Raj Kumar
Sr Scrum Master @RBC
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WORK HISTORY
Sr Scrum Master @RBC
Toronto, ON, CA
Followed scaled Agile SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) to deliver the value to customer and improve efficiency by 35% over each program increment by using the incremental and iterative approach. • Facilitated the team understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). • Facilitated medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release and ongoing production support, providing oversight to ensure alignment with RBC Agile/Scrum practices, project planning and kick-off, sprint cadence, release, and deployment planning. • Identified and implemented payment applications that need to be cloned in a new target environment and those which need to be extended their connection from the source environment. • Conducted workshops with product owner to plan product backlog. • Facilitated the Sprint Planning, tracking progress and successful delivery of user stories. • Organized Sprint review and Sprint retrospective at end of each sprint to maximize values of work delivered and elicit constructive feedback. • Identified the opportunities for adapting process improvement after each sprint review and implementing them in the next sprint. • Identified the opportunities to re-use and integrate between existing systems that needs to be extended to the target environment and decommissioning redundant systems.
EDUCATION
UICT - India
Postgraduate Diploma, Computer Applications
ABOUT RAJ KUMAR
Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of experience in the full software development lifecycle - from concept through delivery of next-generation applications and customizable solutions. • 5+ years of experience with Product delivery management, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Agile and Kanban methodologies. • Worked with customers and product managers to prioritize and validate requirements. • Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction. • Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcomes resulting in enhanced performance. • Removed obstacles for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer solutions resulting in Customer positive feedback. • Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items. • Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey concepts/requirements between technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Self-motivated, good team player with the ability to work on different projects concurrently by priorities. • Extensively used Jira and JQL to create reports, plan, track, and manage all agile software development projects from a single tool. • Experience in query languages such as SQL using SQL Workbench and extensively worked on Microsoft Power BI for generating reports. • Experience with Task and Bug tracking tools such as JIRA, Asana, and Monday.com. • Proficient in MURAL that supports overall project management and agile methods, to map out sprints, and provide a space for design thinking activities and sprint planning/reviews. • Experience in collaborating with Product Owners/Managers, Architects, and key business stakeholders for backlog grooming, and drafting technical stories and solutions. • Well-versed in reporting and tracking of release/sprint progress to all the stakeholders by creating sprint Burndown charts and Release Burndown charts. • Consistently worked to transfer Scrum Team Waterfall habits to more Agile Mindsets by reinforcing Agile development values such as inspection and adaptation and training the teams in Agile Scrum.
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