SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Business analysis and Manual and Automated testing for various client/server and web based applications.
• 3 Years of experience in Scrum Master and Project Management.
• Experience in Agile Methodology, and the scrum activities including Scrum processes, Sprint Planning, Story based Development and Project Management.
• Experience to coach and train the team in helping team transition from traditional waterfall model to agile methodology.
• Certified Scrum Master (PSM)
• Experience in Agile tools like Confluence, ALM, Rally, and Jira.
• Creation & maintenance of Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Matrix &Gap Analysis.
• Experienced in Analyzing Change Requests and Risk Analysis Documents and Involved in Preparation of Mitigation Plans
• Familiar with different standards like CMMI, IEEE and ISO for software development and corresponding documentation.
• Participated effectively in Configuration Management working groups.
• Performed functional and non - functional documents for both Manual & Automated Testing by working with team, and reading and analyzing available documentations.
• Performed the tasks of developing integrated software to meet the functional applications of Mobile Testing Platform.
• Working closely with software automation team and ensure the flow and process is maintained.
• Effective team collaboration and strong communication skills- written and verbal, passionate about learning new tools and technology and implementing them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Infrastructure: AWS, IBM WebSphere, New Relic

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 11.00/QTP frameworks, Selenium, IDE, Grid, Load Runner

11.0, 9.5, 8.1, JUnit, JMeter, SoapUI, Silk Test, iPhone Configuration Utility:

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 10.00, Bugzilla, Light House, JIRA.

Languages: C, SQL, HTML, UML, XML.

Database: MYSQL, Oracle, MS-Access, MS-SQL Server 2005/2008.

Utility: MS-Office 2007/1998, MS-Outlook.

Operating Systems: Windows-XP/2000/98/95/NT, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Maryland

Sr. Scrum Master

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master, effectively managed and delivered 12 releases with no critical bugs to production
• Participated in Scrum Activities and made sure all stories are accepted before end of sprint.
• As a Scrum Master made sure, the deliverables are complete on time. Also did UAT testing to ensure quality product is delivered to the stakeholders
• Used scrum principles to increase team efficiency, product delivery, and release management.
• Part of Strategy team for backlog prioritization based on value realization
• Conducted workshops to decide on working agreement with the product owner and helped them to maintain a product backlog.
• Part of a transition team that had project moving from on-prem WebSphere to AWS Cloud.
• Worked with developer to understand the terraform scripts and the New Relic tool to check AWS performance.
• Facilitated sprint-planning, retrospective, sprint demos.
• Good understanding of MVP Business Increment (BI) and minimum Business Increment (MBI)
• Problem solver and made sure the impediments are removed.
• Effective explanation of the burndown chart and team velocity

Confidential, Maryland

Scrum Master

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Conducted daily standup meetings, sprint grooming, and backlog sessions to come up with sprint strategies and commitment towards a successful delivery of user stories.
• Participates in design and code reviews with developers and business analyst
• Conducted sprint ceremonies and updated the team on sprint progress.
• Kept stakeholders updated of the progress to ensure transparency.
• Participated and contributed in test plan and test strategy.
• Served as subject matter expert for Under Armor, business to business application
• Conducted planning sessions to right size the story and assign them points.
• Execute various function and Procedures using queries in SQL
• Maintained cross browser testing and cross platform testing.
• Subject matter expert and quality analyst for Confidential ’s upcoming iOS mobile app
• Part of requirement gathering for various features of e-commerce application.
• Tested the performance of e-commerce application in iOS and Android and logged bugs based on console errors and crash reports.

Environment: JIRA, Postman, HTTPWatch, Chrome Inspector tools, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Linux, SQL, Apache Webserver

Confidential, Ohio

BA/QA Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understanding and analysis of BRD,FRD, to create Test Plan and Test Cases
• Maintained and Created Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Performed Black box testing, Functional testing, UAT testing and GUI Testing
• Part of core QA team to test Nationwide iOS app
• Wrote test cases to ensure the app satisfies the Apple app store guidelines
• Setting up test environments for iOS testing using iPhone configuration Utility.
• Writing bugs using the crash logs and console errors to help developers debug codes quickly
• Wrote and executed SQL Queries including DDL and DML commands to validate database content and verified accuracy of business logic.
• Faced difficult challenges, group dynamics, organizational impediments, and has become a coach to teams, managers and others.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships, establish credibility, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence.
• Created and executed QTP Test Scripts for Data Driven Testing using Excel sheets
• Performed Back-end testing that requires testing stored procedures by writing PL/SQL blocks
• Represented the QA Testing team in the go-no/go meetings
• Managed artifacts like Test Summary, Test plan, Testing Status reports and dashboards, etc.
• Supported Regression, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Tracked Defects in HP Quality Center and prioritized them based on severity and impact
• Performed Defect Root cause analysis
• Managed off-shore and on-site test team co-ordination
• Used Descriptive Programming in QTP and Shared Object Repository

Confidential

QA Analyst Dallas, TX

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participated in the requirements gathering sessions to ensure the requirements were measurable
• Analyzed the Business and Functional Requirements to eliminate ambiguity and ensure testability
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Detailed Test Cases based on the Use Case documents, Business requirements, and Functional Specifications
• Identified and documented test scenarios and test cases in HP Quality Center from use cases
• Maintained traceability matrix between test cases and requirements in HP Quality Center
• Conducted test case reviews with the business and development team and got the sign off from all stakeholders
• Performed Functional testing of the Shopping Cart application features and workflows
• Performed system integration and data integrity tests to validate integration with external systems
• Performed static testing on requirements
• Tested web services (manual and automated) by constructing test XMLs from XSDs using QTP
• Executed load and performance tests to validate web service and system response times as per SLAs

Environment: HP Quality Center 11.0, Quick TestPro 11.0, SOA Test, Java, Win Runner, Web services, SQL Server 2008 R2, Test Director 10.0