SUMMARY

• IT professional of nine years and 3 months with diverse, extensive experience with Project/Scrum Manager (Certified Scrum Master) for four years handling large scale delivery assignments.
• Five years of Business Analyst/Business Systems Analyst responsibilities.
• Expert in Agile (SCRUM) and waterfall project methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high - quality deliverables that meet timeline and budgetary targets. Good Good understanding knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as well.
• Excellent Customer Relationship Management skills with experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Project Lead, Systems Engineering and Business Systems Analyst and Scrum Master.
• Responsible for client interfacing, requirement gathering, critical analysis & assess impacts across various functional modules of the application and systems, delegating, mentoring and monitoring.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements.
• Work with stake holders, Users, Developers, Testers and other Project Management teams to deliver projects end to end.
• Well-versed with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Provide the cost/effort estimate for the implementation of a feature/project from application perspective by analyzing very high-level business requirements.
• Work with the interfacing systems to understand the business needs and design the interface accordingly (which include the data design and data flow design).
• Coordinate various activities of the project like Coding, Unit testing, System testing, User Acceptance Testing and Deployment.
• Good database skills and sound UNIX knowledge.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defect Report, and Weekly Status Reports.
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard Tools like Quality Center, Clear Quest
• Attending kick-off calls and providing the status to project management team and tracking all defects raised till they are closed.
• Excellent communication and Presentation skills with people Confidential all levels of business.
• Interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and a very good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Rally (for requirement management), Rational Clear Quest (CQ), Defect Record Tracking Tool (DRTT), HP Quality Centre (QC), PUTTY, Rational Portfolio Manager, IBM Requirement Management Tool (RMT), SCME (Software Configuration Management Environment) and PUTTY.

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, Microsoft Access

Languages: UNIX, SQL, XML

O/S: Windows, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, and leading Scrum teams. Expert Confidential driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (backlog/sprint grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, spring review and retrospectives,) and attend Scrum-of-Scrum meeting.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-fuctionality.
• Work with Product Owner to maintain the Product Backlog and achieve the release plan.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.
• Balance and protect the team from outside influences and randomization with getting the right thing done when necessary.
• Ability to lead and empower teams to take ownership of their work with consistence improvement.
• Coordinate and manage code releases with other IT groups.
• Motivates all teams in engineering to ensure consistency of Scrum best practices.
• Tracked and communicated sprint/release progress in Rally Dev.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer/stakeholder.
• Managing and maintaining the project delivery, tracking overall status weekly once, interacting to individual in the team and with interfacing team for progress and concerns if any to be addressed.
• Delivering status to client management end of each week with details as requested.
• Participating weekly calls and providing the latest status to senior project management team and tracking all defects rose till it is closed.
• Identify the dependencies and risks involved in the implementation of a feature/project and provide a mitigation plan.
• Supporting release management and schedule/unscheduled production deployment.

Business System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Role: Responsible for client interfacing, requirement gathering, critically analyze & assess impacts across various functional modules of the application, delegating, mentoring and monitoring.
• Delivering new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions and leading the efforts including supporting development for clarification and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Ensure that development and testing is performed as per requirements.
• Provide technical and investigative support for functional users on interfaces, defects, change requests, debugging issues.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Continued support for production issues as third level production support specialist.
• Subject matter expert role: Developed into a Subject Matter expert in database design and in designing interface transaction such as EFMS WSDL Interface Web-service transactions, with one of the most complicated external interfacing applications.
• Mentor: Mentored juniors to view the application from database design perspective and ensuring that back up is created in each and every knowledgeable area.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the Client Requirements and Business Specifications, analyzing the impacts and feasibility, help in completing the T&C0 Time and Cost .
• Design and develop the screen Mock Ups and complete the review with clients and simultaneously help in completing T&C1.
• Based on the screen mock ups design and develop the application architecture Database tables and interface impacts .
• Review the application structure and database design with development and testing teams.
• Review the High Level Design Document HLD and Application Design Document AID with Confidential &T.
• Completing all the QPR work Defect sheets, HLD, AID, WBS, E2E data mapping, Baseline approvals, Release notes, Req. Pro, RMT etc. .
• Provide the support to development and testing team during development and testing phase.
• Provide support to Confidential users during UAT and also providing the Root Cause of a particular issue.
• Completing the FP count activities.
• Also helping in providing support to production issues.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the Client Requirements and Business Specifications, analyzing the impacts and feasibility, help in completing the initial cost estimation.
• Design and develop the screen Mock Ups and complete the review with clients and simultaneously develop details project cost estimation.
• Based on the screen mock ups design and develop the application architecture Database tables and interface impacts .
• Review the application structure and database design with development and testing teams.
• Develop and review the High Level Design Document HLD and Application Design Document AID with client.
• Completed all the work Defect sheets, HLD, AID, WBS, E2E data mapping, Baseline approvals, Release notes, Req. Pro, RMT etc. .
• Provide the support to development and testing team during development and testing phase.
• Perform RCA with Confidential &T users during UAT for major issue.
• Perform Function Point counting of the projects.
• Also helping in providing support to production issues.