SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile Framework Practitioner with extensive experience in Agile methodology.
• Over 10+ years of experience in Scrum, Mainframe development and leading mainframe projects to successful completion with quality, on time and budget using SDLC and Agile Methodologies.
• Extensively experienced in business analysis, design, programming, debugging, testing, release management and quality assurance for cruising, banking, health, Insurance, benefits, and retail domains.
• Extensive experience in mainframe application batch and online programming and testing using Mainframe languages, relational databases, and tools including COBOL, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, SQL, JCL, EZtrieve, IMS DB, VSAM, CICS, CICS Web services, Teradata, FILEAID, MQ, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, QMF, CHANGEMAN IBM UTILITIES, ENDEVOR, CONTROLM and CA - 7 Schedulers.
• Certified IBM DB2 Associate, Certified Oracle 9I fundamentals, Certified RDBMS concepts and Certified Scrum Master.
• Excellent decision making, communication, analytical, business, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable working independently as well as in a team. Ability to learn and adapt quickly to the emerging new technologies.
• Self-managed with the ability to mentor others. Familiarity with project management frameworks. Strong and proven problem solving skills with the ability to deliver quality product meeting client’s timelines under pressure with a positive attitude.
• Excellent communication, analytical, business, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable working independently as well as in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, WIN-XP, WIN-NT, Z/OS, UNIX

Languages: COBOL for Z/OS, COBOL for OS390, COBOL II, JCL, CICS, C, C++, JAVA, VB, VB.NET

Tools: CHANGEMAN, ENDEAVOR, ISPF, SCLM, SPUFI, QMF, Platinum for DB2, FILEAID, ControlM Scheduler. MAX DATA/UTIL, File Manager for DB2, Troux Architect 9.1, Rally and JIRA Agile tools.

Databases: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, SQL

Debugging Tools: XPEDITER (batch & Online), CA INTERTEST FOR CICS.

Software: VPN, TN3270 plus Client, MS Office, Clear Quests for Defects, Citrix for accessing Mainframes, CQ and Web Communicator.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master, Technical Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Eztrieve, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Expeditor, CA-7, Librarian, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix. Clarity for Timesheets. Scaled Agile (SAFe) Framework, Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Team Forge for creating User stories and tracking for closure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project as a Scrum Master managing the multiple Scrum Teams and conducting Scrum Ceremonies.
• Work with the Product owner on the Business requirements/user requirements/user stories and work with the team on getting story points/estimates required for Sprint Planning.
• Hosting Sprint Planning for my team with BA’s, developers and QA folks and discussing story points so that the team understands the user story and the acceptance criteria.
• Track the user stories through Mid Sprint planning, regular emails to the team and Daily scrum calls.
• Follow up with the team on the User story status, Prepare burn down charts to track progress and provide project status to Higher management and Business.
• Also involved in the Initial analysis, design, code changes, defect fixes and testing the application.
• Involved in Release planning, Sprint Planning, Mid Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo’s, Sprint grooming, Sprint Retrospectives and Daily Scrum calls and Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Work closely with Production Owner, Development, QA and other Cross functional teams to create user stories, for user story story points, backlog grooming.
• Working closely with Project team and other cross platform teams to remove team impediments related to Technical, Functional or Business related Issues.
• Working closely as proxy RTE with RTE at the program level to make sure all dependencies and risks are mitigated.
• Conducting Sprint Demo’s for Business to validate the User story development.
• Coach the team to follow Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Possess experience working at the Program and Team level of the SAFE framework.
• Providing developmental support to the SIT and UAT team during testing phase of the Project.

Confidential

Scrum Master and Technical Project Manager

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, ControlM, ChangeMan, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix, Rally for Agile. Scaled Agile (SAFe) Framework, Scrum.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Project as a Scrum Master and managed multiple Scrum teams.
• Facilitate daily scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Manage Product and Sprint Backlog as well as assist Product Owners with keeping their backlog groomed.
• Providing weekly project status reports of completed, pending tasks, issues, risks. Prepare burn down charts for daily tracking to make sure planned sprints tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Implemented Project Sprints including capacity planning, velocity planning, burn downs and Kanban lead time (cycle time)
• Involved in handling Business requirements, Preparing Functional and Technical Design Documents, doing both Business and IT walk through.
• Provides technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration across multiple client engagements from definition phase through implementation.
• Onshore Offshore co-ordination to make sure the tasks was completed in a timely manner with quality.
• Working with offshore tech lead, senior programmer and programmer for project deliverables.
• Recognizes system deficiencies and implement effective solutions.
• Code and documentation reviews and feedbacks. Defect tracking and resolving defects. Release management coordination and Implementation for the entire team.
• Hands on experience using Rally software and generating various metrics like Release and Sprint Burn up and Burn down reports for the team and management.
• Providing developmental support to the SIT and UAT team during testing phase of the Project.
• Attending bi-weekly meeting with the senior managers and provide project status and the deliverables delivered.

Confidential

Scrum Master and Technical Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, CA-7, Librarian, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix, TeamForge for Agile.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Manage Product and Sprint Backlog as well as assist Product Owners with keeping their backlog groomed.
• Providing weekly project status reports of completed, pending tasks, issues, risks. Prepare burn down charts for daily tracking to make sure planned sprints tasks are completed on time and within budget
• Implemented Project Sprints including capacity planning, velocity planning, burn downs and Kanban lead time (cycle time)
• Involved in gathering Business requirements, preparing the design documents.
• Performing Impact analysis, data collection and creating and fixing data sheets and models and review.
• Fix Issues in the Data collection sheets as well as Troux Models.
• Performing Peer reviews and incorporating review comments and rework.
• Get the Troux models reviewed and signed off from the Client.
• Gathering the Business Applications list from the SMEs and gathering the details of each Application in a designated template.
• Create Troux models and get it reviewed by the SMEs and Architects.
• Onshore Offshore co-ordination and reviews of the tasks so that a quality product is delivered on time.
• Planning agile sprint sessions and coming up with User stories and Story points, Hosting daily scrum calls and overcoming any major Impediments.

