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Paromita - Scrum Master

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Paromita PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Top performing, enthusiastic and committed true leader with great experience in implementing Agile for more than 8 years in Information Technology sector. A passionate Scrum Master, empowering teams to perform at their level best in a fun and collaborative environment with relentless improvement. Result oriented leader with exceptional people skills, comfortable working with diverse group of people, strong expertise in mentoring, conflict resolution, building consensus, effective decision making and bringing out the best from the team. Skilled in making a team self-organized through effective coaching and people skill. Expert in Agile methodologies with focus on adopting and transforming traditional teams to use Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Coached Product Owners and Development Teams in following pillars of Empiricism, Scrum and Agile values and thus having effective Scrum events, scrum of scrums and ART events (SAFe Framework). Experience in implementing and supporting SAFe principles and quality practices such as PI Planning, PI objectives, Program Board, System Demo, Architectural Runway and Agile Release Train (ART). Strong understanding of various SDLC methodologies, thorough comprehension of traditional methods as well as agile approaches, hands on experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Strong collaborations with Product Owner and Development team to facilitate discussions, removing impediments for the development team, improve the quality through pair programming, peer review etc. Trained and assisted the Product Owner and Development Team to manage and prioritize Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog, review User Acceptance criteria, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Calls, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Effective analysis of Capacity and Velocity and other information radiators in determining the plan of action, adopting new strategies, and adapting to the changes. Educational Qualification: Msc (Microbiology Honors), Bangalore University (2008-2010) Bsc (Microbiology Honors), North Bengal University (2005-2008) Certified on: SAFe Certified Scrum Master (SSM5.1) (preparing) Professional Scrum Master PSM II SKILLS: Methodologies: Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Waterfall, Scaled Agile (SAFe) Tools: JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, Rally, VersionOne, Azure DevOps Technologies: .NET, JAVA, JavaScript, SQL Server, Selenium, Xray, AWS cloud Agile techniques: Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, WIP Limits, Pair Programming Metrics: BVI Radiators, Burn-down Chart, Burn-up Chart, Velocity trend, Program Predictability Measure, Cycle time, Throughput Professional Experience: Client Name : AT&T [April 2022- Jan 2023 ] Vendor: Winmax Scrum Master Location: California (Remote) Roles and Responsibilities: Enhanced the teams Agility health by 20% by implementing Agile techniques. Reduced cycle time by 10% hence improved the throughput of the team. Created the story for data migration team who were working in API development and data governance. Increased the team s predictability by 20% thus created more reliable forecasts for the PI planning. Responsible for ensuring Agile & Scrum theory and practices are well understood by teams, customers, and leadership by empowering and encouraging to focus on why rather than what or how. Collaborate with RTE and Agile Teams for Program Increment planning within Agile Release Train, develop release plans and ensures that releases are successful. Assist in implementing Essential SAFe for enterprise product development, coordinate and facilitate SAFe ceremonies Effectively communicate and collaborate with other Teams to ensure the dependencies are identified and prioritized accordingly. Promote and sustain self-organized and cross-functional team structure. Assist the Product Owner to prioritize the items in the Product Backlog (Team Backlog). Coach the Scrum Team to use the Product Backlog Refinement session to the full effect, where features are broken down into stories, the user acceptance criteria are clearly understood by everyone, the stories are relatively estimated and prioritized, the dependencies are discussed, and ensure the stories are small enough to be completed in a single sprint. Facilitate effective Sprint Planning by educating the team not to under commit or overload and ensure that the Sprint goals set are deliverable, and thus help in maintaining customer satisfaction. Coach the Team in analyzing ininformation radiators and assist them in being Agile with the help of burn up charts, burn down charts, capacity, and velocity. Identify and assist in best practices with Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Technical Debt Management and CICD. Ensure the flow of value by using Work In Process (WIP) limits and Pair Programming thus reducing bottlenecks. Monitor and train the Team to maximize the use of scrum events and other meetings through Focus, Openness, Courage, Commitment and Respect. Help the team to resolve internal conflicts, remove impediments, protect team, build consensus, foster trust, encourage innovation and coach on how to learn from failures, and build a cohesive and dynamic team. Use JIRA and JIRA Align to track and manage the sprint and extracted the reports as per the business needs. Used Confluence to create, collaborate and organize all the work in one place. Coached new scrum masters in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, test-driven development. Client Name : Bank of America Vendor: by Digipulse Technology [March 2020- March 2022] Scrum Master Location: TX (Remote) Roles and Responsibilities: Coach the Scrum Team to understand scrum values and follow empiricism for frequent inspection and adaptation which enhances product quality and team s velocity. Collaborate with the product owner in interacting with stakeholders to prioritize project deliverables, present User experience designs to end-users. Analyze the team s composition and promote cross-functionality to deliver maximum business value. Facilitate scrum events and collaborate with Product owner and development team in effectively managing the timebox. Assist the product owner to prioritize the Product Backlog items using MoSCoW prioritization technique. Educate the team to use INVEST principle to write effective user stories. Ensure effective Sprint Planning where the team understands how many stories can be pulled into each sprint with the understanding of the capacity and velocity. Utilize information radiators to conduct effective Daily Scrum Calls, analyze the progress and make adequate changes in the sprint plan. Encouraging the team to be creative, collaborative, self-organized. Remove impediments of the development team promptly to ensure progress towards the sprint goal. Facilitate the Sprint Review ceremony, assist the team with product demo and collect the feedback. Assist the team during the Sprint Retrospective to inspect the sprint cycle and adapt to accommodate the changes for continuous improvement. Educate the team to learn from the mistakes and turn those experiences to team s advantage. Celebrate the success of each sprint and encourage the team to be proud of their accomplishments. Show empathy to the individual team members and support them to get through the difficulties they are facing at the job and thus gain their confidence. Cater to frequent releases with Iterative development and establish business values on time. Use Version One to track and manage the sprint and to keep the business and product owner updated. Client Name : Healthcare Magic [May 2016- Oct 2019] Scrum Master Location: Bangalore ( Remote) Roles & Responsibilities Guiding a scrum team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and how to get the most out of self-organization. Helping team in removing impediments and/or guiding the team on how to remove impediments. Facilitating and leading Agile ceremonies Daily scrum call, sprint planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Product backlog refinement sessions and foster continuous improvement Managing tasks, issues, and risks by removing impediments to a team's productivity by shielding them from outside influences. Empowering teams and facilitating creativity while guarding quality and monitoring iteration progress while striving for successful completion. Representing the team to management and senior leadership and disseminating the information to the team, including team and program level metrics and burn-down and burn-up charts. Working with other Scrum Masters to ensure organizational process improvement through CoPs Building and maintaining a trusting and safe environment where problems and issues can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged. As a servant leader, protecting the team from external distractions, allowing the team to focus on the work to which they have committed. Client Name: Ebix.Inc [August 2011- Oct 2015] Scrum Master Location: Bangalore Roles & Responsibilities Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective, meetings during sprint cycles with use of Rally to capture features, Epics and user stories. Conducting effective Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the team. Involving users actively in User Acceptance Tests (UAT) between development team and the end users from the business team. Conducting story mapping and story boarding session to elicit high level features and goals from the Product owners. Developing user stories and grooming them with product owners throughout the Agile lifecycle. Facilitating Product backlog refinement sessions for creating well developed user stories with user acceptance criteria and mock-ups if required for developing a good product backlog. Negotiating effectively with Product owner on the release priorities and excessive scope creep. Identifying and tracking hidden tasks thereby increasing customer satisfaction. Significant contribution in stories development for product backlog, sprint backlog and release backlog meetings. Guided multiple projects concurrently, worked independently and effectively in managing change of scope and/or timelines to meet client and product deadlines. Communicated roadblocks and challenges, proactively, before customer satisfaction is negatively impacted. Developed positive working relationships within cross-functional teams in order to meet product objectives and team expectations. Coordinate with Tech Writers to ensure documentation is accurate and understandable. Client Name: Blue Kites Web Design(Outdoor Living) [May 2011- July 2011] Business Analyst Location: Bangalore Keywords: Texas