SUMMARY

• A certified Scrum Master for over 4 yrs. with overall 8.5 years of IT experience.
• Directed 4 projects transition from waterfall to agile using effective change management, providing basic agile training for implementing agile manifesto aligning with organization’s need, effective communication/feedback mechanism across teams.
• Results - driven accomplished leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching teams.
• Excellent at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules and best practices, removing impediments, and helping teams stay focused on the project’s goals delivering maximum value to the customer.
• Developed and led training seminars on how to change from waterfall to agile methodologies for an ongoing project.
• Led digital marketing product strategy and go to market strategy and implementation plan for B2B product.
• Experience in release/milestone management using Agile (Scrum, Kanban)/waterfall methodology, interpreting user needs and writing Business and Functional Requirement using UX design, UAT, Use Case Diagrams and Flow Charts.
• Administered JIRA/Rally/Version One tool and customized according to need while starting a project from the scratch.
• Performed Issue & Risk Management using agile tools.
• Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.
• Managed cross-functional products (banking, ecommerce/Retail, Technology, healthcare) in different scale.
• Collaborated with product owner and marketing teams to understand industry trend, customer needs and developed strategy for building common product/service to save overhead cost.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile Management tools: JIRA, Rally, TFS and Version One

Software Testing: Manual testing, Mobile Testing, Automation, API

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, iOS, Android

Test management tools: Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)

Tools: & Plug-ins MS Office, Browser Stack, Firebug, JMeter, Soup UI

Database & Tools: SQL Server Management Studio, Natezza Aginity, SQL Server

Languages: Java (Eclipse), HTML, XML, VBScript, SSH, UNIX/LINUX commands

Automation Tools: Selenium Webdriver, TestNG and Selenium Grid, UFT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago IL

Sr. SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the scrum team(s) to encourage adoption of good agile practices.
• Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Removed impediments for the development team(s) and escalated as appropriate.
• Worked cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution.
• Getting the work done, meet the sprint goals, release goals and deliver quality codes to Business.
• Represented scrum team at Scrum of Scrum meetings to resolve the dependencies between teams.
• Initiated a bi-weekly 3-Amigos session to make sure that the QA, developers and Product Owners from all teams are in acceptance with the test cases and the end points of testing.
• Facilitated Scrum events such as backlog creation/refinement, prioritization, daily stand up meetings, estimation, Sprint Reviews/Demo and Retrospectives.
• Participated and Lead scrum adoption practices across the organization and related Community of Practices.
• Capacity planned using tools like Jira and Excel.

Confidential, Naperville IL

Sr. SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple scrum teams in a distributed agile scenario.
• Ensured that program goal, scrum goal and project goals are clear to the team.
• Monitor the team performance by using Burn down, velocity and other agile metrics.
• Worked on project from initial stage of sprint 0 to setup the team norms, objectives, Epic, Release planning and story tagging to different sprint.
• Responsible for ensuring the team follow the agile processes and coach the team for best practices around Scrum.
• Helped Organization to transform from Water fall to agile by incorporating right coaching & bringing Scrum mindset.
• Coaching and mentoring the new scrum master(s).
• Worked closely with PO to ensure that team has healthy backlog and roadmap is clear in terms of upcoming release.
• Conducted Release planning at start of the project and then on quarterly basis to ensure clear roadmap for upcoming releases.
• Conducted Retrospective in an Innovative way to get best out of team members in terms of improvement.
• Conducted team building activities and acknowledged the star performer on timely basis.
• Responsible for providing project status, accomplishments, forecast and impediment in S2 meetings.
• Responsible for delivering maximum value to the customer by closely tracking the project deliveries and suggest innovation way to do things better.

Confidential, Chicago IL

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (i.e., daily stand ups, bi-weekly backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives).
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Build healthy partnerships with two Product Owners, calendaring grooming sessions consistently to ensure backlog is healthy (stories meets the team's definition of ready and acceptance criteria meets definition of done).
• Increased team velocity while decreasing production bugs on both teams.
• Facilitate creation and maintenance of two backlogs with 3 Sprints worth of stories.
• Held the highest Client rated project for multiple Sprints.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Thorough working experience of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• Customizing the product, create mapping document, coordination for integration testing and follow up.
• Experience identifying projects risks, constraints and dependencies, root cause analysis, impact analysis and managing improvement initiatives from inception to completion.
• Managed end user needs at all phases of systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.
• Developed User Stories for a new rollout and for some of the minor enhancements.
• Analyzed the business and user needs, documenting requirements and revising existing system logic difficulties.
• Partnered with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit business requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, client relations, presentation and negotiations with creative
• Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with all levels of User Groups.

Confidential, Chicago IL

UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked on creating test cases to validate the inputs to SCV system.
• After Test Cases approval, proceed to perform pre-execution check andtest data preparation for testing.
• Analyzed requirements necessary to design complex testing strategies (testing objective, methods of testing new functions, total time and resources required for the project, and the testing environment) for internal/external clients (i.e. technical and functional designs).
• Verified data transformation from source to destination works as expected both in UI as well as respective tables in the database.
• Maintained the accuracy of the data in the SCV system.
• Recorded the bugs and track it closure using HP-ALM.
• Compiled document for test/defect reports and follow all defects through to resolution and closure.
• Occasionally reviewed test cases documentation to ensure that the documentation is updated and accurate

Confidential, Addison IL

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed compliance testing and cross-platform verification analysis (web vs desktop application vs mobile apps, and iOS vs Android).
• Established a performance test strategy, Testing Scope, The Load Policy, SLA’s and SLO’s.
• Performed Integration testing for Hybris systems.
• Tested the application for Agile SDLC life-cycle.
• Coordinate defect resolution with the development team.
• Analyzed test data and migrate business rules driven test data population for test environments.
• Assisted in generating/maintaining Post Deployment Scripts and UAT scripts.
• Interact with DBAs, developers and systems administrators to ensure smooth functioning/maintenance of the business intelligence systems test environments.
• Create Weekly progress status reports and reports for BI DATA collections.
• Review of Log files for application reported errors.