Scrum Master Quality Assurance

Adegboyega Adeyiga

Scrum Master/Quality Assurance Engineer

Phone: 443-***-****

Email: *****************@*****.***

Owings Mills, MD 21117

OBJECTIVE:

As a motivated individual, I am a great team player and work well with others, combining excellent interpersonal skills with good analytical and technical skills. I have established the foundation required to be of support with the confidence and professionalism to promote accuracy and attention to details, while remaining sensitive to issues that arise when working with diverse people and groups to achieve positive results and organization goals.

CLEARANCE

Public Trust

EDUCATION

International University

BSc Computer Science

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance

Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

AWS (Cloud Practitioner)

RTE (Relese Train Engineer)

PMP

C ++

SKILLS

•Certified SAFe Scrum Master with great experience facilitating multiple scrum teams.

•Knowledge of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile development frameworks.

•Certified Scrum Master with over 10 years of experience in Agile frameworks, including 3+ years as a Senior Scrum Master leading multiple teams using Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices.

•Successfully led Agile transformation initiatives and maturity efforts across enterprise-level teams, fostering continuous improvement and enhancing customer outcomes.

•Experience supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI (GenAI) projects, including AI-driven automation and analytics initiatives.

•Deep knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe), with strong facilitation of PI Planning, ART Sync, and cross-team collaboration.

•Background includes work with government, financial services, and healthcare-adjacent clients, making transitions across regulated environments seamless.

•Support the Product Owner in maintaining the Product Backlog to keep work items in priority order.

•Coach waterfall teams through the transition to become a mature agile team.

•Experience with Hadoop migration.

•Experience working in fast paced environment with tight deadlines.

•Establish a means of effective communication and Agile engagement practices for distributed teams.

•Positive team player with excellent verbal, written, analytical, servant leadership, problem solving, interpersonal and communications skills.

•Experience in AWS – Platform as a Service (Paas) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

•Experience with Devops, Automation Testing and Agile software development.

•Demonstrate Lean Agile practices through designated materials and facilitated demonstration. provides a knowledge base critical to the success of Lean Agile Transformation.

•Experience working with AS400 platform.

•Experience working with Selenium and Jenkin.

•Working knowledge of Lean Agile SDLC processes and deliverables.

•Package Installations and Workflows (AWF)

•Experience with Atlassian Tool- Jira

•Extensive knowledge about Salesforce implementation configuration and customization

•Report and Dash Boards, Salesforce Lighting.

•Core Java and J2EE experience for automation scripting

•Experience with capital market and Trading

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

AI VETS (Veterans Affairs)

Baltimore, MD

Scrum Master

March 2023 – Present

• Assessed the JIRA tool to run the processes to implement Agile methodology daily and ran regression testing to determine the quality of the application.

•Coached teams on Agile principle, improving productivity and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

•Proactivity identified and resolved impediments, enabling the team to maintain focus on sprint goals.

•Collaborated with stakeholders to align on projects priorities, ensuring timely delivery of high- value deliverables.

•Led retrospective to identify process improvements, and increasing teams’ velocity.

•Coordinated with cross-functional teams to manage dependencies and ensure seamless delivery across projects.

•Trained and onboard new team members in Agile methodologies, accelerating their productivity.

•Advocated for Agile best practices, driving the adoption of frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe

•Monitored team performance using tools like Jira, providing actionable insights for improvements.

•Spearheaded Agile ceremonies and maturity roadmaps for AI/ML-based automation initiatives in collaboration with data science teams, contributing to GenAI tooling integrations.

•Facilitated Agile Release Train (ART) activities in alignment with SAFe methodology, supporting multiple teams through PI planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.

•Mentored Scrum teams on Lean-Agile principles and delivery practices, improving sprint predictability and customer satisfaction scores by 25%.

•Supported healthcare-related government programs, applying Agile best practices to deliver secure, scalable solutions aligned with compliance requirements.

Meridian (Navy)

Jacksonville, FL

Scrum Master

January 2021 – March 2023

•Facilitate the Team and Product Owner to maintain a healthy team backlog.

•Help the Team to define and meet DOD/DOR.

•Help the team write the requirement in an appropriate format (for example user story).

•Make Sure User stories delivered incrementally within the sprint.

•Developed the framework for automation using annotations, Java, and Selenium libraries.

•Help Co-ordinate and resolve dependency within and outside the team Requirement Management.

•Develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements.

•Help Remove impediments to the team's ability to perform, using direct and influencing skills.

•Proactively working with management to set team priorities and plan schedule based on scrum capacity and velocity

•Performed various SFDC Configuration Tasks - customs objects, filed, validation rules, record types, page layouts, workflows, approvals, and process builder

•Assessed the JIRA tool to run the processes to implement Agile methodology daily and ran regression testing to determine the quality of the application.

•Revised automated test scripts, created, and executed using Selenium WebDriver.

•Worked on Salesforce account, opportunities, Quotes, Products, and many other Std. objects.

•Perform gathering the business requirement on Salesforce platform by designing custom objects, creating the relationship/ junction objects, Master- child, lookups, Entity relationship data model.

•Create tagging standards for proper identification and ownership of EC2 instances and other AWS resources

•Customized and configured enterprise editions of salesforce.

•Helped teams adopt the CRM faster and get up to speed by providing on site and remote training and support.

T Rowe Price

Owings Mills, MD

Scrum Master/Quality Assurance Engineer

November 2019 – January 2021

•Facilitate Development Teams discussion, decision making and conflict resolution through training, education, and influence.

•Organize and facilitate project planning, daily standups meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and other meetings.

•Facilitate team discussion and conflict resolution.

•Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress within the agreed reporting framework.

•Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities.

•Assist in making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, definition of tasks, and estimations.

