SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience with progressively increasing responsibilities in various functions of software delivery including SCRUM Master, Project Lead & QA roles for Identity and Access Management(SSO), web, mobile, Cloud Hosted Applications and Database related technologies
• Comprehensive practical and domain knowledge of various Sequential and Iterative Software. Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models including Waterfall and Agile based SCRUM.
• Good facilitation and communication skills to bridge the gap between business and IT leading to better business solutions.
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with the business to elicit and analyze business requirements documents and developing test strategy.
• Self - motivated, highly organized, responsible, quick learner, adaptive and most importantly a team player who fosters collaboration.
• Work with cross-functional teams to collect initial business and technical requirements for enhancement requests.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Microsoft Project, OpenProj, Microsoft Office, JIRA, Rally

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio

Requirement Management Tools: Quality Center, Rally, Caliber, JIRA

Change Management Tools: JIRA, Rally

Mobile Testing: Windows Mobile Simulator google chrome, Android and iOS.

Languages: SQL

Databases: Oracle

Web Technologies: SnagIt, Balsamiq Mockups, Jing, Sniping tool

Platform: Windows (2007,Google Chrome, Firefox, XP, Vista, and 7), Mac OS

Browsers: MS Internet Explorer 8,9,10, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Eng. Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Scrum Master: Drive & Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint commit, daily scrums, agile dashboards, Capacity Planning, Sprint Demo, Agile tool daily updates, Burn down & reports and retrospectives.
• Provide Agile Training and helped the team to follow agile processes to ensure delivery of iterative minimum marketable product to the customer.
• Work with the engineering managers/leads to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks. Act as a bridge between across five teams under the program. Help the team in resolving the Blockers & dependencies.
• Identify issues that need action, implement appropriate decisions and communicate results clearly and in actionable form. Identify trade-offs between short and long term and balance the needs of employees, customers and stakeholders. Ensured speed, quality and shared vision by getting the right people involved in decisions. Escalate the issues when needed to higher management.
• Help and plan the coming up releases roadmaps. Laying down the release roadmaps with leads, estimations of Product epics by T-shirts sizing.
• Checking inter-dependencies between Eng., Tracks for those Product stories.
• Create an environment where people are encouraged to share information, collaborate, constructively debate, and communicate freely

Confidential, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Serve as scrum master and lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums, and retrospectives.
• Provide Agile Training and helped the team to follow agile processes to ensure delivery of iterative minimum marketable product to the customer.
• Work with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Identify issues that need action, implement appropriate decisions and communicate results clearly and in actionable form. Identify trade-offs between short and long term and balance the needs of employees, customers and stakeholders. Ensured speed, quality and shared vision by getting the right people involved in decisions.
• Create an environment where people are encouraged to share information, constructively debate, and communicate freely

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Scrum Master/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Drive cross-functional execution of multiple projects.
• Serve as scrum master and lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums, and retrospectives.
• Interact with senior management to help set strategic guidance for project and provide updates.
• Create an environment where people are encouraged to share information, constructively debate, and communicate freely
• Proactively identify risks and develop mitigation plans, escalate issues across cross functional teams and resolve conflicts

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Project Lead QA/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Serve as scrum master and lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums, and retrospectives.
• Drive cross-functional execution of a project, from inception to delivery. Coordinate activities against functions and groups to achieve success. Consistently guide project teams to excellent results even when faced with resistance and setbacks.
• Interact with senior management to help set strategic guidance for project and provide updates.
• Work with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks. Involved in Test Plans, Test cases, TM and End to end testing.
• Identify issues that need action, implement appropriate decisions and communicate results clearly and in actionable form. Ensured speed, quality and shared vision by getting the right people involved in decisions.

Confidential

QA/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Written and Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Involved in Defect logging process.
• Independently designed and prepared Systems Use cases and supporting all documents with UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity and Process Flow Diagrams