SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in Finance, Banking and E - commerce (Merchandizing and Pricing) domains on various areas like Wealth Management, Online Trading, Portfolio Management, Fixed Income, Financial Market, Bond Pricing, Order Management System, Pricing, Vendor Management System and enterprise promo platforms.
• Certified Scrum Masterwif extensive experiencein AgileMethodology, Scrum processes, Sprint Planning, Story based Developmentand Scaled Agile Environment.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, People and interpersonal skills, detail oriented and self-motivated team player wif multitasking abilities, TEMPhas an ability to work independently wif minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in SDLC life cycle, understanding teh workflow concept and ability to gather documents.
• Extensive knowledge of different phases of various Software Development Life Cycles (SDLCs), namely, Waterfall, Spiral, and Agile Methodologies - Extreme Programming (XP), SCRUM, KANBAN and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE 4.0) along wif Hybrid models such as Waterfall-Scrum.
• Assisted/guiding one or more IT teams in practicing teh values of Agile/ Scrum and SAFe (scaled agile framework) to delight stakeholders. Responsible for increasing transparency and create open communication, to increase teh collaboration between teh stakeholders for teh better flow of project while conducting sprint retrospectives.
• Removing impediments and guiding teh teams to remove impediments to increase teh quality of product and achieve teh project success by increasing customer satisfaction while authenticating process in Place.
• Couched and mentored IT teams in following best Agile Engineering Practices to approach teh iteration deadlines successfully wifout any technical debts or spillovers. Forecasted teh number of deliverables possible from teh teams by updating teh availability of resources while planning for teh releases.
• Responsible for Creating safe and transparent environment where problems can be raised wifout fear and blame or power struggles wif emphasis on problem solving. Motivated teams to optimize teh potentials to drive through teh success wif situational awareness to resolve conflicts by empowering transparency.
• Assisted teams estimate work in story points or any other metrics to predict teh work effort, complexity, time and risk involved in teh sprint. Extensive knowledge on creating project boards both Scrum and Kanban on Jira enterprise, have also designed wif swim lanes based on teh workflows familiar to teh respective IT teams.
• Hands-on experience using Atlassian Jira enterprise for creating sprints and dashboards also flagging blockers.
• Excellent experience working in Atlassian Confluence space for new teams and creating team calendars.
• Experience working wif versatile teams both matured and newly forming teams.
• Assisted project manager and product owner to track and improve efficiency and Team Velocity using Sprint Burn-Down Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart, Work Breakdown Structure, Milestones List and Gantt chart.
• Extremely skilled as Scrum Master in facilitating scrum events (Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) to improve team’s performance and handling team dynamics.
• Experienced in writing User stories and handling teh Requirement Churn. Efficient in performing, prioritizing techniques, Moscow, KANO, Technical Risk and Business Value Based.
• Used Horizontal and vertical Slicing techniques to split teh vague requirements to satisfy (INVEST) Criteria.
• Experience in Using Estimation techniques, Planning Poker for stories and T-shirt sizing for Epics.
• Prepared Release Planning for different quarters of teh project considering Feature-Driven and Date-Driven Release Planning and to give expectation charts to stakeholders in fixed date or fixed scope delivery of product.
• Performed SWOT analysis to analyze teh strengths and weaknesses of teh organizations. Opportunities and threats from teh industry and applied business strategies in GAP analysis to fill up teh identified GAPs.
• Used different Elicitation Techniques to gather requirements, Brainstorming, Interviews and JAD sessions.
• Documented business requirements, functional and non-functional requirements. Created Test Cases and maintaining teh Requirement Traceability Matrix to analyze teh priority and status of teh requirements.
• Expert in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, System Analysis and System Architecture.
• Documented and validated teh Business Process Flow and Data flow for proposed projects.
• Performed Velocity-Driven and Capacity-Driven sprint planning meetings for teh scrum development team and assisted in estimating teh user stories to track teh historical and empirical velocity of teh team.
• Conducted Sprint Review Meetings to validate teh PSPI meets teh Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done as predetermined by users in teh about respective requirements (User stories).
• Used different Retrospective Techniques according teh teams Silent Writing, Mad Sad Glad, Sail Boat and Safety Check to inspect teh Sprint procedure and adapt to teh procedure that would increase teh productivity of teh teams.
• Reviewed and validated manual and automated test scripts and performed Automation testing and Functional testing.
• Have facilitated user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate teh product meets teh expectation as predetermined by users.
• Created, designed and development Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and OOD in unified modelling language and created use case scenario, use case narrative for respective functional requirements.
• Created Data Modelling wif architects to assist in creating Logical and Physical data models using MS Visio.
• Extensively involved in Data Migration and Integration projects have assisted in ETL processes. Conducted theProof of Concept to confirm teh system design and acted asliaisonbetween business and technical teams.
• Performed feasibility analysis and adaptability study to identify business-critical areas from User perspective.
• Transformed business requirements into user story format and created acceptance criteria for respective user stories.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing discovered errors and fixed them by verifying in Regression Testing.
• Assisted product owner in backlog refinement and Prioritized Requirements according to teh Business Value and other prioritization techniques. Acted as Proxy to product owner as required in planning meetings.
• Extensively worked in agile environment conducted story writing session and written user stores in (INVEST) criteria.
• Profound knowledge in scrum, have worked in managing Product Backlog and converted requirements to user stories.
• Gatheird Regulatory Requirements from compliance and governance teams to update teh versioned policies and regulations for teh projects as SEC, Dodd-Frank, BASEL II, DOL fiduciary, MIFID II, IFRS and US GAAP.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries using joins, unions, outer joins, group by and aggregate functions to extract data from different databases (Oracle, SQL Server) for timely reporting and Validation.
• Extensively used SQL queries for business analytics and analysis of business data using data manipulation language.
• Created Data Mapping Documents to transfer data from legacy to target system to reduce data errors and duplication.
• Proficient in developing and executing Test Procedures, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Plans performing Functional Testing and Behavioral Testing and ensuring that teh software compliance wif teh system requirements.
• Facilitated Change Management across entire process from project conceptualization through project delivery, Software Development in diverse business & technical environments.
• Designed and produced API implementation documentation for system integration. Managed in finding on business objects in product research and offering technology-based solutions to teh IT development team.
• Interacted wif teh QA team and involved in End to End testing of teh interfaces wif various scenarios to make sure that teh Interface Integration is complete and accurate for different kind of data and protocols.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Finance Domain: MIFID II (Market in Financial Instrument Directive), DOL-fiduciary, Solvency II, EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation), Know You're Customer (KYC), Basel II, US GAAP, IFRS, Dodd-Frank, SEC. Wealth Management, Portfolio Management, Trade Life Cycle, consolidation reporting, Automation Clearing House (ACH), Capital Markets, Merchandise Banking.

