SUMMARY

• More than 12 years of experience in IT Industry. More than 7 years of experience as Scrum Master .
• Certified Scrum Master. fully participated in scrum team, moderate to high complexity projects. Adopted scrum process and coached the teams on how to use scrum and Agile practices and methodology.
• Closely worked with team which Facilitated transparency, inspection, and adaption.
• Experienced Leadership in daily scrums, sprint reviews, and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement. Closely observed management in interdependencies between agile teams.
• Closely Worked with the Product Owners to support short and long - term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
• Shielded the teams from external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity.
• Anticipated and addressed potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges).
• Mentored and coached team members on agile practices.
• Involved in Sizing the story with different methods from RTC (IBM Agile Tool).
• Have worked on JIRA. collaborated in Breaking the Epic into stories coordinated within SQA teams for Breaking the stories into simple task
• Timely motivated team for moving the stories from progressive status in RTC and Task board in Agile Lab.
• Ensuring from the team for Moving the status of Task
• Creating impediment if any blockage and followed up with concern team members or third party.
• Motivated team for grooming sessions and participated in the same.
• Part of Retrospective and involved in contemplations on what went well, what went wrong & Lesson learnt.
• Involved in churning the lessons learnt and making sure the development Team for putting them in practice.
• Worked on the Product backlogs generated by Product owners.
• Part of conflict Resolutions and Process improvement (Audits, shared services, security and compliance etc.) Teams in various organization
• Ensuring the approval of all stories, closing of impediments, tasks, defects on Iteration End Date.
• Certified ISTQB Test Engineer.
• Extensive testing ETL experience using ESP (Mart Designer, Elements Manager, Auto sys batch Monitor and Feed Manager, OCF Checks and Mart Integration)
• Strongly used ETL methodology for testing and supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL Solution using Enterprise Service Platform (ESP), worked on Database Migration Project.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in testing Meta models, IRD & Tableau reports, graphs and listings using various SQL queries and handling large databases to perform complex data manipulations.
• Good understanding of AGILE Methodology - Scrum, Sprint and User Stories in RTC.
• Lead multiple teams of 8-10 members including Onshore and Offshore as QA Lead.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Risk Analytics is Model Hosting environment. RAI provides Audit Compliant production environment that can be used to quickly integrate, host and provide execution capability for desktop developed models. Deployment controls ensure appropriate committee approval has been obtained for new or substantive revisions to models before they are moved into production. Business and IT application support teams continually partner with Compliance to ensure change management is in line with Confidential practice and appropriately documented.
• Supported and facilitated generally two Kanban Teams and one scrum team in various functions by fostering Agile values and practices.
• Ensured team adherence to Agile principles. Provided coaching to the Scrum Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework. Acted as a role model for servant leadership.
• Organized and facilitated ceremonies, identified improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk.
• Tacked and communicated the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders (Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, Pre-planning etc)
• Served as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team. Protected the team from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities.
• Partnered with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
• Facilitated team for better creativity and tried to improve the efficiency of the development team
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitated/schedules meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, execution, and closing of sprints to support the delivery of software product for Accounting Seed projects and stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Planned responsibilities included facilitation of planning meetings to identify the product.
• Worked on Backlog items in a sprint and estimated the level of effort of development.
• Executed responsibilities including leading daily standup meetings, tracking progress by keeping the sprint backlog up-to-date, and helping to remove impediments.
• Strongly participated in Release Tollgate process.
• Conducted retrospective with dynamic techniques.

Confidential

Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in pre-planning, Planning, Product Back logs, Grooming and Retrospective.
• Fully adopted Strong knowledge of agile principles and concepts Displays strong communication, organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and team building skills.
• Involved in pre-planning, Planning, Product Back logs, Grooming and Retrospective.
• With support from agile office worked on removal of impediments.
• Worked to create healthy environment in team without blame games and focused on solutions and healings.
• Motivated Team and act as servant leader
• Took ownership of facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
• Worked and directed team in managing impediments effectively.
• Work efficiently to implements all outcomes of retrospective positively in next iteration.
• Worked in the environment of Reflective learning and process refinement
• Worked on improving velocity with continuous integration.

Confidential

Scrum Master cum Test Data Manager

Responsibilities:

• Fully focused on problems related to Risk compliances.
• Worked in Test data management using TDC and MTB tool
• Working in agile methodology to provide user story estimation to project scrum master.
• Understanding requirements and explain the business knowledge to offshore team.
• Responsible for successful deliveries in Agile model with regular status updates to allStakeholders, gathering continuously changing business requirements, preparing analysis andUnderstanding documents, planning for sprints in terms of schedule and scope.
• Validated source target mappings based on the Technical Design requirements validating data model and database to make sure data type, data length and fields are in sync.
• Develop test plans based on test strategy.
• Created and executed test cases and test scripts based on the mapping document.
• Extensively used SQL queries to implement business rules and security

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Collaborate with RMT and Agile Team.
• Part of Road Map design meeting.
• Involved in design of shared services templates.
• Motivate the team for Daily scrum, preplanning, scrum Review and retrospective meetings.
• Worked on listing, analyzing the impediments and routing to the proper channel till concrete solution is built.
• Organized the grooming sessions with Product owners, stake holders and development teams.
• Participated in discussion of definition of Done, Definition of ready etc.
• Worked in collaboration with team for maintaining proper velocity and always keeping eyes on burn down chart.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, test strategy document that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Drafted Test Plan which included testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules.
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database.
• Coordinated with technical support associates to fix proprietary software issues.
• Created manual test cases, reviewed with different stakeholders to validate the functionality.
• Attend the BRI (Business Requirement Identification) meeting to understand the business Requirements.
• Participated in meeting, teleconferences walk through with the development team, QA manager and Project manager (PM) for test cases.

Confidential

Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test cases using Requirement documents.
• Preparing Test data requirements.
• Executing test cases.
• Preparation of Daily Execution, Metric, Defect Summary Report.
• Participating in Defect Review meetings.
• Defect Tracking and uploading Test cases into Quality Center.
• Tracking the issues to closure by working in co-operation with the Development team and the Business Analysts.

Confidential

Sr.Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Test Scenarios and Test cases.
• Parallel database testing is performed from Sybase to SQL server 2005
• Test execution, Defect reporting.
• Deployment of a successful Onsite-Offshore methodology.
• Timely escalations of internal/external issues impacting deliveries.
• Proactively identify risk and mitigation planning.
• Proactively find ways to improve efficiency and make suggestions.

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Test Scenarios and Test cases.
• Test execution, Defect reporting.
• Deployment of a successful Onsite-Offshore methodology.
• Timely escalations of internal/external issues impacting deliveries.
• Proactively identify risk and mitigation planning.
• Proactively find ways to improve efficiency and make suggestions.

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing to ensure that different user-configurable reports were generated correctly.
• Built checkpoints to discover requirements specification problems like ambiguous requirements, missing requirements, inconsistent requirements.
• Handled Defect Tracking.
• Documented defects tested during testing and assisted with defect resolution and clarification.
• Worked on Assigned Tasks along with peer review.
• Coordinated with the team members and attending daily meetings to discuss the progress of the project.