PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of experience with leading large agile software delivery projects consisting of multiple scrum teams and integrate active development with operations and maintenance of a production support system.
• Experience with leading large agile software delivery projects consisting of multiple scrum teams, Integrate active development with operations and maintenance of a production system.
• Managed 2 Scrum Teams at a time and ensuring that team's success and progress are highly visible to Product Owner and Stakeholders. 
• Hands on experience of writing and prioritizing User Stories  in Backlog.
• Experience with one or more agile methodologies including scrum, Kanban & SAFe
• Formulated and executed process flows and product backlog.
• Experience with client relationship management
• Experience with defining and implementing Devops practices to drive automation, speed of delivery and quality
• Successfully managed Project Backlogs,  release scheduling, Project duration estimation  and forecasting. 
• Organized daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Retrospective, review, backlog grooming session each sprint
• Ensured engineering practices like TDD (Test Driven Development), Crucible code reviews, Continuous Integration and Pair Programming. 
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases and specialized in employing different methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Successfully involved in transitioning the Organizational Structure and Business Processes from traditional Waterfall to Agile.
• Lead trade - off discussions and drive critical decision points which impact the scope of software releases, feature prioritization, management of critical milestones, identification, communication and mitigation of program and technical risks
• Actively involved in various projects to transition from Waterfall to Agile by conducting workshops for the teams and helping them kick-start Agile.
• Successfully overcame the challenges of working with an  off-shore scrum  team for the first time.
• Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Responsibilities include protecting development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. 
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment.
• Facilitated tracking of Sprint and Release by using Burn-down charts.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity , and task break-down.
• Experience in working with agile lifecycle, and/or tracking, and process management tools like Rally, Version One and JIRA .
• Extensively used Rally for maintaining User Story Hierarchy, Backlog Grooming , Updating Tasks, Connecting Version One with Jira, Planning Iterations and Releases, also to organize the backlog stories , update tasks and track velocity and burn-down charts.
• Prepared and led bi-weekly “Iteration Planning Meetings” (IPMs) as part of the agile development process, and lead software demos to client.
• Extensive experience in user requirements gathering, Brainstorming sessions and analysis.
• Lead a team consisting of in-house Developers and QA, application architects and Product Managers, and Market Data Specialists in the development, enhancement, and implementation of mobile apps and mobile websites. 
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills combined with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Lead trade-off discussions and drove critical decision points which impact the scope of the software release, Feature prioritization, management of critical milestones and identification, communication and mitigation of program and technical skills.
• Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc.).
• Coordinated with various departments and ensured delivery of projects on time.  
• Demonstrated experience and ability to write detailed  Business Requirements Document (BRD),  Use Case Specifications,  Functional Specifications (FRD) ; and work within tight deadlines. 
• Held responsibilities included Initiating; Planning; managing matrixes resources; Monitoring development, testing, and implementation; Change management ; and Defect management.  
• Radiated information and ensured the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself. 
• Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the Cross functional development team.
• Experience in software configuration management using SVN, Perforce and GIT.
• Experience using application servers such as Jboss and Apache Tomcat.
• Good understanding on Maven, XLR (XL-Release), ePaaS and Jenkins.
• Eager to learn new technologies and can easily adapt to the new technologies and tools.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum Methodology, Kanban, SAFe

Project Management: Rally, Mingle, Version One and Jira

Database: MySql, DB2

Servers: Tomcat, Jboss

Reporting tools: Tableau

Middleware Servers: JBoss EAP 6.2, Tomcat 6.0, 7.0

Additional: Jenkins, XLR, Splunk, Maven Configuration, SVN

Soft Skills: Interpersonal skills, consistency, Oral Communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Plano, TX

Scrum Master / PM

Environment:

• Language: .Net
• Database: MySQL
• Tools: Tableau , Jira / Version One, Pulse, Share Point, MS Suite, Confluence

Responsibilities: 

• Successfully handled role of Scrum Master and having expertise in conducting Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective Meetings using Agile Methodology. 
• Handled issues in production by prioritizing them accordingly with minimal effect on the team’s timeline.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums to resolve interdependencies among different teams.
• Used SAFe methodology to plan the PI session and helped teams with estimations and completion of sprints. 
• Trained newly formed teams with basics of Agile and helped them with laying foundation in scrum. 
• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with business and development team during the different stages of the project  
• Facilitate with the Director of Technology to ensure proper & sufficient resources for the upcoming release product delivery.  
• Redesign business processes so that they are more relevant to the user and business focus.
• Set product demo sessions with the business stake holders and the technical team with the lead QA presiding over  
• Facilitate JAD sessions with the Technical team and the Product team to address & clarify User stories to be groomed for the upcoming release Grooming Sessions.  
• Provided guidance to the Agile teams on the Version One   tool so it is used to their maximum efficiency.
• Managed all aspects of end to end release process. 
• Map business processes and identify opportunities for improvement, both technology and operations related 
• Participate in various meetings and discussed enhancement and modification request issues and constraints.  
• Assist lead business analyst in the creation of use case diagrams, process flow diagrams (MS Visio & Project) and GUI designs.  
• Successfully handled impediments by resolving inter-dependent issues by implementing new solutions.
• Managed project vision, strategy, prioritization and scope  between development teams and business to ensure projects met business goals and objectives 
• Successfully created and prioritized User Stories from Product Backlog. 
• Successfully managed Sprint Backlogs, Release scheduling, project duration estimation and forecasting. 
• Documented Change Requests and worked with business sponsors for approvals on timelines and budget. 
• Took initiative to drive Community of Practices in Leadership, Developer and QA communities. 
• Identified, managed and escalated delivery issues and risk to management as needed. 
• Prevented impediments and distractions that interfere with the ability of actions the development team need to deliver on their goals.

