Scrum Master/RTE

BANI SINGH

(PMI – ACP PSM * SSM SASM ICP-ACC ICP-ATF ICP-ENT)

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Professional Summary

Accomplished IT professional offering 11+ years in Agile environment. Delivery Focused, Release Train Engineer/Scrum Master with proven ability to drive high complex Features from proof of concept to full deployment, delivering high quality results on time and on budget and helping teams empower to scrum rules by coaching, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Experience working in Banking and Wealth Management. Strong Knowledge of Scaled Agile, Scrums and Release Management. Excellent leadership, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, highly competitive and thrive in challenging situations.

Soft Skills

·Effective Communicator and Powerful facilitator.

·Long-term thinking and commitment towards project success.

·Extremely organized and Future Focused-Ability to look at bigger picture.

·Problem Solver through critical thinking.

·Negotiation Skills, Team building and Strategic Thinking.

·Active Listening, Decision Making and Client service.

Work History

Immediately Available for a New Role

Canadian Citizen– Toronto, Ontario

Release Train Engineer (RTE II) /Senior Scrum Master, 04/2022 – till date

TD Bank, – Toronto, Canada

·Outlining and Implementing roadmaps during PI Planning for the platforms by coordinating with Journey Owners, managing backlogs, providing high level estimates, requesting yearly budgets and managing month to month project expenses.

·Leading the platform QBR sessions and PI Planning sessions. Defining value driving metrics and focusing on constant Inspect and Adapt.

·Maintaining strategic relationships with different integrating teams with Discovery Platform to make sure goals are aligned, partnership agreements are made, dependencies are communicated effectively, and tasks are completed in timely manner.

·Continuous communication with program/journey partners for regulatory initiatives to provide status updates, provide technical guidance, clearly articulate teams requirements and be a trusted partner to meet critical regulatory timelines.

·Maintaining and managing Risks, Issues, and tasks. Using Jira and Confluence effectively for smooth tracking and effective communication.

·Worked as Agile Transformation Coach on TD Enterprise Agile transformation program. Coaching on Scrum, Kanban & SAFE framework.

·Coaching teams on Agile methodologies, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready while assisting Product Owners and BSA’s on writing effective Features, Epics and story mapping.

·Assisted leadership with Feature progress and leading scrum of scrums for regular updates.

·Served a scrum teams size 8-9 members, working as a scrum master with cross functional teams ensuring release and delivery to production.

·Facilitated scrum ceremonies-Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives.

·Hands on experience with JIRA and Confluence.

Scrum Master, 07/2019 to 03/2022

TJX Companies Inc., – Mississauga, Canada

·Coached teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhere to scrum framework.

·Facilitated discussion, decision making and conflict resolution across 2 cross functional teams.

·Ensured user stories were 100%ordered, defined and ready to be worked on by the team.

·Guided agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing scrum practices..

Scrum Master, 03/2017 to 06/2019

Honeywell – Mumbai, India

·Directed and supervised scrum development team of 6 members implementing analytical solutions for Honeywell’s procurement Transformation of a business-critical Web Application. Led the team in developing analysis related to weekly and monthly spends in purchase of raw materials.

·Helped product owner incorporate product backlog based on dependencies and priorities.

·Worked closely with QA to ensure acceptance criteria is met as per definition of done.

·Tracked sprint metrics and maintained dialogue with 3 teams on performance, challenges, accountability and recognition.

IT Analyst, 01/2015 to 02/2017

TD Bank – Mumbai, India

·Worked as an IT Analyst/Production Support for Agile team with a support engagement with TD bank.

·Took care of incident management with SLA's.

·Performed problem management, change management as well as adhoc requests from clients.

·Provided technical training to colleagues and junior members of the team.

QA Analyst, 03/2013 to 12/2014

Bank Of America – Mumbai, India

·Dealt with record keeping technique that traces the dates of purchase and sale, cost basis, and transaction size for each security in the client's portfolio, even for multiple purchases of the same security on the same date which helped track bond and other financial instrument cost basis adjustments, corporate actions, and bookkeeping reconciliation.

·Performed testing on the application and making sure that the acceptance criteria is met, and quality product is deployed in production.

Education

Bachelor Of Technology: 2012

Amritsar College of Engineering & Technology, Punjab - India

Certifications

·Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI – ACP)

·PSM 1

·SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 6.0)

·SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

·ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching Certification (ICP-ACC)

·ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

·ICAgile Certified Professional in Enterprise Agile Transformations (ICP-ENT)

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