SUMMARY:

• To use my diverse experiences gained in the project (PMP, Agile & Scrum) and program management, information technology, engineering, manufacturing, quality and finance communities to assist customers and stakeholders with their needs by producing Quality Agile Products and a Return of Profit, while continually to transform operations.
• Backed by strong credentials as an Agile coach and Agile manager with full system development life cycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing project plans, processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault - free audits.
• Qualifications include over twelve years of SDLC and 5 years of Project management and Scrum master experience and four years of Agile coach.
• Experience in Project management/ ScrumXP methodologies and SAGE agile procedures with Test Management, Bug tracking, Reporting and detailed status Reporting using HP ALM 11. o, JIRA, RALLY, Version one, IBM Rational Robot, Verifya, Katalon Test automation and Selenium test automation. Test Complete, TFS, and SharePoint Access.
• Hands on experience in mentoring and guiding the adoption process of Lean Agile mindset within the organization.
• Mentoring and guiding the Release Train Engineers, SAFe Program consultants SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Product Owner, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master.
• Acting as the leading agent who implements the SAFe framework in the organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas TX

SAFE/ Agile Scrum Manager/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• To use SAFE principles for adding the insights to transform the current agile product development by changing the agile portfolio management in Aperia solutions.
• To deliver continuous flow of value to your stakeholders and customers with shortest sustainable time to market.
• To guide and Mentor team of 25-30 professionals across the organization to in corporate Lean Agile principles at enterprise level both onshore and offshore.
• Validates the process and flow of resources in applying the Scaled Agile Framework, lean thinking and product development in the Aperia’s enterprise level.
• To act as an SME in Lean-Agile enterprise level by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow and DevOps.
• Supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
• To establish process to apply Lean, Agile and the Product Development Flow principles in order to improve productivity, employee satisfaction, time-to-market and quality by moving away gradually from the traditional waterfall methodology
• To train and coach the Product owners/ Business Analysts/ DEV team to glide to the agile framework and process from the enterprise level and to mentor the RTEs to smoothly transform their present DEVOPS methods in order to keep the Agile TRAINS on TRACK
• Responsible for the management reporting of the project milestones, scope and efficiently used critical path techniques for the project performance improvisation.
• Responsible in major decisions involving the Project and product Quality testing practices and tools.
• Used Trello boards for the project and resource allocation along with TFS and Rally software and for producing the burn out charts for the sprint schedules.
• Created Project charts and organizational flow charts using Microsoft visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint and Microsoft office.
• Responsible for guiding the organization with new testing methodologies / testing and test reporting tools for the testing operations involving both onshore and offshore.
• Removing obstacles for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery.
• Responsible for the PRF and creating phased forecast on project breaking optEX and CapEx dollars.
• Responsible for reporting and monthly scorecards and determine the sprint velocity.
• Created Project charter, Management plan and Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Facilitated Agile Adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided with outcome resulting in enhanced performance satisfactory of customer issue solution and Customer provided positive feedback.
• Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.
• Well versed in reporting of Project status, Project Milestones and maintaining scrum backlogs, sprint velocity reporting
• Expertise in preparing Project Roadmaps, Cost effective budgeting, Resource allocations and Project scope.
• Conducting all Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective and client demos.
• Interfacing with product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.
• Removing obstacles and managing risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensuring all scrum activities are tracked and kept up-to-date and reported on a daily basis.
• Conducted Sprint Planning sessions, Sprint effort estimation, setting the Kanban Boards for the SDLC members and Task estimation and SCRUM review meetings.

Confidential, Plano, TX

QA Test Lead/ Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks
• Acting as an Agile coach/ product owner and Scrum master, setting the sprint velocity and work collaboratively with stakeholders and business to prioritize the scrum backlogs.
• Important Role player and operations support for the client and head the UAT activities and production support for all the major projects in the organization managing a team of 200 offshore and onshore of 30 and responsible for a successful implementation of the best QA control procedures
• To participate in the core management meetings for major decisions in the company and also to provide test status and reporting to the higher management and clients during the testing phase
• To provide performance reviews for the testing resources and evaluate the team’s performance periodically for their appraisals
• To guide the team of testers and UAT testers with advanced training periodically for the successful use of modern methods in industry to achieve maximum test efficiency
• Responsible for finding the new test automation tools to in corporate in the Organizational approaches
• Created and executed Test Plans and Test Cases in a highly dynamic Agile team for the Retail and point of sale systems
• Managed a team of 35 members offshore and 15 members on shore and effectively handled the product support and maintenance from procurement to delivery.
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in Version One. Work with component teams to resolve issues.
• Completed plans for long term goals using Microsoft Project.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• To research for new upgrades in the system test methodologies with abreast with the new developments in the Software field
• To work hand in hand with the multidisciplinary team and ensuring the proper delivery of the product with requesting the code deployments and regular bug tracking and closure procedures
• To guide the testing resources and the leads / managers with proper direction and guiding in every point of SDLC phase for the successful delivery of the software
• Initiate and suggest automation and test management tools to the organization’s efforts on discovery of new tools in the market.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories using TFS as a Project Management tool
• Coordinated Onsite and Offshore teams to resolve issues.
• Tracked and reported testing activities, including test case execution stage, defect status if any defects opened during execution and testing results status. Test Management with Microsoft Test Manager
• Test Management tool - HP Quality Center 11.0 was used to prepare test cases, test execution and to extract testing status and defect tracking.
• Worked on test data and completed unit testing to check all business rules and requirements are met. Also tested for negative data to check that the job fails on any critical error. worked on reporting and test metrics as a part of regular day to day test activities
• Solid testing experience in working with SQL Stored Procedures, triggers, views and worked with performance tuning of complex SQL queries.

Confidential, Dallas, Tx

Senior Scrum Master /Senior Software Automation Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Documents, created the test plan and prepared detailed test cases for new functionality and Understand the Functional Specification, and Design documents.
• Documented the Automated test cases and created the requirement traceability matrix to demonstrate the test coverage and used Agile Methodology JIRA as a Project Management tool.
• Tested and validated the Mobile Consumer apps on both Android and iOS platforms and conducted Mobile app testing on all versions of Andriods and iOS.
• Conducted Compatibility Testing as a part of Regression Testing and UAT walkthrough for the UAT team before the UAT Testing Schedule.
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL statements using MS SQL server 2008.
• Used Jmeter for validating the Web services wrapped in Json scripts as a part of functional testing. Used Jmeter for testing the load scenarios in testing the web applications and web services as a part of functional testing of the interfaces in test automation.
• Conducted integrated Testing of the interfaces and validated the Json responses with Bean shell Assertions.
• Documented the automated JMETER Scripts in the JIRA and validated the XML messages in SOAP UI as a part of validating the Web services testing.

Confidential, Plano TX

Senior level III software tester/ Scrum Master.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitation of all key Agile ceremonies (see meeting cadence) Maintenance and upkeep of Agile artifacts (monitoring of dashboards, retrospective action items)
• Participating in Scrum of Scrums meeting Key Competencies Required Technical understanding of product and software development applying knowledge in Agile best practices showcase leadership ability and Meeting facilitation skills
• Guiding to hold team members accountable Agile Cycle Est. Time Sprint 1 (Planning) Sprints 2 - n 100% 100% Meeting Cadence Frequency Daily Scrum Scrum of Scrums Team Backlog Grooming Port.
• Backlog Grooming Sprint Demo Sprint Retrospective Sprint Planning Daily Twice/Weekly Weekly Weekly Once/Sprint Once/Sprint Once/Sprint Key Decisions Action required to overcome blockers/impediments impending delivery.
• To find defects, log them and track them to closure. To work on stories with regular product backlogs and reporting using Project management tool IBM Rally Software, and run automation and use of tools like Selenium and Pega.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and review meetings to work hand in hand with the development team to return the defects to closure.
• Involved in writing Unit, Integration and System Test Cases by referring requirements and Test Plan and Front end testing of the Mortgage and finance applications of Confidential ., Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Have extensively used ALM process to validate the software applications in Mortgage technology and involved in END TO END TESTING of the application.
• Used RALLY tool in the Project Management covering different stories in scheduled sprint. Written and updated Test reports and defect report in the test phase completion as deliverable using Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
• XML data mapping using SQL and SOAP UI for various checking transaction and credit card application

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Lead mobile multimedia software tester/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Front end Validation, end- end testing of the User interface of the Samsung application, involved in Extensive GUI testing and API ...
• To establish diverse familiarity with Smartphone and other product development and validate the application on different mobile platforms and operating systems and validating the software rules using DEVICE ANYWHERE.
• Used capture the URL and invoke test against the Web services in the Samsung Hub. Responsible for both the creation and staging of Web Services tests using logical "assertions" against WSDL and SOAP.
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium.
• Performed Regression testing for new builds and every modification in the application using Selenium RC.
• Used TOAD explicitly to validate the database.
• Use SOAPUI in testing web AP interfaces.
• Front end testing involving GUI objects and integration testing involving the data flows in AP interfaces.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Given an air waybill number, and find any active matching air waybills for any airlines. locating the Master PNR number and validating the bills with proper matches to the itenary by Manual testing. involved in Front end testing, Back end testing and UAT testing and Validating the code of the PNR in the local CSR of the airline and locating the cargo bill no along with the passenger booking using the Record Locator. validating the verifying the OSI (other system information) associated with the cargo itenary in (GDS)and validating the vendor remarks to the CRS after the booking is made.
• Retrieve information for an air waybill, including summary information as well as piece level groupings with their current station, associated flights, and future bookings. .
• Request to book shipments by gaining access to south west Cargo global sales offices and specialty desks.

Confidential, AZ

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documentation.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst to analyze and understand the user requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Involved in writing test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
• Performed black box testing of the application. Manually tested the functionality and User Interfaces of web application and involved in front end testing of the various finance applications.
• Used Mercury Quality Centre for Test Planning, Test execution and Defect Tracking.
• Worked on Web Interfaces functionality and participated in User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with software developers and other team members as required to ensure the quality, compliance to specifications and performance of FlightNetwork.com's products. Work with other departmental staff to achieve QA team objectives and done Back end validation executing sql queries in oracle and toad soapware. Solid experience with software technologies including: HTML, XML and SOAPUi