SUMMARY

• Having 12 years of experience in IT, 5+ years as a Agile/Scrum Professional, 5+ years as a Business Analyst and 2 years as developer involved in implementing new solutions and substantial system enhancements.
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) & Certified Product Owner (CSPO).
• Coach all Scrum teams, Product Owners, and Developers and Testers on a daily basis. Help them understand their roles and responsibilities at the team level, and resolve all process - related questions/conflicts that arise during planning and execution.
• Continuously improve team-level Sprint ceremonies, processes, and practices for planning, executing, tracking, and reporting to ensure all Sprint and Release goals are achieved in a timely manner.
• Serve as process consultant to Scrum teams and individuals by helping them understand our Scaled Agile framework and processes, and increase their productivity and efficiency through continuous improvement and learning.
• Certified SAFe Agilist (SA).
• Extensive experience in handling multiple Agile projects with multiple Agile teams at a time.
• Experience in conducting Scrum of Scrum meetings as a Chief Scrum Master in Agile Release Train.
• Facilitated all aspects of the Agile Scrum Framework, including Release Planning sessions, Sprint Planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Maintained the team’s capacity plan, scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity and burn down charts.
• Worked with program management and product owners to ensure product backlogs are well groomed, prioritized and visible to all stakeholders. Worked with product owners to develop release plans, organize backlog items into priority groups, adjusted release plans following each sprint review.
• In depth understanding and experience in other Agile frameworks such as XP, TDD, Kanban, Lean etc.. and scaled Agile frameworks such as SAFe and LeSS.
• Performed Admin activities in both JIRA and Rally as well.
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment to ensure that the team is fully functional and productive
• Track and communicated velocity, Sprint & Release progress to all stakeholders and senior management.
• Used Task Boards as Information radiators so that team and stakeholders can know the status of a sprint at a glance.
• Facilitated various Retrospective meetings such as (Glad, Sad, Mad, Bad), Rocket, Kite, Floating Boat, Improvement list etc... And made sure that team is always focused on continuous improvement.
• Extensive experience in understanding, visualizing and converting an epic into multiple features and then in to user stories.
• Have attended numerous trainings and Webinars of different speakers on Agile methodology.
• Extensive experience in updating Software Requirement Specification (SRS) documents.
• Preparation of the Usability documents and scheduling call with Business/End User for review and feedback.
• Updating Functional Design (FD) documents with process flow diagrams describing each step or process in its Alex portion including Assumptions, error handling scenario's, scripting and messages to be displayed, field mappings from UI to DB/Back end /Third Party system fields, analysis on the method of storing the business rules or parameter values either in DB or XML so that these rule values can be changed with data changes to cater the future business needs.
• Proficient in Sanity, Integration, System, Regression, Interface, Database, Acceptance testing procedures for software applications.
• Experience in writing Test plans, Test strategy, Test cases and execution of test cases.
• Build Traceability Matrix from Business Requirements to FD to TD to Test cases.
• Equipped with project management skills (Project Management, Change Management, LOE estimation, scheduling, resource planning, status tracking, on time delivery, defect preventive measures etc…)
• Single point of contact for the issues faced by any team i.e. Development, QA, Data Load, production support and Business teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Unix, Solaris, MVS/ESA, Z/OS

Databases: Oracle, PL/SQL and DB2

Tools: JIRA, Rally, MS Visio, HP QC/ALM, SoapUI, Dream Viewer, XML, SQL Developer, Toad, QTP, Mercury Test Director, ODS, CVS, MKS, Change Man, VSS, CA-7/11, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, Vision Plus and FDR.

Languages: Java, Mainframes, Oracle, C, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Environment: JIRA, Rally, Java, JSP, EJB, XML, Oracle9i, Web logic Server, CICS, Mainframes, Test Director, SVN, MS Visio, Soap UI

Responsibilities:

• Coach all Scrum teams, Product Owners, and Developers and Testers on a daily basis. Help them understand their roles and responsibilities at the team level, and resolve all process-related questions/conflicts that arise during planning and execution.
• Executed multiple agile projects at a time.
• Responsible for creating and managing the release plans.
• Experience in conducting Scrum of Scrum meetings, as a Chief Scrum Master in Agile Release Train.
• Facilitated various Scrum activities, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint Reviews & Retrospectives, Release Planning and Product Backlog refinement to plan future sprints without any delay.
• Used Task Boards as Information radiators, so that team & stakeholders know the status of a sprint at a glance.
• Worked with product owners to develop release plans, organize backlog items into priority groups, adjusted release plans following each sprint review.
• Played all roles in software development i.e. as a developer, tester, business analyst, product owner, project manager, scrum master and scrum professional.
• Product backlog grooming, drafting requirements for user stories, maintaining product/Sprint backlog etc...
• Responsible for maintaining clear and concise product backlog items and organizing product backlog for maximum value and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with team to have real time data in Burn-Down charts, Issue Tracker, velocity chart and detailed Sprint status.
• Creating projects, Sprint Boards based on Remaining Time/Days & USP/Days for individual and combined board for multiple projects, tracking time, status of each Task and etc...in Rally & JIRA.
• Updating Sprint Retrospective document with High, Low points, what went well & what need improvement.
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment to ensure that the team is fully functional and productive.
• Shield the team from external interferences/distractions.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Helped the team to understand the Agile Values and Principles and the benefit of implementing the same.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and predictable for the team.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Business Analyst

Environment: MS Visio, Dream Viewer, Java, JSP, EJB, XML, Oracle9i, Web logic Server, CICS, Mainframes, Test Director, CVS, HP ALM

Responsibilities:

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and work flow analysis.
• First analysis of the Work Requests and Change controls, its impact on the existing system, identification of risks, assumptions and impact on the third party systems that interact with the application, involvement of appropriate resources for analysis, documentation and estimation.
• Tracking the Work requests for a release from end to end perspective
• Review of the entire work request after each phase in person and also including both functional and technical teams.
• Updating of Business Requirement (BR) documents.
• Scheduling sign-off calls with business to review the requirements and live updating the BR documents if required.
• Preparation of Mock Screens/wire frames with Visio/Dream Viewer software.
• Updating process flow diagrams in Visio for the pictorial representation.
• Updating Functional Design (FD) documents.
• Scheduling sign-off call with business for all the FD processes in the presence of Client Manager.
• Updating the Usability documents and scheduling call with Business/End User for review and feedback. Incorporating any new requirements based on the feasibility through Change Control Process.
• Review of the estimations based on the signed-off requirements and if any deviation getting the approval from the business and review of the project plan or time lines.
• Review of the test conditions provided by the business to ensure each and every requirement and their impacted functionalities are validated in the testing phase.
• Analysis of the issues by validating the data loaded in Oracle DB, executing the RPC’s of the host system and Middle-ware logs.
• Proficient in Sanity, Integration, System, Regression, Interface, Database, Acceptance testing procedures for software applications.
• Single point of contact for the issues faced by any team i.e. Build, QA, Data Load, production support and Business teams.
• Floor walking the ST team during system testing, supporting the UAT team.
• Issue resolution (IR) and the first analysis of any issues in the release & Assignment of issues to different teams/ developers involved.
• Involved in peer reviews and meetings with QA team to ensure quality in all phases of testing and taken measures to avoid repeated defects in future releases.
• Proven ability to influence the performance of other associates and to contribute significant internal and external impacts related to complex business opportunities.
• Ensure all internal and external tollgates are completed on time.

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, CA-7, Change Man, CA-7, Abend-Aid and File-Aid

Responsibilities:

• Design
• Coding
• Unit Testing
• Preparing Unit test cases and test scripts