SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of relevant experience in testing and 5 years of leading inclusive agile teams and as Scrum Master.
• Facilitating sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders Tracking and managing product backlog, burn - down metrics, velocity, and task break-down
• Facilitated the transition of the applications from waterfall to Agile as a Coach Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self- management
• Proactive in sensing a risk, and work on a mitigation plan, Track and communicate updates on the sprint/release progress to the project stakeholders, and raise a flag in SoS (Scrum-of-Scrums) as warranted
• Managing and leading team members; allocating resources among team members and guiding team members during the project, till final delivery
• Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule / budgets, and ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client
• Highly experienced in system, integration, regression, user acceptance testing UAT .
• Web services testing using (Restful + SOAP), testing BI tools like MicroStrategy 8/9, Business Objects XIR2, Web Intelligence 6.1b/6.5.1 and Crystal Reports.
• Worked on writing PL/SQL blocks for database testing. Used testing tools such as Quick Test Pro, Quality Center (HP-ALM), JIRA, and Jenkins. Worked on Siebel CRM, also used Informatica for ETL testing.
• Knowledge on Web automation tool like Selenium.
• Demonstrated strength in requirement gathering + mapping, Gap analysis. Strong understanding of OO Design Patterns.
• Motivated, thorough, dependable and well- organized team player with good interpersonal skills
• Possess good communication skill and a fast learner with an appetite to grasp and adapt to changing technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Rational Rose, JIRATools, PL/SQL, TOAD, MicroStrategy, Business Objects

Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, .NET, JavaScript, CSS

Scripting Languages: VB Script, UNIX Shell Scripting

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Union, NJ

Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Agile transformation coach/consultant where Scrum, Kanban techniques were applied along with some SAFe principles.
• Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint planning - including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Focused primarily on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team.
• Placed substantial efforts on team member role training, time-boxing and providing strong metrics for all players.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as continuous integration using Jenkins, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, JIRA tracking, product visioning, self-management, empowerment and role training.
• As a Scrum Master for three separate teams (20+ people), identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments. Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls following agile process.
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
• Projects relied on the data from multiple departments; hence requiring constant, effective communication to unblock the team and make sure the team remains on task at hand.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution, and transparency.
• Facilitated meetings to iron out blockers, conducted JAD sessions with the Product owner and other stakeholders on regular basis and helped the team to make better use of these time and estimate more effectively, thus ensuring a healthy sprint progress.
• Kept the teams focused on the sprints priorities, business values, and protecting team from over-committing Communicated team status/progress via Release/Sprint Burn down charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects and make sure the stakeholders are aware of what is going on.
• JIRA tool is used for Agile Scrum and Agile Kanban to track the team activities. Frequent follow up and friendly reminders to the team on updating JIRA tasks on daily basis for more accurate reporting.
• Worked with product owner during the Sprint review sessions to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done and get the stories accepted within the sprint.
• Experienced in hybrid environment Waterfall +agile (was part of conversion from waterfall to Agile)
• Managing the team throughout the Software Testing process.
• Leading the team for the creation of test plans, test cases, scenarios, and test execution in Rational
• Allocating tasks based upon project requirements and skill set. Ensuring task completion as per timelines and adherence to quality process guidelines.
• Tested data coming from JDA-AS400 to DB2.
• Providing scope, resource and time estimates for testing projects and created traceability matrix, defect summary reports.
• Providing Weekly Status Report Product Owner/Director.
• Leading UAT activities for test planning, designing, execution, defects triage

Environment: VB.net, ASP.net, Java, JavaScript, selenium, JIRA, IBM Rational (RTC, RQM), Oracle, DB2, JDA AS400.

