SUMMARY:

• A Technocrat with nearly 18 years of rich experience in analyzing and designing ground - breaking IT solutions, worked for the Federal Government Projects for 8 to 10 billion dollars Annual Funding.
• Practiced and worked in Scrum environment for Software Development since 2010, able to conduct all Scrum ceremonies.
• Planned the Sprint and helped team members for their need and maintained the focus on Product back log for the work.
• Powerfully abled to analyze clients’ existing systems and business models to attain company goals, and cultivate resolution by formulating and assessing alternative workflow solutions.
• Planed scheduled and executed the Software Release. Competent on gathering Release steps and documenting them and assemble the resources for release and acted as Release Manager for both in Agile methodology and Water Fall model
• Assemble and propagate business process and competent of creating functional test cases and scripts, combined with the proficiency for setting up the operation for both traditional Project Management PMO and Scrum Agile environment set up.
• Sound awareness of Software Development Lifecycle and practices, blended with the aptitude to use TFS, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Project Server, MS Project and MTM and UFT for automation test cases.
• Core abilities Agile | Scrum | COTS Configuration IT Audit |Planning & Organizing | Project Management | Release Management Analytical Skills | System Management Documentation | Functional Requirement |Training & Development Team Management Competent of working and coordinating with clients and vendors for user training, reporting and customer support; channelize between Development team and Business groups for interpreting the ideas into ground-breaking solution.
• Hold Agile Certification as Scrum Master and Product Owner, merged with the potential to create Product backlog to process them through scrum (Agile development life cycle) and work with Stake Holders.
• Robust analytical skills to configure COTS product, and enlightened with IT procedures, Internal Change Control Board, Release Management, IT Audit and Document Management.
• Robust software QA and UAT experience for test case writing, functional testing and UAT.
• In depth knowledge and working experience of industry best practices for IT governance, Portfolio / Program / Project Management, Systems / Software Development Life Cycles
• Extensively worked on both in Tradition Water Fall model and in Agile Scrum Environment for generating detail functional system requirement as well as in SCRUM writing stories, prioritizing the stories creating Epics and maintaining the backlog
• Extensively worked with new and junior team members in their training for processes as well as the systems
• Hold the knowledge of continuous integration with Agile methodology and participated for the testing process in the integration

PROGRAMMING SKILLS AND TOOLS:

COTS Configuration, Project and Document Management: Project Server with SharePoint, Serena Mashup, TFS, Documentum, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, MS Project, Team Foundation Server, Documentum. SIEBEL

Database and Database Management: Oracle, SQL Server, TOAD, SQL Server Management Studio.

Functional Testing and Knowledge of Programming Languages: Microsoft Test Manager, QTP, VB Script, JavaScript, Team Script, C++, Delphi, Asp.net and Java.

Workflow Diagram and Pictures: MS Visio, Azure.

Presentation and Training: PowerPoint, Screen Presso, Paint, Microsoft Word, Adobe.

Data Analysis and Test data generation: Excel, Access, Notepad.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

