Scrum Jira

An accomplished and result-oriented Certified Scrum Master, Business systems analyst with +4 years’ experience in various domains such as Data Analytics, Construction Management. Extensive experience in delivering and deploying large scale projects. Managed and coached several teams on an Agile framework to effectively release the projects. Excellent work ethics, problem solving capabilities, logical and analytical skills coupled with excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills describing a committed team player.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Passionately helping Teams and Organizations to flourish and thrive by acting as their Trusted partner, help them Crossing the ‘Chasm’ quickly and safely on their journey to Enterprise Agility.

In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life cycles (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

SAFe Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in Agile Methodology and different frameworks such as Scrum, Lean Agile, Kanban, Xtreme Programming, Nexus, LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), DAD (Disciplined Agile)

Inspired Multiple teams and leaders in fostering Agile culture in their organizations - marked by servant leadership behaviors, entrepreneurial spirit, experimentation & continuous learning mindset, relentless focus on discovering & delivering value in short iterations with faster feedback cycles, and self-organizing teams with high levels of trust, transparency, collaboration, and ownership.

Facilitate Retrospectives at key Project milestones and final project completion, to confirm project acceptance and satisfaction, and to establish lessons learned.

Experienced in training the teams on maintaining Transparency, continuous Inspection and Adaption.

Involved in PI Planning, Scrum Development, Product Release Management, Feature Refinement, Product Backlog Refinement, Vertical Slicing User stories and defining User story Acceptance Criteria.

Leading software development utilizing SDLC, ALM, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, etc

Used JIRA Query Language to build to create personalized view of JIRA software and used Plug ins such as Zephyr, Tempo Time sheets, Portfolio and Risk Management

Used Rally to forecast realistic Road Maps, Managed Team resources for Capacity Planning, track Progress with Real- Time Planning.

Conduct Release Planning meetings and facilitate business analysis activities.

Facilitate estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques.

Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics burn down charts and team velocity.

Coach team members on Agile principles and excellent communication and logical skills.

Trained the Team in conducting effective Scrum Processes and other scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-upspring Reviews and Sprint Retrospective.

Experience with widely used Agile Engineering techniques like: Test Driven Development (TTD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Behavioral Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD), Pair programming and Automated Testing.

Experienced in INVEST Criteria and MOSCOW techniques for user stories creation and prioritization.

Proficient in creating Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Business Required Document (BRD), System requirement specifications (SRS) and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Experienced in creating RACI matrix to teams for better communication.

Experienced in Functionality Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Load/Stress Testing, Performance Testing and Maintenance testing in different projects.

Extensive Experience in creating Test Scripts, Test Plans, Test Cases, to ensure Quality Assurance and to test all the business requirements.

Expertise in Extracting SQL Queries using Joins, Stored Procedures, Views using DDL, DML, DCL Commands.

Excellent understanding about Cloud Computing and different Amazon Web Services (AWS) like Identity and Access Management (IAM),Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2),Simple Storage Service (S3),Glacier, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), NACL, Elastic load Balancing (ELB), Route53, Cloud front, SNS, RDS, Redshift.

Experience in gathering business processes, Performing Risk analysis, Gap analysis and Impact analysis.

Comprehensive knowledge of web services related concepts such as XML, WSDL, HTML, Ajax, SOA, API and web architecture.

Good knowledge of Client-Server Architecture and implemented Client-side, Server-side, and Database validations.

Actively contributed for SOA Orchestration and set up of Business Engine. Extensive knowledge in 3-tier and n-tier architecture.

Extensive experience in Requirements Gathering process using different elicitation techniques such as Client Interviewing, Workshops, job shadowing, survey/Questionnaire etc.

Experience in Creating UML modeling, Sequence and Activity diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) using MS VISIO.

