SUMMARY

• A highly motivated, enthusiastic Agile Consultant with 12+ years of IT experience across multiple verticals/industries, in varying capacities and a quick Learner. Seeking challenging opportunity for leading and coaching teams on Agile Practices such as Scrum as well as process frameworks such as SAFe.
• Hands on with Agile Project Management (Scrum & Kanban), SAFe implementation, E2E Project Management, Agile Development, Test Management, Business Analysis, Third party Coordination, Risk Management, Finance and Budget Management and Release Management
• An innovative, effective communicator, facilitator with a unique blend of enterprise and technical vision
• Skilled to reengineer business processes for efficiencies improvement, Capacity utilization, resulting in efficient business objective delivery.
• Excellent facilitation skills with ability to drive consensus and decision making.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• PL/SQL
• PEGA
• OBIEE
• Informatica
• QC
• Rally
• Jira
• Versionone
• MS Office (Word
• Excel
• Access
• PowerPoint
• Project
• Visio)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Delivered various Agile training at team and program level to promote Agile and end to end Agile transformation
• Ensured compliance of development team with Scrum methodology in delivering incremental features and monitor defined process adherence.
• Coached/Mentored resources at different level to adopt to the new agile roles (Product Owner, RT Engineer, VSE, Epic owners etc.
• Used JIRA as the ALM tool to Backlog tracking, burn - down metrics, velocity, and task management
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the team resulting in empowered, self-organizing team
• Effectively communicate the solution vision, backlog and success criteria, to development and QA team to develop precise work estimate and project planning to the satisfaction of the stakeholders through Sprint Planning meeting.
• Interface with Business partners for User Story Demo and collect feedback and work with Product Owner to resolve the Acceptance Criteria
• Develop precise work estimate/project plan and publish, different stakeholder and ensure the release date are aligned to BP standard delivery.
• Define Escalation Hierarchy and Support Notification Process to contain escalation.
• Built mutual trust and encouraged respect and cooperation among team members and the end clients and as a change agent, worked closely with team at every level (Portfolio/Program, Project, Scrum Team)
• Ensure that the product owner prioritizes features for the team so that the team delivers user stories at a consistent pace
• Conduct retrospective and making sure best practices are followed.
• As a Scrum Master I foresee the risk and propose alternative solutions to stakeholders.
• Monitor the development activity of extraction Transformation and Loading Data from SAP PM system to data warehouse and Data marts using Informatica Power Center and obtain cloud integration and data management by using Informatica Cloud services.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created/Delivered various Agile training at team and program level to promote Agile and end to end Agile transformation
• Introduced Scaled Agile 4.0 Framework at the program level through training and customizing the project intake process to accommodate Release
• Ensured compliance of development team with Scrum methodology in delivering incremental features and monitor defined process adherence.
• Coached/Mentored resources at different level to adopt to the new agile roles (Product Owner, RT Engineer, VSE, Epic owners etc.
• Used Rally as the ALM tool to Backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task management
• Successfully delivered $1 Million project using scrum methodology under SAFe framework
• Ensured a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Scrum principles, to align the stakeholders and team members across the enterprise
• Designed a Macro to monitor development and QA progress as a pug in to Rally.
• Built mutual trust and encouraged respect and cooperation among team members and the end clients and as a change agent, worked closely with team at every level (Portfolio/Program, Project, Scrum Team)
• Driven and managed the solution development process from conceptualization to delivery.
• Effectively communicate the solution vision, backlog and success criteria, to development and QA team to develop precise work estimate and project planning to the satisfaction of the stakeholders through Sprint Planning meeting.
• Communicate with the stakeholders on a regular basis to provide feedback on Implementation progress of the solutions, involve the architect team in case of technical roadblock.
• Ensured product backlog management by streamlining PEGA BPM work flow.
• Ensured features prioritization for consistent delivery of user stories.
• Conduct retrospective and making sure best practices are followed.
• As a Scrum Master I foresee the risk and propose alternative solutions to stakeholders.
• Work with the PM to define Escalation Hierarchy and Support Notification Process to contain escalation.
• Responsible for requirement documentation review in the form of Epic (Agile Story) and User Story.

