SUMMARY

• Experienced, enthusiastic and agile evangelist with 15+ years of overall experience.
• More than 8 years of experience as a Scrum Master in Managing Project delivery/Project Management initiatives using latest Agile frameworks.
• Senior Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager
• Managed multiple teams across geographical locations through the entire SDLC process in Agile environment for Web, Desktop, Cloud and Mobile based applications.
• Led the team in Sprint planning, User Story creation, use case analysis, and test execution strategy through iterative development cycle.
• Planned and handled multiple teams to facilitating scrum ceremonies, worked with product owners, groomed backlogs, implemented continuous improvement, tracking and communicate applications. Team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Implemented SAFe for teams (Distributed PI planning) along with dependency matrix across teams, PI retrospectives including release planning and portfolio backlogs
• Established best agile practices (Agile, SAFe, Kanban, Scrum) in POD structure practices and coached teams to increase product quality and functional requirements and prioritizing them in product backlog confidence for Stake holder by reducing production defects.
• Spoke to details of the project to both the business and technical teams from beginning to end of all projects and provide technical support to Business Owners during implementation of new products/service
• JIRA & Azure Project Lead experience for: Issue & Risk Management for ongoing and upcoming sprints using Azure/JIRA, Customized reports to represent agile board project statuses, key metrics, Hours, to setting up workflows, configuring fields, screens, permissions, schemes, Release Notes etc.
• Enabled Excellent Collaborative environment to build strong teams throughout the lifecycle of the projects. Led by example and ensured proper communication with key stakeholders.
• Initiative driven to bring in best in team by mentoring and encouraging ideas to improve effectiveness and productivity in my team by reducing manual and repetitive tasks.
• Experienced in implementing CI/CD, Observability Programs.
• Designed & coordinated implementation and availability of QA test environments. Ensuring compatibility of testing.
• Worked with business analysis function to ensure QA testing requirements were appropriately identified and included in the requirements.
• Created & Designed quality assurance documents like traceability matrix, defect trend charts and metric reports.
• Configured and manually testing software applications and developing test plans and test cases. Preparing test strategy and use cases.
• Conducted functional/ integration/ system/ regression/ user acceptance testing for the software product under varying conditions and analyzing the behavior of the system.
• Tested software programs to ensure compliance with specifications and maintaining documentation.
• Strong communication skill with strong people management, coordination, analytical and problem - solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tool: Postman, Eclipse, Quick Test Pro 11, Ready Api, Rational, SOAP

Scripting Languages: Selenium, Test NG, Cucumber BDD, Karate, VBScript, Python

Cloud Technologies: MS Azure Dev Ops/MTM ( Microsoft Test Manager),Power BI

Tracking Tools: HP Quality Centre, JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce

Database Management: Oracle 7/8i/9i, SAP, SQL Server, Sybase, Documentum

Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Java

Web Technologies: HTML, Web Api, XML

Operating Systems: UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT/XP, 2003, 2008, Windows 10

Other: VMWARE, RUP, UML, MS O ce 365, MS Project, MS Visio, Share Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Senior leader in Quality/strategy and delivery function. Lead process re-imagination through Agile. Leads projects ranging from cutting edge tax compliance software to enterprise platforms.
• Skills: Enterprise Analysis, Quality Architecture, Product Management, Agile Championship, Innovation and Change Management.
• Responsibilities
• Accountable for delivery of Enterprise Tax Platform ( Intela Project)
• Scrum Owner of Data Wrangling and Learning application teams for Indirect Tax and Tax Compliance
• Performed Sprint planning, PI Planning and backlog refinement for all my teams to make sure we are delivering as per expectation of stake holders.
• Active communication with stakeholder to make sure they are no gaps in communication.
• Actively working with Dev-ops/Support team for continuous deployment.
• Tracking E2E deployment of production release and collaborating with all stake holders for successful PROD deployment Workflow tracking
• Perform retrospectives, identifying lessons learned and best practices to improve IT processes, standards, and methodologies.
• Collaborated with Data integration team to process transaction data volumes scaling to big data.
• Innovation projects on hybrid cloud platforms
• ERP implementation
• Take personal initiative to identify, analyze, resolve and deliver solutions for problems and opportunities concerning project management practices, tools, and processes
• Facilitated team meeting across the board with Product, Stakeholder and team members to ensure there are no gaps and risk to the project timelines and if there are any then it can be discussed.
• Ensure project compliance to existing policies and standards for architecture, process, software development, Quality Assurance, and documentation
• Continuous monitoring and troubleshooting with help of dev-ops of CI/CD pipeline for different releases

