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Qa, LeaD
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