SUMMARY

• 12+ years’ experience in Agile Development, Design and development with Deadline driven environment.
• Proficient in implementing Agile Practices (Scrum, Kanban, TDD) practices in the Org.
• 4+ years of experience as Scrum Master for implementing Agile methodologies.
• Experience in Requirements Gathering, Development, Testing, Implementation, Product & Domain Training and Post Implementation onsite - support
• Excellent knowledge of SDLC methodologies, AGILE, ITIL& Waterfall.
• Working with Product Owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Excellent in gathering, drafting reviewing requirements with business for publishing as product backlog.
• Managed Fixed price and Managed service projects.
• Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Expert in drafting Business cases, Product Backlog and User Stories, UAT test cases and test data requirements, and Post production validation
• Handled multiple scrums at onshore as well as offshore during tight deadlines
• Experience in large-scale projects requiring the integration of 3rd party software.
• A proactive planner with expertise in technology plan execution,productroadmap visualization.
• Well-balanced leadership skills to build and nurture high quality teams.
• Well versed with offshore - onsite models with various countries, India, US, UK, Australia.
• Expert in provision project/service delivery model while balancing risks and mitigation with engaging stakeholders.
• Knowledge of SAFE framework.
• Understanding of what is scrum and what is not scrum and how works and ability to distinguish between different agile methodologies scrum.

Areas of Expertise

• SCRUM / Agile Methodology strong understanding and implementation.
• Experience in Design, Development and deployment of enterprise applications.
• Working with business stake holders and PMO to formally plan sprints.
• Knowledge on HP Open View, Service Now ticketing systems, TWS
• Knowledge of defect tracking systems e.g. QC, MTM (MS Test Manager)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DOMAIN: Health Insurance, Finance, ERP, Mobility, P&C Insurance, Knowledge of investment banking.

Tools: & Technologies: VSTS 2010/12, MS Project,, TFS Product Studio, Quality Center, JIRA,SVN, GIT Hub, MS Visio, Quality Center, MTM, C# .Net, Confluence, Release Management, Unix, Oracle Database

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Green Bay, WI

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Attend PI planning event (PIPE) to understand backlog items for entire PI iteration.
• Conducting breakout sessions during PI event with scrum team
• Identifying dependencies during PI planning event.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
• Attend PI retrospective meeting to understand what went well and what didn't go well during entire PI event.
• Schedule meeting with business and SME's and the team to create user stories.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner, Project Manager, and Technical Lead to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value, risk mitigation and timely delivery
• Helped the team stay focused by removing impediments, protecting them from distractions and keeping team meetings lean and efficient
• Attending scrum of scrums (SoS) conducted by RTE to update about any dependencies between different teams.
• Coordinate with RTE for any impediment or any change in scope of features.
• Working with Product owner/BAs to get Business requirement
• Coordinated software testing and deployment activities with other development teams
• Extensive use of Rally to monitor agile artifacts like Sprint burn down chart and velocity charts and release burn down and burn up charts.
• Split user stories in rally during sprint planning event.
• Mentoring team of implementing best agile practices

