Scrum Master Resume
Oakland, CA
SUMMARY
- A Scrum professional who is passionate about serving organizations, teams and Individuals by helping them solve complex problems and deliver quality Software on time in frequent Increments applying Agile mindset and Scrum methodologies.
- An experienced PMP certified Scrum Master with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Admin and 8+ years of experience in Scrum Master, Project Management, Leadership Reporting, Resource Management and Business Analysis.
- Extensive experience in Managing, Tracking and Monitoring Agile Matrix like Capacity, Velocity, Burn Down Chart, Cycle time, Throughput.
- Ensured proper transparency and visibility of the Agile metrics such as Burn - down chart, Sprint velocity charts, Impediment charts and Dependency charts.
- Helped the teams understand the Definition of Done (DOD) and Definition of Ready (DOR) throughout the Agile team.
- Empowered the teams to become Self-Organized and Cross-Functional. Handled multiple scrum Teams simultaneously, for both Scrum and Kanban.
- Enforcing Time boxes, and responding to the Impediments, and Retrospective. Organizing/Handling/Participating Backlog Prioritization, Pre-Planning, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily Scrum, Retrospective.
- Extensive experience in reporting status to Product Owners and Stakeholders. Have created multiple dashboards for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
- Experience in Agile Estimation and Planning Poker. Extensive experience with the Healthcare domain.
- Extensive experience in the Project Management tools - Jira, MS Projects. Excellent communication skills, focused leader, Self-motivated, quick learner, able to work under minimal guidance.
- Well acquainted with Software Development Lifecycle & Software Testing Life cycle.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Project Management Tools: Jira, MS Excel, MS Word.
Development Methodologies: Agile (Scrum and Kanban), Water Fall
Management Skills: Story Prioritization, Preplanning, Sprint Planning, Manage Scrum Calls and Teams, Defining Scope, Effort Estimation.
Designing Tools: MS Visio, Lucid Chart.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Oakland, CA
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Organized and facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as release planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, daily stand-up, iteration review/demo and iteration retrospectives.
- Assisted the team to use project-tracking tool JIRA effectively. Assisted the Product Owner in compiling and prioritizing the Product Backlog on JIRA using prioritization techniques like MOSCOW, Affinity Analysis.
- Provided valuable inputs to frame the Definition of Done (DoD) for Sprint Product Increment, Sprint Goal.
- Monitored key metrics daily and weekly to gauge team progress. Metrics tracked are Velocity, Daily burned hours, committed vs delivered velocity, story and task progress status, impediments, Defects/Bugs Raised per Sprint.
- Facilitated Sprint Ceremony events: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily SCRUM, and Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.
- Manage the development to meet the sprint timeline with 100% done and avoid bugs and carryovers.
- Assisted Developer lead in capacity planning. Ability to work with cross functional teams and build partnerships.
- Acted as a “servant leader” for the Agile team. Effectively contained Risk by removing impediments and safeguard team from external interference.
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.
Environment: Scrum, JIRA, MS Share Point, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, Java.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Scrum Master / Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Proficiently organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint release planning.
- Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep products backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing
- Effectively tracked team's progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting. Guide and coach multiple teams from different time zones on Agile transformation.
- Responsible for report generation and updates on all tasks, hours reporting, burn down and sprint reports.
- Maintaining the milestones by updating the progress and managing changes to dates. Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
- Driven the sessions to go over dependencies, risks, and issues and update JIRA accordingly.
- Ensuring the changes to milestones are updated properly. Creating Scrum boards, Kanban boards, dashboards and structures to help team function more actively.
- Ensuring during the sprint planning meet those tasks provided by the team achieve a 100% utilization of all team members across teams.
- Ensuring latest Technical Data Document and other documents are prepared and uploaded. Scheduling all sprint ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retro, sprint planning and Product Backlog Refinement.
- Executing all sprint ceremonies along with Product Owner. Ensure correct sizing and prioritization, User story grooming, release planning.
- Providing guidance and coaching while actively mentoring team members on Agile Methodology.
Environment: JIRA, SCRUM, KANBAN, TDD, Sprint, CI, Java, Selenium.
Confidential, Little Rock, AR
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and the organization and helped the Scrum Master in improving Agile practices.
- Proposed a Scrum optimization by introducing better ways of conducting Sprint planning and retrospectives.
- Facilitated daily Scrum call, Sprint planning, and Retrospective meetings for the team of 15.
- Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time, Communicate with other.
- 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, Manage the life cycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress, facilitated the team to create clear and concise epics/stories.
- Worked with the engineering managers to help identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
- Analyzed existing reports and defined business requirements and business process flows.
- Successfully employed Agile Scrum methodology and managed roll-out with performance testing, functional testing and integration testing.
- Participated in the team building activities. Provided guidance and coaching while actively mentoring team members on Agile Methodology
Environment: TFS, SCRUM, SAFe, TDD, Sprint, CI, CD, Selenium.
Confidential
Business analyst/ Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with business stake holders to gather and finalize the Business Requirements. Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality, navigational flow and updated them about end-user sentiments.
- Understand the new features and scope items from business and translate them into Epics and User stories.
- Responsible to Create Epics, User stories, Chore and bugs. Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
- Execute the Project in Full Agile mode using tool like JIRA, Confluence etc. Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
- Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
- Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting. Responsible to Conduct retrospective meetings.
- Deliver timely project health and performance dashboards to higher management for visibility.
- Identifying, prioritizing, and calculating magnitude of all project related risks & issues.
- Run the SQL query to validate the data set and provide the data export to serve business users ad-hoc needs.
- Used PowerPoint presentations for conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders.
- Closely monitor the Burn down and velocity chart to understand the committed vs completed story points.
- Defined the Definition of Done and Readiness of the User story.
- Raise the Bugs during the UAT and track it actively till its completions.
Environment: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Oracle SQL Developer, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Visio.
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Conducted brainstorming sessions to get data from all our primary vendors/clients.
- Managed JIRA deliverables instrumental in designing the bank’s new combined periodic statement project for the customers.
- Created status reports for relevant stakeholders. Assisted in developing deliverables acceptance plans and criteria.
- Interacted with Software development team and Business users as a liaison in helping developers to understand the business requirements thereby ensuring the proposed applications comply with the business specifications.
- Analyzed information and requirements and documented them. Reviewed the Business Requirement document and detailed the Systems Requirement document.
- Participated in reporting data marts to provide the optimal balance of data availability, format, flexibility. and performance.
- Served as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants.
- Used MS Excel and MS Word to create a field-to-field data map that was used as a main specification document for the conversion program.
- Developed traceability matrix for maintaining/updating system requirements using MS Excel.
- Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met. Identified and participated in resolution of business system issues.