System Analyst III\ QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Accountable to gather functional requirement for complex financial systems for Federal Grant Application, Grant Management and Appeal (Business Process Workflow) for Federal Communication Commission; drafted specific system requirement with detail database structure together with the process flow for Funding Application, multi-level review, approval process and email set up.
• Wrote Stories for the backlog. Created epics and worked with business, stakeholders and product owner to create priorities for development work. Worked and coordinated with stakeholders, different IT groups, Executives, Auditors and customers
• Gathered and transcribed functional requirement for .dot net application Apian Platform and JAVA application (For Finance and High-Cost Funding). Additionally, used extensive VISIO diagrams and PowerPoint slides for presentations to business and upper management.
• Worked as functional tester on OKTA implementation for integrated multiple complex systems. Wrote test cases and tested the combination of roles for both external internal users and internal users as Single Sign On for role based access.
• Worked and coordinated directly with other team members for explaining and guiding the requirements with both technical development group and the tester for creating the required positive and negative test cases and test data generation.
• Gathered necessity for Accounts Receivable Module s and wrote the Functional Requirements for Great Plains application. Also performed on test strategy, test data creation and testing for Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains modules for Collection and Disbursement of funding.
• Multiple years of involvement in the billing system and data analysis for future funding rate calculation system and report generation for cross verification with other business systems. Correspondingly, congregated business essentials and wrote functional requirement documentation, plus transferred them to story for Agile development for E-File web applications.
• Worked as Scrum Master for certain projects during this period for small Scrum Teams, and were responsible for Sprint planning, Stand Up and updates, Sprint retrospective, development cycle and testing follow ups and Sprint closings.
• I was able to communicate, validate, help and remove the obstacles for other team members.
• Worked to facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations. Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Worked from the Backlog planning to closing of the Sprints including the Release of the software development in Agile Scrum environment since 2010 for multiple software products
• Worked to manage burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
• Efficiently worked as Scrum Master for different Sprint for the Enterprise Application development group, and developed the business process flow and generated proposed and current flow with VISIO process flow diagram between different system connections and data flow between systems.
• Responsible for configuration management for project server; shouldered the role of Project Server Administrator for almost 7 years under PMO group while handling a different project set up and resource management for Project Server among different IT Development group and Project Managers.
• Generated user training documentation and trained almost 300 business and IT professionals for use of project server and project management tool. Besides, worked on configuration management and work flow development within Serena Business Mashup (COTS Product) for IT Process flow.
• Participated in detail testing for Continuous Integration of the products.
• As System Administrator for Serena Business Mashup trained 400 users for Serena Business Mash Up workflows for IT Processes, Ticketing System, Access Request Release workflow and Procurement workflow and elevated the COTS products both Serena Business Mashup and Project Server.
• Participated in ICCB (Internal Change Control Board) for software release management, worked on IT audit process for correction, documentation and report generation for upper management. Furthermore, wrote System Requirement Analysis for web tools for external users and managed the expansion of the tools with external contractors.
• Created functional requirement and worked on data analysis for funding Threshold Analysis tool for 2.75 billion dollars funding of Schools and Libraries division’s Universal Service Fund. Participated in detail software QA process development and testing strategy development.
• Comprehensively used Microsoft TFS, JIRA, Confluence SharePoint and MTM for requirement gathering, story writing and Test Case Development and Software Testing. Also, managed UAT processing and defects processing.
• Worked on Documentum (Java based application )for functional requirement gathering and testing
• Worked as contacts for reporting funding data calculation for Schools and Library divisions funding to Federal Communication Commission
• Worked between business and outside vendor for requirement gathering and testing
• Conducted detail test strategy and UAT testing, reported on bugs and final verification for different users groups internal and external to the organization.
• Participated and conducted JAD session with vendor and business and documented the meeting notes with further follow up for the next steps
• Generated database dictionary using TOAD for Oracle and extensively used Microsoft SQL server administration tool for SQL Queries, updates data extraction and test data creation.
• Worked with SIEBEL requirement and configuration and trained the user for SIEBEL
• Trained Junior staff members and Users, peer review the documents and tracking the requirements for updates and testing

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

System Analyst \Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as System Analyst and Developer for Customization and configuration changes in Membership Management Software.
• Worked in Delphi, SQL server for the development. Wrote SQL queries for generating test data
• Created test scripts for testing and conducted QA and UAT for all the customization.
• Worked on large sets of data conversion from legacy system to the new system

Confidential

System Analyst \ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as contract developer in NOAA’s Weather Prediction software.
• Used Delphi, C++ and SQL server for the development and data extraction from Buoy and Satellite data from NOAA’s server
• Converted the data into database for development
• Conducted QA and UAT testing with QA team and user groups.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential for customization as par customer request.
• Wrote the test cases and performed functional testing and fixed the defects
• Wrote the UAT test cases and collaborated with customers for UAT
• Wrote user training documentation and trained the users
• Converted large data sets from legacy to Confidential system.