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Dayton, OH

SUMMARY

  • 8 years of experience as Scrum Master with total IT experience of 11 years
  • Expertise knowledge of Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, V - Model, Agile and experience in deploying complex solutions across large teams and locations
  • Extensive experience in working with agile teams located in various geographical locations (North America, India, Netherlands, Australia)
  • Strong experience in Mentoring and coaching Scrum teams on agile values and principles
  • Helped teams in Agile transformation from traditional model and made the delivery successful through continuous improvement
  • Well established relationship with business counterparts and understands the need of business quickly
  • Proven a successful trainer in several trainings to scrum teams on agile and best practices in agile and also mentoring existing Scrum teams
  • Proven track record of delivering highest business value in the shortest time
  • Expert in facilitating product backlog refinement and supporting Product Owner, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives
  • Strong working domain knowledge in Banking, Finance, Health Care and telcom domains
  • Extensive experience in Business Analysis, functional, regression and User Acceptance Testing
  • 5+ years of strong experience in Project Management including Project planning, Statement of Work (SOW) and Charter preparations, Project cost estimations and tracking and delivering with high quality and on time
  • Strong experience in people management and performance reviews
  • Quick learner with short learning curve when faced with challenges and new environments and a good team player with excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Management: IBM RTC, Jira, Knowledge on Rally, Continuous Integration, Kanban

Requirements Management tools: Rational Requirements Composer, MS Visio

Defect tracking tools: Bugzilla, Rational Team Concert, Jira, Clear Quest, Quality Centre

Test Management tools: Rational Quality Manager

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

MS Office Suite: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Finance, Health Care, Business Intelligence

Database: SQL Server 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dayton OH

Scrum Master

Environment: DSL modems with NGOS platforms, WAN modes DSL/Ethernet WAN/Mobile WAN, Wi-Fi 802.11 standards (b/g/n), 802.11ac and WPS technologies, IPSec, Port triggering, filtering, IPv6, QOS, IGMP, ALGS,, Agile methodology, Team Foundation Server(TFS), Confidential Office

Responsibilities:

  • Played key role as Scrum Master in transforming teams from traditional development methodologies into agile scrum methodology successfully
  • Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings for multiple releases
  • Working with remote teams across the globe with different time zones ( North America, Netherlands, Australia, India)
  • Worked with Senior Directors and clients and delivered multiple successful releases in high complex project
  • Effectively translated retrospective feedback into actionable items and tracked them till successful closure
  • Effectively managed User Stories, tasks, efforts, burn down charts
  • Utilized Jira tool to create, track tasks for agile team and developed leadership dashboards to reflect project’s live status
  • Conducted several trainings to teams on agile and best practices in agile
  • Introduced pair programming concept which helped to deliver many releases with 0 UAT and post production issues
  • Discussed requirements/user stories with different technical, non-technical teams distributed across multiple locations and documented for system development
  • Wrote user stories and worked on the prioritization of the backlog with Product Owner. Sometimes acted as Product Owner also.
  • Documented detailed release notes, UAT documents and collaborated with business team to get UAT Sign-offs for every Sprint release
  • Closely worked with testing team and involved in functional testing to make sure all the requirements are developed correctly
  • Acted as liaison between business and technical teams and ensued all the communication is seamless
  • Assisted business team to perform User Acceptance Testing
  • Closely worked with project architect, Engagement Leaders, Technical Delivery Managers, Agile team to understand feasibility of requirements to deliver quality product
  • Prepared project charter, statement of work, release plan, quarterly summary, cost estimation

Confidential

Scrum Master

Environment: Confidential routers (FVS336G, FVS338, DGFV338, FVX538, SRXN3205, and FVG318), IPSec VPN and SSL-VPN, Agile methodology, Team Foundation Server(TFS), Confidential Office

