SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of Scrum Master experience with more than 13 years of IT Experience as Scrum Master, Project Test Delivery Lead.
• Proficient servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Knowledgeable at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management for multiple scrum teams across different locations and time zones.
• Scaled Professional Scrum / Certified Scrum Master - Comprehensive experience with Agile transformation and testing process using Scrum / Kanban
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. kept teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments
• Comprehensive Experience as a QA Lead with expertise in Planning, Requirement gathering, and Test Management both for Waterfall & Agile project models.
• Experience in managing requirement gathering process, assessing and managing quality risks, and User Acceptance Testing, presenting results to key stakeholders, and conducting other project related activities viz. scheduling and tracking projects, resolving project related compliance.
• Strong collaboration abilities with stakeholders and client, Handling/coordinating Test activities across multiple locations
• Experience in managing QA risks and issue-based escalation process and mitigation plans.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Document Collaboration: SharePoint

Database: SQL Server 2005, MS Access, Netezza, Sybase

Reporting Service: Microstratergy, Cognos

Scrum Tool: Jira, Version One

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Manage 2 scrum teams, mentor and coach on Scrum practices
• Interact with Business sponsors, stakeholders and Vendor team to understand the business requirements to ensure that the proposed application complies with Retail - Consumer Lending space
• Prepare Scrum team and work closely with Product Owner to make Solution backlog ready for PI Planning. Help the team to understand the objective of PI Planning.
• Conduct daily stand-ups, facilitate sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning.
• Monitor key metrics daily and weekly to gauge team progress. Metrics tracked are Velocity, Daily burned hours, committed vs delivered velocity, story and task progress status, impediments, Defects/Bugs Raised per Sprint and Pull request comments.
• Built a Quality team by keeping constantly updated with the project updates and emphasizing on the responsibilities.
• Monitor key metrics daily and weekly to gauge team progress. Metrics tracked are Velocity, Daily burned hours, committed vs delivered velocity, story and task progress status, impediments, Defects/Bugs Raised per Sprint and Pull request comments.
• Effective Communication through email, Conference and schedule meeting with Stakeholders, Developers, and cross functional teams
• Lead the Team Breakouts and Collaborate in Scrum of Scrums

Scrum Master

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Enterprise Agile transformation and coordinated Agile adoption for teams
• Mentored and coached four teams new to Agile in Scrum
• Conducted daily stand-ups in two-week Iterations, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning.
• Conducted Scrum of scrum (SoS) meetings and participated in Release planning meetings.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders related to agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and team performance
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Accomplished hands-on supervision of multiple migration tasks including data transformation, code-migration and adjustment, new Micro Strategy report facilitation and testing.
• Manage the QA support to meet the sprint time line with 100% done
• Closely tracked sprint progress, reporting velocity and managing team capacity.
• Built a Quality team by keeping constantly updated with the project updates and emphasizing on the responsibilities.
• Effective Communication through email, Conference and schedule meeting with Stakeholders, Developers, and cross functional teams.

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Scrum master for team of 8 members (Developers and QA) along with Product Owner and Devops Team.
• Facilitate Release planning, Agile estimation (story points), Sprint planning, Lead Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint review and Retrospective meeting.
• Eliminate project impediments by effectively handling risk and providing mitigation plans.
• Closely tracked sprint progress, reporting velocity and managing team capacity.
• Forming skilled development teams, empowering them and ensuring that they are self-organized to resolve minor issues.
• Coordinating with Product Owner to prioritize Product Backlog based on Delivery schedule, Sprint summary, Business Value based on ROI calculation.
• Work closely with Product Owner to write User stories using INVEST criteria. Ensuring they have a ‘rich’ acceptance criteria following SMART guidelines.
• Remove conflicts between teams, occurred due to multi-vendor team structure and keep momentum of growth intact.
• Identify dependencies, Risks and mitigations to ensure smooth releases.
• Monitor and safeguard Sprint Goal by tracking metrics such as Velocity Charts and Burn down charts.
• Conducted Scrum of scrum (SoS) meetings and participated in Release planning meetings.
• Preparation and presentation of Status Reports on Sprint basis, Final Status reports for each release. Updating System Architecture Document (SAD) on regular basis.
• Prepare business use cases and perform Functional Testing.
• Perform Data Mapping Documents for various reports. Create SQL queries to perform data validation and Data analysis.

Scrum Master

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Analyze To-Be process and perform GAP analysis for the business requirement.
• Create use cases and prepare dashboards for creating multiple data views.
• Create Data Mapping Templates for multiple sources and use SQL queries to perform data validation from multiple sources.
• Create Entity Relation Diagrams(ER) and provide reporting mock-ups and prototypes.
• Help the team in understanding requirements during Product Backlog Grooming (PBR) sessions.
• Conduct scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Retrospective, Demo & estimations), and monitor team progress.
• Work closely with Product Owner to keep product backlog refined using MOSCOW. Create User stories using INVEST criteria and add acceptance criteria. Provide high level estimates using T-shirt sizing.
• Guide team to split, merge or delete stories (if required) during PBR session and estimate using planning poker.
• Effectively contain Risk by removing impediments and safeguard team from external interference.
• Prepare and track team velocity to future Release planning.
• Work closely to adapt to changing functional requirements and infrastructure changes.
• Help the team to refine and re-estimate the stories, Epics with new release timelines.
• Perform Functional Testing to validate key goals and usability testing.

Confidential

QA Lead / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning and Manage Execution, Monitor Scheduled deliverables
• Scrum master for team of 8 members (Developers and QA) along with Product Owner and Devops Team.
• Manage Reports, dashboards, and processes to continuously monitor data quality and integrity
• Performed Manual and DB testing for the Reports
• Mentored and coached four teams new to Agile in Scrum
• Facilitate the Scrum events - Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
• Preparation and presentation of Status Reports on Sprint basis, Final Status reports for each release. Updating System Architecture Document (SAD) on regular basis.
• Engaged in coordinated Agile adoption for teams
• Collaborated with database development team for testing implementation.
• Scoped in automation with a successful POC for a module and reduced regression effort by 50%
• Test Execution, Defect management and Status Reporting using HP Quality Center

Technology Used: Windows 7, Windows server 2003, Manual Testing, Quality Center, SQL, JIRA, Agile methodology, Scrum, Java, Web applications, Micro Strategy

Confidential

Test Lead

Achievements:

• Efficiently involved from Requirement phase to product support, Generation of Test Estimation, Test Strategy and Test plan for successfully product deliverables
• Efficiently handled the QA covering the MPP Plug-in Handling Real-time updates to the system
• Responsible for metrics collection, identify gaps for improvement and generate a plan for improvement.
• Effectively mentored the team and lead to some successful deliverables.
• Generate Status updates and Test Summary reports at project level.
• Optimized Regression suites to cover the critical features which are performed in short duration but effective regression coverage.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• QA Tester for a Re-Engineering platform by gathering requirements, prepare Test cases
• Responsible for Functionality, Usability, System, Compatibility and Navigation Flow Testing
• Test Director for bug reporting, tracking and documentation on the Bug tracking System.
• Performed the QA activities with less rework and support from leads
• Developed and maintained Test & Traceability Matrices