SUMMARY

• Business Analyst/Scrum Master with over all 8+ years of experience in the Finance and Banking domains.
• Expert knowledge of Asset management, Risk management, Retail banking and Investment banking.
• Extensive understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall, Agile Scrum and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Understanding of different kinds of testing like Back - End Testing, Positive/Negative Testing, Configuration Testing, Data Driven Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Smoke testing and Regression Testing.
• Excellentanalytical, problem solving, People and interpersonal skills, detail oriented and self-motivated team player with multitasking abilities, has an ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Expertise in trackingTeam VelocityusingSprint Burndown Chart,Product Burndown Chart, Work Breakdown Structure, Milestones ListandGantt chart.
• Expertise in conducting various scrum ceremonies such asSprint planning meeting, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospective meeting, Daily Stand-up Meeting, Release planning meeting.
• Expert at driving the adoption andenforcement of scrum rules, removing impediments,and fostering self-management within the organization.
• PreparedRelease Planning for different quarters of the project consideringFeature-Driven or Date-Driven Release Planningand to giveexpectation chartsto stakeholders infixed date or fixed scope delivery of product.
• Experience inUsingEstimation techniques, Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing, Bucket system, DOT voting and Relative mass evaluation.
• ConductedSprint Review Meetingsto validate thePSPImeets theAcceptance CriteriaandDefinition of Doneas predetermined by users in the about respective requirements(User stories).
• Used differentRetrospective TechniqueslikeSilent Writing, Mad Sad Glad,andSafety ChecktoinspecttheSprint procedureand adapt to the procedure that would increase the productivity of the teams.
• Extensive Knowledge in Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Investment Banking, Mortgage, Financial Statement Analysis, Equity, Fixed Income, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, M&A, IPO etc.
• Expertise in transitioning organizations from traditional Waterfall to Agile using the SAFe framework.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects through complete life cycle from requirements to implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Mock-Up Screens, Rational Rose

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Waterfall Scrum Hybrid, Scrum, Agile-Scrum, Agile

Business Skills: Process Modeling, Change Management, GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis, SWOT Analysis, JAD Session, Project Scheduling, Project Budgeting

Requirement Management: JIRA, Rally, HP ALM, MS Office, Confluence, ClearQuest

Reporting/BI Tools: Tableau

Methodology Tools: JIRA, HP ALM, RALLY

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MS Access

Languages: XML, SQL

Operating Systems: Windows XP/10, Linux, Mac OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the Release Train Engineer, Product Owner and the development team for the Program Increment planning spanning 5 sprints.
• Engaged the impacted teams and secured commitment from them for technical support during the upcoming sprints.
• Served as the single point of contact for the team during SOX SDLC Audits for NextGen Agile Scrum process compliance.
• Worked with the Product Owner and Release Train Engineer to schedule the System Demo with all the team members of the Agile Release Train including the business stakeholders.
• Worked with the DevOps and the Scrum team to migrate the applications to a more robust CI-CD pipeline for reduced Time to Market durations.
• Worked with the QA team members to have an automated test suite built for automated regression testing to ensure significant reduction of production defect injection rates.
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Stood up two new agile teams comprising 9 resources each from scratch and ensured compliance with the agile framework.
• Served as an informal Scrum Coach to 6 scrum teams providing guidance in the company’s agile transformation.
• Conducted the migration of program data from one JIRA instance to a shared instance hosted in the JPMC Gaia cloud environment in support of program level reporting utilizing input from the business as well as both the onsite/offshore scrum teams.
• Served as a consultant in the program dashboard creation used in monitoring the program as well as release and sprint burn-down.
• Conducted training sessions for the onsite and offshore team members on Agile Scrum methodology and Jira usage.
• Reported sprint and release status and metrics with the client leadership team.
• Collaborated with Product Owners and Scrum Masters from other scrum teams to plan the portfolio roadmap and plan the product releases.
• Coordinated the product showcase with all the stakeholders including the 6 teams from onsite and offshore.
• Responsible for the interviewing, hiring and onboarding of PEGA resources for the client projects.

Confidential, Riverwood, Illinois

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the transition of the One Walgreens application maintenance project to the Agile Scrum framework.
• Collaborated with the RxMS Integration team through Elaboration sessions and Scrum of Scrums to ensure alignment of releases and completed epics.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Product Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Retrospectives, Daily scrums, Sprint reviews).
• Served as a liaison between the Boeing plant engineers and the IT team and resolved numerous project issues including deep budget cuts, loss of experienced SMEs, scope creep and competition between IT driven and business driven requirements.
• Managed the subsequent transition of the three managed projects to a Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) comprising 9 other related projects for collaborative and efficient project delivery, knowledge management and status reporting.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Product Backlog refinement, Sprint reviews, Sprint planning, Retrospectives, Daily Scrums).
• Conducted training sessions for Boeing employees on Agile Scrum methodology and VersionOne usage.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conducted training sessions for the onsite and offshore team members on Agile Scrum methodology and Jira usage.
• Collaborated with Product Owners and Scrum Masters from other scrum teams to plan the portfolio roadmap and plan the product releases.
• Managed the migration of the SPEED and DCMS projects from the erstwhile Waterfall methodology to the Agile Scrum framework.
• Managed the planning, tracking, and reporting of team velocity, release process, guardrail compliance, defects analysis and product backlog health.
• Appropriately engaged external Scrum Teams to ensure all dependencies were met in time for sprint commencement.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Product Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Retrospectives, Daily Scrums, Sprint reviews).
• Managed the planning, tracking and reporting of team velocity, release process, guardrail compliance, defects analysis and product backlog health.
• Managed the monthly and quarterly financial forecasts for the entire AMEX portfolio.
• Followed the UML based methods using Microsoft Visio to create: Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams.
• Expertise in Unified Modeling Language (UML) such as use cases, activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, class diagrams and wireframes. Other diagrams include data flow, context, business process maps, and Entity-Relationship diagrams.
• Experience in leading cross functional teams across the globe in different time zones.
• Imbibed the three pillars of scrum - Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation which uphold every implementation of empirical process control.
• Provided suggestions to User Interface Leads on converting the use cases into Wire frames.