SUMMARY

• Have 7+ yrs of IT Professional
• Completed SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification.
• Experience using Agile Methodology with the SCRUM and SAFe Framework
• Expertise in transitioning organizations from traditional Waterfall to Agile using the SAFe framework.
• Experience in spearheading Agile Games to get a better grip of key Agile principles for the team and customized various formats for retrospective meetings and analyzing the burndown.
• Experience in leading cross functional teams across the globe in different time zones.
• Assisted the progress of Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand - ups, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective.
• Experience in facilitating SAFe ceremonies.
• Experience in working as a servant leader with ART, scrum teams in conflict resolution.
• Empowering the teams by increasing Transparency, Inspection, Adoption, Focus, Courage and Respect.
• Experience in working with Portfolio, Program Management, RTE, Scrum masters, development team on designing and executing daily stand ups.
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums and notified the RTE about roadblocks, correlated dependencies and aligned the project goals.
• Facilitated Team Breakout sessions in the Program Increment planning.
• Manifested SAFe core values in the team and following the Agile manifesto.
• Used Agile best practices like - timeboxing, user stories, daily stand ups, frequent demos, test driven development, retrospective & continuous integration.
• Excellent track record of working directly with the customers and guiding customers to accomplish their vision using agile methodology.
• Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Collaborative in driving decisions. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Experience in conducting interviews and performance evaluations of the resources.
• Developed business requirements, write user stories and root cause analysis.
• Excellent Mentoring skills, People skills, Leadership skills, Communication and Collaboration skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

SAFe Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead teams on the train to committing to PI objectives during PI Planning.
• Coached teams to SAFe Lean agile principles.
• Participate and prepare PO for System demos as well as PI system Demos.
• Provide insight of the team’s progress towards achieving PI objectives during ART syncs.
• Work with other scrum masters and RTE in identifying cross dependencies during Scrum of Scrums.
• Guided teams in fostering innovation with the lean startup cycle.
• Encouraged team members to adapt to the continuous delivery pipeline and adapting feature toggles.
• Worked with RTE to prepare for system demos and PI system demos.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, story sizing, sprint planning, demo, and retrospectives.
• Resolve impediments and protect the team from distractions and changes during sprint execution.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Educated Product owner on keeping the product backlog in ready-ready state.
• Working with product owner to refine and prioritize product backlog, develop release plans, assist breaking of epics to create and add user stories in the backlog.
• Facilitate negotiations between product owner and development teams on priorities, dependencies and during story sizing.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs for timely delivery.
• Support, educate and assist the team on adapting to scrum framework and techniques.
• Monitor sprint progress and progress towards release plan using release burn-down/burn-up charts.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Encourage open, honest and respectful communication within the team, develop a sense of commitment and accountability to each other, and keep the team focused.
• Engage with management to assist in removing organizational and systemic impediments
• Coach the team to self-organize, collaborate, prioritize, self-manage, and to adapt to engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous integration, code reviews, continuous testing, etc.
• Serve and help teams to track and monitor status, enter task and time, dependencies, and blockers.
• Foster productivity, visibility, predictability, team empowerment, continuous improvement, success, and happiness of the team to deliver quality software product and improve business value delivery.
• Foster team morale, sustainable velocity, quality, and incremental value delivered.
• Represent teams in Scrum of Scrums to address dependencies and impediments, to share experience and knowledge.

Environment: SAFe Agile, JIRA, Confluence.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and user stories are ready for sizing.
• Managed the product backlog, burn up/ down charts, velocity and task break down.
• Identified and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Monitored and managed dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues were resolved.
• Proactively collaborated with other scrum masters and agile coaches across the organization.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product that met the product goal (definition of done).
• Promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Worked with the product owner and business analysts to help team understand scope and vision roadmap.
• Managed client expectations in terms of releases and prioritization.
• Tracked, measured, and reviewed project progress.
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
• Utilized Continuous integration/delivery tools such as Git, Jenkins.
• Worked directly with the Program Manager, Delivery Manager, and Product Owner to recommend mitigation strategies to complete all the work within the sprint backlog.

Environment: Scrum Agile, Github, Jenkins, OOPs, SQL, MS Office

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leaded 6 member team.
• Performed Requirement Analysis.
• Identified the early requirement defects and enhanced the requirement Quality.
• Prepared Test Deliverables and tracked until approval.
• Executed both Manual test cases and Automation Test suite
• Reviewed Test scenarios,test cases,scripts.
• Participated in Defect Management Call.
• Prioritized needs and delegated assignments to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Assessed, monitored and reported on work progression.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to draft project schedules and plans.
• Produced status reports for customers and senior management.
• Prepared presentations for customers and staff members detailing project scope, progress and results.
• Coordinated with department leads to identify and outline solutions to client-specified challenges.
• Implemented procedural updates to correct deficiencies and improve operations.
• Monitored and coordinated budget management, venue selection, transportation and entertainment for corporate events.
• Assembled briefs and prepared PowerPoint presentations.

Confidential

Manual Tester/Abinitio /Oracle Support

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Ab Initio projects, including Support, maintenance and testing activities.
• Data Validation through Abinitio graph for data of huge record count between two different data files extracted from oracle and SQL server database.
• Responsible to create Abinitio graph for fixed length input Executed test scripts and logged defects, working with application team to resolve issues arising out of testing process.
• Evaluated problems identified in production and assisted with resolution strategies.
• Responsible to create graph for testing purpose and to provide permanent fix.
• Created and executed test cases for large business initiatives, automating test cases and for regular execution.
• Experience on QC tool on test case, test lab, raise Defects.
• Creation and execution of Test cases in QC.

Confidential

Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for solving the workday issues faced by the development users.
• Export / Import of tables, tablespaces, schemas and full database level as scheduled.
• Regular Maintenance of deleting old core files, cleaning up old trace files.
• Creating primary objects (tables, views, indexes) once application developers have designed an application.
• Managing Users, Roles and Privileges.
• Generating reports by AWR on request from development users.
• Creating, managing and modifying database storage structures like control files, redo log files, archive log files, tablespaces and data files as necessary, from information given by application developers.
• Rebuilding index and making into valid state.
• Monitoring and checking alert logs and user dump files for correcting errors and tuning.
• Identifying locks, detecting the locked and blocked object's session, and releasing the same for usage.