SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with a strong strategic vision and ability to understand technical and business intricacies, without losing sight of the big picture.
• Extensive experience in Process improvement, Project Management, Business Analytics and testing to achieve business goals.
• Has assisted teams in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile. Guides teams every step of their transformation into new methodology.
• Well versed with Regression Testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing with Black Box test methods.
• Involved in testing CRM applications
• Strong Skills in Web testing, Client/Server testing, mainframe testing and Back - end Testing.
• Extensively worked on medium and large size applications related to major Financial, Insurance and Telecommunication industries.
• Expertise in conducting and participating in various scrum ceremonies like grooming, sprint planning, Standups, S2s, demos and retrospectives.
• Skillfully applies noledge of business processes in an effort to produce time-saving and money-saving results.
• Contributes towards process improvements in various software development process like Waterfall model, Agile (Scrum and Kanban) and RUP model.
• Experience working in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile(Kanban/Scrum)
• Version1
• Rally
• Jira
• Quality Center/ALM
• Win Runner
• QTP
• Selenium
• LoadRunner
• Ruby
• Clearquest
• Test Tracker
• Siebel
• PeopleSoft
• Visual Basic
• Datawarehousing
• Reports
• Crystal Reports
• UNIX
• Windows
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• Sybase
• DB2
• CICS
• JCL
• DB2
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• BASIC
• C++
• Java
• IE
• Firefox
• Chrome
• HTML
• VB Script
• Java
• Java Script
• ASP
• COM
• XML
• .Net
• Andriod
• IPhone
• Sales Force
• XML
• Soap

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assist team in transitioning to Agile methodology by guiding them in every step of their transformation into new technology.
• Facilitated Daily Standup meetings, organized Sprint
• Assist product owner to create user stories and determine the acceptance criteria.
• Conduct retrospective meeting for the team, determine wat happened in the iteration and identify actions for improvement.
• Work with Product Owner and team to manage the backlog of development work
• Planning/Grooming sessions, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives, maintained Sprint Backlogs and Task burn down for teams.
• Conduct Sprint Demos & Retrospectives
• Support development teams and the Software management team by proactively identifying and removing obstacles and dependencies

Confidential

Scrum Master & Test Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted team in transitioning from waterfall to Agile and becoming a self organized and cross functional team.
• Enacted Agile values and principles: facilitated Daily Standup meetings, organized Sprint Planning/Grooming sessions, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives, maintained Sprint Backlogs and Task burn down for teams.
• Ensured dat team members were collectively working on all aspects of agreed work (analysis, development, testing, and documentation).
• Enabled close collaboration across all roles and functions.
• Supervised and guided quality managers and departments to establish quality standards as per industry and market requirement.
• Directed employees to ensure highest standard of quality so dat the organization meets both internal and external requirements - Ensured dat all quality standards were met by all departments, by explaining the importance of maintaining quality standards.

Confidential

Test Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements, prepared BRDs, prepared Test Plan, Test Conditions and performed test execution.
• Implemented defined QA procedures to plan, design, implement, execute, evaluate and report results of software testing under minimal supervision for projects of all scopes.
• Created BRD and provide Requirement Walkthrough.
• Worked in a team oriented, high demand and fast phased environments.
• Involved in preparing and executing the production validation plan.
• Took initiative in working on multiple projects and demonstrated flexibility in prioritizing the responsibilities within these projects.

Confidential

Scrum Master & QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leader for managing and supporting two highly functional Agile teams.
• Work closely with Kanban/Scrum and Agile Team members, Product Owners and Business Partners in determining the campaign deadlines/deliverables.
• Participate in PI Planning Meetings to determine the WIP and Team Dependencies
• .Assist product owner to create user stories and determine the acceptance criteria.
• Conduct retrospective meeting for the team, determine wat happened in the iteration and identify actions for improvement.
• Conduct daily scrum, planning, review, and retrospective meetings.
• Create Burn down charts to determine the progress of stories.
• Assist team in transitioning to Agile methodology by guiding them in every step of their transformation into new technology.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a test team in the writing and execution of application for Integration, Regression and UAT test cases.
• Involved in coordination with Offshore and Onshore resources
• Provided Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Testcase Walkthru to the team, update based on the feedback.
• Actively participates in Planning and Daily Stand ups

