SUMMARY

• Over 11 Years of experience and expertise in the IT industry and hands on Experience as a SCRUM Master for over 5 Yrs.
• Extensive experience with management and individual and global teams
• Scrum Master with experience supporting multiple Distributed Scrum teams, including on - site /off-shore
• Experienced in all functions of product life cycle including Development, DevOps, Test automation
• Work with Product Owners on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint and Release Burn Down.
• Facilitate meeting with product owners, business and cross functional teams
• Assist Product owner in backlog grooming (prioritization & estimation) and establishing acceptance criteria
• Responsible for release/sprint planning, retrospective, daily scrum, resources, schedules, mitigation of risks/issues
• Responsible for training new SMs to follow the agile/scrum
• Work with PM to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects.
• Extensive experience in SDLC processes like - Agile, Waterfall methodology and familiar with SAFe
• Strong experience with product management, development and business users

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ADPART
• Oracle
• SQL
• Agile
• Selenium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Utilized agile methodology (Scrum) to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project of high visibility.
• Administered all Agile/Scrum process and assisted junior staff on same.
• Involved in the organizational transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology and manage the process steps from inception through production deployment.
• Utilized agile methodology (Scrum) to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project of high visibility.
• Implemented Agile process and trained staff to maximize benefits
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (Refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Experience in Maintenance of projects in MS Project Server especially in SharePoint activities like create, close, publish, and modify settings.
• Using project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning
• Reported project status to key stakeholders and executives.
• Ensure DEV Teams are practicing core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Used JIRA for Tracking stories and administer backlog
• Created space and added folders for Agile documentation in Confluence
• Assist Product Teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices.
• Design and present technical reports, requirements documentation, status reports, project schedules, communication plans and presentations accurately and on-schedule.
• Accountable to senior leadership to lead diverse teams while achieving business directives calling out project risks, issues and dependencies.
• Proactively manage project scope, project schedule delivery, risk identification and mitigation, application dependency discovery, logistical support and resource/budgetary control.
• Responsible for converting user requirements into business requirements and functional requirements respectively.

Confidential, Chicago

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead Agile sprints to plan, run, and execute flagship projects for the ORION and eWallet Teams
• Facilitated and documented all SCRUM ceremonies such as Daily Standup meetings, Sprint planning, User Demos, Retrospectives, and Backlog grooming for multiple Scrum teams including on-site/off-teams
• Managed daily standup meeting and organize Rally/user stories.
• Determining sprint velocity working with the team and utilization in future sprint planning activities
• Participate in the release planning meeting, administer metrics tracking and other duties for the team
• Worked closely with data architects/DBA administrators to identify and configure/mask sensitive information.
• Establishing clear roles and responsibilities for each team member in the organization from an agile perspective
• Involved in Release Activities - monitor testing activities during a web site release.
• Provisioned Data with DSS (Data Security Standard) requirements and specifications.
• Responsible for overall delivery of the ORION/ PFA projects collaboration agile portfolio for Confidential executed with improved the quality to meet stakeholders’ expectations.
• Supervise installment of new applications on website and app and testing activities
• Facilitate meeting with product owners, business and cross functional teams
• Assist Product owner in backlog refinement (prioritization & estimation) and establishing acceptance criteria
• Create an environment and guide team(s) to self-organize
• Assist the team in generating key SCRUM (Velocity, Burn up and Risk Burn down) and help them to improve team's productivity / forecast and nurture them opportunity to inspect and adapt.
• Successfully migrated more than 4 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within last few Yrs. using Rally
• Responsible for release planning, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, daily scrum, resource planning, schedules, mitigation of risks and issues
• Responsible for training new SMs to follow the agile/scrum
• Do what it takes to continuously improve team’s velocity, efficiency and productivity
• Worked with the cross - functional to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks, and facilitated scrum team in cross locations
• Tracked the progress of Agile teams using Rally/Agile Central.

Confidential, Chicago.

Sr. Consultant / Test Manager / Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in preparing Test plans and Test strategy
• Worked on DML and DDL on Database
• Collect requirements from TDD, FDD, and BRD
• Using MPP tool to establish our project and involved in hiring/budgeting process
• Understand testing effort by analyzing requirements/ provide all Design documents/training
• Submitted estimates for each project and request additional resources to client
• Build a testing team based on knowledge, attitude, motivation, team player and experience
• Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills)
• Implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing per standards by the organization
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting, create Test Strategy and Test Plan document

Confidential, St. Louis

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Daily stand up meeting with QA Team Lead, BAs, Developers and design Test Plan/Traceability Matrix
• Review Technical Design and Business Process Documents
• Requirements review and provide QA sign off on BRDs
• Assign to respective Developer/Test Cases/Scenarios
• Worked on Health Care plate form such as IDX, compensation system

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate Network/servers information to establish an off-shore testing facility
• Provide training QA team and get clarification from client with any issue
• Manage Telecommunication Projects On-Site/Off shore team
• Assist team to design Businessmodel and get project update
• Daily Update to Client QA Director/BAs with project status

Confidential, Deerfield

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Software testing of Client/Server and web based applications
• Identify functionality/performance issues, deadlock conditions, DB connectivity, system crashes under load
• Check the workflow to see the application is able to take load or not and how it reacts/slow down or not
• Train and provide overview to new joiners and develop a user guide for NG/MPOS system
• Validate the application’s workload as more than 15 users logged in at the same time
• Review Requirements Analysis and attend DEV/Team meeting

Confidential, Downers Grove

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervise off-shore team with daily updates/progress and resolve any testing issue
• Analyze business requirements, software specifications to create a test plan
• Provide/explain Functional, TDD and Test Strategy Documents
• Manage a Health Care Enhancement Project based on IDX
• Status Touch Point meeting with PM, DEV, BAs client

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Engage early in Project Life Cycle with Project Management determine (scope/approach/resource etc…)
• Coordinate & resolve Production issues with off-shore & on-site developers/testing team
• Production verification in the end of release in live environment and S/O projects/tickets
• Worked in Agile methodology with a daily stand-up meeting with PM/BA/DEV