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Sanford, Fl, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

o Ensure that the team understands and follows the Scrum framework, and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.o Agile environment with a team including Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers, Business Analysts and Testers. Manage the product backlog and the refinement of requirements with business partners. Create User Stories and Acceptance Criteria. Two-week sprints to configure and test the user stories. o Identify and remove any obstacles that may be… Show more o Ensure that the team understands and follows the Scrum framework, and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.o Agile environment with a team including Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers, Business Analysts and Testers. Manage the product backlog and the refinement of requirements with business partners. Create User Stories and Acceptance Criteria. Two-week sprints to configure and test the user stories. o Identify and remove any obstacles that may be hindering the team's progress, such as dependencies or resource constraints.o Ensure that the team's progress and velocity are visible to stakeholders, and that the product owner is aware of any changes or issues.o Used V1 (Version one) tool to track team activities; Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint release progress to all affected teams and management fostering quality communications between IT disciplines. Show less

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

o Facilitating collaboration between the sales and marketing teams to ensure alignment on pipeline management.o Responsible for executing Scrum master activities in Agile SAFe environment.o Managed Prioritized backlog in Agile environment using TFS.o Created product development process using Scrumban (Scrum + Kanban) and developed user stories based on the requirements for the workflow of the system to enable continuous delivery model.o Managed the vendor selection process… Show more o Facilitating collaboration between the sales and marketing teams to ensure alignment on pipeline management.o Responsible for executing Scrum master activities in Agile SAFe environment.o Managed Prioritized backlog in Agile environment using TFS.o Created product development process using Scrumban (Scrum + Kanban) and developed user stories based on the requirements for the workflow of the system to enable continuous delivery model.o Managed the vendor selection process, which includes developing requests for proposal (RFP) and requests for information (RFI), reviewing submitted bids from contractors, and serving as the chair of the vendor selection committee.o Updated the rally tasks on timely and the Kanban board. Show less

Houston, Texas, United States

o Collaborated closely with multiple cross-functional teams, supported product owners, developers, and stakeholders and coach them on product requirement gathering, making a cross functional team from starting, and advocate for agile process & quality improvement in each phase of SDLC.o Acted as a servant-leader, focusing on making team empowered to handle impediments and driving changes to removing impediments with RCA techniques like 5-Why, fostering self-organization, and promoting… Show more o Collaborated closely with multiple cross-functional teams, supported product owners, developers, and stakeholders and coach them on product requirement gathering, making a cross functional team from starting, and advocate for agile process & quality improvement in each phase of SDLC.o Acted as a servant-leader, focusing on making team empowered to handle impediments and driving changes to removing impediments with RCA techniques like 5-Why, fostering self-organization, and promoting continuous process improvement.o Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospectives, enhancing team communication, coordination, and continuous improvement. o Valuating the effectiveness of the IVR system post-implementation, including gathering feedback from users and stakeholders to identify areas for improvement. Show less

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

o Successfully transformed waterfall team to agile and focused on making team mature self-managing team.o Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for an Agile team. o Facilitated, optimized Scrum practices and principles to increase customer and partner satisfaction.o Supported the Product Owner in refining and managing the product backlog.o Facilitated Scrum events and… Show more o Successfully transformed waterfall team to agile and focused on making team mature self-managing team.o Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for an Agile team. o Facilitated, optimized Scrum practices and principles to increase customer and partner satisfaction.o Supported the Product Owner in refining and managing the product backlog.o Facilitated Scrum events and other meetings for effective collaboration.o Identified and removed impediments to ensure team productivity and goal achievement.o Used Jira and Kanban Board to track key Scrum metrics (burndown/burnup, velocity, capacity, CFD) to help deliver committed work. Show less

Warsaw, Indiana, United States

o Met with project stakeholders and SMEs across company verticals to elicit and document business process models (BPMN), epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities. This included requirements/rules for ingestion of party (customer, suppliers, workers, jurisdictions), product and location master data, match and merge/deduplication rules, and publication user stories, and stewardship workflows. o Coordinated agile based planning/review activities and meetings, followed… Show more o Met with project stakeholders and SMEs across company verticals to elicit and document business process models (BPMN), epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities. This included requirements/rules for ingestion of party (customer, suppliers, workers, jurisdictions), product and location master data, match and merge/deduplication rules, and publication user stories, and stewardship workflows. o Coordinated agile based planning/review activities and meetings, followed Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process, Agile using Scrum.o Gathered and analyzed information on future state global site business processes. Produced To-Be process documentation and process flow diagrams.o Worked with senior business executives/Insurance Underwriting team for documenting the business requirements document (BRD). o Provided business process improvement recommendations to management. Show less

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

o Developed test Scenarios from the requirement documents (Use case, Functional Specification, Prototype).o Gathered and analyzed information on future state global site business processes. Produced To-Be process documentation and process flow diagrams.o Worked with senior business executives/Insurance Underwriting team for documenting the business requirements document (BRD). o Provided business process improvement recommendations to management.o Facilitated collection of User… Show more o Developed test Scenarios from the requirement documents (Use case, Functional Specification, Prototype).o Gathered and analyzed information on future state global site business processes. Produced To-Be process documentation and process flow diagrams.o Worked with senior business executives/Insurance Underwriting team for documenting the business requirements document (BRD). o Provided business process improvement recommendations to management.o Facilitated collection of User Requirements and Business Requirements from Business User Group such as to document Business/User/Functional/Technical Requirement Specification using MS Word and MS Visio that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.o Conducted Joint application development (JAD) sessions for gathering requirements, and Rapid application development (RAD) sessions to converge early toward a design acceptable to customer and Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI). Show less