PROFILE:

Quality focused dynamic leader with ability to motivate and lead diverse, global cross - functional teams in fulfillment of corporate productivity and bottom line objectives. Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive solutions, improve revenue, margins, workplace productivity.

SUMMARY:

• Acting as servant leader for improved development practices and organizational change, providing team insights, process guidance, technical methods, and performance transparency for the teams and the organizational leadership. Synthesized information ecosystem to improve cross-team communications, problem-solving, and knowledge transfer.
• 8+ years of IT experience.
• 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, 3+ years of experience of Project QA Lead and 3+ years of experience of Sr QA Analyst/Engineer, UAT Lead/Coordinator and Business Analyst.
• Ability develops any practices start from scratch and successfully implemented in Confidential and Fedex.
• Detail-focused, result-oriented Business and IT professional in Information technology as a Scrum Master / Project QA Lead in high volume, intense customer focused service industries. Industries include Retail and Logistics Domains.
• Gather stakeholder information, business requirements, organizational needs, defining project scope, building project plan, identifying resources, coordinating development activity, tracking progress.
• Successfully managed web based/legacy application projects, modeling projects with different technologies.
• Innovative in learning and applying new methodologies include Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and SDLC with domestic and offshore teams.
• Adapt quickly, Organize and adjust multiple demands/priorities, initiative in problem-solving.
• Co-ordinates across business segments, technologies discipline, influences business and technical leaders.
• Energetic, flexible, team player, coach, faces challenges, quick learner.
• Good hands-on experience with requirement gathering, analysis, design and development(involving multiple full lifecycle projects) implementation of Test strategy, Test plan, Test approach, Test cases/scripts and scenarios as part of various development projects.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time, tracks and reports status and other metrics against project goals on an ongoing basis
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Coaches and mentors agile team members by providing visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them.
• Managed business critical concurrent projects using Scrum methodology and XP practices and delivered quarterly product releases.
• Experience with Conducted daily scrum and removed impediments; led QA planning, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Develop andleadinitiative in defect resolution/ tech bridge meetings.
• Good Knowledge on Release Management / Production implementation process activities.
• Key areas of technical expertise includes SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Core Java, SOAP, HTML, ETL Data Stage 8.6 and Selenium Web Driver.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Conflict Resolution
• Scrum
• Large Scale Projects
• Strategic Planning
• Risk Mitigation
• Improvement in Process
• Capacity Planning and Resource Allocation
• IT innovation and Development
• Requirements and Scope Control
• Estimation and Scheduling
• Conflict Resolution
• Object Oriented Programming
• Business Requirements / Story Development.
• Team Building and Collaboration
• Offshore Resource Management
• Technical Support
• Transparent Reporting
• Quality Assurance
• Operational/Process Assurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Core Java § PL/SQL § C++ § C

RDBMS: Oracle SQL,PL/SQL § SQL Server 2008

Web Programming: HTML § VB Script § SOAP

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project Planner (MPP - for planning and billing schedules) § Microsoft Visio (Design) § Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS - Configuration management) § HP Quality Center (Testing tool) § MS Office § Team Foundation server

Other Tools: Teamforge § Change Management § ETL-DataStage 8.6 § Eclipse § HP § Oracle SQL Developer § Selenium IDE § TestNg

Operating System: Window 2000/XP/Windows 7,8 § MS DOS 6.22 § Unix

Testing: Manual § Automation - Selenium § Functional Testing § System Testing § System Integration § UAT Coordination

Methodology: Scrum § V Model § Waterfall § Iterative incremental

Domain Experience: Retail § Logistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst/QA Engineer

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management
• Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Encouraging the team for self organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management
• Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Encouraging the team for self organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Client/stakeholders to gather project requirements.
• Understanding Requirements,Business documents and prepare End to End test scenarios
• Perform Impact analysis during the requirements gathering phase for the to-be applications
• Coordinate with the product test leads on the system requirement specification.
• Setup the project in Quality Center, test data.
• Prepare Detailed Test Plan specifications and Test Strategy documents.
• Prepare High level Test Scenarios covering main features of the project.
• Prepare the status reports for the project, by gathering the information from all the product test leads.
• Defect management and production checkout validations in the production.
• Plans testing approaches, environments, data, and defect reporting.
• Testing changes and enhancements to the existing systems based on the change requests.
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the testing deliverables.
• Co-ordinate with expert groups for special support.
• Daily/weekly status meetings and Status updates.

