Scrum Master Software Development

SUMMARY:

Experienced Scrum Master with a proven history of understanding and building complex systems. I am excited to continue expanding my skillset by working with multiple domain experience focusing on removing impediments from large teams / cross functional teams to delivering in customer-centric products and features. Excellent and effective communication skills with in depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with thorough understanding of various phases.

ACADEMICS:

Bachelor of Computer Science Osmania University India

SKILLS:

Operating System - Windows 2007/2010/XP/NT, MS Office, SharePoint, PowerPoints

Methodologies - SAFe, Lean, LeSS, Waterfall, Agile, Kanban and Scrum.

Data Mapping - XML, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and ETL

SDLC Skills - Use case analysis, Functional design, Process Analysis, Requirement’s analysis,

Unit, Functional, Integration Test Design & execution, User Stories, UML-class & use cases.

Business Modeling Tools - MS-Visio, BPM, XML, MS Office Package, PowerPoint, JIRA & JIRA Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Walmart, Remote July 2021 to Jan 2023

Bentonville, Arkansas

Responsibilities:

Worked for MFC, Metis and Flow Forecast Walmart End to End Supply Chain Projects

Managing timelines, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements, design and delivery dates are clearly communicated, understood, and executed upon.

Actively monitor project risks, scope, and dependencies, and help remove identified roadblocks.

Coached teams across all the projects to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum Framework.

Led all Scrum Ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Requirement Sessions, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and daily stand-ups, Road maps, PI meetings.

Working closely with dependency teams.

Coordinating with Business, Market teams to align in with requirements.

Understand and implement agile methodologies including SCRUM, Agile and Kanban.

Work with team members to continually improve velocity and quality.

Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined and ready to be worked on by the teams

Liaise with external and internal groups including TMS, design/UX, engineering, sales/marketing, and media/advertising partners.

Facilitated discussion, decision making and conflict resolution across teams.

Develop project plans for key business initiatives that track progress, deliver milestones on time, and keep team members up to date.

Conduct sprint retrospectives and prepare/present reports (e.g., velocity, burn down charts, retrospectives, and action plan).

USDA, Kansas City, MO Nov 2017 to Sept 2020

Scrum Master/Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

Ensured Multiple FSA projects and teams lived Agile values and principles and followed Federal required processes and practices

Providing research and gathering requirements for Agricultural Federals as needed to support Management in decision-making.

Ensured all Scrum Ceremonies and activities were tracked, kept up-to-date and reported

Conduct sprint retrospectives and prepare/present reports (e.g., velocity, burn down charts, retrospectives, and action plan).

Provided coaching and support and drove Agile/Lean Practices to delver value across the organization.

Tracked Sprint metrics and maintained dialogue with teams and performances, challenges, accountability and recognition.

Documenting flows and procedures for performance quality and result implementations.

Facilitating business need identification for enhancements.

Requirements and process analysis bases on business requirement.

During the lifecycle of a project, lead the effort in gathering functional and non-functional requirements, As-Is and To- Be business rules by facilitating JAD sessions.

Creating SDLC Artifacts.

Implemented industry best practices for software engineering including Agile Methodology, UI/UX Design, Data engineering, code Review and testing

Review Documentation with Team

Attend and Facilitate meetings.

SE2 Security Benefits Topeka, KS Mar 2017 to Sept 2017

Scrum Master/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Gathering requirements, working with the Designers/Developers for setting tasks during scrum.

Facilitating business need identification

Facilitate scrum ceremonies as needed for multiple teams.

Conduct sprint retrospectives and prepare/present reports (e.g., velocity, burn down charts, retrospectives, and action plan).

Ensuring efforts and track team’s velocity

Providing research as needed to support Management in decision-making.

Developing and executing proposed business/technical support solutions that will allow the Client and internal customer departments to become more efficient and effective.

Documenting flows and procedures for performance quality because of implementations.

Ensuring quality of solutions delivered.

Identifying, developing, and executing continuous improvement opportunities and other support to Operations areas as identified.

Empower (Great West Financial) Overland Park, KS

Business Process Analyst Oct 15 to Dec 2016

Responsibilities:

Involved in merging data from legacy system to current system.

Perform validation in Omni and EASY record keeping applications.

Developed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional requirements.

Involved in Business Intelligence of data analytics, merging of data, reconciliation &validation

Maintained Project tracking and documentation.

