plans that include deliverables, work breakdown structure, stakeholder list, roles and responsibilities, dependencies, detailed project plan and timelines to meet business objectives and comply with project standards.

Confidential

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prototyped new ideas for Testing Voice Recognition and Text to Speech Functionality
• WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) Testing on Printer and Scanner driver
• Extensively Involved in Localization and HMI (Human Machine Interface) Testing
• Designed and Development of Test cases from Requirement Specifications
• Involved in Preparation of Traceability Matrix and Feature based testing
• Successfully Executed Projects for Magellan Navigation-USA, Sharp Corporation, Kodak
• Proficient in Functional, Integration, System, Performance/Stress/Load, Multimedia, GUI, Sanity Smoke, Negative, Regression, Verification, Validation, User Acceptance (UAT)
• Actively Involved in Business Process Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Data and Process Modeling