Confidential - Baltimore, MD

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the scrum process are followed and the team delivers on the incremental features to the customer and obtain at most satisfaction from stakeholder.
• Independently guide the scrum team to complete assignments and ability to make decisions on sprint planning and update stakeholder.
• Collate PM guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments authority Risk or consequences in the event of failure, as indicated by range of expected impact, such as within a team or across a team or area of responsibility and level of risk
• Ensure that the product owner is available to groom the product backlog so that the team has a consistent flow of work that benefits the customer
• Ensure that the product owner prioritizes features for the team so that the team delivers user stories at a consistent pace
• Conduct retrospective and always push the team to follow the best practices.
• Monitor scrum on Scrum process
• Ensure the product is thoroughly tested before it goes for BAT/UAT
• Conduct daily scrum call to monitor the development and testing status.
• Collate cross dependency and schedule call based on the need with required audience.
• Conduct DSR call for teams and publish DSR report to stakeholders.

Confidential - La Jolla, CA

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interface with Business partners for User Story Demo and collect feedback and work with Product Owner to resolve the Acceptance Criteria
• Engaged all stakeholders to understand business needs and identify appropriate solutions.
• Arrange call with product owner, Developer and Tester for a smooth knowledge transfer.
• Follow up with Development Team Lead for effort estimation (User Story & Defect)
• As a scrum master managed all scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, DSU, retrospective, sprint review)
• Responsible to provide sprint update to stakeholders.
• Utilized Jira as ALM tool to manage (reporting, project tracking, burn-down charts, capacity tracking, test management)
• Responsible to conduct BAT/UAT post Unit and QA test.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the team resulting in empowered, self-organizing team
• Participated in Technical Discussions to provide scalable solution for the Project

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with cross-functional team and designate resources to fulfill program/project requirements
• Worked with functional support team on production incidents and adhered to SLA guidelines set within team
• Work with QA Lead to make sure Test Scenario and Test Case is authored and get it approved by IT Analyst and Business Team
• Coordinated funding allocation with PMOs and service leads.
• Monitor project costs (forecast) and variances in Accenture proprietary tool MME.
• Follow up with Automation Lead to develop script in Selenium to achieve 80% test coverage.
• Performs project creation and closure activities in the SDLC PM tool, Task Allotments and OPC entries
• Work with business and ITA to ensure all the requirement is captured in form of BRD and FSD and knowledge is transferred to Development and QA team.
• Worked with Business Analyst to ensure all the SDLC SOX Guidelines are met and project documentation is up to date with all the necessary mandatory approvals
• Co-Ordinate with ERMO (Enterprise Release Management Organization) and UPMO (Unified PMO) team to obtain exit criteria and published report on-time with high accuracy from QC.
• Managed project risk mitigation and issue resolutions efficiently
• Managed the time and budget of the project and ensuring all the dependent teams are billing appropriately and with little or no variance to Estimates
• Managed expectations with key stakeholders and Business partners
• Worked closely with Client Executive Steering Committees and similar management levels to Keep them informed as to status on a regular basis
• Published “Project Health Status” real time basis using tableau tool and steered Daily Status Review (DSR) call to achieve 100% execution and meeting exit criteria defined by ERMO/UPMO.

Confidential

QA Lead/PMO

Responsibilities:

• Established testing strategy and plan, analysis of business requirements & designs for testability, utilization of appropriate tools to develop automated test scripts, and execute during functional, regression, system integration and performance testing.
• Authored Requirements Traceability Metrics, Test Scenario and Test cases and get it reviewed with stake-holders
• Lead the Automation Team to develop scripts and execute in QTP to achieve 80% test coverage.
• Customized Macro, for defined Exit Criteria by Enterprise Release Management Organization and Unified PMO to publish report on-time with high accuracy from Test Management Tool (Quality Center).
• Worked with stake holders for successful completion of BAT, UAT and Language acceptance testing
• Published “Project Health Status” real time basis using Tableau Tool and steered Daily Status Review (DSR) call to achieve 100% execution and meeting exit criteria defined by ERMO/UPMO.
• Created different downloadable QC report by using Oracle Query which can be extracted to user’s local computer.
• Helped Business team to correct attribute in QC for clean reporting
• Presented Test Closer Report and best practices adoption to Steering Committee.
• Work with change management team to update user training manual for internal and external customers
• Contributed to Defect management -
• Organizing Triage call with engineering and solution Team
• Provide steps to reproduce for every defect logged.
• Follow up with Development team to meet SLA (Service Level Agreement)
• Published defect resolution trend metrics.
• Responsible to conduct SMOKE Testing in GitHub before Go-Live
• Organize Business Validation Testing post Go-Live.
• Provide leadership in defining critical process adherence to delivery teams
• Responsible for raising Service request and follow up with Support team in case of issue found in BVT for emergency bug fix.
• Managed a Team of 12 resources, responsible to mentor, set objectives and participate in performance appraisal.
• Provided coaching and helped the team to implement RBT (Risk Based Testing) and shift left driven testing model to lower the risk of failure.