SUMMARY:

• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching Scrum teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Seasoned and versatile Certified Scrum Master, armed with extensive experience in agile project management and software development.
• Strong experience with JIRA Agile Management Tool to Create User Stories, create Epic, starting a sprint, configuring estimation and tracking, capture and organize issues, assign work, and follow team activity.
• Extensively used Confluence for collaboratively author or edit documents helping people distributed across the offshore location by making information easily accessible on the web
• Strong experience in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development
• Solid understanding of the software Product development lifecycle particular focus on agile methodologies and concepts.
• Demonstrate strong team player and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across organizational levels and effectively deal with a team comprised of both local team members and off-shore team members
• Leverage expertise in conducting analysis to recognize issues and develop effective resolutions; performing scoping to address business and technical needs
• Strong ability to grasp new things quickly, as demonstrated by seamless transitions made between several technologies, tools, and libraries both in development, testing and project management roles.
• Strong problem solving and trouble-shooting skills

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Principals
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Communication
• Relative Estimation
• Project Management
• Story-Based Development
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Conflict Resolution
• Technical expertise
• Continues Integration
• Bamboo, Ant-Hill Pro

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Configuration Management Tool: Anthill, Perforce and CVS

Test Tools: Selenium Web Driver, Win Runner, Web Load and Test Director

Project Management Tool: JIRA, Confluence

Web Analytics and Reporting: Omniture site Catalyst, Atlas and Media Mind

Devices: Windows, IOS, Android, Kindle Mobile devices

Languages: JAVA, HTML and XML

Database: Oracle and SQL

Bug Tracking Tool: Bugzilla and JIRA

BI /Data warehouse Toolsets: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1

Servers: Web logic 10.x, Apache, Tomcat

Code Review Tool: Code Collaborator

Code Quality: Sonar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Conducting Backlog, Functional and Technical Grooming and coordinating with offshore team
• RALLY Agile Management Tool to Create User Stories,, starting a sprint, configuring estimation and tracking, capture and organize issues, assign work, and follow team activity.
• Extensively used Confluence for collaboratively author or edit documents helping people distributed across the offshore location by making information easily accessible on the web
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development Coordinate overall Test Strategy for Manual, Automation and Performance Testing
• Coordinating Device testing effort across different MOBILE platform (I-Phone, I-Pad, Android, Kindle)
• Lead and support team members on all Automation, Agile, manual and Waterfall projects.

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Establishing a lightweight Scrum project management process and helping team meet sprint goals.
• Used JIRA Agile Management Tool to Create User Stories, create Epic, starting a sprint, configuring estimation and tracking, capture and organize issues, assign work, and follow team activity.
• Extensively used Confluence for collaboratively author or edit documents helping people distributed across the offshore location by making information easily accessible on the web
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery
• Experience in writing SQL Queries generating reports Internal services teams
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Working in collaboration with Software Engineering and Operations departments ensuring successful delivery of product features.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Managing projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprint Coordinate overall Test Strategy for Manual, Automation and Performance Testing
• Lead and support team members on all Automation, Agile, manual and Waterfall projects.
• Driving the Coordination effort with performance team and analyzing the performance results before features gets rolled out.

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Used JIRA Agile Management Tool to Create User Stories, create Epic, starting a sprint, configuring estimation and tracking, capture and organize issues, assign work, and follow team activity.
• Extensively used Confluence for collaboratively author or edit documents helping people distributed across the offshore location by making information easily accessible on the web
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them
• Trained and coached a development team of 2-4 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis to Product Owner
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest

Quality Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed testing activities of different projects with a team of 5 test engineers.
• Responsible for Test plan engineering and test case generation with Test Director
• Automated manual test execution using Win Runner
• Coordination with onsite team and Report daily testing status.
• Test Environment set up and deploying the latest build for QC Testing.
• Preparation of the Test Matrixes like Requirements Coverage, Test Coverage.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed test plans and test cases.
• Black Box, Integration Testing and Regression testing
• Bug reporting using Bugzilla.
• Beta Release Testing
• Preparation of the Test Matrixes