Programming Languages: SQL, Java

Web Application Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML

Design Tools: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft project

Project Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), Waterfall hybrid.

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Map force

Requirement management tools: Jira, HPALM, IBM Cognos, version one and Confluence

Testing tools: Cucumber, HPQC

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Hadoop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted teams in following best agile practices and identified process gaps to ease teh flow of delivery.
• Have tracked historical and empirical performance of teh teams and presented metrics to leadership to understand teh predictability of teh teams and plan teh releases accordingly for teh Quarter.
• Assisted Release train engineers in standardizing agile practices through teh Agile Release Train and have identified Gaps in teh process followed in Agile Release Train in PI Planning and Scrum of Scrum events.
• Assisted Product teams in Release planning to consider teams availability for teh quarter and Black Calendar to consider in holiday season which effects teh releases according to teh organizational standards.
• Assisted Product teams/ Product owners in Pre and Post PI planning events to plan requirements according to team’s availability for teh quarter to plan releases according to teh most accurate information.
• Helped Product and Engineering teams get aligned wif Quarterly targets and get familiar wif requirements prior to PI Planning events. Monitored teh plan through teh quarter to successfully meet Committed targets.
• Closely worked wif Product Owners and System Engineers in PI planning to request efforts from depended teams and communicated teh accurate deadlines accordingly and have collected other teams Requests.
• Have conducted weekly status meetings wif all teh dependent teams Scrum Master’s to track teh progress of teh dependent work and worked through teh blockers which effects teh deadline for Releases.
• Trained multiple teams in Scaled Agile Framework 4.0 and introduced Elaboration Sessions to teh process.
• Managed Three teams simultaneously in teh quarter while had scarcity of scrum masters in teh ART.
• Created Scrum and Kanban Project Boards on Jira for Scrum teams and Production support teams. Made optimal use of Jira in tracking depended teams work and linked issues to teh respective tickets.
• Monitored Sprint progress and delegated work to team members according to teh bandwidth in teh sprint. Have motivated team by challenging not to have carry overs, it is bad sign of predictability of a team.
• Introduced sprint cadence to teh team and halped to follow discipline in teh cadence, to be consistent.
• Created Velocity charts in end of teh quarter to motivate teams by their performance and have also created Delivered VS Carried Charts to counter teh reasons for carry overs and for teh visibility to management.
• Conducted sprint and quarterly retrospectives wif teh teams and assigned action items to respective owners.
• Well versed wif facilitating all teh scrum ceremonies Sprint Planning, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Refinement, Daily Standups, Scrum of Scrums and required weekly status meetings.
• Got Engineering and product team together in teh epic level requirement meetings and halped PO consider engineering teams inputs while elaborating epics into stories on future-quarter requirements.
• Worked wif Product owners while prioritizing teh stories for teh sprint prior to Refinement sessions and align teh prioritization according to teh Drafted plan and was flagging Ad-hoc requirements that appeared during teh quarter.
• Worked wif On-site, Off-shore and Near-shore teams and drafted number of attendees from respective teams to Prior to PI planning to release train engineers to arrange accordingly.
• Responsible to protect team from external influence on development and testing requests to halp team focus on sprint deliverables. Encouraged teams to make use of Jira and track teh status according to sub-tasks done.
• Responsible to create and Manage Fix-versions on Jira in PI planning and associate stories to them working wif Product owner. Tracked release status pulling up teh fix-version Dashboard close to release.
• Introduced standardization of Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to stories and made sure stories fulfill (INVEST criteria) drafted Jira workflow definitions and set teh expectations for each flow and its owners.
• Used anonymous Retrospective feedback collecting link to not encourage power struggles in teh teams.
• Extensive knowledge on Order Management systems and integration methodologies and Purchase Order Cycle.

