SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with over 7+ years as a Scrum Master for driving the Agile methodology SDLC projects, implemented JIRA Agile in the organization and training close to 5000 associates Confidential
• Guide and coach the scrum team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices, and on how to get the most out of self - organization
• Assess the scrum maturity of the team and organization, and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Remove or guide the team to remove impediments or road blocks
• Facilitates meetings: Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Epic and Story Estimation, Sprint Review and Demo, Retrospective
• Status reporting to the Project team and articulate the project progress with detailed metrics like BrunDown Charts, Velocity Chart, Sprint Report, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) and Control Charts
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect and AWS Certified Developer have in-depth knowledge on AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Designing Secure, Highly Reliable, Fault Tolerant, High Performance and Cost effective AWS Cloud solution and framework.
• Designed and Implemented fully functional Fault Tolerant framework on AWS using Route53, CloudFront, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Subnet(both Public and Private), EC2 instances back of an Auto Scaling Group and Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Using the RDS(MySQL) as the RDBMS and AWS S3 for the Storage to host web application
• 13 + years of experience in functional testing like manual testing, automation testing (Selenium IDE, Java, Remote Control, Web Driver, JUnit, TestNG) and exposure to non-functional testing using JMeter and Load Runner
• Administering and supporting the Developer Efficiency tools sets JIRA, JIRA Agile (SCRUM and Kanban), Confluence, JIRA Service Desk and HP ALM/Quality Center Administration, UFT Administration.
• Test Manager developed Keyword Driven and Hybrid Automation Frameworks using Selenium Web Driver and Java
• Having profound knowledge in Wealth Management, Capital Market - Trading, Mutual Funds, ETF and Clearance etc.,)
• Experienced in Test planning/Strategy, test effort estimation through various techniques, test execution to closure of defect, release management and status reporting to senior management
• Have strong work experience in Selenium IDE, Java Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, JUnit, Maven, TestNG Git, Jenkins.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: JAVA, XML, SQL, VB, Unix Shell Script

Web/XML Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Frameworks: JUnit, TestNG

Apache Projects: JMeter

Tools: Eclipse, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver, JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, HP ALM/Quality Center, HP Synchronizer, JMeter, JIRA Portfolio, Zephyr

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 7.0, MS Access

Source Control: GIT Lab, Bit Bucket, Jenkins

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/XP, Linux, UNIX

Cloud Technology: AWS Cloud

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Business and the functional flow of the application to acquire knowledge on customer requirement to provide testing needs and suggest optimal solution.
• Implemented Agile Software Development Methodology first time in Confidential project
• Played Scrum Master role for the Agile project using JIRA Agile aka Green Hopper Plugin
• Conducting the sprint ceremonies like Sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint review meetings(product review meeting/product demo) and sprint retrospective meeting(process review meetings)
• Facilitating for the Sprint Artifacts like product increments, product backlogs and sprint backlogs
• Coordinating and planning activities for the team members for defining the “Definition of Done” and Acceptance Criteria
• Effort estimation and Story Point estimation for applications under test detailing the work breakdown structure and resource utilization and cost estimation of resources.
• Status reporting to the Project team and articulate the project progress with detailed metrics like BrunDown Charts, Velocity Chart, Sprint Report, Cumulative Flow Diagram(CFD) and Control Charts
• Preparation of weekly status reports, resource utilization report and test performance reports to project stake holders.
• Effective usage of the JIRA Agile for managing the Scrum Board, Sprints, Epics and Stories
• Conducting knowledge sharing session among team members working in different application.

Environment: Java 1.7, Eclipse, GIT lab, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle 10g, Linux, Zephyr, JIRA Portfolio, HP ALM, HP Synchronizer .

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Business and the functional flow of the application to acquire knowledge on customer requirement to provide testing needs and suggest optimal solution.
• Implemented Agile Software Development Methodology first time in Confidential project
• Facilitating for the Sprint Artifacts like product increments, product backlogs and sprint backlogs
• Coordinating and planning activities for the team members for defining the “Definition of Done” and Acceptance Criteria
• Effort estimation and Story Point estimation for applications under test detailing the work breakdown structure and resource utilization and cost estimation of resources.
• Status reporting to the Project team and articulate the project progress with detailed metrics like BrunDown Charts, Velocity Chart, Sprint Report, Cumulative Flow Diagram(CFD) and Control Charts
• Involvement in Preparation of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Cases and Test Data.
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, using Black box Testing Techniques.
• Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium. Created Test cases Using Element locators and Selenium Webdriver methods.
• Enhanced Test cases using Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Execution of Selenium Web Driver Test cases and Reporting defects.
• Conducting Data driven testing, cross browser testing and parallel test execution.
• Involved in Regression Testing using Selenium Web Driver and Java
• Effective usage of the JIRA Agile for managing the Scrum Board, Sprints, Epics and Stories
• Conducting knowledge sharing session among team members working in different application.

Environment: Java 1.7, TestNG, Selenium, Eclipse, GIT lab, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle 10g, Linux, Zephyr, JIRA Portfolio.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Project Lead/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Business and the functional flow of the application to acquire knowledge on customer requirement to provide testing needs and suggest optimal solution.
• Implemented Agile Software Development Methodology first time in Confidential project
• Involvement in Preparation of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Cases and Test Data.
• Involvement in Test Execution, Results Analyzing and Defect Reporting.
• Effective usage of the JIRA Agile for managing the Scrum Board, Sprints, Epics and Stories
• Estimation for individual efforts and resource allocation to facilitate staffing fulfillment.
• Conducting knowledge sharing session among team members working in different application.
• Preparation and Review test conditions and scenarios to ensure they satisfy acceptance criteria, Test bed and data guidelines.
• Define Test execution plan for effective testing and track the test status. Responsible for planning product regression testing and reviewing the test results.
• Defect Management and coordinating Defect Meetings. Reviewing Traceability Matrix and Defect Report.

Environment: Java 1.7, Eclipse, GIT lab, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle 10g, Linux, Zephyr, JIRA Portfolio, HP ALM, HP Unified Functional Testing.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Technical Lead - Quality Assurance/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defining the testing activities for subordinates - testers or test engineers.
• All responsibilities of test planning.
• Updating project manager regularly about the progress of testing activities.
• Implemented My SQL Server database and JDBC drivers to access the data.
• Maintained the application configuration information in various properties file.
• Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
• Written the JMeter scripts to test the performance (stress) of the application by increasing the concurrent users.

Environment: Java, Eclipse, SVN, JIRA, MS SQL Server, Linux, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional, JMeter

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defining the testing activities for subordinates - testers or test engineers.
• All responsibilities of test planning.
• Updating project manager regularly about the progress of testing activities.
• Implemented My SQL Server database and JDBC drivers to access the data.
• Maintained the application configuration information in various properties file.
• Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
• Written the JMeter scripts to test the performance (stress) of the application by increasing the concurrent users.

Environment: Java, Eclipse, SVN, JIRA, MS SQL Server, Linux, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional, JMeter