SUMMARY:

• Solution - driven Junior Scrum Master/Business Analyst with 6+ years of experience as Business Analyst/Technical Business Analyst leading cross-functional teams in the development, documentation and delivery of process innovations driving the attainment of business goals.
• Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing.
• Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Using agile management tools like Rally, JIRA for status reporting and planning.
• 6 years of diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on overall Software Development of applications.
• Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills
• Experience in designing and implementing test plans, test cases, test scripts and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Technically competent to interact with different technology teams, creating UI’s and, creating wireframes for design approvals and creating technical documentations.
• Expertise in leading medium to large scale software projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Highly motivated professional with experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Excellent Client relationship management, analytical, problem solving, written and oral communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently or in a team/cross-functional teams, manage and prioritize multiple projects, quick learner.
• Training clients/customers to use new or enhanced software.
• Support and analyze Production issues.
• Experience in assisting the Development team during construction periods and assisting the QA team in test case design and performing User Acceptance Testing and provide presentations to the business team.
• Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at diplomatically facilitating discussions and negotiations with stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Scrum Master: Confluence, SharePoint 2007, MS Visio 2007, Microsoft Project, Access

Tools: Rally, JIRA, Microsoft Office Suite, Quality Centre

Team Skills: Scrum Master, Coordinating, Facilitating, Project Tracking, Summarizing and Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Amex- Phoenix

Junior Scrum Master

Role/Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint planning - including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos and retrospective.
• Worked with scrum team, product owners and leadership to complete the sprint activities.
• Eliminate impediments and facilitate a team’s optimum performance.
• Communicated team’s status/progress via release/sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects to make sure stake holders are aware on what is going on.
• Schedule backlog grooming meetings to refine product backlog items.
• Organize sprint retrospective meetings to gather team’s reflection on the process. Identify actions and next steps to improve the future sprints.
• Organized and planned the sprint release cycles with release managers.
• Kept the team focused on the sprint priorities, business values and protecting team from over committing.
• Frequent follow ups and reminders to team on updating rally tasks on daily basis for more accurate reporting.
• Worked with product owners during sprint review sessions to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done and get the stories accepted within the sprint.

Confidential - Simpayx- Phoenix

Business Analyst

Role/Responsibilities:

• Worked with product owner to prepare and enhance the product backlog.
• Organized the sprint planning meetings, work with the product owner and team to derive at:
• Which product backlog Items should be converted to working product during the current sprint
• Identified product backlog Items are further broken down into sprint tasks.
• Schedule and time box the daily stand up meetings with the team.
• Eliminate impediments and facilitate a team’s optimum performance.
• Prepare and analyze the sprint burn down chart.
• Schedule backlog-grooming meeting to refine the Product Backlog Items.
• Conduct the sprint review meeting to facilitate the team to demonstrate the product of the sprint.
• Organize sprint retrospective meetings to gather team’s reflection on the process. Identify actions and next steps to improve the future sprints.
• Prepare product burn down chart to track the remaining product backlog effort from one sprint to the next.

Confidential

Quaere Inventory Management Software (QIMS) Client - Wealth Mart

Business Analyst

Role/Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment.
• Develop business architecture using requirements and process through document analysis, workshop and workflow analysis.
• Conduct 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify the client’s needs are met.
• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy to understand data and process model.
• Assisting technical team to ensure a mutual understanding of requirements and product.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Role/Responsibilities:

• Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules and ensure alignment between development team.
• Identify and reconcile error in client data to ensure accurate business requirement.
• Actively involved in analyzing the use case and locking down the requirements.
• Translating and simplifying the business requirements into different deliverables such as functional specifications, use case, workflow/process diagrams.
• Managing and organizing business requirements to align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Facilitate monthly meeting with client to document requirements and explore business solutions.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Role/Responsibilities:

• Interact with Client in converting the business case into use cases.
• Actively involved in analyzing the use case and locking down the requirements.
• Translating and simplifying the business requirements to cover full business use case.
• Managing and organizing the requirements to complete the business objective.
• Assisting technical team with any question related to business/domain
• Involvement in SIT, UAT, Implementation and helping the client during post implementation testing.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Role/Responsibilities:

• Interact with Client in converting the business case into use cases.
• Actively involved in analyzing the use case and locking down the requirements.
• Translating and simplifying the business requirements in order to cover the full business use case.
• Managing and organizing the requirements to complete the business objective.
• Assisting technical team with any question related to business/domain
• Involvement in SIT, UAT, Implementation and helping the client during post implementation testing.