Scrum Master Resume GA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

IT Product Quality Control and Assurance Leader with over 12 years of experience with healthcare and banking domains.
Experience managing global teams located in multiple geographies in an agile delivery environment.
Hands - on technical leader with experience in setting the vision and implementation/execution of scalable automation frameworks.
Entrusted by senior management to understand, trouble shoot and solve customer issues from business and technical standpoints.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

Define automation goals and build a backlog of stories for a QA team of 20, including both manual as well as automation testers.
Scrum master for a team of 5 dedicated to automation. Leads daily stand up calls, planning meetings and retrospectives.
Manages the creation, enhancement and maintenance of the automation framework, using UFT.
Collaborates with cross functional teams, including development and business analysts to ensure smooth transition of manual tests into automated.
Responsible for recruiting, mentoring and developing the team, including performance reviews.
Define sanity testing strategies for the entire QA team and generate reports for testing cycles, defect counts and defect escapes, using Rally, ALM and Jira.
Works as Project Manager/point of contact for client during go-lives. Manages issue lists, daily status calls and reports.

Senior QA Automation Engineer/QA Lead

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

Defined and managed agile QA processes, including creating checklists for test case and defect creation.
Accountable for defining and implementing an automation plan for scrum teams.
Organized weekly status meetings to track automation progress, action items and impediments.
Facilitated training for team members, ensuring all team members were familiar with the application development and quality assurance process.
Reported and tracked test case results and defect counts using Rally and Quality Center/ALM.
Managed two cross-team integration testing projects; responsible for managing testing resources, maintaining servers, communicating with project teams and providing status updates.
Managed testing environment, performing maintenance, deploying code updates and refreshing databased.
Created manual and automated test scripts using QTP/UFT and HP web service tool.
Recipient of the Confidential Tech Star Team Award for critical problem solving and the Confidential ICare Award for accountability.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, GA

Responsibilities:

Participated in JADs and document reviews to ensure the integrity of project results.
Involved in testing of new enhancements for the applications, ensuring achievement of quality measures.
Served on the defect triage team responsible for tracking, analyzing and prioritizing defect logs.
Provided onsite and remote training for onsite and offshore team in both process and functional knowledge.
Wrote, revised and verified quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation to ensure and maintain the quality of software.
Integral member of scrum team involved in fixing defects and enhancements; received extensive training in agile high-speed testing.
Used various technologies, including HP Quality Center for test management and SQL scripts on SQL Developer to test data integrity.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Performed system and regression testing of cash management software across various functions, including money transfer, bank reports, commercial loans, check management and automated clearing house.
Worked closely with banking specific message formats, including NACHA and BA12.
Performed database testing on both Oracle and SQL server databases as well as Java-based client and web application on a UNIX based server side management.

QA Lead/Global Defect Coordinator

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

Prioritized and assigned defects to developers for resolution and to testers for verification.
Worked with a team of 250 developers and 60 testers.
Assumed the role of module lead in the offshore testing team; analyzed and tracked new defects logged and assigned defect verification and test execution tasks to a team of 6 daily based on priority and severity of defects fixed.
Created test cases using JUNIT for ASI testing, wrote and executed automation test scripts using QTP, tested data integrity using SQL scripts on TOAD and Raptor and tested database structure using Erwin.
Performed defect reporting, tracking and verification using Quality Center and BUGZILLA.