Celeste S.

Experience

1. Associate Scrum Master

   Nomura

   Mar 2020 — Present

   Managed change requests, incident reporting, test plans, rollback plans, UAT signoffs, and release documentation to effectively maintain sprint plans and collaborated with production support and infrastructure teams to facilitate application deployments and sprint rollouts to successfully mitigate production issues. • Maintained a project portfolio budgeted over supervised daily scrum meetings for 6 developers, and led weekly stakeholder meetings to define doneness, track progress, metrics, KPIs, and performance, and identify blockers and bottlenecks to deliver various projects on time and within the allocated budget. • Conducted focus groups with users and vendors to collaborate on the development of an Excel add-in to maintain and manage numerous spreadsheets and manual processes impeding the workflow of traders and sales teams resulting in a more stable and reliable trading platform by improving productivity by 20%. • Liaised with risk mitigation teams, stakeholders, business managers, production support, infrastructure management, vendors, developers, and users to facilitate Windows 10 migration project from windows 7 and migrate 200+ users from an outdated excel based trading platform. • Spearheaded the adoption of UI testing automation tool UiPath and developed a streamlined process for hands-off deployment of test suite before releases to expand test coverage, improve test quality, and establish concrete regression tests to fortify test evidence. • Organized user research and focus groups to identify gaps in resource management, tool chain adoption, and reporting tools and collaborated with the UI/UX Design team on Figma and Miro to develop a React-based prototype and an MVP of a portfolio management portal to better support product owners.