PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Work on various projects in a program under enterprise level applications to deliver the work effectively & efficiently in the challenging environment with interdependent teams which includes scope identification, estimations, requirement analysis, test designs and solutions, addressing project related issues and the risks, setting up milestones and assessment
• 13+ Years of experience by PDLC in SCRUM & Agile, Waterfall, V - Model & Incremental to deliver various projects. Very good knowledge in preparing and presenting Test Strategy document, Iteration Test plans, capacity planning and resource allocations
• 2+ Years of experience as Scrum Master, facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings and sprint demonstrations. Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features on priority.
• 5+ Years in assistance to Business Analyst on strategic projects to describe complex business scenarios on regulatory and compliance projects to capture requirements, elaborate requirements with onsite and offshore counterpart.
• 3+ Years of experience in ETL methodology for testing and supporting data extraction, transformations and loading process in a corporate-wide-ETL Solutions.
• 7+ Years in support to automation team enhance UFT & Selenium scripts for new features of web based applications. Also run test scripts for smoke and regression suites.
• Experience in Structured Finance with Asset backed securities (ABS) like Bond funds, Hedge funds, Closed end funds (CEF), Derivatives (CDO’s), Mortgage Securities Product Group (MSPG), Residual Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) and Corporate finance ratings.
• Educate and reinforce Scrum methodology and follow best best practices to team members and key stakeholders. Resolve impediments or team conflicts, maintain healthy and focus on project timeline.
• Worked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Moody’s ratings area and Ecommerce area of POS &OMS systems, support large portfolio of strategic and ongoing projects, and provide support throughout the product development process.
• Experience in track and manage product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down. Addressed problems through risk management and provide contingency planning to helping to make manamgement decisions
• Great experience on Compliance projects to comply rating business applications to publish credit ratings
• Very good experience of Mainframe applications and legacy applications
• Expertise in various phases of application functional testing, end-to-end integration testing with external interfaces, database testing, automation testing, managing the test environments and test data for code releases, the data center consolidation activities
• Involve in Signing off on the implemented solutions, and participating in user acceptance testing. For strategic projects, support Business Analyst in prepare in user acceptance scenarios, test data and involve in User Acceptance Testing and coordinate responses with respective teams.
• Expert in prepare, maintain technical support documentation and training to ensure smooth transition to the operations teams. Accountable to overall projects with mentoring to team, bringing efficiency and will participate in content solutions such as website, data or feeds, or configurations
• Extensively used MS office, Sharepoint Services, JIRA, HP Quality Center/ ALM, MKS/APPM & Microsoft Test Manager for Test Management, defect raising and tracking, results and status reporting.
• Prioritization of work efforts, monitor and supervise day to day, weekly and monthly work efforts for the large sized team, documenting assumptions and risk dependencies.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving. Highly adaptable and willing to work in fast-paced environment with diverse groups, exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments, keen on learning new technologies, tools and practices

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing / Integration / ETL Tools: Selenium, QTP 10.0/UFT 11.5, Maven, Perfecto, BitBucket, HP Quality Center/ ALM, JIRA, Rally MKS /APPM, Microsoft Test Manager, Rally, Q-Track and Bugzilla, IBM Data stage 8.7 & 9.2 development, Congos

Languages: C#.NET, C, C++, Core Java, SQL, UNIX and Shell Scripting

Scripting: VB Script, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML

Database: Oracle 11g, DB2, SQL Server 2008 and Sybase 12.5

ERP: SAP FICO Functional

Operating Systems: Windows 2007/10, Linux

Webserver/ AppServer: IIS, Apache, WebLogic, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere App Server, Tomcat DVL and MSP

Methodologies: SDLC, RUP, AGILE, SCRUM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Technologies: Manual Testing (Web & Mobile), Automation Testing with Selenium and Unified Functional testing (UFT), Maven, Big bucket, Perfecto, SQL Server, SAP FICO, JIRA, Rally, PSI, Web Service, Java Script, HTML & Windows 2010

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with scrum QA and development team and product owners to come up with sprint plan.
• Facilitate Scrum events (i.e., grooming, stand-ups, retrospective, etc.) and working very closely with business analysts and with partners in the development and program management organizations.
• Ensure appropriate staffing is assigned to scrum initiatives and monitor burn down chart and evaluate work being done with current sprint.
• Remove obstacles to enhance project team efficiency and effectiveness
• Manage relevant metrics that help the team assess progress and velocity
• Conduct user story features testing including functional and regression testing, User acceptance testing with Akamai capable environments.
• Test eCommerce applications of three brands on daily basis in web, cross browser and device validation
• Perform mobile (IOS testing: IPhone, Ipad) and Android testing with Compatibility. Defect coordination and updating with project management team
• Facilitate pilot testing / proof of concept (POC) & sign off from product owner and business team.
• Execute automation scripts using Selenium and UFT for regression suite for across the brands for Mobile (IOS & Andriod), I-pad and web.
• Raise defects in JIRA and assign, follow up with respective team member. Communicate project status to internal and external stakeholders
• Follow Agile best practices and refining existing process to enhance quality and productivity
• Enhance Website to accept different enhancement and customer experiences.
• Perform key role on production launch and support post production activities and accountable to deliver high-quality project.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Technologies: ETL Testing, JIRA, Quality Center, C#.Net, ASP, IIS, Forms, XML/XSLT, SOAP, DB2,, Java, JBOSS, Web Sphere, COM+,HTML, UNIX scripting, Active X Controls & Windows 2007