•Implement test automation at a larger scale.

•Managed the entire project using JIRA for project tracking and Confluence for storing and retrieving test data.

•Communicate with product, design, and executive teams through written reports and oral presentations to identify and solve quality issues.

•Architected Selenium test scripts, parameterized them, and validated their functionality through security and regression testing.

•Collaborated closely with developers on UI module development using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

•Perform load, stress, stability and reliability testing to improve software functionality and usability.

•Ran test automation using Selenium, Cypress, and Jenkins to monitor identity, and evaluate software development performance.

•Track and communicate scrum metrics.

•Create communication channels, coordinate activities with other remote teams.

•Works with vendors as needed for project planning and integration into Agile event.

•Ensures the teams are identifying process improvement for faster and better-quality delivery.

•Coordinates business SMEs and engineers to ensure the project is appropriately staffed and resources are properly aligned and managed. Maintains regular contact with internal clients and coordinates and reports on project progress and accomplishments.

•Develops the budget and statement of work, including project justification and plan technology projects. You will be responsible for defining roles and responsibilities within the project team. Responsible for monitoring project financials and updating plans with accurate, up-to-date information in a timely manner. Follows financial standards and processes (e.g., monthly external revenue accruals, procurement, and external payments).

•Reduce AWS costs by 30% by applying cost control mechanisms.

Elite Service

Wheaton, MD

Scrum Master

July 2017 – November 2019

•Facilitate Development Teams discussion, decision making and conflict resolution through training, education, and influence.

•Participate in Scrum of Scrums to align and collaborate across agile teams

•Collaborate with Release Train Engineer and other Agile teams to resolve cross-team issues and dependencies

•Communicate status, risks, barriers to relevant stakeholders and leadership

•Coach agile teams to self-organize and cross function to boost productivity

•Coach a continuous improvement mindset, recommend adjustments to established delivery practices, and advocate transparency and creativity

•Collaborate with the Agile team and stakeholders to elicit feedback for iteration review.

•Support and Coach product owner to prioritize Product Backlog.

•Help team resolve and track impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary.

•Protect the team from external interferences.

•Applied facilitation techniques to ensure effectiveness of the scrum meeting and conflict resolution.

•Manage offshore teams in different geographical places.

•Ensure all meeting outcomes are defined, understood and achieved for iteration meetings (Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective).

•Build and foster a safe environment where issues/concerns can be raised and addressed.

•Ensure the iteration goals are visible and understood by the team.

•Facilitates decision making based on Agile values and principles.

•Mitigate risks that may destabilize the team.

•Partner with Product Owner to ensure Product Backlog are continuously prioritized in line with business priority.

•Facilitates the iteration planning based on prioritized stories, team capacity and historical velocity trends.

•Understand, apply, promote and contribute to Agile delivery methodologies across the organization and communities of practice.

•Empower the scrum team by providing continuous improvement opportunities to efficiently solve problems and provide critical thinking skills.

•Collaborate with Agile team to ensure PI planning readiness and other program level events.

•Engages teams in using real life examples and situations to incorporate the benefits of Lean Agile and provides recommendations for usage.

Paragon Systems, Inc.

Herndon, VA

Scrum Master

March 2015 – July 2017

•Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team for a higher level of maturity.

•Track metrics of team velocity, productivity and use the metrics to help the team improve.

•Identify, own and remove impediments for the team.

•Make recommendations for continuous improvement to enhance effectiveness and play an active role in organization agile transformation.

•Protect team from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on sprint goal.

•Promote and evangelize Agile across the organization and coach individuals and teams to embrace agile mindset.

•Support solicitation of input and feedback from Development and Business teams after each Sprint.

•Take initiative and act as a leader to foster collaboration and communication between team members in addressing and escalating project risks and issues.

•Reach out to the organization network to remove impediments before they become blockers.

•Cultivate robust and sustainable working relationships between business and technology teams to foster collaborative environment.

American Security Program

Reston, VA

Scrum Master

February 2012 – March 2015

•Support and Coach Product owner in prioritizing Product Backlog.

•Facilitate the daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and other meetings as required by the team.

•Escalate issues to the management and seek timely resolution.

•Ensure task completion with delivery of features and business value to customer.

•Facilitate discussion during backlog grooming and sprint planning to achieve user story size and development plan respectively.

•Facilitate Postproduction Validation and actively participated in production call support whenever necessary.

•Communicate status, risks, barriers to relevant stakeholders and leadership.

•Coach team to self-organize and cross function to boost productivity.

•Coordinate with other Agile teams to resolve cross-team issues and resolve dependencies.

•Improve transparency by publishing agile metrics with velocity chart, sprint burndown, scrum board, and release burndown charts.

Accucount Inc.

Westminster, MD

Business Analyst and Agile Coach

August 2009 – February 2012

•Identify project scope using context diagrams, use case diagrams, and feature roadmap.

•Improve efficiency, achieved timely deliveries within budget and managed project plans and resources.

•Performed earned value analysis and compared it with planned value to track schedule and cost of the project.

•Facilitate daily standups for the Teams

•Implemented innovative methods and techniques, reduced lead time, and achieved cost savings.

•Used MS Visio for block diagramming, charts and graphs, and web diagramming.

•Lead and managed a team of 16 to keep everyone’s goals aligned with the goals of the project.

•Performed PERT analysis to estimate the length of a new project at 75% confidence.

•Develop and deliver functional and technical project artifacts including use cases, user stories, requirement definition, process definition, user interface design, test strategy, and test cases.

TOOLS EXPERTISE

•Tracking Tools: Jira, Confluence, Central Agile(Rally), MS Office, MS Project, SalesForce, Selenium, Jenkins, Cypress

•Collaboration Tools: Skype, Trello, Flowdock

REFERENCES

•Available upon request.

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