SUMMARY

• Self - motivated, goal driven individual, having around 5 years of experience in Information Technology, experienced CertifiedScrumMaster(CSM) from Scrum Alliance and Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM) from Scrum.org.
• Serving as Scrum Master for up to two Agile teams, focused on developing User Interfaces, Micro Services and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a DevOps culture.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up, Backlog grooming, reviews, retrospectives, demos, release planning meetings for a scrum team specializing in continuous integration & continuous delivery of cloud-based software releases.
• Schedule, plan and facilitate collaboration per the Scrum framework and planning meetings between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders.
• Identifying and remove potential issues and roadblocks to ensure high performance from teams.
• Work with the Product Owner to identify that the product backlog is in place and ranked/ groomed to the appropriate level to start and continue development iterations.
• Fostering a motivating culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinating across other Agile teams for complex projects.
• Facilitate process activities of Agile software development/scrum, encouraging and supporting the teams to self-manage their iterations using a servant-leader management style
• Perform release planning based on requirements and plan sprints with the help of the team.
• Work with the teams to progress projects from planning through delivery.
• Tracks team capacity and velocity metrics for planning purposes
• Ensure self-organized team's continuous improvement - Monitor and coach.
• Serve as communication liaison between the team and Product Owner.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, task, data/process modeling and workflow analysis.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of multiple assigned projects and scrum teams.
• Ensure project objectives conform to business unit's overall standards, operational objectives, user requirements, and clients’ needs (Definition of Done).
• Negotiate, set, and clarify commitments and expectations by working with both IT and the Business.
• Identify and remove impediments, delivery conflicts and minimize distractions.
• Review deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Schedule and facilitate regular team retrospective meetings per the scrum framework.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Practiced issue and change tracking in Tracking tool to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Stories were detailed out using Cucumber framework.
• Prioritized and identified the test cases that need to be automated for regression testing.
• Tested applications on Multi browser and on Mobile devices.
• Regression testing for all sprint releases.
• Extensively used Jira, Confluence, Version One, UML, Microsoft Office & ALM tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Model: SCRUM, Kanban, XP, waterfall.

Iterative.Tools: Jira, Version One, Confluence, UML, Microsoft Office.

Technical: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, Angular.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitateagileceremonies such as dailyscrum, refinement sessions, retrospectives, and sprint planning.
• Working with teams to develop working agreements, definition of done and definition of ready.
• Implementing agileconcepts across newly developed teams in a manner that encourages team members to embracenew thought patterns.
• Used Version One and Jira/Confluence pages to radiate information and manageagilemetrics such as burn down charts, team velocity and release and sprint planning.
• Work with Product Owner to use backlog management techniques to prioritize backlogs, refining stories, splitstories, conduct story mapping sessions, write effective stories and effectively participate inagile ceremonies.
• Story Tasking.
• Regression Testing of potentially shippable product.
• Encouraging and facilitating cross-team coordination and collaboration.
• Preparing and coordinating project proposals and schedules with the release management team.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Tracking data from the spring process and report regularly to facilitate understanding of where we are and what can be improved on.
• UpdatingAgiletracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs by creating JIRA reports.
• Mentoring teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency.
• UtilizingAgileProject Management tool, JIRA to document all the product backlog and sprint backlog details.
• Facilitating separate Product Backlog Refinement meeting, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meeting as well as otherAgilePractices for continuous delivery and continuous improvement.
• Participating the DailyScrum Meeting and remove impediments for development teams and protected teams from external influence.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to enable them to elaborate user stories with acceptance criteria and scenarios.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Review Test Plan and test cases written by team members
• Participating in dailySCRUMmeetings, Team coordination from client location
• Responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability ofagileframework, processes, principles and practices.
• Drove continuous improvement and self-organizing behaviors of the team through active coaching
• Create product concepts based on the company strategy
• Break down concepts into user stories
• Prioritize the product backlog
• Channel requirements
• Discuss requirements and stories with the development team
• Gather data and provide Agile metrics

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Got an Internal Training forSCRUMframework and started implementingSCRUMactivities.
• Involved in Coding and Unit Testing.
• Designing project module flow diagram and class diagram.
• Involved in UI development.
• Code Deployment and version Maintenance.