SUMMARY

• 10 years of experience in SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience in eliciting requirements from Stakeholders and SME’s using various techniques such as Brainstorming, Interview sessions, Prototyping, Requirement workshops, and Document analysis.
• Outstanding experience in writing User stories and Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies like Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective and an expert in prioritizing techniques such as Moscow and estimation techniques such as Planning Poker, T - shirt sizing.
• Extensive experience in communicating with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), gathering requirements, analyzing Business Process, documenting various artifacts and testing operations.
• Collaborated with senior management to incorporate new trends and developments in current and future solutions.
• Facilitated, coached, and guided teh teams on values and principles of Agile andScrum.
• Assisted RTE in conducting PI Planning events.
• Extensive experience working with Distributed Scrum Teams in managing and delivering outcomes for each sprint.
• Expertise in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Worked extensively on GAP analysis to find steps between AS-IS to TO-BE state, Impact Analysis, Feasibility Analysis, Risk Analysis, Project Analysis and documentation.
• Expertise in creating Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity flow Diagrams, Data-Flow Diagrams, Process Work-Flow Diagrams and other UML-based diagrams using MS Visio.
• Extensive knowledge in maintaining KPI’s like Product backlog, Burn down chart, Team Capacity and Team Velocity using tools like JIRA and RALLY and document management tools like SharePoint & Confluence.
• Involved in Testing Methods such as User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Excellent communication, Design thinking, problem-solving, critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.
• A Proactive and dedicated team player, with a proven track record in producing high quality work under tight deadlines and in multi-tasking to meet business goals.
• Ensured clear communication and organization of teh team, along with maintaining teh core scrum artifacts and facilitating teh core scrum ceremonies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PM Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall PMI Project Planning Methodology, Critical Path Method

Project Management Tools: JIRA, MS Project, Rally, Time Track

S/W packages: MS-Office

Technologies: PC and Web Technologies (java / J2EE / PHP)

QA: HP QC, QTP

Databases: MS-Access and SQL-Server, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wayne NJ

Scrum Master (Scrum, Kanban)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh role of Scrum master for teh Scrum teams in teh project
• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Reviews and Scrum of Scrums (SoS) for all teh teams in teh domain
• Coached teh teams to be self-organizing and ensured teh adherence of all teh Scrum concepts and processes
• Ensured project's adherence to Enterprise Agile Life cycle
• Developed automated metrics for Agile/Scrum for Executive Leadership team
• Supported projects by implementing Agile Life Cycle Management Tool - “Rally” to manage backlog and halped to generate and analyze business metrics to be reported
• Agile Coaching - Release & Iteration Planning and Tracking. Conducted training on scrum, facilitated teh daily standup, sprint review and sprint retrospective meeting.
• Elicited requirements with business owner and converted business requirement into Use Cases.
• Conducted JAD sessions, interviews, and surveys to collect teh requirements
• Scrum Master for developing a web-based application to enable internal and external clients to configure, input, process, and generate tax forms from one central place.
• Scrum Master for Organization Chart team, to generate charts depicting teh organization structure of clients, showing teh relationship among Partnerships, Partners, Investments, and Investors at National and International level.
• In addition to typical Scrum ceremonies, responsible for: Roadmap planning, Release planning, Product Backlog Refinement, Team Building and Resource planning.
• Removed impediments towards teh delivery of work.
• Executed and monitored teh planned work.
• Kept Product Owners and teh Stakeholders updated on status of teh project.
• Look out for improvement opportunities to increase team velocity.
• Delivery of new features as agreed upon during Sprint Planning.
• Keeping teh KPI team together all teh time to ensure successful sprints.
• Drew strategy of Release plans for product backlogs, created sprint backlogs per teh release cycles and estimated hours of work for user stories, reviewed teh Burn down chart to target teh delivery dates for each sprint, and facilitated daily stand up meetings.
• Served as Agile Coach, Scrum Trainer and initially as Scrum Master to facilitate organizational transformation and teh adoption of Agile principles dat improved software quality, productivity and predictability of release schedules; contributed to teh successful release.
• Developed Epics and themes for teh project.
• Maintained process documentation and ensured teh development teams are practicing teh core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Assisted Product Owner as needed with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency, and disseminating information

