SUMMARY:

• Overall 14+ years of experience in program/project management, Agile, Scrum Master, software testing/managing product/people/process in product and services environment
• Responsible for leading the team in being Agile, facilitating and guiding their team in following local scrum practices.
• Experience managing On - shore and Off-shore scrum teams/projects
• Engage and assist the product owner to ensure that user stories and backlogs are properly articulated, prioritized and detailed, facilitating product backlog refinement along with product owner.
• Ensure positive and frequent interaction between the team and product owner.
• Facilitate meetings (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective)
• Responsible to remove impediments, Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
• Ensure program level working agreement regarding tool usage, took complete responsibility for managing issues/bug creation thru’ the use of JIRA to verification to project tracking and qualifying it for the release.
• Program/project managed many critical releases, work very well under high pressure, reporting the status directly to the higher authority to aid them in the release process.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Instrumental in implementing and maintaining KPIs for monitoring individual and team performance.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, all aspects of software testing and quality control procedures which includes scheduling, testing, issue reproduction and bug tracking databases.
• Formulated and managed the key milestones from begin to end to track the health of the project/programs.
• Supervising, Guiding, coaching, mentoring team members to achieve higher performance, thereby fostering professional growth and aiding in the success of the team.
• Experience in direct involvement in understanding, replicating and solving customer problems.
• Interact very well with all the cross-functional teams in an organization and provide project status and escalation of issues to the higher management.
• Solid experience in both hands-on-testing(manual) and automated testing, experience in software/firmware development, bug fixing, feature enhancements
• Was overall in charge of the test lab, audits and quality management, procurement of equipment, resource management, test queue prioritization, conducting demos for internal and external customers, overseeing validation activities.
• Took complete responsibility for managing issues/bug creation thru’ the use of JIRA to verification to project tracking and qualifying it for the release.
• One of the key architects in developing the automated test environment (ATE) which marked the distinction between customer and internal projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Programming knowledge of C, C++, WinHost (C-like language), TCL, expect, Unix Shell Programming. Experience working on source code control software like MKS Source Integrity, clearcase, mercurial.

O/S: Experience in both Windows and Unix O/S environments

Hardware: Experience working with line simulators National Instruments GPIB Serial interface equipment, Spectrum analyzers, Spirent equipment.

Bug Databases: Working knowledge of bug tracking databases like PVCS, UTP and JIRA.

Courses: Data Structures, C, C++, Unix Shell programming, Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Data Communication and Networks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan and lead all scrum activities which include sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-up meeting, sprint reviews and retrospectives for all Infineon/Lantiq platforms.
• Co-ordinated different sprint teams in different Lantiq locations, working closely with peers on a daily basis as a part of the Scrum Master responsibility in making the project delivery successful.
• Engage and assist the product owner based in Confidential to ensure that user stories and backlogs are properly articulated, prioritized and detailed, facilitating product backlog refinement.
• Protect the team from outside sources of disruption; provide coaching for the teams as and when impediments are encountered, dedicated to continuous process improvement through feedback, coaching, retrospectives, and individual performance improvement.
• Was responsible for the creation and maintenance of the testplan and help the team members in using this information in coming up with user stories to achieve their sprint goals.
• Lead the project, execution and improve tasks and efficiency, automation, better utilization of tools and equipments to meet the required deadlines.
• Status updates was gathered from the team members on an ongoing basis and given, and most importantly in the right trustable way when asked for by the product owners that highlight issues and impediments to make critical decisions during customer releases.
• Showed i) consistency in making commitment and fulfilling it (ii) teamplay with continuouos give and take (ii) providing useful and efficient work product that helped individual scrum team member performance and company.
• Developed a trust from Confidential in decision making, in that they could trust me with a project deadline time wise/quality wise when we are talking about Scrum Master/Project Manager responsibility.
• Ensure the team adheres to the Scrum process and program level working agreement regarding tool usage and a variety of procedures that must be synchronized to be effective as a program, took complete responsibility for managing issues/bug creation thru’ the use of JIRA to verification to project tracking and qualifying it for the release.