Confidential

Scrum Master and Technical Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, CA-7, Librarian, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix, JIRA for Agile.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Manage Product and Sprint Backlog as well as assist Product Owners with keeping their backlog groomed.
• Providing weekly project status reports of completed, pending tasks, issues, risks. Prepare burn down charts for daily tracking to make sure planned sprints tasks are completed on time and within budget
• Implemented Project Sprints including capacity planning, velocity planning, burn downs and Kanban lead time (cycle time)
• My responsibilities included providing technical and business feedbacks to business during requirement gathering phase.
• Preparing function and technical design documents, Code changes, Unit Testing and providing support for UAT testing.
• Tracking and fixing defects.
• Set up the IMS database system, Created PSB’s, Started IMS-Db databases and Loaded Data into the IMS database.
• Set up Test Mainframe Jobs to for testing the changed programs and CICS screens.
• Performed System Integration and End to End Testing.
• Documented and Peer Reviewed Technical Design documents and Program Specs.
• Onsite Offshore coordination and hosting daily status calls.
• Planning agile sprint sessions and coming up with User stories and Story points, Hosting daily scrum calls and overcoming any major Impediments.
• Knowledge transfer activities to Offshore and Support team.

Confidential

Scrum Master and Technical Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, CA-7, Librarian, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Manage Product and Sprint Backlog as well as assist Product Owners with keeping their backlog groomed.
• Providing weekly project status reports of completed, pending tasks, issues, risks. Prepare burn down charts for daily tracking to make sure planned sprints tasks are completed on time and within budget
• Implemented Project Sprints including capacity planning, velocity planning, burn downs and Kanban lead time (cycle time)
• Lead the project as a Technical lead, System analyst, Programmer and Tester.
• Other tasks involved requirement gathering, Design, Setting up Test environments, Debugging and Fixing Issues.
• Preparing business, functional and technical documents.
• Set up the Teradata Test system, Created Ad Hoc Teradata tables, Loaded Data into the Teradata test set tables.
• Set up Test Mainframe Jobs to load data from the Point of Sale Lab system to the Teradata Test system tables.
• Escalated issues as needed and maintained communication with customer and Technical teams.
• Wrote Unit Test cases Capturing Unit Test Results through Unit Testing.
• The project was completed on time with no issues and great quality.
• The product is used today by Humana and Humana Vitality members.
• Working with offshore tech lead and team members assigning them tasks on a daily basis and following up on the deliverables.

Confidential

Scrum Master and Technical Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, CA-7, Librarian, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Manage Product and Sprint Backlog as well as assist Product Owners with keeping their backlog groomed.
• Providing weekly project status reports of completed, pending tasks, issues, risks. Prepare burn down charts for daily tracking to make sure planned sprints tasks are completed on time and within budget
• Implemented Project Sprints including capacity planning, velocity planning, burn downs and Kanban lead time (cycle time)
• Lead the project as a Technical lead managing the offshore team and hosting daily status calls.
• Initial analysis, design, code changes, defect fixes and testing the application.
• Majority of the work was using CICS web services and DB2 stored procedures.
• Reviewing technical and functional design documents.
• Developed and maintained On-line and batch systems using COBOL, CICS BMS Maps, CICS Web services, DB2 and DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Set up Test DB2 tables and Loaded Test Data to the Test DB2 tables.
• Set up CICS web services and Test CICS web services through RSA tool.
• Provided 24 hour technical support to production issues, assisted in setting up test environments for UAT testing.
• Conducting walk thru for Business approvals and performed Post Implementation transition activities.
• Providing developmental support to the SIT and UAT team during testing phase of the Project.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, CA-7, Librarian, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum calls, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Manage Product and Sprint Backlog as well as assist Product Owners with keeping their backlog groomed.
• Providing weekly project status reports of completed, pending tasks, issues, risks. Prepare burn down charts for daily tracking to make sure planned sprints tasks are completed on time and within budget
• Implemented Project Sprints including capacity planning, velocity planning, burn downs and Kanban lead time (cycle time)
• Involved enhancing existing applications, integrated applications with other environments adding new features to the existing applications.
• Managing and coordinating tasks between Onsite Offshore.
• Reviewing the requirements specification and modifications based on the client’s needs.
• Set up of the test environment, coordinate activities to migrate software releases to test, staging, and production environments.
• Programming, Code review, Testing and performing System and End to End testing.

Confidential

Mainframe Test Lead

Environment: ZOS/MVS, Cobol, Cics, Db2, Jcl, Db2 stored procedures, Cics web services, IMS db, batch and Online Xpeditor, ControlM, ChangeMan, Spufi, QMF for windows, HPQC for Defect tracking, Citrix.

Responsibilities:

• My responsibility involved performing System Integration Testing, Assisting business users with User acceptance testing.
• Involved in writing, validating and executing test cases and test results depending on the Business and Technical Requirement document.
• Involved in daily triage calls, weekly team meetings.
• Maintaining daily status reports, Downtime tracker, Test case documents, and RTM’s.