Extensive experience in Project Management, Data modeling, Business Process Flows, Implementation plans, Data Dictionary, Disaster Recovery, SWOT Analysis.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid

Frameworks

Scrum, TDD, BDD, ATTD, SaFe, Lean Agile, Kanban, Xtreme Programming

Diagramming Tools

MS Visio, Balsamiq

Prototyping Tools

Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Macaw, Axure, Blueprint

BI Tools

Tableau, PowerBI, SAP Crystal Reports, XSL FO

Agile Tools

Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Rally, VersionOne

PM Software

MS Project

Languages

C++, SQL, TSQL

Web Technologies

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, Web Services, API, SOAP, REST, AJAX, JSON, Java, asp.net

Testing Tools

HPQC, Postman, Selenium, SOAP UI, TFS

Protocols

HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SOAP

ETL

Informatica PowerCenter, Cognos

Databases

SQL Server 2008 & 2012, SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle, MongoDB & Cassandra

Certifications:

Scaled Agile Framework

SAFe SSM 5.0 (SAFe Scrum Master)

Scaled Agile Framework

SAFe POPM (SAFe Product Owner Product Manager)

Scrum.Org

Professional Scrum Master 1 Certification

International Scrum Institute

Scrum Master Accredited Certification

Education:

Master’s in sciences – Management in Information System – University of Illinois at Springfield, Illinois.

Bachelor of Engineering – Electronic and Communication Engineering – JNTU Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Motorola Solutions Inc., Chicago, IL Nov 2018– Present

Sr. Scrum Master (SAFe)

Actionable Data Insights is a Business Intelligence and Data Analytics program which empowers Motorola to shift to an outcome-based organization using high quality data, and data that can be easily interpreted by both the novice and advanced analyst. ADI coordinates improvements in data across business teams, and across geographic regions. Improvements in data and process in one area carries over to the rest of the company - or as far as it can be shared.

Roles and responsibilities:

Currently serving 3 Scrum DevOps Teams, 1 Architecture and a Kanban Team.

As a Certified SAFe Scrum Master, aligning the team with Agile Core processes.

Provided Project Management expertise and Thought leadership into the Restructuring of Ten Business functions (ERP) from Siloed development teams into one program level Platform Advanced Data Insights (ADI) within our Enterprise Data Warehouse business.

Conducted Workshops for Agile Transformation from Waterfall and created Scrum training materials and set curriculum for Business and IT team members.

Set Structure and cadence for Daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos and Sprint Retrospective sessions.

Coaching Scrum teams on Agile Principles and values such as Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Openness.

Started a Community of Practice (CoP) to brainstorm about the Industry best Agile practices and put them into action across Program/Portfolio level.

Communicated at the appropriate level while addressing, presenting, or creating artifacts for management, stakeholders, product owners, UX teams, architects/designers, functional/technical analysts, developers, testers, etc.

Continuously work for improving existing methods and investigating new methods within UX area.

Experience leading user experience activities of other UX analysts on a software development team

Experience in history of user research, usability review, heuristic design review, and basic UX prototyping skills

Delivering Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with every iteration by having shorter feedback cycles during three-week sprints.

Created Agile Maturity Matrix and held quarterly reviews with Development team to check where the team stands.

Monitored and tracked Team velocity and Increased the overall velocity by 30%.

Guiding the team on Empiricism by making sure Inspection and Adaption is followed.

Created cross-project views within JIRA for Transparency of the scrum teams progress on all User Stories

Successful Transformation of Production fix team to use Kanban based on the nature of the work and making sure all the principles are adhered such as Visualization of workflow, Limiting Work in Progress (WIP Limits), having explicit policies.

Created different Dashboards, generated Reports in JIRA and EazyBI tools such as Cumulative Flow Diagram, Burn Up/Burn Down, Control charts, created vs Resolved Charts, Lead time, Cycle time and Time tracking Reports.

Working with Business to Identify requirements ahead of time and facilitate Prioritization meetings by Prioritizing user stories based on Business Goals and outcomes.

Encouraged the team on taking Collective ownership in developing the overall code and deliver Business value.

Coaching the Dev team about various Scrum Practices such as Agility, Pair Programming, Swarming theory, and Refactoring.

Making sure to keep the Technical Debt under control by using Test Driven Development practices such as Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) approaches.

Handling cross-functional teams which are collocated and distributed.

Collaborating with Dev leads, Business Analysts, Project Managers and Program Managers to frame Definition of Done and Definition of Ready for user stories.

Lead the team in the creation the CI/CD Pipeline using JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins and integrating Tableau for Reporting and analytics.

Ensuring enterprise master data integrity and quality across processes and business groups.

