SUMMARY:

• Sesha is an experienced IT professional with more than 5+ years of IT experience as a Scrum Master, Jr. Project Manager & as a JAVA developer. Sesha is proficient with Agile (Scrum & Kanban). PM principles as also programming fundamentals with good understanding of OOPS, OOAD concepts including business requirements development, user story development, scrum framework, Kanban methodology, software testing processes & methodologies.
• Experience in Agile Processes Scrum, SAFe, Kanban etc. as also scrum ceremonies like story grooming/refinements, story estimation, user story creation using INVEST principles, organizing and conducting daily scrums, sprint reviews/retrospective, release planning etc.
• Proficient in the use of JIRA for user stories, integration with Zephyr, X - Ray for test case creation, creating dashboards (burndown chart, sprint velocity etc.)
• In-depth working knowledge of all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC), PMLC, Agile (Scrum & Kanban), Testing Processes & methodologies
• Knowledge & understanding of testing software applications & on tablets, smartphones, web and Cloud
• Hands on experience in preparing Test Plans/Strategies/Protocols, Test Scripts, identifying regression suite automated Test Scripts and Test Cases
• Knowledge of white box testing, grey box and black box testing including Integration, Functionality, GUI, System, Regression and UAT Testing
• Experience in defect tracking, monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, test data, test environment preparation, test environment management including scheduled code deployments
• In depth understanding to develop and document User Stories, Business requirements, functional specifications, use cases and design documents to determine test requirements
• Experience in creation and maintenance of Testing Artifacts (Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Summary Reports, and Test Effort Estimates etc.)
• Knowledge of using JAVA, J2EE and Web Technologies to develop enterprise front-end and back-end applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java/J2EE Technologies: Java 1.5, JDBC, JSP, Servlet

Java Frameworks/Libraries: Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, Log4J

Dev Tools: Maven, Eclipse, ANT, Jenkins, GitHub and Sonar

Databases: Oracle, SQL

OS: Windows, Linux, UNIX

Application Servers: Tomcat, Glassfish

Design skills: OOD (Object Oriented Design)

SW Dev Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile methodology

Scripting Languages: Restful Web services, HTML, Basic Python, JavaScript, XML, Ruby on Rails

Testing Tools: JIRA, QC 10/11, SOAPUI, SOATest

Agile Tools: JIRA, Rally, VersionOne

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SCRUM MASTER

• Assisted in planning, leading and coaching the team members in its Agile/Scrum adoption
• Communicated the vision, goals and Product Backlog items to the development team
• Helped Product Owner in defining and maintaining the product backlog as also the Sprint Backlog
• Helped Product Owner on prioritization techniques and team members with capacity planning
• Facilitate the Sprint Planning meeting & helped the team in creating Sprint backlog and a goal (Definition of Ready & Definition of Done)
• Help the team inspect and adapt based on feedback from current and previous sprints
• Organized meetings, enforcing time boxes and maintained the impediment tracker
• Worked with the PO to maintain the Product Backlog and release plan
• Helped the PO organize backlog items into appropriate releases or priority groups
• Ensured the task board, Sprint Burndown Chart, Impediments list is up to date
• Facilitate Daily Scrum Meeting and help the team to inspect the progress towards Sprint Goal and adapt their plan
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies: Scrum Planning, Daily standup and Scrum of Scrum, Sprint Reviews & Retrospective
• Facilitated the Sprint Retrospective and helped the team to inspect and adapt
• Supported multiple Product Owners and Scrum Teams
• Coached the development team to become self organized and cross - functional team
• Used Burn down charts and other metrics to show task and sprint progress
• Performed Issue tracking, Scrum board, sprint creation using Rally
• Helped teams apply the Scrum Framework and principles of agility

Jr. PROJECT MANAGER

• Assisted Sr. PM in managing financials of assigned IT projects monitoring actual spend etc.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams with both internal and offshore team members, running status meetings and closely monitoring the progress vs. plan
• Monitored time tables and milestones and collaborated with project teams to keep project on track
• Helped in the development of Project Plan, WBS, Scope Statement, Cost Estimates and Baseline Budgets
• Coordinated Testing and organized meetings with Stakeholders to provide Status Reports and review Deliverable timelines
• Closely Monitored Project Resources and manage the project change control process utilizing MS Project to create schedules, define activities, and allocate resources
• Interfaced with IT developers and business to maintain communication
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of assigned projects to all stakeholders

Project Analyst

• Facilitated and coordinated the work of multiple project teams engaged in the establishment and implementation of projects to support the Project Manager
• Managed activities related to budgeting, forecasting, monitoring, process management, risk management, quality control and reporting for low to medium complexity projects
• Coordinate meetings and resources for projects that impact multiple departments or for multiple projects
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, share point including all administrative tasks involved in the project
• Developed and maintained all PM deliverables throughout the project lifecycle
• Maintained and tracking the work resource hours in Planview. Designed and implemented various modules in the seat management system
• Managed the project change control process, status reporting, project estimating, monthly accounting and vendor invoice processing

Java Developer

Confidential

• Developed Applications using java scripts
• Prioritize coding modules as per project plan shared by Technical Lead
• Participated in code reviews with the business
• Performed unit testing using the Junit tool
• Deployed the application on the Tomcat Server
• Performed manual testing of the application