Rashmita Jha

Phone: 512-***-****

Email: advcgz@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

* ***** ** ********** ** implementing Scrum/Safe framework with Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Release planning, Product and Sprint backlog grooming.

Expertise in facilitating Scrum Practices to the team in end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle using Agile methodologies.

Facilitated PI planning and worked with Release train engineer (RTE) to facilitate Agile Release train (ART) events and processes in a scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.

Work collaboratively in various projects with Stakeholders and cross-functional team to deliver projects as per Scrum’s Rules, Roles, Artifacts and Events.

Experience in creating Business Requirement Documents, Software Requirements Specification Documents, and Functional Requirements Documents.

Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.

Experience in performing Root Cause Analysis for identifying and resolving performance hurdles and suggest fool-proof techniques for successful completions.

Experience in applying GAP Analysis, SWOT, Impact Analysis, Root-case identification, Cost-Benefit analysis, Feasibility study, Risk Analysis.

Expertise in preparing User Story, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Documentation, Test Scripts and Test Cases; coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Assisted Product Owner and lead developer to create user stories and prioritize backlog.

Worked with Product Owner and Lead developer to make sure that each Story has proper Title, Preconditions, Post conditions, Acceptance criteria.

Adept at performing AS-IS and TO-BE Analysis, ROI Analysis, GAP Analysis, Risk Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis and SWOT Analysis.

Experience in using project management and modeling tools such as MS Office tools: Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Word, JIRA and Rally.

Strong knowledge of Project Management skills such as time estimation, task identification, risk analysis and scope management and resource management.

Experience in Data Management and Reporting technologies, worked on relational databases like SQL Server, Oracle, & created logical data models.

Expert in using various techniques to refine the product backlog with Business value and Effort estimates by facilitating product refinement meetings.

Technical Skills:

Agile/SCRUM, TDD, BDD, UML, Visio, RUP, SOA, MVC, MVP, Product Backlog Grooming, SQL Server, Oracle, Release Planning, Relational Database Management, Sprint, Backlog Management, XML, JSON, AJAX, JavaScript, Extreme Programming, LINQ, JIRA, MURAL, X-planner, TFS, ALM, Scrum Works, Excel, N-Unit, Cruise Control

Education:

Master of Business Administration – Project Management Aug 2021 - Dec 2023

Bachelor of Business Administration – Project Management

Certification:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Experience:

Client: JP Morgan Chase, Plano, TX Nov 2020 - Present

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked with Product Owner and Stakeholders in finding ways to effectively maintain and prioritize the Product backlog and release plan and created User stories.

Responsible for facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing timeboxes, responding to impediments, tracking baseline, Sprint planning, and Retrospectives.

Used JIRA for assigning the task, monitoring the progress, adding tasks to product backlog, maintenance of Sprint backlogs.

Worked with Product Owner and Lead developer to make sure that each Story has proper Title, Preconditions, Post conditions, Acceptance criteria

Facilitated PI planning and worked with Release train engineer (RTE) to facilitate Agile Release train (ART) events and processes in a scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment

Expertise in preparing User Story, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Documentation, Test Scripts and Test Cases; coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Performed GAP analysis for new application requirements and prioritized them based on the business needs as the project was scheduled to move in phases.

Documented the AS-IS process and found places for improvement to create the TO-BE process.

Developed SQL queries to perform quantitative data analysis on the large amount of data and produce ad-hoc reports for various departments.

Organized the information between DEV. teams regarding the project using MS SharePoint for efficient collaboration across different user groups.

Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM between the requirements, design documents and test plans.

Managed risk by proactively driving cross-functional leads to identify and unblock issues, track, and resolve cross team dependencies.

Utilized Java programming to send auto generated publication files on a weekly basis with the help of the sterling messaging system to the vendors.

Performed detailed assessments of project risks to determine constraints and develop mitigation strategies.

Coordinated and synchronized project plan, activities, and dependencies with parallel projects.

Client: Citi Bank, Tampa, FL Jul 2019 – Sept 2020

Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Interacted with cross-functional team of Bas and Developers to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.

