Principal Project Engineer

Vidhi Gupta Arni

Active Top Secret Clearance

703-***-****, *****.****@*****.***, 42938 Conquest Circle, Ashburn VA-20148

Objective:

Looking for a fulltime position as a Business Systems Analyst/Scrum Master in an exciting and fast paced IT environment where my work experience, technology expertise, PMP, communication skills and leadership qualities can contribute to optimize the processes in the organization.

Summary:

Detail Oriented Professional with extensive experience in managing scrum teams as a Scrum Master,Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Project Management and Project analysis of Web based & Client/Server applications.

Excellent understanding of Scrum and other Agile methodologies; particularly as it pertains to the role of a Scrum Master.

Experience in facilitating the Scrum process, including assisting product owner in writing/refining user stories and requirements as well as acceptance criteria, leading daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos, and retrospective meetings.

Expert at designing and building project repositories to manage product backlogs and capture and track work/information through the product life cycle and facilitate accurate status and progress assessments.

Extensive experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis Manual and UAT Testing.

Highly proficient in interacting with business users and authoring use cases, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, workflow diagrams, activity diagrams, collaboration diagram, class diagram, state-chart diagram, component diagram, based on UML methodology using case tools like MS Visio and Rational Rose.

Adept at understanding business processes, collaborating with senior management to design and manage technology infrastructure that supports organizational growth.

Experience in preparing Project Schedules and performing Milestone Tracking and Resource Allocations using MS Project and Visio.

Interacted regularly with the development team, database designer and the higher management to meet the deadlines of project milestones.

Strong knowledge of many software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies including Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Extreme Programming (XP), Waterfall, and other proprietary technology delivery frameworks and processes.

Expertise in using Clear Case for version control of all development (code and non-code) artifacts.

Expertise in the development and interpretation of Business Requirement Document (BRD), Business Process Document, Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Use Case Specification (Business and Application), Use Case Models, Systems Design Specifications (SDS), and Business Continuity Plans (BCP), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Extensive experience in working with Unified Modeling Language (UML) to graphically represent system's blueprints, business processes and; the as-is and to-be system functionality. Expertise in modeling using Use Case Diagram, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.

Excellent working knowledge of MS Access, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle Databases.

Highly motivated individual with strong communication skills, ability to interact with Developers, Users, Peer groups, Customers, Business and Technical peers. Excellent ability to handle multiple tasks, works well independently as well as with-in a team.

Skills Summary:

Tools:

Version One, Jira, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, DOORS, STPsoft, HP QC, MS Visio, DOORS, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Test Director, Lotus Notes, HP Quality Center

Change Management/Version Control:

Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, HP Quality Center

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/ME/7/8/10, Windows NT4.0, UNIX/Linux

Software Environment: C++, JAVA, UNIX, Shell Scripts, SQL,

GUI: Visual Basic, Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5), AutoCad

Databases: Oracle 10G/11G, DB2, MS Access, MS SQL server

Functional Testing: DOORS, HP Quality Center, Test Director, Clear Case, Clear Quest, QTP

Internet: HTML, JavaScript

Specific expertise include: GUI Testing, System Specifications Analysis, Functionality Integration Testing, 508 Compliance testing, Regression testing, Back end/Front testing, User Interfaces and Business Requirements Analysis, Performance/Stress Testing, Technical Training

Education/ Certifications:

Certified Scrum Master – CSM

Certified Product Owner – CSPO

PMP Certified October '13, PMI

ITIL

OATS (Oracle Application Testing Suite), Oracle Certified 2013

The Software Test Process Course, SAIC

BS in Computer Science,

MBA, Institute for Technology and Management

Work Experience:

TekSystems – Raytheon (DOMino) Nov 21-Present

Sterling, Virginia

Scrum Master/PRTE – Cloud Infrastructure ART

AWS LZ provides a foundational and scalable structure for governing and managing the security, cost, and operations of multiple AWS environments. Enable detailed and discrete cost accounting across all stakeholder/tenant environments within the AWS Landing Zone.

Responsibilities:

Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART using various tools, such as the Program Kanban and other information radiators.

Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs).

Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process that drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning events

Facilitate the PI planning event

Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish them for visibility and transparency

Assist in tracking the execution of features and capabilities

Facilitate periodic synchronization events, including the ART sync

Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.

Help manage risks and dependencies. Escalate and track impediments.

Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

Guides teams to be self-organized and motivates teams to focus on team goals/objectives

Remove impediments and act as a change agent to implement scrum across the organization

Facilitate the agile ceremonies, such as: backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand ups and sprint demos

Support and ensure that methodologies are followed. Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing (e.g. burn down charts, etc.)

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of all major initiatives

Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.

Conducted Touchpoint reviews and contributed feedback on colleague peer reviews.

NETE – An NTT Data Services Jul 20-Nov 21

McLean, Virginia

Technical Project Manager

NET ESOLUTIONS CORPORATION (NETE) is a digital services and Information Technology (IT) leader. NETE combines commercial best practices and emerging technologies and is primarily focused on providing services to the Federal Government Health and Research agencies.

Responsibilities:

Guides teams to be self-organized and motivates teams to focus on team goals/objectives

Remove impediments and act as a change agent to implement scrum across the organization

Facilitate the agile ceremonies, such as: backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand ups and sprint demos

Support and ensure that methodologies are followed. Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing (e.g. burn down charts, etc.)

Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of all major initiatives

Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours

Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.

Conducted Touchpoint reviews and contributed feedback on colleague peer reviews.

CACI International, Federal Jul 19-Jul 20

Ashburn, Virginia

Scrum Master

CACI is a multinational professional services and Information Technology company. CACI provides services to many Agencies of the federal government like The Department of Defense, The Department of Homeland Security, Intelligence, Healthcare. CACI has secured a task order to provide information technology and engineering services to the U.S. Army’s Product Lead Reserve Component Automation System-Force Management System (PL RCAS – FMS). The Information Technology Enterprise Management Systems Solution (ITEMSS) task order, made under the U.S. General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 contract vehicle, represents continuing work for CACI and expansion to support the Army’s vision for Global Force Information Management.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of all major initiatives

Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours

Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks.

Conducted Touchpoint reviews and contributed feedback on colleague peer reviews.

CACI International, Federal Oct 16-Jul 19

Chantilly, Virginia

Sr Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Understanding the business requirements and converting them to functional requirements by analyzing the applications and data.

Preparing the scope of the project and working on the deliverables and timelines of the entire team.

Identifying the non-functional requirements and documenting those requirements.

Creating a data flow and conceptual diagram for the pilot for a better understanding and identifying the stages of data.

Creating process flow diagrams/Data flow diagrams for better understand the process and the architecture.

Involve in creating Logical/Physical models for the mapping requirements.

Creating a source to target mapping document for the ETL development.

Involving in JAD sessions to determine possible solutions to build the applications.

Very detail testing of the data transformed based on the business transformations and other rules.

Documenting the test results and closely working with the developer to resolve the issues.

Training the user on the functionality of the applications and making them comfortable in using the data and helping them identify and understand the applications/reports.

User acceptance testing(UAT) to verify the correct functionality of the application/reports.

Captured As-Is Process, designed TO-BE Process and performed Gap Analysis

Developed and updated functional use cases and conducted business process transformation to explain business requirements to development and QA teams.

Created Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Specification Documents.

Identified the risks, issues involved and ensured a timely resolution to avoid negative impacts on the program deliverables.

Performed analysis of data and tracking of performance Indicators.

Assisted Project Manager in creating Project Plan and Management Documents like Monthly Status

Report, Monthly Stage Gate Review doc and weekly update documents.

Provided clarifications to Development & QA team on business requirements.

Co-ordinate with IT manager for strategic planning and deliverable of the project.

Provided training sessions on how to use JIRA to other BAs.

