Business Analyst Scrum Master

NIRAJ R BAROT

Mobile: 832-***-****, E-mail: *****.****@*****.***

Executive Summary:

Highly motivated Agile Business Analyst with 14 years of proven experience, seeking new opportunities in facilitating development teams in an agile environment, coaching personnel within the scrum teams to adhere to agile principles, strategically eradicating impediments and providing necessary assistance as a servant leader. A certified scrum master and business analyst with a growth mindset, managing development teams, leading and facilitating work activities of both collocated and distributed teams as well as involved in team coaching and stakeholder engagement.

Extensive work experience with Business Stakeholders, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product managers, Software developers and Testers to achieve project objectives.

Worked in an agile scrum environment and trained the team during transition from Waterfall to Agile

Assisted RTE and Program Manager to run Quarterly Release Planning sessions

Proficient in Product Roadmap, Product Planning, Requirements Gathering, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Backlogs, Agile Development, Software Design, User Experience and UAT Process

Experienced with writing user stories and splitting user stories using various strategies

Employment History:

USAA, San Antonio, TX June-2020 to till date

Agile Business Analyst

Worked with the Solution owner, Business and IT Leadership team to finalize the Risk Control Self Assessment (RCSA) process requirements and analyze RCSA 2.0/3.0/4.0 scope

Monitored project performance for on-time, under-budget, and within the highest quality of delivering the product and its value to business, ensuring the completion of the design and development of business-critical applications

Carried out risk analysis and change management; reduced project risks by formulating contingency plans

Contributed to the analysis and reduction of cost by applying a departmental third-party supplier strategy

Worked in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) framework and helped IT team to achieve business objectives, while managing risk and regulatory compliance requirements

Helped IT team to meet FIAP (Federal Reserve Board Integrated Action Plan) deliverables by providing data reports and other analytics

Participated in the PI Planning sessions to finalize the scope for the upcoming quarter and worked with IT team to break them into stories

Participated in the UAT for RCSA 2.0 application, performed regression testing and logged the defects in the MS Test Manager

Scheduled JAD (joint application development) sessions with the agile team and break the features into smaller user stories

Participation in the agile ceremonies as Daily Stand-up, Backlog refinement sessions, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective etc.

Worked with Business stakeholders and Solution owners to discuss the impediments for RCSA tool and helped IT team to get the required data/information

Active participation with the business team to discuss the RISK and budget related challenges

Used JIRA/RALLY/EMPS tools to manage the project management activities and ServiceNow (SNOW) to submit admin requests

Created wiki sites for the RCSA tool information, Data flow diagrams, User guides and object tables

Creation of weekly status report for the ongoing features/stories and team’s performance during sprint and creation of Dashboards in JIRA to track the progress of team and reports from SNOW

Helped in answering the technical questions to the production support

Followed SDLC model for the IT development and used MS SQL to perform database testing

Halliburton, Houston, TX May-2017 to June-2020

Program Manager

Built and managed talented teams of business analysts, programmers, developers and other specialists. Supervised up to 25 personnel per engagement, coordinating between in-house and client teams and keeping stakeholders informed of progress and milestones

Coordinated with Project Manager and Business Analyst to convert the Business Requirements of Sperry Technologies into software Requirements and create Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks, Acceptance Criteria in project management tools like JIRA and Rally

Managed web based application (PlanTrack) which has capability of connecting different modules of Sperry Technologies under single interface and generate complex reports

Experience in business process modeling, identification of functional requirements, non-functional requirements, development and testing

Analyze macro files to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions in web application

Derived Validation Rules, Workflows, Formulas for Creating roles, profiles, page layouts for PlanTrack

Prepared business case, data flow diagrams, training documentation and conducted JAD sessions,

Involved in Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily scrum meetings, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospectives.

Performed data validation check to validate data loaded from staging to production and get the sign off from Solution owner

Helped Product Owner/Product Managers with prioritization and scope management (by using MVP)

Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction

Worked on SQL queries for Data Validation and Data Integrity

Use key scrum metrics (burndown chart, velocity, DoD etc.) to help deliver committed work

Ensure all scrum activities are tracked and kept up to date and reported in JIRA

Followed SDLC (system development life cycle) for development

Documented server details, database details, application processes on Enterprise Wiki

Managed changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes

Worked as a liaison between Business and Engineering teams to lead Technical Requirements, Documentation, maintaining Project Agile JIRA Board and Wiki Page

Performed data validation check on report module to identify the changes from log history

Kiewit Engineering, Vadodara, Gujarat Jan-2016 to May-2017

Project Manager

Facilitate my team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team

Responsible for facilitating the scrum process and shield my team from external, internal distractions and remove any Impediment; tracking the Burn up and burn down chart

Worked on screen designing, database (RDBMS) and Creation of technical design documents.

Experience with Entity Relationship diagrams and writing dynamic queries and business processes

Conducted JAD sessions and weekly meetings to track progress

Documented smart plant processes and server details on Enterprise Wiki

Review test cases and test plans to meet all the requirements of the client.

Shell (Nigeria), Vadodara, Gujarat Jul-2014 to Dec-2015

Sr Business Analyst

Gathering requirement to set up of SmartPlant Foundation (SPF) and Smart Data Validator (SDV)

Generated CSV extract reports, 3D reports and mappings for Plant/Area/Site/TAG etc

Experience to plan, implement, test and troubleshoot system software based on an inputs from Document Control and Document management (DMDC) team.

Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the business, processes, applications, information & data for their respective application area

Worked closely with EDW team on gathering the documents from the document systems like ASSAI and LIVELINK

Performed Data validation, API validation, UI validation for SPF/SDV between stage environment to production environment

Worked as a liaison between Business Stakeholders and Development team for development processes, workflow, documentation, training and maintaining Project Agile JIRA Board and Wiki Page

Experience of data extraction, data validation, transformation & loading in SDV

Decompose Business Requirements and develop Test Scenarios to support quality deliverables

Documented SPF and SDV version details on Enterprise Wiki

Completed this project with Agile framework, and participated in Daily Stand-up, Backlog refinement, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective meetings

Shell (Prelude), Vadodara, Gujarat Aug-2013 to Jul-2014

Software Developer and Tester

Involved in analyzing the requirement, risk analysis and various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Designed GUI, validation rules, debugging and troubleshooting development issues

Created Weekly & Monthly Status Report and updated the higher management

Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) for delivery with the client and take signoff

Involved in creating advanced Stored Procedures, Joins and Views, extensively to regulate and maintain complex data

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Collabera Technologies, Vadodara, Gujarat May-2007 to Aug-2013

Business Analyst

Requirements gathering to define scope of projects, Scope of work, project plan and Work breakdown structure; system and Workflow System using MS Word and Swordsoft

Use cases descriptions include preconditions, post conditions, assumptions, and scenarios

Worked closely with Developers, Test managers, Business stakeholders and project managers to achieve project objectives in defined time frames

Gathered and collected requirements from Stakeholders, resulting in detailed business rules, functional requirements and process design

Weekly interactions with Stakeholders and coordinating with the development team

Created Weekly & Monthly Status Report

Education: Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from SP University, Gujarat, India, 2008

Certifications: SSM 5.0 - SAFe® 5.0 Scrum Master

Technical Skills:

Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall

Programming Language

C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML

Database

MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access, Oracle 10g/11g

Tools

Visual Studio, JIRA, Rally, SNOW, Kanban, Enterprise Wiki, TFS, Visio

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