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Business Analyst Scrum Master

Location:
Sunnyvale, CA
Posted:
July 02, 2022

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Aarthi

Scrum Master

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Profile Summary

A Scrum Master with 4 years experience with keen ability to understand and build complex systems, focusing relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer centric products and features.Played a key role in bringing departmental level transformations by guiding various leaders and teams in embracing agile. A Senior Business Analyst with 6 years of experience playing an end to end role from Gathering Requirements to Delivering Solutions.

Professional Experience

Organization : Micron Technology

Project: CALM Optimization Project Team Size : 20

Client: Micron Technology Duration: Feb 2021 - April 2022 Role: Scrum Master

Description: To design and support a full agile transformation portfolio project.This project dealt with the Capital Asset Lifecycle Management(CALM) system which involved moving away from legacy system to adopting the ERP system(SAP)

Responsibilities:

● Managed distributed Scrum teams across USA, Europe and Indian regions by hosting ceremonies and coordinating weekly report status.

● Introduced tools and processes to successfully use Agile software development practices with a combination of onshore/offshore teams.

● Led and coached the Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discoverywhich led to an increase in customer satisfaction and decrease in time to delivery by 15%

● Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase velocity within few sprints from the start of project by 40%

● Organized and improved agile practices and values which increased the productivity and overall team satisfaction by an average of 8%

● Encourage & Implement Scrum principles that reduced the Cycle Time by 20%

● Facilitated cross team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among teams and an opportunity to inspect and adapt process/tools.

● Bringing people into a collaborative working environment,synthesizing and processing complex tasks into actionable steps.

● Developed many Power BI reports to answer stakeholders questions like “when will all the items be completed in the backlog, how can I view aging requests in one chart etc..

● Facilitate and accountable for leading the team through the agile ceremonies, including: Daily scrums, Sprint demos, Retrospectives, Backlog, Grooming, Sprint Planning.

● Guide the team to follow Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint and Program Increment.

● Coach the team to address any issues with the Agile/scrum process. Instill an “Inspect & Adapt” culture within the team.

● Raise impediments and remove roadblocks/distractions, resolving challenges quickly and positively.

● Ensure full transparency with velocity, burn down/up reporting, and communicate team progress with value focused metrics.

● Proficient knowledge in Azure DevOps.

● Creation of various dashboards as per the needs of the teams. Organization : Accenture

Project: AFMS (Accenture Fare Management System) Team Size : 8 Client: Accenture Duration: 2015 - April 2018

Role: Scrum Master

Description: To support E-ticketing software for metro trains in Canada.This project ran across multiple phases.This projects called for collaboration between distributed teams across Canada and India.

Responsibilities:

● Guide and coach the teams on Scrum and Agile practices consistent with team standards and helping them achieve their commitments and objectives day to day, sprint-to-sprint.

● Establish strong working relationships with partner teams across the organization to identify dependencies and align priorities and deliverables

● Anticipate challenges, identify risks and recommend mitigations and solutions. Own and drive those solutions.

● Witness reduction in cycle time by 10% while adapting Kanban principles.

● Achieved target of resolving impediments in 2 days.

● Lead continuous improvement efforts with teams and implemented concrete solutions to make the teams more efficient and improve delivery success.

● Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, to deliver solutions.

Organization : Accenture

Project: Microsoft Product upgradation Team Size : 12 Client: Microsoft Duration: 2014 - 2015

Role: Sr. Business Analyst

Description: Act as a business liaison between IT and the Business Community to understand business requirements for system updates and translate requests into functional design specifications. To play an end to end role of Business Analyst starting from Analysis of requirements to providing solutions.

Responsibilities:

● Analysis of Business Requirement Documents.

● Worked on Impact Analysis and Preparation of HLD ( High Level Diagram)

● Giving inputs on the requirements to UX designers for mock ups.

● Conducting JAD (Joint Analysis and Design) Sessions with Developers and testers to make them understand the requirements and know dev team feasibility also.

● Preparing Functional Specific Documents by making the use of Business Requirement Documents.

