PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced Certified Scrum Master® & Project Lead with a passion for the work and a proven track record of delivering high - quality software with Experience of around 5 years as Scrum Master and overall of 10 plus years in the IT industry. Proven ability at motivating and enforcing the Agile principles and removing impediments. Result oriented with skills in delivering projects by efficiently collaborating, coaching and counseling multiple Scrum Teams.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Extensive Experience in different development methodologies - Waterfall, Agile methodologies SCRUM, Waterfall-SCRUM hybrid
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups, Product Backlog Grooming
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to negotiate scope boundaries, approaches to mitigate risk, priorities of specification elements, and adjustments as indicated to alleviate conflicting requirements
• Worked closely with product owners in Backlog grooming and managing the product backlog, coordinating and collaborating with other teams to help identify and track user story dependencies
• Assist the team and product owner to prioritize the PBI's using prioritization techniques - MoSCoW, Business Value based etc.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning to help the team commit to a sprint goal and break all user stories into tasks. Used Estimation techniques - Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing
• Conduct Sprint Reviews to review and analyze the potentially shippable product increment (PSPI) to the business users, management and stakeholders
• Facilitated Agile Retrospective and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance by resolving the issued and track them through Action Items
• Removed team impediments to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals
• Well versed with Continuous Integration and continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps
• Worked with Agile Frameworks - Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and Pair Programming
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
• Created and maintained Sprint Burn-down Charts and Velocity to assess the progress of the team
• Expertise in using tools Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, TFS, MTM

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Management Tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, TFS, MTM, MS Project

Product Management: Asana, Zeplin, MouseFlow, Sitecore, Splunk

Test Automation Tools: Selenium, HP QTP, HP ALM Quality Center, Performance Center, MTM, Bugzilla, JMeter, SoapUI

Mobile Testing: iOS, Android OS, Blackberry OS performed on iPads, iPhones, Android Phones and Tablets, BlackBerry Phones using tools - Appium, Charles Proxy, Xcode, Android SDK

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Languages: Java, HTML, DHTML, XML

GUI & Version Control: Git, Subversion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrums, Sprint reviews and demos, Sprint retrospectives and backlog refinement meetings.
• Participate in the Roadmap meetings with the key stakeholders which consists of leadership teams (C-level execs, VP, Sr. Directors, Directors) from Business and Enterprise to present them the Release Plan.
• Prepare Project estimations and People/Resource Planning and management.
• Assist product owner/ Business Analysts with product backlog grooming and potential sprint visualization.
• Coaching team members through the agile best practices.
• Help the Product owner in decomposing the EPICS into Features and user stories to maintain the product Backlog in a healthy state.
• Work closely with product owner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Regular updates to the stakeholders with Metrics and Dashboards.
• Scrum Master for Multiple teams - Transfers and Payment areas of the application.
• Collaborate with Product Managers/Business Analysts to Identify and establish the high-level business scenarios and provide inputs where needed.
• Participate in Security review with the Corporate Security to review the applications the teams’ own and minimize the risks for security vulnerabilities.
• Work closely with CI/CD teams to deploy to Staging/Canary and Production and monitor through ADO.
• Preparation of End of Sprint Reports and share with the key stakeholders and management.
• Used Observability tools Splunk for monitoring the staging and production environment and raise flags as necessary if any issue(s) is found.
• Have lead the Scrum Community of Practice at the organization wide to bring about the best practices and implement based on the need and feasibility.
• Create and present executive dashboards on project progress and issues. Status reporting included Release Burn-Down Charts, Sprint Burn-Down charts, velocity target updates.

Confidential, New York, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, daily scrums, Sprint reviews and demos, Sprint retrospectives and backlog refinement meetings.
• Assist product owner with product backlog grooming and potential sprint visualization.
• Coaching team members through the agile process and assisting with the agile transition.
• Assist the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories making them clear and stay within acceptable Criteria.
• Helped the Product owner in decomposing the EPICS into Features and user stories to maintain the product Backlog.
• Work closely with product owner in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Regular updates to the stakeholders with Metrics.
• Scrum Master for Multiple teams - Meetings Effectiveness (Mobile & Web) and VC Products.
• Used Test Tracker, JIRA tools for Test Management and Agile Management respectively.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Project Managers, UX Designers, Technical Leads, Developers to Identify and establish the high-level business scenarios.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Testing on Video Conferencing Devices.
• Performed Mobile Testing on OS platforms - iOS, Android.
• Performed Internationalization and Localization Testing on Video Conferencing Devices and Mobile Apps.

Confidential, Washington D.C

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions with external clients and lead Integration Testing efforts.
• Actively involved in the preparation of the Test Plan and the Test Strategy.
• Developed the End-to-End testing Business scenarios.
• Identifying and preparing test data for Testing.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Jira.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in Defect review meetings and prioritize the defects with Dev team.
• Coordinating with Development team, Services team, Database team and End users for resolving the issues.
• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity, User-Acceptance (UAT) testing.
• Involved in developing the Web service test scripts and testing using SOAP UI.
• Involved in generating the reports.
• Involved in the Database Testing by Submitting, Maintaining and Executing the Queries using WinSql.
• Helping the Development team in fixing the issues opened during Service Testing.
• Involved in trouble shooting the production issues

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Preparation of the Test Cases for Functional, Performance, Volume, Load and Database Testing.
• Involved in identifying key performance requirements and designing scenarios for Performance Testing.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix.
• Designed the Test Lab by assuming the End User Environment.
• Identified the Documents and Templates required for smooth flow of the Testing Phase.
• Involved in the Test Activities such as Functional Testing, GUI and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Involved in Performance, Stress, Load and Volume Testing using Load Runner.
• Designed and Maintained the Automation Scripts.
• Involved in Updating and Execution of the Test Scripts.
• Involved in the Web based Testing.
• Involved in the Database Testing by Submitting, Maintaining and Executing the Queries.
• Team Motivation and driving them towards the Success.
• Communicated with the Client in Understanding the Requirements and the Change Request.
• Bug Report generation and Defect Tracking using PVCS Tracker.