SUMMARY:

• Assertive, Focused, and Reliable Project Lead with extensive experience in the software industry, maintains a flawless track record of leading large project initiatives. End - to-End empirical understanding of Product and Project Development Life Cycle.
• Dependable professional possesses broad technical background in all facets of Software Development, Testing and Management, and manifests profound knowledge in developing and implementing project strategies, operational procedures and quality methodologies, integrating and testing third party software, project planning, resource allocation, task distribution, and overall test architecture.Adept at Organization & Multitasking Project Management & Managerial Oversight
• Team Management & Talent Development Proficient Social & Interpersonal Abilities
• Analytical & Detail-oriented Problem Solver System Design & Program Improvement

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SCRUM Alliance: Palo Alto, CA, Certified Scrum Master

Tools: Jira/Confluence Zephyr Selenium WD Rational HP Quality Center Bugzilla QTP Win Runner/Load Runner TFS/MTM Coded UI Office Tools MS Visual Studio SQL CSS/HTML XML SoapUI Postman SharePoint

OS: Windows XP through 10 Mac Android, iOS Linux/Unix

Browsers: Chrome Mozilla Safari IE

Codebase: Java, .Net, Angular & Node. Js, Ruby, PHP, C#

Frameworks: Agile/Scrum Waterfall Hybrids Lean

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Project Lead & SCRUM Master

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead organizational scrum ceremonies; provide Agile coaching and striving towards creating a self-organizing Agile team
• Lead testing and project related efforts of Wine.com customer facing applications
• Ongoing management of budget and resource allocation and distribution
• Conduct story workshops as part of project initiation to assist the product teams
• Work with product owners, development lead and business team to establish roadmaps, delivery schedules, budgets
• Ongoing backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning and release planning
• Conduct sprint retrospect meetings, tracking action items resolution
• Successfully orchestrated the functional, integration and regression automation effort for various Wine.com customer facing applications.
• With a balanced and pragmatic approach, coordinated testing effort on variety of platforms such as mobile, desktop and wine.com app on iOS; exhibited excellence in meeting key objectives in a timely manner, within the limits of defined budget and with a great quality levels.
• Ensured all testing activity within the project adheres to established testing policies, methods, and standards; demonstrated expert knowledge in cross platform testing initiatives.
• Established and maintained cooperative working relationship with in house and off shore development and test team to ensure synergy, effectiveness, and continual improvement of the working efforts.

QA Project Lead & SCRUM Master

Confidential, Livermore, CA

Responsibilities:

• Supplied comprehensive strategic and tactical support, to facilitate the effective delivery of group’s testing initiatives as part of the Argus S&P project;
• Liable for the successful delivery of 5-7 ongoing projects involving 20-30 people; handled variety of project related responsibilities of extreme importance; coordinated technical and system resources.
• Led a successful test function with a focus on quality and optimum efficiency; conducted risk assessment and extensive impact analysis; ensured test coverage based on requirements and impact analysis; maintained conformity with headquarters and sponsor’s security specifications.
• Drove continuous improvement within the test function; established and demonstrated circular traceability from security requirements down to test coverage; spearheaded organizational Scrum ceremonies and ongoing agile implementation.
• Handled varied and complex work to highest standards; executed a variety of Jira Administrative functions; facilitated the smooth running of the entire Jira projects infrastructure.

QA Project Lead & SCRUM Master

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Deployed best practice testing approach, being accountable for the overall testing efforts on 3-5 projects for the Fanatics Marketing Department and Fanatics front end site.
• Incorporated efficient processes and procedures to underpin the quality of testing; utilized .Net for the UI and SQL for the DB for the development of products under test; delivered the full range of implementations to the required quality standards.
• In a mutual collaborative effort with the Mobile Team from Boulder, CO, coordinated Mobile integration testing, and generated expected outcomes to a consistently high standard.
• Provide expert level advice and constructive testing solutions; performed functional content integration between the full site, mobile web and an app on the device.
• Performed and prioritized multiple tasks seamlessly; held accountable for resource allocation, requirements gathering, test case design and assignment, communication with users and product owners, overall testing effort coordination and strategy; achieved critical deadlines and business priorities and contributed to the overall business operational effectiveness.
• Constantly reviewed and suggested improvements to test standards and processes; made certain everyone understands and complies to change request processes (TFS as a change request tool).
• Ensured that all activities run efficiently and to time; managed tight two weeks sprint and release schedule in the effort to transition to true agile methods.
• Provided leadership to the delivery of UAT initiatives; built favorable business relationships and coordinated UAT efforts with end users and product owners; supplied solutions that completely met clients’ expectations and supported strategic business objectives.

Mobile QA Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated outstanding ability to guide, oversee and direct Mobile QA team of 4 local and 7 off shore resources towards the most effective accomplishment of set targets and goals.
• Executed testing initiatives across iOS, Android and Mobile Web platforms, correctly and within agreed time scales and targets; optimized company's IT performance and strategic position.
• Handled a range of job responsibilities with utmost accuracy and effectiveness such as resource allocation, work load distribution, daily development scrum, functional test case development, regression coverage, and daily open for business testing.
• Liaised between QA team, upper management and the business; conducted thorough analysis of complex business and technical requirements; held daily QA scrum and a defect meetings to discuss progress, resolve issues and suggest ideas for improvement.
• Continuously worked towards identification and implementation of best practices within the field of work; led productive UAT multi leveled sessions with product owners, UX group and beta sites.

Lead Test Engineer

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrated the testing, maintenance and production support efforts for Touch Engine web-based application, to ensure that the product meets its objectives in terms of functionality, performance, scalability, robustness and high availability.
• Completed all testing activities in accordance with the departmental strategy, policies and processes, and timescales; supplied substantial production environment support, identified root causes and expedited the resolution of arising testing issues.

Sr. Test Engineer

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

• Drove all efforts to strengthen, and significantly improved the overall quality of a monitoring information system used in hospitals; proactively worked towards enhancing system performance and stability; reviewed requirements and functional specification, developed and updated verification specifications, and performed intense patch testing cycles.
• Exhibited vast ability to balance business needs to technology requirements and aligned technology solutions with business strategies; fostered effective teamwork working in conjunction with test and development teams located in Bangalore, India.
• Facilitated smooth functionality of all testing activities; completed critical aspects of deliverables with a hands-on approach; conducted product stability analysis and simulated various patient conditions.

Sr. QA Engineer

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Responsibilities:

• Played a valuable role in two-way-radio GPS development project; provided strategic oversight of testing activities and validated third party mapping data compatibility.
• Shaped the testing processes to ensure lean and efficient deployments; created and executed test cases based on functional requirement specifications.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Vernon Hills, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assumed full responsibility for the overall company’s QA efforts; adopted best practice methodologies and introduced new techniques resulting in accomplishment of assigned work in the timeliest manner.
• Efficiently and effectively managed a range of QA matters of contentious nature including identification of testing requirements, deriving test scenarios, and test case development.