SUMMARY

• Hands - on Agile coaching experience in enterprise organizations working with Agile Software development, centers of excellence, infrastructure and cross-functional operations teams.
• Good understanding of various Agile Delivery Models and able to describe the relative strengths and weaknesses of their application.
• Excellent soft-skills particularly in client and stakeholder expectation management.
• Able to articulate client requests to cross functional teams.
• Highly articulate and literate, with excellent levels of written and spoken English.
• Ability to maintain initiative and focus during negotiations.
• High levels of ownership and ability to work with offshore teams to evangelize Agile
• To display an innate ability to work as a servant leader to the agile teams and processes.
• Demonstrate how continuous improvement is embedded in a collaborative environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Tools: Rally, JIRA, TFS, Version One, ADO.

Languages: PL/SQL, SQL, .Net, C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring dat goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible.
• Finding techniques for TEMPeffective Product Backlog management.
• Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
• Understanding product planning in an empirical environment.
• Ensuring the Product Owner nos how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Understanding and practicing agility.
• Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.
• Assisting the product organization refine the user stories to make sure they are constructed with all the required information.
• Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
• Helping the Development Team to create high-value products.
• Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress.
• Facilitating all team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up / Scrum, Grooming Session, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review / Demo, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption.
• Planning Scrum implementations within the organization.
• Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development.
• Causing change dat increases the productivity of the Scrum Team.
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the TEMPeffectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Scrum Master

Confidential, San Antonio TX

Responsibilities:

• Understand Agile values and principles; guide - and coach - teams and the organization on using Agile/Scrum practices
• Guide and coach delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work
• Cultivate an environment of continuous learning, halping teams to inspect and adapt
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved
• Provide support to the Product Owner and Development Team, and lead by example
• Use “test and learn” to make better decisions faster; encourage smart risk taking and innovative thinking
• Design from a customer point of view and think beyond a single interaction to deliver great end-to-end experiences; make decisions based on customer needs
• Pro-actively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data
• Work with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate TEMPeffective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring dat stories are ‘sprint ready’
• Collaborate across business lines to drive simple, quick, agile outcomes dat have big impacts
• Respond to fast-changing clients' requirements; interpret into business or technical language
• Challenge teams to innovate; break down boundaries to bring the right people together
• Identify and design group process interventions required by the situation
• Maintain the group's focus on established scope and goals; redirect efforts when the group gets stuck
• Design strategies for overcoming resistance to change in a wide variety of settings
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation
• Arrange daily stand-ups, facilitate story grooming, coordinate sprint demos, planning and retrospectives
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
• Work with management and team to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions and new products

QA Tester

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Maintain our existing test suites (unit, integration and Spectron) by making them run more efficiently and reliably
• Update our test libraries and harnesses to add new features to make writing new tests easier for Exodus developers
• Create template and example tests to increase coverage and dat act as examples future tests
• Put major work into the Spectron test suite to increase reliability and speed so we can start relying on it
• Directly enable the Automation Engineer to accomplish their goal of adding many new test cases to the Spectron test suite
• As the team need grows, you will halp hire, train and mentor new QA team members.
• Pre-Merge: Maintain a small, core set of e2e tests dat ensure basic wallet assumptions are met before any branch can be merged into master.
• Pre-Release: Maintain a more encompassing set of e2e tests responsible for regression assertions before the manual QA process begins before each release.
• Write Spectron based JavaScript test assertions and builds up coverage over time to reduce the manual QA need
• When blocked, work with the team to fix technical issues.
• You have experience with unit, integration and browser automation testing
• Your experienced with cloud CI, docker and node.js based test setups