SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master with 3+ years of Scrum Master/Project Manager and 14+ years of Information Technology (IT) and business management experience, in both private and public sector clients like Federal government and State government of United States, Insurance and Retail clients with security clearance.
• Passionate about people, teamwork and helping teamsimprove product development using high - qualitysoftware in a timely fashion.
• A proven record of accomplishment on improving resource productivity, project quality and project profitability through automation and effective risk control for customers across multiple geographies.
• Worked within the PMO group and dealing with VP’s and other C level executives.
• Managed all phases of projects, including, Proposals, bidding, initiation, planning, execution, implementation, leveraging best practice standards and processes set out by industry organizations like PMI (PMBOK)
• A seasoned Scrum Master with versatile competency’s towards Usance of SBOK Guidelines, Principles’ of SCRUM, Scrum Planning / Review / and Retrospect Meeting’s.
• Matured and Accomplished Servant Leadership/Facilitator Skills, including coaching, mentoring, organizational planning, reviews, continuous growth and feedback
• Success stories are extended to and not limited to onvarious occasions during the transformation of a largeorganization from Waterfall to Agile(scrum) by forming,nursing, coaching and supporting multiple scrumteams.
• Experienced Agile Software Professional withextensive knowledge in Project delivery, tracking andmanagement.Versed with severalAgilemethodology (Scrum)and best practices needed to accomplish Sprint Zero to the final Sprint of a Project.
• Conducted Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS), Joint Application Requirement (JAR) sessions Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and updated requirements.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, ROI analysis and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, meet deadlines and plan resources in line with triple constraint. Followed up with daily scrums, weekly Project Status and organized Task Review meetings.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate appropriately in business and technical situations at all levels. Effectively presented projects using MS PowerPoint.
• Over 10 years of experience as QA Lead in coordinating and guiding team activities on a complete test cycle.
• Initiated, coordinated and implemented the QA Process and Methodologies.
• Experience in writing and executing Test plans, Test cases, Test reports and documentation for manual and automated test procedures.
• Very good team player with excellent communication, strong Analytical and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process/ Methodology: RUP- Rational Unified Process, Agile, MS Project, Word, Excel

Databases: MS SQL Server, Access, Oracle 9i/8/7, MySQL

Platforms: Windows 98/00/NT/XP/ Advanced Server, UNIX

Testing tools: HP QTP 11, HP Load Runner 11, Requisite pro, Unified Functional Testing (UFT)

Bug reporting tools: Team Foundation server (TFS) Rational clear quest, HP Quality center Test Director 7.6, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Platforms: DOS, Windows 2000/NT/XP/VISTA and UNIX.

Languages: PL/SQL, C, java, SQL, VB Script

Databases: Oracle 9i/8i/7.3,SQL Server, MS Access 97/2000, DB2.

Tools: SharePoint, Rational, RequisitePro, MS Visio, Microsoft office suite.