● Internal & External FSD review with Business Users, Dev & test teams

● Accountable for the quality, correctness, robustness and performance of the delivered solution.

Organization: Valuelabs

Project: UAE Direct Debit System Team Size : 6

Client: One of the major Banks in Middle East Duration: June 2012 to Feb 2013 Role: Functional Consultant

Description:Project deals with UAE Direct Debit System integrated with Core Banking System- T24.

Responsibilities:

● Creation of Conventional & Islamic Finances in T24.

● Registering the Originators with Central Bank - Originator Registration request.

● As a sponsoring bank, registering Direct Debit Request Form to Paying Bank through Central Bank.

● As a paying Bank, accepting Direct Debit Request from Sponsoring Bank through Central Bank.

● As a Sponsoring Bank, sending Payment files to the paying bank to debit the EMI amount from the customer’s account.

● As a Paying Bank, receiving payment files from the sponsoring bank and processing the payment.

Project: Wealth Management Implementation

Project (SIT+UAT)

Team Size : 6

Client: One of the major Banks in Middle East Duration: Feb 2013 to Sept 2013 Role: Functional Consultant

Description: Project deals with End to End functional testing and Data Migration from T24 Application to Money ware

Responsibilities:

● Performing Transaction process for products like Bonds, Dual Currency Deposits, Systematic Investment Plan,Structured Products, Mutual Funds & Platform Products.

● Setting up parameters for doing transaction processes for different investment products.

● Creation of customers and accounts in T24, importing the customer from T24 to MWI, creation of portfolio, setting up parameters in MWI, fees & charges setup.

● Setting up Investment products in MWI. Investment products include Bonds, Dual Currency Deposits, Structured Products, Mutual Funds & Platform Products.

● Setting up parameters to calculate Product risk rating & Client Risk Rating

● Creating loans & overdrafts in T24 & setting up parameters for loan approvals in MWI.

● Defining asset classes, defining funding ratios & haircut percentages for the securities & for clients.

● Modules worked in the Credit facility are collateral Inwards, collateral outwards, margin calls, cash margins, loan maturity & loan closure.

● Performing Purchase & Subscriptions for all Investment Products.

● Dealt with generation of Portfolio statements of customers.

● Performing Transactions in Internet & Mobile banking

● Sales Dashboard

● Validating interfaces between T24 & MWI & Checking for Email & SMS Alerts Organization: UBS India Service Centre

Project: Financial Instruments Data Services

(Wealth Management Services)

Team Size : 5

Client: UBS India Service Centre Duration: Aug 2008 – Nov 2010 Role: Senior Process Executive

Description: Setting up security orders for the clients to trade Responsibilities:

● Helping individual clients, Investment Bank and Wealth Management teams of UBS in entering the security orders for trading. Securities include Equities, Preference Shares, Rights, ADR’s,GDR’s, Warrants and Bonds.

● These securities are set up in different global markets as per the client requirements, but with consultation of the Corporate Action team. These orders for execution are sent through a tool called “PIMO” (Pending Issue Monitoring Order).

● Setting up Static data and Exchange data of securities with the help of Bloomberg, Telekurs,

● Euro clear and Clear stream. Production tool VDPS was used to set up and save the security.

● Hybrid Instrument securities set-up to meet the client’s risk-return ability.

● Specialized in setting up different types of Bonds. Updating the prices of bonds, nominal face value, and maturity of bonds and updating current coupons of floating rate notes.

● Responsible for quality check control of my team consisting of 5 members.

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Hard Skills

● Azure Devops

● Power BI

● Waterfall to Agile Migration

● Agile Framework - Scrum & Kanban

● Software Development Life Cycle

● Product Backlog Refinement

● Business Analysis

Soft Skills

● Coaching

● Management Skills

● Presentation Skills

● Communication Skills

● Team Building

Education & Certification

● Bachelor of Commerce (Osmania University)

● MBA in Finance (Osmania University)

● Scrum Fundamental certification (Scrum study)

● Certified UX/UI Designer (Springboard)



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