PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with extensive experience in the areas of Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Software development and Automation.
• Expertise with complete SDLC including processes and technical methodologies. Experience in leading teams and working as an individual in both Agile and Waterfall methods.
• Background includes experience in Finance, Healthcare, and Banking industries.
• Experienced in agile and scrum methodologies.
• Experience in facilitating cross functional meetings and taking issues to resolution.
• Experience in leading technical and functional teams meeting milestones.
• Experience in establishing and measuring against Milestones & KPI’s.
• Experience in providing C Level updates and translating tech to non - technical requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis MN

Sr Scrum Master

Technologies: MS Project, Jira, GitHub, MS Access, MS Office, Jenkins, Teradata, SQL, Win 10, Java, Visual Basic

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Scrum Master/Kanban lead for Agile Transformation team, acting as SME.
• Improved team performance by identifying and supporting resolution of team impediments.
• Organized and facilitated all Sprint cadences (planning, reviews, retrospectives and standups).
• Address enhancements to adapt and coach teams refining their stories and prevent showstoppers.
• Coach team with agile methodologies and best practices to complete sprints in time.
• Managed JIRA administration handling boards, projects etc for multiple teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to ensure backlog is up to date with stories and prioritized.
• Interactions with Product Owners, senior executives to gather feedback and address concerns to mitigate challenges and adjust for improvements.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to all stakeholders.
• Lead several challenging efforts which includes Automation Factory, Windows OS upgrade.
• Co-ordinate knowledge transfer sessions with offshore vendor support team.
• Own and maintain the automation roadmap with continuous updates from the team.

Confidential, Minnetonka MN

Scrum Master/Sr Automation Lead

Technologies: HP UFT, QTP, SOAP UI, Health Rules, SVN, Visual Studio, C##, SOAPUI, Version One, MS Access, Toad, Windows 7, Java, Rest services, Visual Basic

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master/Kanban lead for engineering team, managed scope to ensure delivery in time.
• Conduct daily scrums, and all Sprint ceremonies.
• Involved in development of Automation engineering Regression Suite for Health Rules & portal.
• Experience in updating and maintaining the automation framework.
• Experience leading and automation QA resources.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity and task breakdown.
• Monitored weekly automated regression runs including maintenance and reporting.
• Experienced in developing, updating and maintaining the automation framework.
• Evaluate automation scripts and testing needs, used SOAP UI for web-based testing.
• Execute Accumulators Testing for members which is major component for open enrollment.
• Integrate execution of the automated UI test scripts into the Continuous Integration process.
• Ensure high quality releases from user story development to post deployment verification.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and Load Testing.
• Participate in Back end and Front-end testing for multiple applications as part of Central QA team.

Confidential, Minneapolis MN

Sr Systems QA Analyst

Technologies: Java, DB2, SQL, HP ALM, QTP, Win Runner, Hogan, UNIX, MS Access, Windows 7.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Multiple programs and projects within the group.
• Coordinate QA Regression tests of releases with teams across in different locations and offshore.
• Mentor QA Analysts with the Test process and Application functionality across multiple locations.
• Assist in preparation of Master Test plan, User Acceptance Test plan.
• Reporting to Management with the Test results and progress.
• Lead Status calls and providing status updates to executive leadership.
• Involved in designing and executing automation test scripts.
• Experience in working with Health Savings Account.
• Lead and coached a team of Offshore resources for developing Automation Scripts.
• Assisted the Offshore Team in designing the Framework for Automation Scripts.
• Experience in writing and executing SQL Queries

Confidential, Minneapolis MN

Sr. QA Analyst

Technologies: Mainframes, DB2, MS Access, Windows, Java, Oracle, SQL, Unix, JCL, Win runner. Quality Center 8.0.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed testing objectives and strategies, prepared test cases and Master Test plan based on requirements document.
• Involved in scheduling and performing UAT (User Acceptance Test) with clients.
• Prepared Defect Reports for Management.
• Prepared Test cases and scripts based on system requirements.
• Performed Cross Browser, Configuration, content and Manual testing.
• Involved in various types of testing like Integration, Back End and Front End, System and User acceptance testing both with automated and manual scripts.

Confidential, Bloomington MN

QA Analyst

Technologies: JavaScript, JSP, J2EE, HTML, XML, C#, SQL server 6.5& 7.0, Oracle 8.0, Win Runner, Test Director 7.0, PVCS Tracker 7.0, Windows XP and Unix.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate QA Regression Tests of various releases as per the monthly/Quarterly/Yearly schedules of the Client.
• Prepared Test plans and Test cases based on system requirement specifications
• Responsible for Back end testing on the database and front-end testing of the GUI interfaces.
• Automated test cases using Winrunner for Regression testing.
• Involved in Walkthroughs and Inspections to review the Testing Standards.