SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and seasoned a business analyst with technical experience spanning across QA, Business Analysis and as a Agile Scrum Master.
• Experience transitioning teams and companies from traditional software development to the Scrum framework.
• Proven track record of on - time complex product delivery, engineering team growth and customer satisfaction.
• Proven experience in introducing scrum from Sprint '0', handling spikes and facilitated backlog refinement meetings and Scrum of Scrums.
• Well experienced in teaching teams and employing visual collaboration techniques like, scrum board for daily stand-ups, speed boat for sprint retrospectives, prune the the product tree for product road-mapping.
• Well versed in using Agile JIRA tool.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling and Process Flow: Microsoft Excel /PowerPoint/Visio/Word, MS Project, BPMN, JIRA.

Methodologies: Agile, SWOT analysis, Sprint cycle, Scrum, Requirements traceability, EVA

Business Skills: New product development phases, Business Process Management and Project Life Cycle.

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential WI

Project Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison in between the business users of Kohl’s, Onsite-Consultants from Tradestone and software engineers at Kohl’s.
• Facilitated context driven grooming sessions with product owners and technical leads in bringing up stories.
• Implemented ScrumBan( Scrum + Kanban ) a hybrid approach in pushing business stories to dev ready stories with needed technical details
• Co-ordinated with shared resources, cross functional teams, and there by helped in smooth execution of the process and ensuring the work progress.
• Successfully reduced the cycle times, thereby increased the business value delivered.

Confidential, San Jose CA

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering projects against agreed scope, budget, schedule & customer expectations.
• Did EVA analysis to track the progress and forecast the performance and budget and prepared reports.
• Worked closely with the executive management to prioritize and groom the backlog; track the progress of the product and resolve any iteration impediments.
• Facilitated planning sessions and prepared the product roadmaps using better visual collaboration techniques like “Prune the Product tree”
• Supported and Communicated with product owner and management on project updates and release/sprint progress using well maintained velocity charts and burn-down charts, and bringing transparency to the work progress.
• Maintained and tracked project backlog status, growth, milestones and issues using JIRA.
• Decomposed and translated large epic stories into small user stories with the help of user scenarios and story splitting. While adhering the scrum principles like INVEST for a better quality of user stories.
• Elaborated user stories to mature stories by providing details to development team as conversations, acceptances criteria and speclets so that story could be part of sprint planning.
• Participated in estimating size of user stories in story points and defining priorities for each user story using MoSCoW rule according to business needs.
• Introduced and Taught story point estimation techniques such as Planning Poker and Relative Mass evaluation for better engagement of the team and more realistic backlog grooming sessions.
• Facilitated and organized all scrum ceremonies including the daily stand-ups, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, as well as, demos, release planning and backlog grooming meetings.
• Identified and planned product backlog items and user stories for scrum development team in sprint planning meetings and also committed on achieving a scrum goal. Once committed the team then focused on the sprint goal with a checkpoint daily called the 'daily scrum call' to take stock of the situation.
• Coordinated and communicated across multiple functional teams to provide visibility to stakeholders on release and sprint goals, progress and changes to goals and priorities, as well as issues and risks.
• Maintaining a traceability matrix for UAT, participated in designing the test cases.
• Taught and used innovative techniques in Retrospectives, like Speed Boat as a metaphor for the team and parallel running, winds & anchors, ORID methods (Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, Decisional) are few other robust practices executed with the groups.
• Gather and document best practices, standards and lessons learned by facilitating retrospectives at the end of each sprint and apply to future sprints and projects.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed relationship with programmers and bridged communication between end users and development team.
• Eliminating ambiguity and making the requirements clear to the technical team.
• Collected and studied the Meta data about the master data for MDM and the transactional data.
• Gathered issues about data-quality and other requirements pertaining to the project with the help of various forums viz. interviews, JAD sessions, brainstorming sessions etc.
• Created Business Requirements Documents (BRD).
• Participated in preparing detailed use cases and documented it.
• Participated in preparing the requirements and use case traceability matrix.

QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test plans, test cases reviews, test cases execution, and designing, executing, verifying and analyzing test programs.
• Creating defect information reports, defect status report, weekly status reports, and traceability matrix.
• Updating Test Cases based on the requirement enhancement / new feature requirement.
• UI Checklist was created to check the UI validations.
• Performed Browser compatibility and Web Usability Test.
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Executed test cases and documented test results.
• Participated in defect management process, track and retest defects found during testing until fixed.
• Reported defects using Bugzilla and verified them once they were fixed.

Environment:Microsoft .Net 3.5, Java Script, HTML, MSSQL, Load Runner.