EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• 14+ years of progressive experience in managing large - scale software development projects, geographically distributed, multi-cultural and cross functional teams with maturity and professionalism
• Consistently worked with leadership of varying levels of agile knowledge to educate, propose and facilitate the adoption of Portfolio and Program level SAFe/Agile adoption.
• Lead change initiatives and change management with other team members as direct reports.
• Effectively collaborated across the organization to remove barriers to the development teams’ progress.
• Provided leadership and direction to the program team, other Agile Program Leads and Scrum Masters
• Directed a team of architects, system analysts, software designers, programmers, and testers to determine best solution to achieve program objectives.
• Applied SAFe knowledge, skills, and techniques to project deliverables and processes
• Facilitated release planning readiness, vision, backlog and facilities
• Assisted in economic decision making (budgeting etc.) by facilitating EPIC estimation by teams and rollup to program level visibility
• Established the annual calendars for sprints and program increments
• Partner with Product Managers and engage continuously with customers to ensure their success
• Ensured that the Program has high visibility and understanding of the critical data for the release train - dependencies, issues and risks, Inspect & Adapt plans, train-level metrics, etc. and communicates appropriately.
• Help design relationships with technical partners including statement of work definitions.
• Oversight and direction to a variety of subcontractors to ensure milestones and deliverable are achieved on time and within budget.
• Oversight for entire project schedule to ensure milestones and deliverables are achieved on time and within budget.
• Designed and implemented the Automation Framework using VSTS 2010 using C# scripting., built the test Strategy & Test planning
• 6+ years of experience in software testing phases - Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Analysis & Design, Test Execution and Evaluation of the exit criteria and reporting.
• Worked on preparing SOP - Proof of Concepts, Feasibility study of automation projects.
• 6+ years of experience in writing testing documentation such as Test Plan, test specification, Defect report and test summary.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered on-time for over 7 quarters
• Decreased bugs by 30% Year over year
• Ensuring that the Program has high visibility and understanding of the critical data for the release train - dependencies, issues and risks, Inspect & Adapt plans, train-level metrics, etc. and communicates appropriately.
• Managing entire project schedule to ensure milestones and deliverables are achieved on time and within budget.
• Tracks progress and provides updates to the team on any changes in strategy or priorities.
• Developing, understanding and managing interdependencies/relationships between multiple subcontractors.
• Driving solutions to complex business issues.
• Reporting to senior executives on the progress of individual projects and the overall program
• Leading initiatives and working closely with the development team and across the organization to enable successful delivery of solutions to the business
• Clearly communicating with technical owners, product managers, and upper management

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading change initiatives and change management with other team members as direct reports.
• Effectively collaborating across the organization to remove barriers to the development teams’ progress.
• Listening, understanding, and anticipating the customers’ needs as a critical component of the Agile methodology
• Providing leadership and direction to the program team, other Agile Program Leads and Scrum Masters
• Directs a team of architects, system analysts, software designers, programmers, and testers to determine best solution to achieve project objectives.
• Applies SAFe knowledge, skills, and techniques to project deliverables and processes
• Responsible for all aspects of project management including planning, executing, closing and controlling
• Leading project team meetings (ART Sync, SoS)
• Managing project scope and change request process
• Developing project plans and manages schedules.
• Identifying and managing resources, risks, and issues
• Managing project budget
• Identifying project team training and tool needs
• Preparation of formal test reports including daily status reports, weekly updates to the Project Manager, monthly updates to the steering committee and final acceptance reports.
• Reviewing incoming bugs and investigate with QA team
• Providing timely and accurate reporting of test results and tracking of defects and other issues to closure
• Involving in automating the test cases using VSTS 2010.
• Conducting Functional testing and Integration testing and reported defects.
• Conducting Regression Test for the fixes and enhancement of the application.
• Performing the Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Analysis & Design, Test Execution and Evaluation of the exit criteria and reporting.
• Worked on preparing SOP - Proof of Concepts, Feasibility study of automation projects.

Confidential

Engineer - Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Providing regular test status updates to internal & external project owners
• Coordinating with technology partners across different geographical locations for UAT environment setup.
• Worked with various internal automated software installation systems. Migrated lab machines from one automated software installation system to a newer system. Filed bugs with the tool developers and contributed ideas to fine tune the systems to our particular needs.
• Constant setup and configuration of systems.
• Worked with complex batch files developed by me and other test engineer to automate various suites of tests. I made edits to these scripts as needed
• Created basic batch files to automate simple, repetitive tasks.
• Created test case metrics and published daily detailed test reports to the team.
• Created extensive documentation describing lab setup and procedures. Conducted tours and presentations, utilizing Visio and PowerPoint, with respect to the lab.
• Created documentation with respect to test case execution.
• Assigning the task to other team member, tracking and helping them to finish the task on schedule.
• Design and Implementation of Simulation technique in Experion PKS system testing.
• Scripting test cases written review the scripts written by team members, create compiled modules and functions in FBT.
• Integrating the test scripts written for individual units.
• Effective coordination between development team and testing team.

Confidential

Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of Technical Specification, architecture block diagrams, cost estimation, evaluation of technical proposals, User acceptance tests for systems.
• Reporting defects in Defect Tracking Process.
• Preparing test scripts, review of test scripts, execution and defect reporting during the User Acceptance Test phase.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: MS TFS, MS SharePoint, Visio, MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, CA Central (Rally)

Language and DB: C#,.NET,WCF,MS SQL, JAVA, C++

Testing tools: FBT - Honeywell internal testing tool, WWFAST, VSTS 2010, QTP

Hardware: DCS, PLC, HMI, Profibus, Fieldbus, HART

Framework/Methodology: Agile, Scrum, ATDD, SDLC, Waterfall, RUP, SAFe, Six Sigma, Lean, Kanban, CI