SHILPA VASWANI

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Email: advumm@r.postjobfree.com. Phone: 571-***-****

Summary of Job Qualification

Certified Scrum master with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems. As a capable leader invested in Agile frameworks, focus relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features. Excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills and ability to build excellent working relationships in a corporate environment as a servant leader.

Certifications and Educational Qualification:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) .

Master’s in Business Administration from Punjab Technical University, India

Bachelors in Commerce from Jiwaji University, India

Professional Employment History

Deloitte, Arlington, VA 09/2020-Present

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Organizing and facilitating all the Scrum events – Daily stand up, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective.

Working with distributed agile teams to ensure timely deliverables and smooth team communication.

Working closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status, and details of each project.

Utilizing Agile-Scrum practices to help the team arrive at optimal velocity thus maximizing productivity.

Guiding and coaching the team on accepted agile/scrum practices and daily activities to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each sprint.

Helped the team by teaching problem-solving techniques to become better problem-solvers.

Mentored a cross functional team to deliver quality products on time. Identified areas of improvement and worked on the same with team.

Establishing a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to the Agile process.

Managing dependencies between team capacity, prioritization, budget, software quality, and committed deadlines.

Ensuring quality of Scrum execution story cards Definition of Readiness and Done and commitments to on-time delivery.

Representing the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting and passing information from that meeting back to the team. Coordinating with the System Team, User Experience, Architecture, and Shared Services.

Manage sprint and requirement in JIRA and Confluence.

Infosys, Reston, VA 06/2018-09/2020

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Educating the Scrum team, including the product owner on Agile requirements, Agile planning, backlog creation practices, and all things Scrum.

Promoting transparency by ensuring that all Scrum events take place to facilitate opportunities to inspect and adapt.

Preparing and ensuring readiness for ART events.

Ensuring alignment to PI objectives, Vision, during PI planning and addressing dependencies using the program board

Facilitating the team in creating a draft PI plan for the PI’s iterations, writing draft PI Objectives, and identifying program risks and issues.

Facilitating Release (Planning) Workshop. Monitoring transparency of release vision.

Partnering with Release Train Engineers to enable and embody SAFe best practices within your Agile Release Train (ART)

Supporting Agile Release Train incremental planning and facilitation activities across multiple teams and program areas

Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization, Working with Technical Product Owners (TPMs) and team members to develop and maintain prioritized, groomed backlog.

Acting as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions and working collaboratively with shared services, operations, and other stakeholder teams

Facilitating PI planning readiness by facilitating continuous exploration process that ensures a ready product backlog and enables collaboration among product management, business owners, product owners, and engineering

Establishing the yearly calendar for PIs and coordinates the various PI Planning events with all stakeholders

Manage sprint and requirement in JIRA and Confluence

Coordinating among the Scrum team and monitor adherence to Scrum practices.

Keeping team focused on current sprint goals (Big Visible Charts, stand-up focused).

Using team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity, and work with team to continuously improve.

Chase Bank, New York, NY 02/2015-06/2018

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Actively acted as a problem solver who eliminates obstacles and distractions that may negatively impact the team or prevent them from accomplishing goals

Working closely with the Product Owner in their efforts to manage and prioritize the backlog.

Served as the liaison between the Scrum team and external stakeholders. Collaborating with other people and teams, such as the product owner and vendor development teams to direct resources on the proper and most effective ways to stay on track.

Guiding development teams to a higher level of Scrum maturity. Fostering a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.

Ensuring quality of Scrum execution story cards Definition of Readiness and Done and commitments to on-time delivery.

Working with product owner to ensure proper balance between features and high-quality working software.

Extensive experience overseeing multi-functional project teams, including leading Agile Scrum teams on complex, integrated platforms.

Propelling the team to a high-performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

Acting as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and, to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.

Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

Manage sprint and requirement in JIRA and Confluence

MetLife, New York, NY 04/2013 - 02/2015

Role: BA/Test Analyst

Responsibilities

Manage individual test cycles, report bugs, and work with Business Analyst, and Developer to resolve problems.

Coordinate, Review, and Sign off test conditions.

Testing the application across different browsers and operating systems in the lab by browser metrics.

Organizing training on weekly basics for the testing team.

Responsible for documenting test cases as per business requirements for each release.

Investigated software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.

Executed test cases using different testing techniques: positive testing, negative testing and stress testing.

Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams.

Participated in review/progress meetings to monitor the progress of the testing process.

Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.

Involved in writing and implementation of the test plan, various test cases and test scripts.

Regularly followed up with development team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.

Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.

Met with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update test documents.

Developed and executed test scenarios for user acceptance testing.

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