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of Quality Assurance offshore / onshore team efforts for the assigned initiative
• Leading a test team in the writing and execution of application for Integration, Regression and UAT test cases.
• Involved in Coordination with Application Owners for EQA support
• Involved in testing coordination for Migration project for different applications in multiple Releases
• Contributes to and monitors test planning, test preparation and scripting, and test execution according to defined best practices, standards and procedures.
• Monitor and review test cases in ALM accurately and check them for business specification compliance.
• Involved in scheduling of target dates for deliverables, prioritizes and monitors activities to meet such dates.
• Identify and mitigate risks to the schedules.
• Involved in automation testing using QTP
• Involved in Test Estimates & Test Schedules.
• Schedule Defect Triage Meetings weekly basis to discuss on Defects & other issues
• Participate in Requirement Reviews, prepare test strategy, define test methodology and standards and communicate to the project management
• Report test Execution status to Project management on a timely basis.
• Expertise in working with ALM for logging, tracking, retesting and reporting the defects.
• Estimating test effort and managing testing schedules to align with overall project timelines.

Confidential, IL

QA Lead / Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of Quality Assurance offshore/ onshore team efforts for the assigned initiative
• Leading a test team in the writing and execution of application for Integration, End to End, Regression and UAT test cases.
• Contributes to and monitors test planning, test preparation and scripting, and test execution according to defined best practices, standards and procedures.
• Monitor and review test cases in Quality Center accurately and check them for business specification compliance.
• Involved in facilitating defect review meetings.
• Performed web service testing using Soap UI tool
• Involved in developing test strategies, writing test plans
• Report test Execution status to Project management daily basis.
• Reviewing test cases, approving defects, holding meetings with business partners on testing related matters.
• Expertise in working with Quality Center for logging, tracking, retesting and reporting the defects.
• Proactively identify issues, risks and, variances from expected results while providing resolution suggestions and mitigation strategies.
• Validate accuracy of bugs opened against test scripts.
• Involved in Mobile testing.
• Extensively involved in requirements traceability matrix to ensure all requirements have been met and thoroughly tested.

Confidential, IL

UAT Test Manager/QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of Quality Assurance offshore / onshore team efforts for the assigned initiative
• Leading a test team in the writing and execution of application for Integration, Regression and UAT test cases.
• Contributes to and monitors test planning, test preparation and scripting, and test execution according to defined best practices, standards and procedures.
• Monitor and review test cases in Quality Center accurately and check them for business specification compliance.
• Mentored/ trained testers on test tools & best practices.
• Participate in analysis and design walkthroughs, as well as project meetings
• Involved in scheduling of target dates for deliverables, prioritizes and monitors activities to meet such dates.
• Involved in Mobile Testing with Android/IPhones.
• Identify and mitigate risks to the schedules.
• Participate in Requirement Reviews, prepare test strategy, define test methodology and standards and communicate to the project management
• Report test Execution status to Project management on a timely basis.
• Reviewing test cases, approving defects, holding meetings with business partners on testing related matters.
• Assessed Resource Requirements, recruited & organized test team.
• Coordinate UA with client resources, document/capture and report the results of each step and the final reports for client sign-offs.
• Expertise in working with Quality Center for logging, tracking, retesting and reporting the defects.
• Estimating test effort and managing testing schedules to align with overall project timelines.
• Proactively identify issues, risks and, variances from expected results while providing resolution suggestions and mitigation strategies.

Confidential

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed different types of testing, Functional, Integration, Regression, System and End-to-End using manual and automation tool Winrunner to assure functionality of application. nalysis of the Specifications and creation of test Designs according to the functional requirements.
• Supported test case and test script creation for test team using RUP Methodology.
• Expertise in working with Clearquest for logging, tracking, retesting and reporting the defects.
• Involved in Regression testing on every build.
• Involved in creating Test Plans, Test Cases.
• Connecting to AS/400 and verifying premium verification and data compare.
• Involved in additional testing on various operating Systems and Browsers supported by Alliance systems.
• Involved in creating and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrixes.
• Involved in performance testing by using Load Runner.
• Participate in Test Plan Inspections and Reviews of Requirements and functional design documents issues and supports resolution of those issues.