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Sr. QA/BA

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master accountable for daily standups, sprint planning, Release Planning, tracking defects and retrospective meetings
• Attended meetings with Business/stakeholders for grooming.
• Managing the Product backlog, scrum delivery by coordinating between product owner and scrum team
• Provided status reports to management and product team
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams.
• Influenced the team/organization in the removal of any impediments and development of healthy Agile practices and continuous improvements
• As QA/BA - Created Test Plans and Test Scripts by analyzing the Business requirements and System Requirements of the Application.
• Worked closely with Application Architects, Business Analysts, and Project Managers to create Use Cases.
• Performed Requirement Analysis to Develop Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams. Hence developed and documented conceptual design of Application in System Specification Document.
• Tested Frontend POS application, which is developed in .Net and Defects, were identified, provided results to the development team for debugging.
• Performed POS Terminal testing as part of the integrated testing effort.
• Successfully implemented Mercury Quality Center for Requirement Management, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect logging, Requirement Mapping with Test cases and generated Summary reports
• Executed accurately and concisely Report Progress, Defect Status using Quality center and Bugzilla for Bugs.
• Implemented the Payment Module by Integrating PayPal Web Service in secured gateway and used XML Parser for transformation of data cross the application
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database
• Used TOAD to perform backend testing on the database to verify the changes made are reflected accordingly.

Environment: Quality Center 10.5, MS Office, Clear Quest Oracle, Unix, C#, Asp.Net, XML, HTML, XSLT.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and functional requirement to develop Test Plan and wrote Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for Integration testing of the application and Business Objects Reports
• Created the Test Strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, time lines of different phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria for different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the testing effort
• Responsible for data warehouse, dimensional data mart, and enterprise report testing
• Performed Package and Integration System testing of most of the Business Objects reports
• Reported, recorded and Tracked defects using JIRA
• Generated SQLs to validate the report-generated data and to check for Data accuracy and Data Integrity on the reports.
• Used Siebel CRM for Regression testing.
• Developed SQL queries/scripts to validate the completeness, integrity and accuracy of data within an ETL process testing cycle.
• Involved in testing security setup of Business Objects Users & Groups, validated permissions set on reports, report Objects and universes and validated visibility rules set for users for their respective business Objects profiles.
• Replicated the transformation logic used in the ETL (Informatica) process so that the target data warehouse can be validated against the original data source.
• Wrote SQL joins to retrieve the data to test the validity of the reports generated through Business Objects.

Environment: JIRA, Business Objects XI R2, SDK and Oracle 9i, WinSQL, TOAD, Windows XP, Netezza, Siebel

Confidential, Clarksburg, MD

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirements developed Use cases, Test Cases, Test scripts and maintained them using Quality center
• Created the Test Strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, time lines of different phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria for different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the testing effort.
• Identified the test cases that can be automated, generated scripts for Automated Testing using Quick Test Pro and performed Regression Testing on different builds deployed on a weekly basis.
• Extensively used GUI, Text, Bitmap checkpoints, synchronization, exception handling, and condition and control statements in VB Script to customize the automated regression scripts.
• Improved the flexibility of the tests by Parameterization entire test and ran the scripts for multiple sets of data by data driving the tests using Quick Test Pro.
• Involved in the Performance testing of Website and analyzed the response times under various loads
• Performed Web Testing and checked for Broken Links, HTML Images, and HTML Content.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verity database integrity
• Worked on various browsers like Firefox, Safari, and Netscape and Internet explorer for browser compatibility testing
• Isolated and simplified problems discovered during testing so that developers can fix them easily.
• Extensively used Quality Center to logging and tracking defects.
• Generated Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Participated in the design walkthroughs and various meetings with developers and support people to discuss the various bugs and environment related problems found while testing on a daily basis.
• Used Visual Source Safe (VSS) for Version Control.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Quality Center, Java, HTML, XML, Oracle, WIN NT, .NET, Excel (pivot tables), SOAP UI.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote SQL joins to retrieve the data to test the validity of the reports generated through Business Objects
• Identified high-level and low-level requirements of the application to assign more emphases of testing on pressure points of the application.
• Managed requirements, Test Cases and Test Scripts using Quality Center (Test Director) .
• Interacted with the release engineering team to find the build status. Performed Smoke and Sanity testing for each new build.
• Formulated detailed use cases for increasing core component test coverage to facilitate regression and automated testing.
• Using WinRunner. Enhanced the scripts by adding control and conditional statements using TSL.
• Involved in comparing the intra and inter day Risk and P&L reports and validated the changes.
• Manually performed Back-End testing by writing SQL queries.
• Assisted users in executing the UAT scripts during User Acceptance Testing.
• Tracked bugs using Quality Center and performed regression testing of the entire application once the bugs are fixed.
• Attended various meetings with the developers, clients, and the management team to discuss major defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications.

Environment: Java 2.0, JDBC, PL/SQL, SQL, UML, Oracle8i, Quality Center, WinRunner, Win NT