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Nwamaka Chidozie

Spring,TX

Summary

5 Years of experience as a Certified Professional Scrum Master with proven capability of working in different Software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) with in-depth understanding in various domains such as Healthcare, Retail and Supply Chain Management. Incredible work ethics coupled with excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills describing a committed team player, stepping up to lead the team.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Technical Scrum Master

Oscar Health Insurance
04.2021 - Current
  • Worked with the Product Owner closely and was a part of Architectural Runway in understanding the technical implementations of project features.
  • Worked diligently on Change Request Management and performed Impact Analysis on the same.
  • Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and sprint demos and other Scrum-related meetings to drive development and implement process improvements across scrum teams.
  • Utilized HP-ALM tool and HPQC to generate test cases, scenarios to identify defects and mitigate them.
  • Used Postman for examining and validating the external APIs used in the project.
  • Performed Functional testing and Smoke testing on a regular basis to make sure that the basic functionalities of the system are working.
  • Facilitated Triage calls to identify defects by performing Root Cause analysis and mitigated it along with the development and testing team.
  • Identified and removed impediments and prevent distractions to ensure that the scrum team(s) meet the sprint goal and complete committed work.
  • Defined and document Sprint goal, requirements, issues and risks, and release process using Share Point/Confluence and Azure DevOps/SharePoint to track progress and promote accountability among project participants.
  • Implemented ‘Pair Programming’ technique for much more efficient deliverables.
  • Successfully deployed applications working on microservice architecture and maintained weekly releases as per the project roadmap.
  • Assisted the Product Owner in creating Product Backlog and team in Sprint Backlog using prioritization techniques such as MoSCoW, Kano and Business value methods.
  • Involved in estimating the story points for user stories using Planning Poker and Fibonacci sequence.
  • Supported Azure DevOps and Share Point administration, including creation and management of custom, complex projects, workflows, security schemes, custom fields, dashboards, and reports configurations.
  • Effectively wrote User Stories, estimating User Stories using various estimation techniques and T-Shirt sizing by conducting Scrum Workshops for new teams.
  • Worked on Enablers and Spike stories and made estimations on those stories within the teams convince and tracked the estimable sprint goal is completed within the sprint cycle.
  • Improved team velocity by constantly following up with the team and mitigating impediments along the sprints.
  • Implemented Issues Tracking in Azure DevOps/JIRA to effectively track impediments against user stories.
  • Conducted Sprint Review sessions to ensure that the Definition of Done (DoD) is met and the product owner has signed off the user story.
  • Solved impediments faced by the developers and testers during the daily stand-ups and facilitated parking lot sessions for issues which needed further assistance and clarification from the BA.
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies for teams and ensure that teams are adopting and implementing agile practices that enable high speed, quality delivery with clear communication of deliverables.
  • Embrace a servant-leader role across scrum teams and support them in SAFe environment by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies, internal to the team as well as external, dealing with cross-functional teams as appropriate.

ScrumMaster

McDonalds Date
04.2019 - 03.2021
  • Expertise in tracking progress of the team using tools such as JIRA and continuously identifying new risks and coming up with strategies to mitigate them
  • Spearheaded Daily stand- ups and conducted parking lot sessions to resolve impediments for members of the development team
  • Facilitated meetings between development Team Leads and SMEs to understand stakeholder requirements to achieve sprint goals
  • Delivered Minimal Viable Product (MVP) as per the deadlines and pushed into Product backlog Increments (PBI’s) got appreciations on with senior management on timely delivered sprints
  • Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in Sprint Review and made sure the user stories are moved into Incremental Backlog
  • Used Jira monitored KPIs to assess the team's performance every sprint
  • Facilitated and participated in various Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning sessions, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective, and backlog grooming sessions
  • Adoption of Agile related techniques such as Planning poker and MoSCoW technique to estimate user story points
  • Calculated the team’s capacity and velocity to have a better visibility of upcoming sprints
  • Closely monitored the team’s progress by following up with team members and ensuring that they were on track
  • Facilitated sprint review sessions to ensure DOD (Definition of Done) was satisfactorily met
  • Conducted Sprint retrospective sessions to evaluate previous sprints and improve team’s future performance
  • Assisted the Product owner in defining the requirements of the acceptance criteria
  • Assisted in creating the DOR (Definition of Ready) and DOD (Definition of Done) so that user stories met stakeholder needs
  • Environment: Agile- Scrum Framework- (HTML/CSS, Javascript, Java, Oracle), MS Visual Studio, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, Confluence, PowerBI, Web Services, API, Microservices, AJAX, SOAP UI, RESTful Services.

Jr. Business Analyst

Capco
03.2018 - 04.2019
  • Acted as a Liaison between business and technical teams and ensured all the communication is seamless
  • Created project documentation such as Business Requirement Documents
  • Worked With Stakeholders and clients to model and document goals, communicating transparently to meet 98% of deadlines
  • Worked with PO and delivery team to prioritize backlog considering delivery time and business value
  • Educate team on business context and logics
  • Translate Function requirement to technical specification and developed detailed requirement for deliverables.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Texas of The Permian Basin
Odessa, TX
05.2022

Associate of Science - Science And Technology

Houston Community College
Houston, TX
05.2019

Skills

  • Methodologies: Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban)
  • Project management tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Rally
  • BI Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Crystal Report, XSL-FO, MS Visual Studio
  • Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Balsamiq, Lucid Chart, Adobe XD
  • ETL Tools: SSIS, Informatica Power Center
  • Documentation Tools: SharePoint, Confluence
  • Web Technologies: XML, JSON, HTML, SOAP, RESTful
  • Testing tools: HP ALM, Soap UI, Postman, Selenium

Certification

  • Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master 1
  • SCALED AGILE - SAFe Scrum Master 5.1
  • ScrumInstitute.org- Scrum Master

Timeline

Sr. Technical Scrum Master

Oscar Health Insurance
04.2021 - Current

ScrumMaster

McDonalds Date
04.2019 - 03.2021

Jr. Business Analyst

Capco
03.2018 - 04.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Texas of The Permian Basin

Associate of Science - Science And Technology

Houston Community College

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