Shadab Fatima
Dubai
Summary
Highly motivated and results-oriented Scrum Master with 5 years of experience driving successful Agile project delivery and with an overall 10+ years of experience in different IT domains. My leadership style focuses on engaging the team to communicate to solve and deliver high-value results. I thrive on keeping projects running smoothly from start to launch. Skilled in Agile methodologies, coaching, and continuous process improvement.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consultant
Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)
09.2022 - Current
- Scrum Master for a Saudi-based banking project, leading 4 scrum teams with an ambition of building an iOS mobile banking app.
- Implemented agile processes to the project from scratch and helped other teams in setting up Jira and Confluence.
- Work with cross-functional and cross-location delivery business teams (UX, BA, QA, Build).
- Help scrum teams in refinement and sprint plannings with estimations, negotiations and in understanding of backlog.
- Impediment resolver and responsible for onboarding new team members.
- Work on capacity and effort estimations.
- Coached scrum masters and teams at firm level for better understanding of agile principles.
- Facilitating Scrum of Scrums and prepare Jira dashboards for leadership reporting.
- Provided 4 trainings at project level to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Led POC build for tourism mobile app for supporting physically impaired which resulted in winning the full running project.
- Streamlined internal processes to enhance team efficiency and improve overall project outcomes.
Advisory Consultant
IBM
05.2022 - 09.2022
- Led team of 15 members using SAFe and collaborated with Product Owners and
- Release Train Engineers to facilitate shippable increment planning sessions.
- Represented the Team at the ART level and in PI planning.
- Contributed to roadmap planning, scheduling and release management.
Consultant
Deloitte USI
08.2019 - 05.2022
- Served as a Scrum Master for a data team of 20 members for a Retail project dealing with building a data lake for producing analytics to generate real-time insights.
- Introduced Agile framework to design and development team comprising of 15+ members.
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, standup, review, retrospective.
- Managed client relationships through regular check-ins and updates on project progress.
- Responsible for timely Azure DevOps Sprint Reports to all stakeholders.
- Creating transparency in processes and resolving conflicts and impediments.
- Reporting progress in weekly status and review meetings to leadership.
Helped Product Owner in managing backlog with prioritization techniques. - Transformed Data & Analytics team of ~30 members to be agile by helping team and stakeholders understand and implement Scrum practices.
- Closely worked with Release team for making the project Go-Live.
Analyst
BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd
10.2018 - 08.2019
- Worked for the Data Analytics division of Bank of America as a QA Lead in Big Data technology led and reviewed the testing documents and results and acted as a point of contact for the sign-offs.
- Established collaborative partnerships with onshore and offshore stakeholders.
- Automated data validation test execution using Unix scripts saving 30% of testing effort.
Acted as a shadow Scrum Master by assisting in scrum events, helping in requirement gathering. - Responsible for managing Rally Sprint Reports for all stakeholders.
Analyst
United Health Group, Optum
05.2018 - 10.2018
- Worked as a Big data tester in the healthcare domain for data extraction and data lakes using Hadoop.
- Conducted testing from source to destination data to ensure the quality of the ingested feeds.
- Involved in developing Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, and Report Generation using Quality Center / HP ALM based on functional specifications.
- Reported 50+ critical defects in 4 releases, resulting in improved software quality.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2013 - 04.2018
- Worked for one of the leading banks in the UK as a Mobility tester for iOS applications.
- Created Test Scenarios based on the Business Requirements and Use Cases and reviewed the Test Cases for complete coverage of scenarios.
- Performed analysis of bugs, root cause and prepared detailed information for developers and business stakeholders.
- Tested and delivered 20+ successful releases.
Worked as Mobility Tester at client site (London) for a year.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Jamia Hamdard
Delhi, India2013
Skills
- Agile Frameworks - Scrum, Kanban,SAFe
- Agile estimation and planning
- Requirement Gathering and Planning, Sprint Ceremonies
- Quality Assurance, Issue Management
- Process documentation
- Agile Tools - JIRA, Azure DevOps, Rally
- HP Quality Center, ALM, Git, MS Office
Software Development Life Cycle - Hadoop
- Issue Resolution
- Team Management & Training Development
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
Certification
CSM - Scrum Alliance
PSM I - Scrum.org
Timeline
Consultant
Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)
09.2022 - Current
Advisory Consultant
IBM
05.2022 - 09.2022
Consultant
Deloitte USI
08.2019 - 05.2022
Analyst
BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd
10.2018 - 08.2019
Analyst
United Health Group, Optum
05.2018 - 10.2018
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2013 - 04.2018
Master of Computer Applications -
Jamia Hamdard
CSM - Scrum Alliance
PSM I - Scrum.org
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