Fannie Mae Oct 14-Oct 16

Reston, Virginia

Sr Business Analyst

(Service Delivery Specialist-Asset Portfolio Management)

Our organization is a dedicated Technology-business team, with O&T with umbrella accountability for all Technology delivery to the SF-FE business unit. Securitization of MBS loans or for purchase as Cash loans. Ensure Cash loans are validated, certified, priced, purchased & funded on submission day. The Certification process is automated & streamlined for Fannie Mae & 3rd party custodians. Certification information is provided to various applications to help with acquisition, securitization & early funding. The Whole loan commitment, pool, loan and certification data is stored in repositories for 36 months for internal reporting. Internal customers store & view reports from various acquisition and certification systems. Lenders download and view reports of cash & MBS loans and pool deliveries. Sellers & Servicers access draft invoices and bills.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for getting the impact assessment in collaboration with the technology team in a timely manner.

Gather detailed business and technical requirements and participate in the definitions of business rules and data standards.

Worked with various business stakeholders and SMEs to gather high level business requirements.

Conducted JAD, brainstorming sessions to investigate, identify, analyze and solidify business rules.

Analyzed high level business requirements and converted them into the functional requirements.

Creating BRDs, FRDs, and Specs based on the requirements in Agile environment.

Documented functional and nonfunctional requirements into formal specifications and got signed off successfully after reviewing with business and IT stakeholders.

Monitor and make changes to the existing process to align with the agile environment.

Conduct bi-weekly meetings with the technology team to discuss any changes in the existing process and address all concerns in team of performance metrics and productivity.

Responsible for processing and obtaining approvals as per O&T guidelines for all Non-CGIs SOWs, FTEs and CRC requests.

Seek approval with consistent follow up from Key resources in technology, Business and VP-level before processing the Labor requests in our vendor management system for O&T Headcount request.

Responsible for follow up with POCs on the approval lifecycle for timely approvals.

Work with Application security team Security Business Integration team to go over application findings to mitigate risk, meet with technology owners to have remediation plan in place for these findings or permit extension.

Asset Portfolio Manager for 90+ applications, responsible to approve and update changes in CMDB (Confirmation Management Database) as and when there are changes or updates in any applications.

Responsible for updating Monthly metrics report with new data to showcase up to date information on Finance Project deployment schedule, SOW’s, FTEs, CRCs, Risk and Control, Enterprise IT Support.

Environment: Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Agile, PL/SQL, Oracle, HTML, MS Office, MS Visio, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, UML,RUP, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Visio.

Avineon Inc Nov 13- October 14

Financial Systems Support, US Dept of Education

Washington DC

Business Systems Analyst/Project Manager,

OATS.

On Site at the US department of Education, Avineon is responsible for integrating FSA financial systems by implementing new technology solutions, improving program integrity, and reducing the vulnerability of the federal student assistance programs to fraud, waste and abuse by providing long-term assistance to the FSA's Financial Management Systems' financial IT systems.

Responsibilities:

Performed evaluation of Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS).

Lead the Automation of the oracle eBusiness Suite scripts initiative using OATS (Oracle Application Testing Suite) software.

Responsible for creating Project Plan for the project.

Identify key business commitment milestones for the project.

Get approval on the timelines of the project from the business stakeholders and ensure it is within the allocated budget.

Translated business scenarios into relevant user acceptance, system, and integration testing scenarios and analyze results.

Worked closely with all IT cross functional teams to ensure that all technical work streams are delivering support to the business in a timely and transparent manner, minimizing delays and ensuring processes provide value to the business objectives.

Worked closely with QA Managers, Development managers and other IT partners to ensure IT practices are consistent, complete and documented.

Creating a data flow and conceptual diagram for the pilot for a better understanding and identifying the stages of data.

Creating process flow diagrams/Data flow diagrams for better understand the process and the architecture.

Conduct daily standup meetings.

Conduct weekly status meetings with the business and senior management and provide status updates and progress of the project.

Track issues, risks for the project and monitor them for closure. Escalate the issues appropriately to the management.

Gather requirements from business users by utilizing various methods. (e.g. conducting interviews, setting up JAD Sessions, Requirement sessions and examining file layouts, business use-cases, sample reports, and technical specs.

Responsible resource staffing, schedule and budget management, EVM, change control, quality management.

Lead and managed the test planning and Strategy.

Ensuring the appropriate planning & management of test resources for the successful implementation of OATS.

