Rizwan Ahmed Shariff

Project: CGI Advantage® Enterprise Resource Planning

Roles and Responsibilities: Involved in the following activities:

• Facilitated Program Increment (PI) planning sessions, coordinating with product management, stakeholders, and Agile teams to establish objectives, priorities, and dependencies for upcoming increments.
• Led capacity planning exercises to ensure that Agile teams have the necessary resources and capabilities to deliver on committed objectives during program increments.
• Coached and mentored Agile teams on SAFe principles, Scrum methodologies, and Agile best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
• Identified and resolved impediments and dependencies, proactively addressing issues to minimize impact on program increment delivery and team productivity.
• Facilitated cross-team collaboration and communication, promoting transparency and alignment across different Agile teams and stakeholders.
• Conducted sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring that Agile ceremonies are effective in achieving team goals and objectives.
• Supported the Product Owner in backlog refinement and prioritization, helping to ensure that the product backlog is well-groomed and aligned with program objectives.

Project : CGI CACS Enterprise, Managed Services - USAA

Roles and Responsibilities: Involved in the following activities:

As Scrum Master

• Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings, Sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Coordinated in creating Burn down charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize, story pointed and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies, and artifacts.

Project: CGI Wealth360 DWP, Client Implementation Services - BMO

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and Understanding Requirement.
• Working closely with development and other team across countries to solve the gap and issue with the requirement.
• Writing the Testing approach for how to test the Application and Report Process
• Giving an Estimation and creation of Test Plan and Other Documents for the team to Understand
• Analyzing the Gap between the client and the product team and fixing the process path and Business requirement
• Clarifying the Queries on application whenever the team approaches
• Involved in Writing Test Cases
• Responsible in Analysis of Problem Severity, Test Case Execution, Data Verification and Validation, Defect Tracking, and Results Reporting
• Involved in Preparing the Scenarios for Automation which had to be Validated as per BMO process workflow.

Project: GEICO, Ratabase Implementation

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provided end to end migration support to the client.
• Tested the Product Builder for functional correctness.
• Provided on-call trouble shooting as and when required during implementation.
• Conducted a client demo on CFD Migration tool as part of the Ratabase 9 enhancement.
• Documented test results by comparing with gold copy reports.
• Upgrade support: From V8SP4 to V8SP6 R1, V8SP6 R1 to V8SP6 R2 and V8SP6 R2 to V8SP6 R3.

Roles and Responsibilities: Involved in the following activities:

AS Quality Assurance Tester

• Understanding the requirements.
• Preparation of test plan, test cases and test data.
• Client wix Installation testing.
• Manually testing the Product Builder for functional enhancements.
• Executed and created automated test scripts using Test Partner testing tool.
• Involved in Regression testing.
• Involved in manual QA testing.
• Logged the most critical defects in JIRA.
• Have been a part of Project Releases: V8 SP2, SP3, SP4, SP5, SP6 and Ratabase 9.