Organized daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burndown tracking and other Scrum-related meetings.

Created the Multilayer architecture of the application defining the scope and usability of each layer.

Created t Expertise in preparing User Story, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Documentation, Test Scripts and Test Cases; coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

he High Level and Low-Level design documents to define and demonstrate the technical implementations of the various functional screens.

Involved in code review (Standard and Logical) to find out the code quality and the scope for improvement in existing code.

Grouped the Use Cases and other diagrams into Sequence and Collaboration diagrams using Rational Rose based on UML methods.

Conducted meetings, briefings, demonstrations, JAD sessions, and wrote minutes of project meetings notes.

Involved in designing the database and implementing stored procedures, functions, views, and scripts using SQL Server to build data processing modules.

Outlined the requirements throughout the development process and verified adherence using the Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Captured and managed the user stories and requirements in to JIRA.

Coordinated activities with project manager and other teams using MS Project.

Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data

Wrote Excel macros to manage and track Agile work like Stories, Tracks, Burndown charts, Kanban Story board progress.

During Retrospectives, took feedback on how the team can improve and did RCA

Helped the team to resolve access and dependency issues and how it could be avoided in the next Sprint.

Client: Change Healthcare, Santa Ana, CA May 2018 – Apr 2019

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Scheduled and facilitated Sprint planning, Daily stand up, Retrospectives, Stakeholder meetings, and Sprint demonstrations.

Created project proposals, effort estimates, budget estimates, contract management, project schedule, project change request, risk management plans.

Administered project management activities inclusive of planning, effort, design, scope, estimation, resource coordination and delivery as per specified time frames.

Maintained key program performance data for evaluations to support key decision-making program performance analysis.

Provided functional support to testers by providing them with guidance on the business processes and scenarios and answer queries on test coverage.

Worked on claim processing module which involved Receipt and Verification of Claim Forms (837) and Claims Attachments (275), Claims Enquiry and Response Adjudication, Healthcare Claim Payment/Advice (835) as per HIPAA guidelines.

Helped the product owner prioritize and rank the product backlog based on business needs and systems constraint.

Planned the sequence of changes to be implemented along with work assignment to the team through sprint planning sessions.

Tracked the development, QA and UAT sign-offs on the user stories through RTC and daily check point meetings.

Provided a demo of the system increment / changes to the product owner and obtaining customer sign-off through sprint demo sessions.

Developed SQL Queries to fetch complex data from different tables in remote databases using joins, database links to format the results into reports, logs and data validation tools.

Involved in manual testing of the product and writing test cases for improving the product efficiency.

Managed daily interactions amongst the various stakeholders and the scrum teams to discuss updates, issues, changes and dependencies through the Scrums.

Troubleshot integration issues and dependency issues through triage calls and managing risks, scope creeps and defect triages.

Client: TDS Telecom, Madison, WI Aug 2017 – Mar 2018

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with project stakeholders throughout all SDLC phases to ensure timely delivery of specified business solutions.

Conducted GAP analysis of the different reports that are being presented to clients to accommodate their requirements for the new enhancements.

Conducted one-to-one meeting with the business to gather the all requirements and convert them into technical requirement for development perspective.

Prepared the mapping documents, and process flow diagrams required for the Informatica development process.

Involved throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and performed a primary liaison between the business and the technical areas.

Involved in preparation of project estimates and database size with the delivery lead.

Worked actively with the reconciliation team on error out records of the Rx vendors.

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with the development team, end users, QA team, and stakeholders for project related meetings.

Documented & maintained Project Changes Request (PCR) documents & updated them accordingly.

Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using MS Excel to trace each software design requirement to test case.

Created test plans, test cases and conducted functional/non-functional testing as needed, defined and traced software defects in JIRA.

Share new functionality details and testing scenarios of enhancements in the company's knowledge database.

Perform demos for client and proactively work during the User Acceptance Testing phase with the client's QA resources.

Used Microsoft SharePoint as a Web-based Content Management System as well as Project Management tool.

Analyzed test cases and defects being loaded in QC by QA teams to ensure the link entities and accuracy of data.

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