SUMMARY:

• Knowledge about Software Development Life Cycle, having thorough understanding of the phases such as Requirement gathering, Designing, Building/Development, Testing, Deployment
• Knowledge about the Agile and Waterfall framework processes
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Experienced in Systems Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Training, Documentation and implementation in a business environment.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum practices such as Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective, Velocity, Estimation
• Familiarity with the use of Rally, JIRA and other Agile tools
• Experience in working with end users and the QA team for developing test cases and test plans
• Assist Product Owner in writing user stories, prioritize Product Backlog Items (PBI)
• Facilitate meeting between Scrum team, product Owner
• Support team by removing impediments, identify scrum best practices and tools needed
• Support product owner by addressing issues, and as well protecting the team from external influence.
• Act as a servant leader to ensure team is functioning.
• Generate report detailing team velocity and burndown chart

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AGILE METHODOLOGIES: SDLC, PMBOK, BABOK, Agile, RUP, UML Agile Methods SAFe Enterprise Framework TDD, Agile, XP, FDD, Kanban, Scrum

BUSINESS MODEL: Microsoft Visio 2003, MS office, MS word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint

ALM/Agile/Scrum Tools: Basecamp, ScrumWorks, Rally, Version1, Team Foundation Server, Jira.

Database: MS Access, SQL, XML

Operating Systems: Windows 7 MAC OS, Linux, Apache Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Document Team Impediments when reported and make sure they are addressed as soon as possibleCoach product owner on writing user stories and assigning business value to them
• Track how team is getting close to the sprint goals and guide discussions around adjustments to the team’s committed plan.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning sessions
• Document team definition of done and review best practices with the team ensuring criteria such as change tracking, automated acceptance and regression tests, revision control, code reviews and technical best practices are adhered to.
• Work with the team to formulate a plan for demos prior to meeting time.
• Create an agenda for Sprint Review/ Demo Meetings
• Facilitate Stakeholder Question and Answer session.
• Protect the team from external interruptions from stakeholders or management.
• Track and Communicate sprint status with management and other corporate stakeholders
• Support product owner, the team by understanding the product vision.
• Help team with proper story sizing, and estimation process.
• Coach the team and product owner on Agile processes to ensure team is continually improving
• Participated in Scrum of Scrums with other teams.
• Participated in the Agile/Scrum Community of Practice to introduce and continually improve agile processes within the organization.
• Coordinate Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, Sprint retrospectives, and other needed meetings to help the team deliver.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each spring using RTC Agile Tool.
• Facilitate Story estimation and help with detailed tasks creation
• Worked with product owners and SCRUM teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint
• Help the SCRUM team finalize Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the Release Train Engineer or Senior Management and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that team vacations and holidays are reflected in available capacity/velocity and appropriate production and other support requirements are considered while determining the actual Sprint load.
• Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings
• Represent the team at the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting to report progress a. If deviating from the ideal burndown then communicate team’s plan/commitment to get back to the line Report impediments for escalation, identify and share risks/concerns for review at program level
• Facilitate retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint - ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out
• Worked on SAFe Framework curriculum
• Participate in Release retrospective (Inspect and Adapt) and cross team retrospectives (if needed)
• Shield the SCRUM team from outside influences and interferences to ensure that the team does not get distracted and stays focused on Sprint and Release Objectives.
• Motivated the team to strive for continuous improvement by implementing action items identified during retrospectives, acquiring new skills - both technical and functional and increases velocity by getting increasingly efficient.
• Been proactive in identifying dependencies on other teams for each release and drive meetings to discuss various dependencies and get these accepted in acceptable timelines.
• Running manual test while communicating findings to technical and non-technical colleagues
• Met with system users to understand the scope of the projects
• Tested in different environment including web and mobile
• Liaising with project teams in other parts of the world.
• Tested in different environment including web and mobile
• Liaising with project teams in other parts of the world.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Function as Scrum Master working with the team to give appropriate estimates on product backlog items, remove impediment, ensuring the team is comfortable and sprints are completed on time.
• Facilitated Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint planning review & Sprint demo for Stakeholders.
• Refining and continually redefining Agile Process for the department.
• Coach Team members and train co-workers about the agile processes, and framework
• Facilitate Story estimation and help with detailed tasks creation
• Worked with product owners and Scrum teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint
• Participated in the Agile/Scrum Community to continually improve agile processes within the organization.
• Help the Scrum team finalize Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the Release Train Engineer or Senior Management and other stakeholders.
• Capture Metrics such as Sprint burndown, Velocity, Release burndown, & other metrics to measure overall team progress.

Confidential

Co-founder / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Gathering Requirements with Product Team/manager to ensure requirements are clear and concise.
• Act as Support product owner, writing user stories, prioritizing user stories, and assigning business value.
• Work with the development team to prioritize support product backlog
• Create release cycles for products consistent with quarterly release targets.
• Test Requirements to ensure it passes the INVEST Model before collating and Inputting into Backlog.
• Supervise writing User Stories, Acceptance Criteria with Stakeholders ensuring it meets stakeholders expectation.
• Serve as primary recipient of new feature request from Stakeholders, analyze and prioritize in backlog
• Work with Product Manager as support product owner.
• Responsible for setting Development & Project Management Framework for Monitoring Unit.
• Continually resolve any blocks for Monitoring team by contacting Stakeholder/SME to resolve blocks.
• Coordinate & Demo Product to Stakeholders for feedback & comments to help in next Sprints.
• Support Senior Engineering Program Manager in projects in delivering programs in an agile fashion.