Facilitate weekly meetings for project updates

Created high level mock-ups and detailed documentation as required by the process,

including functional specifications

Responsible for managing assigned projects and tasks. This includes communicating the status of task/projects, timely completion and quality control in the oversight of deliverables.

Perform data analysis and validation, from Omni data record keeping applications to new system EASY record keep system application.

Provide day to day support to existing projects and troubleshoots if any issues as they arise.

Involved in multiple projects.

Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL, and PL/SQL statements

Formulate, define and documenting systems/application scope and objective working closely with team.

Perform system/application testing to ensure delivery meets business and end-user expectations. Depending on assigned areas.

Perform portions of the system development migration life cycle including, gathering, documenting, gap analysis and analyzing requirements for moderately complex, multiplatform applications.

Attend and facilitate meetings for ongoing and prospective projects.

Verizon

Sr. Business Analyst Dec 14 – Sept 15

Responsibilities:

Agile delivery of software using practices from Scrum.

Collaborated with Product Management and other stakeholders to define the business problems that need solving.

Process and technical mentoring, leadership, and coaching

Project conception, planning, risk assessment and management

Effectively communicating with internal and external teams

Facilitate day to day scrum meetings

Resolving issues regarding road blocks

Methodology development and process maturation using agile and traditional approaches

Requirements analysis and customer collaboration for mobile web-based services.

Consulting with technical and non-technical team members.

Object oriented architecture, analysis, design, and software development

Analyzed system specifications and business requirements.

Created User Requirements Document for companywide reports by communicating with end users and developers.

Created high level mock-ups and detailed documentation as required by the process, including functional specifications

Planned, coordinated, and monitored project levels of performances and activities to ensure project completion using Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Developed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional.

Humana, Louisville, KY

BA Analyst Jan 14 to Nov 14

Responsibilities:

Discussion with Client for understanding the Business Requirements

Identifying risks & developing risk mitigation strategies.

Identifying priorities in consultation with the client and changing the schedule

Assigning roles and responsibilities to subordinates

Holding team meetings

Escalating any resource issue/support issue received from Client

Coordinate teleconference with Humana Inc. and TCS team to clear any queries that needs immediate attention

Report defects or bugs if any in a SQUIDS tool while testing

Close the defects/ test cases post successful testing

Daily scrum meetings with different teams and projects

USPS, Washington DC

Business Analyst Jul 12 to Dec 13

Responsibilities:

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line operations and the technical areas

throughout the project cycle

Excellent working knowledge and understanding of supply chain management and mailing industry practices.

Developed strategic partnerships with the business unit to develop a solid knowledge base of the business line, including the business rules (to-be and as-IS) related to access control, authorization, provisioning etc.

Planning, requirements gathering & analysis, documentation, testing and

implementation of the products.

Assisted PM in project planning, WBS and preparation of score cards, roadmaps, identifying critical path if any and analyzing & working towards resolving the issues.

Performed extensive Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis, and risk analysis.

During the lifecycle of a project, lead the effort in gathering functional and non-functional requirements, As-Is and To- Be business rules by facilitating JAD sessions.

Developed business requirement documents, functional/system requirement documents, use cases, prototypes various presentations detailing the process, design specifications in each phase of the application, which involved series of meetings with clients,

Actively participated in analyzing the market research to get better knowledge on prevailing advanced products in market and customer expectations, target customers.

Country Wide Home Loans, San Montana, CA

BA Analyst Feb 10 to July 12

Responsibilities:

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line operations and the technical areas throughout the project cycle

Played a key role in the Planning, requirements gathering & analysis, documentation, testing and implementation of the products.

Assisted PM in project planning, WBS and preparation of score cards, roadmaps, identifying critical path if any and analyzing & working towards resolving the issues.

Performed extensive Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis and risk analysis for webs-based services.

During the lifecycle of a project, lead the effort in gathering functional and non-functional requirements, As-Is and To- Be business rules by facilitating JAD sessions.

Developed business requirement documents, functional/system requirement documents, use cases, prototypes various presentations detailing the process, design specifications in each phase of the application

Actively participated in analyzing the market research to get better knowledge on prevailing advanced products in market and customer expectations, target customers.

Assisted in formulating test cases, test plans, test Scenarios for with the testing team to streamline the testing process.

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