SUMMARY

• Scrum Master with 6 years of experience and excellent knowledge experience in gathering system requirements, defining business processes, competent in creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
• Deep understanding and Hands on experience in Agile Methodologies and experience in leveraging Scrum as a delivery framework, especially in Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe).
• Successful Scrum Master with extensive experience in facilitating daily Scrums, Sprint Grooming/Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospective ensuring quick inspect and proper adaptation processes contributing to the successful deliveries by the team.
• Expertise in coaching Agile practices by ensuring the correct use of Scrum with very good knowledge of Scrum theories, rules and practices.
• Effectively facilitated scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, review, retrospective and daily stand ups.
• Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions and responsible for the adoption. Implementation and sustainability of the agile principles and practices.
• Collaborated with the team members of the product, Business and Dev team to develop and maintain the product backlog.
• Mentor and pair with Teams to become true Agile & SAFe Champions by revisiting and refining new & existing process thereby improving overall productivity and reducing waste in every stage of product/project development & delivery.
• Expertise in using agile lifecycle management platform tools such as Jira, VersionOne, and Rally.
• Expertise in converting high - level product concepts and business requirements into software product requirements and design specifications.
• Proficient in using project management tools like Jira, Rally, Agile Central. Created scrum burn down, burn up artifacts for higher management reporting.
• Proficient in Requirement gathering techniques ranging from interviews, questionnaire, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, job shadowing to storyboarding and prototyping.
• Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, business rules, business process and detailed design of the application.
• Highly motivated, organized and results and detail oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Proven capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Environment: JIRA, RALLY, Fiserv, Business Objects XI R4.1, XIR3, XIR2, 6.5 (Web Intelligence, Launchpad, Desktop)

Databases: Informatics, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Methodologies: JAD, RUP, SAFe, Agile SCRUM Framework, KANBAN, ScrumXP, Waterfall

Dashboard Tools: Tableau 8.x, 9.x, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Pig)

Other domain tools: Saving Information Repository Database (SIR), Rational Rose, Bloomberg, Mosiki (Reconciliation tool), Actuate(Reporting tool), GoSystem, Summit, On Demand. MIS3, DB VALS, GDD2, ADP, ICI IMPACT, Sentry, CMDW, Magellan, Gold, KONDOR. SIR DB, CLIPs, OneFPT.

Modeling Tools: MS Project 2013, Rational Rose, UML, MS Visio

ETL Tools: Ab Initio, Informatica 9.1, Informatica Developer (IDQ).

Operating Systems: Windows Variants.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master was responsible for facilitating the creation and prioritization of Product Backlog, establishing.
• Executed role of a Scrum Master accountable for guiding the planning, tracking and day to day activities of two web development teams during its project implementation and transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology.
• Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning/Grooming, Sprint Reviews.
• Maintain JIRA and other information radiators for the teams.
• Experience with high paced large application/software engineering and cloud programs.
• Work with the Product Management team to develop release plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized and visible to all stakeholders.
• Write Full-Slice functional and non-functional User Stories.
• Identify, address, and communicate project risks, dependencies, and team impediments.
• Ensure the team's "definition of done" & definition of 'ready' is well defined on the story, sprint, and release levels.
• Facilitate productivity through discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assist with internal and external communication, and improving transparency.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Coach a continuous improvement mindset and recommend adjustments to established delivery practices.
• Provided training to scrum team to ensure agile scrum is understood and practiced from Planning to Implementation.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans and integration of testing activities.
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/ Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
• Actively worked with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to monitor and prioritize product backlog on an ongoing basis to meet release timelines and value to the business.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders, including customers.
• Worked with outside organizations and business partners to coordinate cross-team dependencies in order to meet product objectives.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.

