Vaishali Gaurang Buch

A certified professional scrum master (PSM 1) and IT Project Manager offering 8+ years of experience with an impressive record of delivering, and implementing project as per scheduled deadline; extending post implementation and maintenance support to the technical support team and client. Highly skilled and successful in coaching, mentoring, and leading technical, project management and leadership teams in adopting Agile /Scrum with strong business outcomes.

• Strong communication, management skills, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new applications.

• 8 years of experience inclusive of Scrum Master, Project Delivery and management, Product owner, requirement analysis/design, development/support/testing into IT sector.

• 3+ years of extensive scrum master experience wherein I conducted scrum events like sprint planning, daily scrum, review, retrospective meetings for scrum teams.

• Worked as Agile Transformation consultant, facilitating over all release and sprint planning, brought in Agile best practices (CI/CD, Dev-Ops etc.), in sprint automation, organization wide scrum adoption

• Well versed Java, J2EE, OOPS, SDLC, Agile projects

• Worked as pre sales coordinator and delivery head/Product owner for Dealer management system for Bell telecom provider by designing /developing/ delivering and demoing product which could by customized by variable parameters and extendable interfaces based on various client requirements.

• Worked as development lead for Human resource management system and Taxation for government clients comprising of designing/ developing/ testing and delivering several modules.

• Worked as test and support lead/ assistant development lead for diagnosing fault into British telecom network broadband line by performing various integration and validation/ continuous integration / user acceptance testing/ server management. (following agile methodology) Skill Set

Technology: Java, J2EE.

Methodology: Agile (Scrum)

Domain: Telecom Services OSS / HRMS/ Taxation

Core Skills: Core Java, EJB, spring, hibernate, java script, JSP, Servlet, Web Service, SOAP UI, Java Swings Other Skills/tools: Jira, C, C++, Basics of Web Logic, Basics of JMS, UNIX, SQL, tomcat, J-Unit, J-meter Achievements:

• Recognized for the various stages of the project as proved to be the heart of Operations Support System

• Lead Agile transformation initiative for Bell telecom which was highly appreciated and recognized by customers

• Lead organizations Scrum transformation for KRA project which was well received by TCS leadership team

• Received Client appreciation for coordination and management.

• Received Best Team Award for completing sprint release within stringent deadline, despite of ever- changing requirements.

• Received Best Project appreciation from Client for each and every live release Project Highlights

Project: Functional and usability testing of crowdsourced E-commerce websites Client: Test IO, Digivante Bug finder, User Testing, Utest, TrymyUI Duration: August’19 to till date

Role:

• Functional and usability testing of various websites that involves variety of clients who might be into retail, manufacturing, software, telecom etc. Industry

• Usability testing involves real time experience and feedback for prototypes or even live websites

• This also involves live conversation with clients

• Functional testing: mainly finding bugs on live running websites and coming up with scenario which could be showstoppers or medium severity bugs.

Accomplishments:

• Professional scrum master PSM 1 with 96.3% certification by scrum.org

• Scrum Fundamental Certified with proficient level by ScrumStudy Duration: June’15 to July’19

Role:

• Break for child care

• I have also volunteered for some Facebook groups as moderator

• been part of PTA at my kids' school to help organize events. Employer1: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Apr’ 2010 till May’ 2015) Project: Dealer Management System/ Inventory management system/Commissions Client: Bell Telecom Philippines

Duration: Jan’12 to May’15.

Team Size: 20(Lead 3 Product Teams)

Platform: Java, J2EE, spring, Hibernate, java script, WebLogic Role:

Scrum master for geographically distributed teams across 2 locations

• Team management of 3 scrum team of size 20

• Increased team productivity by 10% by encouraging scrum teams to follow scrum ceremonies especially planning and retrospective

• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

• Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories

• Managing daily stand ups

• Meeting facilitation, servant leadership, Agile transformation and coaching

• Requirement gathering, design, development (coaching team to work in agile environment), documentation, unit and integration testing, deployment support, delivery, user acceptance testing, demo to various clients based on the product developed by customizing it based on several requirements.

• The Product has been successfully customized as per the need of other customers and delivered running in the client environment.

Project: Taxation for KRA (modules: Taxpayer registration, amendment) Client: Kenya revenue authority.

Duration: Jan’11 to Dec’12.

Team Size: 30 (lead of 8 developers as module lead). Platform: Java, J2EE, spring, Hibernate, java script, WebLogic Role:

• End to end involvement as Module lead and scrum master for taxpayer registration module

• Involved with other scrum master to encourage agile transformation changes leading to productivity gains for customers

• Leading from the front as scrum master, I implemented scrum ceremonies for taxpayer registration module which were followed by other modules for KRA project

• Trained 4 scrum teams with Agile best practices

• Managing daily standup calls for taxpayer registration module

• Involved team management, design, Understanding and implementing requirement, coach to developers, deciding coding standards, code review, unit and integration testing and delivery.

• The module was successfully developed and delivered, currently running successfully in real time environment using J2EE, spring, hibernate, java scripts and JSP concepts. Project: Human Resource Management System (modules recruitment /handover/transfer/leave/Appraisal and Training)

Client: Uganda revenue authority.

Duration: Apr’10 to Dec’11.

Team Size: 15 (lead of 4 developers).

Platform: Advance Java, Eclipse, WebLogic

Role:

• Developer of module transfer and handover and module lead for rest of the modules.

• Involved design, development, testing and delivery of all the modules using Java, J2EE concepts, EJB, java scripts and JSP

• Successfully integrated product with existing taxation system for employee management Employer2: Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Jun’ 2007 till Mar’ 2010) Project: GTCJ Test and Diagnostics (Service Assurance) FTTC (Fiber to the cabinet), FTTP (Fiber to the premise)

Client: British telecom.

Duration: April’08 to March ‘10.

Team Size: 18.

Platform: Java, J2EE, UNIX

Role:

• Java based development using Core Java, J2EE, XML technologies, SOAP calls, UNIX.

• Requirement gathering/ client co-ordination & Low-level designing.

• Test Automation of the unit level testing of the code (J-unit).

• Developing end to end test cases and test data for automation of regression test suit.

• Providing on call/ desk support of application testing done as IVVT (Integration validation verification testing), CIT (Continuous Integration Testing), UAT (User acceptance testing), standalone testing on various network Devices

• Understanding different characteristics of network devices for checking status and behavior

• Creating stubbing tools to support application in case of absence of any of the interface

• Interacting with the entire test teams- delivery managers- Client to deal with high priority issues, providing quick resolutions to issues by analyzing root cause.

• Writing UNIX shell scripts for Automation of network testing, auto deployment of Application on WebLogic server, finding out server space and sending alert mails in case of requirement (server management)

Project: 21C Manage Associate- Validation and Verification Testing Client: British Telecom.

Duration: Dec’07 to April’08.

Team Size: 10.

Platform: Java, J2EE, UNIX

Role:

• Preparing end to end test cases and running sanity test using J-meter to check various interfaces.

• Automating the unit level testing of the code (J-unit) using regression test suite. Academics:

• 2007 B. Tech. Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Gujarat, India with 78.3 %

• 2003 12th from Sheth C.M. higher secondary School, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India with 75.38 %.

• 2001 10th from Mount Carmel High School, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India with 93.14 %. Personal Details:

Date of Birth: 8th September 1985

Present Address: Orlando, Florida, USA – 32819

Work Status: Green Card

Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati

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