Scrum Master Business Analyst

Yamini Vemula

**************@*****.*** McKinney, Tx 484-***-****

Professional Summary:

15+ years of experience in IT as a Scrum master, Program manager and Business analyst. Full software development life cycle (SDLC) experience including agile, water fall methodologies, Business process definition, Requirement Analysis, Risk analysis, Data analysis, Reporting analysis.

Responsible for interacting with business partners to identify information needs and business requirements for project.

Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.

Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Foster an environment of continuous improvement and team empowerment so that our teams reach their full potential for productivity, engagement, and morale.

Support Product Owners with respect to priorities and scope.

Resolved or escalated blocking impediments, as necessary.

Encourage the team to use metrics as part of continuous improvement in retrospectives and ensure that they address flow efficiency.

Coach the team through maturity of agile and scrum processes, improving delivery and confidence in commitments.

Coach and facilitate the team to identify and track work items and issues, identify bottlenecks, and assess and manage risk utilizing models, patterns, and practices.

Coach teams to use forecasting models to identify what they can deliver for a program increment and a sprint.

Manage the team’s delivery against the release timelines, flagging risks and issues when they arise; proactively identify and work to remove blockers identified during development.

Work with the Product Owner to ensure the top of the story backlog is kept in a priority, estimated, and elaborated state.

Develop and update functional use cases and conduct business process modelling to explain business requirements to development and QA teams.

Assist teams to ensure requirements are translated to test plans and implement new functionalities by running training sessions, demos and documentation development.

Identify risks, resolved issues and conduct stakeholder reviews throughout project lifecycles.

Proficient in communicating effectively with excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new Technologies

Writing SQL queries to create end-user reports /Developing SQL Queries and stored procedures in support of ongoing work and application support.

SDLC Methodologies

SAFE Scrum, Kanban

Business Skills

Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, Interviews, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting.

Requirement Management

JIRA, Rally, Version One, Jira Align, Confluence, Clarity

Modelling Tools

Rational Rose, MS Visio, Mock-up Screens, Wireframes

Testing Tools

HP QC v10.0, HP ALM V11.5, Load Runner,

Data Transformation Tools

Informatica, Oracle Data Integrator

Reporting tools

Tableau Desktop, MS Office Suite

Languages

HTML, XML, SQL, C#, Java, .Net

Databases

MySQL, MS Access, Oracle

Client: Elevance Health Dallas, TX Project Name: MF2 migration project April’24 – till date

Role: Scrum Master Sr /Project manager

Responsibilities:

Working with multiple GBD projects migration from on prem to AWS& Azure cloud.

Working with Application team, Migration teams, Devops team on implementation process.

Working closely with the PMO team to complete all the medallion milestones for the projects.

Providing the process documentations and key getaways for every mile stone for others APMs to follow.

Maintaining the Jira boards for all the steps and providing all data about implementation.

Working with PMO and application team for the cutover activities.

Working closely with Devops team for bamboo pipelines building.

Client: Elevance Health Dallas, TX Project Name: Provider portal Management Sep 2021 – April’24

Role: SAFE Scrum Master Sr /Project manager

Responsibilities:

Scrum Master for a team including developers, testers.

Facilitated Scrum to discuss impediments, dependencies, and kaizen.

Supported the Product Owner to set the sprint goal and prioritize the backlog.

Supported the scrum teams in progressive improvement using the sprint retrospective.

Utilized the burnup, burndown and velocity charts to plan, prioritize and keep the project on track.

Participate in scrum of scrum to discuss on issues and dependencies with the teams.

Update the Jira align with risks and objectives for every PI Planning.

Working on SAFE scrum frame work and participated in PI planning activities and work closely with the RTE, team, PO.

Working closely with the release management team for smooth release process.

Coordinate with cross functional teams for the lower environmental blockers for testing.

Organized and ran workshops for continuous learning and overall team development.

Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and meet the definition of done.

Collaborated with the Product Owner and stakeholders to help manage organizational and customer expectations.

Prepare the confluence pages for status updates and team release dashboard.

Track project budgets, monitoring to ensure projects are implemented in line with contract requirements; update and submit required financial reports to internal and external clients.

Oversee project plans and schedules for multiple projects and assure that all deadlines are met .

PI planning and working with Jira align tools and link jira projects with jira align.

Client: ALFA Insurance, Montgomery, Alabama Jan 2020 -Aug 2021

Project: Azure Data Lake

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Scrum Master to two teams of 9 engineers in different geographical locations.

Facilitated Scrum of Scrums to discuss impediments, dependencies, and kaizen.

Supported the Product Owner to set the sprint goal and prioritize the backlog.

Supported the scrum teams in progressive improvement using the sprint retrospective.

Utilized the burnup, burndown and velocity charts to plan, prioritize and keep the project on track.

Created information radiators and transmitted same periodically.

Planned and facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, demo reviews and daily stand-up.

Worked in SAFE scrum environment managed PI Plannings for scum teams.

Motivated the development teams to work in accordance with agile values and principles.

Organized and ran workshops for continuous learning and overall team development.

Coaching of Executives during agile transformation.

Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and meet the definition of done.

Collaborated with the Product Owner and stakeholders to help manage organizational and customer expectations.

responsible for leading and managing projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

Utilizes web analytics, e.g., Google Analytics, to measure digital performance and provide creative feedback/updates based on results

Cultivates productive, professional relationships with clients, vendors and internal teams.

Client: BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Novota, CA April 2019 to Dec 2019

Project: Oracle Cloud implementation

Role: Project manager

Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering the requirements from the business and doing the impact analysis for various systems

Planning sprint release and making sure team has a crystal-clear understanding of sprint goals

Working in tandem with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release plan

Facilitated the development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories

Conduct Release Planning meetings and facilitate business analysis activities.

Facilitate estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques. Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics burn down charts and team velocity

Coach team members on Agile principles. Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing timeboxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective

Making sure complacency doesn't set in team, at same time avoiding overcommitting to stakeholders

Tracking milestones and Publishing team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.

Resolving internal team conflicts and keeping the team motivated to ensure successful sprints.

Superior communication skills, Experienced analysing end-user requirements, presenting to upper management and supervising cross-functional project teams.

Created and implemented design procedures that increased efficiency, accelerated customer satisfaction, and slashed error rate.

Dedicated to implementing on-site business requirements for application upgrades and converting the processing of time and attendance system.

Specializing in working with technical staff to create, interpret, and implement business requirements into technical specifications.

Client: Tory Burch, New York,NY Jun 2018 to Mar 2019

Project: Customer Master

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Organized and facilitated daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.

Supported the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Used Kanban to track the status of the project.

Coached the team to become a self-organized and able to hit commitments at high level of quality.

Foster an environment of continuous improvement and team empowerment so that our teams reach their full potential for productivity, engagement, and morale.

Support Product Owners with respect to priorities and scope.

Guided team on how to get the most out of self-management and leverage this to evolve the team's agile practice.

Supported the team in removing impediments which cannot be solved by the team and encourage self-management of those that can be solved within the team.

Record and address impediments and retrospective action items in a timely manner.

Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India Jun 2016 to Nov 2017

Project: Data Consolidation

Role: Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

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

Collaborated closely with the Product Owner (PO) with respect to managing the product backlog.

Worked to remove all impediments and obstructions to the team’s progress.

Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

Created metrics (burndown, burnup charts) and track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

Assisted team members in Agile estimation techniques.

Ensures scrum team members maintain administrative hygiene to ensure dashboards/metrics are clear and actionable.

Supported sprint demos with the team to celebrate successes and align output with stakeholder expectations.

Facilitated retrospective sessions with a feedback loop, resulting in continuous improvement.

Collaborated with other scrum masters to improve Agile methodologies’ efficiency.

Client: Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India May 14 to May 16 Project: FDW – Financial Data Warehouse

Role: Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for planning, tracking, managing releases as per plan.

Ensure all the phases of projects delivered on time and with high quality.

Create track and report delivery metrics. Ensure there are target goals set and improved continuously.

Proactively Identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirement, budget and timeline.

Developed project strategies and plans and identifying required methods and tools.

Reviewed status reports prepared by project personnel and modifying schedules or plans as required.

Prepared project status reports for management and business unit leaders

Monitored progress against plans.

Provided visibility of resource utilization and availability to management.

Communicate project issues, including timing, budget, resources, scope and more, to management and project sponsor.

Collaborated closely with other Shared Services groups for process and system enhancements.

Client: Ashok Leyland Ltd (A division of Hinduja Group), Chennai, India Nov 2008 to Nov 2013

Project: SAP Implementation

Role: Business Analyst

Analysed business needs by facilitating business & IT discussions and reviewing business requirements.

Identified business opportunities & problem and work with the business and technology team to define options and develop solutions.

Developed artifacts to drive discussion during workshops to ensure that all business needs are captured in requirements.

Coordinated meetings, take meeting minutes, and follow-up on all action items for meeting with multiple IS members, business users and business partners.

Forecast, notify, and follow-up with the project leads, product owners, and management for outstanding issue status, business unit requests, and any issues that arise in the certification work stream.

Developed and updated functional use cases and conduct business process modelling to explain business requirements to development and QA teams.

Assist teams to ensure requirements are translated to test plans and implement new functionalities by running training sessions, demos and documentation development.

Identified risks, resolve issues and conduct stakeholder reviews throughout project lifecycles.

Education:

BCOM computers from Acharya Nagarjuna University (May 2004- Mar2007)

CSM certified.

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