SUMMARY:

• Scrum Master and Agile project Manager with an experience of 11 years in the software Industry and an impressive record of delivering and implementing the quality product as per the scheduled deadlines. Highly skilled, creative and Analytical thinker with servant leadership qualities and have been successful in coaching, mentoring and leading teams in Adopting Agile/scrum, Kanban and Agile best practices with strong business results.
• In the most recent role as Delivery Team Facilitator/Scrum Master @ Confidential Inc, was managing 3 distributed teams of 20+ people across multiple Sprints and Releases. Worked closely with Product Owner for Confidential and continuous delivery of features.
• Facilitated all the Agile ceremonies including Planning, Grooming, Daily Stand up, Retrospective, Stakeholder meeting and Scrum Demonstrations.
• Proficient in Jira, created and maintained the scrum board and the product Backlog board. Creating and sharing Dashboards and various metrics to the higher management.
• Release Planning with the stakeholders and Product Owner and in turn implementing it on a scrum level.
• A servant leader approach to the scrum team to help them remove Impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on Sprint backlog and project implementation.
• Educate and Reinforce the scrum Methodologies and Agile framework to the team members.
• Started my career as a Quality Analyst and Test Engineer and have 6 years of experience in Functional and Automated Software Testing of Web and Enterprise Applications including Product based applications.
• Experienced in Manual and Automated Functional Testing for Mining,Telecom, Retail, Govt and Financial Institutions
• Experience in SOAP UI testing, Selenium, QTP & ALM

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile Scrum , Kanban , Test Driven Development , Feature Driven Development, Jira , Confluence, Oracle, My SQL, UNIX, Java, HTML, XML, C++, C, test Scripting, VB Script, PL/SQL,MS Office. SOAP UI, Java, Selenium, QTP, QCJtrac, Bugzilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Delivery Team Facilitator

Responsibilities:

• Worked a s a Delivery Team Facilitator for three distributed scrum team.
• Devised the “Agile Thinking” campaign in order to get the team and key stakeholders aligned and focused on scrum framework.
• Empowered the team, to self - organize, voice their thoughts and feelings during planning meetings & retrospectives, coached them to come up with strategies to resolve issues, mitigate risks etc.
• Improved the velocity of the team by incorporating capacity planning during the sprint planning session.
• Identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments which brought down the cycle time of the team from 8 to 6 days.
• Facilitated the sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Demo and Daily Scrum Meeting.
• Estimation and Elaboration of user stories with the team using poker planning and relative estimation techniques.
• Product demo/ product review at the end of every Iteration.
• Successfully delivered all the product Increments on time with high Quality
• Managed the technical support team during the maintenance phase with the client.
• Coached teams, Leaders, Product Owners and other Scrum Masters in Agile practices, JIRA & Confluence tool usage and mindsets.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Started on the Scrum Team as Test Engineer II and took over as Scrum Master.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand ups, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Helped remove team’s hurdles by facilitating discussions and interactions with interfacing teams.
• Protected team from distractions caused by conflicts etc, in order to maintain focus on product backlog and time line.
• Worked closely with Agile Coach/SME & PO, from defining the initial Product Backlog to Release planning and actual sprint execution aligning with of quarterly releases.
• Strived to make the team think towards the bigger goal rather than individual goals.

Confidential

Quality/ Business Analyst, Functional Testing

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, understanding the business requirements of the customer and mapping them on to the system.
• Test objective Matrix and test case preparation.
• Test Plan design and test case reviews.
• Develop test scripts on test automation framework.
• Test Case execution using QTP.
• Monitoring and controlling the test execution cycle.
• Preparation of various test matrix using QC.

Confidential

Web services Testing, Functional Testing, QA, Scripting

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, understanding the business requirements of the customer and mapping them on to the system.
• Test objective Matrix and test case preparation.
• Test Plan design and test case reviews.
• Web services testing on SOAP UI.
• Developing and executing test scripts on Automation testing framework.
• Executing test scenario’s on QTP
• Monitoring and controlling the test execution cycle.
• Preparation of various test reports using QC.
• Status reporting to management.

Environment: Languages: Java / J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, XML, Scripting

Database: Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server

Tools: SOAP UI, SVN, Quality center, Selenium webdriver.

Server: Apache Tomcat 6, JBoss

OS: Windows XP, Redhat Linux

Confidential

Functional Testing, QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, understanding the business requirements of the customer and mapping them on to the system.
• Test Plan design and test case reviews.
• Monitoring and controlling the test execution cycle.
• Executing regression test cases using Selenium webdriver and Quality Test Pro (QTP)
• Preparation of various test reports and metrics.
• Status reporting to management.

Environment: Languages: Java / J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, XML, Scripting

Database: Oracle 11g, MySQL, DB2, MS SQL Server

Tools: Bugzilla, SVN, Selenium webdriver, QTP

Server: Apache Tomcat 6, JBoss

OS: Windows XP, Redhat Linux

Hardware: IBM HS 22 Blade Servers, 48 GB RAM, 1TB of SAN Storage for Data

Confidential

Business Analyst / Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the requirements and generation of requirement (SRS) document. Understanding the complete functionality of Inter-stage studio v9.2.
• Involved in writing and analyzing the Functional Test cases.
• Involved in Black box Testing of the application and submitting the Test Reports.
• Used tools like Selenium webdriver, QTP and QC for automated testing and for bug tracking.
• Involved in Stress testing to make sure that the product does not crash at any point.

Environment: Languages: Java SWT, XML, Ant Script

Tools: Eclipse, Interstage Studio, JTRAC

OS: Windows 7

Hardware: IBM Compatible PC’s

Confidential

BA / Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis of the requirements with the help of the Mainframe team. Involved in generating Business Requirement document, reviewing the Technical writing and giving KT of the requirements to the design & Development team.
• Involved in reviewing the Functional Test Cases written by the Testing team, updating the Functional Test Cases. Involved in making test plan and generating test scripts.
• Black box testing of application; raising defects and approving the build

Environment: Languages: JAVA, J2EE, STRUTS, HTML, JSP, XML

Tools: ORACLE 10G

Languages: LIST CREATOR (REPORTS GENERATION TOOL), JTRAC

OS: WINDOWS, LINUX

Hardware: IBM COMPATIBLE PC’S AND AIX BOXES

Confidential

Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business requirement.
• Involved in writing and analyzing the Test cases. Involved in testing the Respective Modules according to the test cases.
• Involved in preparing the Test Reports as per the requirement.
• Preparing and executing test scripts using Selenium.

Environment: Languages: JAVA, J2EE, XML, ORACLE 10G, WEB SERVICES, ECLIPSE3.2

Database: ORACLE

Tools: ECLIPSE, RAPTOR, JTRAC, SELENIUM webdriver , QC

OS: WINDOWS, WEB SPHERE

Hardware: IBM AIX BOXES.

Team Member

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development of Front End Design JSP

Environment: Languages: JAVA, J2EE, STRUTS FRAMEWORK.

Database: ORACLE

Tools: NETBEANS, SQLYOG.

O/S: WINDOWS, LINUX.

Hardware: IBM COMPATIBLE PC’S.