Environment: SCRUM - Agile methodologies, Waterfall, User Experience Design (UXD), Personas, MS Office (Excel, Visio, Project), Team Center PLM, HP Quality Center,Ms Projects & Visio

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Scrum Master

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Co-coordinating with teh business to understand teh requirements and act as a bridge between teh business sponsors and teh technical team.
• Enforcing agile and Scrum principles to teh teams to enhancements through application.
• Facilitated, Servant Lead, Coached and trained teh team in all teh Scrum ceremonies like daily scrum meetings, Sprint planning, KPI Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
• Facilitated sprint ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily standup, Sprint Review and interactive Sprint Retrospectives.
• Worked closely with product owner and teh stakeholders in prioritizing teh Product backlog and team for teh sprint backlog.
• Assisted teh team in story point estimations using various techniques like Poker planning, Bucket system, T-shirt sizing across teh timeframe of teh project for sprint user stories and resolved any impediments through teh process.
• Participating with teh team in story point estimations using technique like poker planning across teh timeframe of teh project for sprint user stories during teh iteration planning sessions.
• Facilitated teh SLA meetings between teh legal team and other departments involved.
• Facilitated UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and created UAT Documents.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.
• A Proactive and dedicated team player, with a proven track record in producing high quality work under tight deadlines and in multi-tasking to meet business goals.
• Assisted in creating user stories and developed mockup screens to communicate GUI design with web app developers and halp them clarify functional and non-functional requirements.
• Facilitating Demo sessions and UAT sessions for end users.

Environment: Java, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, JIRA, confluence, XML, KPI RESTful API’s, Postman, Jenkins, Github

Confidential, Charlotte NC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives; coached team members and clients on Agile process.
• Assisted Product Owner in grooming product backlog and Updated teh user stories based on teh requirement changes.
• Coordinated cross-functional process development and identified opportunities and improve teh process.
• Coaching teh team in Agile best Practices and conducting Agile Games.
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) in agile framework.
• Conducted walk through sessions to discuss certain issues with stakeholders, architectures and design & development teams and performed GAP Analysis.
• Managed product backlog within JIRA and Tracked UAT issues/bugs and prepared reports.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, MS Office, SQL, KPI, MS Project, MS Visio, TFS, Sharepoint, Windows.

Confidential, San Antonio TX

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Elicited and gatheird user and business requirements through open ended discussions, brainstorming and prototyping.
• Utilized Rational Unified Process (RUP) to configure and develop process, standards and procedures.
• Performed GAP analysis to compare teh existing system with teh proposed system and documented new requirements and features.
• Developed Business Requirement Document and Use Cases Specification for various Use Cases.
• Responsible for converting teh business requirements into functional and non-Functional requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with all teh Project directors and stakeholders and created process Workflows, Functional Specifications and project initiation artifacts.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analysts and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion.
• Created and managed project templates, KPI, use case templates, requirement types and tractability matrix in Requisite Pro.
• Identified Use Cases from teh requirements. Created Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams/State Chart Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams, UML Methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Monitor version control and defect tracking activities using Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest.
• Assisted quality assurance team in testing different releases and in designing test plans and test cases. Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Allocating funds, resources to teams and making sure they are under teh financial, and technical specified by teh organization.
• Movement of resources across teams and locations. Cost monitoring and control for new and existing projects.
• Responsible for funding and resource change requests for several projects.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Perform Rates, Forms and Phraseology maintenance requests using in house utilities developed.
• Test rates, forms and phraseology maintenance requests
• Review rates, forms and phraseology maintenance requests.
• Analyse on Incident management tickets and provide resolution in a timely fashion.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents and provide permanent fix.
• Analyse maintenance release requirements; code and unit test teh solution.
• Monitor Batch jobs, analyze problems and provide resolutions
• Prepare System/User Documentation and Documentation of Business rules
• Perform quality reviews.
• Participate in weekly status meetings with onsite

Environment: Visual basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 2000