Abha Bhor
Scrum Master
Jacksonville,Florida
Summary
- A Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in leading Scrum teams. 7 plus years in IT Industry with 5 years as a Scrum Master. Guided multiple scrum teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint. Optimized scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance. As a servant leader created an environment that empowers and encourages scrum teams to focus on collaboration; accountability and adaptability.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Scrum Master
J.C.D.S (Private Educational Board)
Jacksonville, Florida
01.2018 - 06.2022
- Guide, coach, and motivate the assigned Agile teams
- Manage blockers and keep cadence for the team
- Identify areas where team members need help to keep commitments on track.
- Work with the resource managers to identify individual and team improvement opportunities
- Manage the backlog to ensure prioritization for current and upcoming sprint work
- Support schedule estimates of release deliverables
- Facilitate acceptance criteria of stories and story estimates
- Guide the team to develop metrics and estimates and periodically evaluate the process to become better at making predictions and reducing risks.
- Report metrics for the team (burn down, velocity, etc.) to management
- Ensure that Scrum and other relevant methods are understood and implemented properly
- Facilitate daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and meetings to ensure full team engagement
- Ensure that the team is constantly improving their processes and tools and becoming more efficient through the use of retrospective techniques
- Ensure resource capacity planning, velocity measurement, and stability of resources
- Ensure tracking and visibility of team performance metrics
- Coordinate and align deliverables with stated priorities of the Product Owner’s roadmap
- Collaborate with the Product Owner on release planning and backlog maintenance
- Protect the team from outside interruptions, track and remove impediments that may prevent progress
- Coach teams to improve in throughput and quality and Sprint goals and practice continuous improvement
- Facilitated the Definition of Done to the Scrum team to enhance the product quality.
- Perform sprint retrospectives to capture lessons learned and what can be improved in next sprint.
- Mitigated impediments during weekly scrum of scrum the issues, risks and resolve dependencies.
- Tracked and communicated train velocity and release progress and another metrics
- Ensured scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
- Extensively worked on providing the go-live and implementation
- Ensured timely review, approval and sign-off the deliverables working with APMO
- Helped the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the definition of done
Scrum Master
Sears Holding Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
01.2017 - 11.2018
- Worked collaboratively with Product Owners, cross-functional teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery.
- Facilitating all necessary team meetings (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, etc.)
- Facilitating Agile release planning and helping the PO manage the release backlog.
- Coaching the team in Agile relative estimation techniques, cross-functionality and self-organization
- Identifying, managing, and mitigating project issues and risks
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to defining and prioritizing the product backlog
- Ensuring transparency into the team’s work through the sprint backlog, burn-down chart and other Agile metrics
- Proactively identifying and removing impediments that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint commitments
- Being the coach and all-around advocate for the Agile Scrum delivery methodology amongst project team and client stakeholders
- Ensures work is appropriately balanced across team members and that all work is captured within the backlog
- Review and manage backlog items to ensure it's being groomed and prioritized
- Apply innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done
- Brings a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs
- Maintains and updates process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to Product Owner and key stakeholders
- Creates burn-down charts to measure team output over time
- Identifies continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the team
- Observes and engages with individual team members to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance
- Influences across the team to drive results
- Provides constructive feedback to team members to help drive Agile maturity
- Model’s behaviors to support the organization's transformation to a new way of working
- Actively creates and maintains the culture within the team based on the organization and Agile leadership behaviors
QA Analyst
Sears Holding Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
04.2015 - 12.2016
- Extensively worked on preparing the Test Plans and Test cases based on the Business Requirement Specification and use cases.
- Worked on preparing the Test Matrix with all the scenarios for the involved efforts and setting up the scenarios review and getting the signoffs for the Test Matrix and documenting in SharePoint Portal.
- Worked closely with development, system software designers and Business System Analysts to help troubleshoot issues, which arise during the requirements, development and execution of test cases.
- Involved in testing Middleware/JMS/Message Queue related modules. Preparing the XML and dropping these XML in message queue and checking the status of consuming message process in internal logging system.
- Validated Web service modules using Soap UI tool, preparing web service request XML and added authentication information in Soap Header and performed validation
- Data patches: Worked on the SQL Statements for Data patches to resolve the data inconsistencies and to maintain Data integrity.
- Extensively worked on End-to-End testing. Preparing the end to end testing scenarios, executing the test scripts, organizing the daily status calls, and providing the testing updates to the management.
- Extensively worked on HP ALM in documenting the Test Plans and preparing the Test Scripts and executing the automation and manual scripts and logging the defects.
- Worked on SQL Navigator in performing Database testing, Used PL/SQL Procedures, Functions and Packages to fetch the data from database.
- Prepared the SQL Queries to retrieve the data to perform data transformation and to verify data flow.
- Extensively worked on SQL Joins, SQL queries and sub queries for data validation and data setup.
- Worked on White Box Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
- Participated in the test environment setup meetings and in ensuring that the facilities, test tools and Scripts are in place to successfully perform the required testing effort on different environments.
- Involved in providing the estimates to Change Requests and the Production Tickets. Conducting the Business scenarios review meetings, preparing the business scenarios for the scope items and getting the approval from the business.
- Worked closely with Test Leads and provide the updates related to the Testing progress, Targets, Issues, concerns and future release plans.
- Interacted with the development and environments management team to help troubleshoot issues, which arise from development and execution of test cases.
- Preparing the Business UAT scenarios, validating the scenarios and performing the UAT and getting concurrence from the Business Users.
- Involved in performing the Implementation validation Plan.
Education
Master of Science - Curriculum And Instruction
Texas A&M University (TAMU)
College Station, TX 05.2001 -
BBA - Masters' in Commerce
D.A.V.V University
Indore, MP. India. 05.2001 -
Skills
Agile Development & Best Practices
undefinedCertification
CSM – Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Agile Scrum Master
J.C.D.S (Private Educational Board)
01.2018 - 06.2022
Scrum Master
Sears Holding Corporation
01.2017 - 11.2018
QA Analyst
Sears Holding Corporation
04.2015 - 12.2016
Master of Science - Curriculum And Instruction
Texas A&M University (TAMU)
05.2001 -
BBA - Masters' in Commerce
D.A.V.V University
05.2001 -
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