Mridul Ahmed
Long Island,NY
Summary
Results-driven Certified Senior Scrum Master with over12 years of experience in leading Agile teams, driving successful project delivery, and implementing process improvements. Adept at facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, and fostering a collaborative team environment. Proven track record of enhancing productivity, optimizing workflows, and delivering high-quality products within budget and on schedule.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Vanguard
09.2021 - Current
- Facilitate the coordinated preparation and execution of release planning for the ART
- Working with the ART team who prioritizes the features to be considered in the next program increment (PI) planning cycle
- Facilitating the ART team's refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready
- Assists the ART in communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery
- Ensuring effective communication and coordination for and during PI planning
- Managing change to the ART's PI plan and the impacts of those changes
- Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
- Understand, visualize, and manage upstream/downstream dependencies
- Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity
- Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve and update requirement in JIRA, managing JIRA bord for multiple teams
- Leading project teams and provide and leadership
- Participate with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter expert to develop and improve operating policies and procedures related to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and be an advocate in adopting
Scrum Master
Accenture
06.2018 - 09.2021
- Actively promoting the value of servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict management, continuous improvement, empowerment and increasing transparency
- Exceptional interactive and collaboration skills as well as experience in building high performing teams
- Accountable for the facilitation of appropriate Scrum ceremonies on a sprint-by-sprint basis
- This includes Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives
- Driving continuous improvement as a change agent, engaging stakeholders to identify business problems and create scalable solutions that adapt the Agile process
- Ensuring the Product Owner regularly defines the sprint goal to provide clarity to the team on which stories to pull into the sprint from the backlog
- For large and complex items, working with the Product Owner and team to break down complexity into epics, stories, and tasks
- Ensuring proper planning techniques to best manage timelines
- Working with the Product Owner to ensure backlog health and1-2 sprints of 'ready' stories at all times
- Provide regular updates to keep executive stakeholders updated on team progress and accomplishments
- Responsible for creating and managing an Agile transformation plan for the team to move to higher levels of Agile maturity
Scrum Master
SDLC Partner
10.2014 - 06.2018
- Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
- Creates and manages project/program resource loading and budget; reconciles budget monthly and communicates risks to Leadership
- Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
- Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various development teams
- Guides team through continual improvement process
- Leads the team’s efforts towards continuous improvement and manage JIRA and Confluence for the team
- Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
- Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual), Sprint Backlog items and tasks
- Remove obstacles for developers and testers
- Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives
- Sets and runs effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio and delivery managers
- Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
- Works effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks
- Create and maintain risk and issue logs including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management
Business Analyst
Geico Insurance
06.2012 - 10.2014
- Analyzed Requirements, Designed and Executed Test Cases
- Interacted effectively with peers, management and cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues
- Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center
- Developed Test Scenarios against Software Requirement Specifications
- Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing
- Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database
- Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs
- Met with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents
- Conducted manual testing on all application
- Developed Test condition & Test Data to execute the test scripts
- Coordinated software defect tracking efforts to ensure satisfactory defect resolution
- Performed verifications on fix and documented status of defects appropriately
- Provided administrative support involving general administrative responsibilities for the day-to-day operations
- Performed front end, back end, GUI, Functionality, Security testing on the application
- Involved in Manual User acceptance testing with various combinations
- Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing
- Designing and Executing Test Cases in Quality Center
- Conducted Multi-User, Smoke and System testing
- Performed Performance Testing to identify abnormalities in the web application
- Developed test cases based on business and functional requirement
- Tested the final application for Usability testing to verify whether all the User Requirements were created to by the application
- Monitored the defect tracking process using Quality Center, trouble shooting and generating customized graphs and reports for the client
- Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Maintaining status reports and communicating with the Management regarding progress of work
Education
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
National University
DhakaSkills
- Agile metrics tracking
- Agile coaching
- Project management
- Sprint planning
- Backlog grooming
- Risk identification
- Lean principles
- Workflow Analysis
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Project tracking
- Risk mitigation planning
- Coaching and mentoring
- Leading scrum meetings
- Kanban knowledge
- Retrospective analysis
- Teamwork and collaboration
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Timeline
Scrum Master
Vanguard
09.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Accenture
06.2018 - 09.2021
Scrum Master
SDLC Partner
10.2014 - 06.2018
Business Analyst
Geico Insurance
06.2012 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
National University
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
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