SUMMARY

• 6+ years of work experience in roles as a Project Manager, Scrum Master & Business Analyst
• Experienced in areas of Business & Information technology consulting for application development & support projects.
• Experience participating in business and technical design sessions with Product Owners, DBAs, developers, and QA analysts. Interaction with stakeholders and end - users, and SME’s.
• Extensive knowledge on Quality Assurance standards and strategies with better understanding of Software development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Facilitate the 5 ceremonies - Sprint Planning session, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog grooming sessions.
• Proficient in prioritizing Product Backlog Items, Sprint Backlog, User Stories, Test Cases, Release Notes and Training Guides.
• Involved in projects on Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid Waterfall-Scrum and Waterfall methodologies
• Helped teams in transitioning from Traditional waterfall to Agile methods
• Facilitating time-boxed and goal-oriented scrum ceremonies.
• Enhancing collaboration with cross functional teams by identifying the bottlenecks and implementing various action items to mitigate the impediments proactively
• Communicating project progress to primary stakeholders and reporting managers by using various information radiators to enhance Transparency and Trust.
• Working with key stakeholders and leadership to practice Decentralized Decision - Making by empowering the teams to be creative and resolve challenges empirically
• Helped teams creating estimable backlog by reducing the number of defects per sprint
• Gathering data migration requirements for transferring data CRM to Workday
• Knowledge on Vignette Content Management system
• Data profiling to identify data anomalies followed by Data Quality Exception Reporting
• Extensive experience in Retail and Supply Chain domain
• Experience in conducting elicitation meetings such as Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders to gather business requirements and translating the same to the development teams.
• Gap Analysis of the As-Is and To-be processes to identify and validate requirements.
• Experience in manual testing, test designing, test planning, test case development and execution based on the user requirements and system requirements document for functional, security, performance, and usability testing in Black Box testing.
• Strong Experience in conducting UAT and development of Test Cases and root cause analysis.
• Excellent written, verbal, and listening communication and presentation skills with ability and willingness to work towards thebusinessand technical requirements of clients and users.
• Exceptional ability to learn new concepts, good team player and ability to solve problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Language: Visual Basic, SQL

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Asana

Requirement Gathering Tools: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Professional

Databases: SQL Server2000, Oracle, MS Access

Methodologies: AGILE, RUP, Waterfall and Spiral

Microsoft Office Suite: MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Yardley, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading and monitoring several projects with varying levels of complexity, determining project scope, managing resources, managing requirements, identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Wearing multiple hats, i.e., Scrum master & Project manager in order to successfully deliver the product.
• Managing and maintaining the Project Charters for multiple projects.
• Actively involved in managing tasks related to planning, scoping, identifying governance set up, setting up roles & responsibilities, tracking development activities, schedules & application functionalities, documentation, training, testing, deployment, transition activities and post production maintenance and support.
• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, effort estimations, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning.
• Facilitating daily agile ceremonies and other meetings for three teams involved in SharePoint site development, Roster report development and corporate website redesign.
• Compiled project requirements for the development of Software Applications to include documenting stakeholder requirements and tracking milestones until project completion.
• Monitoring integration tasks, i.e., requirement gathering, development, testing and deployment tasks using DevOps dashboards
• Providing weekly progress updates using project charter to the business & stakeholders
• Drive, execute & monitor key activities within each integration phase
• Coordinating tasks in fast-paced environment with multiple priorities for successful project completions on scheduled launch dates using Smartsheets.
• Managing test cycles and managing the vendor validations.
• Supplying management weekly updates using Six Sigma project management methodology with status of deliverables, Risk & issues, dependencies and action items to keep project progress on track for timely delivery.
• Facilitating integrations with Workday and all vendors associated with Confidential .
• Communicate Risks & Issues to senior level management and actively worked on contingency plans mitigate the same.
• Collaborate and internally strategizing with different functional areas within the company to make sure team goals are aligned with organizational needs.
• Working alongside technical leadership, putting together integration project plans, organizing client kick off sessions, and triaging integration issues
• Evaluate organizational readiness in advance of transition events and effectively define approach, tools and processes that will be used to successfully support transition events
• Identifying and tracking reliability issues impacting all integrations by creating reliability tickets and actively working with the PO’s and SME’s to mitigating the same by providing short term & long-term fixes.

Confidential - Long Island city, NYC

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the PI Planning sessions under the SAFE umbrella.
• Product backlog Prioritization& Grooming, Conduct and facilitate estimation, sprint planning meeting, Daily Stand-up meetings, Sprint Review and Demo, Sprint Retrospective
• Create the Dependency board corresponding to teams and departments.
• Meet with the stakeholders and participate in the requirements gathering sessions and grooming sessions.
• Create dashboards & reporting on Epics, User stories, Dependencies and Issues & Risks in Confluence.
• Participate in the scrum of scrums meetings.
• Co-ordinate with the technical lead & development team offshore and onshore.
• Co-ordinate with the QA lead and team offshore and onshore.
• Work with the client Director, Program Manager, other scrum teams across the organization.
• Mapping user stories to the product backlog under the Scrum project board, Creating Sprints, Linking stories to the respective sprints in Jira
• Tracking & Reporting Burn-down &Velocity charts in Jira at the end of each sprint.
• Maintain the Sprint wise team calendar and Capacity Plan (IN EXCEL-MAINTAIN IT FOR THE TEAM)
• Create and Maintain the Sprint Plan and the Release Plan with the help of the data architect, enterprise architect and development teams

Confidential, New York, NYC

Business Analyst/ Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users and stakeholders to gather business requirements.
• Followed structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules and information needs.
• Prepared Business Process Models that included modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level.
• Played a substantial role in the process definitions and business and functional requirements gathering, in an effort to develop a practical technology solution.
• CreatedUse Cases/ Activity Diagrams/ Sequence Diagrams using Visio thus defining the Data Process Model and Business Process Model.
• ConductedJAD sessionsto develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements.
• Resolved open issues and was responsible to create and maintain change requests.
• Monitored client expectations through client involvement and communication throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Co-ordinated with various AGILE teams to assure timely completion of sprints.
• Educate clients and stakeholders on the benefits and risks associated with the project.
• Assisted QA team to create Test Plan and Test Case documents based on the Functional Requirement Specifications
• Conducted various types of test like Smoke test, Positive, Negative and Boundary value test.
• Was also responsible in order to conduct regression and integration testing.
• Used JIRA to log defects and created Requirements Traceability Matrix in JIRA
• Included interacting with the users and business relationship managers and implementing changes on the database in order to ensureUATapproval.
• Involved in UAT with the business users and managers and created user guides and user manuals as well.

Confidential, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Translate business needs into Functional/Technical Requirements and approaches, design documents, report mockups and define technical solutions for implementing ATG’s module.
• Develop and maintain Requirement Tractability Matrices, and develop design documentation based on assessment and approach
• Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents (BRD) using Rational Requisite Pro that provided appropriate scope of work for the technical teams.
• Extracted the business requirements from the stakeholders keeping in mind their need for the application and documenting them using Rational Requisite Professional.
• Implemented the entire Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology of application development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Involved in converting User requirements into business requirements, functional and technical requirements using Rational Requisite Professional and also created business process models from the requirement specs.
• Created Use case specifications, business flow diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Assisted in creating and documenting user guides
• Developed non-functional requirements and documented them as Business Rules, Quality attributes, constraints documents.
• Involved in creating Business Flow Diagrams, Dataflow diagrams, UML Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, and USE cases diagrams using MS VISIO.
• Performed GAP and Risk analysis of existing system and evaluated benefits of new system.
• Utilized RUP to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures.