Manoj S.

Manoj S.

Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in Business Analyst profile as well.

Bengaluru , India

Experience: 11 Years

Manoj

Bengaluru , India

Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in Business Analyst profile as well.

40050.1 USD / Year

  • Notice Period: Days

11 Years

Now you can Instantly Chat with Manoj!

About Me

Summary:

  • Over 11 years of IT industry experience along with 4+ years relevant experience as a Lead Business Analyst and Scrum Master.
  • Liaised as Scrum Master between Product Owner and Scrum Team; activitie...
  • Liaised as Scrum Master between Product Owner and Scrum Team; activities included :
  • Scrum ceremonies and Product Backlog monitoring.
  • Retrospection, Show & Tell meetings with various stakeholders.
  • Release planning & execution.

Professional Experience : Key Responsibilities

  • Facilitate Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meeting & System Demos.
  • Facilitate Bug Scrub sessions as and when needed.
  • Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.
  • Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
  • Involved in all the phases from Project initiation to Project closure.
  • Handled complex projects with distributed teams and challenging environment.
  • Played Scrum Master role for multiple teams in parallel.
  • Experience in all aspects of SDLC including application development, requirement gathering, user stories documentation, production support.
  • Preparing initial high level understanding documents, FRS, SRS, Use cases whenever necessary.
  • Strong technical command of JIRA management tool.
  • Expertise in analysis and description of business processes, and their translation into functional and non-functional IT requirements.
  • Assisted developers in remediation of issues found in testing by analyzing various bug-tracking techniques and root cause analysis.
  • Extensive experience in end-to-end software testing lifecycle.
  • Acts as the interpreters between the worlds of IT and business.

Show More

Portfolio Projects

Description

• As a Scrum Master, instrumental in setting up agile process and ensuring the team understands and follows the process diligently.

• Organize and facilitate Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

• Communicated the impediments to appropriate stakeholders and leadership through Scrum of Scrums.

• Tracked burndowns/burnups throughout the iteration.

• Facilitate and gathered the backlog estimate from the team.

• Coordinate and facilitated conversation with stakeholders.

• Work closely with Product Owner in terms of gathering the requirements and convert them into User Stories.

• Prepare BRD, FRS, workflows, training materials and user guidelines.

• Perform functional testing for each Sprint Goal.

Show More Show Less

Description

• Work with stakeholders/Product Owners to prioritize the requirements for Sprint.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities for upcoming Sprints in Sprint Planning.

• Facilitate Daily Scrum (Stand Up).

• Assist in removing impediments faced by the Scrum Team.

• Facilitated Product Backlog Refinement (grooming) discussion with Product Owners.

• Provide input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.

• Conduct various testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration, and performance to verify the client’s needs are met.

• Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.

Show More Show Less

Description

• Engage client to gather Report requirements/business rules and ensure alignment with development teams.

• Prepare FRS, Data Dictionary, training manuals/videos.

• Create various views (pie charts, bar charts, stacked bar charts, etc.) required in the Dashboards/Reports.

• Worked on SQL, MS Excel to churn data for feeding into Power BI.

• Data Validation by comparison with reports in Salesforce tool.

• Incident Management using ServiceNow tool.

Show More Show Less

Description

• Gather, understand, and analyze the Business requirements and translate it into Functional IT Requirements.

• Single handedly prepared Test Plan, Use Case Scenarios, Test Data.

• Perform various testing (functional, system, regression, database, integration, etc.)

• Work closely with Dev team to get the bug fixes.

• Providing technical support on functional areas to end customer via email/phone/chat.

• Attending the regular Weekly client call with onsite team, discuss, analyze new Change Requests.

Show More Show Less