SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an agile software development passionate who mixes technical and interpersonal skills.
• She helped small and also big companies to deliver their products on time and to exceed the client expectation.
• After more than ten years of experience creating software applications with a focus on quality assurance, she blends Scrum, Kanban and XP hands - on experience with BDD, ITIL, Continuous Delivery and DevOps environments expertise.
• She combines her practical experience with a solid theory foundation getting certifications as Professional Scrum Master and ISTQB Certified Tester.
• She is a solution-oriented natural leader who believes that feedback and communication are the best relationship and team builders.
• She is currently studying Business Intelligence to improve her skillset. professional experience

SKILLS:

• Remote Agile Project Management
• Agile Coach, Quality Assurance, and Tester in Agile Projects (Kanban, Scrum, and XP)
• Coach experience in transitions from Scrum to Kanban and from Waterfall to Scrum
• Web Service, SQL, XML, JSON, JBOSS, Splunk, Test Automation, Maven & Continuous Integration (for agile coaching and quality assurance purposes)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evangelized non-technical stakeholders on Agile Methodologies and coached a Kanban team remotely adopting some Scrum ceremonies
• Helped the POs and the team with the 5 levels of agile planning and assisted on the backlog grooming
• Defined KPIs and helped to measure the continuous improvement through some graphs (burndown, burnup, and story points planned x delivered, for example)
• Kept enhancing the planning and estimation meeting approaches to translate user stories into testable acceptance criteria
• Fostered the knowledge sharing and promote the team integration with quick and constant feedback
• Removed impediments and managed the team, the quality metrics, and the deliverable releases
• Introduced team health evaluation practices to identify team and individual’s strengths and weaknesses
• Promoted the team’s self-organization and empowerment by helping with their weaknesses and valorizing their strengths
• Worked comfortably with all levels of the organization from C-level executives to developers and support staff.
• Reaching the end of the project soon and successfully handing value to the company

Confidential

Agile Coach & Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Reduced the development cycle time coaching 6 teams, in parallel, to migrate from a Waterfall to a Scrum-based process in a formal environment (adaptation to government restrictions required)
• Assured the correct agile adoption by training people with no agile experience, guiding the strategic choices, and accompanying the ceremonies execution (planning, estimating, daily, retrospective and review meetings)
• Provided confidence on the agile process’ efficiency to waterfall mindset professionals and kept the team committed to the success
• Kept the teams on track evaluating the process compliance and the adequate IBM ALM usage (RQM for BDD automation testing, RRC for user stories definition, and RTC for tasks, risks, graphs, and version control)
• Promoted integrated planning meetings to avoid requirements conflicts and guarantee adjustment of dependencies among projects
• Conscientized the team about the importance of estimation good practices and embraced the team to keep improving the estimation to avoid harming other team’s deadlines
• Reduced conflicts introducing Scrum of Scrum activities to manage the teams’ interaction (joint learned lessons, for example)
• Helped to bridge the gap between the user stories and the acceptance criteria definition
• Guaranteed the access and interaction between the team members and the remote POs and stakeholders.

Confidential

Agile Master & Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Guided the planning and estimation events keeping the activities interesting and suitable to the team by experimenting different techniques
• Used Jira and Confluence to keep the User Stories and the team progress visible to all stakeholders
• Coached the team to deliver a REST web service responsible for selecting the best advertisement to be displayed based on the user’s cookie information (which was nourished by the user’s profile and navigation behavior)
• Tutored the team to develop the e-commerce-based front-end to let the companies create their advertisements and the click-processor back-end to charge the companies when their advertisements were clicked
• Promoted a healthy relationship between the Product Owner and the team by mediating their communication and helping to compromise when divergences or impediments emerged
• Assured high availability and low response time of the product working together with 9 other integrated agile teams being part of Scrum of Scrum activities
• Conducted the Agile ceremonies, like the retrospectives, ensuring the team was tackling the weaknesses and continuously improving
• Promoted the adoption of Continuous integration with a maven-configured project running on a base environment with Sonar and Jenkins connected
• Made the Continuous Delivery adoption possible empowering the team and their confidence on automated tests and following ITIL practices regarding RFCs, deliveries, incident in production management, and rollbacks
• Worked in a DevOps environment with machine’s automation scripts executed by puppet commands and logs Splunk-based to allow the software health in production to be tracked by the team
• Eliminated bottlenecks by exposing them on a mix of Scrum and Kanban methodologies (in a fast-paced environment)
• Led the review meetings and manipulated SQL, JSON, XML, Jetty, and JBoss (deploy archives/queues) to guarantee the software correctness
• Earned a merit promotion based on leadership, efficiency, teamwork, and outcomes.

Confidential

Research Assistant / Graduate Student

Responsibilities:

• Improved the government software acquisition by developing and implementing an agile process based on product quality assurance and measurable acceptance criteria
• Enhanced managers’ comprehension of software requirements bridging the gap between technical terms and the client’s language.

Confidential

Agile Coach & Quality Assurance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Improved clients’ products quality by a hands-on adoption of Extreme Programming Principles in ongoing and from scratch projects
• Provided confidence in the quality of in-house and external products leading an agile software testing factory
• Boosted the tests’ reproducibility developing their documentation and automating them
• Obtained acknowledgement as innovative company receiving 2 non-refundable government grants ($320,000 in 2008 and $120,000 in 2009).