SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of IT industry and 4 years as Scrum Master managing large software applications:
• Solid experience inSDLC and fluent working in bothUNIXandWindowsenvironments.
• Excellent noledge of waterfall and agile development model.
• Working in fully agile development environment.
• Extensively worked on Atlassian Jira - Certified Scrum Master Certification.
• Managed resource sharing and distribution and prioritize workload as project needs.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Extremely organized and capable of handling multitasks ensuring all teh tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Excellent in Project planning, kick-off meeting, weekly status meeting, requirement analysis, risks and release rollout meetings.
• Excellent noledge of financial markets and market data industry.
• Excellent in BRD (Business Requirements Documents), FRD (Functional/System Requirements Documents) and technical specifications, project planning and time estimate, project plan implementation, and project risk management.
• Created teh functional specification for exchange feed migration.
• Solid understanding of Market data feed, exchange data content and messages.
• Used Perl & Shell scripting for regression and functional application.
• Thorough understanding of change and release management for software deployment.
• Excellent noledge ofEquity, Derivatives andFixed Income Securities.
• Ability to interact with vendors as well asbusiness andcross-functionalteams.
• Strong noledge of databases and extensively usedSQLqueries for backend data validation and verification.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with teh ability to work individually as well as be a team player.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Software development: Agile, Waterfall

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Databases: Oracle 9i, Sybase, SQL Server

Programming Languages: C, C#, HTML, XML, PL/ SQL

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, PERL, AWK, VBScript, JavaScript

Others: MS Office, MS Sharepoint, GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked on interpreting market data provider specifications and normalized to Confidential market data model.
• Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Excellent noledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Involved in managing projects from requirements gathering to software rollout for various market data products.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand teh requirements.
• Write BRDs and execute test scripts for domestic and global exchanges.
• Followed teh agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Organized Defect management on teamtrack and client issues on Jira.
• Involved in researching and modeling financial markets data and their events.
• Excellent noledge ofEquity, Derivatives,Fixed Income Securities.
• Involved with various aspects of teh project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.
• Support development teams to ensure successfully execution of requirements and project delivery
• Solid understanding of Confidential B-pipe API, SAPI and DAPI subscription.
• Used Perl & Shell scripting for supporting and developing market data application.
• Used SQL for backend testing and historical data mining.
• Good understanding of exchange real-time pricing and reference data.
• Proficient in project and business documentation and responsible for modeling various market data events.

Environment: Linux/UNIX, Shell Scripting, PERL, AWK, XML, Jira, GitHub, Confidential, Bpipe, Windows 7, PL/SQL, Onetick, MS Office

Confidential, New York

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked on analysis, normalization and mapping of time-series data based on business requirements.
• Involved in functional and technical design reviews.
• Involved in data quality management, quality analysis and issues, backload, verification and validation data.
• Excellent in measuring velocity, user stories, working with product to manage backlogs.
• Excellent in managing product backlog and sprint backlog, user stories and deliverables.
• Extensively used Atlassan Jira for managing task features and reports.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews and release planning.
• Excellent noledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Track/Maintain Product enhancement and maintenance subject matter documentation, for new projects in JIRA.
• Create BRD and supervise test lead activities for Vendor data and exchange specifications.
• Create and Track Test Project deliverable documentation artifacts on SharePoint.
• Involve in development, UAT testing and production deployment of application.
• Used Perl & Shell scripting, SQL, UNIX, SVN, Onetick, OTQ, Tectia Ssh client for developing market data application.
• Worked on various exchange market data feeds for data subscription and publication.
• Support for various production environment across different region APAC, EMEA and Americas.
• Thorough understanding of change and release management for software deployment
• Excellent noledge ofEquity, Derivatives andFixed Income products.
• Good hands on experience working with onside, off-shore model.

Environment: Linux/UNIX, Shell Scripting, PERL, AWK, Jira, SVN, Windows 7, Sybase, PL/SQL, Onetick, MS Office, Putty, Tectia SSH Client, Cloakware, FIX 4.2, ITSM, SSH and FTP, ServiceNow

Confidential, New York

Market Data Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on and good understanding of various exchange market data level 1 and level 2 feeds.
• Participate in requirements elicitation session and review requirements to ensure they are clear, concise and testable.
• Involve in writing BRDs/FRDs for various development initiatives.
• Excellent noledge ofEquity, Derivatives,Fixed Income, andAUTEX IOI/AT products.
• Review requirement and software specification documents. Identify conflicts, errors in teh documentation and provide feedback to business analysts.
• Writing Linux PERL, AWK and C-shell Scripts to automate regression testing and to test/verify functionality.
• Worked on Wireshark 1.2 tool to capture and analyzing network data packets and contents.
• Create and maintained test case repository in HP Quality Center 11.
• Writing PL/SQL for extracting and analyzing data from history database.
• Using TeamTrack and Jira for Defect Management and tracking.
• Create test scenarios and ensure teh test coverage completeness and find any gaps.
• Provide direction to team members and interface with projects team members outside team.
• Involve in Test Case Design, Test planning, Test Tool usage and Test execution.
• Manage build notifications and assist environment support team in deploying teh applications into QA, verified production deployment accuracy and participated in production environment testing.

Environment: Linux, Shell Scripting, PERL, Teamtrack, Windows 7, HP Quality Center 11, PL/SQL, ThomsonOne, Eikon, Reuters3000 Xtra, WireShark, MS Office 2003/2010, Putty, SecureCrt 6.7, QTP 11, VBScript, Elektron, Eikon

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Coding unit testing and bug fixes for various features of software.
• Worked on textual phonetically speech database designs.
• Involved in functional and technical design reviews.
• Involved in speech data collection
• Developed, trained and test teh speech recognition system.
• Used PERL, C and Shell scripts and HMM Toolkit.

Environment: Linux 9.0, C, ‘C’ Shell Script, PERL, HTK Hidden Markov Model Toolkit