PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of IT experience working as BA, SA, QA and SM roles.
• Coach development teams on the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, transparency, and self - organization
• Ensure communication and coordination across track delivery leads.
• Extensive cross-functional experience collaborating with stakeholders, engineers and leadership teams.
• Experience working with Scrum teams to adopt, TDD, BDD practices
• Knowledge and familiarity with CI/CD process from management perspective
• Familiarity with widely accepted tools such as JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Jenk.
• Experience full stack QA engineering Functional testing, Integration testing, GUI testing, Data driven testing, System testing, End to End testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing, White Box testing, Cross Browser testing, Database testing using SQL queries and Performance testing
• Expert in writing QTP scripts using Object Repository and Descriptive Programming, Visual Basic Scripting, Auto It scripting language, batch file scripting
• Experience in test estimations, test planning, test scenarios, test data setup, test design, script creation, execution, test results, defect management, coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, test metrics and status reporting to client, issue escalations
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in test execution and test results analysis
• Extensively Used Mercury Quality Center and JIRA to create Test cases and report Bugs in Defect Module
• Hands on experience in Web services Automation testing using REST Client and SOAP UI
• Experience in GIT Hub, SVN, CI Tools and JIRA
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously and delivered the quality product on time.
• Hands on experience in managing the team and leading the team of 8 members within the project
• Able to manage the team like analysts, QA and developers within the project.
• Involved in regression and high level system testing
• Worked closely with the developers for any issues related to the coding.
• Worked on Projects starting from initiation till execution.
• Involved in Test designing by preparing High Level Scenarios & Test Cases by verifying Business Requirement Documents and High-Level Design Documents.
• Extensive knowledge on Cucumber and able to create feature file using Gherkin.
• Experienced in all phases of SDLC utilizing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies: SCRUM.
• Experience proving coaching for newly adopting agile teams.
• Excellent team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills, hardworking, high level of motivation, ability to perform well independently and in a group, and ability to work under pressure.
• Hands on experience on SQL queries for high level testing of the end product.
• Participate in the program level planning and related events to represent their team.
• Able to help team or individual clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
• Ability to ensure the correct use of Scrum process. Ability to track and remove impediments.
• Knowledge of project management principles and the ability to apply the principles, tools, and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute projects or work plans to ensure successful completion (e.g., on time, within budget).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: JIRA/Confluence, MS Project

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director Rational Clear Quest, JIRA

Programming: COBOL, JCL, CICS, REXX, Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, C++.

Database: DB2, IMS DB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA Beach, VA

Sr. Scrum Master/Quality Analyst Sr.

Responsibilities:

• Scrummed 2 technical engineering teams in guiding for successful delivery.
• Work across the enterprise with other Scrum Masters (Scrum of Scrums) to ensure interdependencies are identified, tracked and escalated.
• Writing Gherkin for all the scenarios of user stories
• Using Selenium WebDriver performing the regression testing for every modification in the application
• Performing System testing, Functionality testing, Integration testing, End to End testing, Regression testing, and GUI testing
• Performing Rest Web service API testing
• Analyzing all the requirements in user stories and coordinating with the product owners
• Preparing test scenarios, test cases, test summary report and test execution metrics
• Tracking and reporting the defects using Radar and conducting triage meetings
• Supporting every production release and performing production validation
• Performed database testing to test data migration from different test environments.
• Design and implement the best practices and ensure that new code uses our framework and coding practices
• Performed integration testing & data validations for various interfaces
• Coordinate and encourage participation from all team members in key Scrum ceremonies, e.g.. daily huddle/Scrum, backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives to actively manage risks and dependencies
• Collaborates with technical resources, product, and analysts to break down project needs and user feedback into user stories and tasks, which can be added to sprint/iteration backlog
• Drive stories to ready state in preparation for the upcoming sprint
• Manage sprint velocity-related metrics
• Fulfills the role of Scrum Master leading multiple Scrum Teams through the Agile process in the delivery of enterprise software development projects
• Implement Agile practices to facilitate the incremental and adaptive delivery of software products within the Scrum teams
• Facilitates the adoption of key engineering practices Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, etc. to improve quality and reliability of team’s deliverables
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring of Scrum Team members on Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and practices
• Motivate team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
• Build and document a successful and reproducible Agile foundational framework that can be adopted by other teams within the organization
• Facilitate creation of project delivery roadmap
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members
• Promotes a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes
• Create a dashboard that can show how Agile software delivery is creating business value to business areas.