Assessing the progress and effectiveness of these test efforts.

Provide ongoing training to team members on OATS.

Coordinating meetings with development team and OPS team to discuss strategy.

Providing day to day feedback to the client regarding on-going progress.

Communicating with Oracle representatives for OATS related issues during implementation and support.

Preparing FSA feeder file processing and maintaining support for daily file processing and alerts generated by said processes.

Assisting in research and resolution of any processing issues for our operating partners and financial institutions.

Maintain procedural documentation for the development or implementation of new or existing processes within the FMS applications.

Provide SME advice to the requirements, design and development team.

Participate in JAD or other meetings to obtain requirements.

Interact with staff that manage and provide technical support for applications that will interface with the new system.

Assist with other SDLC documentation such as operations manuals and users guides.

Assist with User Acceptance Testing.

Provide interface expertise between functions and needs of the oracle application and a number of other applications that send data to and receive data from the oracle application.

Provide post production assistance.

Environment: Oracle eBusiness Suite, OATS, DOORS, Sharepoint, MS Visio, Java, Unix/Linux, Windows NT, IE, PL/SQL, TOAD, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, MS Access, Clearquest, Clearcase.

Fannie Mae Jun 11 – Nov 13

Herndon & Reston, VA

Business Systems Analyst/UAT

HAMP

The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) is designed to help financially struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure by modifying loans to a level that is affordable for borrowers now and is sustainable over the long term. The program provides clear and consistent loan modification guidelines that the entire mortgage industry can use.

Responsibilities:

Worked on numerous cross platform applications, organized Joint Application Developments (JAD), Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Interviews and Workshops, Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions with end-user/clients/stake holders and the IT group

Field Validation Testing, Functionality Testing) of UI and Web Applications. Extensively worked in creating Test Procedures, Test plans, Test cases and reviewing them for quality assurance. Tracking defects and interacting with team members in fixing errors. Worked on both Black box and White box Testing.

As a key part of the IR2 System test team responsible for creating test scripts, test cases and plans to support all software testing activities.

Reviewing requirements and design documents to ensure adequate understanding to develop test cases and test scenarios.

Attending Internal and External reviews, uploading the test cases in Quality Center and executing them.

Validating data in the tables by writing SQL queries and verifying the results.

Responsible for defect tracking and entering/reporting them in Clear Quest.

Reviewing the functional requirements in DOORS.

Work with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.

Lead a small QA team in the creation and preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy and conducted quality assurance reviews of test cases and test scripts.

Developing and maintaining RTM through the project life cycle.

Participate in daily DRB (Defect Review Board) meetings with developers and manager.

Designing and developing Test Plans and Test Cases in Quality Center based on the Business requirements and mapping documents.

Performing software testing of applications and computer systems based on defined requirements.

Use SQL queries extensively for backend testing and to identify the test data using Toad.

Issue reporting & tracking using Clear Quest tracker and coordinate with development team.

Meeting with Business Analysts to define, document and review functional and technical requirements.

Worked with Project Managers, Senior Management, and other stakeholders to define project goals, scope and define requirements.

Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with users and SMEs to review business requirement.

Conducted detailed and comprehensive business analysis by working with other BA’s, IT developers, financial analysts and end-users, in order to identify system and operational requirements and improvements.

Led and guided team to write requirements for future releases of the project as well as requirements management.

Created system requirement Documents and Business Requirement Documents to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives

Assisted the PM with MS Project plan and updating it periodically

Coordinating with different teams to get the weekly updates and project tasks.

Involved in regular reports, feedback and communication with the management, coordinating the team members and maintaining the project log Presentation, delivery and documentation of project.

Participated in project review meetings to resolve defect related issues. Managed defects in Quality Center

Environment: Java, Unix/Linux, Windows NT, IE, PL/SQL, XML Spy, QTP, DOORS, TOAD, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, MS Access, Clearquest, Clearcase, Quality Center.

