SUMMARY:

• Experienced Certified Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high - quality software, on-time. 6 years of IT experience working in various data driven/web based/client-server applications in Banking and Financial domain.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Extensive experience in different development methodologies - waterfall, iterative and agile methodologies SCRUM,Kanban,FDD
• Good experience working in agile frameworks like SAFe,LESS and Disciplined Agile Delivery
• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups, Product Backlog Grooming
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to negotiate scope boundaries, approaches to mitigate risk, priorities of specification elements, and adjustments as indicated to alleviate conflicting requirements
• Worked closely with product owners in backlog grooming and managing the product backlog, coordinating and collaborating with other teams to help identify and track user story dependencies
• Used JIRA and Rally to track system requirements, stories, defects and manage agile boards.
• Assisted the team and product owner to prioritize the PBI's using prioritization techniques.
• Facilitated sprint planning to help the team commit to a sprint goal and break all user stories into tasks. Used estimation techniques - Fibonocci series, T-shirt sizing.
• Participated In weekly scrum of scrum meetings.
• Conduct sprint reviews to review and analyze the potentially shippable product increment(PSPI) to the business users, higher management and stakeholders.
• Facilitated agile retrospective and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance by resolving the action items and issues
• Removed team impediments to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals.
• Good experience in preparation of project plans and schedules to include coordinating requirements, tasks, work assignments, and resources to ensure project integrity.
• Ensured that project goals and benefits are accomplished and in line with business objectives
• Continuously improves and updates existing project management documentation and processes.
• ISTQB Certified Tester with expertise in manual and automation testing, test requirement analysis, test planning, test case development, test execution, defect reporting and tracking.
• Strong experience in automating web application testing using Selenium WebDriver using Java with TestNG framework.
• Expertise in functional testing, regression testing and integration testing in QA environments, identify bugs and assign them to respective developers and re-test the fixes provided by the developers.
• Written and executed test cases based on design as well as product knowledge that resulted in greatly improving the software.
• Good RDBMS experience - able to write complex SQL queries and JOINs. Microsoft certified in MS SQL Server.
• Good understanding and extensive knowledge in programming in Java, JDBC, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML.
• Good onsite offshore coordination experience.
• Actively involved in requirement analysis, analyzing the business requirement documents, functional and technical specifications.
• Experience on test management tools - HP Quality Centre 10.0, HP ALM.
• Worked as a liaison between the business and the technical teams.
• Good understanding in Continuous Delivery and Continous Integration, DevOps and Jenkins tool.
• Used MS Office tools extensively (Word, Excel, Visio, Powerpoint and Outlook) for analysis, presentation, documentation and used sharepoint to access/upload various documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, STLC

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Selenium IDE, LoadRunner, Cucumber, Protractor, TestNG Framework, JUnit Framework

Software Skills: RDBMS, SQL queries, Java, Javascript, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, XML

Agile tools, Defect tracking tools: JIRA, Rally, HP QC, HP ALM

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8.1, 10, Linux Ubuntu

Microsoft Applications: MS Office, Excel, Power point, Word, MS Visio, MS Project, Sharepoint

Webservices: SOAP, REST

Other: Toad, Control M, Putty, Win SCP, SOAPUI, Clarity, IBM BPM, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Riverwoods IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily huddles and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams.
• Promoted and applied the principles of effective SAFe methodologies and team practices of scrum.
• Involved in conducting regular SAFe team assessments and provided coaching back to teams for continuous improvement.
• Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments.
• Report at weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Liased with business analysts and manual test team to perform risk analysis and assessment associated with automation testing.
• Used Rally to track the user stories,requirements and burndown chart and velocity(scrum metrics).
• Communicated with the stakeholders so that they are informed of schedules and timelines, statuses, issues, mitigations and all other information necessary or requested.
• Make recommendations for continuous improvement to enhance effectiveness and play active role in organization agile transformation
• Provided status reports to project managers and product owners.
• Facilitated daily stand up meetings, sprint planning meetings, backlog grooming and retrospective meeting, sprint review etc.
• Involved in onsite/offshore coordination
• Provided guidance to the team on Scrum values, practices and rules.
• Used HP ALM to track the defects and Rally to manage agile stories.
• Worked closely with product owners, developers, offshore team, business analyst with in the agile team.

Environment: Rally, HP ALM, BPMN, Oracle, Selenium Webdriver, IBM BPM.

Confidential, St. Louis MO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the work efforts of 8 person team for various projects.
• Applied the principles of effective SAFe methodologies in the team.
• Assisted team in with tracking metrics related to productivity, quality, employee engagement at various points during their SAFe agile journey.
• Collaborate with SAFe Project team on building the roll out plan, reporting out progress of the roll-out, managing roadblocks and risks, etc.
• Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved impediments encountered by team members.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Identified and prioritized test cases to automate in addition to rising bugs in HP Quality Center (QC).
• Conducted defect triage meetings to understand the defects and to come up with different solutions or work arounds, tracking defects using Quality Center and made sure those defects are efficiently passed from one layer to another and retested, also verify the defects that are fixed and track them to closure.
• Worked and coordinated with client staff across different bank divisions to get the data created as per the requirements.
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business processes using MS Visio.
• Involved in assisting the project manager in planning, scheduling and controlling projects based on schedules and requirement outlined by the business.
• Responsible for creating test scenarios, scripting test cases using testing tool and defect management for policy management Systems, payables/receivables and claims processing.
• Involved with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout the project life cycle.
• Experience in the documentation of system and business requirements and specifications, design and development of use and test-case scenarios and root-cause analysis, developing test plans, test scripts using SQL, conducting System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), training, and implementing new processes and technology.

Environment: JIRA, Selenium, Oracle9i, TFS, Java, Linux, Oracle PL/SQL, MS Office suite.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with customers through frequent functional workshops to ensure that the requirements have been clearly understood and defined.
• Successfully pursued different phases in the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Written test cases for various modules of the SMS application like Fee Management, Classes schedule, Admissions.
• Conducted online IT Quality Analyst training to peers/students.
• Reviewed and processed existing implementation and outlined current business challenges.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Tested the final product through inspection.
• Responsible for managing change requirements issued by the customers.
• Acted as a liaison between the business side and the technical analysts.
• Ensured highest level of Quality assurance for all deliverables.

Environment: Java, Windows XP Professional, MS Access, MS Excel, UML, MS Office suite, MS Visio.

Confidential

Software Engineer (QA Analyst)

Responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements and prepare test plans, test cases and test data accordingly followed by testing, defect management etc.
• Performed smoke tests, executed progression test cases for UAT.
• Initiate the defect triage and status calls with all stake holders.
• Used HP Quality Center as test management and defect management tool.
• Worked with Developers on Defects until they are closed.
• Supporting the project team to ensure deliverables are successfully completed.
• Participated in daily standups and retrospective.
• Participated in client meeting for requirement analysis and validation of the build release.
• Identifying, documenting, remediating, and/or escalating functional issues to the appropriate level.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the processes and quality of work products.
• Gathered and documented the Impact Assessment on the project, due to change request, from the work stream owners and the project management team, in terms of project duration.
• Prepared and presented the process of the ongoing project in a form of dashboard to the senior management.
• Co-ordinate with the project managers in the preparation of the project plans with any impact due to a change request
• Supported data management and reporting infrastructure including the development of project plans and status reports to obtain senior management permission and sponsorship.
• Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT); effectively communicated the (UAT) results between users and development team to provide recommendations for application change requests.
• Involved in all project documentations, created documentation for training and help desk teams

Environment: Confidential front end application, Selenium, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Oracle 9i, Client Server, UML, HP Quality center.