Scrum Salesforce
Resume:
AVINASH GUNDA
adco8p@r.postjobfree.com
Summary
Agile Software Development professional with a record of accomplishment in delivering and leading agile software projects. Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively lead multiple teams, through sprint cycles. Experience working with agile project management tools like JIRA and confluence. Strong knowledge of Scrum, SAFe and Kanban frameworks.
Skills
Servant Leadership, Self-starter, Detail-Oriented, Microsoft Word, Multi-tasker, Project Management, Business Analysis, Backlog refinement, SAFe, Product Management, Software Development, Visual Studio, Kanban, Scrum, Jira, Agile Methodologies, Able to recognize value, Decisive, Coach, Organization into Scrum Adoption, Agile Program Management, PowerPoint and Excel, XP
Work Experience
Scrum Master - SAFe
Anthem, Norfolk, VA Mar 2019 to Present
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies; Iteration planning, Daily scrum, Iteration refinement, Iteration review & Iteration retrospective.
Worked with development team to improve their intra-team communication and iteration work for improved visibility of current work, open issues, and priorities.
Worked with Product Owner to groom backlog and plan releases.
Removed road blocks for successful iterations, which led to the transition of releases on time.
Presented lunch, learn introductions to agile, and scrum.
Participated in Scrum Master Community, encourage cross-team sharing of agile, and scrum practices.
Facilitated scrum-of-scrum meetings with off shore team to provide visibility of team's work and coordinated cross-team dependencies.
Participated in a large Scrum adoption and implementation by designing a customized Scrum framework and governance.
Worked with the project team and Product Owners to develop and update Product Roadmap.
Conducted working sessions and planning meetings for User Stories Elaboration and Decomposition.
Provided training on writing Business and Technical User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and Agile Engineering.
Tracked daily progress using Burn down Chart metrics.
Have an basic knowledge of Agilecraft.
Collected data from PI planning to come out with a better quality backlog grooming because of a better understanding of the project and product backlog items.
Assisted my team to coordinate with other teams in the Agile Release Train and communicated status to management as needed.
Aided my team to focus on daily iteration goals in context of current PI objectives.
Promoted SAFe quality practices by providing guidance to assist the teams in constantly in improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the definition of done.
Environment: Jira, MS outlook, Confluence, SharePoint, skype, Webex, Zoom.
Scrum Master
Lowe’s, Mooresville, NC Jul 2017 to Mar 2019
Communicate with both the development team and Business
Lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
Managed 2 Agile teams, on-shore and off-shore in India. Managed Scrum ceremonies and Product Backlog prioritization and pointing.
Used Jira for Product Backlog management of items and Sprint planning.
Created a SharePoint repository to management the project and managed project tasks.
Proactively managed Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies and maintained a log of those items.
Managed Stakeholders expectations through communications and sharing of progress reports.
Ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to; must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, while enabling the team to self-organize and innovate
Continually seek improvements for self, team, and client organization by learning new tools and techniques
Facilitate discussion, effectively encourage alternatives or different approaches, and engage the team to reach consensus and actionable direction from discussions
Bring disclosure and transparency about the project to the client
Work with Product Owner and team to groom product backlog
Work with customers and team leads to outline 3-6-month release plans
Knowledge and thorough understanding of key aspects of System Development Life Cycle, Agile Development, and Scrum Methodologies
Work with clients to understand their requirements, assist Product Owners in building, organizing and managing their backlog.
Serves as the primary member of the Dev Team to organize the sprint backlog, ensure stories are ready for sprint planning, and validates stories throughout a sprint to confirm requirements meet the Product Owners expectations.
Ensures the product/project releases are well defined and communicated to the customer so that all works is visualized. Manages customer relationship and expectations and serves as the servant leader of one or more teams.
Environment: Jira, MS outlook, Confluence, SharePoint, skype, Webex, Zoom.
Salesforce Administrator
Priority Technologies, Hyderabad February 2013 to August 2016
• Worked on both Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud.
• Support sales executives by addressing their tickets related to Salesforce queries.
• Interacted with various business user groups for gathering the requirements for Salesforce
• Implemented and documented the Business and Software Requirements
• Involved in Salesforce.com Application Setup activities and customized the apps to match the functional needs.
• Worked with various salesforce.com objects like Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Campaigns, Reports and Dashboards and Reports.
• Created page layouts, search layouts to organize fields, custom links, related lists, and other components on a record detail and edit pages.
• Created test scenarios on Sandbox environment, created packages and moved it between Sandboxes and Production environments to place final implementations.
• Created and managed User Roles, Profiles, and Role Hierarchies, Public Groups, Security Controls and Shared Settings.
• Defined Workflows and setup Workflow Rules, Tasks and Alerts and created Workflow Approvals.
• Used Data Loader for insert, update, upsert and bulk import or export of data from Salesforce Objects. Used it to read, extract and load data from comma separated value (CSV) files.
Environment: Saleforce.com platform, Apex Language, Visual Force Pages, Custom Component, Custom Controllers, Workflow & Approvals, Custom Objects, Custom Tabs, Page Layouts, Email Services, Security Controls, HTML, Web Services, Reports, Sandbox.
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