Certified Scrum Master from ScrumAlliance having more than 5 years of industry experience with a keen ability to understand and build complex software. I focus relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features. Skilled in Scrum, Kanban & Jira tool. Strong Agile professional with bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from The Lancaster University.
▪ Facilitating as Scrum Master for my product teams.▪ Coaching Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.▪ Implementing Scrum framework within organization.▪ Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and other Scrum-related meetings.▪ Resolving team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.▪ Coaching all development teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.▪ Working on existing projects to maintain and improve the performance.▪ Assisting team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release process.▪ Configuring & managing Jira Cloud for my ongoing projects in Sprint and Kanban fashion.▪ Configuring and managing multiple Jira Boards for different streams and projects.▪ Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.▪ Coaching team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.▪ Tracking and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.▪ Taking control over critical support instances and putting into place the correct escalation and process to manage and resolve issues.▪ Contributing regularly to discussions regarding internal process and software improvements to ensure maximum efficiency in organization.▪ Using Smartsheet for project management reporting and follow up with teams.▪ Using Power BI report to track our daily, weekly & monthly team’s velocity.
▪ Implemented Scrum framework within organization.
▪ Facilitated all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
▪ Assist team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release process.
▪ Acted as the point of contact and communicating ongoing Sprint status to all members.
▪ Tracking and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and
management.
▪ Used Jira Advance Roadmaps for resource allocation and dependencies.
▪ Used Jira Cloud for planning and managing sprints, project workflows and filters.
▪ Configured Jira Kanban/Scrum boards for better visibility of projects & team progress.
▪ Configured Jira Dashboards and reporting tools for higher management & stakeholders.
▪ Analysed & configured Jira Automation for smooth processes, escalations & process optimization.
▪ Configured Jira Boards for teams engagement overview and schedule.
▪ Assigned Issues reported by Support team to engineering teams for earliest resolution.
▪ Follow ups with technical leads for Hotfix execution and deployments.
▪ Audited teams Work Log sheets over Jira, identifying & highlighting any gaps.
▪ Risk Analysis in case of deviation found against the progress of defined milestones.
Facilitated Project team to review project milestone status and risk mitigation plans and advertising features.
▪ Progress of projects was presented to executive management and engineering teams.
▪ Initiated Scrum model for implementation of Agile project management.
▪ Implemented monthly KPI for all employees.
▪ Managed TimeDoctor software for task tracking and measuring teams productivity.
▪ Managed multiple projects having different platforms (Web, IOS & Android)
▪ Served as liaison between technical teams & higher management.
▪ Worked collaboratively with project managers to make sure that all aspects of projects delivered as planned.
▪ Raised and mitigating any potential technical risks.
▪ Provided consistent standards and approaches throughout the team.
▪ Proactively drove innovation with new ideas and options made available by new technologies.
▪ Managed and administer all project-related activities and prepared project
Managed the Infrastructure upgradation Project for Stewart US Office.
▪ Coordinated internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of project.
▪ Acted as a liaison between business owners, product managers, and technology teams to ensure smooth and effective flow of communication and requirements.
▪ Developed a project plan to monitor and track progress.
▪ Reporting and escalation to management as needed.
▪ Assisted in the project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
▪ Efficient coordination with application, development, storage and security teams based in US, India and Pakistan to provide full efficiency.
▪ Coordinated with different stakeholders involved in US & Pakistan teams.
▪ Used Project Management tools SVN, OneNote, Excel & OTRS.