SAIRA SARFRAZ
About Candidate
A seasoned Scrum Master® with a diversified experience in managing and delivering software design, implementation, and consultancy projects.
Demonstrated versatility in transitioning between roles – from Scrum Master to project manager to coach to mentor – for project management, output evaluation, team building, and training.
Possess strong work ethic and interpersonal skills paired with a proven career as a Scrum
Master® to suit agile software development process.
Education
Experiences
Facilitate all Scrum meetings (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Release Planning, and Backlog Grooming) in the company. Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help teams increase their velocity by 40% within the first year of Agile adoption. Remove impediments on a daily basis to ensure delivering the sprint goals and deliverables. Facilitate team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good relationships among 4 agile teams across 3 geos. Collaborate with the members of the Product, Business, and Engineering teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs. Maintain Azure DevOps repository for requirements tracking, defect tracking, document storage, and user management. Recognize and mediate conflicts between parties at all levels, with both the teams as well as the external stakeholders working with the team. Coach, mentor, and develop team members. Coach the organization about the Agile best practices, frameworks, and techniques. Provide effective performance feedback through employee recognition, rewards, and disciplinary action, with the help of HR. Plan and provide career development trainings.
Worked as Manager IT Operations
Worked as Senior Test Engineer
Worked as Advisory Quality Engineer (QA Team Lead)
Promoted to ‘Lead QA Engineer’ from ‘Sr QA Engineer’ and ‘QA Engineer’
Skills
Project Management
Risk Management
Business Development
Process Standardization
Contracts & Procurement
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