PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over all 12+ years of experience in QA management, leading and testing of Software Products, Web, Client Server applications and DW/ETL domain.
• 3+ Years of experience as Scrum Master wif in - depth noledge in Agile, Scrum and ensured team is functional, productive and focused on deliverables
• Experience in creating User stories and defining Acceptance criteria
• Scheduled/facilitate sprint planning meetings prior to the beginning of each sprint and ability to breakdown project /spirnt schedule into measurable activities
• Support Product owner and portfolio manager in updating weekly critical path analysis charts
• Schedule and facilitate Daily scrum sessions and Add/remove stories based on the burn down
• Facilitate Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint ensure high priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state, including time to be burned and status
• Participated in Release Retrospective and Cross Team Retrospective
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, Management of Greenhopper and JIRA Agile
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration and Management of QC/ALM and JIRA
• QA Lead and management experience in Offshore/Onshore teams in various phases of testing
• Successfully managed Test Environment and Test data in various environments/Platforms
• Very Strong noledge on SDLC and STLC Process
• Strong experience in Functional, Non-functional, Regression, SIT and UAT
• Experience in ETL testing wif noledge on ETL, Informatica and Cognos
• Very strong SQL experience in Data Validation, Completeness, Uniqueness, Integrity, Transformation
• Strong experience in Product testing and Release maintenance
• Extended halp to development team in Analyzing performance bottlenecks.
• Very Good experience in testing the products on UNIX and Windows Platforms.
• Strong problem solving skills and very good time management skills
• Ability to successfully manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects effectively through a combination of business and technical skills
• Good experience in validating product documentation and halping technical writers in documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• QC 10
• ALM 11
• JIRA 6.3
• JIRA Agile
• Greenhopper
• Rally and Xplanner
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• JavaScript
• JSP
• JAVA
• Perl
• Shell
• XML
• Python
• SVN
• CVS
• SOAP
• SAP
• C#
• MS-Project
• Project Plan
• QTP
• Load Runner
• JMeter
• Selenium
• SOAP UI
• MySQL Server
• 5.0.24a
• SQL Server 2010
• Oracle 10g
• 11g
• Aix
• Confidential -UX
• Solaris
• Linux and Windows

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating User Stories and defining Acceptance criteria for User stories
• Scheduled and facilitated Sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning to each sprint
• Prepared Sprint plan and shared wif the team and stake holders
• Scheduled and facilitated daily scrum meetings
• Helped in identifying and mitigate external dependencies in product development
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflect the current state
• Maintained transparency in to the teams work through metrics
• Communicated stories for the upcoming sprint to the Product owner and stakeholders
• Facilitated Sprint Review meetings to inspect and adapt the product
• Facilitated Sprint Retrospective meetings to inspect and adapt the process and ensured high priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed
• Installation, Configuration and management of JIRA.
• Created layout based on the requirement for each project.
• Created Projects based on the requirements and linked Projects wif Dash boards.
• Created Dashboards, filters and added gadgets while creating dash boards
• User creation, authorization and autantication based on the role
• Imported Issues from .csv file for bulk creation.
• Training and assistance to the team after the implementation

Environment:Windows 7, Linux 2.6.32, Shell scripts, Java, Toad, Oracle 10g, JIRA 6.3, Apache, Tomcat, SVN, XML, Hudson, Ant, Web driver, Selenium RC.

Confidential, Boise, ID

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate release planning meeting to estimate release date and budget
• Involved in performing complete system life cycle using Agile Scrum methodology
• Scheduled and facilitated Sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning to each sprint
• Prepared Sprint plan and maintained throughout the releases
• Scheduled and facilitated daily scrum meetings
• Helped in identifying and mitigate internal/external dependencies and roadblocks in product development
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflect the current state
• Maintained team transparency in to the work through metrics
• Added/Removed User Stories based on the burn-down of the each sprint
• Communicated stories for the upcoming sprint to the product owner and stakeholders
• Facilitated Sprint Retrospective meetings to inspect and adapt the process and ensured high priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed
• Participated in release retrospective and cross team retrospective
• Creating layout based on the requirement for each project using JIRA
• Created Projects based on the requirements and linked Projects wif Dash boards in JIRA

Environment:Windows XP, Solaris 2.9, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL Developer, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell scripts, JIRA 6, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate release planning meeting to estimate release date and budget
• Scheduled and facilitated Sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning to each sprint
• Prepared Sprint plan and shared wif the team and stake holders
• Scheduled and facilitated daily scrum meetings
• Teaching Scrum to everyone and assigns the scrum roles
• Helped in identifying and mitigate external dependencies in product development
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflect the current state
• Maintained transparency in to the teams work through metrics
• Added/Removed User Stories based on the burn-down of the each sprint
• Communicated stories for the upcoming sprint to the Product owner and stakeholders
• Facilitated Sprint Review meetings to inspect and adapt the product
• Facilitated Sprint Retrospective meetings to inspect and adapt the process and ensured high priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed
• Worked wif Product owner in creation and initial prioritization of product backlog
• Participated in release retrospective and cross team retrospective
• Used Rally to streamline backlog grooming, planning, review and retrospective process
• Created Releases and Iterations for the project using plan tab in rally
• Product backlog grooming using backlog option using plan tab in rally
• Planned Releases and Iterations using plan in plan tab in rally