Confidential, Monterey, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
• Worked closely with the Product Owner, Project Manager, and Technical Lead to assure that the work is strategically prioritized for value, risk mitigation and timely delivery
• Helped the team stay focused by removing impediments, protecting them from distractions and keeping team meetings lean and efficient
• Managed team of around 8-10 people offshore and onshore.
• Working with Product owner to get Business requirement
• Coordinated software testing and deployment activities with other development teams
• Extensive use of JIRA to monitor agile artifacts like Sprint burn down chart and velocity charts.
• Coordinating different vendors (ISO, CCC) for Integration of CMS system using Web service and SOAP rest API.
• Mentoring team of implementing best agile practices
• Tracking project activity using Clarity for PMO reporting
• Creating user stories using JIRA
• Make sure Integration system is integrated using VSTS/Visual studio team foundation service.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, effort estimations, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning.
• Implemented Best practices from different agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.
• Coach and mentor other scrum masters in our product team. Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.
• Managed dependencies between our team, other scrum teams, state agencies and federal government and third parties.
• Work closely with Business and Product owner(s) for understanding current and future requirements and help them prioritize the backlog
• Maintain the burn down chart to understand the pace and velocity of the development
• Updating the Program Manager regularly on the Sprint plan, Sprint Backlog and outcome of Sprint Reviews etc.,
• Liaising between cross functional teams for issue resolution and seamless delivery
• Coordinates testing and deployment of deliverables and products
• Delivered stories related Web service and SOAP rest API integration.
• Creating EPIC's as and when required using VSTS/TFS.
• Identified and performed the Gap Analysis to implement the DevOps process within the Organization
• Actively involved in the implementation of DevOps practices within IT Operations in coordination with development and test functions
• Maintaining artifacts in TFS.
• Monitoring scrum board to make sure team is on right track.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead full lifecycle development of client delivery and company-wide strategic projects across the full spectrum of software development activities.
• Successfully completed cloud migration of on premise application to cloud
• Successfully implemented iterative monthly delivery model (Agile-Scrum) to customers to gather feedback early in development cycle
• Performed Scrum Master role - facilitated daily scrums, partnered with Product owner for backlog grooming, sprint planning and release planning
• Maintain Burn down chart to keep the pace of development.
• Liaising between cross functional teams for issue resolution and seamless delivery
• Coordinates testing and deployment of deliverables and products
• Coordinate Daily standup calls, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review meetings
• Update the Stakeholders on the iteration development regularly
• Getting application deployed in azure
• Make sure Integration system is integrated using VSTS/Visual studio team foundation service.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead full lifecycle development of client delivery and company-wide strategic projects across the full spectrum of software development activities.
• Did One on One client meetings to generate the exact requirements so that design and development process can be as modular as possible.
• Successfully implemented iterative monthly delivery model (Agile-Scrum) to customers to gather feedback early in development cycle
• Performed Scrum Master role - facilitated daily scrums, partnered with Product owner for backlog grooming, sprint planning and release planning
• Maintain Burndown chart to keep the pace of development.
• Liaising between cross functional teams for issue resolution and seamless delivery
• Coordinates testing and deployment of deliverables and products
• Coordinate Daily standup calls, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review meetings
• Update the Stakeholders on the iteration development regularly
• Make sure Integration system is integrated using VSTS/Visual studio team foundation service.
• Actively involved in the implementation of DevOps practices within IT Operations in coordination with development and test functions

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution
• Successfully handled coordination activities onsite.
• Assisting the onsite team during the pre & pro application release activities.

Environment: VB.Net, C#, NUnit, Web Service, WCF Service, NUNIT

Confidential

Application Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on production defect scrum in Kanban mode
• Escalation issues to senior management as appropriate.
• Updating share point site with up to date information about resources and VM details.

Environment: VB.Net, C#, NUnit, Java

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution
• Successfully handled coordination activities onsite.
• Assisting the onsite team during the pre & pro application release activities.

Environment: VB.Net, C#, NUnit

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designing of the Front End as per the Design Document
• Designing &Coding of the business logic for the system.
• ADO.NET programming.
• Designing of various reports using Crystal Report 9.0
• Working on System test as well as UAT defects.

Environment: C#, ADO.NET Entity Framework, Crystal Reports

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution

Environment: Visual FoxPro 9.0, SQL Server 2000

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the application development and handling defect fixing.
• Providing viable technical solutions to the various problems faced during development.
• Carrying out Application change requests (change in business logic etc)
• Closely working with the user to get the requirements and implement them in the application.
• Working with other developers to understand requirements, design and developing a technical solution
• Working on General Ledger modules
• Working on design for Profit and loss account and balance sheets.

Environment: Visual FoxPro 9.0, SQL Server 2000