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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.
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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