MUHAMMAD SHAYAN NAJEEB

614-***-**** adchph@r.postjobfree.com

Professional summary:

●5+ years of Professional experience in IT with as Scrum Master and as Quality Assurance Analyst in infrastructure, Web based applications, and Mobile/ Product Applications for in leading projects and teams with multiple commendations from each past employer.

●Applied Scrum methodology in the development process, estimated the timeline, and gathered requirements that benefit the company to set milestones for a new project.

●Excellent analytical and communication skills which helps to transform client’s needs into business/functional requirements.

●Expertise in understanding Software development process (SDLC), Scrum, Agile and waterfall model methodologies.

●Experience working with various teams such as design, development and testing, across the organization.

●Strong knowledge in Microsoft excel and SharePoint.

●Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.

●Facilitated Scrum for offshore teams in India.

●Played the Scrum Master role, conducted weekly Scrum meetings to keep track on the progress of the project, and facilitated team with their daily challenges and constraints

●Documentation of all the technical, functional and operational documents

●Responsible to conduct SCRUM ceremonies to facilitate discussions between the scrum team and the stakeholders

●Expertise in delivering the product on time

●Extensive knowledge in setting up WAN network simulators (3G/LTE) like Anritsu for conducting WAN based testing.

●Involved in performing Carrier Certification Testing in Amazon Fire phone project (Network Carrier – AT&T, O2 and Deutsche Telekom).

●Experience in shell commands and scripts.

●Applied QA metrics such as requirements coverage, defect rates and distribution, and mean time to debug to the process, which saved time to narrow down the outstanding defects in critical components.

●Identified functional defects and prioritized the defect severity. Set performance benchmarks to the application

●Strong understanding of Multi Media, Bluetooth/WiFi and Connectivity features

●Strong skill in Backend Testing using SQL queries on SQL Server.

●Training new team members/transition teams to agile framework with SCRUM

●Engaging with different scrum masters across the organization to increase the effectiveness of the application of SCRUM.

●Assess Scrum Maturity of teams and the organization and coach teams to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable

●Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team

●Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories

●Highly organized with the ability to multitask

●A background in retail financial services and a proven ability to quickly understand the business strategy and objectives

●Ability to set clear performance standards and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on task

●Excellent team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Methodologies

End to End Testing, Agile, Waterfall and Scrum

Programming Languages

C, C++, Basics of C#, Python

Scripting

Shell, Python

Project Management methodologies

Agile method, SCRUM, BDD, TDD

Front End

JQuery, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Mobile Framework

Android Studio, UI Automator

Cloud Technologies

AWS, Knowledge of Microsoft Azure

Database

My SQL, Microsoft SQL Server(2012,2008,2005), Oracle

Testing Tools

Load Runner, JIRA, Testrail, Jenkins, Selenium

Operating Systems

Linux, Windows

Bluetooth Protocols

A2DP,HFP, HID,OPP,PAN and BB,LMP, L2CAP, RFCOMM, SMP,SDP

CERTIFICATION: Certified Scrum Master, Certified A+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CIRCADIA, San Francisco, USA Sep 2018 –Present

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Creates and manages project/program resource loading and budget; reconciles budget monthly and communicates risks to leadership.

●Sets and runs effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio and delivery managers

●Works with the product owner to define project scope and objectives

●Works effectively with others remove delivery team impediments

●Guides team through empirical process theory

●Organized and managed sprint ceremony meetings

●Understanding Business requirements and Identifying gaps in the Requirements.

●Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

●Helped in migration from normal trouble ticketing methodology to Sigma Tool.

●VM ware were successfully improvised where new platforms and software were tested.

●Helped the team to migrate from Single ISP to Dual ISP.

●By the migration,the link failures across the LAN were monitored

●Test environment set up helped in infrastructure scalability.

●The on frame existing data were all made Cloud oriented.

●Helped in migration of on frame to cloud ( Microsoft Azure).

●Coordinated the work efforts of 30 member team for project. Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.

●Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.

●Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

●Planned and monitored project budget/spending.

VERGE MOBILE LLC, Houston, Tx Jun. 2016 – Jul. 2018

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lesson learned documents

●Allocating work, providing solutions, and resolving problems to meet technical performance/financial objectives

●Coordinates all scrum ceremonies including spring planning, daily standups, sprint retrospectives, spring demos, story grooming, and release planning

●Coaching and mentoring other scrum masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across our teams

●Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines

●Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

●Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team

●Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

●Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

●Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos

●Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions

●Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met

●Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings

●Work closely with project managers in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

●Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.

●Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

●Helped testing team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

●Identified potential project risks and helped developed a mitigation plan to resolve potential issues.

●Helped in migrating from old trouble ticketing methodology to new tool for data center migration.

●Espresso network monitoring tool was successfully developed and is used for migrations.

Nezoreh infotech, Pakistan Nov 2013 – Jan. 2016

Role: Jr. Business Analyst/Scrum master

Responsibilities:

●Involved and participated in user meetings with business process owners, subject matter experts and store users for requirement gathering in Definition stage.

●Performed the requirement analysis, impact analysis and documented Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD) using MS Project.

●Managed scope and change throughout the SDLC process of product.

●Reviewed FRS and walkthroughs with designers, developers and stakeholders.

●Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level user cases, activity diagrams/ State chart diagrams (UML).

●Prepared test strategy, test plan, test report, gap report, screen shots and web layouts for the application.

●Performed UAT based on requirement document and prepared the test cases using quality center.

●Maintained traceability matrix in word and excel.

●Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings.

●Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.

●Prepared extensive cost - benefit analysis to support system and process changes.

●Meticulously analyzed complex data, staffing plans and variances to recommend solutions to improve revenue for customer satisfaction/retention.

EDUCATION

Karachi University

Bachelor of Commerce Graduated: 2009

Associate Certified Chartered Accountancy (cleared 7/13 exams and the Professional Ethics Module) 2006-2012

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