Environment: Scrum, Agile, Jira, Rally, Confuence, SAFe, Web Services and Windows.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with SME's to elicit business goals and define goal-level requirements.
• Creating detailed documentation containing business objective, vision and scope, preliminary estimates, infrastructure impact assessment and risk factors.
• Construct Data flow diagrams and document the AS-IS business processes.
• Defined and implemented Change Management policies and procedures.
• Performed QA on functional specifications for enhancements and interfaces authored by Design Team consultants.
• Co-ordinated with all developers and project stakeholders to lead a kickoff meeting.
• Defined and introduced the project, team member's roles, and key deliverables. Map out timelines, milestones, communication processes, question and answer session.
• Directed the project using rational methodologies and acted as an RUP consultant for the whole project life cycle.
• Extracted, normalized, analyzed and review the report with respect to data efforts related to proactive fraud identification procedures.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML.
• Designed and lead workshops using coaching and creativity to access and express values, vision and dreams.
• Involved extensively in Project Planning and Management in the areas of Scheduling, Team Building.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, also worked with risk management/operational.
• Worked closely with data conversion team for populating the system with master data such as functional locations, equipment, task lists, maintenance plans.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing and test strategies with developers and testers.
• Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.
• Developed System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plan for testing the upgrade and new modules.
• Train teams in Agile Development including the use of Project Management Tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Environment: Scrum, Agile, Jira, Rally, Confuence, SAFe, Web Services and Windows.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Product documentation, roadmap and execution from concept to deployment for clients/ traders.
• Mapped customer's requirement in the form of product backlog, divided to use cases, functional flow charts and data flow charts.
• Analyzed user-behavior and implemented data-driven initiatives for staple requirements and future sales.
• Managed role of Scrum Master and leveraged expertise while conducting product backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meetings, target setting, and defined the Sprint backlog and burn-down chart.
• Coordinated the test procedures to ensure minimal impact to the production environment.
• Monitored progress against business functionality, requested objectives to ensure that projects meet the specific release criteria.
• Captured and clarified business requirements through a range of analysis techniques (data flow diagrams, sequence diagram, case tool analysis, gap analysis and work and process flow diagrams.
• Captured and clarified business requirements through a range of analysis Verified Business, Functional and Technical Requirements, Use cases, test cases by working with all the stake holders - Business team, Architects and Development team members at onsite and offshore.
• Involved in understanding business problems and transformed these into EPICs/Feature and User Stories.
• Involved in conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements, sessions with stake holders, articulated and created the requirements in effective User Story/scopes.
• Monitored progress and completion reports on a weekly basis, utilized creative problem solving, negotiation skills to resolve issues, manage timelines, and deliver a quality product.
• Helped UI team with the mock-ups clarification and worked with all departments to ensure UI proposals satisfy business, rating, compliance, legal, performance, technical and other needs.
• Reviewed system changes requested by other departments to ensure requirement validation and documentation
• Performed end-user acceptance testing of site changes to confirm deployment.

Environment: Scrum, Agile, Jira, Rally, SAFe, Web Services, MS Project, MS Visio, Gap Analysis, SQL and Windows.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned and defined system requirements to Wire Frame with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design of the system.
• GatheredBusiness/Functional user requirements, created Use Cases as per user requirements, developing/designing diagrams such as Activity, Class, and or Sequence diagrams, and in addition to creatingBusinessRequirements Document (BRD).
• Created context and workflow models, information andbusinessrule models, Use Case and Object Models during the analysis using rational tools.
• Used MS Visio for block diagramming, charts and graphs, and web diagramming.
• Managed the gathered requirements efficiently by maintaining different document versions in RequisitePro and tracked the requirements using RTM (requirement traceability matrix).
• Adopted Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology with emphasis on its six best practices for iterative and incremental development.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Analyzebusinessrequirements and segregated them into Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and OOD using Borland Together according to UML methodology thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Performed an in-depth analysis of the system’s organizational structure, services and processes and createdAs-Is and To-Be process models.
• Identifying and acquiring third party vendors which need to be integrated with the product.
• Worked onstatus reportingon a weekly basis to keep the management up to date on the progress of the projects.

Environment: Windows, SQL, MS Visio, HTML, UML, Quality Center, WebLogic, Requisite pro, Rational ClearQuest.