SUMMARY

• 9+ years of experience in IT of which 2 years as Scrum Master and 4 years in implementing Data Warehouse applications using ETL Tools - Informatica & Ab Initio, UNIX, Oracle, Teradata and 3 years of experience in functional and Manual testing.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance.
• Worked primarily in the domain of Investments/Retail Banking and Health care services.
• Extensive experience in working with Agile environment- Agile values and principles.
• Ability to guide/coach teams and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
• Work with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data.
• Arrange daily stand-ups, facilitate story grooming, coordinate sprint reviews, planning and retrospectives.
• Clear understanding of business procedures and ability to work as an individual, as a part of a team and leading a team.
• Effective communication skills, good analytical abilities, and zeal in learning new tools.
• Proficiency in development and preparing all possible test cases for Unit testing of various AbInitio graphs and workflows in informatica.
• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent and conflicting priorities and deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Issue Tracking Tool: JIRA

ETL Tool: Informatica, Ab Initio

Operating Systems: UNIX

Scheduling Tool: Ops Console

Databases: Teradata, Oracle, Informix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate all scrum related meetings - stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, etc.
• Initiate, develop, and grow relationships within the team, and across teams.
• Perform risk management, clearing impediments and monitoring dependencies.
• Tracks metrics that are important to project success and continuous improvement.
• Assisting Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning.
• Facilitating estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.
• Coaching developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles.
• Shielding the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences. motivating multiple groups and stakeholders at an organizational level, maximizing the potential of all at stake. bridging the gap between the concept of the project and the actions required to complete it.
• Creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product.
• Facilitating communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team.
• Monitoring project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning.
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Environment: JIRA, Informatica, Teradata, ESP.

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate all scrum related meetings - stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, etc.
• Initiate, develop, and grow relationships within the team, and across teams.
• Perform risk management, clearing impediments and monitoring dependencies.
• Tracks metrics that are important to project success and continuous improvement.
• Assisting Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning.
• Facilitating estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.
• Coaching developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles.
• Shielding the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Environment: Jira, Ab Initio, Oracle, Unix.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a testing team.
• Involved in writing queries that are used for testing the output.
• Attending various Status/Review meetings with On-site Teams.

Environment: Ab Initio, Oracle, Unix.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and analysis.
• Involved in development of AbInitio graphs.
• Attending various Status/Review meetings with On-site Teams.
• Involved in unit testing.

Environment: Oracle, UNIX.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development and testing of Ab Initio graphs and wrapper scripts
• Attending various Status/Review meetings with On-site Teams.
• Involved in writing SQL queries.

Environment: Informix, UNIX, SQL Queries.

Confidential

Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Verification and Validation of Source systems and FDW data.
• Attending various Status/Review meetings with On-site Teams.
• Involved in writing SQL queries.
• Had been to on-site for project training.
• Involved in functional testing.

Environment: Windows: 2000/XP, Quality Centre 9.0