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St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Facilitated Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos & Backlog Refinement.• Facilitated communication within the agile team, product owner and stakeholders by focusing on the scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect. • Used Jira to monitor and track product development progress through different Sprint. • Ensured the effectiveness of product development processes by using the matrix to guide team communication and resolve impediments when necessary. • Together with the scrum team, defines, builds, tests, and deploys products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization in the entire processes. • Coached the scrum team to adopt effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills, contributing to improved team performance.• Assisted the team attain 100% attendance at all scrum ceremonies from Sprint Planning to Retrospective.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Efficiently used Jira to plan, report, prioritize and iterate team’s work. Gained real-time, actionable insights into team’s performance sprint over sprint.• Used Kanban framework to implement agile practice, set work in progress limit for full transparency and visualization of work. • Tracked and reported om metrics of teams to measure progress and effectiveness of agile adoption. • Escalated key risk and identified opportunities that helped improved team performance.• Drove Agile mindset of continuous improvement, accountability, and elimination of waste.• Assisted in providing clear Definition of Ready (DOR), Acceptance Criteria and DOD (Definition Of Done)• Worked with Product Owner to improve, promote and contribute to a healthy Product Backlog.• Mentored and coached teams on Agile values, practices, principles, and methodologies that promoted continuous improvement, accountability and transparency in practices and artifacts.• Ensured team’s adherence to Agile practices through one-on-one coaching and retrospectives.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Collaborated with project managers and cross-functional teams.• Analyzed and documented defects and tracked them till completion using tools like Jira and Rally.• Assisted QA team in assembling, evaluating, and reviewing testing strategies and test plans.• Proficient in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) and Requirement Traceability Matrix.• Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in backlog.• Facilitated Brainstorming sessions with SMEs to review BRD and identify functional requirements to create user stories.• Coordinated UAT with QA teams and help write test cases.• Documented release notes for every release.• Gathered, reviewed, and analyzed business and industry data, including KPIs, financial reports and other key metrics using data analytics tools.• Liaised between various business department and groups. • Assessed options for process improvement including business process modeling.• Maintained documentation regarding various projects, processes, and operations.• Identified and communicated with key stakeholders.