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• Responsible for facilitating multiple scrum teams for company’s website and managed sprint ceremonies like sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective. • Perform vendor management activities including time and cost estimates, project plans, resource plans and budget• Support Product Owner to help groom and manage the product backlog, product roadmap, and portfolio management. • Gather and update project requirements, budgets, forecast, project documentation and business flows. • Collaborate and partnered with stakeholders and team members to ensure that proposed changes meet customer needs and expectations prior to development/implementation. • Skilled at resource balancing, prioritization (risk/impact analysis) and conflict management related to internal and external dependencies of the project. • Represent the team daily at the Scrum of Scrums meetings to report impediments for escalation, risks and conflicts. • Communicate project progress to all stakeholders through sprint burndown reports and velocity chart metrics.

• Update more scrum ceremonies matrix words like velocity chart, burndown chart. • Facilitate scrum ceremonies, add more about tools, user stories writing, how to do prioritizing, training product owner stake holders. • Ensure the participation from all impacted functional teams and stakeholders. • Confirm engagement with impacted tracks including resource assignments. • Work with the project requestors and SMEs to complete the project socialization presentation for the projects ready for solution commit. • Provide and highlight specific issues and risks impacting approval that need to be called out to the leadership, managers and stakeholders. • Plan and implement the internal and external reviews with development teams and stakeholders, respectively. • Used JIRA for allotting tasks, User Story Writing, Backlog Management, Issue Tracking, User Story Management and Forward/Backward Requirement Traceability. • Analyze and help close any open items (if any) to secure approvals towards solution commit.

• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums to discuss impediments, dependencies and kaizen. • Write more about rally in two projects and Jira in one project, user story mapping, what retrospective techniques • Supported the Product Owner to set the sprint goal and prioritize the backlog. • Organized and ran workshops for continuous learning and overall team development. • Coaching of Executives during agile transformation. • Planned and facilitated all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, demo reviews and daily stand-up. • Ensured the project timelines were adhered to through team optimization and resource allocation. • 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. • Motivated the development teams to work in accordance with agile values and principles. • 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.

• Facilitated multiple scrum teams for inventory management software to track merchandise end-to-end planning and execution. • Co-ordinated with Product Owner on backlog grooming and prioritization to ensure optimal delivery. • Coached the team to estimate story points and supported them with sprint backlog refinement. • Facilitated sprint ceremonies and technical solution using different tools and techniques. • Removed roadblocks for development team caused by impediments, distractions and redirected focus to sprint backlog. • Managed dependencies with internal cross functional teams, conduct UAT and release planning activities to ensure quality deployment and timely delivery in production system.

• Analyzed converted data from new large Sigma financial application. This new system was to integrate back into 2 new systems and 20 old, later be converted also. • Verified database table names and structures with the development team.• Analyzed multiple business processes to prepare for data integration of new system, data mapping/data flow charts/wire frames.• Created business process flows, models, detail use cases, and prototypes, to crystallize actor/artifact relationships for the development team• Working with the application and software team to develop secure SDLC process, threat modelling, secure coding standards, secure coding review and secure deployment• Weekly & daily meetings monitoring team performance on project progress. Mentoring and guiding team on writing detailed business requirements within the State SEM methodology (Agile)• Completed Functional Analysis and Requirements Gathering. • Worked with Architects, Database Administrators, Security, etc. participating in Systems Analysis Design Flow, Screen mock-ups, and firewall identification.• Daily interface meetings with clients, managers /project manager and developers conveying risks, progress and status of the project.• Participated in requirement gathering sessions, use case artefacts document repository, data mapping matrices, and reporting specifications

• Conduct and participate in daily SCRUM meeting and capture Daily Status notes• Worked extensively on Integration of Policy and Billing center Systems. • Operated closely with Business and guidewire consultants on a guidewire upgrade project which aimed at transitioning from legacy billing system to guidewire billing center. • Working extensively using Excel to validate the data and use as the source data files.• Hands-on development assisting users in creating and modifying worksheets and data visualization dashboards• Maintaining all manual test scripts and other artifacts like test data, test results and defect reports using JIRA.• Expertise in implementing systems Development in Agile Scrum, RUP Waterfall Methodologies• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance) Testing. Involved deeply with client interaction. • Performed SQL Queries on the database to extract data.