PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 4+ years of hands on experience on Agile/Scrum and 2.5 years as Scrum Master. Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand - up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Incorporated Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility for faster project deliveries.
• 15 years of skillful experience across the globe with 9 years of solid experience in managing testing services through various phases of Software Development Life Cycle in Test Management on Performance, Automation and Manual Testing.
• Experienced in delivering in multi-vendor projects involving 3 or more vendors.
• Managing the QA Automation Agile project worth 0.5M/year with a plan for 4 years for both SAP and Non-SAP applications.
• Currently managing 4 FTE and 4 Contract resources.
• Introduced test automation for regression testing for projects yielding high ROI and with a net saving of over 1M per year.
• Closely working with Enterprise Architecture team on strategy and process implementation of DevOps - Continuous Integration & Continuous deployment on enterprise level.
• Responsible for managing multiple QA teams.
• Vast experience of managing geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent skillset in QA solutioning for new projects and QA architecture.
• Have a very solid knowledge on requirement analysis & planning, defect management methodologies and coverage matrix.
• Strong technical skills on Performance and Automation testing.
• Architected several diversified test automation solutions & designed Frameworks for both SAP and customs applications.
• Highly proficient in SDLC lifecycles in both Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
• Leading, mentoring & training resources for last 12 years.
• Implemented innovative ideas & processes to increase overall performance of the team, optimize assets and reduce cost.

SKILL:

• Scrum Master
• Project management
• Contract management
• Vendor management
• Agile Methodology & Scrum
• Test Management, Process Implementation & Reporting
• Requirement Analysis & Coverage
• Defect Management
• Domain knowledge of Banking & Finance, Retail and Transportation
• Performance & Capacity Management
• Manage tools & services - HP ALM, HP Load Runner, HP UFT, Jira
• Programming skills on Java/C/C++/Visual Basic/ VB Script, UNIX and Shell Scripting
• Test Automation Framework development for Web, SAP, Mainframe and Thick Clients using HP UFT & Selenium with Java.

WORK HISTORY:

Scrum Master & Team Lead - Quality Assurance: Performance & Automation Testing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing the development project of automated regression test suites for various Confidential Applications in both SAP & custom application development domains.
• Managing 3 testing services teams - Test Automation & Execution, Non-Functional & Performance Testing and QA/CI/CD tool support with a team size of 4 FTE and 1 Contract resources. Managing the fully Confidential Test project initially planned for 7 years with a funding of 0.5M per year.
• Running the project in Agile principle Helping the company to develop a test automation strategy to reduce the huge manual testing effort for the new micro-services workbench approach of project development and boost the project’s timeline by reducing the test execution effort to a great extent.
• Yielded a cost reduction of over 1M per year by reducing manual testing effort and introducing test automation in high risk & high frequency customer facing and business critical projects in Confidential .
• In this approach the critical business processes are being redesigned to be built as web-services/micro-services to integrate with SAP Workbench to work seamlessly.
• Currently I am working on a service testing solution for all workbench web services.
• This change in approach demanded new thoughts around testing services. Implementing test automation for patch testing (Windows, Security or Network patching) for over 90 Business critical application in Confidential .
• Worked closely with business leadership team to introduce test automation for Positive Train Control (PTC) program to reduce manual testing effort for both existing and brand-new applications.
• Closely working with Enterprise Architecture team on strategy and process implementation of DevOps - Continuous Integration & Continuous deployment on enterprise level. Currently Supervising the implementation of Selenium with Java and API testing infrastructure in Confidential .

Team Lead/Test Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in several Client-facing projects both in India as well across North America as a Software test consultant leading various projects on manual, automation and performance testing.
• Leading experience in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle in Performance, Automation and Manual Testing & Test Management.
• Worked with clients' senior leadership to architect testing solutions, perform test assessments, define complex test strategies and implement road maps to address key client needs/opportunities. Worked as a mentor and advised & educated the clients on testing methodology, approaches and tools across industry and different platforms.
• I hold strong knowledge & skillsets in developing Test Plan, Test Strategies, Test Design and Methodologies.
• I also have very solid knowledge on Defect Management methodologies and Test Reporting.
• As a senior Confidential consultant, managed testing services for following clients:

Software Performance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Software Performance Engineer & Module Lead for one of the banking products called “ Confidential ” from Confidential .
• Developing & designing suitable load/performance tests on the product to benchmark and certify the product before every market release.
• Finding and resolving bottlenecks, Oracle and Java tuning were my main stream of work.
• Worked as a proud team member in winning the bid for the Confidential - Confidential for Arab National Bank in Stuttgart, Germany.

Systems Executive

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a Lotus Notes Workflow Designer and Developer.
• Developed and maintained several workflows, like Leave Management, Asset Management, and Knowledge Management.
• I was also taking care of the Management Information System, a daily revenue reporting system for higher management.