OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position as a Senior Business Analyst that offers an opportunity for professional growth.

SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Business Analysis & Agile (Scrum) Methodology.
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM) with a passion for Agile Mindset (Scrum and Kanban).
• Actively participate and lead various Scrum Ceremonies like Scrum Calls, Sprint Planning, Demo and Retrospective.
• Actively participate in creating and maintaining Scrum Artifacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burn - down Chart and Increments.
• Extensively involved in Requirements Gathering and Quality Assurance of Web based, client/server and UNIX applications.
• Expertise in performing Confidential analysis, conducting JAD sessions and good understanding of Customer Relationship Management.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, STLC, waterfall and Agile (Scrum) methodology.
• Expertise in eliciting, documenting and analyzing business requirements/user stories.
• Strong experience in Manual & Automation Testing through all phases of SDLC.
• Proficient in creating and executing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Experience in System, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, UXT, database, exploratory, browser compatibility and ad-hoc testing.
• Experience in Black Box testing with a complete Quality Assurance life cycle; from testing, defect logging, and verification of fixed bugs.
• Expertise in Defect Management Lifecycle along with various defect tracking tools like Clear Quest and JIRA.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:

Tools: Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Selenium & JIRA

Languages: JAVA, SQL, PYTHON, HTML, CSS, JSON and VB

Database Systems: Oracle 10, MS-SQL Server 13.0/14.0

Packages: MS-Office and MS-Excel

Operating Systems: AIX, UNIX, Windows 8/9/10

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, NA

BUSINESS SYSTEM / QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Requirements Gathering meetings along with other BAs, Product Owners & SMEs.
• Critically identify, understand and communicate business IT requirements.
• Analyze and detail high level User Stories and contribute in creating effective test cases.
• Effectively contribute in Sprint Planning by prioritizing and scoping requirements/user stories and help in maintaining the Kanban board.
• Contribute in Daily Scrum Calls to share the progress and press the importance of receiving the user story cards in JIRA in a timely fashion.
• Act as a liaison between Project Managers, QA “Escalation Managers”, Development team, Product Owners and other internal and external business partners.
• Lead all BA deliverables and Scrum Artifacts of the project from inception to going live.
• Produce concise business requirement documents such as System Requirements Specification (SRS), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), User Stories for Agile Scrum and Business Cases.
• Devise Test Strategy and Test Plans to establish in-depth test coverage & condensed % 65 of estimated exhaustive testing man hours into directed and strategized testing.
• Leverage XML and SQL queries to test backend infrastructure, there by speeding up the integration and Regression testing by 25%.
• Develop Test Cases to identify defects as per requirements and end user impacts; logged 68% of the total defects in the team.
• Audit and updated the Regression Test Suite of the project to improve defect detection during regression by reviewing the test cases.
• Contribute in the automation of 18% of the total test scripts using Selenium and thus saved 34% of manual efforts.
• Perform Demos of completed functionality to Product Owners and end users.

Confidential

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases from business, technical and functional requirements.
• Developed and maintained Test Data.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing to check the functionality of the whole application.
• Performed Build Acceptance Testing for different builds and releases.
• Developed simple SQL Queries for data verification.
• Entered and tracked defect life cycle using JIRA.
• Verified defect fixes in consecutive builds and releases.
• Performed cross-browser Compatibility Testing.
• Developed defect reports using JIRA for management.
• Worked directly with developers, business analysts and project managers to quickly and effectively resolve issues and functional enhancements.
• Involved in weekly status meetings showing progress of testing.
• Involved in Sprint Planning, Retrospect and Customer Demo.

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Critically gathered and evaluated requirements from multiple sources, reconciled conflicts and decomposed high-level information into details.
• Produced documents following company standards including but not limited to: Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), User Stories for Agile Scrum, Business Cases.
• Created use cases, flow charts, sequence diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts with system integration testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to assist with Quality Assurance activities.
• Analyzed test results including UI, Data Presentation, Output Documents, and consistency.
• Created wireframes to comply with the layout of the ecommerce website and tested the high standard UX expected from the company.
• Performed Confidential analysis between the "AS-IS" model of the legacy system and "TO-BE" model to identify the project gaps.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with project stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolved any issues and come to an agreement.
• Contributed in creating an easy shipment method for retail locations for fulfilling and sending orders out to consumers.