MALVIKA KHURANA

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Adept experience in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies- Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid environment. Good analyzation skills in implementing SAFe, Scrum, Kanban frameworks. Excellent work ethics, analytical, written, and interpersonal skills describing a committed team player. Capable of bringing enthusiasm and awareness to teams, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Master Accredited Certification (SMAC)

PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner- 21 hours training)

PMI-PMP (Understanding of Agile development methodologies and PMBOK principles)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●Hands on work experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes such as Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

●Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that includes GAP analysis, Impact Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis, Feasibility studies.

●Comprehensive knowledge in facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective ceremonies on a regular basis.

●Expertise in Agile techniques including user stories, velocity & capacity planning, story points assignment, product/sprint backlog, burn-down/burn-up chart and test-driven development (TDD), feature driven development (FDD).

●Experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

●Proficient in Eliciting Requirements using techniques such as Joint Requirements Planning Sessions (JRP), Joint Application Development Session (JAD), Data Analytics along with experience in Interviews, Focus Groups, Prototyping, Document Analysis.

●Proficient in using MS Visio for creating UML diagrams like Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Entity Relationship diagram (ER), Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and BPMN for process diagrams.

●Comprehensive knowledge in implementing applications using the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

●Demonstrated Lean-Agile leadership

●Facilitated the team's advancement toward team goals, arrangement, and preparation for ART events like supporting the PO.

●Followed inspection, transparency and adaptation and coached the Scrum teams about three pillars.

●Experienced on DOR, DOD, Acceptance Criteria, Estimation, Story Splitting, Dependency Management

●Comprehensive knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

●Experienced and excellent skills in creating user stories and prioritization.

●Collaborated with PO in breaking-down of epics into user stories (INVEST format) and requirements.

●Help product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.

●Helped the teams adopt agile related techniques (MOSCOW technique, Planning Poker, T- shirt sizing, Bucket system, Silent writing, Happiness Histogram, Treasury Island).

●Mentored as an Agile Coach for development team and stakeholders.

●Experienced in updating status reporting to product owners and SOS and project reporting to stakeholders.

●Participated in Scrum of Scrums (SOS) meetings for dependency management and coordinated with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) for dependency mapping and Architectural Runway issues.

●Hands on experience supporting the clients during the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and participated in functional and performance testing of RESTful and SOAP services.

●Experience in the use of Agile/Scrum related tools such as Rally, JAMA, SharePoint to document and visualize stories, tasks, and measure performance through burn down charts/velocity charts.

●Facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies and kept the team on track with the team’s performance and progress.

●Experience in successfully leading a team to achieve Project targets and Deadlines

●Effective Communicator with good Interpersonal and Client Relational skills.

●Ability to work under pressure and for tight deadlines.

SKILL SET

Proficient in Agile-Scrum, Waterfall Methodology and Project Scheduling

Product Development Methodologies: Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Miro, Mural, Slack, Confluence, Rally, SharePoint

Virtual Collaboration Tools: Zoom, Skype, Teams, Google Hangout

Data Analysis: Excel, JMP

Modelling Tools: MS Visio, Star UML, Lucid Chart

Prototyping Tools: Balsamiq, draw.io, In Vision, Azure

Testing Tools: PeopleSoft, worked on Purpose Financials’ own product

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department: Idaho State Tax Commission

Role: Tax Automated System Specialist Feb 2023- Nov 2023

Roles & Responsibilities:

Serve as the liaison between users and development staff

Maintain documentation of system functions including data elements, test results, reporting requirements, and output

Act as a subject matter expert and coordinate activities

Identify and recommend automated system enhancements, modifications, and implementation methods, procedures, and time frames

Establish project scope, business requirements, work plans, timelines, and implementation strategies

Review processing errors to evaluate and/or develop specifications for the implementation of changes in system data

Planning, coordinating, and implementing projects

Company: Purpose Financial, Inc., Spartanburg, SC

Role: Scrum Master/ Product Owner Apr 2019-Feb 2022

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a scrum master have been involved in development of scope of project work, schedule, and budget for assigned project elements, resource allocation, and monitoring progress to meet schedule and budget requirements

As a scaled agile scrum master, have been involved in PI planning, scrum development, product release management, epic/feature grooming, product backlog refinement, breaking down user stories, and defining acceptance criteria.

Experience of managing multiple teams (avg. size 7-10) and multiple projects simultaneously while meeting goals and objectives through appropriate problem-solving, delegation and decision making.

During sprint end helped the team in testing, did defect management (status/ documentation) in Rally, provided status reports.

Did automated and manual user acceptance test to verify before the demo sessions.

Managed day-to-day project stakeholder’s relationships, ensured effective communication, and worked to develop long-term relationships

Always acting as a bridge between the team and outside interruptions to maintain a safe working environment for the team

Have been extensively applying the best use of Rally tool features for keeping the track of user stories, tasks and progress of the work through tracking velocity and capacity of the team and constantly monitoring burn down and burn up charts. Also, great expertise in MS-Project.

Monitored project execution and progress, staff resource, schedule, scope, budget, and project issues necessary to achieve its successful completion

Attend various scrum meetings and as a scrum master represent my team as a part of agile release train

Collaborate closely with product owner to maintain a well-ordered backlog, confirm priorities, and make adjustments for conflicts

Assist the product owner in prioritizing the backlog items using MOSCOW and T-shirt sizing technique

Understand project milestones, goals, and expectations through collaboration with Product Owners, Project Managers and Solution Managers to ensure alignment on strategy and execution

Gather technical and functional business requirements from business stakeholders through effective brainstorming and focus group sessions

Create technical user stories that adhere to the INVEST and SMART criteria’s by carefully analyzing the granularity of each function. Positively support the team and members during the sprint retrospective sessions

Facilitate team for playing planning poker to help team define story points for the user stories during the product increment planning and sprint planning sessions.

Coordinate with multiple ART (Agile Release Train) teams for effective product and demo to enable feedbacks from stakeholders

Create release planning for sprints by calculating the estimated velocity continuously.

Motivate and get the team ready for sprint Demo sessions with the business. Support the team and business during the deployment and handle the War Room Sessions during the deployment.

Company: Astute Business Solutions, Pleasanton, CA

Role: System Analyst June 2018-March 2019

Roles & Responsibilities:

The position required designing, developing, and executing test plans and procedures.

Used automation testing tools (Oracle PeopleSoft) for regression testing, built test cases and test plans.

Visited clients on-site (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Francisco-California), gathered requirements, documented, and updated on PM Tool- Asana, reported to the team, and worked on the same as per the need.

Worked on the intelligent Bots (Chatbots), how they work (how to input intents and get response by feeding the utterances etc.)

Project presentations were made in Visio & PowerPoint for the client demos.

Report writing & documentation was done in company standard format.

Gained great knowledge and experience from the job meticulously.

Got a chance to represent the Organization at #OracleOpenWorld2018, San Francisco, California.

EDUCATION

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering

University of Idaho, USA

Master of Business Administration

Panjab University, India

Bachelor of Science in Electrical

Engineering

Punjab Technical University, India

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