SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, result oriented professional with 7 years of IT experience, including 5 years of experience as Scrum Master and 2 years of .Net Developer experience.
• Outstanding communication skills. Able to successfully build strong working relationships with team members, stakeholders and leadership, while ensuring cooperation among company departments.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Intermediate knowledge of Agile principles, practices and theory.
• Experience managing distributed and multiple teams using Agile Methodologies.
• Maintaining the artifacts like Product Burndown chart, Sprint Burndown chart, and Sprint Burn Up chart and made them visible through Information Radiator.
• Experience in tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps to maintain the user stories and artifacts.
• Helping the product owner to prioritize the Product backlog and prioritized the backlog.
• Worked with Agile Craft to improve the tool for Agile/Scrum Teams, Business and Management.
• Certified Scrum expert in agile with proven track record for working with the team in defining product vision, strategy and value creation, product designs, managing and transforming enterprise agile product delivery and digital transformations.
• Understanding and hands on knowledge of both advanced and basic software development methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall etc.
• Have excellent intellectual, interpersonal, technical and communication skills.
• Motivated, inspired, and improved the lives and productivity of the scrum team.
• Have good knowledge in Agile/Scrum methodology, Azure DevOps Tool, Jira tool, Sprints and Waterfall methodology of Project Life Cycle.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical teams throughout the project cycle

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Scrum Master, Agile Process, Mapping the requirements to the project

Tools: JIRA, MS Office, MS Project, Kanban, Azure DevOps, Slack, waterfall, Scaled Agile.

Applications: MS office suite, Share point, Google Docs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Stand - ups (SUM), Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review and Retrospective and Sprint report generation.
• Resolving impediments, Roadblocks removal, Risks and Backlog grooming and created tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
• Performing gap analysis to compare all elements of existing “as is” with desired “to be” processes.
• Utilizing use case, workflow, activity and sequence diagrams and help to define functional requirements for the development team.
• Participating proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.
• Tracking Performance Indicators/Metrics and addressing any issues as they arise. These metrics include Velocity, Burndown charts, Release progress, etc.
• Assisted Scrum teams with User Stories generation and managing their progress.
• Experience in Scrum Release Planning and Release Life Cycle.
• As an Agile Coach/Practitioner, established and drove Agile methodologies and Release Planning processes for development teams across multiple Geographies (US/Overseas).
• Drove successful transformation of existing organizations from Waterfall to Agile.
• Monitored trends/progress of the projects and acted as an advisor to the management.
• Reported progress to key stakeholders through Release/Sprint Burn-Down, velocity target updates, schedules, risks, dependencies, etc.
• Collaborated closely with the business owners/stakeholders and technical teams to identify and document detailed requirements and process flows, including budget and headcount.
• Maintained and monitored projects' schedules and progress. Coordinated activities, resolving issues and proactively managing the risks and opportunities.
• Provided leadership to corporate-wide teams ensuring all groups are aligned on goals, direction, processes, ownership and schedules.

Environment: Azure DevOps, MS Project, Agile (Scrum), MS Excel

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing Agile projects and personal accountability for delivering projects to time and cost.
• Publishing the Scrum Burn Down Charts, Velocity Charts and metrics etc
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand-up, Retrospective, Sprint Planning, Refinement/Grooming session, and Demo
• Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog
• Coach Product Owner and Agile team how to navigate and use Agile practices
• Prioritize and execute marketing intent through lean and Agile process
• Partner with Business Analytics to ensure understanding and delivery of product intent through the product lifecycle
• Mitigated impediments during the sprint in terms of issues and risks
• Identify and communicate opportunities, while implementing process enhancements to internal scoring system

Environment: JIRA, MS Project, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), MS Excel

Confidential

.NET Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Payroll Product and successfully helped in deploying it to Production within the timeline.
• Implemented Business Logic in the Payroll Product
• Troubleshoot Production Issues with the Support Team
• Unit and Functional Testing.
• Ensuring Quality and timely delivery of the assigned tasks.