SUMMARY:

• Over 13 years of IT experience.
• Transformational Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager, specializing in transforming teams into high performers, driving strategic business growth, and delivering on process efficiencies using CMMI, Lean Six Sigma principles, agile Scrum, XP and Kanban.
• Successfully built and managed mid - sized multi-project teams across diverse corporate cultures.
• Effectively and actively used resource based costing models to deliver optimal financial value at project and program levels.
• Dedicated individual with strong work ethics and steadfast integrity.
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects in cross-functional environment.
• A fast learner who can quickly gain an understanding of new products and services.
• Strong attention to quality and detail.
• Willing to be accountable for project and Team.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Build and Transform Teams
• Identify and drive process Improvements
• Enforce Agile Process
• Project Life Cycle Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Test-Driven Design/Development
• Issues & Risk / Change Management
• Quality Assurance
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Strategic Business Planning
• Regulatory Affairs
• Financial & Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Communications / Negotiations
• Reporting and Business Analytics

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Process: Agile-Scrum,SAFe, XP, Kanban and Lean, Waterfall, V-Model Capability Maturity Model Integration for DEV (Level 2)

Databases: SQL Server2008 r2, Oracle (7i, 8i, 11g, 12g)

Tools: /software: MS Office 97-2013, HP-ALM v12.5,HP-UFT v12.52 and SELENIUM 2

Platforms: Linux, UNIX, & MS Windows

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and delivered more than fifteen BDS releases to meet customer’s expectation.
• Support Agile based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools and best practices.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting
• Act as liaison between development teams, the customer organization, and the IT organization.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Support the development manager and project leads as necessary
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
• Update agile tracking systems(JIRA)to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
• Improved the productivity of the Scrum teams

Confidential, Washington, DC

Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned and trained the development team from Waterfall to Agile using VersionOne.
• Implemented the project management discipline and streamlined the reporting for development changes to 70+ applications.
• Trained 32+ Resources on integrating MS Project, Agile methodology, and the diverse SDLC processes to ensure accurate delivery timelines and early detection of issues thus enabling discussions around the project triple constraints (costs, schedule, and scope).
• Developed / implemented a quality risk management initiative tool which predicted the post-production problem cases based on selected testing levels. This enabled the business in optimizing testing strategy based on risk acceptance tolerance vs. product launch timelines.
• Developed and implemented 100+ actionable defect metrics for executive &project teams while defining these in a lexicon to ensure consistent usage and understanding.
• Achieved a 60% reduction in report generation timeline by standardizing the compilation and data storage process for Dashboard reports.
• Achieved a 30% reduction in process lifecycle time and a 25% decrease in helpdesk call volumes by assisting in the redesign of the enterprise wide employee management process.
• Achieved $2.4 million in savings and a 30% increase in customer satisfaction by implementing quality assurance procedures that reduced the number of production bound defects.

Confidential, Merrifield, VA

Scrum Master and Sr. Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Achieved 95% successful production implementations, an increase of 236% by reviewing, analyzing, and implementing quality improvement procedures throughout the SDLC.
• Successfully reduced rework by 35% across all projects by soliciting better requirements in conjunction with refining and improving communications on existing SDLC processes.
• Successfully launched VersionOne, HP-ALM and Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Managed 5-15 concurrent small to medium scale upgrade projects totaling $1.1M w/ 12 resources.
• Successfully managed to grow the team from 1 to 9 resources within a short span of 2 months to help the company achieve its strategic objective of upgrading all legacy clients, 6 months ahead of schedule. Resulting $500K in revenue helped the company meet its Q2 & Q3 financial targets.
• Achieved a 20% labor cost reduction & 10% cycle time improvement by implementing data migration automation using SQL scripts.
• Achieved 50% gain in cycle time by redesigning the support infrastructure, which also addressed capacity and disaster recovery strategic activities.
• Managed the rapid testing & implementation of critical data table conversion scripts with pilot clients enabling the introduction of new product functionality 2 months ahead of competition.

Confidential, MD

Scrum Master and QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and delivered more than ten releases to meet customer’s expectation.
• Support Agile based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools and best practices.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting
• Act as liason between development teams, the customer organization, and the IT organization.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Support the development manager and project leads as necessary
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
• Improve the productivity of the sprint teams
• Participated in the agile Release and Sprint planning, User Story discussions with the Product owners and Development team and analyzed the Product Requirements thoroughly.
• Prepare test plans, test cases, and automated tests for the user stories and helps the team to discover any inconsistency or ambiguity in the user stories even before the developers write any code.
• Reviewed product user story, acceptance criteria and provide feedback to the product team.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for the product across different releases and also updating the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the changes.

Confidential, DC

Lead Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents and Functional specification documents to prepare Test cases based on Test Plans.
• Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to application testing.
• Closely interacted with Business Analysts, designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Performed regression, functionality, System, Interface, front end, back end, negative, positive and user acceptance Testing using manual and Automation testing.
• Used Quality Center to create Test outlines and maintained Test scripts and created, modified and debugged the Scripts.
• Tracked the Defects status using Quality Center and presented the status report to client every day.
• Involved in manual testing of Web Services during online transaction using Quality Center and SOAP UI.
• Used SQL, PL/SQL queries for backend testing.
• Created, Modified and implemented the automated Scripts using HP Quick Test Professional.
• Performed functionality testing to make sure that application works according to functional specification using QTP.
• Involved in Regression testing using QTP.
• Helped the team in solving all technical issues and also acted as a point of contact to the Business Analysts and Developers.
• Conducted regular team meetings to drive continuous improvement in process of product delivery.
• Involved in the weekly status meeting and walkthroughs to discuss the upcoming releases and changes in the code or the hardware requirements and other major issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, QTP, XML Spy, SQL Server, SOAP UI, Java Web Server, Windows.

Confidential, MD

Senior Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for updating existing Test Cases against the change of requirements.
• Interacted with business analysts and system analysts in resolving the problems.
• Responsible for Black Box Testing, Functional testing (Positive and Negative), Validation testing, Installation testing, and Integration testing.
• Planed and organized the testing process, created database of manual and automated tests, build test cycles using Test Director.
• Formulated detailed Test plans based on the Requirements and created Test cases in Test Director for manual testing of the application.
• Used SQL queries to extract data from different databases including testing and production for data validation and data analysis.
• Involved in Customization of automatically generated QTP scripts to the specifications required by the end users.
• Created, Modified and debugged the Scripts.
• Produced BUG reports on a weekly schedule to assist developers in bug resolution and participated in Bugs and Enhancement review meetings.

Environment: Test Director, QTP, SQL, UNIX, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows.