Principal Engineer / Scrum Master Resume
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SUMMARY:
- Senior - level Release Engineer/Manager with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and 12+ years of experience on development teams, testing software, heading scrums, leading releases and adjusting operating procedures
- Retained after multiple acquisitions to continue to lead and manage IT infrastructure into existing systems on time and within budget
- Utilized Virtualization across multiple platforms and technologies to reduce the labs footprint and increase its efficiency
- Managed software and hardware infrastructure projects from inception to completion or live date
- Gathered requirements internally and with clients for small to large scale development and IT projects
- Experience as Scrum Master and Team Lead for the core team of developers and QA, including leading daily standups, organizing backlog grooming, and coordinating/tracking resources between various teams to ensure deadlines are achieved for each release
- Assemble and compiled release notes, documentation and technical videos for releases from all stakeholders across different LOBs
- Experienced with SDLC including being the release lead for major builds
- Providing reports and timelines to upper management along with incremental status updates
- Ensured release criteria are met
- Decided which issues and features are included in releases
- Changed processes and researched new methodologies as needed to ensure smooth deliverables
- Organized and led Change meetings when necessary
- Scrum Master for the core team of developers and testers
- Led daily standups meetings
- Organized backlog grooming and iteration planning sessions
- Managed retrospectives to continually improve the team
- Coordinated resources between various teams
- Validation/Quality Assurance testing for software and appliances
- Manual and Automated testing
- Performance testing
- Scripted testing using internally developed tools along with SOAP UI, Squish and Selenium
- Maintained in-house testing tools written in various languages
- Developed test plans for new and existing features with evolving requirements
- Comfortable developing test plans for new and existing features with evolving requirements
- Experience with validation/QA testing for software and applications, including manual and automated testing and performance testing
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Agile
- Selenium
- Release Management
- SOAP UI
- Hyper V
- Confidential VM
- Confidential Database
- Virtualization
- SQL
- C++
- Python
- Jira
- Rally
- GIT
- XML
- WebLogic
- Confidential Could
- Dell EMC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Principal Engineer / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
- Created Agile development practices for development teams within the divisions onsite and offshore teams
- Lead the team movement from Waterfall to Agile and then from using Rally to Jira
- Organized releases as the project manager for the group to ensure deadlines were realistic and on time
- Led daily and biweekly meetings for an Agile development group to meet sales and product release dates
- Planned and executed software and hardware testing within my product line, including using Selenium for our Web Applications and using various tools to test our API and GUIs written in C++ and Java
- Developed and ran automated and manual QA testing for the Confidential Cloud Division’s suite of products (DIVA)
- Managed and developed a lab containing the internal cloud for development purposes from concept to final product with over 100 servers well under budget (DevOps)
Confidential
Validation Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Created and executed manual and automated test plans from system requirements documents
- Corrected defects by providing fixes and communicating the problems to system developers
- Automated testing for the first time while simultaneously meeting normal project deadlines
Confidential
System Tester / QA
Responsibilities:
- Edited, created and re-evaluated information within existing database
- Created new coding to improve and streamline existing operations using Doc1 software
- Coached study teams for the development of software and data validation checks
Confidential
Software Tester
Responsibilities:
- Tested new cell phone applications in depth to remove bugs
- Wrote reports that were utilized by software companies to enhance their products
- Worked with Verizon CDMA phones from Samsung, LG, Motorola, and PalmOne
Confidential
QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Tested and certified complex new medical equipment to ensure proper operation to technical specifications
- Performed upgrades, initial configuration, and tested the firmware using internally developed test software
- Worked with Alaris’s Medley Point of Care Units, Medley Pump Modules and Medley Syringe Modules