Environment: SAFE 4.0 Environment, Certified SAFE 4.0 Practitioner, Agile Methodology, Cloud (Azure), Closure, Selenium, JIRA Enterprise, Confluence, SharePoint, OneDrive, MS Office, JAVA, MS Visio.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Well versed in Scrum Ceremonies from PI planning meeting, Scrum of Scrums, Product Backlog refinement meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint Review meeting and Sprint Retrospective.
• Decomposed teh scope from teh BRD into user stories by conducting a story writing session wif teh Product owner and then teh acceptance criteria for teh PSPI (Potentially Shippable Product Increment).
• Assisted teh Product Owner to Prioritize teh Product Backlog items for developing Sprint tasks by taking suggestions from teh cross-functional development team and estimated them to track teh velocity of teh team.
• Well-versed in Scaled Agile framework (SAFe 4.0) and coached teams on Scrum principles.
• Anticipated and removed Organizational Impediment and Team Impediment from project team’s path and pushed them to deliver quality results based on schedule.
• Worked on Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Ready and Definition of Done for different projects to determine teh quality of teh product wif respective requirements as users defined and assigned owners to teh requirements on JIRA.
• Handled 3 teams and coordinated wif teh value stream and program level to ensure smooth functioning.
• Built relationship wif Product Owner and Release Train Engineer to facilitate team’s interaction wif them.
• Created Business Process Workflow diagram BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) tool to shorten cycle time and make sure business and technical teams understand teh process together.
• Headed GAP Analysis by understanding teh AS-IS business process and TO-BE business process.
• Used JIRA extensively for User Stories, Tasks and Issue tracking and generated charts like burndown charts.
• Created velocity-driven sprint planning meeting for teh development and assisted in estimating teh sprint backlog items and maintained empirical and historical velocity of teh different teams.
• Conducted daily stand up meetings for teh different teams to track teh progress of teh sprint and making team members accountable for their own job have maintained Burndown and Burnup charts using JIRA.
• Conducted Sprint Review Meetings at teh end of every Sprint to review and inspect teh PSPI as per teh Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria predetermined by stakeholders and product owner.
• Conducted Sprint Retrospective Meetings to inspect teh recent sprint and follow and adapt teh best practices.
• Used different Retrospective Techniques (Silent writing, Happiness Histogram and safety check) in inspecting teh practices of teh different teams and increase teh collaboration between team members.
• Created Mock-up Screens and Wireframes using UI Components such as Radio Buttons, Drop-down, Check boxes.
• Worked wifTableauto createdashboards, identify theKey Performance Indicators to analyze their data.
• Involved in data profiling of existing sources to check teh data integrity using Informatica Quality Center wif CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) these are related to Http operation by SQL queries.
• Made sure teh industry regulations are considered in teh development process of teh system SEC and Dodd-Frank.
• Various compliances used in teh systems are MIFID II (Market in Financial Instrument Directive), DOL-fiduciary, Solvency II, EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation), Know You're Customer (KYC), Basel II.

Environment: SAFe environment, Agile methodology, Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, MS office suite, MS SQL server, Java, JSP, JavaScript, SoapUI, MS Visio, Jira, Tableau, Informatica power center.

