SUMMARY

• Around 9 years of experience across industry capacities as a Business Systems Analyst and Scrum Master. Expertise inAgile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, Scrum &SAFeProgram Consultant.
• Proficient in Project/Release Management & Coordination activities with proven results in Project planning, Financials/Budget tracking, Status reporting, Implementation Planning, Risk & Issue management and Inter - vendor coordination.
• Expertise in helping teams embraceSAFeCore Values, adopt and applySAFePrincipals, and implementSAFepractices.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to identify and define project requirements, budgeting, forecasting, estimation and scope of the project.
• Adept at initiating and delivering large-scale software and web development projects by TEMPeffectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple teams.
• Experienced in breaking Epic into User stories using INVEST (Independent Negotiable Valuable Estimable Small Testable) criteria and converting user stories into Tasks using SMART (Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-Boxed) criteria.
• Facilitated SCRUM ceremonies like Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Stand-up meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Strong Excel skills with Pivot tables/charts, formulas, data connections, etc.
• Helped the team in Estimation Techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing, Bucket System, dot-net and prioritizing methods like MoSCoW and Kano method. Calculated the sprint velocity and capacity. Used JIRA, Version One and RALLY to create and maintain Sprint Burn-down, Sprint Burn-up chart, Product Burn-down and Product Burn-up chart. Worked on Acceptance criteria, definition of done, definition of ready, Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI) and minimum viable product (MVP).
• Experiencing in Managing SDLC across multiple domains, application families, and locations, to ensure application enhancements are implemented on-time, according to specification, and within budget.
• Experience with project/resource management tools, agile team management tools/information radiators, risk management, and software development life cycle/project management life cycle processes and disciplines.
• Detail oriented, self-motivated, resourceful team player, hardworking employee with good decision-making capability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Methodology: Agile, Waterfall

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, C, C++, C#, Linux/Unix

Project Management Software: MS Project.

Testing tools: Quality Center, Win Runner, Clear Quest, Rest UI, QTP, Jira, CA Agile Central (Rally), Share Point 2013, Confluence, JIRA Align, Azure Devops

Database: MS SQL Server

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98/2000/XP, UNIX, IOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master facilitated scrum events including Sprint planning, daily Stand-up meeting, Backlog refinement, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
• Helping and Coaching various roles within RE area about Agile methodologies and frameworks
• Participated in PI planning, planned the features according to the priority, deadlines and feature points
• Handled the injects MII and planned the delivery
• Actively participating in CoP of scrum masters and facilitating sessions on various topics
• Helped team to prepare for Demo, facilitation of demo during inspect and adapt, work closely with PO and RTE, get and provide necessary support for team to do TEMPeffective planning during PI.
• Coached development teams through agile transitions by developing a full understanding of the Scrum framework and why it benefits all parties.
• Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development dat help them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams.
• Worked with Product Owner to elicit, prioritize and groom user stories, based on business value, for the QuickScore Releases.
• Developed and analyzed the Sprint and Product Burn down Chart in order to calculate the team’s velocity and track sprint progress. dis was tan utilized for planning of the upcoming sprints.
• Facilitation of Scrum of Scrums(S2)
• Working closely with other Scrum Masters on Agile Train to analyze if their is impact on delivery and commitment by teams
• Facilitation of scrum ceremonies - Daily Standup, Refinements, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective
• Participation in different “Agile Awareness” activity and help CoE - Agile Champions to conduct different events for dis
• Managing different issues, risks and impediments for the team and at program level
• Work with Program leadership to make PI planning successful and at the same time help team from over commitments and work
• Learning about DevOps tools and working with DevOps team for ATDD, automations and release on demand progress

