SUMMARY:

• Trained with ability to establish realistic expectations, create accurate project schedules and budgets, resolve critical path issues, mitigate risks and deliver quality results consistently.
• Oversee Product Delivery, Business Analysis, UAT and Test Architecture, Review Design and Research
• Leading Business, Development and Testing teams and driving their goals.
• Sun Certified Java Professional, ITIL certified, Agile .
• Developed expertise in transforming ideas to implementations, Road map planning, Journey maps, connecting different dots, Scrum, Assist Product owner in Backlog maintenance, Story or feature Grooming, Sprint Planning Sprint Reviews, Retrospective and poker planning.
• Guide and Elicit process for Requirements and Documentation needs, drive teams to adapt to Scrum .Monitor and Audit test plans, Traceability, Reporting, Defect tracking, Escalate trends, Conduct and Coordinating with various teams and different stake holders of the project.
• Manage and monitor one or more teams performing highly complex projects either through team supervisors or by direct management.
• Served as liaison between managers of various departments in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.
• Mentor and train teams on testing methodologies and procedures for performance testing, mobile testing, backend testing, Web services and API testing, JMS/MQ testing. Managing Jenkins.
• Expert in managing and administering using Jira.

SUMMARY OF TECHNOLGIES USED:

Software: ALM, HP Quality Center, Putty, WinSCP, Java,JMS Message sender, Queues, webservices, API, .NET, Oracle SQL Developer 1.5.1, SAP Financial MDR, Microsoft Office XP; Microsoft Outlook, MS Office, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes; Visio 5.0, SOAP UI, Toad, Erwin. Microsoft Project Plan, Mainframes, AS400, ETL Informatica, IBM Message broker, IBM MQ Series, Sabre, TestNG, Maven.Jbehave, Serenity, GIT

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista and UNIX

Databases: SQL Server, My SQL, Oracle8, 9,10,11, DB2 7,8, Informix, SQL/PLSQL

Quality Assurance: Mobile testing ( iPhone, Android, Black berry) Unit testing, System Testing, Integration testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Backend Validation and Functional testing, regression testing, Test Director, Quality Center, Selinium, testing and test script writing (manual).

Code Management: WinCVS, GIT, Clearcase, SVN, FishEye, Beyond compare(to compare file changes).

Bug/Defect tracking: Jira, Bugzilla, Rally, Mercury,ALM (HP quality Center).Test Rail

Build management: Jenkins, Bamboo ( Atlaasian products open source)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

SCRUM Master

Technolgy and Tools used: Microservices, Angular, Invision, Confluence, JIRA, GIT, Powerpoint, Kafka, Java.

Responsibilities:

• Create Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Conducting Scrum Ceremonies like scrum calls, story grooming, story estimation, sprint demo, sprint closures, retro ceremonies etc
• Review and manage the backlog, Users.
• Conducting and coordinating multiple teams, driving them to reach their goals.
• Reporting the progress and status updates on a regular basis for higher management...

C, Dallas, TX

SCRUM Master / Sr Technical Project Research Analyst

Technolgy and Tools used: Cloud Gia, Microservices, Charts, Confluence, JIRA, GIT, Powerpoint, Visio, Java, Invision.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze JPMorgan Digital needs for UI performance monitoring.
• Speak to different program managers about the SCALE and explain the benefits and ROI.
• Explain the product development team and Testing teams about the expectations and needs of the users.
• Create Biweekly/ quarterly reports to Sr Executive Directors and higher management to report on the digital Metrics development.
• Take feedback and prioritize what will add value to the product convey to the Product owner.
• If needed Create required EPICs,Components and User stories for the Backlog, groom the stories with Dev and QA.
• Create and Manage Jira boards and Jira issues, generate reports, starting and closing the sprints.
• Elicit user stories/ help conduct story grooming sessions / Conduct retrospective meeting .
• Create User guides. Create Presentations to different audience groups.
• Conduct show and tell sessions for our team and also Product Demo to users and higher management.
• Maintain and review continuous updates on the digital world provide living updates to user.
• Organize meetings with the Users regularly and keep them posted on the changes or take their needs to the product team.
• Analyze test environments and involve test data teams to cater needs to be prepared for the upcoming releases
• Help in Performing UAT as a business users
• Tracking resolution and following up on Defects / Alerts / action items notified - help teams in prioritizing / followup discussions and work in getting order.
• Interface with Teams for their needs, Organize and guide to create feature and user stories regroup and track the road map. Create processes with inputs from team.
• Discuss with Product owner on prioritizing the effort.
• Have weekly meeting with teams on the progress .