Environment:Rally, Windows 7, Solaris 2.9, Oracle 10g, Shell scripts, Java, Quality Center 10, XML WSDL, UDDI, Load Runner 9.0, SOAP UI, SOA, Agile Development Environment, MS Share Point

Confidential, Confidential, WI

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis and deriving test strategy for each release
• Test Plan preparation and update on regular basis based on the status and progress
• Test Estimation, Resource allocation and tracking on daily testing activities
• QA deliverables tracking and reporting to management and stakeholders on regular basis
• Raising the QA dependencies on right time to make sure QA deliverables are on track
• Data Validation by writing SQL queries at source and target data bases
• Working closely wif management team to make sure QA deliverables are meeting the time line
• Worked wif Technical writing team to make sure the right things are documents for each release
• Created Project, Requirements, Test Plan modules in QC/ALM
• Created Users and assigned responsibilities based on the roles in QC/ALM
• Created Test Cases in Test Case module in QC/ALM
• Test Case execution and updating the results in Test Plan module in QC/ALM
• Defect logging and tracking using QC/ALM

Environment:Windows XP, RHEL, Oracle 9/10g, TOAD, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell scripts, J2EE, Perl, Python, SCRUM, Quality Center 10, ALM 11, Apache, Java Script

Confidential, Freeport, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis and worked wif BI team to solve requirement gaps
• Prepared test strategy document based on requirements and shared wif the stakeholders
• Responsible for creating and maintain test plan for each release
• Created test cases and prepared traceability metrics to ensure the requirement coverage
• Worked very closely wif BI team to get the updates from customers and update the test plan accordingly
• Responsible for end-to-end testing of functional and non-functional testing of each release
• Backend testing by writing SQL queries and validating data
• Worked closely wif BI, Dev and Support team to decide on the Regression scope
• Worked wif UAT team to get a closure on the open issues
• Participated in UAT test scenario reviews and provided valuable inputs
• Responsible for performance testing and performance bench-mark for each release
• Worked very closely wif dev team to identifying performance bottle necks of the system
• Responsible for documentation of each release and worked closely wif technical writing team
• Created daily and weekly testing status reports and shared wif stakeholders
• Created and maintained test environment setup and test data
• Worked very closely wif cross-functional teams for collaborative work.
• Responsible for QC Project Administration
• Created Requirements, Test Plan and make sure the team is updating the QC on regular basis
• Created User profiles and assigned roles based on the responsibilities in QC
• Created Reports in QC and shared wif team, management and stakeholders

Environment:Windows 2003, Aix 5.3, Sol 10, HPUX 11.23, HPUX 11.31, RHEL 4, Oracle 8,MySQL 5.0.24, C, C++, Java, ASP, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, Streaming Media, Flash, Load Runner 8, QC 10

Confidential, Louisville, KY

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test strategy document based on requirements and shared wif the stakeholders
• Responsible for creating and maintain test plan for each release
• Created test cases and prepared traceability metrics to ensure the requirement coverage
• Worked very closely wif BI team to get the updates from customers and update the test plan accordingly
• Responsible for end-to-end testing of functional and non-functional testing of each release
• Worked closely wif BI, Dev and Support team to decide on the Regression scope
• Wrote SQL queries to validate the data at source and target systems
• Responsible for documentation of each release and worked closely wif technical writing team
• Created daily and weekly testing status reports and shared wif stakeholders
• Created and maintained test environment setup and test data
• Worked very closely wif cross-functional teams for collaborative work.

Environment:Windows 2003, RHEL 4, MySQL 5.0.24, C, C++, ASP, HTML, Shell Script, Perl Script, Test Director, Win Runner and Load Runner

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis and worked wif BI team to solve requirement gaps
• Prepared test strategy document based on requirements and shared wif the stakeholders
• Responsible for creating and maintain test plan for each release
• Created test cases and prepared traceability metrics to ensure the requirement coverage
• Worked very closely wif BI team to get the updates from customers and update the test plan accordingly
• Responsible for end-to-end testing of functional and non-functional testing of each release
• Worked closely wif BI, Dev and Support team to decide on the Regression scope
• Worked wif UAT team to get a closure on the open issues
• Participated in UAT test scenario reviews and provided valuable inputs
• Responsible for performance testing and performance bench-mark for each release
• Worked very closely wif dev team to identifying performance bottle necks of the system
• Responsible for documentation of each release and worked closely wif technical writing team
• Created daily and weekly testing status reports and shared wif stakeholders
• Created and maintained test environment setup and test data
• Worked very closely wif cross-functional teams for collaborative work.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual black box testing on an order/distribution client/server application, being developed for potential clients and dealing wif ordering, tracking, receiving, storing, and issuing designated products.
• Provided functional, regression, acceptance, validation, and verification testing.
• Developed test cases and test suites based on functional specification and technical documentation to assure complete testing coverage of the features implemented into the application.
• Created and executed test cases for Web Billing application regression, compatibility and functionality testing.
• Designed and developed various queries from Oracle Data Warehouse on a daily and monthly basis using SQL, SQL*Plus, SQL Navigator and BRIO Enterprise reporting tool.
• Interacted wif developers and business analysts to resolve technical issues.

Environment:Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle 8i, VC++, SQL, PL/SQL, AutoSys, SQL Navigator, Perl, BRIO Enterprise