SAIC Inc, Oct 06 to April 11

Falls Church, VA & McLean, VA

Lead System Tester

SDWIS/EPA

SDWIS/STATE (Safe Drinking Water Information System/state version) is a database designed by EPA to help states run their drinking water programs. Sharing a name with SDWIS/ FED (Safe Drinking Water Information System/federal version), SDWIS/ STATE is the state counterpart to EPA's federal drinking water information system. EPA's goal in developing SDWIS/ STATE is to provide a single data system that can meet most needs of each state's drinking water program with high quality data. SDWIS/ STATE helps states manage the information necessary to supervise public drinking water systems.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the entire testing of all Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS)/STATE components for the EPA.

Duties included composing test plans, test scenarios and completing test assignments such as the testing of SDWIS STATE on different platforms such as Windows NT, Windows 98, Oracle, DB2 & SQL Server. Analysis is achieved using Oracle, Auto tester, and MS Access.

Reviewed test plans and specifications to ensure adequate test coverage. Reviewed Design, Business and Functional Requirement documents.

Interacted with System engineers and System Architects on issues with these documents.

Also performed functionality testing of the Monitoring, Non-compliance, Sampling, Inventory, Legal Entities, Enforcement and System Admin components of SDWIS/STATE.

Worked as the primary tester for SDWIS/STATE on different databases testing user support events and create data to run Compliance Determination (batch based process) reports in addition to being major contributor to the User Support Team.

Tested complex functionality associated with the Total Coliform Report Compliance Determination component.

Analyzed business rules and modified XML files included in test suite using XML Spy to test new business rules. Business rules changed whenever EPA issues new guidance on reporting drinking water data.

Typical business rules were: reference integrity must be maintained in the reported data, data must match the domain reported in the metadata, data must confirm to the permitted level of reporting, data must meet minimum reporting requirements, data must pass all data quality checks and all inventory data that must be submitted before actions data.

Responsible for incorporating updates into the test scripts and test plans to test new bugs.

Tested the MTS 2.0 by creating XML documents to incorporate the changes made in MTS 2.0 and testing the newly added objects in MTS2.0. Also regression test was done for the other objects. This regression test included testing the ability to load multiple objects (Inserts and Changes – i.e. MTS1_0_Run1.xml and MTS1_0_Run2.xml).

Tested Inventory triggers and CDS triggers. HELP was reviewed.

Tested the Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) which is a regulatory report with content prescribed by the EPA. It is produced annually for each water system and contains summarized sample and violation information for specific regulatory contaminants.

Also tested the Lead and Copper section of CCR.

Developed and incorporated Auto tester scripts to test MTS 2.0 and Data Bridge.

Automated over 200 release acceptance test cases using Selenium IDE/RC.

Worked as Lead tester for ESS (Electronic Sanitary Survey) including planning and developing procedures to test ESS.

Created queries in MS Access to verify the results.

Created MS Access queries for each staging table based on the MTS 2.0 structure set documentation.

The queries were developed for Oracle as well as for SQL Server.

Verified that all relevant data is extracted from the SDWIS/STATE 2.0 production tables to the ESS staging table in the correct column.

IT also verified that the counts in the TMG tables matched the count from the MSACCESS queries.

Tested Data bridge by creating .csv files through the staging tables.

Responsible for running the csv files through Data bridge to ensure there are no generation errors.

Downloaded the files in XML format and running them through Migration to verify that the generated business errors are the same as in MTS2.0.

Created SQL plugins for Oracle and MS Access.

Test effort also included scheduling the time for testing and writing Release notes for Data bridge.

Worked as a member of the team that developed 2 state modules of SDWIS using the Agile process.

Environment: Java, Unix/Linux, Windows NT, IE, Firefox, PL/SQL, Auto Tester, Selenium IDE/RC, XML Spy, SQL Developer, JAWS, SQL Server, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, DB2, MS Access

INDUS Corp, Aug 01 to Oct 06

McLean, VA

Sr System Analyst

SDWIS/EPA

Worked as Lead tester for ESS (Electronic Sanitary Survey) including planning and developing procedures to test ESS.

Created queries in MS Access to verify the results.

Created MS Access queries for each staging table based on the MTS 2.0 structure set documentation.

The queries were developed for Oracle as well as for SQL Server.

Verified that all

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