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating Program Increment Readiness via fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs.
• Tracked the PI tickets and made sure p1 tickets are completed in 8 hours of assisments
• Assist with execution and Feature/Capability completion tracking
• •Managing two different teams
• Scrum Team - Feature team Kanban Team - Operations team - ScrumBan
• Facilitate scrum Ceremonies -Daily standup, Refinement, Demo and retrospectives.
• Escalate and track impediments
• Manage and track program-level execution and Program Increments (PI) feature delivery, escalate impediments and risks.
• Successfully implemented strong application security throughout the development process.
• Evaluated applications security in daily scrum.
• Drives program-level continual improvement and consistency across Agile.
• Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
• Worked on continuous improvement and continuous deployment via improvement backlog, presentations and discussions across teams.
• Encourage the collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering
• Leads lessons learned meetings to improve the release planning process and facilitate process improvement and establishes/defines standards and procedures for release statistics reporting and documentation.
• Meets with other IT and Business programs to align release schedules and timeline to minimize outages and/or production risks to ensure successful implementation of all release components to meet the company commitments.

Confidential, Ipswich, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Product Owner in hiring and deploying resources. Assisted Product Owner in identifying the dependencies, some of them are organizational Impediments.
• Successfully guided multiple development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile process
• Encouraged and implemented process improvements techniques and ensure dat their was room for change. Introduced a checklist during story time to ask the right questions while reviewing each story.
• Adopted ATDD practice of creating acceptance test cases before development to ensure product quality.
• Reported defect status to business users and serious management by using Tableau 9.1 and JIRA.
• Prepared and delivered reports to financial team and market managers using Excel Pivot Tables and vlookup functions.
• Used JIRA tool for Sprint planning, Sprint backlog management, Sprint Task list management, task allocations and report generation. Generated reports to track team velocity, issue tracking, teamwork load tracking and response time tracking.
• Worked collaboratively with development teams, lead architect and the business to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation, including both brand products and supporting systems
• Mentor teams on the principals and practices of Scrum methodology through step-by-step assistance toendorse a learning focused approach to change
• Co-ordinated project management activities across organizations with release managers to help ensure a successfulrelease
• Manage project budget including acquiring estimates, monitoring actuals, developing forecasts, and communicating to leadership using PPM Optics.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed User Stories and helped Product Owner in structuring Product Backlog. Coordinated with business users to understand their priorities and assisted Product Owner to employ Kano model.
• Worked closely with Product Owner and SME’s to structure Resource Management Plan. Deployed resources as per plan and as project requires. Analyzed system requirement and created a Risk Management plan capturing high level risk, Risk Scores, Mitigation plans, Control Plans and Business Continuity Plan.
• Instructed and modeled core agile principals of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. Ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the team.
• Worked in secured scrum which allows the integration of security practices dat contribute to secure application development.
• Part of the team responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of the business solution.
• Conceptual noledge of the agile technical practices, such as TDD / BDD, Refactoring, CI, DevOps, and hands-on experience in few of them
• Analyzed business requirement document to acquire noledge on the functional requirements.
• Wrote numerous user stories and supported the development teams in apprehending them.
• Elicited requirements by employing information-gathering techniques (e.g. Interviews, surveys, business process analysis, prototyping, observation of existing process, etc.).
• Assisted in the Data mapping and Data modeling for conversions and resolved data type inconsistency.
• Defined the business process re-engineering (BPR) roadmap to formulate the “To-be” process.
• Served as liaison between the scrum team, architect and key stakeholders, earning their confidence with reliable follow-through.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird business requirements by conducting detailed interviews, scenarios and JAD sessions with business users, stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Created detailed System Requirement Specifications (SRS) documenting the Functional, Data, GUI, Interface and Reporting requirements.
• Assisted the product owner in the onboarding of resources and also in the prioritization and grooming of the product backlog.
• Worked closely with the Agile coach and Scrum Master to implement best industry practices on Agile Scrum for the scrum development team.
• Supported the agile coach in implementing different agile games to ensure team adaption to the agile environment.
• Performed data mapping and documented the data requirements between the source and destination databases. Helped create Test Plans, Test Cases and User Acceptance Summary Reports.
• Created a Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed (RACI) matrix to ensure dat process flow is as planned and constructed the Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM) to ensure requirements are met.