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Rashmi
kumar@upstreamgs.com
781-313-8102
Lexington, MA 02421
Scrum Master
3 years experience
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Summary
Have 8+ years of experience with IT industry in Infrastructure environment.
Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
Domain knowledge of Banking & Finance and Healthcare & Insurance.
Accomplished Servant- Leader model as a Scrum Master helping teams enforce Scrum rules by coaching, removing impediments, and fostering self-management.
Knowledge of project life cycle, SDLC, project management, ITIL processes.
Facilitated team activities, including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning and team retrospectives.
Managed sprint release deliverables and proactively identify and resolve impediments to ensure sprint releases stay on track and update sprint activities in Agile planning and execution tracking tool.
Participated in Sprint increment planning events and communicated Agile team’s progress, dependencies and impediments to the program owners and other stakeholders.
Ensured impediments are resolved and the team meets sprint objectives and that releases stay on track.
Tracked Agile metrics like Velocity, Sprint burndown and Release burndown using JIRA.
Collaborated with product owners and senior managers to prepare for the Sprint Planning events.
Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.
Extensive experience in creating and maintaining source to target Data mapping documents. Strong documentation, assessing and analyzing skills in the business implications involved.
Participated in the review of system and business requirements for new projects.
Skilled in MS Office products like MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS Project.
Experience
Scrum Master
Professional/Consulting Services
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Conducted road mapping, Sprint/release planning, backlog refinement, team retrospective meetings, daily standup meetings and demo sessions.
Facilitated the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) including analyses, design, development, testing, system integration, deployment and maintenance, system integration and user acceptance testing support
Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.
Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
Worked with Product Owners and Scrum team members to practice backlog management and prioritization of backlog items using JIRA via emergent requirements.
Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.
Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.
Ensured all work is tracked in the backlog and accurately balanced across team members
Maintained and updated team’s artifacts to ensure accurate and clear communications to partners and stake holders.
Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
Addressed team dynamics, resolved conflicts and resource constraints
Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management using JIRA.
Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
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