Confidential, Dallas TX

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provider of technology to the real-estate industry, helping owners, managers and investors. The Company's property management solutions are referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning systems. It is on demand platform provides a single point of access and a repository of real-time lease transaction data, including prospect, renter and property data.
• I was leading couple of PODs as a Senior ScrumMaster in UPM project.
• Led & Managed the testing effort for multiple product line since I joined in real page and lead for many critical and major releases.
• Responsibilities
• Managed and Streamline Scrum and QA practices which involve automation and release plan for major release along with QA dashboards.
• Implemented API automation framework using KARATE and now working on a framework to implement UI automation using Java Selenium.
• Sprint planning and assisting in backlog management based on business value.
• Assisting in effective user stories with clearly defined Acceptance criteria.
• Conducting Retrospectives after every sprint and follow the strategy (Inspect and Learn)
• Communicating effectively with Cross-functional team to meet sprint goals
• Facilitate the PI planning event.
• Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish them for visibility and transparency
• Assist in tracking the execution of features and capabilities, escalate and track impediments.
• Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Motivating individuals to make sure how our current deliverable is aligning with our Product Vision
• Communicating effectively with product/development in case of any risks involved for the release
• Mentoring and Coaching team mates on many occasions
• Creating/updating test report needed by management
• Able to identify all the critical/design defect in time to mitigate risk.
• Supporting and facilitating team on client escalation from functional perspective.
• Presenting demos to the executive management for enhancements though iterative development
• Served as Jira Project lead to setting up workflows, configuring fields, screens, permissions, schemes etc
• Created reports and dashboards in JIRA to track hours and project statuses.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create test plans and test cases based on technical specifications, user stories or meetings
• Attend multiple daily scrums to flag any blocking issues and daily updates for testing
• Evaluate different tools which can be used in automation like SOAP UI, Selenium,CodedUI and QTP
• Communicates the test strategy with testing team and development team to make sure everybody is on same page
• Attend meeting with developers to understand the overall architecture of the application
• Involved in database testing
• Maintain test matrices on various dimensions like performance and test status to reflect the test progress
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements and the critical areas of the application to setup and execute baseline tests
• Tested iphone and android demo apps which we build in house

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Senior Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested different flavours of back-end system like DCTM, SAP, and SQL Servers. Test cases for SharePoint as our product offers a Workflow in Share point.
• Worked with a global team to test products that were developed in different geographical locations.
• Designed on scripts using QTP for a client, Desktop and Web application.
• Handled test matrices on various dimensions like performance and test status to reflect the test progress.
• Validated existing scripts.
• Develop Test strategies and Test plans for Validation of Data Warehouse processes as per requirements.
• Documented scripts for future enhancements.
• Followed best practices, use cases, and worked with support on customer escalations.
• Mentored, knowledge transfer to teammates on many occasions.
• Extensively involved in backend testing which involves writing SQL scripts for database testing.
• Worked with Visual Studio test tools like Coded UI test for created test scripts.
• Prepared: Database automation using C# to test stored procedure and client modules.
• Supported the development team in debugging and replicating problems.

Confidential, FL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Business Analysis, Test Defect Log, Test Case Checklist, etc.
• Assessed system requirements and develop detailed Manual and Automation Test Plan.
• Prepared test cases and test scripts for manual and automation testing from Use Cases.
• Involved in Trace project requirements to specific testing levels and test cases.
• Identified existing project information and the software components that should be tested.
• Revised and updated test cases for testing in each subsequent cycle to reflect the changing business requirements
• Created the automation architecture and coding automation test scripts using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Followed requirements and the critical areas of the application to setup and execute baseline tests.
• Imparted functionality and regression testing during the various phases of the application.