Pablo Rodriguez
Sr Scrum Master / Project Manager
Jalisco
Summary
Software Engineer with over a decade of professional work experience in multiple IT roles and industries. With a career that spans from Quality Assurance, Business Analysis and Project Management. Experience in Retail, Aviation, Banking, Virtual Event, Health Insurance industries, with a natural curiosity for learning and understanding the business with a focus on quality and valuable product delivery. Known as a self-driven, pragmatic, and adaptive person in project execution and team management with focus in quality software development and building highly efficient teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Sr SM Agilist/Project Manager
Cognizant
Zapopan
05.2022 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
QA/BA/SM
Unosquare
Zapopan
01.2016 - 05.2022
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
- Coordinated with quality control staff to complete inspections.
- Developed and implemented comprehensive quality assurance program to guarantee organization products met safety and quality standards.
- Escalated concerns about project and process quality, referring discovered issues to engineering manager for correction.
QA/ QA Lead
iGate/Capgemini
Zapopan
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Reported problems and concerns to management.
- Recorded and organized test data for report generation and analysis.
- Monitored testing procedures and verified performance of tests according to established item specifications and protocol.
- Created testing protocols to be used across product lines.
- Developed and implemented procedures to meet product quality standards.
- Collected and analyzed data to measure effectiveness of quality control processes.
- Documented and executed detailed test plans and test cases and summarized and logged audit findings for reporting purposes.
Functional/Maintenance QA
IBM Retail Project
Zapopan
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Examined source data to issue recommendations for change.
- Reviewed and tested plans and criteria to meet functional and technical requirements.
- Met with clients to understand business requirements, perform gap analysis and translate technical requirements.
- Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business requirements.
- Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering
Universidad De Colima
Colima, Colima. Mexico. 08.2008 - 07.2012
Skills
Project Management
Customer interaction
Excellent Communication
Teamwork and Collaboration
Agile
ADO Proficiency
Reporting template development
Certification
SAFe 6 SM. Scaled Agile, Inc. - ID 61625660-2623
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
SAFe 6 SM. Scaled Agile, Inc. - ID 61625660-2623
05-2023
Sr SM Agilist/Project Manager
Cognizant
05.2022 - Current
Scrum Fundamentals Certification. VMEdu Inc. - ID 779910
05-2020
Scrum Master Accredited Certification. International Scrum Institute™ - ID 42129889172501
05-2020
QA/BA/SM
Unosquare
01.2016 - 05.2022
QA/ QA Lead
iGate/Capgemini
01.2013 - 01.2016
Functional/Maintenance QA
IBM Retail Project
01.2011 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering
Universidad De Colima
08.2008 - 07.2012