Web Tools & IDE: Web sphere Application server, 5.1/RAD 6.0, SOAP UI

XML Technology: XML/XSLT, DOM, SAX

Front-End: HTML, DHTML, CSS, and JSP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Project manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the transformation of a large organization from Waterfall to Agile by forming, nursing,coaching and supporting multiple scrum teams.
• Gathered requirements from stakeholders to create Business Requirements Document (BRD)to define anddocument the current state as a basis to establish gaps.
• Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with softwaredelivery teams
• Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with SME in understanding the ProjectRequirements
• Exchange thoughts with Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Gather, analyse and document requirements by facilitating meetings with Business Ownersand Subject MatterExperts (SME) for User Story developments
• Facilitated Sprint Planning to prioritize Product Backlog with Product Owner. Partner with PO(Product Owner) tokeep a healthy and prioritized product backlog. Facilitate scrum events (grooming,sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.).
• In charge of capacity management, maintaining velocity and sprint metrics. Negotiating the projectscope and translate requirements into stories for PBI (Product BacklogItenary)
• Support and educate the Solution Delivery Managers, especially with respect to grooming andmaintaining the product backlog. Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership stylewhenever possible with a Goal to be set as an example.
• Facilitated the Sprint Planning in JIRA to include the Stakeholders, Product Owners, and ScrumTeams Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affectedteams and management
• Provide leadership, direction, and coaching the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practicesEncourageand facilitating the cross-team coordination and collaboration
• Remove impediments for the team and escalate as appropriate.
• Work with cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution Actively contribute to thecompany's Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community ofPractice and Scrum Master Forums.
• Conducted the development of test cases based on documented requirements and performUser Acceptance Testing during Sprints and as part of formal testing activities
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for each release,assisting cross-functional SMEwith new functionalities and Scrum processes with demos
• Prioritized product features tasks and develop user stories. Manage technical conflicts within thedevelopment life cycle Reduce development time by developing and maintaining team's standards,tools and best practices.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
• Facilitate getting the work done without coercions, assigning, or dictating the work. Drive thecontinuous learning cycle by facilitating reviews and retrospectives.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE Technologies, HTML, DB2, SQL, Selenium, VB Scripting, JBoss Developer Studio 10, Eclipse IDE, JBoss Business Process Management, Putty, WinSCP, TCS Mastercraft ALM DevPlus, SVN, IBM RPT, JMeter, Selenium, TestNG, BIRT Server and Toolkit, Squirrel SQL Client, Microsoft Visio, UI/UIX Design, JAWS, DBeaver, Active Batch.

Confidential

QA Lead, Project manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provided Project Management for the Confidential project team and acted as the Project Manager / Scrum Master
• Managed project team comprised of web designers, web developers and a systems administrator to help OTDA create a redesigned application.
• As a Scrum Master and agile project management technical expert, ensured adherence to agile best practices and OTDA standards.
• Facilitation of daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives; oversight and review of agile documentation;
• Interaction with OTDA staff to identify and remove impediments for development team.
• Provided thought leadership in Agile Product development to expedite the development life cycle while embracing the changing product requirements
• Collaborated with different functional groups inside OTDA to procure and manage the IT infrastructure required for project development
• Created, Managed and Controlled the project plan, budget allocation schedule
• Created, literature for bid process. Participating in bid processes and defense.
• Hired team-members, facilitate training the team-members, discuss-prioritize-supervise the team and team activities
• Managed and Control the projects risk due to changed requirements, dependency with external teams and act on to risk mitigation plan
• Identified the resource skill gaps requirements as demanded by the project, and collaborate with technical learning team to fulfill associate training requirements
• Mentored and Coached project team on technical, functional and behavior skills and provide the timely feedback to the project team.
• Established the Quality assurance standardization in the project
• Motivated & inspired project team to contribute towards knowledge management by conducting seminars, creating white papers and technical write ups. Conduct Project retrospective with development team
• Created of Product Backlog, Product Roadmap, High Level Design, Low Level Design, Sprint Backlog, Lessons Learned Document, Velocity Matrix, Release Plan.
• Conducted Sprint Retrospectives to discuss successes and failures for each sprint; discussvarious options to improve future sprints

Confidential

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in planning, designing, executing test strategies developed from functional and technical specifications in Confidential, a web based complex application for NY State which deals with new, update existing and closed child support cases.
• Lead the QA team in coordinating and guiding team activities in complete testing Phase.
• Monitored and controlled Testing activities.
• Identified and analyzed application problems encountered during testing and communicated the problems to developers.

Environment: Microsoft Project, Share Point, Quick Test Pro 10.0/11.0, HP Quality Center 10.0/11.0, Unified functional Testing 12.0 (UFT), HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Team Foundation Server (TFS), IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest 7.0, Load Runner 11.0, SQL, VBScript, SOAPUI, Visual Basic, Oracle 9i, Windows 2000, JAVA, J2EE, WebLogic, Mainframes, JBOSS 5.0.1, DTPRA.

