SUMMARY

• A team oriented SAFe certified Scrum master with 10 years of IT experience.
• A servant leader with strong agile coaching skills working with cross - functional teams.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies to include - Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Coaching, training and starting up Scrum teams; Culture/change involvement; Team Velocity improvements; Distributed Scrum teams and Remote Scrum Teams.
• Adept at prioritizing and completing tasks to meet customers' needs.
• Experience working with offshore teams.
• Manage conflicts, resolve issues, remove impediments by finding the right personnel/channel/method to achieve team consensus.
• Participated in development and grooming of Product backlog and Sprint backlog.
• Exposure and experience of agile principles, Scrum Framework and knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.
• Good understanding of Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, TDD, FDD, JAD, RUP and RAD development methodologies.
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing using DevOps.
• Experience in different technologies like Salesforce.com, DataStage, SAP BI and BO.
• Good understanding of Data warehouse concepts and proven experience working with Fact and dimension tables.
• Extensive experience in building SQL queries on Oracle and SQL Server for data validation.
• Proven ability to handle all aspects of Project Management from inception to completion of the project.
• Authorized to work for any employer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, Unix Shell Scripting

Databases: Oracle, IBM Netezza and SQL Server.

Testing Tools: ALM, UFT, Sales Force Requirement Tracker, Quality Center, QTP

ETL and other: SalesForce, DataStage, SAP BI/BO, Oracle Ebiz suite, Cognos TM1

Mock up Tools: MS Visio, Paint, Word, Visual Studio

Agile tools: Jira, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Building and leading two squads to achieve their maximum potential.
• Setting up Jira boards and confluence wikis for the squads.
• Coaching team members on Scrum principles and agile practices.
• Simultaneously working on Scrum for one squad and Kanban for another based on nature of requirements.
• Facilitate and participate in DSUs, Sprint planning sessions, Reviews, Retrospectives, Product backlog refinement sessions, Quarterly planning sessions, and other Scrum related meetings.
• Attending Scrum of Scrums with Scrum Masters of other teams and Managers to collaborate and coordinate with other teams and to communicate progress.
• Removing impediments and resolving conflicts between team members or stakeholders.
• Working with offshore and geographically distributed teams.

Environment: Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Mainframe,.Net, Java, Git, Selenium

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and participate in Scrum ceremonies - Sprint planning, daily standups, Reviews, Release planning and Product backlog grooming.
• Coach team and stakeholders on agile practices and Scrum principles.
• Facilitate team progress and support product owner in building user stories.
• Radiate information and ensure that team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.
• Responsible to remove impediments, identify and mitigate risks and issues within the iteration.
• Adapt iterative methodology and achieve continuous delivery.
• Establish an agile process to address rapid requirement changes.
• Help improve team dynamics and work quality by identifying pain points and address them.

Environment: SQL, IBM Netezza Data warehouse, Jira, Oracle 11g, Java, Business Objects

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coached team and stakeholders on agile practices and removed team impediments.
• Tracked and reported key metrics, daily burn down and project progress to management.
• Provided visibility of impediments/risks to team to help eliminate them and increase throughput.
• Facilitated and participated in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospective, release planning, product backlog grooming sessions and other Scrum related meetings.
• Capture accurate metrics of the team and update task board using Burn up or Burn down charts.
• Hold regular sprint reviews to demonstrate finished work to stakeholders and celebrate teamachievements.
• Worked with offshore development and QA teams to address any queries for conflict resolution.
• Support a culture of continuous process improvement through sprint retrospectives and metricsanalysis.

Environment: ALM, Visio, SQL Developer for SQL, RAILS, Oracle E-Business suite

Confidential

Business/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on projects based on both Water fall and Agile methodologies.
• Collaborated withBusinessSponsors,BusinessUsers, and Project Managers to gain insights of the requirements.
• Participated in requirements elicitation and brainstorming sessions with Subject Matter Experts (SME) and IT resources to come up with practicable time line and solution approach.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings, Sprint planning meetings, review and retrospective meetings.
• Developed user stories with acceptance criteria, product backlog and sprint backlog based on feature requirements.
• Performed test planning, test execution and defect logging and resolution for different applications.
• Test user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries.
• Provided training and technical support to end users for new or updated existing systems.

Environment: MS Office, Visio, ALM 12.01, SQL, Salesforce.com SFDC, SOQL, SharePoint, Java, Oracle, UFT, DevOps