PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 9 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Agile Project Management, Release Planning, Business Requirements, Stakeholder Integration, Quality Assurance, UAT data validation on large applications in all stages of full software development life cycle (SDLC). Well versed with projects involving upstream/downstream systems, Integration Testing and Release planning. Proficient in Software and Systems related skills.
• Experience in full Project Life Cycle from gathering requirements, analysis, developing & Implementation.
• Expertise in developing documents for release trackers and projects.
• Expertise in Agile Projects using Scrum methodology.
• Worked as an Integration lead and POC for projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Well versed in conducting project kickoff meetings, creating decks for management, running daily Scrum meetings.
• Working noledge of Agile and Project management tools like Rally, Project Server, Project Professional, JIRA and Confluence.
• Conducted pre - sprint planning, sprints planning, grooming user stories, demo to PO, retrospective with Team.
• Expertise with Data Analysis, Source to Target mappings, workflow creation.
• Conducted regression and integration testing working sessions with various source systems.
• Working experience in transforming Waterfall projects to Agile methodologies.
• Involved in end-to-end recon process, validation of data exceptions, DQ rules.
• Experience working with large scale data warehouse projects with ETL and Data Marts.
• Conducted and Involved in day-to-day Epic story discussions, User stories and planning.
• Worked with project planning, sprint planning sessions, defect process and control process.
• Conducted daily Scrum calls and also weekly project status meetings.
• Involved in implementation planning with production deployment teams.
• Participated in external vendor Training on Agile and Scrum Master.
• Worked on writing business requirements and user stories as needed.
• Produced key rally metrics and graphs like burn down, burn up, release status, user stories status etc.
• Quick learner and strong research ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 10/8/NT/2000, UNIX

Testing/Defects Tools: HP ALM, Rational Clear Quest, Rally.

Packages: MS-Office, MS-Access, DOORS and MS-Excel.

PM Tools: MS professional, MS Server, Rally, Jira, Kanban, Power point.

Technology: XML, HTML, ETL, BI Reporting, Oracle DB.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for laying out program road map and conducted Program Increment (PI) Planning sessions with respective teams.
• Conducted bi-weekly leadership / sponsor level program status meetings.
• Created and streamlined weekly progress reports, read outs for customers.
• Conducted scrum of scrum sessions with all teams to align with project timelines and Integration Testing.
• Helped project team to adopt Agile and mentored through best practices and principals.
• Conducted Sprints planning and product demos with team.
• Resource planning and capacity forecast.
• TEMPEffective risks and impediments tracking thro digital tools like JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Validation of SLA’s and Interface Requirements.
• Conduct weekly project status / scrum of scrum (for program level) meetings with respective partner systems.
• Documented required artifacts for project implementation.
• Worked with product vendors for POCs and Evaluation.
• Actively participated in all Internal Training and workshops for Agile Transformation / Scaled Agile.
• Conducted Risk management and PRR (prod readiness review) before deploying into Production.

Environment: HP Quality Center, MS project, Informatica, Java, AWS, MS Office, Windows 10, UNIX, JIRA, Power point.

Confidential, Herndon, VI

Project Analyst and PM (Agile/Scrum)

Responsibilities:

• Updated Business Requirements for ADS and conducted reviews with various teams.
• Developed user stories based on main requirements to transform from Waterfall to Agile.
• Developed the UAT Test strategy documents, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts and executed the scripts.
• Developed Agile project plan with Iterations/Sprints.
• Worked with users to define acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Conducted daily stand up scrum call with Dev Team.
• Daily tasks tracking of user stories for current Sprint / Iteration.
• Documented various business scenarios and data validation rules.
• Review of UAT test strategy and high- level approach with the Team.
• Defect tracking through CQ tickets and re-testing after iterations.
• Involved and assisted teams in CSP/EDI Integration planning sessions.
• Worked on Iteration planning and user stories.
• Worked with Source system SME’s to align with project timelines and conducted working sessions.
• Created documents for DTM.
• Conducted review of all defects with development and test team to confirm, align and schedule code iterations.
• Attended Agile training sessions / brown bag sessions within the Org.

Environment: HP Quality Center, XML, SQL, Oracle 10, Business Objects, MS Office, Windows XP, UNIX, Rally Kanban, Informatica ETL.

Confidential, D.C

Project Manager (Agile/Scrum)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of various source systems for business rules, data validation, meta data values and exception scenarios.
• Analysis of business requirements and business use cases.
• Attended 4day training from External vendor on Agile project management and Scrum.
• Conducted daily scrum calls and user story meetings.
• Worked on plan to transform from Waterfall to Agile method.
• Created overall project plan using Agile and Iteration approach.
• Conducted daily working sessions with various stakeholders on Sprints Planning.
• Worked with business, tech and test teams to define actual User stories for Sprints and prioritizing them.
• Conducted code reviews and walkthro with all for various Sprints.
• Worked with production support and operations teams to implement Iterations.
• Created Integration test approach for data validation, reconciliation, process validation and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Worked with source systems SME’s for data integration and sample files.
• Conducted daily 15 min Scrum stand up call to discuss wat is done, wat is planned and if any issues/concerns.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Oracle 9i, Business Objects, MS Office, Windows NT, UNIX, Rally, Informatica ETL.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted initial product analysis planning sessions with business and tech teams.
• Created a high-level approach and project plan - kick off sessions.
• Worked as a ecommerce Business Analyst on Verizon Universal Ordering project
• Gather Interface details between various ordering portals, provisioning, and validation systems
• Liaison between the Business leadership and Technical team
• Worked on the Systems Flowchart and Process Flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Frame the scrum rules and govern the scrum, coach & manage the scrum team
• Epic, story, feature, bug and defect management using JIRA.
• Work with PMO & LOBs to meet the requirements.
• Involved in upstream and downstream impact analysis and integration effort.
• Stakeholder integration planning for data prep and testing needs.
• Daily and weekly check points for project tracking, risks, and scope updates if any.
• Developed traceability matrices, Test plans, and Test evaluation reports.
• Gap analysis for any requirement updates and enhancements.
• defined process for the project to halp to achieve the project's quality and process performance objectives
• Resource scheduling, effort estimating, status reporting
• Establishing and maintaining the project’s quality and process performance KPIs
• Performing root cause analysis of P1 issues to address deficiencies in achieving the project’s quality and process performance objectives
• Conflict resolution, monitoring and resolving issues dat arise throughout the development process
• Negotiate with sponsor identifying the requirements, risks, issues, halp writing user stories
• Grooming product backlog, conduct Scrum Ceremonies, daily Scrums, Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective
• Work with program management for Scaled Scrum framework
• Developed and implemented process controls.
• Business analysis, product road maps and release management
• Coordinate with offshore and onshore teams, Plan and communicate deployments. Reporting using burn down charts

Environment: SOAPUI PRO4.0.2, Quality Center, Java, XML, TCP/IP, SQL, Oracle 9i, Ab Initio ETL, Business Objects, DOORS 8.0, MS Office, UNIX, Windows NT