SUMMARY

• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving teh adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to teh removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Managing teh team throughout teh Software Life cycle me.e. from Initiation to Close
• Hands on experience in project initiation, planning, execution, monitor and control and close phases, developed and maintained all required processes and documents according project nature and type
• Hands on experience in Agile Transformation from standard waterfall to Agile Scrum and Kanban
• Has experience as servant leader in leading team in Agile scrum delivery me.e. hands on experience in providing Agile trainings, educating and sharing information related to Value driven delivery, managing and engaging stakeholders, building high performance teams and tracking team performance, Adaptive Planning, problem detection and resolution, Continuous Improvement
• Managed and lead team in both Waterfall and Agile project methodologies
• Has experience in farming, storming and performing stages of Agile Scrum me.e. mentoring, coaching teams on Agile to optimize delivery time cycles and cost
• Managing timely delivery of teh scheduled activities/ technical deliverables (based on teh Onsite/ Offshore Delivery Model-Confirm), in line wif quality standards specified.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000/NT/XP, Windows 7 /10, UNIX, MAC 10.4

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Office, MS Visio, MS project

Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Agile Kanban, Agile XP, Waterfall

Database: MS Access, SQL Server 2012, Oracle 11g, DB2

Languages: C, Java, VB, .Net, Python

Test Management: Tools HP ALM 12.0, JIRA 6.4, BugZilla

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional9.0, Win runner7.0, Selenium 3( Web driver, log4J), SOAP UI PRO4.5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Agile transformation coach/consultant where Scrum, Kanban techniques were applied along wif Scaled Agile Framework principles
• Organized and facilitated overall release and sprint planning
• Facilitate Sprint ceremonies -- sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, retrospectives, and sprint reviews
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology (manifesto and core values me.e. transparency, inspection and adaption) and agile framework to team members and teh organization
• Protect scrum teams from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Radiate information to teh team using velocity and burn-down charts, task board, and JIRA custom views
• Calculating and sharing all teh key performance indicators (Rate of progress, remaining work, likely completion date and likely cost remaining)
• Facilitating Requirements prioritization using MOSCOW, Monopoly Money, 100 points method, KANO analysis methods
• Identifying stakeholders, maintain stakeholder registry, stakeholder engagement
• Facilitating user story writing workshops and User story estimations using playing poker, T shirt sizing
• Practicing Adaptive leadership me.e. directive (team forming), coaching (storming), supporting (norming) and delegating (performing)
• Building high Performance agile teams using Tuckman Model of team formation and development
• Facilitate Collaboration between distributed agile team members (Teams scattered across teh globe me.e. USA, Ireland, India) by providing all required tools
• Finding and detect problems and provide resolutions me.e. using daily stand-ups, by reviewing lead time and cycle time, defect cycle time, defect rates, variance analysis identify problems and provide resolutions by collaborating wif team
• Guide teams to become self-managing by mentoring teams to be cross-functional and slowly delegating responsibility to teh team to set goals and identify improvements
• Continuously Improve process, people and product by periodically reviewing process and improving generic specialists and reducing technical debt
• Use Team Velocity to predict deliverable dates for Product Roadmap Releases
• Collaborate wif Product Owner and Scrum Team for backlog items grooming and continuous delivery of features
• Encourage continuous improvement through Retrospective activities me.e. use metrics to identify quality improvements (escaped defects) and process improvements (TDD, BDD, pair programming, ATDD)
• Setting SAFE environment for team to experiment wif new technologies and methods
• Empower Team wif Agile principles to suggest process changes to improve overall productivity
• Work wif Agile coach on Agile process improvements and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) guidelines
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning sessions and represent team in scrum of scrums
• Provide required information to management on project progress and highlight risks and remediation strategies in place
• Work wif product owner, product sponsor on product scope changes and budget implications
• Work on JIRA to collect required data on progress and share wif team by generating different reports
• JIRA Administration me.e. Setting project in JIRA, setting dashboards, designing advanced workflows and scheduling custom reports in JIRA

