SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as aScrumMaster/Business Analyst out of which 4 years in managing Agile/Scrummodel.
• Successfully handled role ofScrumMasterand having expertise in conducting Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, DailyScrum, and Sprint Review Meetings.
• Managing scrum teams and ensuring dat team's success and progress are highly visible to Product Owner and Stakeholders.
• Hands on experience of writing and prioritizing User Stories in Backlog.
• Successfully managed Project Backlogs, release scheduling, Team velocity and capacity planning.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases and specialized in employing different models like Waterfall.
• Successfully involved in transitioning the Organizational Structure and Business Processes from traditional Waterfall to Scrum.
• Successfully implemented changes to Business Processes, Systems and Technology, Job Roles in the team.
• Successfully implemented Sprint and release burn - up and burn-down charts for tracking the progress and completion of projects.
• Performed tracking of team velocity, quality assurance, quality control of the work and sprint release progress.
• Business Analysis experience includes conducting JAD sessions, requirement gathering, documentation (Project Charter, BRD, and FRD), diagramming data, process mapping (Use Case and Activity Diagrams) compiled detailed project plan (to include resources, deliverable, milestones) and developed test plans and test case scenarios.
• Involved in creating and reviewing test plan and test cases; manual testing and conducting User Acceptance Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 2003/XP/vista/7

Languages: C, JAVA, HTML, .Net, Visual Basic

Tools: MS office, MS project

Server platform: TFS 2010, Windows server SPI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Aiken, SC

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) is used to carry outSCRUM.
• In addition to typicalScrumceremonies, responsible for: Roadmap planning, Release planning, Resource planning, Product Backlog Grooming, Team Building.
• Prepared sprint metrics, removed impediments towards the delivery of work and executed and monitored the planned work.
• Kept Product Owners and the Stakeholders transparent in Sprint success and blockers.
• Looked out for improvement opportunities to increase team velocity, quality assurance and quality control of the work undertaken and delivery of new features as agreed upon during sprint planning.
• Helped the product owners to come up wif set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of initiatives.
• Assisted team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time.
• Improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and make sure teams has the tools and no-how they need to succeed.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.
• Monitored the performance of the application and collecting feedback from users.

Environment: ASP.Net, TFS, Visual Studio, Rally, Share Point.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully handled role ofScrumMasterand having expertise in conducting Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, DailyScrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings when usingScrum Methodology.
• Full lifecycle experience in scoping, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise scale business/e-commerce application.
• Managed all aspects of end to end release process.
• Establish final release configuration (Knowledge, information, hardware, software and infrastructure.)
• Strong experience in working wif agile lifecycle, and/or tracking, and process management tools like Rally.
• Worked closely wif Product Owner and Stakeholders to prioritize the requirements in a sprint.
• Extensively used Rally for maintaining User Story Hierarchy, Backlog Grooming, Updating Tasks, Planning Iterations and Releases.
• Provided visibility to team impediments, risks and helped them in removing.
• Successfully wrote and prioritizing User Stories in Backlog.
• Successfully managed Project Backlogs, release scheduling, project duration estimation and forecasting.
• Worked closely wif agile teams to understand their needs and make sure dat the Rally tool meets those needs.
• Provided guidance to the agile teams on the Rally tool so it is used to maximum their efficiency.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solution about it.

Environment: ASP.NET, VB.NET, Java, Share Point,HTML, Java Script, Rally.

Confidential -Irvine, CA

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact wif business users for better understanding of individual subject areas and modified specifications to reflect accurate user needs.
• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Used AGILE methodology and worked in short SPRINTS to achieve goals.
• Participated inSCRUMSand discussed the open issues and statues.
• Participated in Agile Planning Sessions and assumed the Product Owner role for the agile initiative.
• Developed the Epics and Themes for theScrumProject.
• Devised and prioritized the Product Backlog by conducting requirement churning sessions wif various Business / Product Teams.
• Created and explained the User Stories to theScrumTeam and helped them design the Tasks.
• Designed acceptance criteria for validating the output of each Sprint.
• Reviewed Team Velocity on a frequent basis and advisedScrumMasterat various stages.
• Participated in Sprint Planning and Sprint review meetings for Finalizing the Sprint Backlogs and Verifying the sprint outputs respectively.
• Improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and make sure teams has the tools and no-how they need to succeed.
• Communicate wif other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Created Release Tracking Document in order to track the necessary changes.
• Participated in Business Demonstrations and Decisions for the Release of the Sprint Output to Production.

Environment: ASP.Net, HTML, Kendo UI, Visual Studio, Share point.

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully handled the role ofScrumMasterwif managing 3scrumteams.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Continuous Integration: All check-ins must trigger a build (including test). A separate build server was maintained. Burns down charts were generated from the build.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of all major initiatives.
• Javadoc was used for documentation and I ensured dat documentation of every piece of construct wifin the code is mandatory.
• Explicit tracking of bugs and change requests on Trac Project Management Tool was ensured
• Communicate wif other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Assisted team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards.
• As a web analyst successfully used Google Analytic and Core metrics tool to improve search engine ranking, monitoring ad words wif analytics tagging.
• Responsible for interfacing wif SMEs of various functions to document the process flow for publishing, synchronization, and collecting and storing web analytics data.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Environment: HTML, Java Script, ASP.Net, Visual studio.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the dailyscrummeetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department wif consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology wifScrum
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working wif stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up wif reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Helped the product owners to come up wif set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up wif quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and wifin budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Environment: Visual studio, HTML, Java Script, ASP.Net.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in discussions, conducted meetings and gathered requirements from the senior management.
• Devised the functional and non-functional requirements of the project and used Modified Waterfall Model.
• Developed Use case, Activity and Sequence diagrams to define the Business Process Model and data Process Model.
• Documented Business Requirement Specification and high-level project plan.
• Designed overall UML diagrams for the project
• Designed a user interface and created a database using SQL.
• Documented Software Requirement Specification including the Logical Database requirements,
• Performance metrics and software system requirements.
• Programming the underlying code of the application using JAVA.
• Performed testing such as black box, white box, security and compatibility.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing to deal wif business requirements if properly met.
• Coordinated wif on-site and off-site development and support teams.
• Proposed future enhancements dat can be made to the project.
• Developed mobile app for functioning.
• Monitored the performance of the application and collecting feedback from users.

Environment: Visual studio, HTML, Java Script.