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Kemi Ayoade

Forney,TX

Summary

10 Years of experience as a detail-oriented Certified Scrum Master and Quality Assurance Analyst in the IT field who is skilled in using the Agile methodology for Software Development Life Cycle, various projects, and product management in a scaled Agile environment. As a well-practiced facilitator, managed up to four scrum teams at a time, five+ teams in an Art, working closely with all team members and cross functional teams to remove blockers and impediments, ensure communication, and guarantee the delivery of work in a timely manner. Facilitated scrum teams in adopting Agile principles via hands-on training of various Agile concepts and frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe and Kanban. Delivered exceptional support to the Product Owners by maintaining a healthy prioritized backlog, ensuring user stories are detailed, and removing communication barriers across teams. Also a seasoned QA Analyst who has worked very closely with various QA members to create test strategies, develop test cases, test scripts and test plans, and perform manual regression testing. Willing to expand into the QA role as needed.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior IT Scrum Master (Lead)

USAA
04.2021 - 04.2023
  • Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance across multiple technical and/or non-technical teams to ensure rapid delivery of products and timeline achievement of goals
  • Facilitates all Scrum Ceremonies such as daily scrum, Retrospective and or Sprint Planning
  • Manage 3 to 4 teams in ART
  • Planned PI with Scrum team, Stakeholders and PM's
  • Ensures cross team collaboration
  • Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to team or organizational in nature
  • Update Sprint Retros and document teams' information in Confluence
  • Escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution and supports efforts to resolve systemic impediments that continually block teams within their organization
  • Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing product backlog and decision-making
  • Worked with Release Managers on Pre- / Post-Release validations and to see how to review process and avoid any delay in releasing to Production
  • Provide transparency into team's progress via Jira reporting, such as Burn down chart, Velocity Report and Dashboard
  • Also used in-built Agile Metrics Report Portal for tracking Volatility and Predictability Internally
  • Ensures effective communication with Scrum teams and other cross-functional teams
  • Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings and ensure appropriate status tools and reports are produced which provides transparency on team's (or multiple teams') progress/productivity
  • Acts as technical resource on Agile methodology to development teams, product owners, and management
  • Provide Defect tracking as triaged defects with team and prioritized them based on severity/priority and by companies SLA's
  • Participates in Scrum Master Community of practice and mentors other Scrum Masters.

Scrum Master

Energy Transfer
02.2016 - 04.2021
  • Support 3 scrum team on project that delivered software application to stakeholders whereby able to monitor flow of gas produced in underground pipelines measured by meters
  • Acted as mediator for teams to ensure focus on goals and being productive
  • Built trusting and conducive work environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with emphasis on progress and problem-solving
  • For technology related efforts, understands release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and guides team on leveraging them
  • Responsible for removing blockers and impediments for Scrum teams.
  • Planned and facilitated all Scrum events (Daily Stand-up, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review and Sprint Planning Meeting).
  • Coached teams on use of Agile/Scrum practices and values to improve productivity.
  • Worked closely with Product Owner to manage product backlog
  • Managed and communicated transparency issues with leadership
  • Actively managed risks, dependencies, and issues through successful delivery.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle
  • Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value
  • Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams
  • Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks
  • Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods
  • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel
  • Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels
  • Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion
  • Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement
  • Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems
  • Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines
  • Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects
  • Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks
  • Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery
  • Generated reports for IT project progress and performance
  • Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals
  • Devised test plans to validate accuracy of IT projects

QA Analyst

DealerTrack
08.2011 - 04.2015
  • Conducted thorough product testing and maintained agreed upon quality standards in order to provide highest quality software products to both external and internal customers
  • Worked with Manager to understand business requirements and objectives relative to desired functionality of products and applications
  • Reported over 50 defects during the SDLC.
  • Evaluated and tested new or modified software to determine that software met user requirements and established quality standards
  • Worked with Business Analysts and other project team members to verify functional, business processes and/or user requirement to ensure thorough testing of application-under-test
  • Participated in all phases of software development life cycle, including developing test plans, test cases, and execution of test cases
  • Performed integration, system, regression, and smoke testing, while coordinating with near-shore and off-shore team members.

Lead QA Analyst II

Spectra - a Division of RealPage Inc.
04.2008 - 09.2011
  • Created project related deliverables (i.e Test plan, test case(s), test summary report and test strategy) and documented all phases of testing process.
  • Created test scenarios and test cases using Mercury Quality Center.
  • Conducted variance management by analyzing and verifying test results, provided status and progress reports, using Test Director.
  • Developed business strategies and quality processes/programs that ensured customer satisfaction, continuous process improvements and maximum efficiency and effectiveness of resources, to ensure timely delivery of high-quality services to our clients.
  • This included processes, procedures and measurements associated with application and systems development, testing and implementation.
  • Tracked outstanding defect reports and documented resolution after successful testing.
  • Performed functional testing of all components.

Education

Bachelors - Business Admin & Marketing

Texas Southern University
Houston, TX
05.2006

Skills

  • Sprint Planning
  • Presentation Skills
  • Development Team Trainings
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Risk Identification
  • Project Management
  • Customer Interaction
  • Budget Control
  • Attention to Detail
  • PI Planning and Prioritization
  • Project Team Coordination
  • Team Leadership
  • Agile Methodology
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Quality Assurance
  • Status Reporting

Certification

  • ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transitions
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Agile Testing Certificate

Languages

English

Personal Information

Title: Senior IT Scaled Agilist

Timeline

Senior IT Scrum Master (Lead)

USAA
04.2021 - 04.2023

Scrum Master

Energy Transfer
02.2016 - 04.2021

QA Analyst

DealerTrack
08.2011 - 04.2015

Lead QA Analyst II

Spectra - a Division of RealPage Inc.
04.2008 - 09.2011

Bachelors - Business Admin & Marketing

Texas Southern University

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