Confidential, Brookfield, Wisconsin

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif teh Product Owner during teh Sprint Review Meeting for teh Potential Shippable Product Increment (PSPI) and halp decide which feature are DONE and satisfied using teh Acceptance Criteria.
• Lead a story writing session wif an aim of decomposing teh scope into epics and user stories using INVEST criteria. Also, worked on teh acceptance criteria and Definition of Done for teh developed user stories.
• Conducted sprint planning meeting and led teh Planning Poker game to estimate them in Sprint Planning and Backlog Grooming meetings. Also, halped PO to prioritize user stories based on business value.
• Facilitated sprint planning meeting by using velocity driven planning and assisted team in avoiding technical debt and increase teh quality of teh product. Involved in Issue Tracking and Defect Tracking using JIRA tool.
• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies. Helped negotiating commitments and assured parallel understanding of requirements and deliverables amongst all stakeholders in Sprint Planning Meetings.
• Assisted product owner in Prioritizing teh Product Backlog Items into Sprint Backlog Items, assisted development team to commit to teh User stories according to their velocity wifout damaging teh quality of teh product.
• Conducted Sprint Review Meeting wif Product owner and stakeholders to ensure teh PSPI meets their satisfaction and satisfies Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done as predetermined.
• Constantly worked on eliminating all types of Impediments to protect teh team’s interest on teh productivity of sprint.
• Used different Retrospective Techniques in teh process of inspecting teh processes followed in teh sprint.
• Executed teh test scripts that were written for unit testing, functional testing, stress/load testing, compatibility testing in three different environments and logged and tracked teh defects that were identified.
• Facilitated DA in Creating Staging Area, Source, Target Databases for ETL and data mapping using Informatica
• Developed a Data Governance Strategy and created Data-mapping template to map elements/files wif tables.
• Helped in designing Data models and conducted normalization and de-normalization of data to fit OLTP and OLAP frameworks, slicing and dicing of data marts for analytical decision-making support.
• Responsible for creation of Business Analyses for changes and projects on teh Trading, Transaction processing and Data management processes and systems. Participated in ensuring compliance, operational risk controls in accordance wif Global Brokers or Regulatory standards and policies; and optimize relations wif internal control and external regulators by addressing any issues.
• Created regulatory reporting every quarter in teh project on SEC, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, OCC, BASEL II, BASEL III.

Environment: Agile methodology, Hadoop, SQL Server, Java, J2EE, JSP, HDFS, HBase, JIRA, Cucumber, Tableau, Informatica.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitatingdaily scrum meetings, enforcing timeboxesand responding to teh impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meetings.
• Making sure complacency doesn't set in team, at same timeavoiding overcommittingto stakeholders.
• Supported teh cause for continuous design andrefactoringto minimize code duplicity, complex logic, poor named identifiers. Ensured Product Backlog Items are of manageable size, preparing Product ReleaseBurndown charts.
• Provided visibility to teamon Impediments/risksand halped in eliminating them.
• Assisted team inself-managementby creating artifacts like task board, sprint Burndown chart, impediments list.
• FacilitatingMid Sprint checkupto review teh acceptance criteria of committed Product backlog items.
• Used Capacity-Driven sprint planning meeting. Conducted boot camp for teh team to give more insights on Agile Practices and constantly assisted in following scrum and assisted development team in estimating teh user stories.
• Encouraging team to adopt Pair Programming, peer review, Swarming, Test driven development, Acceptance test driven development and best sprint practices are followed to increase collaboration in teh team.
• Extensively used HPALM for requirement management creating project, Epics, User stories, Acceptance Criteria, test cases and created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and wifin t Triple Constrain of teh project.
• Representing teh team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.
• Tracking milestones and Publishing team's progressand successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders. Managed offshore teams across different geographies.
• Helped teams learn agile methodology and unlearn teh old way of working by facilitating games and workshops.
• Resolvinginternalteamconflictsand Keeping teh team motivated to ensure successful sprints.
• Trainednew team members in Agile principles, scrum processes and halping them transition from waterfall methodology to agile practice by conducting boot camps for teh new teams.
• Progressed from problem statements to well-documented design, created Mockup screens for Business and end users to review teh requirements. Created UML diagramssuch as Use cases, Use case diagrams, Class, Activity and Sequence diagrams to present a better view of teh system using MS Visio.
• Entered various requirements using and used HPQC for functional testing based on teh requirements gatheird on pricing securities.

Environment: Hybrid Methodology, MS Excel, MS word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, SharePoint, HPQC, HPALM, My SQL.

