Scrum Master Software Development

Zakriya Pamidi

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Working Status: U.S (Citizen)

Certified (SAFe®) Scrum Master

SAFe® Scrum Kanban SSM Certification Servant Leader Agile Transformation Agile Methodologies Facilitation Certified Scrum Master JIRA/Release Management/CRQ Servant Leader

Summary/ Experience

Certified Scrum Master (SSM) with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) working 8+ years of strong fundamental of (SDLC) software development life cycle. Coaching Agile/Scrum practices for Agile transformation.

Scrum/Safe certification as Scrum Master and facilitates Scrum ceremonies as the daily stand-up calls, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, team retrospective and coaching to be self-organized and self-sufficient teams.

Scrum/Kanban practices by provided guidance and coaching to be self-organized and self-sufficient teams.

Ensured Iteration Planning and execution are well structured follow a consistent for Agile practices as a team. Guide and coach the product owner for the value-based prioritization for product backlog reviews.

Managed the team backlog refinement sessions with scrum team and for sprint planning sessions.

Leading the collaboration efforts with pre-planning sessions for the PI (program Increment).

Encourage teams for innovation and foster Agile. Furthermore, experience with user story review for story meets the (DOR) Definition of Ready and (DOD) Definition of Done. Collaborations of all team members by conducting team retrospective reviews for Agility Health to remove conflicts and created a healthy team environment.

SAFe Certification as Scrum Master to improve the teams progress on better Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair Programing, Automated Testing.

Being a Servant Leader by protect and shield the teams from external distractions. Keeping all members of the team as one on being Agile. Empower the teams to (IA) Inspect & Adapt.

Key Competencies

Excellent strengths are my Interpersonal skills. Effective communication, adaptability, and organization skills by working in well diverse business settings. Exposure to Agile/Scrum process and principle.

Strong analytical/communication skills to work on multiple projects in well diverse business settings, thrives in a fast-paced challenging environment. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Professional Experience.

Bank of America -BofA-

GCIB/GCBB & DTS Digital Technology April 2021 – Present

Agile- Scrum Master

Facilitates Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Team Retrospective).

Identify team capacity for each sprint and improve over all team progress using the radiators such as burndown charts, and sprint closure reports to identify the KPI’s (key performance indicators).

Leading the scaled planning for the team. Including the PI-Planning (Program Increment) Planning and Leading the collaboration efforts with (PI Planning) ensured Planning and execution are well structured.

Collaboration efforts with PO (Product Owner) and managed dependency withing team, and cross functional dependency as part of Pl-Planning efforts. Working alongside (RTE) Release Train Engineer for Art Sync updates.

Working with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog.

Exposure to BofA (CM) Change Management process. Created (CRQ) Change Request using internal Banking tools. Created release container using the (RM) Release Management tool. Exposure to BofA Release Process and deployment efforts and Providing support to the team.

Good understanding of Change Management process, create Change request and adhere to governance process follow through with Change Management process and adapt to the MRA standards for the bank process.

Prepared and facilitated the PI-Planning and host the Team Breakout sessions and providing break down of the PI-Planning sessions and being a servant leader to the team and providing overall support and guidance.

Coaching the Scrum Team. Empower the team to self-organize to remove impediments and build a safe and trusting team environment.

USAA -Military Org (United Automobile Association Agency). Aug 2019- Feb 2021

Title: Consultant- Agile Coach/ Scrum Master.

Support and enforce the Agile practices within (Scaled Agile Framework) as Agile Coach and fulfill the role of Scrum Master by being a servant leader to project and shield the team from external distractions.

Facilitating scrum cadence for daily stand-up calls and scrum ceremonies and building Agile practices to guiding the development teams on the critical deliverables. Prepared the team for sprint review team Demo sessions.

Conducted Team Assessment to improve on Agile maturity model for Agile Transformation.

Prepared for the Release planning efforts support of the best engineering practices for TDD, BDD continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair Programing behavior for development and testing.

Scheduled and Facilitated meeting sessions with the PO (product owners) to streamline and prioritize work.

Prepared the scrum teams for the pre-planning sessions in preparation for the PI planning (Program Increment).

Worked alongside with RTE (Release Train Engineer) on progress reports for an entire train level.

Tracking the team velocity/capacity in (JIRA). Participating in SOS (Scrum of Scrum) calls.

CG (CAPITAL GROUP)

(Investment & Mutual funds) Jan 2019 – Aug 2019

Scrum Master

Conducting daily scrum cadence for improvements and over all transparency and help team on the Agile transformation. Being a servant leader and protecting the scrum teams from external distractions.

Improve transparency, build a safe and trusting environment and increased team productivity.

Preparing the progress management reports to be updated for leadership sync for stakeholder’s review.

Prepared the IT team and product owners for System Demos as scheduled by business.

Tracking the team velocity/capacity for each sprint in (JIRA) Actively participating in SOS (Scrum of Scrum) community session to inspect and adapt.

USAA-

Scrum Master Oct 2013 – Jan 2019

Excellent industry practices of Agile. Providing guidance to the team on all of scrum process help the team perform at their highest level by facilitate meetings and removing impediments.

Tracking team’s velocity/capacity for team’s progress throughout the sprint, working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is well groomed. Encourages the team to self-organize teams.

Encourages other team members to facilitate Captures progress and summarize as sprint planning input. Helps Product Owner prepare, groom, prioritize and right-size the team backlog.

Providing overall guidance as a on a day-to day process and goals. Building successful Agile techniques and best practices throughout the sprint and identify all level of effort to associated with team. Assist with prioritization of defects/bugs to be worked into the sprint for team capacity.

Working with release management for release and continues test-driven development.’

Continuous integration engineering practices to leverage the team. Empower the team to self-organize remove impediments and build a safe and trusting team environment.

USAA- San Antonio

Scrum Master/Systems Analyst.

Coordinated with offshore teams as Lead and managed majority of the on-site/offshore model to assist them in all aspects for a quality and efficiency from testing to defect tracking process with tools (QC).

Supporting software development teams with user story mapping, mapping features to business requirement for visual management and configuration management; application SDLC tools and workflows to manage the process from requirements to development to testing and deployment.

Resolved issues and concerns related to the testing and deliverables. Participate in system testing and release testing validations. Coordinate the testing to determine the scope of testing.

Review the project deliver dates for sign-off and coordinated the UAT testing procedures with the business team. Oversite the offshore work in progress. Worked with QA team for test plan, review test cases, test scenario and execution of test scenarios for continuous testing of automation.

INFOSYS- UBS– New York. Nov 2010 - Sept 2013

QA Analyst

Creating and preparing test cases/test scenarios as per the functional requirements. Preformed integration testing. Co-ordinate with development team, to ensure the functional aspect of the application is tested and completed in testing.

Coordinate with offshore QA as a lead to provide guidelines on testing procurers and business process for financial applications. Created Test Strategy and review test plans, track of all testing validations, testing evidence to ensure the functionality of the application as expected as per the business for approvals. Performed back end testing for database instance. Creating new defects and maintain the defect strategy and conduct defect review meetings to resolve all outstanding and existing defects with offshore team.

Deutsche Bank – New Jersey Oct 2009 - Sept 2010

Test Analyst

UAT testing support on the go-live weekend. Creating release check-out list for production go live.

Manage the defect prioritization process involving the business and development team to identify all tasks in UAT procedure and prepared test schedules.

Created test cases and detail test scenarios as per the functional requirement specifications, for GTB global transaction banking application. Testing and reporting defects, tracking issues, and managing UAT test cycle. Preformed integration testing of Flexible Security Framework.

WebMD/Medscape - New York Sept 2008 – Oct 2009

QA Analyst-

Analyzed and provided testing estimates and successful completing testing to with the deadlines. Focused on completing the test matrix for media/campaign compatibility on multiple browsers.

Performed UAT/Implementation testing and integration testing and usability testing. Ensure the quality of out-going email invitation, newsletters and speaker series educational programs.

Data scope patient monitoring- Mahwah, NJ. Feb 2008 – Sept 2008

Test Analyst

Performed system testing using non-invasive medical devices. Performed manual testing on “Panorama” equipment’s for approval with FDA. Performed system testing on embedded systems. Creating of test approach for the verification and validation of software and equipment as per the FDA regulation.

College Graduate: (Internship) Jun 2005 to Feb 2007

Create test scenarios. Interacted in team meetings with application development team, followed QA procedures properly according to the technical specifications. All testing efforts for functional, Integration and regression testing, writing test scenarios and test cases.

Education & Certification

Ottawa University: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management 2005.

SAFe® 5 Scaled Agile Framework

(SSM) Certified Scrum Master.

Agile Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally

Documentation: CMI, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Projects, SharePoint.

Defect tracking tool: HP Quality Center ALM.

Operating Systems: Windows with IE, Firefox, Mac OS, VISTA.

Data base: SQL Server. DB2, JQL (JIRA)

Defect tracking tool: HP Quality Center ALM

Mainframe, client-server, web-based,

databases DB2

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Personal accomplishments

Played Professional Golf. Playing and developing skillset to be qualified to paly with much higher skilled players in Professional Golf. Developed my skillset in Professional Golf as a player and developed playing ability and thrive to be successful in my pursuit for success in Professional Golf.

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