SUMMARY:

• Agile coaching and transition services
• Building self - organized team
• Release Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, retrospective, backlog refinement
• Impediment mitigation
• Conflict Management
• Initiation to closure delivery management
• Stakeholder Management
• Cross-functional team management
• Risk Management (Qualitative)
• Project Scope, scheduling & prioritization
• Resource optimization
• Extensive knowledge on STLC
• Auditing for CMMi L5 adherence
• TMMi L2 implementation
• QA process implementation and improvement

SKILLS:

• Finance - ETF, Index management,
• Bond & Pricing, Data Warehousing
• Health and Benefit

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

Database: SQL, DB2, Oracle

Mainframes: Table Editor, JCL Job run, AS400 (Table data Extraction

Test Process Management Tool: Quality Center/ALM, Maestro, Source Forge Enterprise Edition

Defect Management Tool: ALM, JIRA

Agile Scrum Tool: JIRA

Management: Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word, Visio

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Plan-do-check-act cycle of project
• Delivery Management: Test Planning, Execution, Monitoring of simultaneously running projects
• Resource Management: Hiring, Onboarding, Training, Allocations, Release, Goals setting, Utilization, Learning and Evaluations
• Team leadership / team development: Special interest in mentoring & inspiring team members by organizing knowledge sessions & explaining the project life cycle of ongoing projects.
• Process Implementation/enhancement: RACI, RAID MLP, WBS, bug and root cause analysis, Learning lessons and effective handoffs
• Encouraged for and implemented TMMi L2 for waterfall projects
• Project Monitoring: Project status reports and dashboards, identification & mitigation of risks, and tracking issues to closure
• Decommissioning Strategy & Process formulation.
• Advocated for and implemented Agile framework and scrum team for new projects & project which failed in waterfall model
• Acted as Scrum Master to facilitate all scrum ceremonies - Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective and backlog refinement
• Established agile framework for Co-located team and globally spread team.
• Always focused on to have clear goal, effective communication, removing distractions, team motivation and delivering maximum value to customer
• Coached team members and new scrum masters on Agile principles and its manifesto
• Build relationship with Product owner and team to facilitate effective communication between them
• Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product backlog
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity & Sprint progress
• Updated Agile tracking system(JIRA) to provide transparency on product and sprint backlog
• Helped team to solve problem rather than providing solution

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• End to End Testing ownership ( Estimation, Requirement analysis, Planning & Execution, Quality reporting)
• Preparation of test metrics and project health indicators(RCA, Schedule and Effort variance)
• Helping team in understanding Business functionality and flow
• Verification of Client Data in Mainframes (Table Editor) using CICS Menu, DB2 and TSO.
• Posting and verifying transaction on Omni Plus which is DC Plan record keeping tool.
• Running Bug calls, status calls & representing QA in scrum
• Creating and executing DB2 queries, running JCL jobs on mainframes for loading data.
• Extensively used SQL query statements to verify the data integrity and validation between front end values and backend database values of the application
• Case design, review, execution, defect reporting and tracking

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automation of builds verification testing in Quick Test Professional
• Test environment setup
• Performed Sanity, System Integration testing, Database and Regression testing
• Creating AS400 query, execution & verification
• Performing the role of DPC (Defect Prevention Champion)
• Extensively used SQL query statements to verify the data integrity
• Test Case design, execution, updating and review
• Adhering and performing internal team audit to meet CMMi level 5