Scrum Master Resume HOUSTON, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Solution and team - driven scrum master armed with strong agile coaching skills and is a servant leader who helps teams self-organize and deliver via effective Agile practices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | HOUSTON, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Working with multiple teams as a Scrum Master to foster a learning environment that maximizes team efficiency and overall business value while communicating team progress to stakeholders.
Recognized for raising and mitigated project risks on various projects by monitoring the health of the team and guiding the team’s growth while creating agreed upon metrics in ambiguous situations.
Guiding, coaching, and training team members (and people outside the team who directly interact with and rely on the team) in Scrum concepts and practices, as well as Agile mindset.
Facilitate all Confidential /Vendor Management Scrum-related events (Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, etc.) while optimizing and maintaining all Scrum artifacts (Iteration backlog, Product Backlog, etc.)
Utilizing Jira to increase transparency of backlog, track resource effort, facilitate communication between Scrum team and stakeholders, Product Owners, and developers.

Confidential | HOUSTON, TX

Agile QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Optimized QA processes within Confidential operational business lines by being an agile/scrum quality engineering advocate to ensure quality is augmented into its products and services.
Worked with operational and technical teams to identify gaps within testing landscapes and created a gap analysis (both functional and automation) to optimize test results and mitigate risk.
Reduced project testing budget for SAP upgrades by creating process documentation within IT that detailed consistency, standards, and control using ADO. Proactively evaluated and executed both manual & functional testing to improve project quality, UAT and strengthen business signoff.
Streamlined UAT testing processes by planning, test case specification, test execution, defect management and test status reporting activities under complex and fast-paced environments.
Worked closely with developers and vendors to identify and address any potential issues raised throughout the end to end and UAT cycles as well as regression/risk-based testing.

Confidential | HOUSTON, TX

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Helping to remove impediments and create a cohesive environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless pursuit of team and project improvements.
Removed roadblocks by asking questions to understand the situation and determining if it’s an impediment to the project or a learning opportunity for the team while optimizing TFS backlog.
Created detailed KPIs, accurately tracked time spent working on projects, as well as the ability to accurately estimate changes or enhancements across the hospitals and vendor projects.
Conceived and articulated a pragmatic transformation approach that recognizes and effectively addresses differing organizational maturity levels in the Agile transformation process in 6 months.
Enabled teams to implement Agile metrics that improved visibility and enabled success without subverting positive changes to the organization’s culture.

Confidential | HOUSTON, TX

QA/BA

Responsibilities:

Supported the development of release notes, user guides, training materials, etc. and participated in the implementation of rollouts as well as post-implementation support.
Worked with delivery teams to drive alignment of solutions with business strategies and business capability requirements while serving as a liaison between technology and business end-users.
Communicated application delivery changes, enhancements, and modifications to project managers, sponsors and others to ensure a successful signoff.
Developed technical and (non-functional) requirements - that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed tso support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.