Environment: .Net, Java, Rest API, Oracle, SQL Server, and Splunk log checking, Visual Studio, SOAP UI, Rest Services, Postman, Bit bucket, Bamboo, JIRA, UNIX, LINUX, and Windows 2000.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Systems Analyst Sr/ Scrum Master Sr.

Responsibilities:

• Scrummed 2 technical engineering teams.
• Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum/Kanban-related meetings.
• Involved in Test designing by preparing High Level Scenarios & Test Cases by verifying Business Requirement Documents and High-Level Design Documents.
• Extensive knowledge on Cucumber and able to create feature file using Gherkin.
• Ability to plan and manage time and resources, establish priorities and meet goals.
• Had excellent communication skills, leadership and presentation skills, time and group management skills.
• Worked on SQL database for testing.
• Hands on experience in managing the team and leading the team of 8 members within the project
• Able to manage the team like analysts, QA and developers within the project.
• Involved in regression and high level system testing
• Worked on Test plan document, test case creation and test case execution for all provider types in the flat file and EDI file format.
• Worked closely with the developers for any issues related to the coding.
• Worked on Projects starting from initiation till execution.
• Conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) with business users and Post production maintenance support once the product is in the use.
• Extensive knowledge of working on splitting requirements into MVPs for teams to make it easy.
• Working on gathering with business and identifying the open issues that needs to be addressed along with scope clarifications.
• Ensuring team is comfortable with the requirement prior implementation.
• Guiding the team(s) and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices to realize effective outcomes.
• Coach the team(s) on how to self-organize and solution.
• Assess the team’s agile maturity and coaching them through continuous improvement at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Building a trusting and safe environment which encourages engagement, collaboration and problem-solving.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and assisting with corporate transformation.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner on the role, grooming, prioritization and servant-leadership.
• Effectively work with remote/virtual teams in different time zones.
• Provide hands-on coaching of scrum teams in all aspects of scrum (facilitating daily stand-up meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, calculating velocity, limiting work in progress, etc.)
• Remove impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint and release goals (internal and external to the team)
• Responsible for working with product to ensure quality user stories that meet team standards
• Work effectively with product management and team members to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions, and new products
• Proactively manage sprint-level risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, mitigated or escalated as necessary.

Environment: .Net, Java, Rest API, Oracle, SQL Server, Visual Studio, ASP.NET,HTML, XML, C++, VB.Net, IE, SOAP UI, Rest Services, Postman, web services, Splunk log checking, Jenkins, JIRA, UNIX, LINUX, and Windows2000.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Scrum Master/Quality Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tracked team's progress over the sprint via daily stand up and check for any impediments.
• Facilitated the story sizing and estimation sessions with Developers.
• Worked on pharmaceutical drugs, sun setting (end dating) of brand drugs.
• Document preparations which includes business requirements and as well as system requirements.
• Worked on scrum methodology and worked on project plans and created project chart and worked efficiently with the stake holders.
• Document review sessions with the stakeholders which includes SME (Subject matter experts), business, stake holders, Sponsor for the project and project manager, Developers and QA.
• Hands on experience with HPALM tool for testing and execution with positive and negative scenarios of each test case
• Used to prepare test cases, test case reviews sessions.
• Worked on test plans and test cases and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing for the deployment process.
• Effectively maintain and manage agile project management tools and processes, including documentation and artifacts
• Writing Gherkin for all the scenarios of user stories
• Preparing the automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber
• Experience in Integrating Automation scripts on continuous integration tool Jenkins
• Performing Jenkins build daily runs for the automated test suite
• Using Selenium WebDriver performing the regression testing for every modification in the application
• Performing System testing, Functionality testing, Integration testing, End to End testing, Regression testing, and GUI testing
• Performing Rest Web service API testing
• Analyzing all the requirements in user stories and coordinating with the product owners
• Preparing test scenarios, test cases, test summary report and test execution metrics
• Tracking and reporting the defects using Radar and conducting triage meetings
• Supporting every production release and performing production validation.
• Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration
• Contribute to building a culture where continuous improvement of the agile process is in focus
• Continually seek out ways to enhance agile knowledge and technical expertise
• Manage new product features and enhancements in terms of scope, quality, and schedule within sprint cycles.

Environment: .Net, Share point, SQL server, Windows Vista, Windows 7; QTP 9.0, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Test manager, C#,.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server, Visual Basic 6.0, Quality Center 9.2.