Scrum Engineer

MONIKA NUTHALAPATI

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Professional Summary

Certified Scrum Master and Business/Systems Analyst with over 6 years of experience providing leadership and development in fast-paced environments in IT, Healthcare, and Oil & Gas industries. Extensive experience in all aspects of Agile/Scrum project management including team development, business requirements gathering, and change management. Continually exceeds expectations by building valuable relationships and works well with people at all levels of an organization.

Skills

Agile/Scrum Project Management

Team Management & Development

Strategic Plans & Roadmaps

Budgeting & Cost Management

Storyboarding, JAD & WebEx

Resource Allocation & Timeline Monitoring

Business Requirements Gathering & Gap Analysis

DevOps & Release Management

Business Process Flows & Modeling

QA/UAT Test Cases & Regression Cycles

Work History

Scrum Master 04/2019 to 10/2020

Chevron – Houston, TX

Monitored scrum processes and meetings in a fast-paced, cross-matrixed environment to increase team efficiency while ensuring the definition of done is followed including managing spins and arguing for quality/timeliness changes.

Developed strategic plans/roadmaps in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders for new division partners in the enterprise, using continuous learnings and insights to drive quick development and change management.

Advocated and coaching for the use of Agile/Scrum practices, processes, ceremonies, values, and roles.

Lead one of several teams that collaboratively managed the migration of a key database from on-prem to cloud.

Oversaw software deployments and change initiatives, including planning, resource allocation, testing, and rollout.

Actively promoted and applied the SAFe framework, including weekly Scrum-of-Scrums and quarterly PI Planning ceremonies with business owners and strategy leads.

Collaborated with leadership to identify project needs and allocate resources in order to execute projects.

Communicated with local and remote team members, collaborating teams, leadership, and stakeholders about pivots, impediments, risks, strategy, action plans, goals, achievements, and growth areas while leading by example.

Scrum Master 12/2017 to 03/2019

New Ocean Health Systems – Conshohocken, PA

Developed an innovative employee Wellness Solutions for Small and Mid-size Businesses with multiple tracks including mobile apps for iOS and Android, a client admin portal, and NOHS Portal.

Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives while coaching team members and clients on Agile processes/best practices and conducting Agile Games.

Collaborated cross-functionally with internal and external teams to develop and release new products.

Led the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) function for new and revised applications.

Assisted Product Owner in grooming product backlog and updated user stories based on the requirement changes as well as coordinated cross-functional process development and identified opportunities and improve the process.

Removed impediments and prevented distractions from interfering with the team's ability to deliver their sprint goals and coached/mentored the product team on how to create product roadmaps and the importance of quarterly PI planning.

Designed workflows based on functional requirements and drove all phases of software life cycle in an Agile framework.

Scrum Master/Business Analyst 09/2016 to 11/2017

Nielsen – Oldsmar, FL

Led the design and development of application software to measure the streaming data based on IP address and reporting the data collected from data module to different enterprises while creating an effective Scrum environment for the team.

Facilitated scrum ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups, enacting change and continuous improvement through retrospective action items and quarterly team health self-assessments.

Worked with multiple teams to successfully facilitate Scrum-of-Scrums to effectively manage the project execution.

Facilitated questionnaire sessions to identify business rules, requirements, and document them in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both the business users and technical team using effective communication management.

Utilized out-of-box tactics to resolve conflicts among team members as well as encouraging conversations and collaboration both inside and outside of the team allowing the team to self-organize.

Revisited the Team Working Agreement and the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done on a regular basis with the teams while tracking flow-based metrics including lead and cycle times to determine the team's throughput.

Increased predictability of the teams with better collaboration and setting realistic goals based on the team's historical cadence as well as reduced the defect rate by more than 50% with effective in-sprint quality assurance processes.

Jr. Software Engineer/Business Analyst 06/2014 to 08/2016

Brilliant Soft Solutions – Freemont, CA

Assisted in developing a portal for the user and admin so that users could attach the required documents for the loan and admin can extract and view the data including enhancing the existing data warehouse.

Worked as the primary interface between business users, testers, and the application development team so that all users understood business needs and drivers clearly and were on board to ensure deliverables were achieved.

Created Requirement Traceability Matrix post testing to assure compliance with goals.

Worked with SQL queries to extract application data to perform application validations, created validation rules for database validation, and worked extensively with QA team for designing Test Plans and for User Acceptance Testing.

Technical Skills

Operating System: Windows Server, Windows, UNIX, Linux, MAC

Testing Tools: HPQC, Quick Test pro

Office Suites/ Others: MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project, IBM BPM

Languages: C, C+ +, HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Requirement Management: Rational Requisite Pro, Top Team

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose

Project Management Tools: MS Project, ADO, JIRA, Confluence, Primavera

Bug Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case

Methodologies (SDLC): Scrum, SAFe, Agile, Waterfall Model

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Training & Certifications

SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master – 01/ 2022

SAFe 4 Practitioner Certification – 08/2020

Certified Scrum Master – 06/ 2022

Education

Master of Science in Information Technology – 2015

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – 2013

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