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Analyst

Environment: s and Tools used: Confluence, JIRA, Queue, Oracle DB, GIT, Jbehave, Serinity, XML

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the system architecture and interfacing systems.
• Interface with Teams what they consume and what they produce for our team.
• Organize feature and user stories regroup and track.
• Create processes with inputs from team .
• Track the defects and backlog.
• Discuss with Product owner on prioritizing the effort.
• Elicit detail requirement that will help developers and testers.
• Partner with tech leads to breakdown the user stories to get make smallest testable stories.
• Create automation test approach what needs to be part of it.
• Design the test architecture.
• Manage onsite and offshore team .
• Create a POC and presentations for Client .
• Add UAT test scenarios Mentor team to develop the tests.
• Help in data creation.
• Providing the approach to Test EMS Queues, XML to database data mapping validation.
• Mentoring team on how to test APIs.
• Design and Automate the API test scenarios
• Test prioritization based on available resource and risk.
• Management of end to end testing dependences.
• Create demo for the higher managements.
• Utilization of defect tracking tools to manage and track all defects raised.
• Defect Analysis.
• Took ownership for the projects.
• Elicit detail requirements that will help developers and Partner with tech leads to breakdown the user stories.
• Add end to end test scenarios as part user stories.

Confidential, DFW Airport, TX

DevOps, UAT Lead API testing practice.

Environment: s and Tools used: Java, Selenium, TentNG, Web services, API, REST, Maven Deploy and Configuring Jenkins Jobs, XPath, HP ALM QC 11,Test Rail, Jira Administration.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and test models to ensure sufficient test coverage.
• Administer Jira.
• Deriving Test Cases and writing of Test Scripts
• Production of Test case data.
• Testing UI’ s across multi-browser access and devices.
• Mentoring team on how to test APIs.
• Design and Automate the API test scenarios
• Test prioritization based on available resource and risk.
• Management of end to end testing dependences.
• Utilization of defect tracking tools to manage and track all defects raised.
• Took ownership for the projects.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Associate Business Technology Analyst/Test Lead/Project Coordinator

Environment: s and Tools used: Rally (For Agile), MSOffice, Sabre, Visio, Jira

Responsibilities:

• Brainstorm on the ideas, collecting the requirements, put them in the Backlog
• Understand the current processes and restrictions in different systems involved like Customer hub, Flight hub, Seibel, Sabre, Analytics reporting system and business constrains.
• Plan the release for Agile development taking into account all the systems involved in a particular requirement, restrict the requirements for the release.
• Publish the release contents for broader audiences.
• Manage project documentation, user stories in Rally.
• Pass on the knowledge to the new team members.
• Coordinating the testing strategy and conditions to business requirements to test.
• Plan and track the test data requirements and test strategy, user access requirements traceability.
• Acted as liaison between Dev, testing and business.
• Tested the application on different devices and browsers iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Tablets, Chrome.
• Take the concerns, involve the development lead as and when needed in the business meeting.
• Took ownership for the projects.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Business Analyst

Environment: s and Tools used: AS400, Visio, MS-Office

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements
• Understand the PBM process thoroughly for the EMS projects, AS400 system, provide inputs to business on the discussed requirements.
• Manage project documentation, supported offshore for discussing requirements.
• Coordinating the testing strategy and conditions to business requirements to test.
• Create test data and test strategy.
• Acted as liaison between Dev/QA and business.
• Take the concerns, involve the dev lead as and when needed in the business meeting.
• Conduct requirement signoff meeting.
• Test on AS400 to ensure the changes or enhancements are working as expected.
• Took ownership for the projects.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr QA Test Lead/Architect and Onsite Coordinator

