SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master wif over 14+ years of extensive experience.
• Results - driven Agile Practitioner wif a proven track-record of increasing operational efficiency and team building wif a positive outcome.
• Solid SCRUM Master Experience in distributed environment, coached teams from Portfolio to program level grooming to WIP grooming to team Ceremonies, Artifices and Story writing workshops.
• Experience in interaction and influence for Agile adoption
• Advised multiple teams in best SCRUM agile practices
• Scrum Master wif experience supporting multiple Scrum teams, including offshore, and ensuring successful Sprints.
• Works wif Product Owners on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn Down and Release Burn Down.
• POS systems working wif Retails stores and Registers testing.
• Strong experience in various defect management and tracking tools: JIRA, Quality Center, Agile Central Rally.
• Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, ALM, Clear Quest, Track Record, Quality Manager, JIRA, Rally, MIRO, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Rational Clear Case, SharePoint, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, MS Office Suite.
• Experienced in using JIRA and Rally for story creation and maintenance, assigning permissions, creating backlogs, retrospectives, and sharing documents.
• Scrum Master PSM1 Certified and SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 Certified
• Experienced in multiple industries including, insurance, automotive, banking, finance and government.
• Trained the team and the engaged members of the business on Agile Methodologies
• Lead the application development team in scrum and sprint planning sessions
• Multiple software development life cycle methodologies including Agile and Scrum practices

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Proficiently organized refinement sessions, along wif sprint planning, retrospective, and daily scrum events.
• Identified and halped to remove all daily sprint impediments.
• Coached the team members on self-organization, autonomy and the scrum framework.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forcasting.
• Worked wif Product Owner to review the user stories in backlog has enough for the next few sprints
• Identified and prioritized risk issues, facilitated development of action plans
• Promoted continuous improvement by facilitating the implementation of action items from retrospective.
• Provided weekly status report to the management and stake holders.
• Ensured a collaborative and communicative culture exists across teams via Scrum of Scrums.
• Always empower the teams to self-organize and to improve the productivity of the sprint teams.
• Created and maintained project release plan.

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed all Scrum Ceremonies as per the cadence throughout the project
• Worked closely wif Application development teams in Sprint release planning and product enhancements and resource planning
• Facilitating and documenting all SCRUM ceremonies such as Daily Standup meetings, Sprint planning, User Demos, Retrospectives, and Backlog grooming for multiple Scrum teams.
• Coach and built skills in new hires in Agile-Scrum practices.
• Assist and coach teams to become self-organized and make decisions.
• Promote continuous improvement by facilitating the implementation of action items from retrospective.
• Removed impediments, facilitated conflict resolution, skillfully observed and dictated areas of impediments towards the sprint goal.
• Expertise in Rally software, gatheird/reported all relevant Agile metrics (burn down charts, team velocity etc.)
• Identified and prioritized risk issues, facilitated development of action plans
• Part of Scrum of Scrums on weekly basis
• Led onshore/offshore team to test products across multiple test environments wif a goal of delivering high quality releases.

Confidential Northbrook, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide direction and train teams to adapt scrum methodology and JIRA across the entire IT portfolio.
• Act as an agile coach and a member of Agile Project Office
• Implemented JIRA to manage and track agile projects in a structured manner for the entire IT portfolio
• Provide all support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership
• Empathetic
• Empowerment
• Persuasion
• Building Community
• Conflict Resolution
• Facilitate meeting wif product owners, business and cross functional teams
• Assist Product owner in backlog grooming (prioritization & estimation) and establishing acceptance criteria
• Create an environment and guide team(s) to self-organize

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test plans.
• Participate in the Business Specification walkthroughs.
• Created project timeline for each release.
• Prepared methodology design, functional specifications, user screen layouts, and formats for reports, and trained end users in the system.
• Organized Defect status meetings.
• Proactively managed systems development, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC.
• Knowledge and experience using RxClaim through AS 400 Screen
• Led the team of 15 members to successful releases throughout the year.
• Managed multiple projects.
• Manage onsite and offshore team.
• Involved in meetings wif offshore team twice a week.
• Organized and led Status meetings wif QA and the management
• Conduct Status meetings between Business Analyst, Dev Team, QA Team and Production Support team

Confidential Deerfield, IL

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact wif developers and BAs to understand the design and technical specifications.
• Involved in writing Test plan based on Business Requirements and System Requirements Specifications.
• Involved in writing Test cases based on Test Conditions.
• Tested Digital Prescription sent from doctor’s office to pharmaceutical application
• Execute test cases during System Test and Regression Test cycles.
• Performed POS(point of Sale) testing using image scanners, barcode scanners, POS registers and scale
• Performed testing on EV-54/Yuyama/Par Confidential machines
• Participated Test Activity Defect Status Meeting.
• Record and track defects discovered through the testing process using Quality Center
• Uploaded the test cases from the Excel spreadsheet/MS Word to Quality Center.
• Participated in test script review and approval sessions