SUMMARY

• Experience as a ScrumMaster for 3+ years. As a ScrumMaster facilitated product backlog and story sizing meetings, release planning, sprint planning meetings and daily standup (status) scrum meetings
• Sound Experience in using Agile tools like Rally, and has fair knowledge on Jira
• Very comfortable wif working in Agile Scrum methodologies
• Experience as Business Analyst for 5+ years in domains like Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services
• Solid understanding of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology
• Broad knowledge of Test plans, Test cases and test scripts from teh Requirements Document.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing Performance Testing and Functional Testing.
• Experience in Requirements Traceability Matrix to keep teh stakeholders informed of teh progress of teh project
• Extensive experience in preparing user documentation and training materials for end users
• Excellent communicator - has been co-coordinating wif stakeholders at various levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile tool: Rally Dev

UML tool: MS Visio 2010 and Rational Ross

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008/2005

Version Control System: Perforce

Document Authoring tools: Confluence wiki, Microsoft Word 2010, Excel, Project and PowerPoint, Adobe Frame Maker 8.0, Acrobat Professional

Content Collaboration tool: MS SharePoint 2010

Online Help tools: Adobe RoboHelp 8, MadCap Flare v7

Web Authoring tool: HTML (Basics)

Confidential -learning tools: Adobe Captivate, Camtasia Studio, TechSmith SnagIt 8.0

Operating Systems: MS Windows-95/98/XP/NT/2000/Vista/Windows 7, Windows Server 2008

Project Management: Microsoft Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Consultant

Confidential, Alpharetta, G A

Responsibilities:

• Follow Agile framework methodology
• Work wif Product Owner and scrum team to create user stories, tasks, grooming backlog
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Analyze teams commitment for a sprint, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Work wif Program team and feature team to understand teh intricacy of application
• Manage teh lifecycle of development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Communicate wif other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Maintained teh backlog and release plan wif product owners and elicit information to ensure that all teh stakeholders are fully informed about team’s successes and impediments
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Create wireframes of teh UI for different modules of teh application
• Create user stories in Rally to capture all requirements
• Help producing training materials for teh business users

Scrum Master/BA Consultant

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Working wif Product Owner and team on Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in US and India
• Managing teh overall performance and delivery of cross-functional
• Facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up call as ScrumMaster for scrum team
• Publicizing teh team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Keeping teh team together all teh time to ensure successful sprints
• Create high level process flow diagrams
• Manage project artefacts in SharePoint and Wiki site
• Create and update user stories analyzing teh business requirements in Rally
• Interact wif client business teams to gather requirements during JAD Scrum sessions; Conduct JAD sessions when required
• Coordinate wif development teams to in software development process

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Performed project administration tasks by working wif teh PMO group
• Interact wif client business teams to gather requirements during JAD Scrum sessions
• Coordinate wif development teams to in software development process
• Created user stories and updated them in Rally; facilitate sprint planning
• Captured project metrics towards progress on development of interfaces, CRs and resolution of defects
• Create Continuity of Business (COB)/ Disaster recovery plan guides for a new reservation application system
• Create and update IT operational process documents for teh business team
• Integrate business team wif IT operations by creating process-driven documents
• Create flow charts to illustrate teh data flow of teh functionalities in teh application
• Maintain and manage documents in teh SharePoint site Maintained teh standards and training documents for teh reservation agents in SharePoint
• Provided guidance to developers wif respect to domain as well as technology

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely wif onsite technical team in understanding business requirements and coming up wif detail requirement document for offshore team.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining teh business functional requirement specification docs
• Interact wif client business teams to gather requirements during JAD Scrum sessions; Conduct JAD sessions when required
• Created IT operational process documents such as incident management, problem management, and configuration management docs etc.
• Updated and maintained Incident Management processes for teh team
• Interacted wif business teams to gather business requirements
• Helped create test cases for QAs, involved in manual testing, UAT
• Prepared Microsoft project plan and done tracking of each deliverables
• Involved in raising change request if some changes in teh requirements.
• Provided training related to dis project to new resources.
• Performed acceptance testing of offshore deliverables wif onsite technical team. Once onsite team gives a go then given teh same to business team.

Business Analyst / Technical Writer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate wif development teams to in software development process
• Create/update software specification document to be used by developers internally
• Create merchant asset documents to halp merchants understand teh system and its message flows
• Gathered knowledge extensively from teh Subject Matter Experts and Business Analyst for creating and updating teh software specification document
• Prepared application specification guides describing XML messages, responses, and various business rules
• Helped sales team in understanding other customer requirements and also conducted feasibility analysis of some of teh requirements.
• Involved in market research and competitive information, involved in evaluating market potential for new products

Technical Writer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• User and Admin Guides for users of teh FAST application developed by teh client. Teh main objective was to explain teh functionalities of teh application in a user-friendly manner to external users and administrators.
• Application Programming Interface (API) guide for an application developed by teh client providing a description of all teh functions and their related stored procedures used in a particular class