Confidential, Troy

Project Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained user and technical documentation and project process documentation.
• Wrote technical specs from the user meetings and derived Test plans and Test Scripts based on these specs and Use cases in FRSD (Functional requirement specification document.) and mapped them in RTM.
• Analyze user’s perspective of application or technology and able to put procedures in a logical sequence.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts, Developers and Business analysts.
• Initiated, coordinated and implemented the QA Process and Methodologies.
• Recommend enhancements to the Manager and Business users for the new proposed projects and implemented successfully in Agile Methodology.
• Involved in Scrum meetings on a weekly basis and updated the project plan.
• Conducted review meeting with scrum master and the team for the created scripts
• Lead the QA team in coordinating and guiding team activities in complete testing Phase.
• Ensured that automation test scripts are ready after every sprint execution for the future regression test purposes.

Environment: VB.Net, HTML, Oracle, PL/SQL, Windows 7, Quality Center 11.0, QTP, Blueprint. Agile Methodology. SharePoint, MS Project

Confidential, Albany

Sr. QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in JAD sessions with SME’s Business users and Developers.
• Worked closely with the Business users and Management to maintain Quality of the Testing methodology and plan.
• Initiate, coordinate and implement the QA Process and Methodologies.
• Schedule the tests and strategies and execute them based on the requirements in IBM Rational Doors Create and customize projects in Quality Center Site Administration.
• Handle Quality Center User requests in the workflow using VBScript for ongoing projects and new projects.
• Automation and execution of Test Scripts for Functional and Regression testing using QTP and Quality Center.
• Lead the testing team to reach their Targets.
• Write SQL Statements and scripts to extract Data from Data Base Schemas and Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.

Environment: VB.Net, HTML, IBM Mainframe, IBM Rational Doors, Oracle, PL/SQL, Quality Center 11.0, QTP, Blueprint.

Confidential, Schenectady

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing user/business requirements and write detailed specifications and Test Requirements (RTM).
• Involved in JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts, Business analysts and Developers.
• Assessed the workflow diagrams and use cases and wrote the test cases.
• Used Rational Clear Quest as a defect tracking tool.
• Involved in manual testing to validate the functionality of the application.
• Preparation of Test Data and Expected Results for testing.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from the Database to verify the results.
• Involved in System Testing, Ad hoc Testing and Integration Testing.
• Responsible for Re-validation of resolved Bugs.
• Used QTP for regression testing.
• Worked closely with the Business analysts to find the requirements for Business components and helped in UAT.
• Prepared Test data, User Documentation and involved in User Training sessions for End Users.

Environment: Java, HTML, RAD, Web Sphere 6.0., Struts 1.2, SOAP, IBM Mainframe, Windows NT/2000, Web Sphere 5.0/5.1, Rational Clear Case, QTP, Rational Clear Quest.

Confidential 

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts, Business analysts and Developers.
• Develop, review and modify all test cases/scripts as necessary, based on the use case scenarios as per the Business Requirements Document and the Functional Design Specifications Document.
• Tested the functionality of the application by writing and executing the Test plan and Test scripts.
• Automated the Test Scripts for Functional and Regression testing of the application...
• Wrote SQL queries to extract Data from Tables to verify the results from the output of the reports.
• Involved in System Testing, Smoke test, Sanity Testing and Integration Testing.
• Involved in Bug meetings with Business analysts, testing team and developers for the enhancement of the application and resolving the bugs raised during the testing.
• Involved in performance testing using Load Runner. Created scenarios using HP Load Runner Controller and the new Performance Test Center based on application requirements. Monitored Transactions, Response times at different points in the application using Controller/and analyzed the results using graphs.
• Involved in System Testing and UAT for the Phase-1 project.

Environment: .Net, XML, HTML, IBM Mainframe, Requisite pro, Windows NT/2000, Web Sphere 5.0/5.1, Test director, Load Runner, QTP.