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint ceremonies -- sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, retrospectives, and sprint reviews
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and teh organization
• Protect scrum teams from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Radiate information to teh team using velocity and burn-down charts, task board, and JIRA custom views
• Guide teams to become self-managing by mentoring teams to be cross-functional and slowly delegating responsibility to teh team to set goals and identify improvements
• Use Team Velocity to predict deliverable dates for Product Roadmap Releases
• Collaborate wif Product Owner and Scrum Team for backlog items grooming and continuous delivery of features
• Encourage continuous improvement through Retrospective activities me.e. use metrics to identify quality improvements (escaped defects) and process improvements (TDD, BDD, pair programming)

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint ceremonies -- sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, retrospectives, and sprint reviews
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and teh organization
• Protect scrum teams from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Radiate information to teh team using velocity and burn-down charts, task board, and JIRA custom views
• Guide teams to become self-managing by mentoring teams to be cross-functional and slowly delegating responsibility to teh team to set goals and identify improvements
• Use Team Velocity to predict deliverable dates for Product Roadmap Releases
• Collaborate wif Product Owner and Scrum Team for backlog items grooming and continuous delivery of features
• Encourage continuous improvement through Retrospective activities me.e. use metrics to identify quality improvements (escaped defects) and process improvements
• Utilized player poker game for story estimations and used sailboat methodology for sprint retrospectives

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Effort Estimation, Resource plan & Schedule
• Overall test management from Initiation to Closure
• Test Strategy Plan preparation and maintaining to share wif all stakeholders on Test scope, Stakeholders, Risks identification, migration, control and mitigation, status reports, Tools used, roles and responsibilities, schedules
• Responsible for all teh Project deliverables such as Daily Status report, Weekly status report, Steering Committee report & other test statistics
• Prepared and shared different metrics ( Schedule, productivity, quality) wif stakeholders
• Preparation of test closure report

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate wif business sponsor and business client to understand business requirements and translate business requirements into requirement document for technical team
• Clarifying on business requirements to technical team
• Contribute to project plan on schedules, risks and assumptions
• Review design documents, Test strategy plan and Test cases
• Review Test results
• Perform User acceptance test along wif business client

Confidential

Functional QC Lead

Responsibilities:

• Proposal writing & defining test approach
• Preparation of Effort Estimation, Resource plan & Schedule
• Overall test management from Initiation to Closure
• Test Strategy preparation & Test Planning
• Responsible for all teh Project deliverables such as Daily Status report, Weekly status report, Steering Committee report & other test statistics
• Preparation of test closure report
• Preparation & Monitoring Program Management dashboard to control teh cost & efforts involved

Confidential

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Functional Specifications and getting clarifications from product management team if any
• Preparing teh Use cases in MS Visio for certain modules
• Preparing teh functional specification summary documents
• Training imparted to new joiners in team
• Authoring and updating test cases
• Execution of test cases
• Performed teh following types of testing:
• Functional Testing, Integration and System testing, User Interface Testing, Database testing
• Browser Compatibility Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Internationalization Testing
• Review and Approval of teh Bugs to be posted.
• Tracking teh status of teh bugs
• Classifying teh bugs for beta release by analyzing teh issue severity and priority
• Running Server health Tests on staging and production environments for each build
• Running Server deployment tests by Automation test Manager(ATM) tool
• Testing RDP(Rapid Development Projects) and ODP(off cycle development projects) to enhance/introduce new features to product
• Preparing teh test scripts for localization
• Identifying teh test cases for database migration (previously SQL server 2000, tan SQL server 2005 now SQL server 2008)

Confidential, Washington

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test environment setup, technical support and assistance to teh team for every test cycle.
• Point of Contact for a specific part of application for a team of 6 members.
• Authoring and updating test cases
• Helping teh team lead wif preparing System test plan in accordance wif teh Requirements.
• Execution of test cases
• Prepare Estimation and Schedules for teh day and for weekly as per teh client schedules
• Performed teh following types of testing:
• Installation Testing, Running of Automation scripts, Functional Testing
• User Interface Testing, Multiplatform Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Internationalization Testing
• Sending teh status reports on a daily and weekly basis to teh client
• Documentation Testing
• Review and Approval of teh Bugs to be posted.
• Tracking teh status of teh bugs.
• Active participation in client conference calls
• Developed an test harness tool in Perl and maintaining teh test harness tool
• Deploying builds on servers wif test harness tool