Interacted with various Leveraged Capabilities and MSI Businesses (Finance, Sales,Supply Chain and IT), to identify gaps, eliminate waste, and implement standards.

Utilize and assist in the utilization of Project Management and SDLC concepts.

Encouraged the team to collaborate in the Backlog Refinement sessions using different techniques as Liberating structures.

Assisting Business analysts/Product owners over 10 Business functions to elicit/Prioritize requirements into user stories using techniques such as ‘Kano Analysis’ and ‘MoSCoW technique’

Active Role in Production Support activities (Incident management, Change management) process.

Acting as a liaison between Dev team and business to remove any kind of Blockers, Impediments.

Played a major role in creating Deployment documents and giving KT sessions to the Off-Shore Teams for Design review boards to avoid technical debt.

Collaborating with other teams Business Analysts, Project Leads, and IT team to resolve issues and ensuring solutions are viable and consistent.

Held Quarterly Meetings with the Dev team to coach about the Best Practices for Effective DevOps Strategy.

Environment: SaFe, AWS, EC2, S3, Attunity, Allation Java, JIRA, Confluence, Agile, SOA, JSON, API, RESTful, SQL Server 2012, SOAP UI, GitHub, Jenkins, Cucumber, MS Excel, Tableau.

Saket Engineers Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India March 2014– June 2016

Sr. Scrum Master/ Business System Analyst

Predicting sale prices of Saket Housing, The scope of the project was to Develop a 70% accurate price prediction model for houses after analyzing a housing dataset containing 3000 observations by Analyzing large dataset of over 350,000 customers to identify where the company should allocate resources to increase pricing and maximize profitability and

Evaluated monthly rate data trends by creating a pivot table-enabled spreadsheet and utilizing data.

Roles and responsibilities:

Facilitated, Coached and trained all the Scrum ceremonies like Daily Standup meetings, Iteration planning, Product Backlog Grooming, Iteration review and Iteration retrospective and involved in every scrum ceremony.

Acted as an Agile Coach in coaching the team with the agile principles.

Assisted the team in implementing SAFe and working with other teams.

Implemented Architectural runway in design, development, testing and deployment in Kanban methodology.

Assisted the Product owner in preparing and refining the backlog for Program Iteration and Iteration planning.

Trained the team on various ceremonies like ART sync and program grooming.

Assisted in the planning and execution of rapid iterative usability testing.

Responsible for end-to-end digital process documentation, wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, use cases, etc. Completes and/or leads structured design techniques. Advocates UX standards.

Played a significant role in the PI planning events.

Worked with multiple teams using Jira by keeping the track of User Stories, Tasks and progress of the work through tracking the Velocity and Capacity of the team also constantly monitored Burn Down, Burn up Charts and Cumulative Flow Diagrams for evaluation

Coached the team to create better solutions, improve business results and better the processes.

Improved the Teams efficiency through retrospective feedback by conducting Happy Histogram, The Wheel, Mad Sad Glad Technique and made sure that the necessary Improvements are been made for further Iterations.

Made continuous assessment for maturity levels of teams and continuously improve the maturity.

Developed Test Scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development), ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) using Cucumber.

Effectively handled the Requirement Churn during the Iteration cycle and added the PBI to the next Iteration.

Worked in a continuous integration, continuous development and continuous deployment pipeline (CI/CD)

Constantly monitored development work, SPIKE Stories, Technical Debt and worked on removing the impediments to improve team’s performance to meet Iteration goals.

Ability to make teams self-organize and work independently.

Used JIRA to document and visualize stories, tasks and measure performance through burn down charts/velocity charts.

Conducted White Board Sessions to train Scrum Development Team about Scrum Ceremonies.

Facilitated team Agile Games such as 3L’s, The Wheel and The Sailboat to help build a better collaborative environment within the scrum team.

Made sure user stories are according to INVEST criteria.

Worked with Product Owner on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint and Release Burn down.

Planned for sprints by calculating the Estimated Velocity using Commitment driven planning and Velocity driven planning techniques as per the requirements.

Environment: ASP .net, JIRA, C#, SQL, Balsamiq, Visio, MS project, Informatica, SQL Server, Crystal reports, MS SharePoint, MS office.

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