Phoenix, AZ

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Environment:

• Language: Java
• Database: DB2
• Tools: Service now, Rally, Clarity, Office suite, MS Project, Share point

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed multiple complex, cross-functional and multi-organization technology projects with a variety of key project stakeholders within the Global Business Processing & Global Payments.
• Improved teamwork by identifying and maintaining dependencies among scrum teams within the train
• Defined process framework to enable efficient service delivery on cloud (SFDC) - SaaS
• Facilitated sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective meetings, daily scrum meetings, show and tell and worked on deliverables for each sprint
• Aligned stakeholders on documented framework, release/deployments and developed training material
• Increased value by planning deployment, unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, end to end UAT, and PIV (post implementation validation)
• Improved efficiency by planning capacity, velocity and maintained reports like iteration burndown and velocity charts
• Managed escalations, impediments, risks, and challenges associated with product development
• Implemented test driven development within scrum teams and regular KT’s from QA
• Delivered technology solutions by working with product owners, architects, engineers and quality assurance
• Coordinated execution of development projects from initiation through release by leading teams of product managers, engineers, QA and all business stakeholders
• Tracked iteration progress, contributed to design discussions and removed obstacles to an iteration

 Baltimore, MD

Jr.Scrum Master

Environment:

• Language : .Net
• Database : Oracle
• Tools : Mingle , Sharepoint , MS Suite.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate requirement review meeting with business, development team manager and SMEs. 
• Preparing Reports to the Director of Technology for the weekly project Status Review 
• Expedite backlog refinement meeting with product owner &scrum development team to update on the product backlog.  
• Facilitated exercises like Story Writing Workshop, User Story Mapping, Affinity Estimation, etc. to help product owner in managing stakeholder expectation by doing release planning. 
• Handling multiple teams with diverse team members and planning meetings for the teams to ensure proper co-ordination between On-shore &Off-shore team members. 
• Conduct meetings with Delivery manager, PMO& the Tech lead to discuss the Release status. 
• Facilitate with the Business Stakeholders for their availability to attend the Release Demo Session. 
• Created Excel Based modeling for project level Target review & the collaboration of various team members from different teams. 
• To concur sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review& retrospective meetings. 
• Empowered and assured the team is productive and functional. 
• Aided the project team and Product Owner to develop and update Product Roadmap. Tracked daily progress using Burndown Chart metrics. 
• Provide RQA points to the User Stories based on its quality & ensure proper User Story formatting for all the User Stories before the Grooming Meeting. 
• Removed roadblocks for successful iterations, which led to the transition of releases on time. 
• Worked with various Business Intelligence tools including, MSVisio, Business objects and MS suite. 
• Assist Sr. Project Manager in conducting informal sessions with testing team to resolve open incidents and issues.  
• Create Test Cases to conduct white box testing, positive and negative testing of the application.  
• Conduct analysis for change requests and requirement walkthroughs and advised concerned project managers and business system analysts on the impacts of the changes in migrating data solution.  
• Utilize Rally to track user stories, progress of the sprint & to monitor any changes if required & communicate it with the Delivery Manager. 
• Prepare Commitment Deck for the upcoming Release Cycle.  
• Use Rally to review User Stories and award Quality Points for the Overall Quality of the User Story to be groomed. 
• To create a Release track report to track day-to-day status of the Release from Sprint to the Number of US’s developed and the number of points delivered in comparison with the Release target. Communicate it with the delivery Manager &PMO 
• To facilitate meetings with the product team to discuss upcoming release details from Release target to the User Story Priority (United Health Care requirements) if any. 
• Participate in brainstorming sessions on quality analysis, manual and automated testing and defect tracking tools. 
• Create logical data models, business requirement document and functional specifications documents using SharePoint and MS Visio. 
• Assist the project manager in organizing meetings with developers and quality analysts to discuss business requirements, test planning sessions, resource allocation, project sizing, business approvals and release dates.     Environment: MS Shop (.Net-java-Oracle DB), MS Office (MS SharePoint 2013, Visio, Excel, Access, Project), SQL, XML, Agile, WindowsXP, SQL Server, HP Quality Center 10.0 

Business Analyst

Environment:

• Language: Java
• Database: MySQL

Responsibilities:

• Improved efficiency, achieved timely deliveries within budget and managed project plans and resources
• Implemented innovative methods and techniques, reduced lead time and achieved cost savings
• Performed PERT analysis to estimate the length of a new project at 75% confidence
• Lead and managed a team of 16 to keep everyone’s goal aligned with the goals of the project
• Performed earned value analysis and compared it with planned value to track schedule and cost of the project
• Own and develop relationship with partners, working with them to optimize and enhance our integration 
• Identified project scope using context diagrams, use case diagrams, and feature roadmap
• Accurately identified business requirements for the designing of a webpage using Balsamiq and achieved customer feedback through prototyping
• Used MS Visio for block diagramming, charts and graphs, and web diagramming
• Developed and delivered functional and technical project artifacts including use cases, user stories, requirement definition, process definition, user interface design, test strategy, and test cases
• Increased efficiency by tracking information about development life cycle using Mingle -atlassian software for planning, tracking, releasing, and reporting.

Louisville, KY

Jr. Java Developer

Environment:

• Language: Java, J2EE
• Database: MySQL

Responsibilities: 

• Involved in Requirement gathering, analysis and finding the best approach, development including unit testing of enhancements in the system.
• Database changes using MySQL as per requirement.
• Unit test using Mockito & java reflection.
• Build the artifacts using Maven build tool.
• Developed client side validations using JQuery
• Used the Log4j framework to log the system execution details to log files.
• Used SVN for versioning and concurrent access to the project files.
• Deployed web application server using Jenkins tool.
• Co-ordination with onsite team for requirement clarification & task monitoring.