Environment: s and Tools used: HP Quality Center, Informix, SAP Financials MDR, DB2, SQL explorer, DB2 connect

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements its impact and estimates the time frame
• Conduct defect meeting update the stake holders, business about the status of the application
• Responsible for getting all the setup done for launching the application by coordinating with various teams at various levels
• Creating the traceability matrix, assigning tasks to team members and guide the team for the completion.
• Coordinate with developer and business for quick resolution of the defects.
• Exploring and adapt to new tools to help fasten testing.
• Creating Master test plan.
• Helped in identifying out of the box test cases for projects, coordinating with business for the approval
• Involved in testing the system

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Internet Software Developer

Environment: s and Tools used: Spring, IBATIS, JAVA, Junit,Jira, Bugzilla, Visio, TOAD, SOAP UI, Bamboo, Fisheye.

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Confidential Loyalty product development. A platform for configuring client specific programs for rewards processing and a customized tool to design fulfillment websites for burning points.
• Responsible for development and testing the platform for migrations, enhancements and new development tasks.
• Performed Backend java development tasks.
• Coordinate testing efforts with Confidential affiliates and vendors during new product development or enhancement project.
• Perform end to end testing for the new enhancements for the rewards processing, migrations from old platform to new platform, configuring fulfillment sites using the content management tool, making it possible for the business to create and manage the sites for customers without development facilitation.
• Write manual test scripts to verify business and technical requirements against webMethods and JBoss applications comparing GUI results with Oracle and SQL backend data using SQL Server Management Studio 9.0 and Oracle SQL Developer 1.5.1, TOAD.
• Author SQL queries to retrieve valid test data.
• Deploy Java and webMethods applications into QA environments (UNIX, Windows) for testing.
• Act as SME on several applications and train team members and new hires on said applications.
• Create and alter test scripts for testing against webMethods and JBoss Web Services using SoapUI.
• Develop Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and detailed Test Cases using Quality Center based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Track and report defects using Jira, bugzilla and perform regression testing against defects.
• Analyze and resolve application and production issues via self-discovery and/or by collaborating closely with Development, Project Management and/or Production Support.
• Compose validation steps for application version upgrades, enhancements and/or hot fixes used by the production support team to confirm functionality prior to releasing into production.
• Modeled and documented all the 13 Confidential prepaid components using visio for business, dev and qa teams to refer for the business logic.

Confidential, Saintpaul, MN

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• QA consultant for IT financial sourcing and systems, ship tracking. An internal site to tracking shipping between the internal sources interacting with FedEx, USPS and external sources for tracking purposes.
• Gathered testing requirements for legacy model and with the new integrated online tracking.
• Designed manual and automated test cases adhering to business and technical requirements for Confidential ’s distributed users across the locations and products.
• Executed SQL statements to query and update data tables using SQL server and SQL Plus.
• Performed manual and automated tests to ensure that functionality and data is consistent before and after database and application migration Gathered testing requirements for legacy database driven applications and batch processes.

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Manage new requirements from the product owners.
• Manage application requirements, and project documentation to architects and developers.
• Managing source code, integration code deployment, Submitting ECRs .
• Managed and assigned QA team workload, reported estimates for project timelines and point for QA related issues and project deadlines.
• Trained and mentored new resources.
• Coordinated quarterly batch jobs for balancing account updates from various plants.
• Lead development and testing effort for the integration to test the data synchronization for inventory management tool on Confidential platform; verifying the automated installation of the tool and the accuracy of data captured by the tool from various databases DB2 and SQL server.
• Created test cases, executed manual test scripts and logged bugs/defects using Quality Center.
• Designed Master Test Plan and defined test scope for large QA efforts (i.e. new enterprise wide testing)
• Performed Quality Center administrator duties (created user accounts, reset passwords, created project folders),
• Conduct Meetings and Report status to stake holders.
• Maintained configuration management procedures ensuring code was properly submitted from development to QA to UAT in addition to code and documentation verification.
• Assessed and tested new hardware prior to being introduced into the enterprise. Managed and assigned QA team workload, reported estimates for project timelines and point for QA related issues and project deadlines.