SUMMARY

• +13 years professional experience encompasses 5 years as scrum master (CSM), Quality Analyst, project coordinator and Marketing.
• This diverse experience has equipped me to be strategic, yet flexible, while effectively leading and inspiring teams.
• Resolving problems, and coach team members on Agile methodologies
• Effectively manage scrum process and remove impediments to improve efficiency of development teams
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
• Arrange, facilitate and lead Scrum ceremonies - sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint retrospectives, daily standups, sprint reviews for multiple development teams, enabling them to inspect and adapt quickly
• Develop, administer, and manage scrum boards, workflows, and issues
• Ensured successful project delivery
• Highly adaptable to changing environment
• Communicate and provide status reports and project documentation to internal stakeholders
• Ability to keep team engaged and on task
• Motivate the team to be self-organize while fostering collaborative team environments
• Support product owner to ensure healthy backlog and that all requirements have been met
• Introduced better Processes that empowered teams to be more efficient like tasking out the stories for better tracking
• Coordinate with internal departments to set expectations and deliver software on time cultivate productive and engaging relationships and communication with management, leaders and enterprise stakeholders such as business, dev ops, communication and IT departments
• Key member of several scrum teams for more than 6 years and serving as Scrum Master as well as Quality Analyst for 5 years
• Experience in multiple IT methodologies such as Agile, Kanban, Scrum and waterfall.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile Methodology
• Waterfall methodology
• SDLC/ Process Documentation
• Risk identification
• Quality assurance
• Conflict resolution
• Scrum framework
• Documentation Management
• Customer interaction
• Impediment remover
• Presentation and organizational skill
• Public speaking
• Scrum coaching testapalooza Software
• Version One
• Microsoft Azure TFS
• Quality center
• MS Visio
• Jira
• QuickTime
• Adobe XD
• MS office suit
• SQL
• Slack
• Trello

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/Quality Analyst

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and lead Scrum ceremonies for multiple development teams
• Crafted decision logs in teams SharePoint for future reference
• Administered sprint review with stakeholders and team
• Standardized tasking activities to team for effective tracking
• Increased team’s velocity by 30% by removing impediments and dependencies
• Closely Collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Lead with a “customer first” servant attitude while collaborating other stakeholders
• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
• Track and report progress, risks, and issues
• Motivate a team to self-organize while fostering collaborative team environments

Business Analyst /Quality Analyst/Project Coordinator

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Planned and allocated development resources for team of 7 developers 3 testers and designers
• Managed all client relationships and communications
• Gathering requirements and Preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Writing test cases using Quality Center/ALM, TFS, Test manager
• Coordinating with business and development team to perform UAT
• Coordinating with offshore team for testing and daily updates
• Planning meetings to bring stakeholders and development team together and discuss change in requirement or plan and creating Minutes of Meeting
• Performing multiple browsers testing and Mobile testing on Android and iOS, Integration testing and System Testing

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Study and review Business Requirement, finding out scenarios for test cases
• Created Test plan, Test Strategy, system requirements, based on business requirements.
• Used Quality center for maintaining Test Cases and for Defect Tracking and Defect Reporting.
• Performed all various types of testing like, sanity testing Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, Integration and User Acceptance testing.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extracted and analyzed requirements from RFP.
• Documented data collection processes, data elements and performed data mapping
• Performed requirements gathering, analysis, and activity diagramming for processes.
• Participated in requirements prioritization. collection processes, data elements and data mapping
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Participated in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents.
• Involved in the creation of the Test plan, Test Strategy, analyzed system requirements, identified the Test Cases based on requirements and involved in preparation of templates for Test Case.
• Developed, Enhanced, and Maintained test cases with HP Quality center for regression, Integration, and system Testing
• Involved intesting the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Wrote requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly and unambiguously.
• Conducted User Acceptance and End User Training and provided go live and post implementation support.

QA Execution Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Testing the application manually.
• Creating test plans as per business requirements. writing positive and negative test cases.
• Functional, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated and Interacted with Developers to report and track bugs.
• Provided regular test reports to the management using MS-Excel.
• Worked on various documents like test strategy, test planning, Risk Register, Query log, test Cases Execution Matrix
• Coordinate the efforts between vendors and business people.
• Updates and send WSR (Weekly status report) to senior management.
• Worked on test case writing, execution, logging and verifying the defects.
• Integration testing, functional testing and user acceptance testing.