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Yardley, Pa

-Worked with the Product Owner closely and was a part of Architectural Runway in understanding the technical implementations of project features.-Created Mock-Ups and UML diagrams such as Activity flow diagrams, Orchestration flow diagrams and data flow diagrams before each sprint for smooth development and testing.-Worked diligently on Change Request Management and performed Impact Analysis on the same.-Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and sprint demos and other -Scrum-related meetings to drive development and implement process improvements across scrum teams.-Investigated UDDI and looked up WSDL, WADL for existing SOAP and REST web services, REST APIs and request and response web methods.-Wrote Client-Side Validation, Server-Side Validation and Database Validation for various functionalities of the system. -Involved in Data Mapping for various schemas like Star Schema and Snowflake Schema and Data -Migration from OLTP to OLAP database.-Created Data Mapping documents and worked with business to write transformation rules.-Utilized HP-ALM tool and HPQC to generate test cases, scenarios to identify defects and mitigate them.-Used Postman for examining and validating the external APIs used in the project.-Created Test plans and developed User manuals for User Acceptance Testing, recorded the test and documented the bugs in Azure DevOps.-Performed Functional testing and Smoke testing on a regular basis to make sure that the basic functionalities of the system are working.-Facilitated Triage calls to identify defects by performing Root Cause analysis and mitigated it along with the development and testing team.-Identified and removed impediments and prevent distractions to ensure that the scrum team(s) meet the sprint goal and complete committed work.-Embrace a servant-leader role across scrum teams and support them in SAFe environment by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies.

Orange

-Worked to promote transparency across teams and stakeholders in SAFe environment by publishing team performance, making teams committed and accountable to deliverable and ensure team follows agile principles.-Experienced in working closely with Product Owner to break down the features and assisted in developing user stories and Acceptance Criteria.-Ensured that user stories are following INVEST criteria and acceptance criteria is written in Gherkin format-Actively participated in the roadmap sessions with the product owner to identify the PI Objectives.-Played a vital role in the Product Increment Planning (PI) to carry out dependency mapping to deliver key project milestones after respective sprints.-Facilitated backlog grooming sessions with the development team to refine the user stories and re-define the dependencies with the help of the lead BA.-Used UDDI and WSDL to look for the existing web services and identify the request and response of web methods.-Conducted Defect Triage calls to discuss open defects and their mitigation plans with the team.-Involved in performing Data Validation from OLAP database to check transformed data is abiding by the transformation logic.-Involved in Data Extraction- Transformation- Loading (ETL) and OLAP operations like rollup, like rollup, drill down, slicing/dicing, pivoting using BI tools and Reporting using Power BI.-Designed Test Plans and Test Cases for User Acceptance testing (UAT) with the help of QA teams.-Used Informatica PowerCenter assisted in data transformation and mapping from the OLTP to OLAP Database.-Created and developed Canned reports and adhoc reports to deliver progress reports to the product owner so that performance evaluations regarding meeting business requirements could be managed effectively.-Collaborate with project teams (both on and offshore) and motivated team members to accomplish team and organizational goals.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

-Expertise in tracking progress of the team using tools such as JIRA and continuously identifying new risks and coming up with strategies to mitigate them.-Spearheaded Daily stand- ups and conducted parking lot sessions to resolve impediments for members of the development team.-Facilitated meetings between development Team Leads and SMEs to understand stakeholder requirements to achieve sprint goals. -Facilitated and participated in various Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning sessions, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective, and backlog grooming sessions.-Adoption of Agile related techniques such as Planning poker and MoSCoW technique to estimate user story points.-Calculated the team’s capacity and velocity to have a better visibility of upcoming sprints.-Closely monitored the team’s progress by following up with team members and ensuring that they were on track.-Facilitated sprint review sessions to ensure DOD (Definition of Done) was satisfactorily met.-Conducted Sprint retrospective sessions to evaluate previous sprints and improve team’s future performance.-Assisted the Product owner in defining the requirements of the acceptance criteria.-Assisted in creating the DOR (Definition of Ready) and DOD (Definition of Done) so that user stories met stakeholder needs.

Doha, Qatar

-Facilitated Scrum ceremonies by enforcing timeboxing concepts, responding to impediments and ensuring that scope creep was avoided.-Ensured that the Sprint backlog was of a manageable size and tracked the same with the help of burndown charts.-Attended Triage calls along with the Lead BA to assign the priority of the bugs to effectively resolve them.-Assisted the Product Owner to ensure that the user stories met the acceptance criteria for achievement of DOD (Definition of Done).-Created key metrics such as capacity and velocity to track team’s performance.-Facilitated backlog grooming sessions for refining user stories and ensured stakeholder needs were met.-Checked with team members for impediments in Parking Lot sessions and resolved them to ensure team cadence.-Worked on refining the product backlog and the sprint backlog so that incremental value for features was added in each sprint.-Monitored and tracked the progress of the team and shared the results with the management.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

-Acted as a Liaison between business and technical teams and ensured all the communication is seamless-Created project documentation such as Business Requirement Documents.-Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams by eliciting project requirements by conducting interviews, focused- group meetings and requirement workshops.-Spearheaded triage calls between development team and QA team for resolving issues.-Facilitated UAT sessions for end users and collaborated with the business team to get UAT sign offs.-Facilitated meetings between development Team Leads and SMEs to understand stakeholder requirements to achieve sprint goals. -Used complex SQL queries to extract and validate the data from the Eligible Members database.-Extensively interacted with the developers and testers to ensure functional/technical implementation of business requirements and QA Team in executing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases.-Tracking project dependencies outside of the project team’s control and escalating issues as necessary -Facilitating cross-group and cross-functional communications for issues resolution and updates.