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings for multiple releases
  • Effectively translated retrospective feedback into actionable items and tracked them till successful closure
  • Effectively managed User Stories, tasks, efforts, burn down charts
  • Utilized Rational Team Concert tool to create, track tasks for agile team and developed leadership dashboards to reflect project’s live status
  • Discussed requirements/user stories with different technical, non-technical teams distributed across multiple locations and documented for system development
  • Wrote user stories and worked on the prioritization of the backlog with Product Owner
  • Documented detailed release notes, UAT documents and collaborated with business team to get UAT Sign-offs for every Sprint release
  • Closely worked with testing team and involved in functional testing to make sure all the requirements are developed correctly
  • Acted as liaison between business and technical teams and ensued all the communication is seamless
  • Assisted business team to perform User Acceptance Testing
  • Closely worked with project architect, Engagement Leaders, Technical Delivery Managers, Agile team to understand feasibility of requirements to deliver quality product
  • Assisted Technical Delivery Manager in project charter, statement of work, release plan, quarterly summary, cost estimation preparation

Confidential

Scrum Master

Environment: Fiancle, Quality Centre, Java, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, XML, HTML / HTML5, DHTML, Web Service, Usability Testing, Windows, Agile methodology, Visual Studio, Confidential Office

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings for multiple releases
  • Effectively translated retrospective feedback into actionable items and tracked them till successful closure
  • Effectively managed User Stories, tasks, efforts, burn down charts
  • Utilized Rational Team Concert tool to create, track tasks for agile team and developed leadership dashboards to reflect project’s live status
  • Discussed requirements/user stories with different technical, non-technical teams distributed across multiple locations and documented for system development
  • Wrote user stories and worked on the prioritization of the backlog with Product Owner
  • Documented detailed release notes, UAT documents and collaborated with business team to get UAT Sign-offs for every Sprint release
  • Closely worked with testing team and involved in functional testing to make sure all the requirements are developed correctly
  • Acted as liaison between business and technical teams and ensued all the communication is seamless
  • Assisted business team to perform User Acceptance Testing
  • Closely worked with project architect, Engagement Leaders, Technical Delivery Managers, Agile team to understand feasibility of requirements to deliver quality product.
  • Assisted Technical Delivery Manager in project charter, statement of work, release plan, quarterly summary, cost estimation preparation

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: SQL Server 2005, .Net, Products Web, Confidential Office, Visual Basic 4.0, HTML/DHTML, CSS, IIS, XML, IBM DB2, Serena Dimensions, Windows

Responsibilities:

  • Involved extensively in analyzing the business need and discussed requirements with business team and documented system requirements
  • Created flow charts to make the workflow and business rules clear for all teams
  • Represented technical team to business and vice versa
  • Involved in testing activities and assisted in functional and regression testing
  • Documented defects in Confidential ’s in house defect management tool called Products Web
  • Prepared requirements traceability matrix to make sure all requirements are properly covered by test cases
  • Represent Business Analysis team in daily and weekly team meetings
  • Prepared User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test cases and closely worked with clients during UAT
  • Reviewed all UAT observations and identified valid defects and worked with development team to fix them

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: Quality Center, HTML, C#, ASP.Net, NUnit, SQL Server 2004, Confidential Office, Visual Basic, HTML/DHTML, CSS, IIS, XML, Windows

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the requirements and document test cases to test the objectives
  • Migrate the projects from one tool to another without losing any data
  • Prepare test environment, execute the test cases and log and track issues
  • Perform functional and regression testing of the application
  • Document the functionalities and user guide
  • Provide daily and weekly test updates to leadership
  • Created RACI matrix for this project
  • Prepared requirements traceability matrix to make sure all requirements are properly covered by test cases
  • Involved actively in root cause identification of observations and helped team to confirm defects

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: Quality Center, HTML, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server, Confidential Office, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, IIS, XML, Windows

Responsibilities:

  • Participated in requirement discussions along with senior business analyst and extensively involved in documenting meeting minutes and requirements
  • Prepared prototypes of the requirements
  • Prepared test environment, performed functional and regression testing of the application
  • Prepared requirements traceability matrix to make sure all requirements are properly covered by test cases
  • Provided daily updates to lead
  • Created wireframes to understand the requirements and documented detailed help document
  • Validated requirements during system testing

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