SUMMARY

• An Agile enthusiast with 8+ years in IT and 4+ Years in coaching and facilitating effective management of Scrum frameworks.

• Active member of Project Management Institute, Agile Certified Practitioners PMI ACP
• Excellent team motivation skills with servant leadership qualities to nudge, steer, and help team in fulfilling scrum goals by facilitating scrum ceremonies
• Strong experience handling SAFe Agile Teams practicing best practices from Scrum and Kanban
• Hands on experience in handling Agile teams practicing Acceptance Test Driven Development process (ATDD), Test Driven Development (TDD) cycle
• Experience in educating teams on adopting Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban for software development
• Expert in motivating agile transitioning teams to adapt agile methodologies and self - organizational traits
• Expert in doing Root Cause Analysis for identifying and resolving team’s performance hurdles and suggested fool-proof techniques for successful completion of agile sprints; effective utilization of the sprint retrospective meetings
• Expertise in conducting Story mapping & Sprint planning practices and illustration of the vision of the project
• Expert in using various techniques to refine the product backlog with Business value and Effort estimates by facilitating product refinement meetings
• Empowering the team to knock blockers out themselves and build trust to communicate clearly and objectively
• Expert in handling time boxed daily scrum calls with brisk and relevant discussions
• Inspection and adaption of the team activities in sprint retrospective meetings
• Highly experienced in tracking and communicating sprint release progress through burn-down charts
• Expert in evaluating User Stories from epics and refining Backlog list with Business owner
• Training and mentoring developers and quality analysts in understanding agile methodologies
• Effective blocking of the scrum team impediments and deviations from cross functional teams
• Worked with Architects, Data modelers, Developers, Testing teams thereby coordinating efforts
• Proven success in eliciting requirements, GAP analysis, Risk assessment, and SWOT analysis
• Leading and working with teams to examine and solve business problems by accurately analyzing the needs of clients and helping them achieve improved quality and value for their customers
• Experience in networking with individuals at various levels and possess outstanding skills in structuring and facilitating Joint Application Design sessions
• Involving in Feasibility and Estimation meetings to gain in depth knowledge of the entire scope of the project
• Collaborating and analyzing with all the strategic business units to define the areas for implementation of Business re-engineering
• Effectively handling sign off process with stake holders at different levels and executing good conflict resolution approaches
• Dedicated & Self-motivated individual with proven leadership capabilities, verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills and time management skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe, Kanban

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, Interviews, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting

Requirement Management: MS Office suite, JIRA, Rally, StoriesOnBoard

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, Mocqups Screens, Wireframes

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint Server

Testing Tools: HP QC, HP ALM, Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Being a servant leader coached the team to improve continuously using agile principles
• Organized Product backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective
• Educated agile teams adopting scaled agile (SAFe), Scrum, and Kanban as frameworks for software development
• Coordinated in SAFe Release Train and helped SAFe Agile team to meet its goals and coordinate activities with other teams
• Acted as Agile Coach, Scrum Master and Servant Leader for technical cross functional teams implementing SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban
• Educated Agile teams on the use of Kanban and flow to optimize the team’s work
• Mentored and empowered teams towards making appropriate commitments through story selection, establishing acceptance criteria, automated test driven development (ATDD) and test driven development (TDD), story sizing and task definition
• Ensured adoption of engineering practices, DevOps, and Agile architecture
• Ensured a faster flow of value to end user using mechanisms for tighter integration of development and deployment operations (DevOps)
• Facilitated use of Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Pair programming for robust code development
• Ensured engineering practices like TDD (Test Driven Development), code reviews using Crucible, Continuous Integration (CI) and Pair Programming
• Handled Defects by emphasizing on Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Educated the team in how to manage an overall release plan, velocity forecast with agile metrics through standard agile tooling such as JIRA
• Protect scrum team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog and project time lines
• Delivering Minimum Viable Product to the Business owners from where the consumption got productionable
• Involved in breaking down the concepts into user stories and streamlining the daily delegation of incoming issues using Issue tracking system
• Resolved impediments/roadblocks to re-create the focus on accomplishing the sprint goal

• Conducted retrospective meetings to inspect the team’s performance and adapt new changes
• Negotiating with Product Owner in backlog management for scope creeps and continuous delivery
• Tracking and Radiating team metrics through burn-down charts to higher executives
• Actively contributed throughout the scrum/agile process in daily standups, functional and technical grooming sessions

Confidential

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting story mapping and story boarding session to elicit high level features and goals from the Product owners
• Creating good user stories and tasks using INVEST and SMART Principles
• Developing user stories and grooming them with product owners throughout the agile lifecycle
• Serve as a liaison between product owner and scrum team for communicating well developed user stories
• Assisted with the development of project schedules using MS Project
• Analyzed an efficient production workflow using Microsoft technology
• Grooming well developed user stories with user acceptance criteria and mockups if required for developing a good product backlog
• Creating data flow diagrams and business process flow diagrams for better understanding of the business needs by the scrum team
• Creating the Gap analysis document by analyzing the as is process and understanding the future need
• Negotiating effectively with Product owner on the release priorities and exceptional scope creep
• Significant contribution to stories development in product backlog, sprint backlog and release backlog meetings
• Active participant in Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review and Product review meetings
• Utilizing Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the productivity of the team
• Involving users actively in User Acceptance Tests (UAT) between development team and the end users from the business team
• Participated in daily stand-up meetings and sprint review meetings
• Developing Business requirement document and responsibly taking the signoffs at each stages
• Documenting functional requirement documents, use cases, mockups and roles documentation as needed
• Checking the integrity of the newly added features and their effect to the existing ones with integrity testing and regression testing
• Conducting smoke test, black box test, alpha test and beta test along with Quality Assurance teams
• Coordinate development activities by managing the technical requirements in a requirements traceability matrix

Confidential

Graduate Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Research article materials, presentations and assist in project proposals on Gifted Education
• Prepare purchase requisitions and verify vendor invoices
• Prepare newsletter, Brochures
• Assisted Program Director in STEM based residential summer camp TGS 2016, Educational Research Conference and Duke TIP at Confidential University in 2017