Balaji Jayakumar Email and Phone Number

• Overall 9 years Scrum Master experienced Business Analyst responsible for driving adoption of Agile and Lean values, principles, and practices for multiple distributed and allocated delivery teams.• Excellent end to end understanding of SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and Hybrid model. • Fostered a culture of collaboration & continual learning resulting in measurable improvements across all team members.• Experienced in working with traditional and agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies. Delivered technology projects in Waterfall, Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid, Agile-Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban Principles, and good exposure to development practices including Test Driven Development, Behavioral Driven Development.• Worked closely with Business Users, Product Owners, Project Managers, Technical teams, Solution Architects, Quality Assurance, Deployment, Maintenance team, DevOps team and Scrum teams through all phases of SDLC.• Extensive experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment as a Scrum Master.• Multiple years of experience facilitating Scaled Agile and Scrum ceremonies including Program Increment (PI) planning, sprint planning, retrospective and backlog grooming; prioritization at portfolio/program/team level; cross team dependency management; features and user story writing workshops and coached multiple scrum teams to achieve project milestones. • As a Scrum Master, resolved impediments hampering team progress and quality of product. Used Sprint Burn down Chart to track velocity and Assisted Product Owner in creating Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, and Acceptance Criteria during the Product Backlog Grooming ceremony. • Efficient at using Prioritizing techniques (Moscow, Kano Model, Business Value, Walking Skeletal, Forced Ranking and Technical Risk) and used Estimation techniques (T-Shirt Sizing, Planning Poker, Relative Mass Valuation) to estimate the User Stories after they were broken down from larger EPICS using INVEST criteria.• Facilitated tracking of Sprint and Release by using Burn-down charts and tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down and helped the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Storyboard, Action board, charts, backlogs)• Strong experience in working with agile lifecycle, and tracking, for maintaining User Story Hierarchy, Backlog Grooming, Updating Tasks and process management using JIRA.