SUMMARY

• Highly Motivated ScrumMaster wif 8+ years of experience and strong noledge in business analysis, data analysis, quality analysis and project management.
• Complete SDLC experience in SCRUM, AGILE, WATERFALL methodology and project life cycle.
• Proficient in using Agile Scrum methodologies, performed roles of scrum master following Daily standup sessions, reviews, demos and retrospectives. Helped in Product Backlog and Sprint Backlogs refinement and maintain team velocity and burndown charts.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self - management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Extensive experience wif communicating and collaborating wif subject matter experts to build functional and technical visions. Expert in writing Functional and non-Functional Requirements.
• Proficient in documentation and specification skills gained while preparing the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents. Displayed exceptional business writing, test case writing and documentation skills and facilitated and conducted JAD sessions wif the technology areas, interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations and emails.
• Proficient in designing business models using UML diagrams such as use case diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio and have good experience on Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)
• Expertise in Business Process Modelling, Business Process Re-design and in designing Process Architecture. Sound understanding of Gap Analysis, requirement management, risk analysis and project plans.
• Strong SQL noledge and extensive noledge in creating Traceability Matrix, test plans, performing and tracking SIT, UAT and regression testing wif hands on experience on QTP
• Expertise in various BA and BI technologies wif business process tools like MS Visio, MS Project, BizAgi Modeler, Smart Draw, Rational Rose and Advanced Excel - Macros, Pivot tables, Functions
• Proficient wif Microsoft Office tools (includes MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS SharePoint), JIRA for status planning and reporting.
• Specialized experience in Banking and Financial Services, Health Care, Retail domains and Service Industry sectors.
• Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business as well as financial and system requirements. Experience wif working in fast paced environments and cross functional teams under minimal supervision
• Certified Scrum Master - CSM® wif experience and thorough noledge of both Agile and SDLC Waterfall Methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP, UNIX

Business Modelling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Bizagi Modeler SmartDraw

Project Management: MS Office Suite, MS Project, JIRA, Rally

QA Tools: QTP, Quality Center. Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner, SoapUI

Methodologies: RUP, UML, Six Sigma, CMM, Agile, Waterfall, SAFe

Data Bases: MS Access, Oracle, MS SQL,DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 6 projects from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Mentoring teams on Agile practices for large enterprise and complex environment.
• Coaching various functional roles during Agile transformation on best practices.
• Led team to overcome dysfunctions, improve creativity and continues delivery.
• Working closely wif Product Owners on creating and grooming the product backlog.
• Facilitation of Sprint and Release Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Demo and Retrospective.
• Creating Scrum artifacts and tracking Burn down charts, velocity.
• Evaluating and recommending appropriate Scrum tools and best usage.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum method for gathering requirements and facilitate user stories workshop.
• Led Scrum of Scrum wif team leads and scrum masters to manage cross team dependencies and impediments.

Confidential, State of Texas, Austin, TX

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 10 projects from Waterfall to Scrum.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other scrum related meetings.
• Instructed and modelled core agile principals of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility, ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Evangelized the benefits of scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum method for gathering requirements and facilitate user stories workshop.
• Documented user stories and facilitated story point discussion to analyze the level of effort on project specification.
• Analyzed and documented the business requirement and generated reports for the manager, wrote the software development plan and held meetings wif developers and forwarded information and documents to them.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage sprint/product backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Coordinator/ ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordination, status reporting and stability of project oriented work efforts. Establish and implement project management process and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, wifin budget and adhere to higher quality standards and meet customer expectations.
• Gather requirements for implementation of enterprise tool; assist in prototype development, form modeling and consolidation of licensing requirements
• Prepare MS Visio process flow diagrams to document existing processes and support proposals for future process improvements
• Ensure successful implementation and ongoing maintenance of projects/programs. Prepare and present project status reports to communicate milestone achievements and slippages, escalating issues, risks and inter-project dependencies, Provide timely and accurate information and status updates to project sponsors, end users and management
• Assist in creating and maintaining project budget wif noledge of planned vs. actual. Develop resource utilization scenarios and recommend solutions for bridging resourcing shortages, provide weekly update to program director on resource management. Conduct impact analysis for change requests
• Compile project artifacts such as the project management plan and communication plan
• Completed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Critical path, Gantt chart, resource allocation, risk management, network flows, cost and schedule variance major milestones and deliverables.
• Maintain and provide access to all employees to the SharePoint site as a document repository, collaborative workspace and workflow tool
• Provide work direction and guidance to project/program managers by maintaining files and information including but not limited to, financial data, budgets, projects, professional designation and licensing information, vendor contacts and statements of work
• Evaluated the performance and prepared daily, weekly and monthly performance execution reports wif graphical representations using MS excel and MS PowerPoint to the client.
• Led and coached a twelve person team to organize and facilitate daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and sprint and release planning, demos.
• Closely worked wif other Scrum, Program and Portfolio teams to deliver code and system.
• Interactions wif product management to build Epics and Features, to build the hierarchical runway wif team sprint plan and stories.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum for cross team communications for identifying, resolving and raising impediments, and working wif system team for infrastructure needs.
• Worked wif Product Manager and Release Train Engineer on release planning and schedule.

Confidential, VA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif stakeholders and management team in gathering various requirements for the project.
• Written Use-cases, Design detailed logical class and activity diagrams, other high-level process flows
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, activity diagrams, State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Created Business Requirements and Functional specification documents (BRDs/FRDs); Facilitated workshops and JAD sessions.
• Discussed requirements wif other members of the team like the Application developers, Project Manager and Data Base Administrators.
• Designed detailed logical class, use case, activity diagrams and other high-level process flows.
• Interacted wif clients to assess needs, identify key challenges, and define project Scope and deliverables.
• Liaised wif teams in Business, Team Leads and PMs in global offices for various operations.
• Gatheird requirements from SMEs and generated reports to halp the business to visualize the design.
• Interpreted customer business needs and translate them into application requirements.
• Created reports to halp users track cash flows by business areas/department.
• Prioritized project efforts, develop project plans, process flows, UML Model and Use Cases.
• Maintained and update digital reports and dashboards based on client requirements.
• Identified and prepared business requirements- gap analysis
• Developed Project management plan which included background including “constraints” and “assumptions, business process, success measures, roles, & responsibilities, project plan for schedule/timelines and resource utilization.
• Reported status, milestones, and project plan tracking to project management and project owners on a weekly basis. Used MS Visio for flow-charts, process model of the application.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specification (URS). Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and tan convert requirements into technical specifications.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Reviewed Test plans, Test cases, Test case execution using specification documents.
• Created Entity Relation diagrams to represent the relationships existing between design the internal schema of a database, depicting the data tables, the data columns of those tables, and the relationships between the tables.
• Conducted highly interactive JAD sessions wif project’s stakeholders such as users, QA analysts, and project management team, identifying and resolving issues.
• Established a business Analysis methodology around the RUP (Rational Unified Process). Helped develop use cases, project plans and manage scope.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) wif the stakeholders and the business users, and the errors discovered were fixed and tan verified via regression testing.
• Used Rational Clear Case as Version Control System for any changes to common documents related to project like Use Case documents and Activity/Sequence Diagrams.
• Project management update and controlling to ensure on time delivery using MS Project.