SUMMARY

• Scrum Master with 6+ years of Experience in IT industry in Healthcare Insurance and Banking industries. Strong experience in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Trainer.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum practices such as Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective, Velocity, Estimation.
• Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals.
• Planned and coordinated projects, participated in coordinating budget planning and resource allocation, communicated project plans via project charter to the Executives.
• Highly experienced on customer and vendor management, field claim management and problem solving.
• Assist Product Owner in writing user stories, prioritize Product Backlog Items (PBI).
• Generate report detailing team velocity and burndown chart.
• Handled various activities like Recruitment, Requirement Gathering, Requirement Document Preparation, moderator between the developer and client to make understand the expectations in technical/user point of view.
• Knowledge about the Agile and Waterfall framework processes.
• Proficient at creating and transforming business requirements into Software Requirement Specification (SRS) using Rational Requisite Pro and Designing Business Models using UML diagrams such as Use Case Model, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagram in Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Experience in writing SQL queries and extensively against different databases, generated different reports and analyzed them as per the company requirement.
• Expertise in using Bug Tracking Tools like Bugzilla, JIRA, Rally, QC ALM, IBM clear quest.
• Worked extensively with QA Team in understanding and documenting Test Cases, test plans, test scenarios, experience performing User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Expert in Test driven development & Unit testing methodologies for performing UAT, System Integration testing (SIT), Business Acceptance Testing (BAT) and creating Test management system, Testing reports, Test cases.
• Proficient in Agile methodology: SDLC, PMBOK, BABOK, Agile, Agile Methods SAFe Enterprise Framework TDD, BDD, DSDD, XP, FDD, Kanban, Scrum.
• Proficient in Jira and Confluence.
• Organizational planning, time prioritization and implementation.
• Defining project scope, objectives, staffing and resource management.
• Scope assessment and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Outstanding skills and knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), requirement elicitation, analysis, process design and software validation
• Defining project scope, objectives, staffing and resource management .
• Self - motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Experience in usage of VSS, SVN, TFS, Bitbucket for version control system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall Model, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Databases: MS Access, Tera data, SQL Server, DB2,Oracle, SQL3, AWS(Athena)

Microsoft Office Suite: MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Office.

ETL Tools and Reporting Tools: SQL Server 2014, Tableau Desktop

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Requisite - Pro and Clear-Case, MS Visio, lucid chart

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, JIRA,, HP Quality Center, Rally, IBM Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Working on a variety of projects with stakeholders from across the company to help them answer critical business questions and build information assets to support their operational needs. They analyze medical and pharmaceutical claims data sets to discover pattern, test assumptions, and uncover new opportunities.
• Served as Scrum Master for Agile Scrum team to facilitate scrum ceremonies such as grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.
• Work collaboratively with internal counterparts and third parties to efficiently fund compliant saleable loans
• Reported daily and weekly status to higher level Managers.
• Lead meetings with cross functional teams in the Organization to troubleshoot and triage the Issues, did a documentation and uploaded it to Atlassian Chalk page for future references.
• Implementing project management processes, ensure projects are delivered on time, assembling project plans using MS project, monitoring work efforts, performing weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews, tracking key project milestones, providing status updates and reports using Jira and MS excel, gathering project-related feedback, managing day-to- day operational aspects of various set-top boxes and multiple markets.
• Has the ability to independently manage the technical aspects of ongoing video projects and serve as liaison between management and engineering teams.
• Completing impact analysis of new requirements and accommodate change requirements in coming sprints.
• Created change request document and drive the change requirement process for change management team. Held daily meetings and contingencies resolving meetings as per the Organization’s guidelines.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Daily Scrum Meeting with the team, maintained task board and burndown charts.
• Worked with customers and product manager to pipeline epic / user stories in backlog and prioritize the requirements and releases.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, Dev and QA team to groom the backlog and sprint planning.
• Create requirements for the MMIS project supporting the BIDM team. Responsible for meeting with customer to gather functional requirements and translate them to system level requirements.
• Create system requirements and query data from the data warehouse to create reports.
• Working on the change requests and data mapping documents and to identify the gap analysis.
• Facilitated Sprint Retrospectives for grooming the team.
• Actively participated in Sprint Review meeting.
• Shielding the team from getting interruptions during the sprint.
• Removing obstacles that affect the team
• Walking the product owner through more technical user stories and help him understand the impact in the project which helped him in prioritize the user stories/task accordingly.
• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner
• Handling JIRA and Tracking the User Stories and updating the storyboard accordingly.
• Helped team to accomplish tasks successfully on-time and resolved obstacles for team.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Tracked key project milestones and adjusted project plans and/or resources using Jira, Visio.
• Coordinated communication with all departments of the organization that impacted the scope, budget, risk and resources of the work effort being managed on daily stand ups and review meetings.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Daily Scrum Meeting with the team, maintained task board and burndown charts.
• Worked with customers and product manager to pipeline epic / user stories in backlog and prioritize the requirements and releases.
• Worked closely with Product Owners, Dev and QA team to groom the backlog and sprint planning.
• Facilitated sprint Retrospectives for grooming the team.
• Helped team to accomplish tasks successfully on-time and resolved obstacles for team.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Delivered Test Effort Estimates, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Schedule,
• Monitored Test Execution to Defect Validation, Defect Tracking & Test Management using MTM.
• Experience in preparing various reports (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly) Metrics Reports for the QA Team.
• Responsible for Requirement gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modelling and Business Analysis with Document and Records Management
• Managed multiple and cross-functional projects of high complexity using MS Project, Jira and other communication tools such as Slack, Chalk and Outlook.