PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY.

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, FDD.
• Coaching and Facilitating Teams as well as Organization on Scrum.
• Ability to collaborate with Product Owner and the Team in achieving their goals.
• Ability to remove impediments to help Team overcome their difficulties.
• Ability to continuously learn new Agile/Scrum techniques and sharing such with the Team.
• Being patient with the Team in a bid to guide them into being solution-oriented.
• Strong communication skills and active listening skills.
• Ability to express high degree of transparency in communication.
• Excellent servant-leader.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

STLC Management Tools: HP Quality Center, QTP, JIRA, JAMA.

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.

Tools: MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, MS Project, Microsoft FrontPage, HTML.

Web Browsers & Servers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7,8.1, Unix and DOS.

Defect Tracking Tools: HP/Quality Center, Bugzilla, Clear Quest.

Development Environment: Agile, Waterfall, V-Model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master

Confidential, PROVIDENCE, RI

• Arrange daily stand-ups, facilitate story grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective.
• Guide and coach development team to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work
• Work with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'
• Create information and data matrices and reports to help the enterprise understand where we are at, where we are going, and opportunities/tradeoffs for project selection and prioritization
• Conduct sprint planning, reporting, review and velocity charts, agile estimation, daily scrum, and burn-down.
• Work with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure business requirements are accurately captured and translated into appropriate solutions.
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint, and release progress.
• Ensure development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Support the Product Owner with grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Guide teams with through story selection and task definition.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Facilitate internal and external communication within the team and other teams.

Scrum Master

Confidential, CANTON, MA

• Responsible for the administrative, coaching and leadership roles that make Scrum development/delivery possible.
• Acts as a leader as part of an Agile team to deliver high value software solutions that contribute to the success of our technology initiatives in an agile environment.
• Provides overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices.
• Arranges, facilitates and schedules meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use. This includes sprint team backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning daily standups, and retrospectives.
• Works with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve.
• Drives quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.
• Facilitates team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels.
• Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
• Plans and coordinates testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.
• Guides team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on iteration goals.

Scrum Master

Confidential, PA

• Ensured the Product Owner is enabled to prioritize and maintain a clear and concise Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Helped the Product Owner understand and practice agility by leveraging empirical data and iterative delivery.
• Ensured the team understands the business case, scope, milestones, sprint goals, and other necessary information to produce the desired business value.
• Coached the team on Agile Principles and the Scrum Framework to enable iterative delivery of value.
• Demonstrated servant leadership by putting the needs of the team first, facilitating Scrum ceremonies and removing impediments to help them achieve high performance.
• Built productive relationships and follows through on commitments to gain trust and respect.
• Leveraged empowerment and self-organization to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, effective communication, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Utilized Visual Management Systems and metrics to help the team understand performance, priorities, and vision/roadmap.
• Championed continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; challenges the team to pilot new ideas at a pace that is sustainable and appropriate for the team and organization.
• Supported organizational and Scrum Practice vision and standards to achieve goals.
• Sought opportunities for improvement to improve the overall effectiveness of Scrum within the organization.
• Championed Agile and Scrum across the organization through various forums.

Scrum Master /Software Quality Analyst

Confidential, GA

• Worked with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are shippable.
• Conduct sprint planning, reporting, review and velocity charts, agile estimation, daily scrum, and burn-down.
• Work with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure business requirements are accurately captured and translated into appropriate solutions.
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint, and release progress.
• Assisted in all phases of the testing lifecycle; Test Planning, Test Preparation, and Test Execution.
• Reviewed project documentation including Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and Functional Design Specifications.
• Partnered with the Test Lead to assist in defining and documenting the Test Plan Strategy for project.
• Utilized HP’s Quality Center for capturing requirements, test case development, execution, and defect tracking.
• Participated in Requirement Walk through meetings with Business Analysts, and System Analysts.
• Assisted in requirements gathering to capture testing scope for impacted systems by meeting with the application owners.
• Executed Test Cases during all phases of testing to validate the requirements and application functionality.
• Reported defects found during testing to the development team.
• Prepared testing and defect summary reports during testing.
• Escalated issues to the QA Lead when necessary.

QA Software Tester

Confidential

• Wrote SQL Queries for backend testing.
• Identified data requirements for test execution.
• Executed Test Cases during all phases of testing to validate the requirements and application functionality.
• Reported defects found during testing to the development team.
• Prepared testing and defect summary reports during testing.
• Escalated issues to the QA Lead when necessary.
• Attended and participated in the weekly team meeting, weekly defect meeting, and project status meeting, etc.

Quality Assurance Tester (Mobile Apps Testing)

Confidential

• Designed and developed Test Plan(s) and Test cases for the Testing Effort.
• Interacted with Business Users to understand and create scenarios that satisfy business requirements.
• Setup and Managed the Issues list.
• Coordinated QA release deployment(s) and verification.
• Supported Production deployments.
• Performed GUI testing, Functionality Testing, System Test and End-to-End test as required.
• Verified bug fixes.
• Performed Smoke Test as necessary and verified new builds to environment(s).
• Created automated bug reports.
• Organized defect triage meetings.
• Maintained RTM.
• Reported bugs and performed regression testing as necessary.
• Participated in team review of requirements/design documentation for purposes of test planning and to validate requirement testability.
• Participated in the Project Meetings and Walkthroughs in pursuit of Information Sharing as well as resolving the intermittent issues of concern.

BA/QA

Confidential

• Experience in leading a small QA team in reviewing team's work and monitoring and tracking their progress towards releases.
• Excellent skills in gathering requirements from Business Requirements Document (BRD) and/or use cases, to transmute them in to test case
• Involved in all stages of the SDLC to date, from the business case development through to support.
• Worked closely with software developers and business analyst to create test plan and test cases based on application requirement document
• Timely and accurate completion and delivery of Quality test result Used Test-Director as well as Microsoft Office Excel to write test case and exported to HP ALM to conduct manual test
• Carefully detect defects and logged the defects and recreated the defect with supporting documents, kept track of the defect throughout its life cycle
• Excellent ability to understanding and creating test strategy which includes test objectives, test process, test methodology, test scope, release criteria for testing, test lab configuration etc.
• Excellent knowledge in preparing documentation of UAT Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts as well as performing UAT in customers site prior to releasing to the real world working condition
• Experienced in Java testing to ensure fully functional, highly intelligent test classes to understand application and test source files thoroughly.