Arshiya

Professional Summary:

·        Involved for bringing agility into the organization driving different projects inmanufacturing,banking,analytics and insurance

·        Worked as SM for three geographically distributed teams with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.

·        Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

·        Monitor and control the sprint and report on back on issues, dependences, risks and time lines

·        Involved in working with the Product owner and team to plan the next 2-3 iterations ready stories and make them well groomed

·        Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. 

·        Involved in making the teams self-organized, cross functional, conflict resolution thereby increasing the velocity and throughput of the teams

·        Worked as Agile coach in addition to fulfilling Scrum master activities

·        Tracking project dependencies outside of the project team's control and escalating issues as necessary.

·        Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog

·        Monitor the performance and development of the team to ensure their growth agile continuous learning on the area of expertise

·        Facilitated daily scrums and ceremonies to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.

• Provided coaching and guidance to the team on planning next Sprint/Iteration and helped the team in understanding the process and concepts of scrum artifacts and scrum events.

·        Involved in PI planning with the RTE and Product owners and building Product Roadmap for the individual teams

·        Possess effective risk management skills and ability to predict and mitigate risks and proactively prepare the teams for changes and impacts to clients

·        Responsible for agile implementation in Scrum teams and Kanban teams.

·        Worked with customers and product owner to prioritize and validate requirements.

·        Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables

·        Capable of handling collocated and distributed agile teams in multi geographical locations

·        Expertise in use of agile tools for driving Agile practices using JIRA/RALLY to track team progress

·        Involved in approving the test plans, test scenarios and accepting the technical user stories which are defect free

·        Involved in making the teams to practice logging defects in Rally and writing the tasks to track the defect

·        Involved in project management activities like Status Report, leave approvals, Change Management,Issues and Risks managementand work with the Delivery Manager

·        Possess knowledge on other agile methodologies like TDD,XP,Kanban,SAFe,Lean management

·        Experienced in preparing Test Strategy, Test plan and test cases, scripting and execution

·        Proficient in all phases of Testing lifecycle with expertise in the functional, performance and Regression testing

·        Creating- test- environment executing functional as well as regression tests.

·        Involved in developing the SQL scripts and functional testing