SUMMARY:

To pursue a highly challenging and creating career where I can apply my existing knowledge and creativity to acquire new skills contributed effectively to the organization. A qualified Professional with 11+ years of experience working with a reputed IT organization with core strengths lying in Software Quality Assurance. Scrum master with experience of working a Scrum master for 1 year in SAFe agile implementation. Also 2 years experience as Testing Manager with banking projects. Extensive experience in Software Implementation, communication and analytical skills. Experience of working with cross - cultural and multi-lingual teams, with comfort in interacting with people across hierarchical levels client for smooth project execution. Experience of handling multiple teams in role of a Scrum master and Testing manager.

SKILLS:

Software Testing Lifecycle Management (Test Planning & Review, Test Strategy, Test Estimation, Test Summary, Test Scripting)

Requirement Gathering & Analysis

Functional Requirements Impact Analysis

Test Data Sampling, Reporting

Software Quality Assurance

Defect Tracking, Analysis, Validation & Verification

SDLC, Agile Methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: QC(HP ALM), JIRA, Confluence

Testing Skills: Web Apps, PL/ SQL

Operating System: Windows 8

Languages: Java, Unix, SQL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate all the scrum ceremonies within the team to help promote team to be self-organized.
• Emphasizing on following the scrum processes within the team.
• Responsible to handle and remove any impediment in the team.
• Bridge between the PO and development team to have common understanding on backlog and priority.
• Attending the scrum of scrum meeting with release train engineer and communicating it back to the team.
• Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency.
• Doing estimation and planning. Creating useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects.
• Helping team and individual to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
• Tracking and removing impedements.
• Highlighting and communicating status in ART sync meetings.
• Successfully overcame challenges by Identifying the areas of automation and resuing test cases and test data for similar type of applications.
• Assessed data & identified opportunities to reduce waste and improve team productivity
• Improved test design quality by driving best quality practices and process improvement methods
• Supported smooth delivery of projects, as per customer requirements, by implementing QA best practices
• Actively leading a Testing Community Group for Confidential Software Technologies, involving organization of events, helping people from testing background to connect to each other and sharing knowledge based sessions
• Management Program Successfully organized Knowledge for the team including knowledge sharing sessions.
• Received several appreciations from client managers, various stakeholders & project managers throughout the carrier

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
• Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Helping product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
• Responsible to Conduct retrospective meetings.
• Organizing and facilitatating the sprint planning meeting.

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defining the testing activities for subordinates - testers or test engineers.
• All responsibilities of test planning.(Test plan, test scripts, test case readiness and test execution)
• Help team to get all the necessary resources to execute the testing activities.
• Keep a check on whether testing activities are going hand in hand with the software development in all phases.
• Prepare the status report of testing activities.
• Required Interactions with customers.
• Updating project manager regularly about the progress of testing activities.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed system integration testing for siebel and web applications with SAP systems.
• Analyzing requirements, defect reporting, client interaction, support to UAT members,active participation in Requirement tracebility matrix preparation.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Key member responsible for taking transition from Tech Manhindra and giving knowledge transfer sessions to team members.
• Preparing test cases and participation in test execution.
• Active participation in gathering requirements and analyzing them with team.
• Management retasks like giving project related access to team members,tracking daily status report and sharing reports with superiors.
• In charge design and delivery of migration process.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed functional and Regression testing, Defect Reporting, Defect validation,Test case writing and Test execution.
• Worked on data issues and SQL queries,responsible for trouble shooting and debugging minor program bugs,resolve questions and problems with technical team (level3),addressing customer issues and timely updating the customers with available solutions.
• Performed functional and Regression testing, Defect Reporting, Defect validation,Test case writing and Test execution,