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Established objectives and managed IT Agile team members in the execution of concurrentprojects while adhering to best practices. Led and mentored a cross-functional Scrum team of 8developers, resulting in a 30% increase in productivity and a 25% reduction in delivery time.● Facilitated all Scrum meetings including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews, and sprintretrospectives.● Worked with the product owner and scrum team to maintain a healthy product backlog byfacilitating scheduled backlog refinement meetings.● Worked effectively with multiple scrum teams both internally and off-shore using variouscommunication platforms including Skype for business and Microsoft Teams.● Act as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on thetimely delivery of software.● Assessed each scrum team member’s responsibilities by ensuring that their capacity wasaccounted for at the start of the sprint and delegated tasks to balance each employee’s workloadbased on the team’s velocity. ● Ensured the Team was well informed on internal and external initiatives and activities byfacilitating meetings with justifiable outcomes.● Keeping external stakeholders, collaborators and other interested parties well informed on teamprogress and activities.● Coach and mentor other scrum masters and product owners around Agile methodologies anddevelop training plans.● Started an Agile center of practice (ACoP) within the organization for sharing and learning Agilevalues.● Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources, and established schedules meetingor exceeding project demands.

As a Scrum Master I successfully facilitated sprint planning and retrospectives, ensuringon-time delivery of 15+ high-impact software releases. Also, my efforts in promoting cross-functionalcollaboration between development and testing teams yielded a notable 20% enhancement in releasequality and accelerated time-to-market by ~15%Providing all support to the team and leading by example. Knowing when to push the team tomeet product milestones,● Guiding and coaching the scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices andvalues to meet commitments for the sprint ● Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, retrospectives and planning meetings to realize full teamengagement.

Lead the projects in problem-solving, Pareto analysis (PA), Root-cause-analysis, 8Ds, 5Whys.● Introduced continuous improvement (Kaizen) and Poka-yoke (mistake proof/error proofing) andbrought new technologies to optimize and improve processes.● Analyzed processes and implemented changes to ensure a safe work environment, increaseefficiency and reduce cost.● Engaged in a project with a cross-functional team comprised of IT, QA, and business customers.● Put reporting and control systems in place to ensure the project meets the deadline.● Facilitated the use of sub-product codes, which allowed the flexibility to add new product IDs.● Worked in close collaboration with mainframe developers and web designers throughout thistwo-year project. Played a role in the organization saving a projected $500K over three years.● Led 11 team members in the execution of this high-profile project that, if handled improperly,could result in fines, penalties, and loss of permission to process credit card transactions.● Used Jira for Storytelling, Backlogs, Agile, and Kanban methodology.

Recognized for Logging the highest number of bugs from manual test efforts. Improvedthe web app’s UI/UX in the first month of joining using exploratory testing. Logged more than 180 bugs in Windows 10 including 50 + feature-specific bugs, and 13 OS issues. Awarded certificate for logging qualitybugs (Best Performers).● Wrote Quality Manuals, procedures, and work instructions and created forms.● Worked with application developers and production teams across functional units to identifybusiness needs and discuss solution options.● Generated assessment reports to analyze the scope and complexity of the migration project.● Documented the development work and production release for future reference.● Arranged calibrations & maintained calibration records and calibration of measurementequipment.● Developed Test execution matrices during the test cycle.● Project Management for:● Optimum Utilization of SQL Server management studio.● Approval, procurement, installation of applications, software development life cycle.● Implementation and monitoring of projects to meet deadlines.● Estimation of futuristic training needs through a logical server based on available data