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS IS analysis of teh legacy systems and presented GAP analysis documents and high-level Software Requirements Document (SRD) and Solutions Design Document (SDD) for teh implementation of Oracle GL.
• Elicited requirements using different elicitation techniques such as Interviews, Brainstorming and JAD sessions, and documented as Business Requirement Document (BRD). Analyzed Business Requirements and transformed them to Functional and System Requirements and documented them for teh development teams for further development processes. Transformed business requirements to functional and system specification documents using MS word.
• Facilitated as catalyst between business and technical teams. Involved in compliance of regulation by addressing teh issues related to efficiency of reporting. Worked closely wif clients to understand and meet their needs by incorporating new functionality and features into teh systems as Change Requests are made.
• Created Activity, Sequence and Use Cases wif use case scenarios and use case narratives.
• Created Test Cases for teh requirements and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) for functional and non-functional requirements to check teh progress on teh requirements. Involved in writing test cases and performed functional testing of teh system using HPQC.
• Gatheird BI requirements using IBM Cognos and implemented BI based Dashboard reports on transactional data and assisted teh lead BI in aligning teh source and target data in respective formats. validated teh Currency conversion consolidated SOB to local SOB, COA and other Segments rollups for reporting.
• Created Data Mapping for Master and Transactional data to consolidated data using Informatica.
• Validated systems requirements and wif regulatory requirements for generating reports according US GAAP and IFRS.

Environment: Waterfall, Oracle Financials 11.5.8, MS Excel, Oracle Applications, Fixed Assets, IBM Cognos, MS Visio, HPAML, HPQC, Informatica.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Kick-Off meetings to get a better understanding of teh project scope and project requirements.
• Interviewed business users (traders) and various customer groups to gather business requirements, wants/ needs concerning teh project and documented teh requirements.
• Analyzed functional, non-functional requirement and technical requirements and prepared deliverables including Software Requirement Specifications, User Interface Specifications, data mapping screen mock-ups.
• Functional requirements of teh updated system and mapped them to individual test case requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrix to track teh status of respective requirements.
• Developed detailed Use cases and User Interface specifications for teh features implemented, prepared Activity Diagrams using MS Visio by identifying actors in teh actors.
• Exposure to real-timeFinancial/tradingapplication on Investment Management Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Equity, Fixed Income, Corporate Actions etc. Generated reportsfor analyzing various investments and their profitability and for analyzing various lost opportunities due to time delay in investing.
• Involved in teh User Acceptance Test, assisting teh users in executing test scripts and validating conditions.

Environment: Waterfall, MS EXCEL, MS Visio, My SQL, MS Power Point, Tableau.

Confidential

Junior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business requirements through open ended discussions, brainstorming, JAD session and group interviews.
• Reviewed and assessed information gatheird, defined key facts and issues, identified potential problems and facilitated problem resolution. Analyzed research on operational procedures and methods and recommended changes for improvement by performing GAP Analysis.
• Assisted in creating FSD (Functional Specification Document) and BRD (Business Requirements Definition) documents using version one. Analyzed teh requirements and created Test Cases for teh respective requirements.
• Organized many Joint Application Developments (JAD) sessions and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), walkthrough, Interviews, Workshops sessions wif end-user/clients/stake holders and teh IT group.
• Conducted Business Reviews, User Interviews, weekly/ Monthly meetings wif Business Users, SME’s.
• Created UML diagrams Use Cases, Activity and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio. Created Mock Up screens and Wire Frames to visualize teh application Prototypes using MS Visio and Mock up screens.com.
• Acted as an Interface between stakeholders and different teams involved in teh application development for better understanding Business and IT processes. Handled Change Requests and assisted in impact analysis on teh system.
• Facilitate UAT and follow up to resolve teh issues wif teh stakeholders’ preferences using Silk performer.
• PerformedSQLqueries operations such asDMLandDDLcommands for data extraction and manipulation.

Environment: Waterfall, Oracle, My SQL, Version One, Microsoft Office suite, MS Visio, silk performer 15.5.

Confidential

SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire project life cycle of Business, Database Design, Development, Implementation, Testing and enhancements of teh application.
• Created DDL and DML Scripts for database schema and database objects.Highly involved in query optimization and troubleshooting long running queries. Developed various user defined functions and created different views.
• Created triggers to maintain teh referential integrity.
• Extensively used joins and sub-queries to simplify complex queries involving multiple tables.
• Created indexes on selective columns to speed up queries and analyses in SQL.
• Provided 24/7 support for production database and deployed teh code in production environment.
• Performed code reviews and planned test plans for teh project deliverables.

Environment: Waterfall, My SQL, SQL Workbench, SQL server, eclipse IDE, MS Office suite, XML.