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile initiatives including user story grooming / refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review & sprint retrospective meetings.
• Instill Agile project management best practices including production impact analysis, risk management, cross-team interdependencies, release scheduling, scope definition, delivery objectives, quality standards, and user needs identification.
• Coach Agile teams with continuous process improvement of software delivery
• Create/ refine and maintain user stories for each item within the product backlog
• Support product development by providing business analysis and development estimates.
• Ensure appropriate staffing is assigned to scrum initiatives, define sprint goals, delegate task to scrum team member.
• Manage sprint 'Burndown Chart', product backlog & setting priorities with Product Owner
• Work with teams to drive future-state vision and efficiencies with respect to test planning and execution, test processes, and reporting.
• Develop complex SQL queries to verify the data loaded into the target tables, validate the test data using MS access, UNIX & MS Excel
• Involved in smoke test, involve in backend testing with SQL, ETL Functional testing to check data integrity and referential integrity, full regression and User acceptance during release testing
• Review and signoff on test plans and strategy deliverables in conjunction with test architecture
• Liaise with key vendor relationships responsible for testing support functions, Review, resolve, and escalate risks and provide mitigations plans to business
• Establish and managed defect triage framework.
• Research and recommend new tools and technologies for possible use within the team

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Technologies: QTP 10.0/UFT 11.5, Quality Center, MKS, APPM, Q-Track, DVL (Data Virtualization Layer)C#.Net, ASP, IIS, Forms, XML/XSLT, SOAP, SYBASE, Java, JBOSS, Web Sphere, COM+HTML, UNIX scripting, Active X Controls & Windows 2007

Responsibilities

• Liaise with business and development teams to understand vision, requirements and roadmap.
• Prepare master test strategy document, involve into estimation of process, test planning and user acceptance scenarios preparation with data
• Closely with work with business analyst on ‘Compliance projects’ and provide support throughout the product development process for structured finance and corporate finance
• Define and implement the QA and test strategies including standards and metrics
• Setting up QA environment, conduct smoke test, functional testing, end to end, regression and user acceptance testing and raise defects, assign/ follow up with corresponding users
• Worked as SME in ratings area and support to Business stack to explain rating applications workstreams/impacted areas to capture detailed project requirements, ensure they are written with supporting details for strategic businesses.
• Outline wireframes and screens with required data to create working prototypes by using Wireframes, Balsamiq Mockups, Visio and Photoshop
• Work with onshore and offshore resources to maximize our test throughput and provide guidance to automate UFT script and training to new team members and execute automation test scripts.
• Prepare daily/ weekly status reports, conduct defect remediation to resolve and deliver project on time
• Liaise with engineering and quality teams to adapt test strategies and standards

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Technologies: Manual Testing, GUI, QTP 10.0, Quality Center, MKS, Sybase, C#.Net, ASP, WinForms, XML/XSLT, SOAP, Java, Web Sphere Inter, COM+, HTML, UNIX, Scripting, Active X controls, Web Sphere, Application Server, Windows 2003

Responsibilities:

• Participate in initial phases of requirements analysis, clarifications, encourage design reviews with corresponding team, prepare business flows.
• Prepare Master test plan, testcase writing, Reviews, conduct functional testing, regression testing, End to End testing and defect reporting and tracking.
• Define and implement the QA and test strategies including standards and metrics.
• Review and manage the production quality indicators and identify performance and quality improvements.
• Provide guidance to automation team to UFT script and conduct training to new team members and execute automation test scripts.
• Prepare daily/ weekly status reports, conduct defect remediation to resolve and deliver project on time
• Work with onshore and offshore resources to maximize our test throughput
• Create artifacts with respect to each project release and put them into appropriate location

Confidential

QA Engineer

Technologies: QTP 8.2, Test Director, Win-NT, VB, HTML, JavaScript, XML, VBScript, Oracle9i and IIS

Responsibilities

• Plan, design and execute manual & automated test cases independently
• Document automated test scripts to company standards
• Execute and schedule automated test runs as required
• Examine test logs, analyze and maintain the scripts against failures
• Record test results and report and verify software bug fixes to accept automation criteria
• Maintain automated regression suites/packages to be compliant with changing requirements and features
• Proactively share knowledge across software testing groups on best practices for testing software developed using new and emerging technologies.