Sr. Software Consultant

Confidential, Boxborough, MA

Responsibilities:

• Has experience working on multiple Cisco platforms including 7200, 7300, 7600, 3800, 10k performance engine Routers from an overall System perspective.
• Worked on Classic RSVP scalability and performance.
• Also represented the System Test team by giving power point presentations to the upper management.
• Worked on a customer web-based tool and trained the developer/customer to use this info.
• Responsible for a TL-9000 compliant project which involved working on the modularized IOS code(ION), and how the overall performance rates with IOS.
• Other responsibilities included feature and integration testing of software (IOS) for Cisco 10000 series routers before it reaches the regression team
• Responsible for debugging test failures, analyzing test results, opening new bugs via a bug database and report test results to a common database.
• Responsible for integrating the physical layer switch for all interfaces such as gigabit Ethernet, choc12, 4oc3ATM and 6oc3Pos in the whole c10000 testbed.
• Perform duties involving configuration of lab equipment, maintaining of test suite, execution of test plans and test cases, integration of new features into the regression test suite.

Confidential, Bedford, MA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the software development of a proprietary tool called WinHost in 'C'.
• Responsible for the restructuring of the whole code base into dynamic link libraries (dll’s) for different customers to be given access to specific projects only, thus taking care of the security issue.
• Automated the building of the various dlls according to the dependency level in MSVC++, and copying the executables onto the server.
• Designed and implemented a good socket connection to get WinHost talk to a server at the customer site using WinSock Application.
• Fixed various critical bugs, encountered in the customer site and also by internal testing. Also worked on some feature requests for ADI, like providing WinHost support for multiPort Copperhead chipsets.
• Worked on the embedded system software/firmware, doing a lot of bug fixes, enhancements to the code, modifying the code to be efficient to reduce memory.
• System testing of components to identify performance and stability aspects of the code.
• Hands-on-experience in the lab dealing with the firmware, FPGAs, test setup, debugging the software, fixing bugs as and when encountered.
• Performed Release Engineer duties for a short time, doing builds using MKS Source Integrity on a daily basis for regression testing and providing special builds for Confidential and Confidential trade shows.

QA Team Lead/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in hiring 5 QA engineers and a QA Manager and trained them to get upto speed on the existing QA testing process before finally taking on the management role myself to better drive the team/company towards successful delivery of the product/project.
• Have solid experience testing all the ADSL chipsets startingfrom the industry standard AD20msp910, AD20msp918, AD20msp930 to the multiport copperHead solution. Participated in the overall product development life cycle, experience with testing methodologies.
• Referred to many ITU standards and specifications to create a test plan, different test cases and wrote automated test scripts to test these test cases.
• Played a leading role in developing the automated test environment(ATE) to be compliant with the different versions of the Working Text( WT ) 062vx - ADSL Interoperability Test Plan, as required by the DSL Forum Testing and Interoperability Working Group.
• Trained and guided many peers with the test set up, with the automated test environment and provided support as and when required.
• Performance testing of ADSL modems to ensure quality which includes fast retrains, ITU loops, short loops and loopreach. Also, automated the fast retrains procedure.
• Responsible for the software testing of VERITAS DSL Management GUI program.
• Performed Interoperability testing against various ADSL modems like CISCO, Globespan, Alcatel, TI and Lucent Stinger DSLAMS.
• Worked on the multiport CopperHead ADSL chipsets, test setup, wrote automated test scripts, collected and crunched the data using Microsoft Excel, analyzed the performance, reported defect metrics, to go hand in hand with the development phase. Also, worked at the customer site to train them with the same.

Confidential, Chelmsford, MA

Associate Member, Technical Staff

Responsibilities:

• Duties involved in automating Analog Artist product tools, which is a Cadence proprietary tool, running regression tests. Responsible for automating the existing tests, creating new tests to ensure the quality of the product and also increased test coverage to 75% or better.