Technologies: .Net, Java, Oracle.

Tools: Quality Center (ALM), Oracle SQL Developer, Selenium Web Driver.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Client/stakeholders to gather project requirements.
• Understanding Requirements and Business documents
• Perform analysis during the requirements gathering phase for the to-be applications
• Prepare Impact Analysis
• Coordinating with Offshore team
• Setup the Project in Quality Center
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy documents
• Prepare High level Test Scenarios
• Test case creation for System testing, System Integration Testing and Regression testing
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Test Execution for System Testing, System Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• UAT Support
• Defect management and Implementation in to production
• Plans testing approaches, environments, data, and defect reporting
• Testing changes and enhancements to the existing systems based on the change requests raised by Confidential
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables
• Co-ordinate with expert groups for special support
• Assigning and monitoring tasks to the Offshore team
• Daily status meetings and Status updates

Technologies: .Net, Java, Oracle.

Tools: Quality Center (ALM), Oracle SQL Developer, ETL Data Stage.

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Client/stakeholders to gather epic/user stories.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in Excel to track impediments against user stories.
• Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within Confidential
• Involved in few sprints as a SCRUM Master having good knowldge on the applications where the project followed Agile process.
• Work with product owners to groom the product backlog and plan sprints.
• Track, escalate and remove impediments.
• Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track daily progress. Work with component teams to resolve hot fixes.
• Coordinating with team.
• Setup the Project in Quality Center
• Test Execution for iterative development of componenets/features through System Testing, System Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Defect management and Implementation in to production.
• Plans testing approaches, environments, data, and defect reporting.
• Testing changes and enhancements to the existing systems based on the change requests raised by Confidential .
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables.
• Co-ordinate with expert groups for special support.
• Daily standup meetings and SCRUM ceremonies.
• Meet with Business Clients to Begin User Acceptance Test Case development
• Investigate dependencies of key upstream systems, and communicating to our PM to ensure engagement / obtain required data.
• Review and Map Test Cases to Requirements and to ensure Test Cases are mapped to Requirements (QC)
• Identify test data requirements and engage PM to get assistance form corresponding teams.
• Verify UAT environment availability/overlapping with other parallel projects - Communication with PM / Verification of potential overlap
• Coordinate with Test Data Person (Testing COE) to Run the jobs in TEST environment
• Prepare Test Result Report after each test phase
• Responsible in test scripting using Selenium Web Driver functionalities.
• Automated to test the Confidential .com (Registry module) web site using selenium webdriver.
• Responsible for creating and managing defects for all projects as a lead tester using Bugzilla.
• Conducted Defect Triage meetings with Developers and Business users on daily basis, and also responsible for creating defect management reports using Quality Center for Executive Management and Steering Committee
• Responsible for planning test execution schedule, and allocation of resources, tracking and monitoring actual work progress against planned work assignments
• Responsible for creating testing status reports and summary reports for Go./ No Go decision making and supported application deployments

Technologies: Java, Oracle.

Tools: Quality Center (ALM), Oracle SQL Developer, ETL-Data stage.

Confidential

QA Lead/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Requirements and Business documents
• Perform analysis during the requirements gathering phase for the to-be applications
• Prepare Impact Analysis
• Coordinating with Testing team
• Setup the Project in Quality Center
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy documents
• Prepare High level Test Scenarios
• Test case creation for System testing, System Integration Testing and Regression testing
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Test Execution for System Testing, System Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• UAT Support
• Defect management and Implementation in to production
• Plans testing approaches, environments, data, and defect reporting
• Testing changes and enhancements to the existing systems based on the change requests raised by Confidential
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables
• Involved in Release management process activities like maintaining a build once unit testing is completed, ST& SIT phase is completed and final build after UAT Completion and providing the final version of build to deploy in Prod Environment.
• Co-ordinate with expert groups for special support
• Assigning and monitoring tasks to the Offshore team
• Daily status meetings and Status updates

Technologies: Java, Oracle.

Tools: Quality Center (ALM), Oracle SQL Developer, ETL-Data stage, Selenium Web Driver.